Lovingston High School - Cycle Yearbook (Lovingston, VA)

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o emors MARJORIE HARRIS Marjorie is a girl who has hazel eyes and brown hair, curled about the ends. At school sh e is very quiet and reserved, but when she sees Ralph, she is a changed girl. One thing that Marjorie hates is a sissy boy, so beware, you sissy boys. She loves pretty clothes and Ralph. She has a lovely disposition and is seldom angry. Marjorie gives lovely finger waves. Katherine Horsley. ELLEN JOHNSON I have not had the privilege of knowing Ellen Johnson long, but during my association with her she has inspired me with admiration for her good nature and sunny disposi¬ tion. Ellen likes to tell jokes and we wonder Sometimes if she couldn’t beat R. T. in a contest. Ellen is a large, tall girl with black, shiny hair and beautiful teeth. She loves to sing and can, without any apparent effort. Worth Roberts. LOUISE MILLER Louise Miller has brown hair, which she keeps curled most of the time. She has brown eyes and fair complexion. She weighs about one hundred pounds, more or less. It can’t be more, so it must be less. She is very quiet. The reason is she is very much in love. I think she is very fond of the name Hubert, and, also, of the person who bears this name. Mary Ellen Kidd. GENOA PARRISH Genoa Parrisli is a very attractive girl who has dark brown hair, grey eyes, a pretty nose, white even teeth, and a fair complexion. She has a good figure and posture, and always looks nice in her clothes. Genoa is a sweet, friendly girl with beautiful manners and a pleasing personality. She is very popular and may be termed a regular heart-breaker.” She wears a diamond. Rebecca Spencer. KATHERINE HORSLEY Katherine Horsley has brown hair, brown eyes, and olive complexion. She is about five and one-half feet tall and weighs about 120 pounds. She hates profane language but likes sweet candy and Tommy. She has a very sweet disposition until she is made mad and then her disposition is bad. So beware. She has a great ambition of becoming a lawyer some day. She is known as the biggest flirt of the Senior Class. Marjorie Harris. CORA LYNCH Cora Lynch is one of my best friends. She is tall, slim, and weighs about one hundred and fif¬ teen pounds. She has dark brown bobbed hair and dark eyes. Cora has a very sweet disposition and makes friends wherever she goes. It is indeed a pleasure to know her. Ruby Witt. GEORGE NORVELLE George has brown eyes and hair. He is about five feet seven inches tall. He is very quiet and re¬ served at school, but I bet when he goes to see Harriet Hill, he isn’t very quiet!! George is quite fond of reading. Every time you see him he has his nose stuck in a book. Another thing he is fond of is buying Lucy’s kisses. Who wouldn’t like them? Charlie Powell. FRANCES PONTON Frances Ponton has brown hair, which is inclined to be wavy. Her eyes are a very bright brown and her complexion is fair. She is five feet, four inches in height and weighs one hundred and ten pounds. She has a sweet disposition. If you don’t think she is in love, call Jimmy Rodger’s name and watch her blush. Sadie Gunter.

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Letters Lovingston, Virginia. January 16, 1936. Dear Friend: I wonder what you have been doing since the last time I heard from you. I suppose you are still having lots of fun in school. We have lots of fun, too. What are you studying in English, now? We have been studying Emerson’s essays. I particularly admire his essay, Self-Reliance.” Mr. Emerson was truly a wonderful man. A great thinker, a writer, a philosopher and, I consider him a great psychologist. True he made no special study of that branch of learn¬ ing, but from keen observation he gained a wonderful insight into human nature. In his works we recognize our own thoughts, thus illustrating Mr. Emerson’s very words, In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts.” I was also interested in this statement, So¬ ciety everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of its members.” Well, personally I know very little of this so-called society. However, we read much of the conditions of society, its affairs and so forth. We also read in fiction of the conditions of society of yes¬ terday. If we should take notes and compare them, I believe we, too, would say, Society never advances.” By merely reading the daily newspapers we can readily understand that members of society would find it exceedingly difficult to develop traits of individuality. If a young debutante should fail to comply with the specified course of procedure, she would be forever disgraced in the eyes of society. So far, society has failed to instill in its members that independence which makes character. So far, it is those men” outside of society who revolutionize the world. I think Emerson is very inspiring. He is certainly a stimulator of thought. If we car¬ ried his inspirations with us every day we could truly live. Emerson begs us to be in¬ dividuals rather than just a group of people. To be real men and women, we must undergo many things. This great scholar says, Whoso would be a man must be a non-conformist.” Without thought we can hardly realize the great task that this implies. We must be will¬ ing to be considered peculiar, to face the dis¬ pleasure of the world. For non-conformity the world whips you with its displeasure.” Day by day we are influenced by the people about us. Though we deny it, we seek to make a good impression upon them. It is very hard to say, What I must do is all that concerns me, not what the people think.” We choose to follow other people’s opinions rather than our own. We hate to say no to many of our fellowmen. No man’s vocabulary is complete unless he has learned to say no. It is easy to drift along with the crowd but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Many people think they know our duty better than we do. We must beware of these people, for they often lead us astray. We had an amusing incident to happen in English class. Mrs. Whitehead explained to us the meaning of asinine. She said, In other words, he calls you all jack-asses.” We told every one that Mrs. Whitehead called us jack¬ asses. After reading that paragraph over, I was singularity interested in his statement, We come to wear one cut of face and figure and acquire by degrees the gentlest asinine expres¬ sion.” I can’t exactly agree there, but in sev¬ eral incidents, I agree with Mr. Emerson. At one time or another in our lives we are bored. Often we cannot be a good listener. We force a smile when we are not at all interested. Well, I’m no exception to the rule. As you prob¬ ably know, I dislike parties intensely. Instead of enjoying myself, I wonder how much longer it has to last. At a time like this, that forced smile is truly asinine. No other word describes it half so well as asinine. Just between the two of us, I not only look like a jack-ass, but I feel like one. Ha! One of the greatest hindrances to self-re¬ liance is too much regard for the past. In this moving world we must change to meet chang¬ ing conditions. Yet many of us are prone to follow old customs because our forefathers fol¬ lowed those customs. Emerson says that a foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.” This is true, also. By imitating our minds become warped and little. This great philosopher urges us to act as we think right in our own hearts and to scorn appearances. He says, Always scorn appearances and you always may.” We esteem the men who have gone before us too highly. We should be voices of today rather than of yesterday. He also says that honor is venerable to us because it lasts but a day. We worship it today be¬ cause it is not of today.” We shall not always

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set so great a price on a few texts; on a few lives. Emerson stresses self-reliance in this quota¬ tion, Nature suffers nothing to remain in her kingdom which cannot help itself.” If we are to have a place in the world, we must win it. We must learn to care for ourselves and not be dependent upon others. We cannot gain a place in this world unless we are self-reliant. Among the other hindrances to self-reliance are false prayers and creeds and reliance on the progress of society, on property and on gov¬ ernment. True prayer is the spirit of God pronouncing his works good.” But prayer as a means to achieve private ends is theft. So¬ ciety certainly does not improve our standards and customs. All men plume themselves on the improvement of society and no man im¬ proves.” Reliance on property and the gov¬ ernment which protects it is want of self-re¬ liance. Men measure their esteem of each other by what each has, and not by what each )) is. Emerson says, Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles.” This is in truth—self-reliance. Having finished Self-Reliance,” we next took up The American Scholar.” This was an oration given before his Phi Beta Kappa in 18 37. Holmes called it our intellectual dec¬ laration of independence.” Of the two es¬ says, I preferred Self-Reliance,” though, both are very enjoyable. The true scholar is not a mere thinker but a man thinking. Often because of the influ¬ ence of society, he becomes not only a mere thinker but, a parrot of other men’s think- • 55 mg. Emerson says the theory of books is noble,” but they are not always well used. Books are destructive when they tend to make book¬ worms. This class of people is not related to nature or human nature. Emerson says, Books are for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than to be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit and be made a satellite instead of a system.” A nec¬ essity in life is an active soul. The active soul utters the truth and creates.” Emerson says that there is a popular idea that the scholar should be a recluse unfit for any manual labor. The scholar of this type is not a man. Action is essential. He says, I do not see how any man can afford, for the sake of his nerves and his nap, to spare any action in which he can partake. It is pearls and rubies to his discourse. Drudgery and calamity are instructor in eloquence and wis¬ dom.” To have lived the scholar must have had action. Life is our dictionary. I learn immediately from any speaker how much he has already lived, through the poverty or splen¬ dor of his discourse.” The splendid speaker has lived, he has worked and struggled, and he has participated in every opportunity of action. The true scholar must have character. He must trust himself and be brave. He must put fear behind him. Fear always springs from ignorance.” The scholar must be brave, he must fulfill his duty. This duty is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by show¬ ing them facts amid appearances.” By doing this duty, the scholar can bring to pass the hope of America. The ultimate hope of Amer¬ ica today, Is the Upbuilding of Man.” Emerson says we must stand on our own feet and help ourselves. He says, No man in God’s wide earth is either willing or able to help any other man.” We, as individuals of today must stand on our instincts and an¬ swer, We will walk on our own feet, we will work with our own hands, we will speak our own thoughts.” From lack of time and space, this letter must close. I have given you a general idea of the two essays. Though, I have written several pages much remains to be said of the essays inasmuch as they serve as a stimulus to much thought. Write and give me your opinion of these essays. Sincerely yours, Frances Davidson. Warsaw, Poland, March 11th, 1936. Dear Seniors of 1936: Little did I dream that the tenth anniversary of my graduation from L. H. S. would find me in Warsaw, Poland. But who knows what the years have in store for any of us? Ever since I can remember I planned to be¬ come a nurse when I grew up and with that in mind I entered training at the University of Virginia Hospital in November, 1926, and completed my training in 1929. After having done private duty in Albe¬ marle and Nelson counties I applied for a position in the United States Public Health Service, and on September 15th, 193 0, was