Fredericksburg High School - Rapahanoc Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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54 SOPHOMORE CLASS

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R PvPBHPv HOC 192 H opf)omore Class 3Roll Colors : Pink and Green. Flower: Pink Rose. Motto: “Num quam non paratus.” OFFICERS Mary Freeman . Kenneth Dice. Marion Marshall . Virginia Biscoe . . . . .President Vice-President . Secretary . . . . Treasurer Elsie Baker John Billingsly John Biscoe Virginia Biscoe Inez Burton Josie Carneal Roland Carver Frances Carpenter Hazel Carter Franklin Coates Eliabeth Cross Sarah Davis Kenneth Dice Henry Genther Arnedar Ellis M ary Freeman Pearl Goldsmith Kathleen Goodloe Theodore Kidwell Everett King Helen Hallberg Alice Heflin Elizabeth Harrison Edith Janney Mary Limerick Marion Marshall Ada Masters Mabel Owens Edith Phillips Nancy Payne Ernestine Payne Catherine Perry Mary Reynolds Estelle Rose Grace Satterwhite Dorothy Walker Mabelle White Lee White 53

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RAPRHPvHDC 1921 Higtorp of tfie Sophomore Class M OST Sophomores can hardly forget their Freshman year, and J. Everett never will, for the first thing that impressed upon him the fact that he was a Freshman was that he was initiated by the school barbers, the senior boys. While the job they made was not elegant it was very effective because the next day J. Everette went to the barber shop and was shorn of his remaining locks. Nancy, poor thing, grieved over our one-armed chairs, not because they were minus an arm, but she wanted a desk instead. How can one hide candy and cakes in a one-armed chair? To so delicate a one as Nancy it is very necessary that she eat something now and then to sustain her, and if “now” and “then” happen to fall within class hours, why. That was bad enough, but Alice was in a still more deplorable condition. The arms of the chairs are on the right side and Alice is left-handed. That’s what you get for being left-handed, Alice; the world wasn’t made for left-handed people. Mrs. Courtney was our teacher, and she was always so reasonable and patient that High School wasn’t bad after all, and if anyone can make a lesson interesting Mrs. Courtney can. At first we were in the Hotel Frederick (now Hotel Maury). It was an every day occurrence for a big piece of plastering to hit some poor unfortunate on the head; indeed it was interesting to wonder who would be the next victim. Some¬ times our room was hot and sometimes it was cold, but none of us took these little drawbacks too seriously, for we knew that it would not be long before we would be comfortably ensconsed in our nice new school building. For Mr. Link, in algebra, we had to write all of the examples in ink. For Mrs. Williams we had to learn poetry in English and conjugations and declensions in Latin; for Mrs. Courtney, ancient history, and oh, the awful names of those old characters which we had to learn to pronounce! Mrs. Blake kept study hall, and she had a hard job, for that’s where we “carried on,” and received marks and lectures from her. 55