Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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Editorial T HIS is the last issue of “The Kaleidoscope” published by the present senior class. As June is approaching, the class of 1929 prepares for graduation and all its senti¬ ment. Graduation from high school is one of the most import¬ ant points in our whole career. It is the end toward which we have been working for four years. It is the culmination of all our hopes, ambitions, and hard work. It is up to us whether we will go to college and continue our studies. Though graduation is one of the turning points in our lives, still there is a little sadness connected with it. For four years we have been forming friendships with other pupils of the school. For this period, our lives have been connected with and closely interwoven with high school, its life, traditions, and sentiment. We are breaking away entirely from definite bonds of hu¬ man feeling, and it is natural that there should be some sadness over the breaking of these bonds. We are leaving, perhaps for¬ ever, old surroundings which we have learned to know and love so well. We are leaving friends who have accompanied us on our high school career, not the least among these the faculty, and Mr. Mallonee, our principal. We cannot help but feel a touch of sadness when we think that we will never see them all together again. Yet the general sentiment of graduation is happiness, for we have completed our course, reached the first goal toward which we set our faces. We feel that we have really accomplished something and can afford to be happy for the short space of time we are given between the end of high school and either the beginning of college or the beginning of life. The way we feel at graduation then is happy-—yet a touch of sadness is connected with the sentiment of this momentous occasion. When we leave Hopewell High we will become Alumni and Alumnae of our school. We do not wish to become entirely dis¬ connected with high school affairs. We wish to be considered merely as older brothers and sisters of Hopewell High pupils and want to consider the alumni and alumnae of other years in the same manner. It makes the high school life so much cheerier to know that we will not lose our friends and will also have a helping hand over the rough spots of school life. It is a much better feeling to know that we are not entirely alone and that others are watching our trials and tribulations with thoughts of kindness, ready to stand by with a helping hand when it is needed. — 3 —

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“KALEIDOSCOPE” Published Monthly by The Students of Hopewell High School STAFF Editor-in-Chief Associate Editor Associate Editor ' News Editor Society Editor Humor Editor Poetry Editor Exchange Editor Business Manager Asst. Business Manager Typist Typist George Ruffin Mary Winston Vera Makowsky Frederica Belch Lois Sanderson Henry Sheally George Kanak Andrew Christensen Lucietta Riggan Saiad Ameen Mildred Danner Annie Morris Faculty Adviser: Miss Mary Rives Richardson - 0 - To the Staff The “Kaleidoscope” of 1928-29 has been a decided suc¬ cess. The first seven issues and this, the last copy, all have been well received and have been praised by all who read them. The “Kaleidoscope” is the official school pub¬ lication. It is only made possible by the co-operation of the students, but the students alone cannot make the paper succeed. The paper this year owes its success to a highly efficient staff of associate editors and business managers and the Editor wishes to take this opportunity to thank them for their co-operation and efficiency during the past two semesters. They have worked long and hard on the “Kaleidoscope,” and through their efforts we have seen our paper rise to equal heights with other high school publications. To Miss Richardson also the “Kaleidoscope” owes its success. Through her guidance and direction the school paper has been made possible and much has been accom¬ plished that otherwise would have been left undone. The Editor of next year’s “Kaleidoscope” will be indeed for¬ tunate to have such associates to work with. George Ruffin, Editor-in-Chief, 1928-29 “Kaleidoscope.”

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Class History FIRST YEAR ISTORY, as we have learned, is a true narrative of what civilized man has done, thus, in the history we will endeavor to relate what our “civilized” class has done in relation to our school. We, the Freshmen Class, half-scared and wholly green, were just making our debut into the society of High School life, under the new and most honorable name of “Rats,” little knowing that in our midst were the future “butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers.” To begin with, we began our career in the old high school, now the John Randolph School. Due to new con¬ cerns in Hopewell the attendance had so increased that the building was overrun. Because of this the “Rats” could go only a half-day. Indeed, the class itself was so large that it had to be divided and placed under two teachers. Both of these teachers happened to be new ones; one sec¬ tion under Miss M. R. Richardson and the other under Miss Trosvig. This year there were many more new teachers, among them being Miss Parmesano, Miss Robertson, Miss Rutlege, Miss Oliver and Mr. Denton. With the new teach¬ ers, the new pupils, the new course of study, and the divi¬ sion of the class we had many trials and tribulations, but our skies were considerably brightened, when, after the Christmas holidays in January, 1925, we entered the new high school building. This year the Dramatic Club was begun in earnest, with Miss Mary Rives Richardson as the sponsor. Since then, the Dramatic Club has been recognized as one of the busiest organizations in school. Annually, at least two plays are given under the supervision of the sponsor. —Mary Winston. SECOND YEAR The history of the second year of our high school career was most eventful. In February a new form of govern¬ ment was introduced, that of Student Self-Government. Ar