Chester High School - Reflector Yearbook (Chester, VA)

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The Reflector : 1921 30 CLASS SONG i In the heart of old Virginia, Fanned by every breeze, Standi- our own — our Chester High School Midst the dogwood trees. Chorus Lift the chorus, speed it onward We’ll be always true True to you, (), Chester High School Ever true to you. II Four long years we’ve spent together In both work and play Thru fierce storms or balmy weather Busy every day. III As each clay from its beginning Shores some work achieved So our lives we’ll spend in winning Heights, not yet perceived .

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3S The Reflector : 1921 ITEM 9 To the Glee Club we will a sense of harmony and a willingness to prac - tice, since the experience of the past session indicates that the Club has much need of these. ITEM 10 To the future Science Classes we will a supply of unbreakable glassware and a stove guaranteed to supply heat when heat is wanted. ITEM 11 To Mrs. P. E. Perdue as the representative of this district on the School Board of Chesterfield County, we will the privilege of erecting a new school building and furnishing the same with the best equipment. ITEM 12 To the children of this community, themselves and their heirs forever, we will and bequeath the opportunity of attending this school and charge them ever to keep in mind and profit bv the bright and shining example set them by the Class of 1924. ITEM 13 All of our personal effects which we are careless enough to leave behind us when we quit this school and which are not otherwise disposed of in this instrument, we will and bequeath to this school and direct that they be col- lected and carefully preserved in a suitable glass case or cabinet as a perpetual memorial to the Class of 1924. We hereby nominate and appoint Mr. George Woodfin guardian for the Freshman Class, said Freshman Class being not yet of lawful age and capable of acting for itself. We hereby appoint Mr. ' I ' . C. Williams, Superintendent of Schools of Chesterfield County, the executor of this our last will and testament and direct that he shall forthwith execute the promises hereof. In witness whereof we, the Senior Class of 1924 of the Chester Agricul- tural High School, have hereto set our hands and seal this 23rd day of May, I 92 1. (Signed) SENIOR CLASS OF 1924, of the Chester Agricultural High School. Signed, scaled, published, and declared by the Seni or Class of 1924 of the Chester Agricultural High School as their last will and testament in the pre- sence of us who, at their request, in their presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereto subscribed our names as witnesses. Polly Prim Silent Jim Molly Vim.

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The Reflector : 1 92 1 40 HE WHO LABORS, CONQUERS With my mind’s eye, I see before me a magnificent speci- men of a tree. For many years, it has stood in this particular spot. In the beginning, it was only a tiny plant depending on nature to see that its needs were supplied. Nature did sup- ply the nourishment by putting it within reach, but this tree had to put forth effort to take in food and drink. Years of hardship, bringing with them the blasts and snows of winter and the droughts of summer, followed. The tree grew and each year put forth more effort ; and for its reward received greater strength and stature. So it is with all vegetable life. There is continual effort, followed by continual gain. With- out effort, there is no gain; the gain is in proportion to the effort put forth. I next turn my eyes upon another form of life — the ani- mal. Here is one of the lower forms known as the oyster. From a seed that has become attached to a piece of shell, rock or stick, this luscious bivalve has developed. The currents of the sea have brought to it the nutriment used in its growth, but we know that the oyster has led a busy life drawing its food by muscular effort, and making use of it in the processes of digestion. Its effort has been rewarded. The same processes may be observed in the growth and development of the higher forms of life. The higher an ani- mal stands in the scale of intelligence, the greater is its brain control over its efforts, and in their turn, powers of its br ain are further developed because of these efforts. We have been astonished to observe the evidence of brain development in some of the higher forms of animal life. We call this “in- stinct” in lower animals ; in man it is the mind. Either is the result of exertion — of putting forth efforts of the body and brain. Mental and physical activities have always existed among men. The savage, at first, owned nothing; therefore, it was necessary for him to exert his efforts to sustain life. Know- ing not how to make anything, he depended entirely upon what he could find. He simply took possession of natural products, such as, game of the forest and fish of the sea.