Jarratt High School - Builders Yearbook (Jarratt, VA)

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A child, entering elementary school for the first time, finds that a new world has been opened to him and all his friends. Through these seven years, he obtains new ideas, develops new hobbies and interests, and increases his knowledge. As he progresses, he and his parents save papers, drawings, and handicraft as a record of his achievement as well as for sentimental reasons. In one such collection, we found a book of poems, written and compiled by the fifth grade of Jarratt High School in the school year 1956-57. The completed work was entitled “Our Poems” and each selection from it, presented here, was written by a senior of 1964. These gems of literature are written here exactly as they were written in the book, errors included. JYHE OUTDOORS The trees and bushes all so green, They looked to me like a fairy’s queen, The ground so soft and brown, You'll never guess what I found, I found a little red bird, But not a word was heard, We decided we would look, So all we saw we put in a book, We came back and read and read Till we had to go the teacher said. Daphne Owen THE DUCK POEM A duck dresses like a boy He warbles a he walks For he logss and logs When a duck swims He swims in the dim He warbles in the stream Singing to him When a duck quacks He seems to state facts He lives in a pool But doesn't go to school. Here come the train With big bump and bang Here come a plane That hasn't gone on land Here come a car That go fast and far Mary Gold was a happy old soul Who had a lot of gold She put some coal in a hole And watched it turn to gold. Ralph Harris OUR UNITED STATES Our Untied States is big and round, With big states and little towns, 7 With waters on each side, Oh, our U.S, is so wide, There are a few big towns, Scattered here and there, And big lakes everywhere, — Everyone loves our country great, With big towns and little gates, With boys and girls and parents fine, With ee apples of all kinds. Ballance JHE JAMESTOWN FESTIVAL The Jamestown Festival of '57 Opens every morning about eleven, There you'll see the fort restored Even the very same kind of board, You'll see a statue of Captain John Smith And Pocahontas the lively young Miss, Three you see the ships numbered three That once from England did flee. You'll see Queen Elizabeth there in September With jewels and furs that shine like embers. — Suzanne Owen i thought 1 saw a bogger man, But it was a pile of sand, 7 thought I saw the White House, © But it was a fat mouse, I thought I saw a bucket of tar, But it was only a honey jar. Aubrey Harrison GOOD HABITS If you keep yourself neat and clean You will be proud to be seen Brush your teeth nice and white They will shine like day light. ‘Scrub your body ‘til its red, Then you will be ready for bed. Marie ‘Bovomus Clifford Richardson : AT THE FARM Look my friend! Look real hard. Thats not a baby, thats a hog. Over in a fence theres a baby colt. Now look that, he is trying to eat a bolt. Over in fence far, far away Here comes old farmer Gray. With his daughter Clementine. I with that old mule was mine. To ride to town and all those things And a horse and calf that could 4 — Jean Rideout ABE LINCOLN Abe Lincoln never traveled the sea, He was taller than you or me, He always said “Let everything be, Honest, brave we did see, He made people happy as could be, tothe White House went he, Good a president went to be, Beverly Ann Parker BOYS. During the summer all the children quit All there work in the classes and give mother a fit. Johnny climbed an apple tree an tore his pants. Little brother Bill filled the sugar bowl with ants, Tommy put a frog in his little sisters bed. Jack poisoned the cat, next morning it was dead, . Judy” Hall Clementar 7

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Tommy Babb Connie Edwards Sondra Ezelle Gayle Harrell Mike Harrell Leland Ozmar Billy Spiers Gene Story Becky Williams President, Becky Williams; Vice-President, Mike Harrell; Secretary, Gayle Paige Har- NOT PICTURED: Pete Gordon rell, Treasurer, Pete Gordon. Wayne Velicky

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Seventh Grade Dale Barnes Wallace Brown Billy Edwards Betty Harrell Carlton Harrell Peggy Jarratt H. K. Mangum Timothy Mattox Martin Mozingo Joey Parker Wilbert Parker Joyce Richardson Wade Rowland Tony Tedesco Alma Webb Bernice Williams W. H. Williams Nicholas Wolosuk 20