Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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Exchange PRIL 24 marks the 225th anniversary of the Ameri¬ can newspaper. John Campbell, a Scotchman, in Poston, was the first to establish a newspaper. He did this on April 21, 1704. It contained the speech of the Queen of England to both houses of Parlia¬ ment, four short paragraphs of marine intelligence and an advertisement, that from the proprietor of the paper. What rapid strides indeed has the newspaper made since 1704. E. L. Shuman says, “The collection of news has been reduced to a system—almost to an exact science—until to¬ day every event of importance is recorded daily by the press.” Not only cities and towns have acknowledged the importance of newspapers, but schools all over the world have taken it up until schools who do not have a school paper are few and far between. The schools not only pub¬ lish a paper, but exchange with a number of schools. What does exchange mean? Does it mean the mere ex¬ changing of schcol papers? No, it means the exchanging of ideas. Many schools depend upon their exchanges to make their papers better. The exchanges have meant a great deal to our paper. Our paper being only three months old when we started to form an exchange, was far from being the paper that it is today. For the steady growth of our paper we give most of the credit to our exchanges. The growth of this department in our school has been amazing. When school started in September the “Kaleido¬ scope” did not have a single exchange. It was during that month that the editor told the Exchange Editor that it was time for him to get to work. Since that time this depart¬ ment has developed rapidly. The goal has almost been attained, that of forming an exchange with at least one school in every state in the Union. At the present time the “Kaleidoscope” is exchanging with 101 different schools which are found in 43 states, the District of Columbia, Eng¬ land, Hawaii, Alaska and Cyprus. The six states with whom we have not formed an exchange are Mississippi, New Mexico, Idaho, Nevada and Utah. In behalf of the school, the staff wishes to thank each and every school for exchanging with us. We hope you will co-op:rate with the staff of 1929-30 as you have with us.

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LITERARY SOCIETIES—Continued ident; Louise Epperson, Secretary; Willie Ward Temple, Treasurer; Audrey Spencer, Reporter; Louis Aderholt, Sar- geant-at-Arms; Miss Dorothy Richardson, Sponsor. Despite the infrequency of the meetings a literary atmo¬ sphere has been created and maintained throughout the year. The programs devoted to educational and interesting subjects such as a chosen study of Poe’s life works; a study of a series of musical subjects in which a sense of music appreciation has been gained, and also a study in the his¬ tory of arts as portrayed in outstanding paintings. A picture of Poe and a complete volume of his works were presented to the school. In the early spring a trip was taken to the Poe Shrine in Richmond to get in close to”ch with Poe’s life, and lasCy a creditable program given, summa rizing and exhibiting the society’s acquisitions in literary fields. This summary is merely an indication of what will be accomplished next year, now that a place has been established for the societies in the school. l. o 3. 4. 6 . 7. 8 . 9. 10 . 11 . 12 . 13 . Inter-Societv Night, May 31, 1929 Opening Address -A. E. Meehl President of Edgar Allan Poe Literary Society Chorus—“A Merry Heart”-By Both Societies Debate—Resolved: “That Athletics Are More Beneficial in the High School Than Are Other Extra-Curricular Activities.” Affirmative—George Kanak, George Lampman. Negative—Mary Lee Bishop, Joel Noble. Instrumental Solo , Susan Andrews Public Speaking-Louise Epperson and Alise Sanderson Vocal Duet-Alise and Lois Sanderson Essayists-Edna Lazenby and Helen Bell Vocal Solo -Jennie Wheeler Reading Contest-Arlinc Poland and Frances Johnson Violin Solo-Miss Josephine Johnson Presentation of the trophy to the winning Society by Dr. Lane Elder-Decision of Judges Presentation of Gifts to the School by Both Societies. Alma Mater—Dedicated to School by Edgar Allan Poe Literary Society-By Both Societies — 26 —

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LE CERCLE FRANCAIS “Noblesse Oblige” HILE the members of the French Circle are only the students who have studied or are studying French, the interests of the club are by no means confined to the group. For this reason, the mem¬ bers have undertaken during the year, to carry out two projects or two pieces of constructive work that will be of benefit to the entire school. The first project was the presentation of a program in the auditorium. We decided that an appropriate program at Easter would be an inspiration to the student body. A cantata was selected and was staged during Holy Week. We believe that this was the first of its kind to be presented in Hopewell High School. It taught the students one type of oratorical music and helped them to appreciate the ora¬ torios, a type of music that tells a story through singing instead of acting. We hope that our efforts will be recog¬ nized by the establishment of the precedent; that each year some organization will give an appropriate program during the Easter season. The second project was to give some books to the library. To carry out this plan, a mock faculty meeting was staged in the auditorium. The students who “took off” the faculty spent many hours as understudies, listening to their pet expressions, such as Miss Burch’s “and so forth,” Mr. Par¬ son’s “write about a 3,000 word theme” and Miss Robert¬ son’s “History repeats itself.” Then the fun came when Mary Lee tried to fix her hair like Miss Dorothy Richardson and Frances Gray tried to make Miss Mary Rives Richardson’s red jersey look stylish! Cynthia Etheridge couldn’t make up her mind whether she would wear Miss Beckham’s brown or blue dress but finally decided in favor of the latter. James Mallonee had the advantage over the rest of us because he had Mendel’s law of inheritance to start him off. He made a perfect principal. — 28 —