Bright Students On Pocahontas

 

The sources list students who were designated as "Top-Notchers" for achieving a 90% average in their schoolwork for the first two months of a school term. The "Top-Notchers" are listed by school district:

• Cherry Grove: Howard Gragg
• Greenbank: Jean Conrad
• Marlinton: Emma Joe Hill, Anna Madison, Charles McElwee, Richard Moore, Tappan Thomas, Stanley Kennison, Edward Wagner
• Huntersville: Jimmie Buzzard, Pauline Pyles
• Beaver Creek: Gordon Underwood
• Big Fill: Edna Price, Rene Lockridge
• Bruffeys Creek: Arnett Wimer
• Brushy Flat: Catherine McClure
• Bucks Run: Thelma Armstrong, Garland Beverage, John Armstrong, Clarence Davis, Margie Fitzpatrick, Millicent Hannah
• Campbelltown: Chas Baker, Chas Yates, Arden Curry, Josephine Hannah, Thurmond Cosner, Harry Hill, Arietta Phillips, Beatrice Buckwalter
• Douthards Creek: Josie Buchan
• Draft: Madge Beverage
• Dunmore: Frederick Pritchard
• Durbin: Mildred Potter, Charles Kramer, John Townsend, Henry Cummins, Viola Henry, Mary Lee Ervine, Jack Phillips, Clyde Simmons, Pearl Brubaker, Ruby Woods, Nellie Burner, Nellie Slavens, Margaret Arbogast
• Edray: Warren Poage, Robert Hefner
• Greenbank: Mac Monroe, Emma Cackley, Jacoba Carpenter
• Hillsboro: Virginia Kennison, Thomas Kay
• Lobelia: Lodge Walton, Regina Armstrong, Anna Marie Anderson, Audrey Williams, Hilbert Dameron
• Marlinton: Lucy Anderson, Carolyn Edgar, Ruth Rhea, Evelyn Withers, Edward Buzzard, Dotty Lou McLaughlin, Joy Malcomb, Betsy Kee
• Minnehaha Springs: Jane Moore
• Mt. Lebanon: Madeline Hill, Nelson Spinks
• Pleasant Hill: Howard Wilfong
• Seneca Trail: Wilda Smallridge, Stanley Glee Gibson, Nancy Coberly, Lea Belle Pennington
• Spruce Flats: Ruba Beverage, Anna Lee Beverage, Earl Cloonan, John Will Seets
• Stillwell: Randolph Bostic, John Knapp
• Stony Bottom: Billy Bumgardner
• Sunrise: Raymond Sheets, Ward Sheets
• Thomas Springs: Don McCoy
• Thornwood: Randolph Bledsoe, Annie Rexrode, Marjorie Smith
• Watoga: Addie Cole, Charles Left
• West Droop: Evalee Walkup, Fred Weiford

The "Top-Notcher" list shows students from many different areas in Pocahontas County who had earned high grades.