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

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JfreSfjman Class Officers fPresident ROBERT WATERS Vice President ETHEL BENNETT Secretary) MILDRED KEEFER 'treasurer MARGARET BEBOUT Historian CARRIE KATE FLEMING Artist GEORGE WHITE Colors—Maroon and Old Gold

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jfeoptjomore Class istorp “A story. Grandma! A story! begged the little ones clustered ’round her knee. A school story, added Ned. the book worm. Well. said grandma, her face growing sweetly thoughtful as the memory of her school days came to her. “1 will tell you about my first two years in High School. Our class was the largest that had ever entered the High School and. some would say. the brightest and best looking. If grandma had been young this would have seemed boastful, but grandmas and grandpas have great privileges. especially when talking about their youth. It was the class of nineteen hundred fourteen. That seems long ago to you young people, but it seems such a short while to me since I was in school. Entering High School was a great event to us. The first year every thing was new and strange, but that only made things more interesting for us. We had a basketball team, a boys’ chorus and a girls’ chorus. The boys in the team had quite a reputation around the town. (Grandma didn’t say whether for winning or for losing). Our choruses always sang at Commencement and sometimes had entertainments, Grandma went on. “We had a rather large chorus when both were to- gether. It is not for me to say whether it was a good one. she added complacently. You might ask some of the people in town who were in our class. Perhaps Lawyer Mugler might tell you. When we were Freshmen we enjoyed very much the reception that the other classes gave to us and were sorry that we could not give one to the next class of Freshmen. 1 have been telling you all about our pleasures, but nothing about our work and study. Do not think that our High School life was all pleasure, for we studied hard. I do not mean by this that our class was an exceptionally studious class, for all the classes were good workers; the few drones always dropped out along the way. It was a grief to us that many dropped out. who were not drones. I used to think how great would be the honor of the class that should go through High School without losing a single member. “It has been many years since I was a Sophomore at Grafton High School. I have never heard in all this time of a class that surpassed dear old 1912. Perhaps one of you will be in that illustrious class— But run off now to supper. My story has been long enough.

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Gladys Allender Margaret Bebout Ethel Bennett Celina Bizet John Bolton William Boyd Edith Bradshaw Beryl Butcher Fred Cole Lillian Collins James Copp Dorsey Curry Carrie Cowherd Martha Dailey Margaret Dailey Caroline Dilworth Mary Dean Aaron Farnsworth Carrie Kate Fleming Ethel Foley Marie Ford Mary Gerkin Mary Goley Elizabeth Gough Charles Bolliger Dolores Bolin George Cassell Jfresfjman (Class l oll Robert Graham Asa Grammes George Griffith Clarence Grinnan Floyd Hamilton Corinne Harter Ruby Hedrick Virginia Heironimus Belle Hoffman Stella Hoover Charles Huffman Fred Jackson Flora Jacobs Iris Knotts Cecil Leachman Laura Long Edith Love Margaret Love Mary McClung Ira McCue Madge Miller Eilean Mills Dell Moore Emma Mouser Lee Murphy Elsie Newlon Bert Newlon Eva Paige Rose Plum Vertie Poe Manila Provance Marion Pugh Evelyn Rau Claude Reed Claude Reger Iva Rosier Durward Rosier Frederick Schroeder Hazel Shuttleworth Bessie Smith Lorna Soloman Elizabeth Stuck Hobart Thomas Frederick Trammer Robert Waters George White Lillie Wilson Lelia Withers Ethel Woodyard Clara Yates Pearl Knight Eunice Kinney Mildred Keefer