The following is a list of Whitesburg High School graduates who graduated from before 1927 to 1940. The following was transcribed from an article found in The Mountain Eagle newspaper dated Thursday, May 16, 1940 (Page 9). If you, or someone you know, are among this list of graduates OR if you know of any corrections that need to be made, please contact me, Brian K. Caudill, at bcaudill@mpinet.net. Corrections will be denoted in RED. If you wish, you can use the following links to go directly to a particular graduating class:
Before 1927,
1927,
1928,
1929,
1930,
1931,
1932,
1933,
1934,
1935,
1936,
1937,
1938,
1939,
1940;
or you may wish to browse through an Alphabetical Listing of these graduates.
Graduates Of
Whitesburg High School
(1927-1940)
R. DEAN SQUIRES
It is a very easy matter for those in charge of a school system to write a very optimistic account of the doings of the school. Yet, behind the scenes, the real doings of the school are very different.
A school exists but for one purpose; namely, to make better citizens out of the boys and girls. If this fails, the school fails; if this succeeds, the school is a success.
During my tenure in the Whitesburg schools I have seen many come and many go. I have seen many successes and some failures (true to life).
At this, the end of another school year, we are called upon to take an invoice. There are 68 boys and girls to graduate. If they are no better prepared to take their places in the great commonwealth than those who have not finished, then the school is not worthy of it's existance. We know they are better prepared. How do we know it? Because of those who have graduated here since the school was built and dedicated.
May you sketch over this list of graduates, study them carefully and see for yourself what an asset this high school is. Below we have given the names of all those who graduated before 1927 - then the ones who graduated in 1927 -- and from 1928 to 1940. I feel a deep responsibility as to the success or failure of this great group. I hope the homes join me in this same thought.
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Adams, Kerney M. Adams, Fonda Bach, Wilma Bach, Verna Banks, Victor Banks, Edgar Burton, Blanch Burton, Ethel Caudill, Watson Caudill, Sabina Combs, Eunice Combs, Cullen Commodori, Bruno Clark, Thelma Collins, Ruth Cook, Lavinia Day, Earl Day, Ercell C. Day, Mae Ewen, William Fields, Oma Fields, Willie Fields, Glenn Fields, Mabel Fisher, Ruby Fugate, Edna Gibson, Beulah Hale, Simeon Hale, Herman Hale, E. B. Hall, Lillian Hall, Charles Harris, Grace Haynes, Herbert Hays, Astor Hays, Dalna Hays, Bruce Hobbs, Leslie Hughes, Poppy Lewis, Virgil Lewis, Gertrude Morgan, Leonard Mullins, Ida Peters, Eva Pigman, Carl Raleigh, John Reynolds, Cora Reynolds, Wilburn Sergent, Thelma Webb, Esteva Webb, Dixie |
| Class of 1927 |
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Adams, Forest Adams, Ethel Banks, Glada Hammonds, Bonnie Baker, Cova Caudill, George Clark, Shelby Raleigh, Gus Stallard, Cora Williams, Ward |
| Class of 1928 |
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Bach, Hazel Bates, Barzella Bentley, Zenith Boatwright, Kermit Combs, Hobart Combs, Dora Day, Karl Fields, Orell Fields, Beulah Day, Lester Hammonds, Euretta Lewis, Eunice Lykins, Norval Logan, Mae Strong, Mollie Speaks, Mildred Sergent, Vera Taylor, James Taylor, George Webb, Pansy Caudill, Jennie Logan, Ruth Spradlin, Taft |
| Class of 1929 |
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Adams, Bert Adkins, Clara Adkins, Blair Bach, Evelyn Baker, Cecil Bentley, Loren Combs, Viola Enlow, Walter Fletcher, Frank Fields, Hazel Banks, Bernard Banks, Earl Blair, Mable Gibson, Geneva Hammack, Myrtle Hale, Rosa Hays, Nassareta Hall, Hillard Jones, Vessie Jones, Albert Jones, Robert Squires, Eva Dean Vermillion, Virginia Blair, Mabel Johnson, Anna |
| Class of 1930 |
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Adams, Wilma Bates, Bonnie Banks, Ermis Bowen, Wilgus Collins, Fay Caudill, Watson Clay, Glenn Crossman, Hellen Cook, Hubert Craft, Dave Combs, Helen Campbell, Lola Day, Hester Day, Zola Day, Fred Doyle, Elizabeth Flynn, Bernice Ford, Vivian Hall, Paschall Hart, Ida Ison, Bradley Jones, Robert (should be class of 1929) Kincer, Arnold Morgan, Elva Polechetti, Clara Smallwood, Draxie Vermillion, William Webb, Herbert Yonts, Homer |
| Class of 1931 |
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Adams, Carmine Addington, Georgia Bach, Klair Baker, Edith Banks, Gladys Banks, Lucy Bentley, Robert Blair, Darwin Breeding, Caryl Collins, Lake Cook, Olan Craft, Archie Day, Cecil Ford, William Franklin, Andrew Fugate, Lillian Hall, Gladys Hall, Nora Hogg, Astor Holbrook, Abbott Kincer, Linville Long, Edward Morgan, Elva Mullins, Devella Polly, Nora Potter, Lexie Reynolds, James Stidham, Roberts Taylor, Carl Taylor, Woodrow Vermillion, Paul Webb, Gay Wright, Charles |
| Class of 1932 |
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Adams, Elma Adams, Hazel Adams, Mattie Addington, Cora Lee Addington, Henry Adkins, Eugene Amburgey, Dempsey Baker, William H. Banks, Bert Caudill, Alice Caudill, Essie Caudill, Ruby Collins, Charles Collins, Clyde Collins, Fonda Collins, Lena Collins, Lawrence Combs, Goldie Cook, Lizzie Craft, Drucilla Craft, Morgan Fields, June Fields, Teddy Kelly Franklin, Archie Frazier, James Gault, Margaret Halcourt, Edna Hammonds, Audrey Hammonds, Chealis Hart, Elbert Hill, Dallis Hobbs, Mattie Holbrook, Minnie Belle Kincer, Shade McGhee, Barton Moncreif, Margaret Moore, Ferdinand Mosgrove, Jed Potter, John Potter, Samuel Profit, Alvin Profitt, Ben Profitt, Moses Salyer, Elline Sergent, Earl Smith, Pearl Spradlin, Elizabeth Stallard, Joe Webb, Arnold Webb, Gearldine Webb, Lola Webb, Pluma Webb, Raymond Webb, Winson Whitaker, Kirkwood Whitson, Opal |
| Class of 1933 |
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Adams, Hazel Adams, Hugh Adams, Iva Basham, Violet Blair, Doris Blair, Patrick Bottomley, Viola Brown, Belvia Brown, Don Collins, Denver Combs, Clark C. Craft, Cecil Day, Randall Dean, Nina Fields, Lelia B. Hogg, Morris Holbrook, Bennie Holstein, Coy Jenkins, Edwin Jones, Amos Jones, Eva Dale Kilgore, Carlene Lusk, Louisa Marlowe, Mark Moore, Lee Mullins, Kenton Pendleton, Ruth Sergent, Warren Sparks, Lina Tacket, Lucille Thomas, Rachel Webb, Ruby Webb, Woodford Williams, Dixie Yonts, Maewood Yonts, Virgil |
| Class of 1934 |
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Adams, Jody Adams, Madge Adkins, Ralph Amburgy, Arnold Bailey, Otta Oral Banks, Lester Banks, Una C. Basham, Johnnie Bates, Audrey Benton, Thelma Blair, Billie Blair, Bonnie Boggs, Kendall Campbell, Burnette Caudill, Elsie Combs, Burnice Combs, Howard Combs, Monroe Cornette, Emma Cornett, Kathlene Craft, Bennie Day, Bert Day, Lois Mae Dyer, Elizabeth Fugate, Mrs. Ritta Haynes, Lum Holbrook, Carl Hubbard, Edith Ison, Earl Ison, Ewsley Kilgore, Dorothy Long, Ruby Lusk, Effie Miller, Maxine Mullins, Ruby Parsons, Elmer Salling, June Shepherd, Velma Sturgill, Lena Tacket, Louise Taylor, Henry Taylor, Philos Vermillion, Ella Watts, Coy Webb, Edna Webb, Frank Webb, Lida Mae Whitaker, Ernest |
| Class of 1935 |
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Adams, Minerva Adams, Vanessa Addington, Hillman Amburgey, Helen Banks, Audrey Banks, Elbert Bentley, Alma Blair, Edison Blair, Ralph Brown, Gustava Brown, Myrl Campbell, Kyle Caudill, Hobert Collins, Grace Cornette, Roy Cornette, Verlon Craft, Bennie Wise Daugherty, Elmer Day, Clayton Fields, Archie Fields, Mafra Fields, Opal Frazier, Wilma Frazier, Willard Hall, Russel Haynes, Lloyd Hogg, Vinson Pendleton, Carl Pendleton, Edith Pugh, June Profitt, Marion Stamper, Homer Taylor, Andrew Webb, Mae Winsted, Paul Wright, Seldon Zimmerman, Rose Marie |
| Class of 1936 |
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Adams, Kelsie Adams, John Jr. Adams, Prina Adkins, Danola Amburgey, Earl Amburgey, Glennis Bach, Harold Banks, Elsie Boggs, Pauline Boyd, Ethleen Broughman, Warner Brown, Forrest Brown, James Brown, Marie Caudill, Earl Caudill, Polly Clay, Sue Cochrane, Howard Collins, Bernice Combs, Mary Craft, Doll Craft, Earl Day, Dalna Draughn, Hazel Fields, Bryant Fields, Danola Fields, Jaunita Franklin, Madelin Frazier, Wise Slemp Gibson, Mattie Gibson, Virginia Hall, Ermie Lee Hall, Forest Hammonds, Chealous Harrison, Wilson Henry, Amy Hogg, Willard Holbrook, Orell Hunsucker, Oscar Jones, Loraine Lucas, Ray Long, Loreva Maggard, Willa Mae Martin, Golden Mitchell, Chester Mullins, Nina Mullins, Sybil Picklesimer, Marion Polly, Maxine Picklesimer, Lela Mae Raliegh, Homer Salyer, Marjorie Smith, Ersel Stamper, James Marion Standifer, Carl Tolliver, Joe Webb, Chester Webb, Nash Webb, Pruda Webb, Ralph Whitaker, Amos Williams, Robert Zimmerman, Henrietta |
| Class of 1937 |
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Adams, Steve Adams, Shelby Ray Addington, Gurtha Adkins, Raymond Amburgey, Elmer Banks, Elmo Banks, Henry Banks, Juanita Brown, Berlin Caudill, William Coldiron, Lannis Combs, Bonnie Combs, Hascal Cornett, Bennett Dawahare, Mary Day, June Earls, Corbie Fields, Rudell Franklin, Burtis Frazier, Wesley Gibson, Hobart Halcomb, Verna Haynes, Leonard Hogg, Anna Marie Hogg, Ruby Jean Holbrook, William Ison, Hassell Kincer, Requa Lynch, Mary Helen Logan, Howard L. Moncrief, Eugene Willie Moore, Alton Mullins, Chad Mullins, Cuba Mullins, Hilma Pence, Angie Salling, Bill Smith, Delmar Smith, Elmer Sparks, Gladys Squires, James R. Sturgill, Kenton Taylor, Bruce Waddell, Letha Webb, Elmer Webb, Maude |
| Class of 1938 |
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Asher, Robert Adams, Geneva Baker, Kermit Banks, Hazel Blair, Charles Ray Blair, Ernette Blair, Louise Blair, Ogden Boggs, Ray Breeding, Van Brown, Gertrude Caudill, Sara Ellen Collins, Astor Collins, Bernice Collins, Foister Combs, Beulah Combs, Elizabeth Combs, Grace Cornett, Fred Craft, Garrett Craft, Helen Marie Creech, Hershal Davis, Warren Day, May Edminston, Ruth Fields, Norma Fields, Carolyn Frazier, Ira Frazier, Lee Jr. Gish, Gladys Belle Hall, Inis Hall, Patsy Lou Hammonds, Raymond Hoffman, Wayne Holbrook, Lulu Holbrook, Marie Hubbard, Blanche Ison, Carl D. Kelly, Quentin Marcum, Frances Moretz, Mae Morton, Thomas Parsons, Otto Pendleton, Ruby Pigman, Ray Potter, Gladys Pugh, Julia Sergent, Ison Sizemore, Berkeley Smallwood, Estelle Sturgill, Leah Swisher, Yarlat Thomason, Gene |
| Class of 1939 |
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Adams, Doris M. Adams, Lake Back, Blanche Bach, Verdelle Benge, Beulah Blair, Hanzel Bates, Verna Boggs, Gladys Banks, Ruth Back, Lovil Basham, Mary Lou Brown, Vergil Banks, Bruce Blair, Irene Craft, Clyde Collins, Arnold Combs, Dan Collins, Mabel L. Craft, Lettie Cornette, Dewey Collins, Clint Combs, Vashti Cook, Ted Collins, Ruby B. Cook, Martha Caudill, Ruby Collins, Esther Collins, Sam Jr. Daugherty, Carlos Day, Jean Cornett Day, Vivian Frazier, Henrietta Fields, Ruby Irene Fugate, Eugene Gibson, William Fred Gibson, Martha Hogg, Panny Hart, Lillian Holbrook, Edison Hogg, Ray Hammonds, Cordia Hammonds, Thelma Hart, Maudine Holbrook, Mabel Ison, Manus Ison, Forester Killen, Dollis Kincer, David Mitchell, Ardelia Moore, Gene Moncrief, Mary R. Mullins, Hazel Newsome, William O'neal, Clyde Profitt, Christine Routley, Mary Elizabeth Rose, Oliver Sexton, Owen Sexton, Cochel Sexton, Agnes Sergent, Mildred Shepherd, William Spradlin, Windell Stamper, Irene Tolliver, Paul Taylor, Willie Taylor, Lawrence Waddell, Alta Wagner, Mary Williams, Hazel Winstead, Pauline |
| Class of 1940 |
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Adams, Mary Magdaline Adams, Paul Amburgey, Edra Amburgey, Casie Amburgey, Wm. McKinley Banks, Burton Banks, Clifton Banks, Durward M. Banks, Joseph Edison Banks, Lora Bates, Donald Bates, Herman Blair, Bradley Blair, Edgar H. Blair, Stephen Estill Blair, W. L. Jr. Boggs, Georgette Bowens, Steve Hansford Boyd, Katheryn M. Brown, Herman Brown, Lawrence Childers, Fred Coldiron, Loretta Collins, Dale Collins, Iva Dale Corder, Blanche Cornett, Burchel Cornett, Evaleen Craft, Ruby Marie Crase, Enilla Fields, William Harold Frazier, Glenn Frazier, Ira Fugate, Elbert Jr. Gish, Juanita Hale, Florence Irene Hall, Irene Harrison, Imogene Hart, Emma Carolyn Holbrook, Burl Ellison Holbrook, Chester F. Holbrook, John D. Holbrook, Marvin Hooper, Charles Edward Johnson, Myrtle Lucas, Kermit William Mullins, Juanita Newsome, Pauline Noble, Finley O'neal, Edward Parsons, Oscar Passmore, Jack Pendleton, Jessie Pigman, Audrey Profitt, Clyde Reynolds, Glenn Sergent, James Culton Sexton, Minnie Smith, Edward Branham Stamper, Elaine Stamper, Richard Sturgill, Velma Louise Swisher, Jack Remus Waddell, Viola Arlene Webb, Eva Mae Webb, Katheryn Evelyn Williams, Mary Louise Williams, Ruth Janette |
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