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

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GREENBANK CHAPTER OF FUTURE FARMER OF AMERICA PRESIDENT JOEL M. HANNAH VICE-PRESIDENT....................... JIMMY WOODDELL SECRETARY ARLIE RYDER TREASURER ...................................... DONALD SHEARS REPORTER ............................a....... SAMMY BARLOW ADVISOR DAVID SMITH The foundation upon which the Future Farmers of America organization is built, includes leadership, character development, sportsmanship, cooperation, service, thrift, scholarship, improved agriculture, organized recreation, citizenship, and pa- triotism. The Future Farmers of America organization is a non-profit, non-political farm youth organization of voluntary membership. The organization is 100% American in its ideals and outlooks, and has no outside affiliations or secrecy in connection with any of its activities. The motto is: “Learning to do Doing to earn Earning to live Living to serve.” The Greenbank chapter is a 100% club with all students of Vocational Agricul- ture belonging to the organization. Each year the chapter has a fall party with each member bringing a friend, female or otherwise, and in the spring it has an annual Father and Son Banquet. Some of the activities of the Chapter are the preservation of wild birds by plant- ing of bird seeds and small shrubs. Each year the chapter reforests waste lands and plants productive trees and wind breakers. The chapter participates in cooperative buying and selling of seeds.

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CL A NIGHT SENIOR TRIBE OF 1946 presents a Heap Big Indian Pow-Wow (To Celebrate Class Night, May 13, 1946) WHO’S WHO Pianist Mary Dare Hedrick Spirit of Greenbank High School Marian Tracy Braves and Squaws Senior Tribe Seniors Heap-Big-Chief-President Nimmie Ralston Chief-Plenty-Big-Mouth Joel Hannah Messenger Jimmy Pritchard Chief-Stealum-Pretty-Squaws Franklin Noel PRISONERS: (Young Girl) ...................... BEULAH DAHMER (Irish Lady) GERTRUDE CALES (Mother) .................. PAULINE DAHMER (Boy Friend) ...................... HAROLD WOODDELL (Son) ............................. NORMAN SHEETS Brave-Writum-Record Stanley Shears (Will) Squaws-W ritum-Past-Deeds— Scalp I—Freshmen ............ SADIE NELSON Scalp II—Sophomore ....... PEGGY WAGNER Scalp III—Junior RUTH BEVERAGE Scalp IV—Senior .......... ELAINE WILFONG (Class History) JULIA FISHER Princess-Makum-Words-Rhyme Ernestine Shinaberry (Poem) Squaw-Give-um-Away Naomi Sutton (Giftorian) Brave-Playum-and-Singum Bill Townsend Squaw-Lookum-Into-Future Iola Rexrode (Prophecy) Little-Chief-Junior-Class-President Hubert Rexrode Tribal Prayer Indians

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ADDRESS O F ALUTATORIAN As we the Seniors of this graduating class come to the crossroads and look back to the preceding four years of our school woik, we can hear the voice of Greenbank High School. She speaks to her children and the message she gives is one tendered with the griefs, the joys, the heartaches, the sorrows, and the hopes of years gone by and of the greater ones yet to come. To us she has given everything and to her we leave the promise to uphold to the utmost the heritage she has entrusted to us. Listen while the voice of Greenbank speaks to us, the class of ’46. It was not for the past but for this moment and the moments to follow for wvjich I have prepared you. I have tried to teach you, to educate you in the ways of the world and bring you to an even standard with the rest of the world. No race is equal unless all contestants start on an even mark. Without education any person must start behind the starting point. To you I have given this training in the hope of fitting you tor an even start in a long ar.d courageous race. To you I nave given the education, the means to meet the economic world with a trained mind and to meet the youth in it on an equal basis, so that you may be capable of pursuing that which you desire. In you I have instilled the hope of advancement and the dreams that by the dint of hard work will one day come true. Because of my teachings you will be able to earn for yourself, not only a living, a means of existence, but a place in the world of industry beside of or ahead of the best. In addition to economic existence and far above economic things in import, I have prepaied you for a higner standard of living. This life ours is not merely draw- ing breath, sleeping, eating, and resting. Life has standards from the highest to the lowest. Those who are prepared do not occupy the lower rungs of the ladder but take their places on the nigncr levels. It is my hope and my sincere trust tuai in the ciays to come you will be found living a greater, fuller, and better life among the best. Your training should enable you to know and recognize those things which bring you an exalted order of living. Automatically you will accept the higher things and reject the levels which are not in accordance with your mental standards. Only by citizens of higher training can the aveiage standards of the world be raised. ou, My Children, are in etiect a selected group chosen and trained to set the high standard of living before the eyes of the rest of the world. Since the days of the long ago when God gave to Moses on Mt. Sinai the Ten Commandments, the world has striven and worked in an unending war to give lo mankind moral concepts and practices which should elevate and improve mankind. Those elements of your education which pertain to better living were not aimless or accidental, 'they were designed to bring to you an appreciation of the cleaner, the better, and the higher in life. Go forth, My Children, and never allow those pre- cepts to fade from your minds. Live not only those precepts yourselves but make them patent to others. Let this gloom-darkened world see in you a light of morality that grows not dim with the years. Children of Greenbank High School I am sending you out today to become units in a nation that is the hope of the civilization of the world. The eyes of all hu- manity are turned in pleading and hope to this land of ours—America. Never did our nation occupy such an important post. Never was this nation of ours in greater danger of a terrible fall. If America stands and maintains her position and fulfills her promise of leadership, the civilization of the world will stand and go forward. If America falls, the world will follow suit. The future of America is in your hands and those of your associate young people. I have tried to train you for civic better-