Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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hands on a fat little boy or a diminutive, saucy girl. Soon, however, the Freshmen lost their shyness and were active in both school work and athletics. They took a prominent place in the literary contests, and also bought curtains for the library. Four of the boys in the Freshmen Class were on the football squad, three on the basketball, and five on the baseball. The girls also took part in athletics, contribut- ing a center to the basketball squad. It was with a changed attitude towards life, that thirty infantile Freshmen became full-fledged, hard-boiled Sophomores. Sophomores! Oh, how old and sophisticated they felt! They looked with scorn upon the new “little Freshmen’’, and wondered if they, grown-up Sopho- mores, could ever have been quite so insignificant. Of course not. They were the Sophomores of the Lexington High School. The class was not, however, too full of itself to take part in school activities. Jean Blain and Meredith Turner participated in the reading contests, while Billv Hoyt was selected as one of the best public speakers in the school. Again, as in the preceding year, the boys took an active part in athletics. In football, they were represented by three Monogram Men ; in basketball, by two. In baseball “Billy’’ Hill, Wayne Lee Foltz, “Herb” Agnor, “Johnny” Tyree, and “Mac” Campbell, the manager of the team, are showing up w r ell. Don’t think, however, that the Sophomores spend all of their time upon ath- letics. If investigated, it will be found that they are represented in almost every phase of school life. Car rie Johnston is president of the girls’ Monogram Club; Martha Moore is the Chatterbox Editor of The Echo, and Nancy Shaner is a member of the library committee. Wayne Lee Foltz and Meredith Turner took the parts of two of the leading characters in ‘“The Toreadors”, a musical comedy given by the Chorus of the Lexington High School. If there is anything in school life which requires a super abundance of nerve and daring, a Sophomore is usually called upon, and he always comes up to the requirements. May the class of ’28 stand out as a model for the future classes of L. H. S.! [21 ]

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Elise Ewing, Medora Fore, Carrie Johnson, Herbert Agnor, Reginald Fauber, Margaret Higgins, “Mutt” Gray, Jean, Blain. Bessie Whitmore, Minnie Moore, Annie Bare, Sadie Bradley, Gladys Logan, Pauline Ayres, Alice Mackey, Katie Whitmore. Martha Moore, Helen Tardy, Nancy Shaner, Jim Polk, Jane Gray, Wayne Lee Foltz, Alice Bee- ton, Mary Landis. Johnny Tyree, Meredith Turner, Harry Bosse -man, Malcolm Campbell. opijomore Class OFFICERS: Jane Gray Nancy Shaner The History of the Class of Nineteen Twenty-Eight I T WAS in the fall of the year 1924, that the class of ’28 entered the Lex- ington High School. The old saying, “Ignorance is bliss”, was well illus- trated by the grins which could be seen on the faces of the inexperienced little Freshmen. Mrs. Tardy, with a motherly air, saw that none of her flock were tortured by the cruel, hardened Sophomores, who were just longing to get their [ 20 ] President Secretary

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Virginia Roop, Templeton Fauber, Percy Tolley, Ellis Hostetter, Travis Showalter, Louise Fauber, Margaret Lackey, Quaye McElory. Mamie McCormick, Hazel Bradley, Ruby Camden,, Margaret Plickman, Ruth Chittum, Levina Ma- hanes, Katherine Quisenberry, Helen Tolley, Ruby Parrent, Frances Straub. Virginia Thomas, Isabel Pullen, Jane Swink, Elizabeth Morris, Frances Dillon, Margaret Moses, Helen Swink, Katherine Davidson. Emory Lewis, Willis Mankey, Thomas Corse, Homer Thompson. jfresbman Class OFFICERS : Russell Cum mings President Margaret Moses Pice-President The History oe the Class oe Nineteen Twenty-Nine O NE bright, sunshiny, September morn in the year 1925, thirty-six sad and tired looking Freshmen plodded slowly towards old L. H. S., thinking of what was in store for them at this austere building. “Well, here we are,” remarked one Freshman in a lifeless tone, intending not so much to convey information, as to emphasize that doleful fact.