Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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“Doc” were chosen as a fatherly committee of three to ward off the advances of the blood thirsty upper-classmen, and under their paternal care the other mem- bers of the class found courage to face the perils of the remaining days of our freshman year. Our class was well represented in the Hall of Fame, the track team, and The Echo Staff. By the end of the season our lights were flaming high. “Ready! Aim! Fire! !” — and another Senior bit the dust. Such was the spirit which was dominant during our Sophomore year. All visitors were wel- comed with a baptismal fire of chalk and erasers rendered by the “Sophomore Sharpshooters.” Music was furnished twice a day by the “Sophomore Night- hawks,” under the able direction of “Dan” Weinberg. Many times our education hung by a thread as we deserted the class room for the athletic field, and in this endeavor we furnished stars for all three major sports. Although fighting and athletics dominated the class, literary activities were not neglected. With win- ners in the County Literary Contest, representatives in the Flail of Fame and on The Echo Staff, we conclusively proved our literary merits. In all. the year proved to be a wonderful success in developing us for our future work. Entertaining visions of a high school “dip”, we began our Junior year with the determination to put out hard work toward the attainment of this goal. Again we furnished stellar athletes including two captains and one manager. Due to our unusual histrionic ability, the Seniors borrowed two members of the class for the cast of the Senior play, as well as the assistant stage manager. As usual, we were well represented in the Hall of Fame. Our class played a large part in the or- ganization of the Monogram Club which concluded the session by giving a Mono- gram Club Dance. As Seniors, the record of our class has in no way been dimmed. Erasers still whiz through the air; A’s still go down on reports; football, basketball, and base- ball letters proudly gleam from numerous blue sweaters; the Hall of Fame fairly beams with the names of prominent seniors. The majority of the staff of both The Echo and The Crystal come from the Class of ’27. “The Charm School,” was represented to a full house and was one of the most successful ever staged by the seniors. During this last term two organizations were born in the High School with members of the Senior Class as the foundation. One was the Hi-Y Club, organized under the direction of Mr. Zcrfoss; the other was the Burke De- bating Society, founded for the purpose of developing rhetoric ability. The bronze medal for the best Lincoln essay was won by Francis Campbell, president of the class. There is no field which we have not entered, no goal which we have not reached. Who would question the prestige of the Class of 1927? But at last the time has come when we must bid farewell to Lexington High School. A backward glance shows that with the little troubles that have arisen there were also many pleasures and many memories to keep in mind. We step from the portals of L. H. S. with the earnest hope that we will be able to develop to a higher degree the talents which, by the help of our instructors, we have dis- covered and that we will retain the high ideals which were instilled in us during our school days. Reaching the climax of our high school career, our “Big Pa- rade” will end June 9, when we shall receive the long desired diplomas.

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Senior Baby Picture Bernardine Fox, Katliarine Lackey, Frances Campbell. Elbert Agnor, Wilson Shaner, Robert Childress, Sam Dunlap. Bolling Seay, Eura Bradley, Theodore Craft, Homer Mateer, Virginia Mahanes, Carl Ruble, Marie Donald, Charlie Dillon, Edward Riley, Louise Crawford. Senior Class OFFICERS President Secretary Frances Campbell Edward Riley History of the Class of Nineteen Twenty-Seven OUND off, freshman! Where’s that hat?” Such were the greetings ren- dered by the upper classmen to the glorious class of ’27 as it entered this “academy”, four long years ago. Not even the prophets of old could have foreseen that this group of “Frosh” would develop into the outstand- ing class in the history of the Lexington High School. Obeying no laws except those of the executive committee, following no leaders except those of the fresh- man class, we immediately became a self-governing body. “Pinky”, “Bee”, and

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Cfje Hast WiiW anO Ceatament of tf)e Claoo of ’27 W E, C. William Ruble, J. Rolling Seay, and H. Palmer Mateer, of the In- corporated Law Firm of the BURKE DEBATING SOCIETY, have been employed to draw up this last will and final testament of the grand and glorious CLASS OF ’27. Clause I 1. To Professor Harrington Waddell, we leave our shoes, reduced to a state of ruin by constant treading to and from “The Office,” and a periscope with which to view the proceedings in the classrooms “via” the transoms. 2. To Mademoiselle Lucas, we bequeath a manual on “Military Tactics” to be used as a guide in drilling her “Sophs” for their weekly march to the assembly. 3. Upon our beloved Physics Instructor, Professor Kenneth Ashby Thomp- son, we generously bestow 66,000 volts, (amperage not reduced), and a perpet- ual motion machine so that he may retire from “The Boss’s” squad and become a worthy rival of Steinmetz. 4. To Miss Mary Douglas Richeson, we will a bottle of SLOAN’S LINI- MENT to be applied to the aching arms of the victims of her excessive dictations of notes and outlines, and one plug of BROWN MULE chewing tobacco to be given to the class as a substitute for their chewing gum. 5. To Mrs. Tardy, we leave an AUTOMATIC CRANIUM CRACKER to be used only in the fourth year study hall. 6. To Miss May Davidson, we bequeath a 1000 page demerit book with pencil attached, and a steel heel plate for her shoe with which she may impress the Seniors. Clause II 1. I, Elbert Agnor, hereby will my “Mannish Cigarettes” to “Jerry” Strain. 2. I, Elizabeth Bell, do hereby bequeath my “boyish bob” to Levinia Mahanes. 3. I, Eura Bradley, do hereby leave my reputation as a “flapper” to Minnie Moore. 4. I, Frances Campbell, do hereby will my discriminating use of words to Percy Tolley. 5. I, Robert Childress, hereby leave my athletic ability to Reginald Fauber. 6. I, Theodore Craft, do hereby bequeath my dignified classroom manners to “Stomp” Hill. 7. I, Emma Louise Crawford, do hereby will my reputation as a boxer to Templeton Fauber. 8. I, Charles Dillon, do hereby leave my title as “Ace of the Pitching Staff” to James Herbert Agnor. 9. I, Marie Donald, hereby bequeath my “sarcastic line” to Miss Elsie Lucas. 10. I, Madison Dunlap, do hereby will my innocent look to Carl Steidtman. 11. I, Bernardine Fox, do hereby leave my passion for “brass buttons” to Nancy Shaner.