Dover High School - Crescent Yearbook (Dover, NC)

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ness pierces through and through. That everlasting air and Winsome smile stunned us all. Mabel Massengille was voted as being the most attractive and as having the prettiest eyes. In all classes there is always some who have special amounts of vanity. W eare grieved to think this of one of our esteemed classmates. This member is forever mimmicking someone and getting into trouble: James Pate is known as the most conceited member of the Class of '2O. Each day our day is made so bright by the appearance of a charming young lady, wearing her best smile and her beautiful hair fixed in the latest style and looking so neat in her best dresses, that the Class of '20 have placed the honor of being the prettiest and having the prettiest hair upon Lucile Howard. The sun cannot shine every day. At times very black clouds pass the sun and darken the day. So it was in our class. We could not be merry every day. Some days we were all cross and weary. On such days as this Annie Ruth Joyner was very sarcastic and egotistical. RICHARD RICHARDSON, '20, The first Sunday afternoon Miss Vera Wiggings was in Dover, she walked down Main street until she came to the Methodist Church. She .gazed at it for about five minutes. James Pate, poking his head out of a window, said: Say, Miss, what are you looking at this house for? Don't you know it is a church ? Miss Wiggins: I did think so until I saw the revil poke his head out of the window. 37

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CLASS STATISTICS The Class of '20 possesses numerous statistics, both good and -, although the greatest number being good. Whenever there were odd jobs such as, getting wood for the stove, escorting girls down the street with cap over his eyes and his hands over his face, getting up dif- ficult lessons, forever knowing that he can do something that his brain will not allow, Mr. Newton's right hand man, trisecting angles, asking thousands of questions, and Annie Ruth J'oyner's little lamb, better known as Jiggs. We, the class of '20, are forced to claim as the most inquisitive, most bashful, studious, peculiar and best all 'round boy, Jasper Daniel West. As for stenographers our Pearlie cannot be excelled. She knows how to economize in postage and has savedthe D. H. S. much valuable money by acting as its stenog- rapher. We have readily seen how she won her fame as the jolliest in the play Miss Molly. Her influence cov- ered the student body far and wide. In athletics she is a star. The Class recognizes as the best all 'round girl, most influential, jolliest and best athlete girl: Ruth Wilson. What is there that can satisfy the endless craving of the soul but love. Give me thy love or but the hope of that which must be evermore my nature. This member permits his thoughts to turn to love entirely too often. We hope that he will outgrow these faults as the future years approach. As forward on a basket ball court his equal cannot be found. The Class of '20 pronounces Ray Hampton West as the most sentimental and the best athlete boy. Those dazzling, dreamy and entrancing brown eyes will make any masculine heart fall. Their clearness and keen- 36

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CLASS DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE When in the course of youthful events, it becomes necessary for the class of nineteen-twenty to dissolve the educational bands that have connected us for eleven years with the Dover High School, and to assume, among the men and women of the world, the separate and equal stations to which our own wise nature and our new diplomas entitle us, a decent respect for the opinions of our kind requires that we should declare the causes that impel us to our graduation. We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all young men and women are created equal, that they are endowed by nature with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of education. That to secure these rights, high schools, colleges and other educational organizations are instituted among young people, deriving their powers from the attendance of knowledge-seeking boys and girls, that whenever any grade of education proves inadequate to these ends, it is the right of the student to alter or to forsake it, and to seek out a new institution, which bases its instruction on such branches and presents its information and training in such form as today shall seem most likely to effect their acquiring of a higher education. Prudence, indeed, dictates that the teachings and train- ing in this way long established should not be changed for light and transient causes, and accordingly, all school history has shown that each successive class of boys and girls ar emore disposed to study on, while information is obtainable, than to step forth unthinkingly to assert themselves by abolishing the forms to which they have become accustomed. But when a long train of good and sufficient reasons, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to push them out into the real world of practical thought and action, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off 38