Marshall High School - Marshallite Yearbook (Marshall, VA)

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Grnmble 3903 Now, we Seniors do not grumble much. but we must admit we have had a lot oi reasons to complain. Mr. Corder's boys were allowed to eat before we did. .lust think the lowly Freshmen got out of class as soon as we. Quite true, we were allowed a class cutethat is. any- one who could keep his grades high enough. In the fall we started to school with the idea of Senior privi- leges: why, there were scarcely any. We couldn't even visit Tappis Filling Station without permission. If we were caught walking down the street. into Mr. Uoleman's office we would go. After being out of two or three classes talking with him. he would come around with one of those broad smiles of his. Upon leaving the office feeling that all's right with the world again and whistling a gay tune, up would i'pop Miss Robertson from nowhere with that old favorite, Stop that whistling or a. U on citizenship, On the way back to class. the aroma of good food would tempt ns to detour by way of the lunchroom even though it might require wading in water two inches deep during wet weather. But woe unto us if we were caught trying to keep ourselves from perishing of starvation during class time. Uh. yes, we had to take physical education regardless of the weather. After getting hot in the auditorium, if anyone ever did dur- ing the winter, outdoors we would go to march. The first thing we knew we couldnit have physical education because there were no students. Most of them were home in bed with colds because Miss lolowdershell had we too much heat in the auditoriurn. Miss Brewer was always prepared to give us a lecture on the selection and presentation of good current events. but if by chance we did have a perfectly wonderful piece of news and tried to spread it around to the class, she would call us down for talking and being noisy. Uh. my. such is the life of a Senior !

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'ti Just Imagine! Mary Ailstock being the belle of Hume. Mary Ambler being the biggest flirt of the Senior Class. Frances Beach getting serious with one boy. Elmer Furr dating someone else beside Betty Beatty. David Glascock winking at all the girls. Elizabeth Henley without her quiet. sweet manner. Anne Leach getting below D on citizenship. Dennis McCarty in getting 100 on a civics test. Lena Moore being interested in geometry. Vernon Pearson becoming an agriculture teacher. Roger Poe falling in love with a girl at M. H.. S. Martha Rector not being true to Donald Hunt. I Rosa Rector becoming a history and science instructor at M. H. S. Claudia Rupe dating boys Cmaybe she is fooling us while visiting in Floridaj. Wallace Russell becoming a clown in the Ringling Bros. Circus. Bertha Showers becoming a Red Cross nurse. Harriet Sinclair neglecting her studies. Jeanne Sinclair not being a housewife. Patsy Thompson not being partial to the Marine Corps. Francis Triplett becoming a Congressman through the help of his influential wife. R. O. Updike, Jr. being a second Clark Gable. Herrell Wilson managing a 500 acre farm. Ruby Bohon not being willing to jitterbug. Ileana Kines becoming a vocalist in a New York night club. Nancy Thompson not going steady with Dennis McCarty. Jacqueline Best preferring a Rose to a Budd. Buddy Yurgaitis not agreeing that the Navy is Htopsf' I.l4INA MOORE

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Glrumble lcontinuedl Then if We had the luck to get to the candy case and had the necessary spending change to provide for ourselves one of those war time candy ba1's. we would go into the auditorium and settle our- selves comfortably. Just about the time the nice sweet chocolate was beginning to melt in our mouths. in would come Miss Partlow With, Outside, absolutely no eating in the auditoriumf' Out we would have to go faster than We came in. only to find a seat on the tables in the halls or to crowd around the radiators. Then Mrs. Smith would flitwthrough the corridor yelling lustily, Stop loafing in the halls. Besides. we could scarcely scrape up money for a coke dur- ing the whole year. With money for this and money for that We were either 'lbroke or badly bent all the time. Another thing. We Seniors were expected to uphold the dignity of the schoolg that was a big assignment for any one class at Mar- shall. Oh well, did I say. Seniors do not grumble muchn? RUBY BOI-ION MARTHA REC'I'0'll 9811