Franklin County High School - Animo Yearbook (Rocky Mount, VA)

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uf treaaure ffm... f a ,ewfed ffm. Eu: in Cl WL of Knowledge un wifA moijfure rom our fdugafer, IQPFAGIJJ our fear-5, .SAQJ J1,xo,,,. gzfafm 1 fr The Golden Years referred to in this book are our last three high school years of 1950-1953, which have been glor- ious years filled with new and wonderful golden opportunities since the e r e ction of our modern, consolidated Franklin County High School. The beauty of the building itself, ex- pansion of the curriculum and extra-curricular activities, learning to work together in a group of around 900 students, assemblies and dramatic productions in our ovsm picturesque auditorium, choir performances, hot plate lunches in our modern c af ete ria, football games, basketball games and Junior-Senior Prom in our handsome spacious gymnasium ---these and many other delightful experiences have made these shining years, which can never be forgotten. The Anime staff has purposed to record in this 1953 edition some ofthe events of the year 1952-'53--the best of Our Golden Years. . FUREWUR

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To every life there comes a time supreme, One day, one night, one morning, or one noon, One freighted hour, one moment opportune, One rift through which sublime fulfilments gleam Mary To us this time supr e m e , this moment opportune, this rift through which sublime fulfilments gleam was the opening of our new Franklin County High School in 1950. For us a dream had become a reality, Opportunity was ours. Truly, this was the beginning of Our Golden Years. Three glorious years have past, and we now have, according to all who To Mr. Harold W. Ramsey, Super- intendentof Franklin County Schools, Phi Beta Kappa , Vice President, Board of Visitors of the College of William and Mary, ou t s tandin g educator, kindly, scholarly g e n tl e man extremely modest to his own virtues and a- c hi e v e m e nts, personal friend whose visits to F. C.H.S. are al7 ways welcome, we again express our gratitude for his fervent am- bition and persistent effortsduring his 25 years as superintendent to obtain for us the best educational advantages. We reaffirm our faith in him as our champion for the cause of education in Franklin County, and we hereby extend to him our appreciation for all the anxiety and strain, which we know he must have experienced in handling th e m an y complicating problems pertaining to the a- chievement and the errection of Franklin County High School. He has played a great part in Our Golden Years. ,-1 A. Townsend, Opportunity view it, one of the most beautiful, modern, and complete schools to be seen anywhere. We are proud of our school, and we are deeply appreciative to all who have had any part in helpingus to acquire it. Especiallydo we wish to express our appreciation to two people who, we feel, have played an important partin mak- ing possible Our Golden Years. , 7-7 To the Honorable John S. Battle, distinguished Governor of Virg'inia,friend of education,Southern gentleman, whom we ardently admire as a man and as a statesman, we dedicate this page as a public expression of our sincere appreciation for his deep concern for the education of the youth of Virginia, manifested by the Battle Fund, which made it possible for us to procure our new school, the largest consolidated county school plant in Virginia to benefit by this appropriation.