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

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to be advised. These and many other weighty matters were to be decided. After lengthy conferences, heated debates, and numerous eliminating seances, Byrd Crayton was chosen to handle the reins of the Class government. The success of the Class this year would have been sadly eclipsed had it not been for the competent and efficient help of Marie Hagood as vice-president, Edith Gilchrist as secretary, and Roberta Walker as treasurer. At the Junior-Senior party, held at the home of Minerva Mc- Clung, this distinguished Class showed its ingenuity along social lines to such a marked degree that is is to this event that our Class owes its distinct social prestige of today. We might have been happier had it not been for the volleying and, thundering day by day of geometry-Q. E. D., but Miss Fannie piloted us safely through. Time does not permit me to take up the many and varied activities in which the Class of 'Twenty-Two participated as a Senior Class, but a few must be mentioned. Probably you do not realize that the new wing of the high school was added as a fitting tribute to our sojourn here this last year. The soul, mind, and body-filling cafeteria, it has been said by Mr. Harding, and we believe it to be true, because he realizes our greatness as well as you do, was made perfect in its appointments to grace our Senior year. Probably the most uplifting manifestation of our greatness was culminated when Dr. Garinger, upon first coming to Charlotte, recognized our superior ability, and granted to you the privilege and honor of facing, twice a week at ten-thirty, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, Nineteen Twenty-Two's one hundred and fifteen illustrious sons and daughters, seated on the rostrum. As we had such important matters to be considered, we felt it wise not to impose all the duties of leadership on one set of officers, namely: James Burwell, president, Margaret Henderson, vice-president, Jack Brown, secretary, and Marie Hagood, treasurer, but, at the middle of the year, we chose Morgan Spier as president, Louise Lee as vice-president, Margaret Henderson as secre- tary, and Paul Carmichael as treasurer. As a Senior faculty adviser, our Class owes more to our own Miss Bertha than we can express. Our further activities are so fresh in your minds that they can hardly be classed as history. However, let me recall for one moment a few of the things in which the Class of 'Twenty-Two's individual members have starred. No one will deny for a minute that the success of our football season was largely due to f'Tootie Crayton, Charles Couch, George Lowe, Tommie Clarkson, Jack Brown, and Ralph Woodside. To our success in basket-ball, credit is due to Paul Carmichael, Morgan Spier, and Jack Brown. In dramatics, Margaret Henderson, Marie Hagood, Sarah Adelaide Mayer, and James Burwell deserve much honor. As saleswomen for most delicious weinies, Edith Gilchrist and Minerva Mc- Clung cannot be surpassed, No one can outrival Speight Adams, Ab'bot Fraser, and Lucille Manning in stunt night performances. You know Louisa lwe don't need to mention her last nameb. She can do less talking and more working along the lines of advocating and annualing than Mr. Wade Harris himself, while John Jones shows his ability to get subscriptions and dollars quite as well as John Herbert proves to the faculty and students that his journalistic brain is far above the ordinary. Do not these facts, and innumerable other ones which any member of this Class can acquaint you with at any time, prove to you that you are, indeed, in the presence of an illustrious body, with an illustrious past, and without a doubt a brilliant future? -S. A. M., '22, Historian,

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Q? Y , l A ii D D D Mnqcflf F' Qlllass ibistnrp OME are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. My dear friends, let me impress upon you the fact that 4 each and every member of this, the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty- Two, was born great and has achieved greatness, and, now that you are our audience, we have greatness thrust upon greatness. Repose in your seats, and let me picture for you two hundred venomous- ly green Freshmen, as they stampeded into the old Charlotte High School building, to the tune of Bill Davis' military commands. Imbued with nothing but sheer ignorance, and requiring all the strength of the brawny muscles and all the fertility of the colossal brains of Miss Bertha Donnelly, Miss Charlee Hutchison, Miss Maude McKinnon, and Miss Connie Horne, to hold us in bounds, we were led through the mystical labyrinths of our Freshmen trials and tribulations, and er-Latin: Martha Lee was chosen president, to organize and quell the mob, with Sydney Dowd as vice-president, and Thomas Clarkson as secretary and treasurer. Possessed with complete satisfaction that no longer we would have to bear the brunt of the school, 'but that we could bequeath this privilege to the incoming Class, we boasted of being worldly wise Sophomores. As our Sophomore year rolled around, new officers were chosen. Margaret Henderson undertook the arduous task of being president, only with the understanding that in her absence Lucille Manning would take her place, and that all records and all moneys would be in the hands of Roberta Walker. When the gentle spring zephyrs wafted to us the fragrance of budding flowers, we betook ourselves from the rudely crude dwelling of our Freshmen memories to the palatial edifice whose spacious halls, whose auditorium with its matchless acoustics, and whose bright and airy classrooms, you now enjoy. Could anything at this time have been more in keeping with the dignity, wisdom, and sophistication of a Class so renowned as ours? Most emphatically, nothing-unless it could have been that we required a principal whose magnanimity was embodied in one Freddie B. McCall. It is the universal opinion that little could have been done toward arriving at order and decorum in our new quarters had it not been for the wise and synchroniz- ing counsel of the Class of 'Twenty-Two. Age seemed to ripen our infinite varieties, and, by the time we became Juniors, there was so much talent displayed, along so many lines, by so many individuals, that who was really greatest at this time was an all-engrossing question. A Junior presi- dent was to be elected, marshals were to be chosen, and different faculty members were

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CQ? gy li. JI Qllass will city Challotte County Meck And Old North State the best by heck Our school of all the continent We the Class of Twenty Two Oui final Will and Testament Our mind IS cleai oui body sound But death we know doth hover round To heal the dying sacrament ITEM I When we ale gone our wish is this That those of us who ve gone remiss You ll tender keep and diligent ITEM II In custom since the Lord knows when We will our Junior fellow men Our privleges of long descent These ancient myths were once of worth But now alas' they need rebirth Good watchful care and nourishment ITEM III Twere best to give to those who lack QA rhyme for lack by brains I wracklj We therefore seem lntelllgent So to the Soph more boys we give The faultless lives we Seniors live, Most spotless and most excellent The Senior girls their beauty leave, Then' lnnocence, the air they breathe, To Junior maidens impudent. L' 4 ' F . 1 1 'y ' ' - I I : , ' 1 Do make and publish this for you, ' . '7 I 7 , Y , . , . . Y , rc ' 1 xr l , Y ' ' Y , . l ' T ll ,Y ' , . 9 A Q F Our courtesy, our wit, oui teeth, We gladly to the Fresh bequeath, And warn him to be reverent. ITEM IV. To faculty-the lady part- We will our gentle, loving heart For use Cas an experimentj, Because we know they are severe In pinching nose and pulling ear Or other form of punishment.