Greenbank High School - Mountain Breeze Yearbook (Greenbank, WV)

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The first semester enabled three of our members, Edith Townsend, Willa Nottingham and Mack Brooks, to finish. Ola Doyle quit school. The second semester brought us two members, Joy and Mabel Arbo- gast, and a shock------! The preacher visited our class, uniting in Holy Matrimony Sylvia Riley and Hume Bowles. We were glad to find that Sib was not going to leave us. Our class leads in athletics, as we have one boy and four girls on the varsity basketball teams. Although we have won our goal and are leaving this vear, we shall never forget our happy days and our friends at G. H. S. —C. S., ’24. 17

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Senior Class History The doors of G. H. S. were open in September, 1920, to a class of twenty-eight Freshmen. Mr. Taylor, our principal, told us to enroll to Miss Grimes. During this year we did out best to win friends and make our work a true foundation for the goal to be attained. Our greatest misfortune was to lose several of our members, Ralph Warnick, Verna S.'ple and Edwin Doyle. Under the care and advice of Miss Grimes, these remaining organized our class and survived as Freshmen. A happy bunch of “Sophs we were when school opened in '21. Tem- porarily sorry to find cur classmate, Burke Grogg, going to Ronceverte. Our sorrow was overcome with joy to find five new members, Adolph Cooper, Grace Graves, Omer Brill, Thelma Conrad and Warren Oliver. Warren left us the first semester. With the help of Mrs. Pritchard we conquered all diffi- culties, making our foundation stronger. We were glad to say at the end of May that we were ready to be classified as Juniors. When greeting G. H. S. in '22 we were disconcerted to find our class so divided; Omer Brill, Adolph Cooper, Willa Nottingham and Grace Graves were going to other schools. Sterle Nottingham, Meryle Irvine and Richard, Lewis had moved away. Janet Woods, Myrtle Barkley and Sylvia Bennette were married. Frieda Williams, Margaret Wood, Edna Wilfong, Thelma Conrad and Edgar Shinnaberry, by going to summer school, were ready to join the seniors. This made the Juniors feel badly, although after organizing o’-r class. wHh the help of Mr. Schnopp, we were delighted to find that Effi.e Moore, Thelma Collins, Wilma Slayton, Verne Siple, Arnold Willhide, Ida Jackson, Marv Phares, Flora Phili ps and Sallie Warwick, by extra work, were able to help the Juniors solve their problems. It was the shock of our lives to find that we were still the largest class in school. Two literary societies were organized this year. The Adelph ans, under the care of Mr. Schnopp, consisted of the Junio's and Freshmen. The Colum- bians, led by Miss Hite, included the Seniors and Sophomores. We did our best in the programs we gave during the year, trving all the time to gain wis- dom for our class and our helpers, the Freshmen. The second semester brought back our true classmate, Willa. At the close of school we were nearer our goal. The Juniors took a great part in “Cherry Blossoms, for the two leading characters, Martha and Arnold, were proud to let evervone know that they were Juniors. Our help in this play ended our work as Juniors. The doors of G. H. S. were open wider than ever when we entered as Seniors, for we had with us a new principal, Mr. Harwood, and two new class- mates, Beulah Brill and Edith Townsend. We found that Alice Friel was going to school at Marlinton and that William Reitz was not attending school. This was a little discouraging at first, yet we knew we roust work, for this was our last chance to w in our goal. Miss Moomau and Mr. Schaffner were ready to help us. 16

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Senior Class Will of 1924 We, the Senior Class of 1924, do hereby make and affirm this, our last will and testament, declaring all previous wills null and void. Section I After due consideration we have unanimously agreed to give and be- queath to our esteemed Faculty cur heartfelt thanks for helping us in our school life to prepare for life’s school. To the members individually we leave the following: Item 1. To Mr. Harwood, our honorable Principal, we will our English IV Classics of King Henry the Fourth: also the ponies” that were used to help make the trip with Caesar through his Gallic wars are hereby left in his care. Item 2. To Mr. Shires we leave a long summer free from Geometry and Algrebra II. The gymnasium is left vacant, too, for his personal use that he might go through the routine of his daily dozen without interruption. Item 3. We give and bequeath to Mr. Schaffner the dictionary (to be found in Room 5 ), to which we have frequently “sped for help in English IV. We, students of French, leave in his care our dictionary of French phrases for his use abroad this summer. Item 4. To Mr. Hedrick we girls leave our cosmetics to cover his fre- quent blushes. We boys leave any cigarette stubs he might have found in his car to his care. Item 5. To Mr. Monroe we gladly sacrifice our Bible examination papers, so that hereafter he may refer to them and thus be confident that he is right in saying just the opposite in his sermons. Item 6. To Miss Moomau we give our entire consent for her to accom- pany Mr. Schaffner abroad this summer. We, with shorn locks, leave her our now useless hairpins, combs, etc. Item 7. To Miss Brown, we girls give and bequeath for her hope chest the first garments we made in Sewing I. We leave her free use of the oil stove on which to cook soup and hot dogs during the rest of her stay at Greenbank. Item 8. To Miss Fulgham we leave Mr. Hedrick’s car to carry her back to Old Virginny, away from these terrible snow flakes. We also arrange for her a special course that she may learn how to write A” on a fellow’s report card. Item. 9. To Mrs. Coon we bequeath every day of the week for music lessons without our dignified (?) presence. We will her, too, all keys, so she can play in any flat. Section II Item 1. To the dear Juniors, our successors, we hereby give and be- queath our numerous (?) rights and privileges that we gained by good be- havior. We leave, too, our class motto, “Labor omnia vincit, the meaning of which we have interpreted and appreciated. Item 2. To the Sophomores, our co-working Adelphians, we will all authority held by us in our literary Society. They are also heirs to our cheei- fulness, serenity, dignity and sagacity. Item 3. To the innocent, unsuspecting Freshies we donate the dunce caps we wore mentally and, no doubt, obviously, when we were Sophomores. Section III Item 1. To Mr. Arbogast, our janitor, we leave for his personal good, all information, important or otherwise, that he might have found in the desks or wastebaskets after a daily, weekly, monthly or semester examination. 18 ’