Fredericksburg High School - Rapahanoc Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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RPvPftHPittOC 1921 Mrs. Euliss: “Describe a cycle of typical summer weather in Eastern United States. Worley: “I don’t know what cycle means.” M rs. Euliss: “Well, take the word bicycle. Bi means two, and cycle means one revolution following another. Now see if you can answer the question.” Whorley: “It’s a two wheeled wind.” Miss Rhea: “Are there any questions in English today?” James Franklin: “What is the lesson?” Kate Gouldin: “Mr. Birckhead, I didn’t know ants had teeth.” Mr. Birkhead: “Well Kate, where did you get that idea?” Kate: “The book said that they had a sweet tooth.” P other day in English, in talking of Poe’s mode of composition of the Raven, Miss Rhea said “Poe was sitting on a midnight—” when Emeline exclaimed, “Oh Miss Rhea, that must have been an awfully unsubstantial seat.” Little bits of powder. Little daubs of paint, Make my teacher pretty. Even if she ain’t. While Miss Rhea was speaking on debate forms, Jo Dalton innocently chirped up and said, “Miss Rhea, you’ll show us a real good form, so as we can copy yours, won’t you?” And still she wonders why everybody laughed. We were having a lecture on light in Physics. Emiline wished to know why we could not see things at a distance. “Why the dust particles break up the rays. It’s very much more difficult to see things on a misty night than on a clear day.” “You know this for yourself” he innocently assured us. Mr. Swem: “If you had in your head what I have in mine—” Carl Happel: “Oh I had them once, but I managed to get rid of them. 107

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RfHPRHPvMDC $20 Reward—For a pass in Senior English. W. Russell. Lost—recently—A love for dolls. Emeline Stearns. Reward—To the person who can get a look inside Mr. Link’s Little red Grade Book. Lost—Between Sewing Room and Miss Rhea’s room—a rat (hair rat). Return to Jo Barney and get reward. Wanted— I o be allowed to run the school for one day. J. M. Rowe. Wanted—A photographer who can take a good picture of John Chiles. For Sale—Choice collection of pipes and cigarette holders; reason, broke. C. Phillips. Lost—Any number of hair pins—anywhere around school. Return to Bertha Whitbeck. Wanted—A Lrench or Latin verb Alvin Rowe cannot decline. Wanted — An electric power plant to furnish him with electricity enough to run all of the electric motors, dynamos, bells and transformers. Also the key to the physics laboratory so as to be able to carry out his experiments. Charles Arm¬ strong. One day in French, Mrs. Williams discovered some sort of wire parapher¬ nalia in the golden tresses of fair Isabel, and seeing William Russell sitting directly in back of her, asked, “William Russell, were you responsible for that?” to which Fielding Wilson quietly answered, “No, Mrs. Williams, he’s not responsible.” For several weeks Edith Phillips was saying upon all occasions, “isn’t that the agonizing pathonathy,” and everybody wondered what she meant, including her¬ self. Finally, after it had been sifted to the botton, it was discover that Ju Rowe had once said, “Isn’t that agony personified?” Hence Edith’s pet exclamation. Was this derived by evolution or revolution? Grafton Greenlaw (in Physics Class) : “Virginia, can I use some of Levin’s ink ? ” Miss Johnson (in dictating a short letter) : “Please send me 2,000 ties, six by seven by eight feet. Levin Houston: “Miss Johnson, I didn’t know that they made neckties that large.” 5 106

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ORIGINAL SENIOR CLASS 108