Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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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 -

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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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Latina Societas “Possunt quia, posse videntur.”—Vergil. To Vergil the Latin Club has turned to get the inspiring motto: “As a man thinketh so he is,” or “Because we think we can, we can.” When this club was organized several months ago, with Miss Dorothy Richardson as sponsor, the charter members had in mind the vitalizing of Latin for club members for the Latin Department, and for everyone in school. The programs at each meeting have been broad and extremely interesting as well as educational. The club members have taken songs of the students of the Middle ages, have put them into Latin, and have sung them to gay tunes. They have also learned to sing “America” and sev¬ eral Christmas carols in Latin. Latin poems were trans¬ lated into English rhymes! With highest hopes the club asked for a small space in “The Kaleidoscope,” which was named the Latin Corner. After a few issues the Corner became so popular and the club found so many interesting things to pass on to the school at large, that “The Kaleidoscope” staff kindly gave a whole page for this work. The “Latina Societas” con¬ siders this very good experience, since they expect to pub¬ lish a paper entirely devoted to Latin material next year. Then an exchange will be able to be made with the Latin newspapers, received this term, from various sections of the United States. As a representation of the aims of the “Latina Societas” all members have bought pins composed of a scroll and a quill, bearing the name “Latina Societas.” These pins are a source of pleasure as well as a reward to all members, since only students of Vergil may belong to the club. There¬ fore, membership means four years of hard work culmina¬ ting in a period of time devoted to Latin in a lighter vein. A most interesting assembly program is being planned and will be given near the close of the school year. The club has a glorious surprise for the school which will be presented at this final program. To you, fellow students in Latin, is thrown our guiding torch. “Be yours to hold it high—Because we think we can, we can,” — 30 —