Mount Hope High School - Mons Spei Yearbook (Mount Hope, WV)

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At the beginning of the year we were very gratified to have our old Sponsor, Miss Mann, again with us. Very soon after the term began, a meeting was called and the following officers elected: Edward Roberts, President, Lysle George, Vice President, Margaret Parker, Secretary, and Edgar Mitchell, Treasurer. At a very early date the class assembled and decided to keep the Red Rose as the class flower, and Maroon and Black as the class colors, As with all Seniors, we had, of course, to buy our class jewelry, so a ring was chosen, and on arriving, proved to be very satisfactory to all, Of course, as soon as possible the class united in presenting the three-act play, entitled, Nothing But the Truth, There seems to be a very good amount of ability in the class, as members were supplied for the Senior plays of '23 and '24. The play as a whole was a great success, and seemed to meet the approval of the public in general. The class furnished the athletic teams with a halfback and two ends in foot- ball, and a center and two forwards in basket ball. All through the four years we have had a very good showing in athletics, furnishing the first football team of the school with several players. So really, you see that, although having a stormy career, we have at last en- tered the home stretch of our high school work. Are we going to stop here? No, we are not, as I said in the beginning, we are Hgreen, but growing. EDWARD ROBERTS, Class Historian Twenty-jizfe

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Senior Class History In September, 1921, there entered into the study hall of the Mount Hope High School the greenest bunch of Freshmen that history has record of. In fact, they were green to the extent that the people living nearby were forced to keep their cattle under lock and key for several days to save the said students from being devoured for green foliage late in appearing. But, did you ever think that when a thing of life is green, it is not dead or dormant, but growing? So it was with the present class of '25, VVe started over against the wall of the assembly hall, and from that time we have never as yet changed, but we are still green, but growing. The class started the year with about forty enrolled. A few days after school routine had begun our class ofhcer, Miss Charlotte E, Kehm, was chosen. Grady Toney was elected President of the class, and led it through one of its most suc- cessful years. The next September we started out with a surplus amount of vim and vigor over the idea of being Sophs, However, the school adopted the new plan known as the six-three-three plan, throwing us again the lower class in high school, and again having to take the knocks of the Seniors, which were given to us for hark lessons assigned to them by the faculty. This year we had the pleasure of being under the guidance of Miss Lucy Baker, who was appointed Class Officer. Edward Roberts was elected to the executive position of President. During this year we were very fortunate in having some of the Freshmen of Glen jean in our midst, This was a great addition to the class, although we had lost a great many faces familiar in our classrooms. In nineteen hundred and twenty-three we were juniors. Although few in num- ber compared to our previous strength, we all know the old saying that 'fprecious gems come in small packages. Miss Dorothy Mann was elected as Class Sponsor, and in the position of President we had a very capable man. Raymond E. Tissue served in the above position so well that during this year there were more junior activities than we had had in the earlier classes of school. So, with the brief outline above of the history of the class, we can proceed with the Senior year. This year we entered school with a roll of only twenty-three. On account of the lack of a Normal course, some of our most valuable members were forced to attend school at other places in order to get this work. As is true of any class, we always lose a few at the end of the first couple of weeks. So by the time of the ending of the first semester we boast of the number of seventeen. T wenty-four

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l X Senior Class ,Prophecy One night as I sat before the fire hearing the rain pattering on the roof and wondering for how many more minutes I could follow the tragic utterances of Hamlet, the melancholy Dane, without falling asleep, I suddenly beheld a startling vision before me. The brightly lighted dance hall of the Mauretania was crowded with men and women in evening dress. As my eyes grew accustomed to the brightness, I began to distinguish faces. A woman richly dressed in a black velvet robe trimmed in ermine and wearing a necklace of priceless rubies, looked amazingly familiar. Could this be the Joy Givens who had attended the M. H, H. S. in the class of '25? Upon closer scrutiny I recognized her beyond a doubt, happening to notice on her finger, a ring of sardonyx and white gold, bearing the letters of M. H. H. S. By her side stood a handsome Frenchman, whom she afterwards introduced to me as her husband, Count Hamburg de Boloni, a great- grandson of Napoleon Boneparte. As we stood chatting, joy asked whether I knew that there were on board three other members of the class of 1925, Ted Mitchell, U. S. Ambassador to the Isle of Pines, and his wife, Margaret Mitchell, formerly Margaret Parker, as well as Rose Garrett and Mary Elliott. Rose Garrett, after serving as a missionary in China for three years, had married an Hawaiian musician, and was now on her way to meet him in Honolulu. Mary Elliott, after a brief career as waitress in a Greek restaurant, had married a mil- lionaire diamond merchant from South Africa, however, the union had proved unhappy. The sensational divorce proceedings filled the newspapers' headlines for weeks. To escape the unwelcome publicity attendant upon her divorce, Mary was now traveling under an assumed name. Before the evening was over I had the pleasure of talking to Ted and of seeing Margaret. The change in Ted was striking. He was dressed in the latest fashion, and spoke in a manner at once distinguished and quiet. After he had passed, Joy told me that Margaret had devoted her life to reforming him, and from my glimpse of him, she had pretty nearly succeeded. VVhile I was searching for a glimpse of the notorious Mary Elliott, the scene changed and I found myself no longer on shipboard, but sud- denly transported to a crowded tent. I was very much astonished to find Lysle George, one of my old schoolmates, who was now a noted evangelist holding a gospel meeting. I decided to listen to my old classmate give his sermon before I would make myself known. After listening to a very oratorical speech, I pushed myself to the front of the tent and made myself known. After talking of old times back at M. H. H. S. for a few moments, he told me there were some other members of the old class present at the meeting. VVe started out in search of the members of the class, and to my Twenty-six