Huntington High School - Huntingtonian Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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rrr su Кај гушу “Г EE The Huntingtonian Annual Staff LTHOUGH the 1939 Huntingtonian Staff has little hope of excelling the handsome edition of 1938, it has, striven to repeat the success of last year's book. To some, Ше creating of a year-book that will bring praise and honor seems a trivial task, but to the anxious editors and sponsors, the situation is decidedly dif- ferent. тока пе Те Philip Walker Associates ато Riddiek Pree, Jr. Business Manager ICIS ESE MM E инат он Arthur Tate Assistant Business: Manager e PNEU E Edward West Advertising Мапа Thomas Harmon Assistant Advertising Manager miss Charles Wiggins слао Малта оте ан а eI NE косе Daniel Everett Аа Bernice Watkins Assistant Art атор ааа тел TE Herbert Thornton, James Russell, Donald Barnes, Frank Daniels Titerary Во Mildred Birchette, Eugenia Boney, Martha Daniels, Ruth Bouldin, Susie Thaxton, Florence Bailey

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‘he Stunting (о tan EFA e he - буг LEE y WT ани pad: m Ж ; ќе не: IHE PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE Commencement IMIEMBERS OF THE CLASS OF 1939: Isalute you on your Commence- = ment Day. Commencement! Thoughts of you flood my mind as 1 ponder that word. Four years ago you began your high school careers. Through all the long months since you entered high school, you have been looking forward to the day when you would finish your work here and receive the coveted diploma as a testimony of that fact. That day has now arrived, and in a few kours you will walk from the platform clad in your academic garb and holding fast to the diploma for which you have striven so long. Your work here will be over. It is your Commencement Day. But you are not finishing. You are just beginning. Graduation from high school simply ushers you into a larger sphere of activity. Some of you will in a few weeks enter some higher institution of learning; some of you will find employment in this or some other community. All of you will be called upon to undertake new and larger responsibilities. Because you have finished your high school work, you are now in position to commence many of those functions which will stamp you as useful citizens of this great country. You have passed the required courses here, but your exploration of the great fields of knowledge has just begun. If your education has meant anything to you so far, you are fired with an ambition to continue to learn through all the years to come. You will come to realize that the earnest seeker after knowledge does not have to go to college to find it. The completion of some worthwhile job, the solution of some major problem in your life will constitute a commence- ment day for you, though there be no ceremony and no diploma. It is my sincere hope and earnest prayer that this day will be for each of you only one of many commencements, each one of which will sig- nalize the beginning of a larger and more useful phase of your life.