Hampton High School - Krabba Yearbook (Hampton, VA)

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History of Cl ass of 1934 One day in 1930, a large group of “green” grammar school pupils walked proudly out of the respective schools of Elizabeth City County carrying report cards bearing those inspiring words “Promoted to High School”. These proud children were we, the new freshmen of Hampton High. Our pride was however, soon shattered when we stepped through the doors of H. H. S. and saw those dignified seniors peering at us and calling us “mere rats”. We were not entirely neglected because some kind soul noticed us and called us together in a meeting to organize and elect officers. We chose as our leaders the following: President, Albert Miller; Vice-President, William Cole; Secretary, Diana Clark; and Treasurer, Jane Sinclair. Soon we settled down and joined the Athletic Association and learned what school spirit is. The next September, we, who had been F reshmen, were now able to look down on the new “rats” from the elevated position of Sophomores. We all gathered in a meeting soon after the beginning of the term and elected the following as our officers: President. Jack Fuller; Vice-President, Joe Carpenter; Secretary, Anne Mabbott; Treasurer, Kenneth Wray. Our motto was “Keep Smiling”, which we did in spite of the depression. We had a lot to smile for, too, because this year we had a new ' gym, additional classrooms and a new auditorium. Somehow, during this year the athletic boys and girls of our class discovered that there were all kinds of sports in the school. The boys tried their luck at football, basketball, and track, and the girls tried basketball. Several of us developed into stars after a little practice and experience. “Fear not, the worst is yet to come”. That was the motto of our ambitious class in the next and third year of that great adventure of high school. Some of our fellow classmen had fallen behind because they “couldn’t take it”, but this loss was made up by the additions from Fort Monroe, Phoebus and other schools. This was the year of years for our grand football team. They defeated Newport News for the first time in over sixteen years. Shall we ever forget it? At the commencement exercises in June when the class of ’33 graduated, the girls of our class donned their prettiest pastel colored dresses, and carrying hoops of roses, marched down the aisle to sing a song of spring to the dignified Seniors. The officers for this year were: President, Anne Mabbott; Vice-President, Joe Bryant; Secretary-Treasurer, Anne Cooper. Seniors at last! What a struggle and what an experience! Can it be true that we have actually finished high school? It seemed like such a long time when we started back in ’30. Now we are enjoying the privileges allowed the seniors. The motto of the class for our last year is “Completus Tamen Incipiens” which has been the motto of the graduating classes of Hampton High School since 1925. We have chosen some excellent leaders for this, our last year in dear old Hampton High School: President, Anne Mabbott; Vice-President, Billy Guy; Secretary, Marion Fergusson; Treasurer, Robert Howe. We the class of 1934 wish to bid you all farewell and good luck and may Hampton High School be as dear to you as it has been to us. Mary M. Jones, Class Historian. 0

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WOOLRIDGE, RUTH Commercial Club, ’32, ’33. YATES, LORENE Commercial Club, ’32; May Court, ’31. ’33; T. A. M. Club, ’34; D. D. K. Minstrel. ’34. FllLLMAN, ROBERT OLIVER GSELL, FREDERICK HENDERSON, LINWOOD JONES, LUCY PAGE JONES, MARY ELIZABETH LUCY, ROGER HARTWELL MONTA, VICTOR TYLER, VICTOR Success Tie your rocket to the sun. Make the moon your throne. Seize the earth, and when its done Call the world your own. Make it just and beautiful. Make it sane and kind. Make men ever dutiful. Make them clean of mind. Aim your mark at these things, These and nothing less; Win this aim and it brings The only true success. By Mary H. Vaughan r f gs V A ' A a ' a T A At A I A 11 All i

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The Last Will and Testament We, the Senior Class of 34, realizing that the time draws near when we must part from these surroundings, and being of sound and disposing mind, do hereby make this our Last Will and Testament. To the J uniors, who have stood by us well in these our last days, we leave our sympathy in the trials to come and the difficulties and hardships which they will encounter. When the above mentioned Juniors become of proper age and attain the mental stature of Seniors, we bequeath to them our dignity and privileges as Seniors. We carry with us memories of pleasant associations and attainments which have accumulated during the past four years. We will always remember the spirit of helpfulness tendered us by the members of the faculty as well as our high regard for them. The follow i ng personal possessions are left by individuals of the class: 1. John Rader leaves his knowledge of physics to Edward Wade. 2. A1 ice Robertson and Kathleen Richardson leave their vocal talent to Ann Maloney and Dorothy Obrey. 3. Marshall Cloke leaves to prepare for West Point. 4. Pete Moreland leaves her feminine ways to Lucy Baker. 5. Marion Fergusson leaves Otto Horstmann. 6. John Holliday and George Dolby leave their front seats in the auditorium to Paul Bickford and J. B. Baines. 7. Marrionetta Penny sorrowfully leaves Mrs. Gay. 8. Sammy Ruff leaves his Cicero to Eugene Goldstein and his studies of Lincoln to Henry Albee. 9. Dorothy Diehl leaves her height to Anne Lewis. 10. Ruth Born leaves her artistic ability to Valentine Fullman. 11. Stanton Rush leaves Mae Linsig despondent. 12. Mary Vaughan, Oneta Shackelford. Marion Fergusson, lima Dixon, Irene Craigs, Rhea Cooper, Peggy Lundell, Stella Foster, and Evelyn Reuter leave the Spanish Club. 13. Joyce Anderson and Paul Mingee leave together. 14. Mary Jones leaves her wit to Kathleen Sheehan. 15. Joe Weston leaves to take up his duties in the A. P. 16. Emily Desper, Elizabeth Whitehead, and Marguerite Dressier mournfully leave the lunch room. 17. John D. Williams leaves the Chemistry lab to Frank Bader. 18. Elizabeth Patterson leaves the John M. Willis lunch room. 19. Elizabeth Stevens, Bernice Hutton, Jessie Crockett, Margaret Smith, and Rosa Lee Moore leave Miss Darden’s bookeeping class to the coming stenographers. 20. Allen Thomas leaves for the deep blue sea.