1944 Senior Issue Tattle Tale 2021.09.06

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1944 Senior Issue Tattle Tale 2021.09.06

Subject

Senior issue of the 1944 Blacksburg High School news letter "Tattle-Tale."

Description

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.

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Citation

“1944 Senior Issue Tattle Tale 2021.09.06,” BMCF, accessed March 28, 2024, https://bmcf.omeka.net/items/show/58.