C H Friend High School - Chit Chat Yearbook (South Boston, VA)

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. ...GEM Mid-term Seniors President ............. Vice-president ......... ------- Watt Baptist ---a----Vernon Pool Secretary 8: Treasurer ........ A. R. Strayhorn R01 Wesley Ballou Watt Baptist James Bishop Wilson Burgess Bruce Cole Margaret Dewberry Virginia Hastings Sam Patterson Vernon Pool A. R. Strayhorn Virginia Turner Earleen Williams

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Grumbler Today is another beautiful spring day 'we might all enjoy if we didn't have to stay lcooped up in an old hot stuffy schoolroom all afternoon. The heat is so bad that it is too hot to sleep and impossible to study. We find it nearly unbearable to stafy away from the baseball park during school hours, and if I may say so we are about the only ones not there-15,000 paid admissions last year. The ,Saturday school invention is a hectic one. There is barely any way to escape, except by skipping. If you get as little as one -demerit a week you have to go. It is even worse than those awful grammar school days. Another thing is that ,it grows on you-nothing sudden. The tardy rule is impossible to observe. Why, it doesn't allow five minutes for that extra saucer of ice cream or a measly hour to celebrate the fortune you might just have inherited from your uncle. In the minds of the faculty there is simply no excuse for being tardy. The fickle temperaments of our faculty increase each year you stay with them. It is like trying to satisfy a mother-in-law to keep up all the home work and that never-to-be-forgotten memory work of Shakespeare's plays-and that Triginometry- we never know heads from tails fMiss Lacy will testify to thisi. The effect of the presence of a cowbell is evident every single time it rings. The students start running as if the mad bull was right at their heels. This is very appalling, -but the cowbell for the end of school causes something worse than a riot- you are lucky to come out safe and sound. The football players were getting in some good practice too, during those two minutes after the cowbell. You wouldn't think the faculty would object to that, now would you? But they took that privilege away from us too, -and .made us -do all of our tackling and blocking out on the football field. The Seniors last year might think they caught it hard in exams, but they didn't know the half of it. We have to take all our exams. Some day I hope those tem!-I peramental teachers will realize how they shortened our days by subjecting us to that worst of all instruments of torture, known as examinations. A How times have changed! Now, when I entered high school I found much to my .sorrw that the student body had ample time in recreation period and between class- es to initiate me. Now that I have grown to the estate of the initiator, I find that we don't have time even for thinking of how we would like to initiate the freshmen, much less for any action. Freshmen are so obstreperous that they need that training which I received when I was a freshman. I have to my -credit a first fdo I hear a challengeifl, the first in history to 'be chosen Grumbler and Salutatorian of a C. H. Friend High School graduating class. Personally I would like to look into the minds of those who elected me to these duties to find out what they really think of me. They are such a. contrast that'I can't un- ravel what possessed the class to elect me to both. We must admit that much I have said is, to put it mildly, prevarication and exaggeration, and that all of us have sincerely enjoyed our stay in the high school. We have been taught to be so indispensable there that 'we wonder how the school will continue to function when we are gone. Our greatest source of grumbling is the fact that we shall never have a chance to continue our education in the new school which is going to be so beautiful and inspiring, and which everybody else is looking forward to with so much pleasure. Well, anyway, George Washington and other great men went to school in log cabins. But now comes the most important point we can think of now-we are on our own and therefore must find a place for ourselves in a confused and muddled world. A. D. DODD.

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- ,..n1,'17,q1,1?5':?T ' 'r4.ff,L, 1. ' rc. ,.,.--.4--gc - T Junior Class Officers President .................. Frances Lawson Vice-president ................, Inez Bennett Secretary ....-........... Sarah Wade Owen TI'621'Sll1'GI' ....-..n.............. Alice Smith Sponsors: Miss. Sallie Sydnor Kirby Miss Sarah Lacy