Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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Seniors as Freshmen Raymond Hartbarger, David Teaford, Melvin Miller, Carlisle Fix, John Swink, Tom Kerr, Harold Agnor, Bobby Hutcheson, Waldo Womeldorf. Richard Nuckols, Eugene Engleman, Garland Connor, Lloyd Hall, Richard Fox, Fred Bates, Paul Brown, James O’Connor, Bobby Fox, Harry Brown. Billy Brooks, John Beatty, Curtis Montgomery, Steward Craft, Charles Showalter, Henry Taylor, Ben Young Morris, John D. Furr, Harold Hartbarger. Dickie Irby, Fred Moore, Waynlee Davis, Billy Young, Benny Gillock, Carol Tolley, Edgar Shannon, Francis Radford. Catherine Perry, Helen Irvine, Mary Hutton, Carroll Agnor, Carrie Ayres, Mary Desha, Helen Anderson, Nell Deaver, Esten Cooke, Marie Johnson, Elizabeth Kirk- patrick, Helen Hutton, Marie Irvine. Dorothy Crist, Josephine Ashburne, Louise Brown, Iva Cummings, Frances Agnor, Janetta Smith, Elizabeth Crawford, Mary Gordon Lewis, Julia Bell Quisenberry, Gem Mahanes, Ethel McDaniel, Dorothy Heflin, Mary Monroe Ainsworth. Dorothy Moore, Ethel Fix, Mary Weeks, Marietta Hart, Betty Mayo, Joe Smith, Jack Montgomery, Bessie May Tolley. Bruce Donald, Earl Williams, John Higgins. Not in picture: Charles Rogers, Nancy McCorkle.

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Class History W HEN our class of ’36 entered the doors of Lexington High School as freshmen, we were probably as green, as bewildered, and as generally obstreperous as any other freshman class, and we un- doubtedly felt quite as important. We were an unusually large class, certainly not lacking in initiative. That year a Glee Club was begun under Mrs. Tardy’s supervision, and, under the direction of Miss Sieg, a Dramatic Club was organized producing The Mikado.” Our Sophomore year was, on the whole, fairly normal. We con- sider it quite a feather in our cap that we donated more books than any ether class for Library Day. That year we began to show that char- acteristic which has probably marked our class as much as any other — an active and vigorous interest in the student elections. We campaigned enthusiastically for our favorites. In our Junior year, we had the pleasure of seeing the football games from our new stadium, (which also serves as a background for Mr. Thompson’s photographic artistry) . Inspired by the stadium, perhaps, the Monogram Club gave two very successful dances at the Mayflower Inn, with the music by the Southern Collegians. The 193 5 election for the President of the Student Government was fought as bitterly as has ever been known in the history of Lexington High, and largely by our class. This year too has been eventful. Our student government has proved itself unusually efficient and capable, and has brought about and led the way for a number of improvements in the Honor System. The Seniors, in order to meet the expenses for the publication of the Crystal, operated a candy store at recess, which has met with considerable success. The Monogram Club sponsored a dance at the V. M. I. gymnasium, featuring the music of the V. M. I. Commanders. Guess Again” was selected for the Senior play and tryouts and rehearsals are under way. It is hard to say just how much impression we have made or how much we have benefited the school, (if at all), during our four years here, but it is the earnest wish of every member of our class that the faculty and the other classes may review those years with one-half the pleasure and satisfaction which we experience in remembering our associ- ations in Lexington High School.

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Class Will We, the never-to-be-forgotten class of ’3 6, do hereby establish our last will and testament. CLAUSE I To Mr. Waddell, we will a secretary like Miss Elizabeth” for a period of five years. To Mr. Thompson, we leave the stars” of the Junior class. To Miss Sieg, we bequeath another class as helpful (?) as we have been; also one gross of willing candidates for the Senior play. To Miss Moore, we leave a caddy to carry her purse around. To Miss Elliott, we will about twelve copies of Precis.” To Mr. Woodson, we leave a reservation in the Blue Room” at the Hotel Mons. To Miss Hamilton, we bequeath a winter’s diet of her favorite brand of pencils. To Mrs. Tardy, we will a freshman class that has absorbed some knowledge in grammar school. To Mrs. Boykin, we leave a robot to collect overdue fines. To Mr. Harlow, we will a home room composed of the fairer sex. CLAUSE II I, Frances Agnor, will my personality to Roberta Latture. I, Mary Monroe Ainsworth, will my quiet, unobtrusive nature to Betty Fray. I, Helen Anderson, will my love for math to Lois Steidtman. I, John Beatty, will my intelligence (all I can spare) to Mitchell Zimmerman. I, Louise Brown, bequeath my boisterous tone of voice to Helen Engleman. I, Ruth Brown, leave my diminutive stature to Marietta Hart. I, Esten Cooke, do will my geometric tendencies to Rosa Fletcher. I, Liz” Crawford, bequeath my loyalty to the football team (?) to Frances Murray. I, Claude Crist, leave my ways with the wimmin” to Kenneth Brogan. I, Iva Cummings, will my Latin record to anyone worthy of it. I, Bill Davidson, will my berth (y’know a place where you sleep) in Physics class to Aaron Freeman. I, Waynlee Davis, leave my football uniform to Charles Swink and Lurty Straub, jointly, — one of them would be lost in it. I, Mutt” Deaver, will my athletic prowess to Elizabeth Moore. I, Mary Desha, will my love of higher education” to Ann Read. I, Bruce Donald, leave my Hollywood potentialities to Charles Olsen.