Hopewell High School - Kaleidoscope Yearbook (Hopewell, VA)

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Slaute (Mr. Burroughs ' Salute to the Graduating Class, delivered at the Junior- Senior Banquet on May 23, 1941, is repeated below, addressed now to the Class of 1942.) Mr. Toastmaster, Friends of the Graduating Class, A few years from now, your happiest days at Hopewell High will be but shadowy memories. Ours is a confusing, fast-moving age, and the impact of each new set of experiences makes the past less and less colorful. The memory of this hot but happy evening, your pleasant recollection of a favorite class, or teacher, or school activity—all these will become dim as the years go by. Yes, and facts, figures, formulas—many of the details of your academic training will, all too soon, fade into a background of vagueness. But what if you do forget facts and figures, names, dates, experiences which tonight seem so vividly a part of your equipment for life? What if you do for¬ get these? Let us hope that you have experienced more than good times and academic routine during your sojourn with us. Alma Mater’s greatest lessons are those which are indirectly, informally taught—lessons which have at their heart the free American way of life as opposed to that pagan philosophy which is enslaving so many of our fellow humans in other lands. These quiet but great lessons we hope you have mastered thoroughly—though you may forget all else. What is this greater instruction Alma Mater has endeavored to impart? It is this. However long you may live, if, with open-mindedness and tolerance, you will always seek to knoiv the Truth; If, as you meet life ' s victories and defeats, you will always shozv modesty and level-headcdness in success; courage and determination in failure; If you will cherish Beauty in all its forms, and never become too hard or bitter to find real inspiration in Nature, Art, Human Personality; If you will live your lives with love in your hearts for your fellow men, never allowing yourselves to become too busy, too important, or too indifferent to lend a helping hand to those zvho are zveaker than you; If you will always value high ideals and strong moral principles, living out your days as ladies and gentlemen of high honor and clean conscience; If you will forever cherish Freedom of the human mind and spirit as a God-given birthright zvorthy of any sacrifice or defense .. If you will live your lives in unfaltering devotion to these ideals, never for¬ getting the highest hopes and aspirations of your youth, never losing confidence in yourselves, then —regardless of your fortune or fate—your lives will be as rich and fruitful as they may be long. And you will have participated gloriously in that way of life which will, which must eventually defeat the forces of tyranny and destruction which are at large in the world today. And now we stand near the parting of the ways. Your faculty salutes another class of Hopewell graduates . We have known you as willing students; we shall remember you as good friends. Soon each of you will receive from us a diploma which will be our vote of confidence that you will do your best to help build a better tomorrow. As you take your leave of us, it is with full hearts that we bid you : Good luck . Much happiness . God bless you.

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CHARLES NOTTINGHAM MOORE B.S. College of William and Mary Mathematics JULIA MARGARET PARSON, B.A. Davis and Elkins College Geometry LESLIE WRIGHT PARSON, B.A. College of William and Mary Director of Boys’ Athletics LOUISE DOYLE RIGDON, B.S. Farmville State Teachers’ College American Institute of Normal Method, Auburndale, Mass. Music and English CAROLYN MADDUX SUTHERLAND, B.S. Farmville State Teachers’ College History and Government JAMES WINSTON SUTHERLAND, B.A. Randolph-Macon College Harvard University English EUGENIA DANIEL TEMPLE, B.S. Fredericksburg State Teachers’ College Director of Girls’ Physical Education RALPH OSCAR TEMPLE, B.S. Shippensburg (Pennsyl¬ vania) State Teachers’ College M athcmatics (Mr. Temple teas called to active duty in the US. Naval Reserve in April) MILLA JULIA TROSVK B.A. College of William and Mary Mathematics I MARK FILLMORE TROXELL, B.A. Randolph-Macon College Director of Band; English MARY ELIZABETH WENGER, B.A. College of William and Mary Latin FREDERICK ALBERT WOEHR, B.S. Oswego (New York) State Normal Industrial Arts

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