Alexandria High School - Alecko Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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THE AMBITIONS OF A FRESHMAN The portals of elementary education have closed. We find ourselves in a new world — a world of more serious, more difficult and varied things. The problem of formulating our desires into ambitions has come to the fore. The immediate goal of a Freshman is the acquisition of a diploma. The freedom given a Freshman greatly encourages a feeling of independence and maturity. The goal towards which we are all working when we begin our high school career affords every Freshman the belief that no matter how endless and difficult his tasks may appear they are to some avail and there is a reward in store — evanescent as that reward may seem now. Activities in which the student may participate are exceedingly stimulating. They serve as a means of awakening in him interest in the welfare of his school, a desire for her supremacy, and a feeling of affection for her — right or wrong — “She’s my school’’ — a fallacious sentiment, perhaps, but “school spirit’’ is sometimes a trifle sentimental. Hence the student is made to feel that he has a certain responsibility which will determine the welfare of his school. With the many advantages which the school offers, the ambitions of a Freshman are made to expand and guide him to the field in which he is best suited to benefit himself and the world at large. Marjorie Garvey, ’35.

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Major, Shellie Marcus, Anna Markell, Edward Marks, Thomas Marston, Morrill Martin, George Mason, Ruth McCallan, James McKinney, Doris Mendelson, Evelyn Mercer, Sadie Merchant, Lillian Metier, Allen MidkifF, Roncevert Miller, Florence Miller, Frank Mills, Juanita Mims, Louise Mitchell, Helen Monroe, Anne Moore, Earl Moore, Elwood Mosher, Grace Moss, Elizabeth Mudd, John Nalls, Geraldine Nalls, Jeanne Naylor, Virginia Newton, Frank Noble, Lindsey Noel, Lawrence Northrop, Marie O’Neil, Samuel Otley, Janet Owens, Anna May Owens, Joseph Pacella, Hugh Parker, Bessie Parker, Jack Parks, Marian Payne, Louise Peabody, Edith Peabody, Elizabeth Penn, Charles Perkins, Louise Peyton, Howard Phillips, Lynwood Polkinhorn, Mary Polks, Rebecca Pulman, Smith Pulzone, Coralie Pulzone, Marian Rasbach, Virginia RatclifFe, Annie Rawlett, Austina Recker, Billy Reynolds, Lucie Rhodes, Geraldine Riley, Sue Robinson, Jack Roland, Earl Rose, Louise Rowley, Marvin Rutledge, George SafFelle, Mary Schwartz, Julia Scott, Ruth Scott, Forest Seward, Gladys Seymour, Helen Shapiro, Annie Shapiro, Rosie Shue, Mabel Shue, Paul Simpson, Dora Simpson, Embrey Simpson, Thelma Sisson, Robert Sisson, Violet Smith, Dan Smith, Kenneth Smith, Ruth Stickles, Ida Sutherland, Stuart Thorpe, Kenneth T urner, Florence Underwood, William Via, Violet Wakeman, Fay Wallace, Eleanor Waller, Jovce Warden, William Watkins, Howard Weaver, Thelma Weiner, Edna Wells, Catherine Wells, Dorothy Wells, James Wells, Zora Williamson, Howard Wood, Kenneth

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