Marion High School - Hurricane Yearbook (Marion, VA)

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FOREWORD We, the annual staff, would like to give you a better understanding of the history of our school and town through this nineteenth edition of the HURRICANE. We have chosen for our theme—Yesterday and Today in Marion High School and Marion, Virginia. We have selected this theme because of the extreme interest we have in our school and in our fine town. We choose to honor General Francis Marion, The Old Swamp Fox , because our town is named for him. General Francis Marion was born in Georgetown, South Carolina, and was the son of a Huguenot refugee. He was very active in military life and in 1761 led a group of colonists against a band of Cherokee Indians. He was a member of Congress in 1775 and later became a captain in the United States Army. In the Revolutionary War, he and his men often took refuge from the British in the swamps. This is how he gained the name of The Swamp Fox . In our Class Activities section we have tried to show some representative work in different areas in our school. Yesterday , we had only eighteen units from which to choose, mostly in the academic section, but now we teach fifty-two units in fourteen dif¬ ferent areas. The classes of 1917, 1923, 1936 and 1946 are a representative group of high school graduates. In our Feature section we are showing the first queens of our dances. Dances have became annual events and are looked forward to with pleasure by all students. In our Sports section we have shown pictures of our first teams and some of our first championship teams. Many students participate in sports at our school, which add much enjoyment to our extra curricular activities. In our Club section we have shown some of the first clubs in Marion High School and how they were organized. We have many clubs and we enjoy them as well as learn much from them. While finding firsts we secured many pictures showing life in Marion, Virginia, of days gone by. We could have shown many pages concerning days of yesterday in Marion, but space allows to show only a representative group. Again, we owe much to those who have given so generously of time and effort to show by script and pictures the growth of the industries, churches, and businesses of our town. Lastly, we are indebted to all the people of our community who have aided us by word of encouraqement, by acts of helpfulness and by the loan of pictures, to produce this 1959 HURRICANE. Page 1