Berea High School - Prima Luce Yearbook (Berea, NC)

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PFUMA LUCE Rhodes Frazier That’s the point. . (The class laughs heartily and then three full minutes of silence ensue The quietness is interrupted by the entrance of Harry N avion.) Harry Newton I didn’t know that we had a class today. Mr. Stone Yes, we have been discussing historical problems. We know that much. The Class Yes. A problem is a problem. Mr. Stone Can anyone do anything he doesn’t want to do ? Have you ever done a thing that you did not want to dot You are here in class room, but you may think that you would prefer to be out yonder playing ball or talking. But that is not so. ou realize that if you are not here, you will not get credit for the course, and if you don t get credit for the course you will not graduate, and so on. So you are here because you want to be. y Does anyone want to ask any questions ? All right, we will discuss the bar- barian invasions tomorrow. ( All leave as the curtain slowly falls.)

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A Student Yes. (Clide Morris enters carrying a basketball and Annie Frances O’ Brian follozvs him. . Clide appears to be the originator of slow motion and is all present but the zvagging tail and extended cars.) Mr. Stone What is a historical problem? Do people realize at the time that it exists? Is that quite clear ? Clide Morris I don’t think so. Mr. Stone Well, let’s illustrate. Is not a historical problem like an individual problem? Suppose a man were asleep in a house and the house should be burned unknowingly to him, would the burning of the house be a problem to him? Clide Morris Well, not in this world. (Fhe class laughs for three and one-half minutes. Then Charlie Currin enters.) Charlie Currin Gee, I am here at last. ( Two members of the class fall asleep and a third one faints.) Mr. Stone It all depends on the meaning you put on the word problem. ( Another member of the class faints.) Who can describe the historical problem that confronted the world in 476 A D ? ( The members of the class give each other a vacant stare.) Mr. Stone Do I hear an answer ? Charlie Currin It looks like to me the harder we work, the less we know to death. (Looking at Annie Frances O’Brian.) Oh ! I am bored 1V1K. o TONE . There c ‘ in be no solution Of historical problems. Is that understood? Neither is there such a thing as time. The Past is gone ; the Future is not here Tt is nil Present. It’s like “Cash today and Credit Tomorrow.” (Rhodes Frazier is noiv asleep.) Mr. Stone Out of the solution of each problem two more come. Is that clear? (Someone sticks a pin in Rhodes Frasier.) [ Page 78 ]

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' Truth and Fancy Nancy Mae C. (telling about her first ride in an elevator) : “We went into a little house and the upstairs came down.” “It is most dangerous to drive with one hand. More than one fellow has run into a church doing it.” “You mean the police headquarters.” Mr. Stone (on French class) : “Mademoiselle Hobgood.” Clyde H. : “My name is Clyde, not Mademoiselle.” Rhodes F. : “I have an idea.” Annie Francis O’B. : “Be good to it. It’s in a strange place.” Mr. Stone (in Latin class) : “Translate ‘Caesaris boni legio.’ ” Beatrice G. : “Caesar had bony legs.” Nellie C. : “How many foreign languages are you taking, Janie?” Janie P. : “Two — Latin and History.” Mr. Russell (walking into a barber shop in a hurry) : “Can you cut my hair without taking off my collar?” Barber: “No, but I can cut it without you taking off your hat.” Mr. Stone in history class) : “What were the dates of Henry the Eighth?” Alma D. : “I don’t know, but he must have had a lot. Just think — six wives.” Mr. Hayes: “Clyde, what is an affected quadratic equation?” Clyde H. : “I suppose it’s one that has a disease or something.” Paul T. : “Enoch, I joined an insurance order last night and it’s fine.” Enoch C. : “What kind of insurance order?” Paul T. : “Well, I pay a dollar a week as long as I live, and 1 get two dollars a week as long as I’m dead.” Genius Will Re-Appear Mrs. Thorpe: “What are you doing, John.” John T. : “Nothing, mother.” Mrs. Thorpe : “My, but you are getting more like your father every day.” [ Page 80 ]