Greenville High School - Tau Yearbook (Greenville, NC)

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THE TAU, 19 22 Pkoolosopky ii si RE people usually chosen for a certain job because of their peculiar fitness for that par- ticular job? When a person is chosen by an august body of thirty-lwo Seniors for any job, however humble, is it in order for him to feel duly flattered. You say it is? Well, maybe so. But I contend that the dul,y flatteredness automatically modifies itself according to the kind of job. As I consider the title of the job assigned me (particularly the first syllable) I feel duly flattered all right, but the emphasis is on the duly, cer- tainly not the flattered. So please let it be understood that I am duly flattered rather than duly flaltered by this Phool job that has been assigned me by my unworthy classmates. Do you get me? All right! Having been elected to this job I shall endeavor to show my readers the degree to which I am flattered by telling them the hard, boiled-down truth about my classmates. If any of the latter want to get wrathy, we can settle it later when we all meet at the bug house (which, by the way, will probably be in the near future if we can judge b y the conglomeration of H O polygons, amo francais. General Joffre at Bunker Hill, and the recipe for making angel ' s food cake, vrhich turns out to be po man ' s pudding, which conglomeration is battling for supremacy in our poor, overcrowded craniums. To resume: if any Senior wishes to get revenge for any statement in this article let him seek it by battering thei walls of his own temple for ever being so nearsighted as to elect to any position, big or little, such a poor boob as yours truly. ' Null sed in the way of apologies (none will be made later). On September 8, 1918, one hundred sixty-eight feet trod the path of wisdom that led to the Freshman classroom of Greenville High School. Speaking of feet, Mary Gaskill ' s and Aleene ' s stood out before ail the others. I am not sure whether it was due to the size or ' whether they wore wooden soles — at any rate, they always kept us from getting the prize in a marching contest. At the present writing there are fewer feet in the class than there were then, but there are consid- erably more square feet because of rapid growth. There are also plenty of square heads (a la block, I suppose), but the owners of these are too numerous to enumerate. But 1 am forgetting again; we were speaking of feet. Many of the aforementioned pedal extremities have wandered off the path of knowl- edge into the byways and hedges of matrimony, money-making and other similar speculations. But not more than half of the deserters are millionaires by now and that helps to console those who have remained to the bitter end. If they could have planned to suit themselves, practically all the class would be married except Marietta, our man-hater, and Frank, the most timid boy in school. Why, Marietta hates the boys so that if she starts up to see Lois she goes all the wa,y down Fifth Street to Five Points and by the Post Office and up Greenville Heights to Lois ' . And Frank, poor fellow, often has to cut by the Training School on his way to church because on that first corner there is often congregated a bunch of girls. Now, Dick Williams is just the opposite — a lion among ladies. He is all but late many a morning because he goes out of his way just to get up with the girls. Bernice, Margaret, Annie Mae, and Frances have been such problems for us all in the matter of being noisy and rowdy. We have advised them to emulate the example of perfect silence and dignity set them by Aleene, Virginia and Jeanette, but our efforts have been futile. The beauties in our class were hard to decide upon. Now, whether I mean they were lacking, or that there was so much competition, is a matter of moment, but better settled in the courts, so judgment must be deferred. At an,y rate, no less- than twelve girls and even two of the boys (sh! — Howard and Robert), as soon as they learned that I was to decide upon the statistics, came to me privately and tried to bribe me to declare them the most beautiful. I lost sleep over the matter for several nights and finally decided to dispose of most of the candidates and divide the honor between Blanche, Deanie Boone, Anna Page imenty-eighl

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THE TAU, 1922 and Rose. 1 saw them all four again the next day and they didn ' t seem to be minus any hair, so 1 suppose the others have decided to accept their defeats without any show of struggle. I wanted to name the cutest girl, but Edwin said he thought it would create a good feeling between the classes if we left that honor to the Junior Class, and as Robert and C. B. so thoroughly agreed with him I gave in, in spite of opposition. Since Virginia couldn ' t have it for the cutest she graciously accepted the cnltllemcnls, best dancer. Some say Rose didn ' t like it — I can ' t imagine why. The whole school elected Margaret Cone for the most dignified, so there was no way of getting around it. I ' ll have to give it to her. Many see, but few know and yet all know that Margaret Cone ' s dignity can ' t hold a candle to that of Lois and Elizabeth (a dignity born of the Four Hundred). When it comes to dignity, they ' ve really got ' em. Margaret Cone also was voted the most stylish. Now I want everybody to remember that all that took place before anyone saw Pudgy in the Senior Play. She and Tommy took the cake that night (what Peter didn ' t eat). Novella, Eva and Lillian are our star typewriting and shorthand students. They have made such progress that Miss Huggins is terribly afraid of losing her job in favor of one of them. Those three have had such a battle over who is the best that to settle the dispute we all decided in favor of Miriam. Speaking of teachers for next year, we are glad to announce two assistants in the French Department: Mile. Olivia Moye and Mile. Gladys Hicks. The school is indeed fortunate in securing such connoisseurs of the life and language of the French people. The facull;y have secretly asked Stella and Maude to fail on some subject so they can remain on the basketball team next year. Their height has made them the idol of the basketball fans. They have no fear of any team they may meet and they have it all over ' Belhaven ' s center. Except for the egotistical qualities of individuals herein described, 1922 is a fine bunch of folks, the best ever graduated from old G. H. S., n ' est-ce pas? We have always known our lessons well — 1 much better than the teachers thought, because we were often afraid it might look as if we were showing . N j off arid we are such an unassuming bunch. But I must tell you where we shine. We have suddenly H discovered that we are all natural born actors and actresses. Did you see All On Account of PoUy? They said it was pretty good, but that isn ' t a circumstance to what we are going to do later on. When i ' i ' Edwin becomes President and I his Secretary of State and all the others fit in ' .o their proper places of I prominence, we are going to lurn ihh old world upside down! I ' i joE Move, Phoolosopher. Page lwen( )-nine