Dothan High School - Gargoyle Yearbook (Dothan, AL)

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Here they are now. They've just come from English and are looking rather thoughtful and perplexed. Miss Dannelly must have sprung a written lesson on some impossible subject upon which their brains re- iused to register knowledge. ' Gertrude Williams has just come in and asked for Goldsmith's How To Be Popular. Surely she was getting it for some friend-Geraldine, perhaps. y . Here comes Zula Williams, Johnnie Belle Ward, Mary Latimer, and Louise Taylor, all in a group with interesting looking little note books. Let's see what they want. They all stand in a line and asked Catherine and Mary Agnes to write in their memory books. 'Twas ever thus with Freshmen! Eleanor Beall's out in study hall, and I hear her laughing all the way in here. She and Mary Amos and two or three others cause a con- stant uproar in study hall during this period. I can just see William Jessup in there trying to study a debate or declamation and wishing with all his might that Eleanor would be merciful. Jack Strickland has just come in and asked for 'The Three Muske- teers.' He was fussing because he had to read it. Said he didn't see why he had to read a whole book that was so dry and uninteresting when there was a copy of Grimes Fairy Tales in here that he would enjoy so much. By his tone of voice and facial expression one might have gained the impression that he was being dealt with most unjustly. Jack's all right, though. I know it isn't very long before graduating time, because there was a crowd of Senior girls in here a while ago talking about dresses, caps, gowns, diplomas, class day exercises, and all such like. They're all thrill- ed beyond words because they are soon going to receive their educa- tion. , Every day, at the fifth period, the study hall is favored with a solo by Bush Crawford or with a duet by Bush and Edna Rollins, or even sometimes Mary Agnes participates, and there is a trio of course, all that takes place while Miss Stafford is in the front of the room. Their favorite song is Flow Gently, Sweet Afton. Leonard Speake came in just now and looked so sad and forlorn. Someone asked the trouble and heaving a great sigh, he explained that his second wife had just quit him. Oh, it's terribly sad! You see, QAS Mr. Subscriptionj he was married to Catherine Bentley, CMiss Gargoylej and then he married Geraldine in Miss Cherryblossom. For some rea- son which he declines to tell, neither marriage was successful. Everybody's left the library now, so I guess it must be time for the bell. I hate that, because everything will be so quietg but it will all begin again tomorrow. Don't you think they're an interesting bunch of folks? Call me again sometimes and,let's have another talk. EDNA ROLLINS, '25 . I . 1 , i I . I l