Kinston High School - Kay Aitch Ess Yearbook (Kinston, NC)

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KINSTON HIGH SCHOOL THE KA YA ITCH ESS N 1 netep:n twenty-four Whether in football, Ijaseball, basketball, track or tennis, the Senior Class of this year has put in the held athletes of irony calibre. Captains, managers and cheer leaders have come from our class. And the fact that the Class of ' 24 this year has furnished memliers for every varsity team, should stand out in bold relief in the history of our school athletics. In the first annual Field Day, which was held last year, our class completely overwhelmed all the other classes, winning every event. However strange it may seem, members of our class are the only ones in our school who have ever been able to win State honors on the field. In forensic activities, the standard has been held high. Last year it was a team from our class that won the Triangular Debate and went to the University of North Carolina for the finals. In the Literary Societies, one of the most prominent activities of the school, we have had more than our jiroportion of representation. We have furnished officers, orators and debaters in abundance. In fact, statistics show that we have furnished two debaters every time all the other classes combined ha e furnished one. Only this spring a Senior was chosen as the best declaimer to represent Kinston High in a State contest. In the world of literature emd writing, a genuine standard h is been main- tained, showing talented ability. In the Class of 1924 one will find holders of the Barrett Hartsfield Medal, Lincoln Essay Medal, W. T. Parrott Health Essay Medal, and others. The Connecting Link, which was begun last year, has flourished and grown in a new style, with members of our class managing and writing for its colunms. It has been an isthmus between the school and the people; a vinculum between the school and its alumni and alumnae; a hyphen between the school and its activities, and a stepping-stone for a better and bigger school. It is today recognized as the best high school paper in North Carolina. It has become the true exponent of the Kinston schools, which is due to an editor-in-chief and a business manager who graduate this year. The Kayaitchess was given birth by the Class of 1924. Feeling the need of an annual, the Senior Class this year undertook the project, and with their own initiative, nursed it until it became a reality. It is a complete picture of school life at Kinston High during the past year. It is something that will cause the students in years to come to live again the brightest and bluest days of their career. It is a valued keep-sake made possible by the Class of 1924. And now that the goal of graduation from Kinston High School has about been reached, we stand upon a new threshold. Reminiscing, we arc hapjiy: contemplating the future, we are happier; for, behold, we are now at the point when life in its fullest can be enjoyed by us. Every morn is a fresh beginning; every day is a world made new. Where the various individual paths will lead to remains a part of the Prophet ' s story. But in making future history, let us cast no shadows on the past, which has been noteworthy in every detail. We want to keep up the process of growth and make progress and development our motto. We owe much to our Alma Mater here, which will always serve as a memorial to whatever fame or fortune we acfpiire in later years. Whether success or failure crowns our eflorts in the future years, Kinston High School will stand out to the Class of 1924 as a guiding-post — a haven of beauty and learning; an institution dedicated to humanity by our patrons. — Historian. Twcnty-N ine

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KINSTON HK.H SCHOOL THE KA Y Air CHESS NINETEEN TWENTY-FOUR SENIOR CLASS HISTORY When we entered the Kinston High School in 1920, the Emerald Isle itself could not have surpassed us in freshness, nor the whole British Empire in im- portance, as we estimated ourselves. Disillusionment soon followed, for during the first few weeks of study and mingling with each other, our greenness was diminished by half, and all of our assumed importance waned. However, it was not all up-hill work. The daily agonies of Algebra, Latin, Science, History and English were mingled with the good times that only Freshmen can have. As Sophomores, we were all that wise ones could wish. We took up the reins laid down by our immediate predecessors and directed the Newish through the trials and tribulations of that year, not by fear and force, but by kindness and friendship. With our Junior year came jolly days at last — days that Time can never efface. The rough track was behind us and the race half won. Freshmen filled the gap left by the Seniors, and we continued the course. Officers were elected, and we were early on the road to real achievement. Edward Lee became Presi- dent; Ethel Taylor, Vice-President, and Amie Jordan Parham, Secretary and Treasurer. Rings were ordered, and no efforts were spared in making the Class of 1924 all that the members felt it destined to be. Purple and Gold were taken as colors; the Pansy became our flower, and ' ' Always Ready ' our motto; Need Thee Every Hour was adopted as our class hymn. It was during our Junior year that members of our class organized the Hi-Y Club, w hich created, maintained and extended throughout the school high standards of Christian character. It was from our class that came the President and Secretary. During our Junior year came the long-anticipated event of our school life — the Junior-Senior banquet. It was held on Friday evening, April 20, 1923, and was declared one of the biggest and most enjoyable ever held in the history of Kinston High School. As radio was then just becoming popular, the scheme of the whole program was along lines of radio. The banquet hall was beautifully decorated in the colors of the two classes — green and white, and purple and KM.ld. It was in the fall of 1923 that the Class of ' 24 became Seniors, and it was with manifest dignity that we carried all the responsibilities placed upon us. Vernon Cowper wa s elected President, along with the following officers: Grace Wooten, Vice-President; Mary Emma Bizzell, Secretary -Treasurer ; Lillah Johnston, Poet; Thomas Hewitt, Testator; Louise Paschall, Prophet; Plato Collins, Statistician, and Robert E. Lee, Historian. It is an unwritten law that all Historians must toot the horn loudly and play a tune of praise and glorification unto the class of which he is a member. I shall not break custom. I shall toot, and toot loudly, and the facts to be pre- sented in the offering will show that tooting is not without cause. Now, let us set forth and review the life of this Class of 1924. No doubt it is due to the largeness of the class that we find so great a diversification of talent and directed energy and ultimately the leadership in practically all school activities resting upon its members. In every phase of school activity, the members of this unit have been in the front ranks. fwenly- Eight

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KINSTON HIGH SCHOOL THE KAYAITCHESS NINETEEN TWENTY-FOUR LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT State of North Carolina, County of Lenoir. We, the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Twenty-Four, of the Kinston High School, aforesaid State and county, being sound of mind and in full pos- session of all our faculties, and having reached the desired step, to-wit: Our intellect being broadened and our vision of life considerably widened, realizing that our sojourn here in this memorable High School must soon come to an end, and also that High School quizzes or instruments invoked by that past great terror — the faculty — to perturb and mislead the minds of the young, are of a past age, do make, declare and publish this as our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making null and void all other wills and testaments made previously by us. All assets, rights and privileges that we have acquired, either by the hand of the fates or by our strong-arm of might, we do now dispose of, in the following way and manner, viz: First: We give and bequeath to the Junior Class of said institution the sole rights and privileges of ruling over the largest tract of our estate, bounded on the east side by East Street, on the west side by a high board fence, on the south side by Lenoir Avenue, and on the north side by Vernon Avenue, which is to be disposed of in like manner to its successors and executors. It is to be distinctly understood that their sole reign over the tract shall in no weiy in- terrupt, hinder or harass the rule of the faculty of the said school, over a build- ing, said building being situated in the center of said tract of real estate; and that in the case of the entrance of snow into our sunny Southland, they shall in no way place obstacles in the form of snowballs, et cetera, in the face or figures of the said faculty while they are departing from or arriving at the said building. Second: We do give and bequeath the above-mentioned faculty of said school the privilege of calling on us — their worthy pupils — for any of that infor- mation and erudition gained by constant use of our ingenuity and perseverance. Third: We do likewise bequeath to the said body politic, viz: The faculty of the said school, the distinct privilege of pointing out to the awed multitudes of a future date the fact that we were once their pupils, and with pleasure to watch each upward step of the personnel of the Class of ' 24. Fourth: We do give and bequeath all the sandwiches, whose crusty sides our baby-teeth were unable to penetrate, to the lunchroom. Amen. Fifth: To the Literary Societies we do hereby give and bequeath the explicit duty of replacing the speakers who make their exit, in due form, this year from the K. H. S. Sixth: We do exhort the various and sundry athletic teams of the said school to raise the Red and Blue from its dusty level and wave it on high. Seventh: To those who are not pursuing elusive erudition further next year by entering college, and who have credited themselves with the sum total of learning possible to be obtained within the walls of the said school — congratu- lations. We do bequeath to them the sole rights and privileges to the various and sundry settees, sofas, et cetera, which the male members of said Class of ' 24 have been too often prone to occupy in lieu of the preparation of Latin, or some other unnecessary and hard reality of school life, during evenings. Thirty