George Washington High School - Compass Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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President JAMES TlCER Vice-Presidents -GORDON RUST Secretary-Treasurer. MARY ELLEN BURKE Parliamentarian.. .COURTLAND DAVIS Valedictorian . .COURTLAND DAVIS Salutatorian .... ... .. GERTRUDE AMORKY Sponsor Mr. LINDSEY

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SENIORS

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LOOKING BACKWARD This is a topical survey of the Graduating Class of 37. Its component parts are one hundred and fifty young men and women ranging from average to super. Originally they hailed from two schools. George Mason and Alexandria High. Someone got the brilliant idea that in union there is strength. The outcome? George Washington High School. The majority are old citizens of Alexandria, but there is a large number that comes from places all the way from Maine to California. Some of the one hundred, fifty are handsome and valiant. The others are charming and demure. From its combined height of about seven hundred, seventy feet, it can more than overlook the Washington Monument. From such an elevation how far can this class not see! Its combined weight—seventeen thousand, five hundred pounds. Weight enough surely to anchor its feet to prosaic work, even though its head is in the clouds! Its combined girth is three thousand, nine hundred, twenty-four inches. Imagine the sensation it would create going into Woodward and Lothrop's asking for a belt, size three thousand, nine hundred, twenty-four! What a furor will follow the class when it goes out into the world! Approximately, its combined brains would fill six hundred, sixteen tumblers. Is it to be wondered at that this class can discern no impossibilities through its two hundred, eighty eyes? In its first year one half the class allowed itself to be trampled on. They were pushed out of the chance to give their dance. But not so with the other half. Soon they both were in the spirit of the thing, and when the second year rolled around, things began to happen. As I have said previously, the two halves combined to make one gigantic whole in the Junior year. To eelebate this union, the class helped in many succes ful activities: the Junior Prom, such dramatic productions as Huckleberry Finn , and various athletic victories. In the last year, the class, with its Midyear Prom. State literary contests, and plays, reached a great state of glorification, bringing us up to the present. As we glance about, we see outstanding personalities on all sides. There is Billy Meeks who never fails to be different. His weaknesses arc red Austins, gold shoes, bananas, and acting silly.