Alexander Graham High School - Snips and Cuts Yearbook (Charlotte, NC)

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A g , ' IFJ -'Agn 'X dl .- . ' rum A rule had been made in our Freshman voyage that, if every three months we made an average of ninety or over in our duties, we would be free from a day of extra hard labor on that duty. This rule was especially valuable to us now, as the duties were harder and we wished to get out of them. About the middle of this voyage, the. engine broke down and the influenza waves were rolling up on the deck of the ship, so we stopped at a halfway port and had a short vacation. We then started on, and towards the end of the year, a great banquet was given at the death of Julius Caesar, to which all the officers were invited. At the end of the voyage we stopped at the second Vacation Port, and here we acquired a New Captain and some new shipmates, and lost more shipmates than we gained. YV hen we entered the Junior Sea a great madness seized many of the boys and some of the girls, which the ship's doctor, called in to diagnose the case, pronounced to be athletics 'fThis is a disease, said he, 'fwhich must be allowed to run its natural course as no remedy is knownf, Among the boys this took the form of football, and among the girls, basket-ball. W'hile convalescent, many parties and dances were given on shipboard, making a happy time for allf' Toward the end of the voyage, because of crowded conditions, we were trans- ferred to the beautiful new ship, The Alexander Graham High School. There were many changes in our mode of living, but we enjoyed them and they were for the better. ,f We finished this voyage with great lightness of heart because we would soon start out over the Senior Sea. ' At the beginning of our Senior voyage, we placed at the mast-head, a great banner of green and white with Carpe Diem written thereon, which same we had adapted as our class colors and motto, to proclaim to all who we were. Then the football madness was growing worse, and so many were affected by it that there were chosen from among us: Gwen Woodside, David Yates, and Rutledge Dudley, to lead us in our shouts of joy and jubilation, at the games played with those stricken with this same disease and who were from ships in the same sea. At the basket-ball games we were also led by Owen in our rejoicings. Many were the parties as we sailed the Seniors' Sea, many were the good times, long to be remembered. And on this, our last lap, when we so reasonably expected our full share of the usual Senior Privilegesf' as some sort of compensation for the sufferings in our past and which we had heard and dreamed of all through our voyage, what have we received? Alas! In Charlotte High School, Senior Privileges seem this year to have become as obsolete words and to have been stricken entirely from the vocabulary of the ship's officers. Is it any wonder that we are not always gay? Furthermore, we are graduating and we need many dollars to publish our 73 ' H

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C N IIKQ ,fag wil- , N 'Z-Xinnialf' And so a great atrocity, called a Senior Play will be given to help fill the coffers. ln the meantime, the girls sell sandwiches and candy to their ship- mates, who are always ready to eat, and the boys are selling bar-r-rels of weenies and loads of mustard and many rolls to rival the peanut man and fill the Senior treasury. lVe have found it difficult to persuade our officers that we are not the same boys in knee trousers and the same girls in pigtails and short dresses who first came to them four years ago. Some even yet address us by our Christian names, which otherwise we felt we might have entirely forgotten. It would take too long to read the complete log of this eventful voyage. It would be very interesting to tell the many delightful experiences, the many wonderful lessons, the many changes in the passenger list, but after all it has but little vital significance except to ourselves, the few who will soon land at Com- mencement Wharf. We must not divulge the secrets of our shipmates. We must not forget the loyalty due to our class colors, so valiantly flying at the masthead. The best and most vital history of any person or thing is never given to the world. So must it be with the Class of ,2l. It has been a most wonderful voyage and we have accumulated many sou-- venirs, striving, however, to guard against excess baggage. We have not faced any gale which we were not able to withstand. VVe have not been wrecked upon the shoals of any threatening task. The tides of our averages have continued to ebb and flow, the waves of mathematical problems have kept up their ceaseless motion and commotion, the billows of examinations have sometimes tried their worst to overwhelm us, but none of them has succeeded 5 we have astonished the officers with all our amazing knowledge and startling information that we have furnished them from time to time in our various examination papers. VVe have sympathized with the seasick passengers, that made up the various new classes. We have enjoyed the successful experiences of those who have landed on other shores. , We will go on writing new logs of greater adventure, and more wonderful discovery, for while the voyage of high school life is at an end, the voyage of real life will soon begin. There was nothing more left for them to know- T hey must pass on Commencement Day. --M. C. R., Class Historicm, '2l. 74