Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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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 —

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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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Another interesting project was a correspondence with the members of the French classes of Farmville High School. These letters, of course, were written in French. The boys wrote to the girls and the girls wrote to the boys. It was worse than crossed questions and crooked answers and these were sights unseen. Excitement reigned su¬ preme when answers to our letters came and what do you think? The girl practically proposed to Sidney—but it was in French so Sidney just pretended that he wasn’t accustomed to receiving his proposals in French so let the matter drop. When our periodical, “The Kaleidoscope,” became a realty the French Circle asked for a “corner.” Through this column we have kept the school in touch with some of our work. We are anticipating the time when our corner will grow to a page or more. We are indeed grateful to the ‘‘Kaleidoscope” staff for giving us this opportunity to summarize our aims and accomplishments. We feel that it has helped to keep alive the interest in the society and to enlarge the interest in the study of French in Hopewell High School. — 29 -