Altavista High School - Nuntius Yearbook (Altavista, VA)

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4a E, the Senior Class of Altavista High School, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred twenty-seven, ere we start on our voyage upon the billowy seas of life, filled with hardships and troubles, are reminded that we are leaving behind a great family, our teachers who have acted as mothers and fathers, teaching us with untiring efforts, and our schoolmates too, with whom we have been so long associated and whom we have loved as brothers and sisters. To them we look with sadness as we part. As material evidence of our love and affection for them, we make known this, our Last WILL and TESTAMENT. As an expression of our esteem for those who have worked so hard to put us through school and to the Faculty we will severally as follows: To the School Board and to Mr. J. J. Fray, the Division Superintendent, we will our hearty thanks for all they have done in our behalf, and wish a greater success for the future. To Mr. Childs, our beloved principal, who is enshrined in the hearts of us all, we will our most valuable possessions which are four straight lines of High School pupils with smiles on their faces and a noiseless tread; the most up-to-date megaphone with which to call “straighten that line” in case of necessity, and last but not least, “the most up-to-date bungalow for two.” To Mrs. Arthur Rowbotham, who to our minds is the best English teacher in the world, and who has taken much irterest in the progress of the Seniors, we will a safety vault in the First National Bank in which she may x‘ keep all parallel books and scrap books safe from curious eyes. To Miss Helen Phillips, our Math teacher, who has-neyer failed to-solvethe-problems—that we Could-net-we will a compass” made large enough to-draw.circles on the blackboard, and an assortment of solid geometrical} figufés. To Miss Juliet Fauntleroy, our History teacher, who has forgotten moré history than | we will ever learn, we will a variety of antique furniture and a collection of arrowheads. r Fs me . ; ° ,, =n . 6 To Mrs. C. F. Arthur, our Science and Spanish teacher, we will a pair of handcuffs, a detective badge and the right to arrest all boys that she catches misbehaving. w Aik 24 ! Aa . en Sf, GOAN 4 y L w | t j 4 V A MY : | j ; WY ALL Vy J © | IW Tw Y k 4 I neil se my J f : ee A ‘17 ') he 9 ee y Ly j J

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Roselle Pickrell is a prosperous lawyer and gives as much of his time as he can spare pleading his case in the “court of hearts,” presided over by one of the girls [ heard singing in a Texas choir; no, not Hazel Finch, the other one. Baxter Rountrey is the leading architect of what once was “our little town,’ which is now quite a bit of a city. Elizabeth Evans is happily married and comfortably domiciled in a beautiful little bungalow. Stafford Wilburn gives Charleston lessons in his studio and is one reason “why girls leave home.” Ruth Meacham, I hear, has succeeded in vamping all the boys in her home town. She went to Ohio and captured a sheik and they have both become very demure and home-loving folks. I forgot to mention that we went to a championship basket-ball contest while in Wash- ington, and among the players on these famous teams were our own Marie Burnette and Hattie Wit, while on the men’s quintet were Worthington Palmer, Wilbur Mattox, and Hancock Frazier. And so my prophecy ends with the wish and hope that each member of the Class of ’27, in his own way, may be as successful as has been imagined by THe Propuet (Thelma Crawford).

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We will the following, a few difficult questions to those who take our places, hoping that by careful study, and efforts, they will succeed where we have failed. In Latin: Judging from the picture, why isn’t “Sic Semper Tyrannis” translated “Get off of my neck?” In Chemistry: Our body is eighty-five per cent water and fifteen per cent ash and phos- phorous, and that in turn can be dissipated into gas and vapor. Where do we get from there? In English Literature: Learn the life of “Dickens, Howitt, Burns” (Dickens, how it burns!) and see if it doesn’t scratch you. Al es ae Math: Learn to divide by long multiplication. cd Pens In Science: Our poet wants to know, = And he will ask it without fail, a ee Did ever any of our ancestors a ante Hang from a limb by his tail? ———— To the four years of High School we will the following: To the Freshmen the honor of ringing the bell and raising the flag of Mr. Childs, and washing the blackboards for the Senior Class. To the Sophomores the best classroom in school for next year. To the Juniors, a brand new edition of Webster’s Dictionary, to b e used as a mascot during the whole year. By request of the Senior Class of ’26 we will to the coming Seniors, to be transmitted by them to their successors and so on, ad infinitum, our record as students and our marks for deportment, trusting that where we have erred they may amend, where we have failed they may succeed, and that each succeeding class may excel its predecessors in things worth while. We hereby appoint Irene Blackwell as executrix of this, our Last WiLL and TESTAMENT as we feel that she will faithfully perform the duties of such an office. We hereby affix our seal this thi rty-first day of May in the year of our Lord nineteen hundred and twenty-seven. , Baxter Rountrey, Testator. Witnesses Thereof: GraAHAM McCartney, of the Freshmen. Roy Meacuam, of the Sophomores. Barney ARTHUR, of the Juniors. U ¥ —F = ep Ff , {SU On Pe Ae co Fh Ye a i a Z 1 t 7 p 44 Z ? Ss) 7 y, 2 hn 4 Ap fh Avett j a r a SA Vg oe j VA BY ¢ Wi - jf i 3 ; 9-2 3 4 L thea Ly ge t- x BAe £ nF (“oa