Mount Vernon High School - Surveyor Yearbook (Alexandria, VA)

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1944 Yearbook Mount Vernon High School Sponsor — Miss Molly G. Lehrman Editor-in-Chief — Alice Welch Assistant Editor — Sue Roberts Business Manager — Margaret Rogers Assistant Business Manager — Linabel White ACTIVITIES Jean Duvall Charles Gordon Eileen Hard age Joan Rogers ADVERTISING Jean Bayliss Evelyn Cleveland Pearl Dent Jimmy Dunivin Violet Hill Rebecca Hummer Marie Maters Mary Ellen McNellis Bernice Rogers Margaret Rogers June Bartlett ARTISTS Jo Doris Beazley Evelyn Martin Janice Payne PHOTOGRAPHY Harold Letcher LITERARY Alice Montieth Frances Rogers Margaret Rogers Helen Wagner Linabel White TYPISTS Connie Harvey Bernice Rogers

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These glimpses into the school life at Mount Vernon High have been woven into the theme of advances cooperatively made in developing a world with freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom of speech and expression, and freedom of worship. This volume contains vital information about our school. Its real worth, however, is not the information its furnishes, but the impressions on your memory of a dynamic life, lived while with us. May we be mindful of the senior class mottor: Non Progredi est Regredi. For the boys and girls who are offering their lives on the battlefront, may we offer this prayer: May God give you strength to do His will To love mankind; the rich and the poor; To climb from the valley, high on a hill And put His love above earthly lure.

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GREETINGS With the termination of this academic school year, another group of students, young ladies and men ready to face life’s problems, will leave the gates of the Mount Vernon High School. It was Socrates, the Greek philosopher, who discovered that the true self is the soul. To him the soul was one’s mental capacity of insight and one’s physical power of will. Both are necessary. The former knows good from evil, whereas the latter overrides all desires for momentary pleasure and seeming happiness which in reality are only illu- sions. America has never before offered so great a challenge to red-blooded youth as it does today. The call for true heroism and patriotism will not end with the signing of a peace treaty. You, the youth of today, will be the adult of tomorrow ; the future leaders of our country. The assignment for the continuation of democracy will fall upon your shoulders. This 1944 Surveyor is not a means of bidding each other final partings. We shall meet continually all through life, perhaps not in person, but certainly in our thoughts. When people think of each other, they meet. Our thoughts, I know, will be very happy and pleasant ones. Molly Lehrman, Sponsor.