Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Commercial Class History I N 1911 Mr. Albert Koones bequeathed to the Lex- ington School Board, a fund of money to be used for a Business Class in the High School. Classes in shorthand and typewriting were organized. Lack of class room space necessitated that this work be carried on in the small Physics laboratory in the Ann Smith Academy building during the afternoons. At the end of the second year, the class outgrew these quarters and was moved up stairs in a corner of the auditorium. Now we occupy a spacious classroom in the Har- rington Waddell Building, equipped with twelve type- writers. The subjects of tiling and arithmetic have been added. Our class consists of twelve Lexington High School graduates and four step-children from other high schools. Twenty-eight

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Eleanor McClung, Margaret Williams, Fay Kinkaid, Winifred Harris, Frances Harrison, Agnes Marsh, Nell I leaver, Agnes Johnson, Shirley Zimmerman Girls’ Basketball, 1933 Frances Harrison Captain Fay Kinkaid Manager Mrs. Ackerley Coach Lexington High owes another very successful team to their patient and un- tiring coach, Mrs. Ackerley. With only three letter men and twenty inexperienced men, she built an out- standing team for this season. Lexington won five games out of nine. In the first four games the team was weaker than their opponents, but as time passed, with constant practice, the team gradually grew stronger. The first game of the season was with Fairfield. The opponents won by a score of 20 to 12. Thirty