Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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The Commercial Club it has grown to be one of the largest departments in the school, having at present approximately 112 students. The preliminaries of the State High School Commercial Con¬ test were held in Hopewell this year. All schools in the state maintaining a Commercial Department were invited to enter and these schools were divided up into groups. Hopewell and six other schools comprised group number three and Hopewell came out with some of the honors. Evelvn Benesek won the individual contest in shorthand. Adelaide Moseley won the prize offered in the Advanced Bookkeeping and Mary Mays was winner in Beginning Bookkeeping. The students will take part in these finals to be held in Fredericksburg. Aside from these activities the Commercial Department took charge of an assembly program. They presented a short play giving the contrast between the efficient stenographer and the extreme. This program also included a typing drill. May the Commercial Club of next year accomplish much and good luck to it! H Home Rooms 4-L SENIORS The majority of the staff members of the “Kaleidoscope” for 1931 are from this room and we are expecting to accomplish a lot and to do our best for the betterment of our publication next year. We are sorry to learn that our sponsor, Miss Mary Rives Richardson, will not be with us next year, but we wish to extend to her successor a hand of welcome and hope that she will have the success with the paper that her predecessor has had. We have been very fortunate indeed in having Miss Trosvig for our home room teacher this year. She has cooperated with us in every way and we appreciate her consideration and patience. We are determined to “hitch our wagon to a star,” and you may be assured that it will be the highest and most brilliant one of God’s candles. OMMERCIAL Department was organized in Hopewell High School in 1923 with comparatively few students enrolled in Commercial subjects. In these few years Page Twenty-Four

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Home in the School HOOPEE! What a year for the Home Economics Club! We got right down to hard work the day school opened as the club had charge of editing the “Peptomist,” the State Home Economics paper. The subject was Health. The club was delighted to have had this privilege. The members of the staff were: Mary Deane-Editor-in-Cliief Mauro Helms-Assistant Editor Dorothea Nevils- Assistant Editor Helen Mifka -Business Manager Through the cooperation of staff and club members the paper was a real success. This year we have been very fortunate in having several distinguished visitors. Mrs. Avery, our State Home Economics Supervisor, has been our guest a number of times and has given many books to our reading library. Miss White, a member of the Federal Board of Vocational Home Economics, spent one day in our cottage. Our new sponsor, Miss Julia Robertson of Harrisonburg State Teachers College, has shown her interest in us not only by visiting but also by the presentation of gifts. Our City Manager was among the local speakers at one of our club meetings. Our principal class project for the second semester has been the improvement of the cottage. The school board repaired our cottage. New furniture and furnishings were given by the State Department of Home Economics. Mrs. Avery wanted four girls to meet her in Richmond to help select the furniture. This op¬ portunity was given the girls who had shown greatest interest in interior decorating. For the first time Virginia has had the advantage of twelve months Home Economics work. This gives the girls a chance to follow up school experimental work with real home projects. Our State Supervisor elected nine schools in Virginia to do pro¬ ject work, our school being among those chosen. We may take any project which will be helpful such as “planning and pre¬ paring school lunches for the children in the family,” “taking care of our clothes,” or “flower gardens.” We gain information for our project through magazines, library books, conferences with the instructor, and talking with our family and neighbors. After this year’s work we feel this method of learning is de¬ cidedly the most interesting and worthwhile. Page Twenty-Three

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3H-1 JUNIORS The 3H-1 Class has had a very thrilling year. In the first of this semester we were assigned to the biology laboratory where we stayed for a while until we were sent to our present home room, which is 308. The class officers are: Henry Sher¬ man, president; Theresa Miles, secretary-treasurer and Alexan¬ der Ecomona, class representative. We undertook to raise some money for the great event, the Junior Senior reception in June. We were very fortunate in being able to raise a considerable amount of money by candy sales. We are going to try to do our best to entertain the Seniors those last few precious moments in old H. H. S. In the sale of tickets to our minstrels, we won first place. We hope to be able at the end of school to donate to the library a volume of books. Here’s hoping that we will be able to have Miss Hodges next year as home room teacher. 3H-2 JUNIORS September, 1930, rolled around and with it came many changes—a new home room teacher, a room on the second floor, a Junior-Senior reception to work for, and, most surprising of all, a room full of Juniors that actually looked like ladies and gentlemen. Emma Smith had “tucked up her hair,” Daniel Kanak was the proud owner of a pair of long trousers, Jac Chappelle was having heavy dates, and Patsy Mazzie had almost stopped wiggling! With all these surprising changes and a plenty of pep, the 3H-2 Juniors started the year off with a bang. What would we have done without Laura’s and Helen’s splen¬ did assistance in putting over the candy sales or Jac and Nina as competent treasurers? With those and the 100 per cent co¬ operation of the whole class, we the 3H-2 Juniors call the year 1929-1930 a success. tt 1H-2 FRESHMEN “Be the laborer great or small, do our best or we will fall”. February 14, our class, consisting of 21 pupils met for the first time in room 301 and elected the following officers: Mary Sheally, president; Dewey Manieri, vice-president; Mary Jarvis, secretary-treasurer; Robert Juer, representative. Social and program committees were also appointed. Our class came third in the sale of tickets for the minstrel. We are happy to have Mrs. Dessie Robinson as our home room teacher. Page Twenty-Five