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

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6 THE BEACON 5 ELIZABETH LANDON BERKELEY Follow your honest convictions and be strong:,'. Critic Eureka Literary Society, '22, D913 Class come to order! Miss Berke- ley has the floor! Yes, she has the floor, for she must always have her say be it wise or otherwise. Lil has her opinions and convic- tions and she's not afraid to stand up and defend them. That is why we like her. Perhaps she likes to have her foolishness but what would life be without its wit and fun to relieve the dreary hours of study and toil '? MINER CARL ANDREWS Carl thought, and so thought they all, He said-and so 'twas done. He liditor-in-t'hief Beacon Annual, '23. I 3 Associate Editor Beacon, '2L, 'LIL Ulass President, '21, '22. '23. President French Club, '22, '23. Annual Play, '21, '22, Student Council, '21 Philolethian Debating Team, '22. Second Vice-President Latin Club, '21. Beacon Delegate. V. I. P. C., '22. IM-bater's Council, '22, Iiatin Play, '21. Home Room Representative, '20, Class Plays. Class Poet. You can see by the above record that Carl has been one of the most popular boys ot' our school, as well as of our class. He is the happy combination of a leader and a good sport, ready to work for the bet- terment of the school and always ready to take his part in the merry-making. Carl thinks much and well. He profits in all his classes by getting the best out of them for he is industrious. The school loses one ot' its most versatile students and Carl takes with him the good will and best wishes ol' the school for success, no matter what his undertakings may be.

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CLASS POEM THE CROWN OF LIFE Here on the threshold of a new and waiting world That beckons to the sons of men across the seas of Life, On thy childhood paths, pause yet awhile in reverence And look upon the long and weary way that lies before. That Life is only what we choose to make it, Though judgment there is often thought unfair And takes a man for what he's not, we must not waver there. The thing that matters in that worldly strife, Is what we are, what we do, to serve our fellow men. The God of opportunity serves every man alike And we must watch and wait to meet him at the door, For the path of Life is long and steep, our goal is where we put it An idle Life is a useless thing and a tho-rn to God who gave it, So may we take our humble talents and use them in the fight, That stirs within the souls of men to mark the sands of time Not with the swords of conquorers, nor with the pens of rhyme, Not with the stirring words of fame, nor with a golden crown, But with those things that help our friends, our service to mankind And may we live and do, that when at last The golden trumpet of the Judgment Day Sounds o'er the plains of Death, And God, the keeper of the one, great roll, Unfolds the Book of Life before the throne, And calls us for our talents to account, We shall not answer with a score-less plate, But bearing with us service from across the trackless sea, Shall take the crown, a fight well fought, a deed well done. -CARL ANDREWS, Class Poet

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THE BE ACON 7 IR A FRAN K LIN BOW LES Monk Man delights me not, no, nor woman either. Class Plays. Monk is not a Math. shark as some would fain believe, but he's a good scout anyway, and we don't see how we'll get along without him. He likes to make us think that he is a confirm- ed pessimist but we're mighty hard to convince. Whether we get A's or E's, the world will still move on, and we know that Monk will be right there with us, lending a helping hand and always with his care-free grin. MA RY CATHERINE BLANTON Cataline Her voice was ever soft, An excellent thing in woman. Class Plays. Give Catherine a Caesar and she's perfectly happy. But never start an argument about the value of Latin to the human race or she will just nat- urally make you believe that it is in- despensable to the students, and that it is a priviledge to study it. Just the same Catherine is a good student and she never wastes a moment in foolish- ness. If you do not believe us, look at her report card. Those marks would give us heart failure if by chance they ever appeared upon our cards.