Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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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.

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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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“Yes, and with four long years of ‘boning’ ahead of us,” replied another who was wearily climbing the school steps. From the first day they looked forward to the coming of Thanksgiving when they should be released from tbe Freshmen rules. Since they had not learned to love school as the upper classmen do, they also longed for the Christmas and Easter holidays, and, most of all, for June 10. But in spite of their seeming depression, this has proved to be their inira- bilis annus. In the first place, they formed both an English and a Latin Club. These organizations furnished money to pay for their group picture in The Crys- tal and also to buy books for the library. Under the guidance of Mrs. Tardy, they aided all school movements and made the show, “Brown of Harvard,” a successful, money-making experiment. Several entertaining plays and feasts, ga- lore, have added to the joy of being Freshmen. A number of other interesting things have happened to these youngsters ; in fact, too many to suit the upper classmen. In this class there are seven members of the chorus, four of whom took part in the operetta, “The Toreadors.” Tal- mage Radford and Russell Cummings are their monogram men. With so propi- tious a start and such fine material, an excellent career in school activities is pre- dicted for the Class of ’29. 1 23 ]