Moundsville High School - Orospolitan Yearbook (Moundsville, WV)

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SOPHOMORE CLASS HISTORY t'The Class that ean't be beat! The busiest class in the school! The class that stands for knowledgeln In the latter part of August, 1920, We entered high school as Hgreen fresh- men -and we were green, too-about a hundred of us-each, of course, a slightly different shade of the said col- or. So the grouping effect was indeed remarkable-it might be said, start- ling. As soon as we started to doing things we fairly beamed, and, now as Soph- oniores, we are nobly up-holding the re- putation of the past. It is said that a true estimate of character cannot be made until long after death. If this is true, we shall find it hard to estimate the Sophomores of Moundsville High School. That We boast of t'pep and en- ergy, and of our intellectual ability, you are undoubtedly aware. As stud- ents, a glance at the grades is all that is necessary to show that many are Hmagna, cum laude. Versatile, cap- able, efficient, competent a11d skillful- sueh are the attributes of this excellent class. VVe are also at the forefront in our social life. The party, given in No- vember was a great success. due to the etforts of the social committee, and our much loved advisor, Miss Kittle. lu after years, we shall look back up- on this year as one of the busiest, but yet. the best, of the Class of '24.', N. S. J. '2-1.

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CLASS OF 1924 OFFICERS President ..... .... W alter Purdy Vice President. ....... J-eanette Brown Sec.-Treas. ..... ...... R alph Berry Historian ............ Nancy Johnson Faculty Advisor .......... Miss Kittle Alexander, Mary Ashworth, Harold Barnette, Frank Barnum, Susan Barr, Thomas Beall, Clarence Berry, Ralph Blake, Lenora Bonar, Mildred Boren, Robert Bosworth, Ada Bro-ck, Katherine Brown, Jeanette Brc-yles, Kingsley Cameron, Harry Chambers, R-oy Cox, Joseph T Cullinan, Margaret Dorsey, Mary Ellen Edwards, Charles Evans, Laurence Evans, Ray Friedly, Twill Forester, Ben Gandee, J. M. Clarke, Ethel German, Carl CLASS ROLL Gorby, Frieda L. Grandstaff, Mary Hamilton, Aleine Harlan, Paul Harris, Ronald Hartley, Dale Haught, Georgia Haught, Rosa Helms, Lester Hooton, Elizabeth Howard, Alene Howard, Zelda Hubbs, Nancy Irene Hudson, Keith Hughes, Virginia Hull, James Humes, Robert Johnson, Nancy Jones, Theodore Lafferty, Mary McCamic, Frances McConnell, Roberta McDaniel, Donald McElroy, lola Mcllvain, Earl McNinch, Hazel Manning, Helen Miller, Raymond Moore, lrene Mudge, Dorothy Myroski, Regina Peters, Walter Price, Burdette Purdy, Wailtei' Rankin, Helen Richmond, Flora Rife, Roy Riley, Virginia RC-senmerkel, Frank Rupp, Martha Sigafc-ose, Frank Smith, Bertram Smith, Mary Smith, Merle Sullivan, Paul Thomas, Frederick Thompson, Minnie Virgin, Tom Wziltoii, Robert, Wilsoii, Frank Wcilfe, Sterling WOOClXX'3,FCl, Robert Young, Lillian Class Colors-Old Rose and Silver Class Flower-Red Rose

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3111 illivmnrinm GEORGE ALAN BOTTOME. Died, March l, 1922. Divine Providence, by the whole course of Nature and the divine Word from the first to the last page, teaches us not to expend our greatest efforts and fix our fondest ex- pectations upon posessions that glide from our grasp and fade from our vision like vapors of the morning. We are taught of God, that we may not be taken by surprise and filled with despair when the killing frosts of disappoint- ment and death Withers the fresh blossoms, and blasts the unripe fruit of our earthly joys. We are all moving on in the same great procession, to the unseen home from which none return. Occasionally one of our beloved comrades falls out of the ranks, and we, who still live, move on With sadness and regret at the loss of the bright face and form and companionship of one of our number. And so, as the morning star melts into the superior glory of the rising sun-as the rosy dawn brightens into full day, our classmate and beloved companion George Bottoine on the first day of March, 1922, unmurmuringly bore all his suffering and surrendered all earthly attach- mentsg and, calmly and trustingly commended himself to the redeeming love, and fell asleep. Our hearts are sad at the loss, and he shall dwell for- ever in our memories as one Whom we loved and esteemed. But the measure of his days was with One who makes no mistakes in counting-his trust was in God, who gave to him the victoryg and his departure was but a triuinphal march at the close of which was his coronation. V. H. '24,