Bethel High School - Key Yearbook (Bethel, NC)

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say it is not one-sided, because Frances and Bob will be sure to take opposite sides on it. Nannie Whitehurst is the longest and slimmest member of this class. She is about six and one-half feet tall and weighs only ninety pounds. Nannie is noted for the rapid speed at V -hich she walks. Nannie makes the honor roll every month. Robert Burroughs is the shortest member of the whole class. He weighs nearly two hundred and twenty-five pounds. For Geometry he| cares very little, but lie likes French and English very well. Bob spends the largest part of his time studying science. He is crazy over the girls, but unlike Silas , the girls are not very crazy over him. The total circumference of this class is one hundred and fifty feet. The combined age is eighty-five years.

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CLASS STATISTICS (By Robert Burroughs) This class is composed of five animals that broke out of the local zoological garden in nineteen hundred seventeen and entered Bethel High School. The total height of this class is twenty-six feet and eight inches. The volume of this clasi is one hundred thirty-four thousand seven hundred and eighty four cubic inches. The to- tal weight of this class is seven hundred and fifty pounds. In order to get an idea of the size of this class( we will think of it in mechanical terms; that is, if an object equal in weight to the total weight of this class were to fall a distance equal to the total height of this class it would develop twenty thirty-thirds of a horsepower. Annie Gerteude Jones, the largest one in the class, weighs one hundred and seventy pounds. She is about six feet tall, not counting the heels under her shoes. While she was in school her most interesting subjects were geometry and alge- bra ,but she seemed to do better work on those she did not like so well. Annie Gertrude is very fond of boys. Perhaps this ac- counts for her disliking the subjects which boys generally omit. Clarence Whitehurst, better known as Silas Green or Fros- ty, is the most attractive member of the class, as his names im- ply. His coal black hair is very wavy and he is about 5 feet high. ■ Silas is not very crazy over girls, but they are crazy over him. it must be that black hair and gray eyes that draw them like honey draws the flies. Frances Smith, the shortest of all the girls in this class, is a typical blonde. She has very little, if any, use for boys. She de- spises the ground their shadow falls upon. Frances is an ex- cellent student in mathematics, but not much on foreign lan- guages, as she does not like them, so she does not study them very much. Frances has never in the whole history of her high school life agreed with Robert Burroughs, another animal of this class on any subject. If any question arises, this class can

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PROPHECY OF SENIOR CLASS (By Francis Smith) Late, late, so late! How tired I am tonight! That math is terrible and that prophecy of the senior class to write and only three days to fin- ish it — but I can ' t do it tonight if the world never does hear the future of all the cranks, giants and idiots in this class. But, with a duty staring me in the face, I again dig away at the problem. But soon, when everybody else is sleeping, I too, am carried away into dreamland, where geometry has no dominion. It was sweet there. But, by and by, I saw a large crowd going to our old high school building. I inquired the reason and was told that it was a class reunion. The class of ' 21 had come back. Years and years had elapsed since our graduation. We had filled our place in life and now, after the aged grandsire. Time, had touched our lives not lightly, we itgain turned to the school where v c received our first diplomas. A large crowd had assembled to do us honor. Clarence Whitehurst presided over the class as he did in ' 21, and as he sat in his chair we noticed that his form was stooped and his raven locks had turned to silver. And he, as class poet, rose and read in- a cracked and screaky voice the poem he wrote while a senior. It then became my duty to; give the prophecy of the class as 1 had done many years before. As I dipped into the future far as human eyes could see — I beheld in every walk of life the class of ' 21 taking the lead. First, while walking down Broadway in New York City, I heard the loud cry of the newsboy, ' Extra! Extra! Great fid- d ' er just back from Italy. ' From curiosity I purchased a pa- per and on opening it, I found my old class mate ' s face, Nannie Whitehurst, staring at me from the front page. And in big lottois I saw that ' the world renowned violinist was to play at the Hippodrome. '