Grafton High School - Re Echo Yearbook (Grafton, WV)

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Senior Ifjisstorp Four years ago we entered the High School from the various grammer schools of the city, each member of the class at that time vowing to complete the four year's course. But alas, how our ranks have been depleted! Some like lazy Ned of old could not “bear to climb the tiresome hill. others who overcame this difficulty objected to the lack of “elbow room. others finding high school meant work, came no more among us; and to a few. outside influence and attractions proved too alluring, so that now WE remain according to the law of natural selection, the survival of the fittest. Also the first day of our entrance to the high school we pledged ourselves to everlasting harmony as a class, and be it said to the credit of each member of the class that pledge was not broken---that day. At that time we all meant to go to college when through high school, and even the most timid among us dared venture upon the Preparatory course, but in our second year the hardships of the Gallic Campaign proved too much for the courage of some of our members and later these sought refuge in the wilds of the Thuringian Forests. This would no doubt have proved their undoing had not the stronger members of the class heard their Macedonian cry and gone to the rescue. After a year's struggle all were rescued save two who voluntarily sacrificed themselves to remain and pilot through the gloomy wood any of the succeeding class who might wander that way. But even the stronger members of the class have had their troubles. They have been beset by the plots and counter plots of an ancient conspiracy, they have wrestled with the difficulties of selecting a Commander for an Asiatic war and have been involved in the defense of a Roman poet. They have agonized over the fall of Troy, and have been in sore distress on account of the difficulties of the long voyage of a Trojan hero. And even now their groans are ascending to the heavens as they writhe with the punishments meted out to those in the regions of the lost. As a class we were wont to boast that we stood upon our record. But at the close of our senior year some of us have been told that we haven't very much to stand on. so we now in anxiety await the final count. To be. or not to be?-■-Historian.

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Junior Officers President, V ice-President, Secretary, Treasurer. Historian, GLEN flORD LILA SINSEL LILA MILLER KITTY COLE LILA PAINTER FLOW ER:-V iolet. COLORS:--Lavender and Purple. MOTTO:-- Non nobis solum. ”