Varina High School - Varinian Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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the warinian F RUBY LYLE PATTERSON Zl'I01111vr'1' of Litrrczry Society, Atlilvtic Association and Baskefbrlll Team Ruby is one of the most athletic members of our class. She has played on our Girls' Basketball team for two years, and she is always a high point winner on field day. Ruby is known to her friends as Pete and is one of the most jolly of our hunch. She can usually be found with Dickie. Pete is a great Chemist and Biologist and some day you may soc her chasing buttcrliies around.

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18 415132 varinian .-XLVIN S. ATISTR Ill'vmIvrr OfLI.fl'l'l1I'j'S0!'lt'fj',flflI1f'l'if' flxxqciclfiolz, HUSFITUII and linxlcvtlmll Tc'c1111s Alvin came to us from Disputanta while we were in our second year. He was a great addition to our class. He is known to us as PEAT and the hoys on the other teams cannot tell him from his brother PETE-suppose you try. He has made his monogram for two years in both baseball and basketball. Peat is known as the loudest and most mischievous boy in our class. Best-o-luck PEAT old boy. EDWIN A. Misra .7l'If'1ll17Ul' 0fLiI1'rnryS0rivty,Atl1Iv!ir Association, Hnsvlwall and Bcislcvflmll Tvanzx Edwin or PETE or Mike. as he is known to most of his classmates. did not join our class until the second year, com- ing to us from Disputanta. PETE is one of the most popular boys in our class. His one had habit is cutting his classes and athletic practice to he with the girls. He has made his mono- gram for two years in both baseball and basketball. XVhile PETE is not a spec- tacular player he is always in the tight and usually brings home the bacon. PETE is a great Agriculturist and ex- pects to-spend the rest of his life milking COXYS.

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20 the varinian Senior Glass ilaistnrp E. N a calm and beautiful morning in the middle of September, 1919, we entered the Freshman year, seventeen strong, to begin our High School career. There was a spirit of adventure felt among us, which sent our hearts in aflutter. VVe felt a new life begin- ning of which nature we could not understand. After several months of Algebra, French and a sure enough Shakesperean drama, dealing with little myths and fairies, we had to be convinced before we believed that we were really in this same old world, for we thought that we had drifted off onto another revolving planet to live an entirely new life. At length, however, through the enduring patience of our kind teachers, Miss Anderson, Miss Wright, Miss Rooshup and Mr. Baker, we were made to realize what was meant by high school life and that we were but beginning a great work which meant concentration on the duties placed before us to perform. During this year we lost three of our members, Sarah Perdue, Raymond Perdue and jesse Spindlerg in fact they left us before we had even had a chance to know them, for they did not return after the Christmas holidays. Perhaps the dreaded monster known as examina- tions, which was to follow the happy holiday frightened them away. At any rate we do not know where they took up life after leaving Varina. Thus June, 1920, brought to a close our Freshman year, the one in which our marked History was begun. The following autumn we entered school again as very important Sophomores. Three more of our members had disbanded, for Waverly, our attractive little red haired girl, preferring the companionship of a certain little,Freshman boy to that of her old classmates, decided to go over that grade again, and Norman and Gerald Fennegan did not come back to school that year. However, three new pupils came to take their places. Ruby Patterson, one of our most athletic young ladies came from Glendale, and the twins, Edwin and Alvin Mistr, who are specially noted for their fame in athletics, came from Disputanta High School. .eg '47 fi!