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

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CREED OF THE CLASS OF FEBRUARY, 1924 By Frances Yolk We, Hie class of February, ’24, having reached the end of our high school career, wish to write the creed by which we have lived during our four years here. Although it may seem like the creeds of other classes, we believe these things so deeply that we feel we must express thi ' in. However widely our class may be separated after we graduate, we feel sure that each member will remember and be true to its “Creed.” We believe in the ideals for which the Newport News High School stands, and we shall endeavor to live up to them. We believe in Fred M. Alexander, our principal, and in our faculty, who have been so untiring in their efforts in our behalf, and we wish them to know that we appreciate all they have done for us. Wo believe in athletics as the promoter of the splendid spirit of our school and we believe our coaches are the best we could possibly get. We believe in the Beacon as representative of the students of the Newport News High School. We believe in the orchestra and all other forms of expression of the school spirit. We believe in the School Board and in our Superintendent, whose combined efforts have made possible the new high school building, and who are constantly planning to help and improve the school. We believe that the spirit of the school will never die, but will be ever present in all the students. We believe in Virginia, the mother of states, as the best in this great Union. We believe in the United States of America as the greatest Democ- racy of the world. Above all, we believe in God, our creator, and in Him do we trust. 28

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SAM BERNARD ARONOW “Sam” “Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.” Sam is one of the quietest members of our class. However, when it comes to class spirit or work, Sam is right there. He is a member of that family which seem to win all the medals and official positions which the school affords. 27

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HISTORY OF THE GLASS OF FEBRUARY, 1924 By Amanda Gray, Class Historian After four years of hard work and good times, we, the class of February ’24, have at last reached that goal towards which we have been struggling. But forget the present for a while and go with me back to that cold day near the first of February, 1920, when eighty-four shivering, shak- ing, staring individuals first entered the Walter Reed building as high school students. We were told to go to the assembly hall and there, after a short speech hv Mr. Alexander, we were assigned to our respect- ive class rooms with Mrs. Sommerall and Miss Robinson, now Mrs. James, as our home-room teachers. In the meantime, that awful sound of “Rats, Rats” came from every direction. And we continued to he “rats” throughout that term. Five rooms on the third floor of the Walter Reed building were occupied by two 7-A and three 7-B classes with Mrs. Mae ' Marshall Edwards, Miss Pearl M oore, Miss Florence Richardson and the two Miss Powells, as teachers. As we were in the high school building and were junior high stu- dents, while in the seventh grade we were not quite as “green” as the majority of freshmen. Although the periods, societies, assemblies, et cetera, were perfectly familiar to us, Ancient History, Science, Algebra and Latin were entirely new. After we had gotten settled in our home-rooms great pamplets with the curriculum, courses and periods were distributed among us. We discovered that there were three courses offered: the elective, aca demic and business. Then with the aid of Miss Packman we made out our schedule; the majority of us, I think, chose the elective, while some took the academic and others the business course. Even though the first half of our freshman year was one terrible struggle with Latin, Algebra, Science, Ancient History and the constant 29 (