1922 BHS senior class photos 2021.06.07
An array of some of the graduating class of Blacksburg Highschool's senior class of 1922.
An array of some of the graduating class of Blacksburg Highschool's senior class of 1922. There is serious damage to the piece with cracking, peeling, and what appears to be water damage. Names of some of the people photographed are on the back, thought there is evidence that more names were there but damage tore them off or they were lost some other way.
BHS 1960 55th Reunion Materials 2021.09.15
Materials collected to create items for the 55th anniversary of the 1960's graduating class.
Materials collected to create a worksheet or other item for the 55th anniversary of Blacksburg High School, 1960 graduating class. The materials mostly consist of photographs and labels to name the people in the portraits glued onto cardstock.
BHS Class of 1960 Reunion Photo 2021.09.12
Photograph of the participants of the Blacksburg High school graduating class of 1960 for their 50th reunion.
Photograph of the participants of the Blacksburg High school graduating class of 1960 for their 50th reunion in 2010 on June 20th.
BHS Class of 1960 Reunion 2021.09.07
Photobook for the BHS class of 1960's 50th reunion.
Photobook for the BHS class of 1960's 50th reunion.
Photobook
English
Collection of photos placed in a photobook
1944 Senior Issue Tattle Tale 2021.09.06
Senior issue of the 1944 Blacksburg High School news letter "Tattle-Tale."
The senior issue of the 1944 Blacksburg High School news letter "Tattle-Tale." This Issue is primarily for seniors as a form of souvenir to celebrate their final year at school and to be a reminder of their time at the school.
Cover - An Aged white paper that is titled "SENIOR ISSUE - of the TATTLE - TALE" at the top with a class photo on the lower half of the page.
Pages 1 & 2- Blank aged white paper
Pages 3 & 4 - Blank aged white paper - a dedication to Miss Florence Kipps, and Mrs. Florence Price Kinnear.
Pages 5 & 6 - Blank aged white paper - Foreword noting that the purpose of this issue "is to keep a record of the teachers, ... classmates and events of the four years spent in Blacksburg High School.
Pages 7 & 8 - a duplicate of the previous set of pages.
Pages 9 & 10 - Blank aged white paper - Staff of the Tattle Tale.
Pages 11 & 12 - Blank aged white paper - Orange paper with an emblem for the Blacksburg High School attached to a stylized 44 by chain, with the title bellow stating "THE CLASS."
Pages 13 & 14 - Blank Orange Page - White page with a Large block labeled "ANNOUNCEMENT" with a smaller box labeled "CALLING CARD."
Pages 15 & 16 - Blank aged white paper - "Blacksburg High School Commencement Exercises" lists the activities that were to be held that year.
Pages 17 & 18 - Blank aged white paper - "The Senior Class" this page lists the graduating students by name.
Page 19 & 20 - Blank aged white paper - "THE FACULTY" lists the faculty of the school, listing name and position.
Pages 21 & 22 - Blank aged white paper - "BIOGRAPHIES" this lists the persons name, their nickname(s), hobbys, ambitions, activities, traits, and/or "Pet Saying." This article continues for the next few pages.
Pages 23 & 24 - Continues the biographies of the students from the previous pages.
Pages 25 & 26 - Continues the Biographies of the students.
Pages 27 & 28 - Continues the Biographies of the students - Finishes the Biographies of the students and has a line art of a school facing a road with eight branches each labeled with a different potential path in life with the main street labeled "THE CLASS OF '44."
Pages 29 & 30 - Blank aged white paper - Orange paper titled "FEATURES" with a picture of a girl sitting down with a book titled "PROPHECY" dreaming about her marrying a shorter man. The girl appears upset at this idea and she seems to be similarly upset in the dream.
Pages 31 & 32 - Blank orange paper - "Class History" this starts an article talking about the years that they spent at the school.
Pages 33 & 34 - The conclusion to the "Class History" piece started on the previous page. - "CLASS WILL" a joke piece talking about giving parts of the senior class students to the junior class.
Pages 35 & 36 - Continuation of the "CLASS WILL" article.
Pages 37 & 38 - "CLASS PROPHECY" is a joke piece of guesses of what the future of each student. - continuation of "CLASS PROPHECY" with a poem titled "Class Poem, '44, with a line art scene of a crystal ball on a table with an easel with a sign out front.
Pages 39 & 40 - "WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF?" joke piece. - "WHO'S WHO" a social awards piece.
Pages 41 & 42 - End of the "WHO'S WHO" piece - Orange paper titled "LITERARY" with a line art of a man in a toga and a slate.
Pages 43 & 44 - Blank orange paper - "Literary," has an article titled "OF GRAVES AND GREATNESS"
Pages 45 & 46 - Conclusion for "OF GRAVES AND GREATNESS" and an article titled "Wordsworth's Interests as Revealed in His Poetry." - Continuation of "Wordsworth's Interests as Revealed in His Poetry," and begins the article, "Jungle Warfare."
Pages 47 & 48 - Conclusion of "Jungle Warfare," and the article "Willie." - Has an article titled "Women's Footwear" and discuses just that, and an article titled "Monday through Fridays."
Pages 49 & 50 - "Men of God," "The Waiting Room at Christiansburg Station," and the start of "A woodland Vale." - Conclusion of "A woodland Vale," a continuation from a previous page, and finally "Let's Wake Up, Students!"
Pages 51 & 52 - Blank Aged Paper - Orange paper with Sports spelled out in bubbles at a descending slant, with a girl in what looks like a skirt and a B.H.S. shirt holding a ball on the upper right, with a football player with his hands out and one leg up as if dancing on the lower left.
Pages 53 & 54 - Blank Orange paper - "SPORTS" reviews a bit of the sports history of the high school.
Pages 55 & 56 - continues the review and has a quick stat chart. - "TOURNAMENT" as a review of the last tournament they had.
Pages 57 & 58 - Accidental copy of previous page - this was a scan mistake, not from the original piece.
Pages 59 & 60 - the conclusion of the review of the tournament and have a sketch of a football player on a field with a small line "THE END." - Titled "SNAP SHOTS" with a drawing of an old camera facing a person in academic dress with a mortar board holding a scroll, below which reads "this is something to remember." with "is" being underlined.
Pages 61 & 62 - Blank Orange Page - Blank white page.
Pages 63 & 64 - Blank white page. - Blank white page.
Pages 65 & 66 - Blank white page. - Blank white page.
Pages 67 & 68 - Blank white page. - Orange page with a picture of a book open with cursive writing ending with an x, below which is a pen. At the bottom of the page in bubble lettering is "AUTOGRAPHS."
Pages 69 & 70 - Blank orange page. - Blank white page.
Pages 71 & 72 - Blank white page. - Blank white page.
Pages 73 & 74 - Blank white page. - Blank white page.
Page 75 & 76 - Blank white page. - "ADVERTISEMENTS," this page has multiple pictures including a piggy bank being emptied, a milkshake, steak - with the line "Remember?" above it and "Steak!" bellow, and a woman in a dress holding a man in a suit's hand with the woman titled "MADAM ZOLONIA LADIES ATTIRE" written across the bottom of the dress, and "EINSTEIN'S MENS CLOTHING" written across the right hand side of the mans chest and slightly beyond. The title for this section is in the stripes of a barbers pole, helping separate the pictures.
Pages 77 & 78 - Blank orange page. - Ads for: "BLACKSBURG HARDWARE Co. Inc.", "MINAS JEWELERY STORE," "THE NATIONAL BANK OF BLACKSBURG," "BROWN STORES COMPANY," "THE MONTGOMERY TRADING POST," and the "BLACKSBURG SHOE SHOP."
Pages 79 & 80 - "THE CORNER DRUG STORE," "TECH DRUG STORE," "THE CENTER," and the "COLLEGE BOOK STORE." - "ANNETE'S BEAUTY SHOPPE," and "THE LYRIC THEATER."
Pages 81 & 82 - "SOUTHERN GRILL," COLONIAL INN," and "THE COLLEGE INN." - "ROSES," "BLACKSBURG SAMPLE STORE," and "OAK HALL."
Pages 83 & 84 - "PIGGLY WIGGLY," "BROWN'S SUPER MARKET," "MICK OR MACK," and "THE BLUE GRASS MEAT MARKET." - "HUNTER'S," "RAINBOW CLEANERS," "LOUISE'S," "BACK LOGAN Co." and "THE CITY MEAT MARKET."
Pages 85 & 86 - "FARMERS AND MERCHANTS BANK." - Blank white page.
Pages 87 & 88 - Blank white page. - Blank white page.
Pages 89 - Blank white page.
1959-1960 BHS Student Handbook 2021.03.02
The Blacksburg High School Student Handbook from the 1958 to 1959 school year.
The Blacksburg High School Student Handbook from the 1958 to 1959 school year.
1958-9 BHS Student Handbook 2021.03.01
The Blacksburg High School Student Handbook from the 1958 to 1959 school year.
The Blacksburg High School Student Handbook from the 1958 to 1959 school year.
1943 December Tattle Tale 2021.02.07
The March, 1943 Issue of the Blacksburg Highschool newsletter "Tattle Tale"
The March, 1943 Issue of the Blacksburg Highschool newsletter "Tattle Tale" that includes school information, activities, and social intrigue that gives a high schooler's interpretation of local culture and activities.
Cover - A line drawing of two puppies wearing bows in front of a wood door with a window and a wreath, with two snowed on bushes and a line "Merry Christmas!"
Page 1 - Tattle Tale - Staff listing and an article about the Christmas times while at war.
Page 2 - News - due to the faded quality of the ink, some of the page is near illegible or is illegible, though the majority of the articles are understandable. The first article is unreadable for the title and the rest of the article is seriously faded. the second article, "Importance of a Good Record," is an article talking about the importance to having a good record of your time in high school. the third article is a list for the Honor roll for the first and second terms.
Page 3 - Advertisements - College Book Store, and the Corner Drug Store.
Page 4 - Clubs - contains the latest news for three clubs at the high school.
Page 5 - Jokes - after the various jokes it has a line drawing of mistletoe.
Page 6 - Literary - the article that covers this page is titled "Blacksburg High School's Unsung Heroes" by Mary Jean Montgomery. after this piece ends it has the last part of a piece from the "Clubs" section.
Page 7 - Literary - This holds only one piece, "Warfare as Practiced in Blacksburg High School," by R.B. Dietrick, and continues on literary page 3.
Page 8 - Literary - it starts with finishing the article listing Honor Roll and then concludes the article "Warfare as Practiced in Blacksburg High School." in the second column it continues the murder mystery story that is continued from previous editions of the "Tattle-Tale," titled "Murder Mansion" by Janice McCann.
Page 9 - Sports - the first Article is about the Basketball season starting soon for both the boys and girls teams, titles "Basketball Season to Start Soon." the second Article titled "Christiansburg Game Ends Blacksburg's Football Season" that talks about the end of the football season. After the two Spots articles, it continues the murder mystery story.
Page 10 - Censored - a school approved way to spread what seems to be rumor's for the audience to enjoy and use as they want.
1943 October issue Tattle Tale 2021.02.06
The October, 1943 Issue of the Blacksburg Highschool newsletter "Tattle Tale"
The March, 1943 Issue of the Blacksburg Highschool newsletter "Tattle Tale" that includes school information, activities, and social intrigue that gives a high schooler's interpretation of local culture and activities.
Cover -Orange paper with a picture of a witch sitting on a flying broom behind a branch with an owl sitting on the branch in from of a circle, likely a show of the moon.
Page 1 - Tattle Tale - shows the staff of the news letter, and the right column is about what the Tattle Tale is.
Page 2 - School News - this section includes 3 articles, the first about "Pep Meetings" that the school was having and suggesting that people should join in an help out, the second talks about the now organized student congress, "student Congress Organized." the final article lists the recent graduates of 1943 and what appears to be what the graduates are doing at the time/where they are planning to go with a blurb about this continuing on an illegible section, "page 2."
Page 3 - Jokes - after the jokes, there is an add for buying a subscription to the Tattle-Tale.
Page 4 - Literary - story 1 - "The Whims of the Aunts and Canoes" by Jean McCormack, a short story about using a canoe to get groceries. Story 2 - "The Strange Case of a Toothprint" by Lucille Castleman, this seems to be an ongoing murder mystery that continues on the next page.
Page 5 - Literary - this continues the story "The Strange Case of a Toothprint," by Lucile Castleman on the previous page, concluding this issue of the story by stating that the conclusion will come in the next months issue. After the story, there is a notice about a "War Bond and Stamp Campaign" run by the student Congress.
Page 6 - Decensored - a school approved way to spread what seems to be rumor's for the audience to enjoy and use as they want.
Page 7 - censored - Finishes the Rumors and has a final paragraph that tells people to turn in rumors and things to editors and members of the "Tattle-Tale" team, even going so far as to suggest people open their friend's diaries to get "dirt" to share. After the piece ends a cartoon to symbolize people should join in more school activities appears, working by showing water labeled as "School Activities" and having a boy saying "Come in - the water's fine!"
Page 8 - Sports - the majority of the page is severely weathered and illegible, but it appears to be 3 article, titled " B. H. S. Cheer Leaders," "B. H. S. vs. R. H. S." and "B. H. S. vs. D. H. S."
Page 9 - Clubs - this page has articles on 4 clubs and their latest news and has a continuation from a part of the sports page.
Page 10 - Sports - continues the articles from the first "Sports" page, and continues the article on the Graduate stories from the "School News" page, and finished the article on the "Clubs" page.
Page 11 - Advertisement - The Lyric Theatre, Blacksburg Heating and Plumbing, The Collection at Hunter's, Star Barber Shop, the Corner Drug Store, and the Blacksburg Sample Store.
Page 12 - Advertisement - College Book Store, Rose's, Tech Drug Store, the College Inn, John the Barber and Warren, and the Southern Grill.
1943, March issue Tattle Tale 2021.02.05
The March, 1943 issue of the Blacksburg Highschool news letter "Tattle Tale"
The March, 1943 Issue of the Blacksburg Highschool newsletter "Tattle Tale" that includes school information, activities, and social intrigue that gives a high schooler's interpretation of local culture and activities.
Cover - A beach scene with a woman in a hula girl outfit, and a man in a sailors uniform, with a label of "Junior Issue."
Page 1 - News Letter Staff,
Page 2 - Editorials - the article on this page "Our School grounds," talks about the efforts to keep the school grounds pleasant looking.
Page 3 - Literary - The story that begins on this page is titled "SWAMP HORROR."
Page 4 - Literary - This continues "SWAMP HORROR."
Page 5 - Literary - Finishes "SWAMP HORROR," and begins "MEIN DAVERN BERIGHT."
Page 6 - Literary - Continues "MEIN DAVERN BERIGHT," with a note "(Con't on 'Jokes')."
Page 7 - Jokes - after the jokes it finishes the story "MEIN DAVERN BERIGHT."
Page 8 - Clubs - Notes some of the news about some of the clubs from the school.
Page 9 - Advertisements - Brown Stores Company, the National Bank of Blacksburg, Southern Grill, the Rexale Store, College Book Store,
Page 10 - Sports - This page has a single piece that describes the Basketball tournament the school team partook in.
Page 11 - Sports - Continues the rundown about the Basketball tournament, but states that the end that it continues in on "School News."
Page 12 - School News - this page has 3 articles and the continuation of the sports Article. The first article is about the Election for officers in the student senate and its results. the second article states that school will be held on Saturdays to make up for lost time. the final article notes the various parties going on and talks about the various people joining the military.
Page 13 - Censored - an anonymous way for students to say opinions or unsubstantiated rumors to a public audience.
Page 14 - Advertisement and additional article from the Clubs page -Louise's, College Inn, Hunter's. Below the advertisements is a picture of a man punching the letter "T" out of the phrase "IT CAN'T BE DONE" transforming it into "IT CAN BE DONE" with the line "Put 10% in War Bonds!" bellow.