Berry High School - Torch Yearbook (Mount Berry, GA)

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ORGANIZATIONS Athletics Clubs Music Societies

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SILVER AND BLUE was History When the inflowing tide of students came surging through the Gate of Opportunity in September of 1931, the old-timers and left-overs began to look about for the usual familiar faces. Slowly the fact dawned upon them that they were compassed about by a numerically superior multitude of be- wildered humanity belonging to that insignificant species called freshmen. Their first sensation was one of horror at the thought of having to endure the presence of this green mass. But wait! Their thoughts took a swift turn and a new outlook-here was fresh meat in delightful abundance. What oppor- tunities! The look of horror changed to one of malicious foreboding, while the heretofore blank faces of the freshmen assumed a condition of terrified appre- hension. What great disaster was about to overtake them? When, where, and how would it strike? The fresh- men of the class of '35 were experienc- ing all the normal, healthy sensations that every true freshman should. But alas! the blow never fell. Nerves strained to the breaking pointg meek faces peered about expectantlyg the torture of suspense continued. Finally it became rumored that the upper classmen were only bluffing, that they lacked the courage to encounter the insignificant newcomers in actual com- bat. As an unbiased narrator of facts the writer must let it be known that the failure of the orgy of initiation to materialize was due to no such cause, but the freshmen cannot be blamed for imagining that it was. Neither can they be blamed for immediately or- ganizing themselves into the outstand- ing element of the school. The upper- classmen calmly accepted those insig- nificant creatures as their equals and dumbly shook their heads and blinked as those same bold, in- their eyes subordinate upstarts swiftly and surely spread in a most unfreshmanlike way into every activity of college. Tradition has been smashed, prece- dent completely ignored, and conven- tion scorned as the freshmen have con- fidently and with little effort shown the way to even the usually dignified seniors. The baseball series showed the winning team over half freshmen, the captain included, field day credits the freshmen with two thirds of the points, and the freshman basketball team smashed through to victory even after an early defeat. In academic ac- tivity as well the yearlings have pro- duced abundant representation. The Honor Club, literary societies, choir, orchestra, 'and band are all amply stocked with freshmen. The freshmen have not become accustomed to Berry, Berry has become accustomed to the freshmen. Now we have the new model fresh- man-a respectable element of the stu- dent body, a novel creation of one mis- conceived idea. In these topsy-turvy conditions at Berry, when the familiar question comes, What class are you in? , our modern first year man no longer hangs his head in miserable shame, but raises a beaming counten- ance, proudly thrusts out his chest and announces I'm a Freshman! student organization and any consequence at the A prominent American doctor says that 'in fifty years kissing will be a thing of the past.' As if we would care-then. Page Twenty-six

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SILVER AND BLUE 'Kelli A 1-4. .., --.L,., 'iii TRACK TEAM Front Row: Arnold Hufstetler, George Suggs, George Smith, Frank Strain, Hal Smith, Ralph Gaskins. Second Row: Ernest Acree, Glenn Jolley, Ted Lynn, Daniel Hixon, Nolen Arnett, Jesse Kinzey, Ellis Swint. Back Row: Dorris Brown, Paul Travis, Jimmie Cammon, Mr. Jesse Gudger CCOachJ. AA BASKETBALL TEAM Front Row: Frank Jamison, Paul Travis, Arthur Smith, Jesse Ray Gunn. Back Row: Mr. A. H. Shep-ard CCoachJ, Ted Lynn, Beamon Hill, Sam Crisler, Hillias Martin CManagerD. Winifred Moore CNot in Picturel. Page Twenty-eight