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High School
Portsmouth, Virginia
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President    1940
The
To Our Adviser
MISS  IRGINIA MARTIN
We, the members of the President Staff and Senior Class, wish to express our sincere thanks for her helpful suggestions and untiring effort
ANNUAL STAFF
“The Student” Staff
“Student” Staff
EDITORIAL STAFF
Elizabeth Silvester
Phyllis Brewer
Jackie Marks
Walter Galliford
Jack Codd
Taro Kawakami
Audrey Williams
Billy Ewell
Editor-in-Chief
News Editor
Feature Editor
Sports Editor
Make-up Editor
Art Editor
Head Proof Reader
Staff Photographer
ASSISTANTS
Alf Mapp, Eva Dominitz, Herman Eisenberg, Margaret Long, Jack Green, Mildred Soroko,
Marion Sipfle, Parker Baum, Mary Frances Nutter, Virginia Silvester, Virginia Dail,
Billy Morton, Vienna Codd, Bernard Chovitz, Donald Levin, Jack Harvey, Helen Szalkav. 

REPORTERS
Virginia Lindauer, Charlotte Munson, Clifford Early, Harold Farfel, Irvin Eskin, Isaac Klavan, Mary Crouch, Doris Thompson, Marian Tonkin, Bessie Rutter, Ruth Underwood, Mary Lawrence, Milton Friedman, Margaret Harrelson, Mendel Sackstein, Gerard Shelton, Winifred Jones, Frances Gay, Brownley Haug, Billy Williams, Ruth Parker, Sanford Lefcoe, Ruth Harbison, Jane Howard, Virginia Manning, Thelma Bowen, George Elsasser, Mary Daivs, Pauline Dettmer, Irene Kreger, Roy Peavy, Chrystal Rutter. 

TYPISTS
Frances Farrell, Ann Brinkley, Jane Wise, Dot Jolliff, Audrey Mathias, Mary Hough

BUSINESS STAFF
Ben Cullen 
Esther Hillman 
Margaret Burch 
Business Manager
Advertising Manager
Circulation Manager
ASSISTANTS
Ellen Katz, Dot Reynolds, Myrtle Pate, Jean Buchanon, Virginia Morris, Helen Weinberg, Addie Grubbs, Miriam Goldspinner, Annette Parker, Jimmy Howard, Frances Miller, Saunders Early, Nelson Johnson, Betty Wafts, Elorine Marcus, Gloria Taylor, Charles Ham, Virginia Storey.
ADVISERS
Miss Clyde White
Arthur S. Owens
Editoral
Business
Student Council
Alfred Parker
Virginia Darst 
Ann Fitchette 
Carolyn Briggs 
Jean Felton
Harry Lee Jones 
Lee West
Saunders Pearly
George Baker
William Snell
Hurbert Spivey
Frances Farrell
Ann Hitch
Miss Devilbiss, Mr. Owens
President
Director of Publicity
Director of Public Service
Director of Traffic
Director of Lunch Room
Class 39½ Representative
Senior Representative
Junior Representative
Sophomore Representative
Freshman Representative
Monogram Representative
"Student" Representative
Typist Representative 
Advisers
The Hi-Y Club
OFFICERS
Lee West
Lonnie Roper
Cliff Bain
Donald Moore
Jack Savage
President
Vice-President
Secretary
Treasurer
Sergeant-at-Arms
MEMBERS
Alspaugh, Jess
Bain, Cliff
Bolling, John
Brantley, Hunter
Carpenito, Tony
Curdts, Billy
Dowe, George
Saunders, Early
Gentry, Irvin 
Goodson, Norman
Hague, Larry
Hargroves, Andrew
Hill, Theo
Hollis, John
Moore, Donald
Moore, Nat
Martin, Billy
Oast, Bill
Parker, Alfred
Parrish, Earl
Peavy, Roy
Piland, Joe 
Roper, Lonnie
Scribner, Kenneth
Trafton, Bill 
Savage, Jack 
Vaughn, C. C. 
Ward, Hundley
West, Lee 
Wilson, Henry
ORCHESTRA
Personnel of Orchestra
Directed by Paul Brown
OFFICERS
Marion Sipfile 
Fred Manneschmidt
Lawrence Pharo
William Coleman
Lawrence Pharo
Assistant Director 
President
Secretary- Treasurer 
Property Man
Librarian
MEMBERS

VIOLINS
Allsbrook, Elmer 
Byrne, Faye
Callis, Caroll Joyce
Katz, Bessie 
Marks, Jacquelyn
Pharo, Lawrence
CLARINETS
Richard Busby

SAXOPHONES
Facenda, Gloria                                           Gooding, Linwood
Wilson, Frank

TROMBONES
Murden, Anne Holt                                     Sweeney, Hartwell

BASSES
Greene, Edward                                            Puryear, John A. 

MELLOPHONE
Billy Barnes

BARITONE
Allen Adams







    PERCUSSION
    Overton, Milton

TRUMPETS
Brown, Bill 
Gumm, Buddy
Allsbrook, Elmer 
Pate, Myrile
Tanner, Broughton
Katz, Bessie 
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