Graduation was a big event for the 32 members of the class. It included a Class Night program, which was when this picture was made, a baccalaureate program and graduation itself — and a play. Margaret Hillard, who owns this picture and is arranging this year’s reunion, says it was also a group that liked theater, more, perhaps, because it was a time when few students had cars and they had to create their own entertainment at home.

The senior class play was entitled “A Southern Rosary,” and they also presented “The Man in the Green Shirt.” Hillard doesn’t remember much about the Class Night event but her dress. It was white dotted swiss, and her sister, Ruby Morris Cashion, bought it for her. “I added extra lace to make it a little more fancy.”

Members of the class, seated in the front row on the floor, are, left to right, Rilza Wiley Heglar, Louise Morgan Smith, Shannon Coble Kimball, Peggy Lyerly Cox, Margaret Morris Hillard, teacher Ina Stevenson, Martha Pinkston Bogle, Mary Ruth Cashion Barnhardt, Faye Allbright McKinney, Naomi Hoffner Kepley, Betty Shutt Hess, Mary Elizabeth Foster Thompson, Mary Lee Davis Parker and Martha McNeely Cline (deceased).

On the bench on the left, Mary Lee Goodman Beaver (deceased), Barbara Eller Corriher, Betty Sue Kistler Black, Betty Graham Graham, Irene Steele Weaver.