Lexington High School - Crystal Yearbook (Lexington, VA)

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RALPH WOMELDORF “violet” Football 1-3-4; Glee Club 3; Dramatic Club 3; Amateur Review 2; Library Committee 4. Ralph is one of our fun-loving seniors who is a very prominent member of the “Hatch Club.” It’s fun to be around him to hear his snappy jokes and his “monkey business.” Ralph is an alert thinker and can be serious when necessary. Page — Twenty — The 1941 Crystal

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SCHOOL HISTORY I N A FEW months the senior class of 1941 will be the freshmen class of tomorrow. Although the future may be foremost in our thoughts, this article is dedicated to the past. Remember . . . the year of the Florida boom, beginning of an era of spec- ulation which ended in who knows what . . . the year in which the interests of the dignified graduates of 1941 were dolls and velocipedes . . . the year that the first freshman class entered the portals of Lexington High School, the largest freshman class to this present date. Its members were torn between awe at the new masterpiece of Greek architecture and at their incredible number . . . 1927 ... In the year 1928 the “We Sing” Club was organized by four freshmen boys, which incidentally was short-lived . . . that same year ... a maple sapling was planted in hope that the spirit of the school would grow with the tree . . . the tree is dead; the spirit lives on . . . soon after this Lexington’s first librarian, Mrs. Egbert was succeeded by Mrs. Boykin . . . 1930 ... a memorable year for the High School . . . the foot- ball team, coached by Captain Ramey, won the Shenandoah Valley cham- pionship . . . (how could they have known that the class of 1941 would pass through two years in which the football team was unbeaten) . . . the dramatic club was begun under the direction of Miss Sieg and Mrs. Tardy . . . and the Junior Class presented Seventeen which was the only Junior play that has ever been presented in the Lexington High School . . . the following year the precedent of a Christmas pageant was established, which has been successful even to this time . . . the girls’ basketball team was inspired to win nine out of ten games . . . around this time Mr. Finley Houston Harlow might have been seen in the barracks at V. M. I. writing love letters to Jean of the same name, an exceedingly popular movie actress of the day . . . His contemporary, Mr. Stuart P. Brewbaker, our present day coach, who was at Roanoke College, could be seen in front of and rubbing shoulders with “Roanoke’s Own John Howard Payne” . . . the Lindbergh case caused quite a stir in the High School, and we adolescents began reading some- thing in the newspapers besides the funnies . . . that same year the impor- tance of the assembly was realized, and a page in the Crystal was set aside for the assembly write ups . . . In Germany, Von Hindenberg died and the world began to realize the significance of the name of Adolph Hitler . . . the library had grown amaz- ingly by 1933, and contained two thousand volumes which seems small to our present collection of 4,215 . . . the class of 1933 did not deign to leave the class of 1934 any money for publishing the Crystal, so a huge carnival with snake charmers, horns, confetti, and all the trimmings was presented for the Crystal fund . . . the seniors then decided that variety at graduation was not the spice of life and established the custom of graduating in caps and gowns . . . the passing grade was raised from 65 to 75 . . . Dolly Burks and Charles Robertson were voted the “biggest case” ... in 1935 the mem- CONTINUED ON PAGE 52 Page Twenty-two — The 1941 Crystal