Brilliant High School - Blue Devil Yearbook (Brilliant, OH)

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NICLLIE U, FL.-XHERTY, HRll,l.lAN'l', Oulu. Horn in Hrillizml. Aucmlud school :lt NVhucling. XV. Va.: Sluulw11x'illc, Ohio, :md hero. llnving coulpl-:lcd hcl' High School course in 1914, she returned thc ful- lowing year for :1 review :md some hrzmchcs not offcrud hc-fore, Sho is now in thu employ of thc Eagle Glass W'm'ks, XVcllshurg, VV. Vu.

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1914 lima iiiainrg In the fall of year 1912 we gathered at our school to begin our High School education, to tit us for life's journey. Wfe were at that critical period in our career in which many boys and girls somehow seem to fail to catch the real vision of life's possibilities. In consequence, they either abandon the idea of education entirely, or pursue their studies with a growing indilference. But lucky for our 1912 Freshmen Class, we had caught the vision and determined to develop it. . Our class .was small, containing only three pupils, namely: Sarah Tate, Nellie Flaherty and Robert Faulkner, but good goods are always done up in small packages, and so it was with us. XV e studied diligently and left a record ever to be remembered. Our teacher, noticing our superior talent, and our desire to soar higher, became greatly attached to us. So much so that when one of the pupils attempted, to run away from school one day, the teacher had become so infatuated with the youngster that he pursued the Heeing youth as he betook his course to the river, where he chanced to wade Robert Faulkner dropped out of school for awhile, as he chose to cast his lot with the Mingo people, thinking that he would receive a better pugilistic and athletic training there. Sarah Tate, being a young lady of extraordinary business quality, entered the Steubenville Business College, where she was trained to shorten her hand. Nellie Flaherty remained to commence the next fall term. To begin with we got a new teacher, then the Freshman Class was taken in our room, and then the eighth grade, owing to the increasing enrollment of the pupils in the lower grades. A play was given during the first semester, which met with a great success, owing to the Brilliant, actors. But as the first semester rolled away, we had to part with our teacher, Mr. Shoolroy, who had to resign his position on account of his ill health. Mr. james L. Doran then took his place, and we then entered into the real school life. 1Ve were always very patriotic to the American flag, so much so that when our teacher left the room for a few min- utes one day, we couldn't refrain from draping his desk with the Hag and writing words of its praise on the board, but when he returned he soon taught us that there were better ways of honoring the national emblem. As the term drew to a close a play entitled 1'The Sweet Girl Graduates, was given with the commencement exercises, in which Nellie Flaherty was re- warded by being the Sweet Girl Graduate, and received her diploma on June 18. 1914. The following winter she returned to the B. H. S. She is now at work in the oliice of the Eagle Glass W'orks, Wlellsburg, XV. Va., by day, and at night she is taking a course with the Steubenville Business College. She contemplates teaching in the future. N. F.