Blue Ridge School for Boys - Blue Ridgian Yearbook (Hendersonville, NC)

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15. Exams begin. 16. McBryde passes Caesar exam. ?? 18. Exams over. Everyone freezes at the hop. 19. HOMEWARD BOUND. JANUARY 6. The winter term begins. 7. Basketball practice starts and Stumpy elected captain of the team. 11. Caleb Swink drinks bottle of hair tonic and sprouts moustache. 16. First basketball game. B. R. S. 13; Asheville Farmers 27. Not so hot. 18. Start work on the annual. 20. B. R. S. 18; Fruitland 13. 22. B. R, S. 20; Beverly Hills 17. 23. Snow. Bob Hayes, Pee Wee, and some other peanuts have a snowball battle. 25. B. R. S. 16; Brevard High 13. 27. B. R. S. 22; Fruitland 23. Oglesby demonstrates the headlock. 29. Bailey Military Institute defeats us in the most exciting game played so far. ' 26-25. FEBRUARY 2. Motsinger wraps a pair of pliars around Gillam ' s face. 3. Nowell and Utterbaek get suits mixed. Both think theirs stolen and old one left in place. 5. Beverly Hills gets the big end of the score. 6. Don Miller and Harry Stuhldreher, two of the famous Notre Dame ‘‘Horsemen,” visit School. 10. B. R. S. 29, Brevard High 2. (Everybody expects holiday.) 11. B. R. S. loses to Christ School 28 to 20. 13. B. R. S. 23, Belmont Abbey 28. Coach is ready for baseball. 14. “Bob” Cathey has been to school four days in succession. 17. Farm School defeats us. 24. B. R. S. 33, Christ School 16. (Revenge). 25. Lose our last game to Bingham. MARCH 1. March comes in like a lion. 6. Baseball season opens. 10. “Scrub” Garren quits school and gets married. 19. B. R. S. wins first baseball game from H. II. S. 11 to 0. 20. Symptoms of spring fever evident. 23. “Sherlock” Case and “Hawkshaw” Swink complete their correspondence detective course. 28. “Battling Burke” and “Kid Kelly” (the Fighting Irishman), tangle over church list. 31. Annual goes to press; we leave the remaining 65 days to you. Twenty

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SEPTEMBER 17. School opens with the largest enrollment in her history. 18. Large delegation turns out for football practice. Prospects bright. 19- Student body goes to town. Hicks sees bis first movie. 20. Everyone enjoys the first walk to and from church. 26. Bond Gillam gets in bed with Mr. Singletary. 30. The first month is washed away by the tears of the homesick RATS. OCTOBER 1. Staff elected for the school paper. o. First football game of the season. B. R. S. 13; Christ School 0. 5. “Bob Hayes misplaces his false tooth. 10. B. R. S. 37; Asheville’s Farmers 0. 12. Evins inquires as to the whereabouts of the shower room. 16. B. R. S. 39; Gaffney High 0. Evins is homesick. 18. Burke Boyd reported for excessive ignorance; thinks Florida is the only state in the Union. 19. Milton Bryce, trying to kill a mouse, drops shoe and wakes up the school. 23. Team travels down to Greenwood, S. C. in a big bus. B. R. S. 13; Bailee- Military Institute O. 28. Blue Ridge upsets dope and defeats Carlisle 13 to 6. Cathey stars, run¬ ning 97 yards for a touchdown. Carlisle players see stars? 31. B. R. S. 82; Boiling Springs 7. NOVEMBER 3. St. Cloud buys a tenor banjo, much to the disgust of bis room-mate. 4. Mr. Magwood sells a suit. 7. B. R. S. 42; Mt. Pleasant 0. Mt. Pleasant coach gets knocked out in the game. 8. Brawley buys a box of matches. Bums pipe and tobacco. 11. Armistice Day. B. R. S. 27; Greenville High 3. 12. John Lawes gets enough to eat. This fact should be noted. 14. Everybody late to breakfast. Fish Booe fails to awake us. 16. Everybody rejoices because we have grits for supper. 18. Riley Scott, the Kentucky poet, visits Blue Ridge. 19. Blue Ridge Literary Society organized. 21. Blue Ridge loses state championship by dropping the deciding game to Oak Ridge 13 to 7. The student body goes to Charlotte to see the game. 26. Thanksgiving Day. B. R. S. 54; Asheville High 0, although “The Ashe¬ ville Citizen” stated that there were several teams in Asheville better than Blue Ridge. Student body goes to see the game. A turkey dinner awaited us on our return. DECEMBER 1. 18 days, 432 hours, 25,920 minutes, 1,555,200 seconds till Xmas holidays. 2. Senior Class has meeting to elect officers. Jim Ward, president, Bob Hayes, vice-president, and Selwyn Scott, secretary and treasurer. 4. Oglesby bums another cake of soap. Nineteen 66-10 1131

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