Alexander Graham High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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lluniur Glass Ipisturp in September, the year in this case being 1919, and the place the Old High School. We were very lusty and precocious youngsters Q I Q from the start, and were full of what we had heard termed as school spirit . We thought it had been ordained that we were to run the school, but disillusionment was not long in coming, when we found that we were only Freshies, and therefore the scum of the earth-preyed upon by Sophs, and hardly worthy of notice by the lordly Juniors and Seniors. Our Sophomore year wore more of the rose-colored tint, and was marked by our being domiciled in the new Alexander Graham High School building, under the direction of Mr. Fred McCall. During this year, we grew in knowledge and favor, and had more opportunity to display that school spirit whose outbursts had been so forcibly checked during the pre- ceding year. This year, as Juniors, we have deepened and increased our interests and participation in school affairs-notably in athletics. We have been under the dominion of a new principal-Dr. Elmer H. Garinger-and there have been numerous other changes in the faculty. A feature which has meant much to us is the formation of various clubs, which have given each scholar an opportunity of following his or her bent along some par- ticular line. And now with the goal, our diploma, so near, one more forward pass, a stiffening of the line, and we go for the final touchdown of our high- school career. UR class was born at the time of the year when most classes are-

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