Fredericksburg High School - Rapahanoc Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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RPvPRHPvMDC 1921 Eight new boys and nine new girls answered roll call during the sixth year: Edward Gill, Louis Armstrong, Thomas Payne, Donald Whitbeck, George Bowie, Francis de Bruyne, Flemming Ray, Lucy Gouldman, Marguerite Stevens, Mar¬ garet Pepmier, Mary Daffan, Dorothy Daffan, Sarah Orrock, Elizabeth Stairs, Evelyn Sale, and Lemuel Houston who has the record for being tardy twice a day and is called the “ten o’clock scholar.” This year our grade was made a part of the Junior High School with seven new members: Edward Smith, Truman Carneal, Robert Kilian, Maimia Fowle, Thelma Moody and Florence Dalrymple, making our class number sixty-four. The saddest event in our school life was the death of Wilfred Embrey. The most important event of our school lives was moving to the new High School in the fall of 1920. We hope to go thru High School together and graduate in 1925. —Virginia Melton. 65

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RPvPftHPiUOC 1921 H ebentf) ©rai)e OFFICERS Charles Hunter . President Marian Reed . Pice-President Thelma Moody . Secretary Emmett Thompson . Treasurer Class istorp 1 M September 1914 our class assembled for the first time. If one could but turn back the pages of our history to this, our first year in school, he would find en¬ rolled: Vance Dannehl, Webster Sullivan, Dorothy Boulware, Adelaide Herndon, Wilfred Embrey, Marian Scott, Casey Armstrong, Julia Frolon, Blanche Russell, Virginia Melton, Charles Hunter, Fitzhugh Rowe, Luther Dodd, John Maher, Duff Green, Warren Farmer, Emmet Thompson, Charles Powell, Wirt Shelton, Willard Downes and Bettie Billingsley. These twenty-one have managed each year to get “promoted” while about three times as many have stumbled into the paths of knowledge. Helen Van Denburg and Stuart Lesher joined the original Group in our second year. These two are an honor to our class, always making one hundred per cent, on conduct. When school opened in the fall of 1916, seven new classmates were added to our roll, namely: Elizabeth Cadot, John Stone, Frances Hicks, Edna McGaha, Mary Dunri, Alice Scott, and Fanny Scott. We thus acquired the “Scott Trio” and their cousinly rivalry is a source of much amusement to our class. Nellie Herndon, Grace Dunnington and Evelyn May joined us in the fourth grade, and Francis Howard, Marian Howard, Marian Reed, Mary Nussey, Vir¬ ginia Stevens, Earl May, Josephine Fisher and Maxwell Nash came to us in the fifth grade. 64

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OTere ©ott Ctier 3n a urrp? Alvin T. Rowe, Jr. W HO the deuce is that breakin’ down the door?” shouted Harry Cuthbert formidably from his luxurious mass of pillows, sheets, and other bed- ware to the persistent knocker at his chamber door in a New Jersey college. It was Saturday and he had been trying to decide whether to get out of bed ever since half past seven. “It is I, the gallant knight of Earlymorn,” quoth the unseen visitor from behind a protecting door. “None o’ your cheap wit ’round here, if you value your life, young fellow!” was the emphatic reply. Th e answer was much humbler and more subdued, “Telegram, sir.” Harry answered not but jumped from his bed with the usual anxiety and curi¬ osity which we all experience upon receiving a telegram. He glanced at the clock which admitted that it was a quarter past ten, and barefooted it across the room to the door. “Le’ me see it,” he demanded. He quickly opened the envelope with hands slightly trembling, and these words struck his eye: “Am leaving New York for Europe at 4:00 P. M. today to spend summer. Wish you to accompany me. Fake next train if it arrives here before 3:30. Will meet you at Grand Central I erminal. Cannot wait. “Uncle Henry.” Harry was so stunned at receiving this from his rich uncle that he could barely focus his faculties into writing the reply: “Coming. Harry C.” This he handed to the waiting boy, adding, “Send it collect, and make it snappy!” H ow he had always longed for a glimpse at Europe—and now he was about to spend a whole summer there, if —things turned out right. 66