Grafton High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Grafton, WV)

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LILA KATHAR1N PAINTER LiU is a jolly, good natured girl, who never smiles, but laughs, and when she does laugh the class roars. I ila says she is always good in school, but somehow the teachers never seem to agree with her. and then, alas! What d'you thick I got in deportment. is Lila's usual exclamation when report cards are given out. Fortune has especially favored Lila, lor she has escaped this year only with four studies, no wonder she can laugh so heartily. A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.' FLOYD C. HAYMOND An even-tempered boy who takes life as it comes, and lets it go at that He recites quotations so slowly that blessings are showered upon him by the grateful students when he saves them from flunking'' by taking up all the time. He blushes very prettily whenever a girl looks at him. It is supposed that he does not really dislike the fair sex. but he is just a little faint-hearted at times. Nevertheless, he is improving daily. He regards school as a joke. for “Daily he jroeth to recitation, and hourly he snaketh his head ‘no. ' I have ne'er a tongue in my head.' KITTY PEARLE COLE Kitty is a sly little miss, with large gray eyes and pretty hair. She is very modest and blushes at the slightest provocation. She is particularly fond of book-keeping, in fact, she devotes moat of her time to that fascinating study. Puss is ever ready for fun. but in some miraculous way she always manages to keep out of trouble. She is a dear, demure little lady whom all the class like. “She is a pretty puss-in-boots, Wilh a saucy name that suits--every glance,

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r. Jackson, j. bUsh. g.Nuzum. e. collIns. l. dOll, l. milleR n. d moSs G.FAWCETT. R. RuTHERFORD, C. LoAr, F. HAYMOND. L PAInTeR. K. cOlE, L. SlN. EL E. sHuCK, C. WILKINSON. G. BORD. H. WAGNER C. SlNSEL. W. SCULL, A. I’HlLLIPS. R. wOODYARD. L. MILLER Junior J)istorp We are the class of 1911. Upon us has fallen this year the responsibility and the privilege of sending forth “DtlS ifeacljlfin the Annual for Grafton High School. It is useless for us in this one page of history to utter any words of self-praise, since this book bespeaks what we are. and what we have done. The publication of a high school year book is indeed both a responsibility and a privilege. The Annual must be representative of the high school. It must breath forth the spirit and the very life of the institution. It is the pupils' book in which they may in words and in pictures work out their own ideas. We the pupils, send it forth, this part of ourselves, and the world sees us in it. In the Alumni, it awakens memories of happy school-days, and to them it tells the story of our progress. Thus, the responsibility is great. But we. the Junior class, have had the peculiar privilege. as also did the Junior class of last year, of directing this work and of expressing ourselves in it. We have tried faithfully to represent our school, of which we are proud, although we have no place as yet to call our own. We hope that this little book may be a tangible evidence that a live high school exists in Grafton, even in uncomfortable, cramped quarters, and that it may help to secure for future classes a comfortable well equipped high school building. Now. a few words about the Junior class, and their ups and downs (not altogether due to the frequent stairways). Our class is known as “T he Gigglers. We are very proud of this name because we have come by it honestly. We lead all of the other classes in high school when perchance we head the line. In Botany, one student has explained to us to our complete satisfaction how a peach tree can bear almonds one year, and peaches the next. In Geometry, every one in the class can bisect a straight line. Our class, in history has waxed so enthusiastic over the study of the French Revolution, that it has effected a revolution of its own in order to make further study of cause and effect. In Latin some of our class have desired greater speed than the short section assigned fer each lesson and consequently have found nothing short of a pony’s gait satisfying to their ambitions. In American Literature. we have developed orators and poets—some of the class when speaking can be heard nearly half way across the room ar.d ethers can write rhyming couplets in imitation of, Ten little kittens ready to dine One choked on a bone, and then there were nine.” Many cf the class give promise of becoming famous linguists. Some will specialize in General Philosophy, judging from the interest in German proverbs. In German the only sad feature of the year has been the time lost in waiting for two Schaffs kope to get their brain gearing oiled and working. The class in German now numbers I 5—2. May the blight of dullness not touch another precious one! In athletics the Junior boys have played their part, and the Junior girls have cheered them on to victory. Notwithstanding their good playing, sad to relate, our boys are often fouled for hugging”—in basket ball. Now our history is told; we have witheld no secrets. And still we are the class of 1911.—Historian.

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HAZEL PAULINE WAGNER Hud is an excitable somebody, who has a different mood for everyday in the week. She used to like the Hi ah School boya. but now ehe has outgrown them ana looks elsewhere for her friends.'' Hazel ia a good student and has a commendable ambition to stand as high as possible in her class. Sometimes when reciting her tongue gets twisted, and once-—to the astonishment of the whole Junior class-—she was heard to say in history that not even a cattle was left.' f ror one that triumphs great pain is to fail. LAWRENCE JACO MILLER Lawrence is bashful to an alarming degree and blushes continually. Owns a knife that is borrowed by every Junior girl. He never makes himself noticed. Never got less than 95 per cent, in deportment in his life. He is by no means cowardly for he is the only Junior boy who dares to undertake the difficulties of C.Ksar and Cicero, but nevertheless, he seems to fear the sound of his own voice, for although he always knows his lessons, he can'seldom be heard, even by his nearest neighbor. Silence is more eloquent than words.” EDNA LENORA COLUNS Edna is as quiet as a mouse but she can easily make herself heard if she is so inclined. Reciting memory passages ia her fort and she really does it well, for even if the class ia half asleep, they all wake up and listen when Edna begins to speak. She neither smiles nor frowns, but is always the same each day of the week Edna is always loyal to her class and her school. She is more fortunate than most of her classmates for she has a man' who takes her to foot-ball and basket-ball games She is ever gentle.