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

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1. G. Claude Cox, Principal. 2. Mary D. Clark — Shorthand, Typing, Business English, General Business. 3. Mabel DeVault — English, Latin. 4. Natalie J. Disbrow — Social Studies, History. 5. Rebecca K. Engleman — English, Spanish. 6. Mary Jeanette Epstein — Chemistry, Physics. 7. Mrs. Mary Lou Fary — History, English. 8. Mrs. Rosalyn P. Gekoski — Girls Physical Education, General Science. 9. Molly G. Lehrman — Shorthand, Typing, Bookeeping, Consumer Economics, Business Law. 10. Clara Elizabeth Mergler — Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Pre-Induction Mathe- matics. 11. Mrs. Hr.ttie G. Quinley — Social Studies, Civics. 12. Marjory Rea — Librarian. 13. Mrs. Purcelle M. Robertson — Home Economics. 14. Clara Robison — Business and General Mathematics. 15. John C. Ross — Boys Physical Education, Civics, History. 16. Mrs. Carolyn B. Shew — Typing. 17. Mrs. Olive S. Thompson — Guidance Director, Freshman Coordinator, Civics. 18. Mrs. Mamruth Collins Walter — English. 19. Josephine Elizabeth Wood — Biology, Girls Physical Education.

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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.

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Seniors 1944 Sponsor — Miss Marjory Rea President — Wiley Barrington Vice-President — Robert Leisner Secretary — Bernice Rogers Treasurer — Sue Roberts Senior (a SJ J i oem We’re the Senior class of ’44 We’ve had our fun, can we ask for more? Our work was hard, that is true; We’ve received our knowledge, and now we’re through. Through, seems hard for us to say, But there’ll be others to leave next May, And to that class, the best of luck, So do your duty and never duck. To our school you must be loyal, Respect our teachers, and our colors royal, Also our motto, which we’re proud to say Non Progredi est Regredi. And to this class we leave a toast, Love our school and always boast, For we must leave; it couldn’t last, We’ll face the future, but remember the past. Now we hate to have to go, But there’s nothing else, that you know; So we’ll try hard not to cry, Just breathe a sigh, sand say goodbye. ALICE MONTIETH.