Chase City High School - Mirror Yearbook (Chase City, VA)

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THE MIRROR, 1922 LULLIIllilillU m History of the Class of 1924 WONDER how Mr. H. G. Wells felt when he undertook to write his “Out¬ line of History.” I am quite sure he could not have been so overburdened with responsibility as I now am. Woe is me should I not do justice to the Class of ’24. Yet I feel they deserve to have fallen into better hands than these. In 1913, just before the year of the Great World War, eleven little boys and girls entered the first grade of the C. C. H. S. Timid and reluctant, they entered upon the first year of the great eleven that make up the high school course. One member in the second year and five in the third increased the number to seventeen. In the fourth year four more names were added, in the fifth one lone recruit, and in the seventh, five, making a total of twenty-six to enter the eighth grade or first year high school. How very important it seemed to be in the high school and have a different teacher for each subject! H ere we received five new additions and now in this, the ninth year of progress, four others have enrolled, making a total of thirty-six at the present time. As sophomores the class is proud of its record, numbering among its members debaters, dec.laimers, musicians, splendid students and some especially gifted in Latin and History. In athletics this class can boast of worthy representatives in both girls’ and boys’ basket¬ ball teams. Two more years of successful work will bring this band of thirty-six to graduation, and I sincerely trust that we shall not lose a member, but welcoming each addition, we may graduate with the distinction of five scholarships and of being the largest class in the history of the Chase City High School. Virginia Hutcheson, Historian . Page twenty-eight

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THE MIRROR, 1922 Shirley Williams President Freshman Class History m N the fall of 1914 our class began its long tedious journey. Many were lost by the wayside, but we still can boast of having eleven of the originl members. They are Louise Fitz, Bernice Wilmouth, Willie Weston, Edna Ward, Gladys McKinney, Elizabeth Wood, Virginia Bowers, Haskins Eubank, Virginius New, Aubrie Ward and Bailey Wilson. Marguerite Smith was our only addition in the second grade. Terry Lee Roberts, Evelyn Atkinson, Mildred Melsheimer, Lucy Hershman, William Finch and Charles Emory joined us in the third grade. In the fourth grade our new members were Shirley Williams and Lucile Wildman. At the beginning of our fifth year Rachel Lawson, Gene Staples, Waddie Jackson and Delmas Owen attached themselves to our band. Annie Bevil was our next entree. Margaret Brame, Lucile Carter, Ardell Willis, Ruth Orr, Maynard Beales, Claude and Garland Owen and Byron Rockwell joined our happy throng in the seventh grade. In September, 1921, we began our freshman year, in which we were joined by Alice Williams, Madeline Downey, Catherine Spencer, William Boswell, Hunter Crenshaw and William Chandler. While the mysteries of Algebra present themselves and we are charmed by Latin and amazed at the wonders of science, we are realizing our position as Freshmen. As the doors of history are closing on the past, we are looking forward to the future with high expectations. Mildred Melsheimer, Historian . Page thirly