Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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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 —

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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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The Dramatic Club HE usual bond that holds members together in any organization and which always insures coopera¬ tion and success is in having a definite ideal held ever before its members. Ideal is such an over¬ worked word that target should suffice. With the new 7 word target new ideas, and incentives culminated. The members pieced in their field of activity certain targets in September and realized that the given distance to shoot would be from then until June. In order to hit, the art of aiming had to be perfected. Thus the year’s work proved to have developed excellent sharp shooters in the actual form of heroes, heroines and others. It has often been said that good is the worst enemy of the best. With such warning the members attempted to overcome this petty hobgoblin called good by consistently aiming at the best. Will you ever forget the three old maids in “Quality Street” or the whimsical style of Barrie’s lines? Never! They are immortal. How about Tony, the delicate little son of Mrs. Hardcastle, an example of Gold¬ smith’s delicious humor. Finally the name became fa¬ miliar, Marquis D’Astafiorquercita, thus Rostand’s villian is loved merely through understanding him. Can’t you just see those lovers? Charming Rosalind and brave Orlando pic¬ tured by the genius of drama. Doesn’t it thrill you— readers—that no introduction to these famous characters is necessary? Thanks to the members of the dramatic club—they did that! The major accomplishment of this year was the pre¬ sentation of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “As You Like It.” There are always many benefits gained from such a project. The study of characters in Shakespeare’s plays particularly, is practically unlimited. Familiarity with the “tricks in the trade,” so to speak, displayed by Shakespeare in his dramatic art is invaluable. Memorization of his lines acquaints one with the most quoted w r riter there is, and lastly, the audience has to learn to listen, for however def¬ initely the main plot stands out, always a maze of sub-plots are interwoven. The play w 7 as excellently given and was truly a credit to Hopewell. - 31 -