Newport News High School - Anchor Yearbook (Newport News, VA)

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W' RID. ' We, the Seniors of nineteen twenty-three, have for the past four years traveled the path of High School achievements. Sometimes we tired of the ceaseless effort but, as a whole, it has been a pleasant journey. As we look back, we do not regret that sunshine and shadow mingled. Each has done its part in strengthening us for the future. Our experiences have greatly helped us in preparing to give to the world the best we have and to make the best of returns, as we travel the Highway of Life. As a unit, we believe in our student body as the material from which our country may expect the best citizenship. We believe in and sincerely endorse the activities of our school. The literary societies, orchestra, Beacon, and athletics have been great factors in the development of self expression. We believe in friendship which casts a thousand rays of love, hope and peace to all around us. We believe in our State, Virginia. May we ever uphold the beautiful tra- dition and lofty principles of the Old Dominion. We believe in our country as the land of the free and the home of the brave. Finally, we believe in God, the heavenly Father who shapes our destinies. We pay our highest respects to M-r. F. M. Alexander, the thoughtful guide of the Newport News High School. We hold in esteem our sympathetic friend, Miss Howison, from whom we have never failed to receive encouragement and wise counsel. It is our wish to thank the faculty for installing in us high ideals of life, and for surrounding us with moral influences which have been instrumental in forming character, the cornerstone of civilization and progress. For We realize as did Horace Greely, that Fame is vapor, popularity an accident, riches takes wings, those who cheer to-day will curse to-morrowg only one thing endures- characterf' We hope that this influence for good will grow with our growth and strengthen with our strength until it becomes a beacon to those who pass our way. VIRGINIA DAUGHTREY, February, '23,

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THE BEACON gf ave! 5 1. 1'A ,.', ff - - X, 4 f 42 u..,,.,, POWELL MARION BEATTY Laugh, sing and be merry, for to-morrow comes the test. Football, '22. Powell is one of the best natured fellows we know. He's never in a rush or hurry but he always seems to get there. We often envy him his quiet and care-free manner of meet- ing trouble. In class he is conspicous by his absence. It's our honest opinion that lessons never bother him in the least and we often wish we could feel the same way. Powell is a good fel- low whom we all like and are sorry to lose.

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