Varina High School - Varinian Yearbook (Richmond, VA)

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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!

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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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the varinian 21 f During this year we were almost daily reminded by our teachers, Miss Shelbourne, Miss Pickhardt and Miss Tomko, that we were not half so important and smart as we thought we were, for the saying that You can always tell a Sophomore but you cannot tell him much readily applied to us as well as to previous Sophomore classes. There were many interesting events which happened all through the year, of which you would enjoy hearing, but space will not permit the relation of them here. When closing time came we could all look back over our Sophomore year and say that we had enjoyed it immensely. Soon September had rolled around again and the bell was ringing, calling us to our places as Juniors. Upon looking down our lines we discovered that two of our members were missing, for Helen Mosby and Arthur Sigmund had not returned to finish the work which they had begun with us in 1919. We were very sorry to lose them from our ranks, but if we understand correctly they thought they had found their calling in life, Helen as a telephone operator and Arthur as a sailor. We hope that fortune is now smiling upon them and they are succeeding in life. . Our Junior Class, however, was even larger than our Sophomore Class for five new members were added. Lorraine Johnson came into our class from the class of '223 Nettie Eberly, Gladys Fisher and Thad Hobson came in from Glendale to finish their high school course with us, and Charles Jefferson came from John Marshall in order, as fate would have it, to work hand in hand with Nettie. My, but we were thrilled to think that we were Juniors and that there were only two more steps before us, before the top of the ladder should be reached and the goal won. Thus we set out with a will to accomplish the work placed before us for the year. The faculty consisted of Miss Stoneman, Miss Shelbourne, Miss McCraw, Mr. Rice and Mr. Baker. During this year we learned to know the real meaning of work and study, and the true value of an education to us. We were carried farther into the world of literature. We learned to know those wonder- 'ful men called authors as if they were new acquaintances in real life. Through their works we were made to see the horrors of life without .gf