Lovingston High School - Cycle Yearbook (Lovingston, VA)

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enioFS CHARLIE POWELL I have been given the privilege of writing a description of the Sheik” of the Senior Class, Charlie Powell. He has light brown hair and a school girl” complexion. Charlie is very fond of the girls and loves to tease them. I understand that he likes a certain blond young lady. He has a very good disposition. I think he is also the teacher’s pet. Mrs. Lea calls him her boy.” Juliet Redd. LOIS PUCKETT Lois Puckett has light hair, which she keeps curled, and blue eyes. She has a few freckles on her face. Is about five feet five, weighs about one hundred and fifty pounds. Lois doesn’t like for any one to tell her she is fat. She has a sweet disposition and nice manners. She can easily make friends with anyone. She loves books and loves to pet dogs. Ellen Johnson. WORTH ROBERTS Worth Roberts has light brown hair, blue eyes and very pretty skin. Worth always wears a smile and is the same whenever you see her. She has a very sweet disposition and is liked by every one at school. She likes to ride a bicycle very much and she is especially fond of the name Roy. She was chosen one of the maids of honor for the May Queen last year. Mary Proffitt. LOUISE SIMPSON Louise Simpson has dark brown hair, dark eyes and a fair complex¬ ion. She is very attractive. She likes to go to Covesville, but it’s mostly to see Sidney, I think. I don’t know what is wrong with her mind that she should go in an A.B.C. store for a sandwich. But, after all, she is a very nice girl and can take a joke, so that’s why I told this on her. Mabel Stevens. MARY PROFFITT Mary Proffitt has blue eyes, dark brown hair, and olive complexion. Mary is a girl who is always quiet and reserved, not only at school, but every where I’ve seen her. She is very hard to make mad. In fact, I’ve never seen her mad, and this shows what a nice disposition she has. Last but not least, I want to say that I like Mary very much. Katherine Horsley. JULIET B. REDD Juliet Redd was chosen by the class as the most popular girl in the senior room. She has light brown hair, grey eyes and a fair complex¬ ion. Juliet takes a joke just the right way. Not long ago, during morn¬ ing exercises, she proceeded to take the top off her lunch box, only to find a pigtail curled up on her lunch. She gave a shriek and then burst into a spell of laughter. Harriet Spencer. BEATRICE SIMPSON Beatrice Simpson has dark wavy hair, brown eyes, and fair complex¬ ion. You always see Beatrice wear¬ ing a smile. She has a very sweet disposition and makes friends easily, especially with the boys. She knows how to take a joke. I have been with her for the last ten years and enjoyed being with her. She is a true friend for anyone. She is fond of outdoor sports, dancing and C.C.C. boys. Lillian Wright. HARRIET HILL SPENCER Harriet Hill Spencer is a medium type girl, with short brown, wavy hair, brown eyes and fair complex¬ ion. Harriet is a good sport and has many friends. She is liked by every one. The boys like her, too, but who would blame them? Harriet loves social life and has a good time wherever she goes. We all wonder what she is going to do after she graduates. Florrie Ewers.

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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

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given, an assignment as staff nurse in the Ma¬ rine Hospital at Ellis Island, N. Y. In August, 193 3, I took a twelve and a half day cruise on the S. S. Franconia to Ha¬ vana, Cuba, and stopped over in Nassau and Bermuda. That trip was just the beginning of my travels. On the 22nd of December, 193 3, I was married at the Little Church Around the Corner” in New York City, and on January 3rd, 1934, sailed for Naples, Italy, on the S. S. Manhattan. We landed at Havre, France, January 10th, and rode three and a half hours by train to Paris, remaining there two days. We contin¬ ued by train to Rome and on to Naples, arriv¬ ing January 13th, 1934. In May of that year we went to Stuttgart, Germany, for a month by way of Milan, Italy, and spent a day travelling through the beau¬ tiful mountains of Switzerland. We left Naples May 10th, 1935, for War¬ saw, Poland, visiting Florence and Venice, Italy, and Vienna, Austria en route. The past ten months have been spent in Warsaw. May ten years hence find you all as happy as I am. Sincerely yours, Hallie Farrar Thweatt. been realized. And in its realization, I find myself completely happy in the associations, friendships, and various other attributes it has to offer. For this happiness, I find that I have only my early training at L. H. S. to thank. In a cross-section of life, we find that the various phases of education blend themselves harmoniously with life itself. Now 1 have graduated to that part of life which is the most important preparation for the future. During the four years which are required for its accomplishment, other people are aiding us, imbuing us with the knowledge that it has taken them their life-time to acquire. It was true in High School, even as it will be all through life. Consequently, we must, having profited by the progression of those before us, use the knowledge obtained from them to the best of our ability. In conclusion, I wish only that each one of you may leave L. H. S. knowing the good fortune that has been yours; and with the most sincere desire and ambition, go out into the world, recognize its faults and shortcom¬ ings—and with chin high and a broad smile, go out to conquer. And may my best wishes and all the luck in the world go with you. Sincerely, Shirley T. Sherman. Sargent College, February 15, 1936. To the Seniors of Lovingston High School: You should feel very proud of the fact that you are graduating from Lovingston High School—a secondary school which comprises an excellent part of that great and fine Nelson County. I realize now, even as you will, that the faculty of Lovingston High School tried to the best of their ability to give me a founda¬ tion that would enable me to get the very most from my college career. The knowledge of their endeavor was not noticed at the time, but as I have grown older, I have recognized the actual worth, use, and practicability that their striving has come to mean to me. The foundation that one receives in a High School such as L. H. S., supplies one of the basic fundamentals absolutely necessary to a college education. From my earliest childhood d ays, I have fondly cherished the dream of eventually attending Sargent College, a school of Physical education. Now this dream has Washington, D. C. February 27, 1936. Dear Mrs. Lea: Since my earliest rememberance, I have wanted to become a nurse. And now, that I have been privileged to enter one of the finest nursing schools in the United States, The Gallinger Municipal Hospital, Washington, D. C., I wonder if it would interest you if I should tell you just a little about by experi¬ ences here. I arrived at the Nurses’ Home on the eve¬ ning of September the third, and was cordially received by the superintendent of nurses her¬ self, and the House Mother. Since then I have met many of the doctors, supervisors, and in¬ structors who have been very helpful and un¬ derstanding. Classes did not begin for several days, so there was time to get acquainted with the girls who were to be my classmates. The new isolation building which is a part of the hospital, was dedicated the day the new