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

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Senior When we. the class of 'll. first entered the High School the Faculty thought us an inexplicably complex compound of hopeless ignorance. Of course the finite mind of a Freshman could not comprehend such wisdom, but we had our suspicions that this was no compliment and thereupon set to work to show our strength. We fairly sharked in the English; why we mastered Shakespeare in a fortnight; knew Milton and Browning by heart, and would have presumed, had Scott been living, to tell him a few thing, about novelwriting. We are Mr. Nuzum's favorite class. He has taught us Science for four years and declares that he regrets not having the opportunity to teach us another. But we think, as he has many times said, that we are al- History ready “too smart. so have decided henceforth to study no more Science. Mr. Platt taught us History in our Junioi year. He fairly preached the French Revolution to us; the condition of the peasants; the storming of the Bastile. the death of Louis XV. all caused by the leaders. Mira-bean, Robespiere and Danton. He also taught us how to talk correctly. We now say Richard the Third instead of Richard three-eye. Four long years have we spent in an atmosphere of superb wisdom. Behold what a change has taken place! Our heads are bulging with ideas. Our ignorance has turned to bliss and we are now ready to step out into the world and mould the thought of future ages.

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Senior Class Roll I. Ruth Jackson 2. H. Glen Bord 3. Grace M. Loar 4. Lila Sinsel 5. Grace Nuzum 6. Edna Collins 7. Charles Sinsel 8. Ruby Rutherford 9. Edna Shuck 10. Lila Painter 1 I. Kitty Cole 12. Carrie Wilkinson 1 3. Lawrence Miller I 4. Grace Fawcett 1 3. Arza Phillips 16. Nellie DeMoss I 7. Jessie Bush 18. Lila Miller

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Junior Class Officers LESTER PREISS HAROLD WILMOTH JDA THAYER GRACE PAINTER JESSIE BEAVERS ‘President V ice-President Secretary Treasurer Historian