Miller School of Albemarle - Blue Ridge Blast Yearbook (Charlottesville, VA)

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Post Graduate Class Colors Flower. Grange and Blue Mareelral Nrel Rose OFFICERS DANIEL PERKINS WOODSON, IR ............ ...... P resident LANDON CABELL PAINTER ....,. . . Vice-President MABELLE ERNESTINE BOOTH. . . ........... ..... H istorran L MEMBERS MABELLEERNESTINI-3 BOOTH, L. L. S ......,. . . . Charlottesville H. R. C. LANDON CABELL PAIIVTER, V, L. S. .................... . . .Yancey MillS Football Team, '04, Winner Of V. L. S. Debaters' Medal, 'o4. CHARLIE COLLINS SOURS, V. L. S ............. ..... . . . . . ..GlendOWer JAMES ELLIOTT VAWTER, V. L. S ................. . . .Miller Sel1OOl E SZ B3 Football Team, yO2, '03, 'o4g President Of A. A. DANIEL PERKINS WOODSON, IR., V. L. S ................ . . . . 1 . Cross Roads Baseball Team,' 8-O 'CC t ' B K ' ' u 9 5, 'Lp am aseball Team, oz and O35 Football Team, ,OO-O42 Captam Football Team, 'o4. 54

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JAMES XVICKLIFFE SMITH, IR., V. L. S ............................. Miller School, Reddy came into harbor at Miller School in 1884. He is the youngest in a large family of very bright boys and girls, and has never been able to get over this handicap. But he kept hammering away until 'o4 saw him a proud gradu- ate of Miller. jim played on the scrub baseball team one or two years. As soon as he got his degree, Reddy went out to begin life and is now working in a machine shop in VVaterbury, Connecticut. I am as sober as a judge. H PHILIP FAUVER TAYLOR .......................................... Miller School, Bug is the most modest fellow you ever saw. That explains why he was not a V. L. S. Bug never spoke unless you spoke to him. Did he ever smile at a girl? There is no record of any such offense on his part against Miller School discipline. He never learned to dance because the touch of a girl's hand gave him cold shivers. His delight was in mathematical mysteries. He is now taking a course in engineering at the University of Virginia. W'ise to resolve, and patient to perform. DANIEL PERKINS VVOODSON, -IR., V. L. S ....... ..................... C ross Roads, Dan is Miller School's typical boy. That he is a graduate of this school and is this session taking a post-graduate course in chemistry, will fix his standing as a student. That he is Head Monitor will show the regard Captain Vawter has for him as a gentleman. That he is an athlete of the first order, Locust Dale, Pantops, VVoodberry and the High School can testify. Football and baseball are as easy to him as rolling off a log. He goes to the University of Virginia next session, and we are wondering who is to take his place. Student, athlete, gen- tleman, and yet as modest and retiring as a girl. He says he dances when he has to. He will leave Miller School with everybody's wishes for success in whatever field of work he may go. Dan is sore about his going away for two reasons: He was never able to put it on the High School in football, and he leaves a little girl behind. I shall not look upon his like again. Va V V 8

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History of the Post-Graduate Class O me has been given the honor of recording the achievements of the Post- Graduate Class of IQO5. In the years gone by we fought many hard battles 3 burying ourselves for a time in chemistry experiments, the theories of physics, and the deep prob- lems of trigonometry. Wfhen we received that much-coveted prize-the sheep- skin - we realized that graduation was not the goal of all efforts, but rather that it should serve as a stimulus to higher and nobler purposes. Time works many changes, and nowhere is this more evident than in our Class. XVe have now a membership of only five, the others who have in previous years struggled with us having gone out into the world to their various callings. The president of our Class, Dan Wfoodson, fulfils Emerson's idea of a scholar, bringer of hope. Ambitious for his Class, he has guided us wisely. An ex- cellent captain he has made for our football team, and on the diamond none can surpass him. Landon Painter is our Class prodigy. I-Ie has never known the sorrow of a not passedf' In everything he excels, and in regard to his brilliancy one of his young lady friends has said, Even Socrates would have blushed in the presence of the unrivalled learning of this brilliant scholar. In chemistry, Elliott Vawter is making himself famous. It is hard to tell whether he will become a great chemist or an astronomer. He is at present teach- ing a class of boys how far the sun is from the earth. Charlie Sours is one of our number who is suffering from Cupid's Works. Although he is now suffering from a severe attack of heart disease, he may re- cover and become a great electrician. Mabelle Booth is the last of our number who is suffering from Cupid's works. She has not yet decided what she will become, if she recovers. In the very near future we shall leave here and enter that more serious strug- gle in the great wide world. As faithful children of our Alma Mater, let us be true to the ideals she has placed before us, and let us go forth with the fixed resolution to do our best in fulfilling the mission so beautifully expressed by Ruskin: Education is leading human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them. The training that makes men happiest in themselves, also makes them most serviceable to othersf, EI.-XBELLE E. Boorn. 55 Y,