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

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Page Thirty-Two ESTHER WELLS • Wcllsy As the great eye of Heaven shined bright And made a sunshine in tin shady i-lari'. ETHEL WILLIAMS Skinny It will discourse most excellent music. ELIZABETH YASTE Beth” Kaithful, gentle, good, Wearing the rose of woman hood. PRUDY WILHIDE Pru” “Her face was veilid; yet to my fancy sight I ovc, sweetness, goodness in her person shined. JUANITA WILMOTH Neat “Oh! she is fairer than the evening air Clad in the beauty of a thou sand stars. ELFA WOLFE Elf To her vocation we can not say . But we think it will lie edn . k ration

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EVA SKAGGS KATHRYN THAYER “Katy “Whence is thy learning? Hath thy toil O'er books consumer! the mirinight oil? FRANK TUCKER “Tuck “And when a lady's in the You know all other things give place.” Page Thirty-One OWEN SOLOMAN •Sol “All grant him prudent, prudence inti rest weigh , And interest bids him -eek your love and praise ” IRENE THORNBURG Thorny “One praised her ankles, one Iter eves, fine her dark hair and love-some mein. ADA ALTA WAGNER Twins” “Look here upon this picture, and on ibis Tin counters it presentments of two sisters,”

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Page Thirty-Three Junior Class History On the morning of the 27th day of May, 1913, the present Junior Class of Grafton High School assembled on the stage of the Brinkman Theatre for the Grammar School graduation exercises. As is always the case at exercises of this kind, many of our best citizens passed predictions among themselves, and to us, that we really had a great clas ; in fact, they said it was the b t class they had ever seen together. We thought very little of this, as we always heard the same words at other entertainments. One morning in the following September, one by one, or a few together, we ascended the hill to the Old Red High School. Our first weeks at school were none too pleasant, as is alwa the experience of a Freshman Class. But after a while the upper classes recognized our greatness and affairs went on -moothly for some time. Our class wa- organized early in the school year, ami this resulted in us having many pleasant parties and entertainments. Stunt Might took place during the school year, and this served to display the abilities of the '17 class. The following year we were Sophomores and received more attention. Almost half of our number had dropped out, but we still considered ourselves the best class in school, and the other classes thought the same of themselves. Now we are Juniors, or, as I might express it, on the third rung of the ladder, with much strength left for the last step. We are now beginning to realize what High School spirit means to us. We have just moved into the new' building and are better able to how our abilities than before, (much to the disgust of the poor Seniors). The opening exercises were especially marked by the ability I have mentioned before. If I were a prophet, 1 could tell you a great many things of interest to come in our Senior year; but. instead, let me end by asking every member of our class, whether he •. in Kurope amid the bursting bombs of war. or under the peaceful skies of California. or, as many will he in the green hills of West irginia, that he open this book to the Junior Class and think of the good times he enjoyed as a member of the Class of '17. HISTORIAN.