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

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Q stands for Quarles, a prize-fighter, too, Who stood before Painter for rounds twenty-two. He runs the school press at a very swift rate And will turn out whole volumes of print while youiwait. R for the Risdons-twin brothers they. Bo.th'very bashful, with little to say. Maggie Rogers and Olive C. Rice we recall, The latter excels in the game basket-ball. S heads Sours, Charles, Ernest, john-these thfCC But the greatest of these is Sours, C. C. Sutherland and Siple we'll add to the list, ' And Malinda Stratton a sweet vocalist. T is for Tompkins, an Estes of fame. Bedelia, you know, is his other name. Then, there's Mary Taylor-now this is no fable- If you ever would find her, then just look for Mabel. U 's for the Uproar heard early one morn, They say 'twas the Callithump out on the lawn. With a shock and a start all opened their eyes, For you will recall 'twas a perfect surprise. V stands for Vawter of S. O. B. fame, In Astronomy too he's made a great name. You'l1 End from the editors' staff, if you look, That he runs the finances of this witty book. W 's for Woodson, the athlete of college, Also for Wells the Fountain of knowledge. From the list of the girls it would not be prudent To omit Loula Wheeler, an excellent student.' X stands for one who is here unknown, For a name of that letter our school does not own. If we just had a Xerxes or Xenophon, say, He would fill up this verse in a very neat way. Y is for Yale, not a college at all, But that long, lanky fellow so awfully tall He never can walk round the grounds with much ease For fear that he'll injure the tops of the trees. Z stands for Zack, the Young Lochinvar VVho flirts with the girls from near and afar. His heart's so big that he takes them all in And never finds trouble in getting a grin. i 68

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Historyof the Vawter Literary Society T was-with expectant and eager minds that the boys of the higher classes, to- gether with some of the male instructors, assembled in the chapel on the night of September 12th, 1903, for the purpose of forming a literary society. That such an organization had long been needed at the Miller no one doubted, but a leader to undertake so important a step had been lacking. Now such a person had been found, and under the able leadership of Mr. Latham, our instructor in Phys- ics, and Mr. Beale, of the School of Languages, and J. Heath Lewis, of the Department of Chemistry, the students set to work to form a literary society. The members of the new society were thoroughly interested in the task before them, which was indeed a labor of love,', and though entirely unacquainted with such work, they eagerly entered into it, with the result that very soon a constitu- tion and by-laws had been drawn up and officers elected accordingly. ln naming our organization, there was but one name in the minds of all, and by a rising vote we named it after our superintendent, who from the beginning had 70 5 I