Fredericksburg High School - Rapahanoc Yearbook (Fredericksburg, VA)

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Grafton to Carter Rowe (Carter studing Geometry) : “Why have you got that string on your finger for?” Carter: “So I can remember Geometry”. Jeffries Chewning: “Mrs. Williams has Pompey ever been vaccuated ?” Mr. Link (in English class discussing manners) : “Suppose a woman sat in front of you at the movies with a great big tam-o-shanter with a plume six feet long”. Annette (talking about the Japanese children) : “When they fail on exams it is said that they commit suicide”. An inattentive listener: “Well, I would have to be a cat with nine lives to live in Japan”. POETRY AS WRITTEN BY KATE When this little poem was written, Dashed off with a reckless pen— Ah who could see, what the future would be? For Adolph was not with us then. But all good things must end, you see, The longest of lanes have a turning, We feel and we fear, that disaster is near, And the midnight oils we’re burning. To be the Graduating Class of ' 22, Was the hope that kept us alive, But if pep gives us pluck and God gives us luck, We may be that of ' 85. A SENIOR’S PRAYER Make me more intelligent, oh my soul, As the examinations roll, Make my memory better than the past, Make each exam easier than the last; Keep me not from graduating with the class, Give me a Diploma, at last. Lucy (while coloring whipped cream for the Senior-Junior party) : “Mrs. Link don’t use that, it looks like Parish Green. Mr. Steck: “Marion, can you tell me why moth balls evaporate?” Marion: “The moths eat them.” Reverend Gilmore (at Hi-Y. banquet) : “You boys ought to be so proud of this beautiful building with its wonderful ‘gym’ ?” Air. Mang er: “We are mighty proud of our high school, but the only Jim we have is the janitor”. 95

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Rapahanoc ’Twenty-two Humor Elizabeth Young: “Houston, what happened in 1492?” Houston Jones: “St. Augustine was founded”. Mr. Birckhead (giving a lecture on cotton) : “None of you boys have any on that I can see”. Harold Green (just waking up) : “What is it Mr. Birckhead, underwear?” Mr. Link: “Louise why is that wrong?” Louise: “Its wrong because it’s not right”. Mrs. C ourtney: “Alice what are you reading?” Alice (with guilty conscience) : “Chewing gum”. Murial: “John will you give a dime to help get Mrs. Williams some flowers?” John Billingsley: “When did she die?” Mr. Link: “What case is that word in?” Elizabeth Young: “That word is in a noun because its the object of the sentence”. Mrs. Williams: “1 wish the Caesar class would stop laughing, I believe you have the monopoly on giggles . Mr. Link: “Alwyn give me a well known proverb?” Alieyn: “It is painful for some people to think . Mr. Link ' s Lavorite Riddle: “What is it that women have more of than men?” Answer: “Intuition”. Mr. Link: “Kate you may pick out your assistant editor for the ‘Rapahanoc’ staff . Kate: “I’ll take Helen Hallberg”. 1 ) ep Williams: “Oh! she’ll never do, she’s got too bad a cold”. Virginia: “Who were Adam and Eve’s children?” Vivian: “Cain and Bell”. Mr. Link: “Some of our greatest writers were nonskulls in High School”. Ruth: “Maybe there’s some chance for our Senior Boys”. Elizabeth Dillard to Ruth: “What does Mrs. Williams look like?” Ruth: “Come on in Caesar and I’ll tell you”. 94

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Rapahanoc ’T wen ty-two Airs. M illiams: “Give an English word derived from the Latin word ‘post’ Bill Rowe: Post Toasties”. Air. Sleek (in physics) : “Who invented the steam engine?” Everett King: “What?” (Watt). Air. Steck: “Correct”. An item from Elizabeth Young ' s history examination: “And the United States to keep from being ruined, had to start manufacturing herself”. Junior ' s idea of sylogism: “Biscuits will make me ill if they are heavy; These biscuits are biscuits; Therefore, the biscuits will make me ill because they are heavy.” Air. Link: “Edward, what do we mean by Spencerian Stanzer” ? Edward Gouldine: “A Spenserian Stanzer is one that has eight lines of ordinary verse and two lines of extra ordinary”. Airs. Courtney (Calling roll): “Where is Hilda?” Annette: “She’s sick”. Mrs. Courtney: “Is Kenneth sick too?” Mrs. Williams (to misbehaving Caesar class) : “If another one of you boys speak a word I’ll make you stay in ten minutes after school”. Mrs. Courtney (in Civics class): “How many of you here are absent?” And she wondered why the class laughed. Visitor (on viewing the scenery from the High School) : “Is the G. and H. in opera¬ tion now?” Disguested Freshman: “That ain’t no hospital.” Edward Gouldin: “Wheeler Thompson broke his left hand collar bone.” Ala, ■ion Weedon (after seeing “The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse”): “Don’t you hate Germans?” Ruth: “I sure do, 1 can’t trace my ancestors any further back than Adam and Eve, hut thank goodness they were both Americans.” Mr. Manger (in First Aid class) : “If the lungs are not used to their fullest capacity, nature will take them away.” Jeff C. (modishly) : “Does that apply to lips?” Jeff C.: “So you didn’t enjoy Hamlet?” Pep: “No, the costumes were too old-fashioned.” 9b