Clifton Forge High School - Alleghanian Yearbook (Clifton Forge, VA)

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THE ALLEGHANIAN 11 tion of the graded school and the principals thereafter, were Charles Vines, Ashby Payne, Thos. Xuckols, J. Lucien Hamilton, J. H. Kit- tinger, A. S. Beckner, Rev. Mr. Gray, Miss Bessie Bryant, Miss Ella Anderson, James Downer. N. C. Scott, A. B. Chandler; E. A. Armistead, and the present incumbent, W. E. Gilbert. Concerning the faithful teachers that have taught under the principals I have named, in these later years, space forbids that I should tell you of their fidelity and their worth. Suf¬ fice it to say that some have come and some have gone, while others like Tennyson’s “The Brook. have staid on forever. A due regard for personal safety, coupled with a holy dread of ostracism, prevents me from saying just how long some have been teaching in the schools of Clifton Forge, but I will venture so far as to ' say that some have been there “since time whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary,” and the writer hopes that no inducement strong enough to prevail upon them to give up the work will come for many, many years, for their continued fidelity to the welfare of the youth of this city is an earnest desire that the future of Clifton Forge schools will be as inspiring, as noble and as brilliant as that of her brief past. E. W. IC.

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in • THE ALLEGE AKIAN or four years it was necessary to rent addi¬ tional rooms in nearby buildings to accommo¬ date the school children, until in 1907, the town of Clifton Forge, having then become a city, there was added to this building a twenty thousand dollars addition, doubling the ca¬ pacity of the house and giving to Clifton Forge the splendid building which we now enjoy. of the colonies, granted to his humble servant Robert Gallaspy in the latter days of colonial Virginia, and which we now call Clifton Forge. In the little log house in “Slaughter Pen Hollow there were scarcely more pupils than there are teachers to-day in the schools of this city. But the school which is the great great- Present Building. And so we see, in just a few years, the evo¬ lution of a modern city school house, splen¬ didly equipped, from the humble beginning in a deserted negro quarter, built of logs and “chinked with mud. But rapid as has been the development and enlargement of the school building, this pro¬ gress has been but little ahead of the demand. The writer does not believe that there is a spot on the face of the earth, on which school children multiply more rapidly than on the one hundred and fifty-five acres of land that George the III., King of England and tyrant grandchild of that humble parent enrolls eight hundred pupils who daily try the patience and threaten to midermine the sweet dispositions of fifteen teachers. I have reserved it for the last to speak of the various teachers and principals that these schools have had. I have mentioned that Mr. Jas. A. Ford was the first teacher in the little log house, and also in the planked-up-and- down house that was first built on the site of the present school, and that he was succeeded bv Mr. Nathan Painter, from him, in their order, naming the teachers up to the forma-

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SENIOR CLASS Motto — Nichts Ohnc Arbeit. Colors —Green and Gold. Flower —Daisy. Yell —Tutti Fruiti, Punch and Judy, Green and Gold, you’re alright; Don’t you worry, don’t you fret, Green and Gold will get there yet. Officers Mamie Artz, President. Ruth Acord, Vice-President. Lula Morris, Secretary. Robert Johnson, Treasurer.