Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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PrincipaPs Column OYS and girls of the Senior Class, you are about to round out four very important years of your life. Soon you will receive your diplomas, and your high school careers will become a part of the unchang¬ ing past. You will cease to be immature and irresponsible school boys and girls and will become young men and young women who must face life’s sterner problems. While it may be “a time for memory and for tears,” it should also be the occasion for some serious reflection on your part. Whether you spend four, or eight, or a dozen more years in school, or whether you spend none, certain fundamental at¬ titudes toward life should have been formed during these four years. You should recognize the fact that you are at the begin¬ ning and not the end of the long quest for knowledge. The school exercises that mark this occasion are appropriately called “Commencement.” The textbooks you have studied are but keys to the vast storehouses of knowledge. Your teachers have shown you how to use these keys, and it is now your duty and privilege to take from these store¬ houses whatever can be of service to you. You should have acquired an open mind. Too many of us let the doors of our thinking close when the doors of the school house close behind us for the last time. Never make a final decision on any question until you are sure that all evidence on both sides is in. Above all, you should not be afraid to face about from any stand you may have taken. Some one has said that “Only fools and the dead never change their minds.” You should have learned to accept responsibility with¬ out complaint or fear. If you have applied the principles th at have been inculcated, you should be willing to accept the consequences of any such action. Finally, you should go out from your school with a firm determination that you will serve your fellowman to the very best of your ability. Society needs your training in co¬ operative effort. If you are not unwilling to live unto your¬ self, even if it were possible for you to do so, then you have not learned the lessons in school that you should have. — 20 —

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I MARY EDNA WINSTON Dramatic Club; Toe Literary Society; Debating Club; Secretary, Class 2-L, 2-H; Glee Club; Asso¬ ciate Editor, The Kaleidoscope,’’ 4-L, 4-H; Civics Club: Traffic Squad; Latin Club; Athletic Associa¬ tion; Historian, 4-H. Mary is always happy and never fails to greet everyone with a smile. She is ever willing to help and she always gives most efficient aid. Her co¬ operative spirit is excellent, particularly in her work with the squads, clubs, and “The Kaleidoscope. -o- JOHN ZAK Commercial Club; Athletic Association; Civics Club. John is a boy who is famous for his jokes, no matter what you ‘Tire” at him, he always has a comeback and is able to tell you what Pat or Mike said under the same circumstances. His persona ity is carefree indeed, but his s mile alone has won him many friends. POST GRADUATES ANDREW JOHN CHRISTENSEN Athletic Association; Football Team; Baseball Team; Basketball Team; President, Student Govern¬ ment, 4-H; Secretary and Treasurer, Athletic Asso¬ ciation, 3-H; President, Commercial Club, 4-H; President, Civics Club, Post Graduate; Member of Usher Squad, Post Graduate; Chief, Traffic Squad, 4-L; Poe Literary Society; Secretary, Debating Club, Exchange Editor, ‘‘The Kaleidoscope, Post Graduate; Monogram Club. Here’s to Andy, may he always be a leader! -o- ADELIA MARIE SIMMONS Glee Club; Athletic Association; Basketball Squad; Vice-President, Class 3-H: Assembly Squad; Manager, Basketball Team, 4-L; Civics Club; Dramatic Club; Chief, Usher Squad, 4-H, Post Graduate; Captain, Basketball Team, Post Graduate; Sidney Lanier Lit¬ erary Society; Basketball Club. ‘Tee” is well known for her school spirit. She goes in for anything that can in any way improve cur school. -o- ARCHIE WILLIAM WEATHERLY Civics Club; Athletic Association; Associate Editor, The Kaleidoscope,” 4-L, 4-H; Commercial Club. Archie is a good student, one who has been a credit to Hopewell High School. He has helped our school paper to become a success and is always will¬ ing to co-operate in anything that will tend to make cur school a progressive one. —19—

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CO-OPERATIVE STUDENT GOVERNMENT The Co-operative Student Government Association was established in our school in the spring semester of 1928. The aims and the success of this type of government justi¬ fies, we hope, its continued existence. This form of government has made schol life more interesting, and at the same time trained the students to become better citizens. The officers who were elected each semester were: President, Vice-President and Secretary- Treasurer. The sponsor was appointed by the principal, while the two faculty members of the council were elected by the faculty. The Student Council, which was made up of a represen¬ tative from each home room and the three faculty mem¬ bers, met once a month to transact the business of the Association. The President and Vice-President, with the aid of the sponsor, appointed the following squads: Usher, Traffic, Sanitation, Program and Library. In the working of these squads we learn real cooperation. Our association has been made a member of the “Junior Community League” of the State. There has developed each semester a continued response on the part of all to make our government a success. William E. Pritchard, President. CIVICS CLUB The Civics Club of Hopewell High School was organized this year by the students of last year’s Problems of Ameri¬ can Democracy and Civics classes. The Civics Club has four definite aims which they have carried out to the best of their ability. The first aim was to stimulate interest in civic affairs throughout our school. We carried this out by controlling the Co-operative Student Government election each term, and by backing with our co-operation every objective which we thought would bene¬ fit the school. Our second aim was to help develop self-expression, self¬ reliability, and self-opinion. Self expression has been car¬ ried out in the club by placing the members of the club in various offices and on committees. Self-opinion was stimu¬ lated in the discussions held at each meeting of the club. —21—