Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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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 ]

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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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Mildred Lunsford, Ada Straub, Beatrice Hickman. Alene Kincaid, Mona Logan, Marie Davis, Nancy Swink, Margaret Powers. Julia Hill, Frances Richie, Lewis Thompson, Miss Adair, Dorothy Tufts, Evella Williams. Commercial Department History of thf Department W ITH the session of 1918, the business course became a part of the regular curriculum at L. H. S. The installation of this department was made possible by a legacy of $10,000 left to tbe high school by Mr. A. L. Koones of this town. The first session of the business course opened with an en- rollment of thirteen students, and Miss Agnes Adair as instructress. Shorthand, bookkeeping, typewriting, and commercial arithmetic were the subjects taught. All of the classes were conducted in one small room, and one class practiced type- writing, while another took dictation. Of the first year’s enrollment, eight secured positions. Since the establishment of the commercial department, the class room has been greatly enlarged, additional typewriters installed, and other improvements made. This phase of high school work is steadily growing and has become a real credit to the school. During the seven years of its existence, seventy-eight stu- dents have graduated from the department, fifty of whom secured positions. [ 24 ]