Alexandria High School - Alecko Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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The Last Lap PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS OF ALEXANDRIA HIGH SCHOOL Volumes Alexandria.Va., May 29. 1928 Number 7 GRADUATING EXERCISES IN AUDITORIUM BACCALAUREATE SERMON IN CHRIST CHURCH During Assembly period the other day the Seniors met to discuss various matters about the graduating exercises. After much discussion the class de- cided that they would like to have the Baccalaureate Sermon at Christ Church. The school board announced that the graduating exercises would be held in the High School Audi- torium. SENIOR PROM The first steps toward preparing for the Senior Prom were made when “Out of the Stillness” was produced. Fifty dollars from the proceeds of this play will be used for the dance. Harry Barnett, the President, se- lected an entertainment committee composed of Evelyn Pitekett, Park Ticer, ' irginia Leary, and Jack Doni- phan, who W ' ill have charge of the “most-looked-forw ' ard-to social event of the scholastic year. Our auditorium will be decorated in green and gold, the class colors, and the stage will be decked with palms and ferns. Novel favors will be given, and dainty refreshments will be served. Mr. Friedlander will furnish the music for those who will dance for the last time to the tune of Wash- ington and Lee Swing.” MUSICAL PRACTICE FOR GRADUATING EXERCISES Miss Munoz has spent a great deal of time coaching the Seniors for the musical program for the Commence- ment. THIS YEAR’S VICTORIES FOR A. H. S. Alexandria High Scliocd has made a good record this year in its compe- tition with other schools along liter- ary lines as well as in athletics. We started off by winning the State championship in basketball for Class B. The other day at assembly Nick” Altrock presented the medal to the captain of the basketball team. This medal wall be ours for one year, and it will be ours permanently if we win the championship next year. How ' ard Blackwell won honors for his school in the National Oratorical Contest by winning in the group con- test. Aside from this honor, How- ard won a twenty-dollar prize. Martha Baggett and Gilbert St. Clair won second place in the State Championship Chemistry Essay Con- test. Each of these students received a book and a certificate. A shorthand and typing contest was held at Richmond on May 5. At this contest Fleury Foster won third place and a medal for shorthand, and ’ir- ginia Leary won fourth place in typ- ing with the same score as the per- son who received third place; ' irginia had only a few more errors than the winner. Helen Staples was given honorable mention in the National Short Story Contest with her story, “Jimmy Turns the Tables.” Out of ten thousand stories submitted to the contest, Helen ' s was among the first threi hundred. Aside from these victories by our students, our last year’s graduates have also made a good record. Only 7 per cent out of 2.7 students who attended college failed during the past winter. This gives A. H. S. a ranking of eighth place out of the fifty-six high schools of Virginia. CHARM (The Best Essay Selected from “The Senior Review,” a Magazine pub- lished by Miss Ficklin’s English Students. ) “Why are some girls shy and self- conscious?” Nobody loves me” — “I’m not popular, I am a failure, I may as well give up!” Such are the cries of more than one modern flapper. This old-fashioned attitude of false modesty will never win one friend. Tears are hopelessly out of date I The girl who is 100 per cent mod- ern in the l est sense of the word, has discarded the whining, complaining mental attitude once and for all. She believes in herself and her capacity for charm and success, and she lives up to her idea of herself. We can’t all acquire the same kind of charm, but there are certain traits underlying all charm, and these traits we may well cultivate. Cou ' -age — that’s the secret of the “grand manner” of modern youth! “I’m a very remarkable fellow!” exclaimed the hero of “Seventh Heaven” to himself. Then he pro- ceeded to live up to his own idea of himself. To charm others, you must have courage to believe in yourself, know hat you, also, can be attractive, fine, capable of winning and holding love — then prove it by your appearance, manner and character. It you wish to l)€ hopelessly old- fashioned. actually out of place among modern girls and young men, just whine about your troubles, wail, and weep copiously on slight occasion, and cultivate super - sensitiveness, which W’ill cause you to suffer “hurt feel- ings” on all occasions. {Continued on page 3, columns)

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THE LAST LAP EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Caroline Kreuttner, ' 28 Associate Editors Hilda Lynn, ’28 Mercia Cash, ' 29 Ruby Floyd, ' 29 Helen Staples, ’28 Assistant Editors Athletic Reporter, Robert Duncan, ’29 Alumni Mary Saunders, ' 28 Joke Editor Baxter Carey, ' 28 News Reporter James Hike, ' 28 Faculty Adviser Miss Green Business Department Business Manager....Kirk Lindsey, ' 28 Advert’s’g Mgr Robert Baldwin, ' 28 Circulation Mgr Joe Blackwell, ' 28 Faculty Adviser Miss Reardon Subscription Rates Last Lap $1,00 ( Issued at intervals of three weeks, entered as second-class mail matter at the Post-Office of Alexandria, ' ir- ginia.) V olume 8 MAY 29, 1928 No. 7 FAREWELL As this paper goes to press, there are only a few days left before another school year will end and another class will have completed its high school course. Although these seniors will go their separate ways — some to col- lege, some to work, and some into mat- rimony, none of them will ever forget the many happy and carefree days and the atmosphere created by their friends and teachers at A. H. S. Many of them will look back on tliese days and have the same feeling about them that Thomas Moore expressed in his poem : “Let Fate do her worst, there are rel- ics of joy. Bright dreams of the past, which she cannot destroy ; Which come in the night time of sor- row and care. And bring back the features that joy used to wear. Long, long be my heart with such memories filled ! Like the vase in which roses have once been distilled ; You may break, you may shatter the vase if you will, But the scent of the roses will hang ' round it still,” The seniors are about to step aside for the juniors to take their places, but before they do so, they would like to tarry a moment to wish their friends whom they are leaving all the success and happiness in the world ! “GUESS WHO!” (Best Poem Selected from “Junior Review”) He was a conspicuous looking gent — With a straw hat on his head, I thought sure it was gran ' pa. But he was home ’sleep in bed. He was tall and somewhat skinny. And he never had a care, -And the only work he had Was chasing birds that landed there. I ha e often watched him standing In the field of yellow corn. And I have often wondered. If he were a man forlorn. He was faithful as a greyhound. For he never moved nor strayed. But .stayed right in our cornfield ' here my brother and I played. But one day before the Harvest I was glad, he let me know That he wasn ' t any human. Just a friendly old scarecrow! By Pete Wii.li.- ms. A SCHOOLBOY’S AMBITION ( Selected from Spotlights on English V.) I go to school to have some fun, • nd you’ll bet your life I have it some. 1 bother tlie teachers all the day. ' Cause I can’t have fun any other way; I never study, by the way, I guess I ' ll be sorry for that some day ; I go to sleep and lose my place -And laugh at the frown on the teach- er’s face. I’ll bet a dime that I’m never on time; 1 never hurry so why should I worry? Studying’s a joke, bj the way ; I ' ll feel differently some day. I throw spitballs all over the floor And hunt for paper to make some more. I never study any more. Studying to me was always a bore. And I guess if I would use my brain It would turn cloudy and surely rain. By Ch. ri.es -Armstrong. LOVELORN YOUTH (Selected from “Sidelights” on English V.) .As I sit here, my darling, and g aze up at the moon, ■Away down in my heart I wish that I might see you soon. I wish that I might gaze right now into your sparkling eyes. But, ah, I have to be content with the stars high in the skies. — By Everett Brewer. ( Poor Speed” ; it must be terrible to be in love.) BASKETBALL TEAM ATTENDS THEATER PARTY Coach J. F. Wilson invited the basketball team to attend a theater party on May li)th. This happy crowd attended the Fox Theater, and had a most delightful evening. Those who went were Coach ' ilson, William Travers. Paul Travers, Charles Will- iams, Garland Sisk, Robert West, Bennie Friedson, Cleveland Shaw, Al- len Dennis. Marshall Smith, Richard Wiley, and Lester McMenamin.