Petersburg High School - Missile Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

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THE MISSILE 19 sympathy of its school? It is this pride, — this sympathy that makes a school not a number of unattached pupils, but a unit. There may be other ways of making a school a success ; but none of them are as sucessful as getting each individual pupil interested not only in his own progress at school, but in the progress of his school-mates. If the school is a unit, it will be a success. “School spirit” is essential to the unity of a school and athletics will help to develop “school spirit.” What is success? What is it to succeed? In this com- mercial age one points to the great financiers, to men who have amassed a great fortune as examples of success. They are successful in one way, that is they have attained the object that they had in view when they started in life. But should success be measured in so many little round disks of silver and gold or in so many bank notes? He whose object was to amass a fortune has succeeded if he is rich. Yet is he a suc- cess? Was Shakespeare a success because his name is im- mortal? No. His immortal name is merely the result of his success. Does one have to become famous to be a success? Are the immortal names the only ones that have succeeded? No. Many a thief has succeeded in evading the law, but still we do not consider him a success. On the other hand, many an immortal personage utterly failed to accomplish his end and yet is numbered as a success. To succeed one has but to ac- complish what he undertakes, to be a success one has to know where his talents lie and use them in that direction not alone for his own good but for the good of others. One may suc- ceed without being a success. To succeed is one thing; suc- cess is another.

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18 THE MISSILE THE MISSILE Chas. Edgar Gidliam, Editor in Chief Cora Rolfe, M. Francis Drewry, Associate Editors Ernest N. Townes, Editor of ' • ' ■A Few Pointers Robert G. Butcher, Athletic Editor Beatrice Coleman, Exchange Editor Virginia M. Walke, Alumni Editor. Agnes Stribling, Head Reporter Meade C. Brunet, Business Manager Ernest N. Townes, Circulation Manager Frank Buchanan, ) Russel L. PerkinsonI Business Managers Address Correspondence to Petersburg High School. iEbUnrial Athletics should be encouraged in every high school, not only because they are very beneficial to the health and char- acter of the boys and girls, but, also, because they develop in the pupils a certain personal pride in their school that studies more frequently fail to cultivate. Every child should have an individual pride in his school ; every school should be filled with “school spirit.” What is this “school spirit?” It is a certain feeling, we might say love, for one’s school that makes one think of it as a place not where they are forced to go, but where they wish to go ; that makes one swell with pride when he hears his school’s name mentioned ; and that will cause one to look fondly back in after years, when old age shall have greyed his hairs, and joyfully remembered his “alma mater.” A school should be more than a name or, if a name, it should be one of which every student is proud. Athletics do more towards building up a “school spirit” than anything else. Where is the boy or girl who is not proud of his school-mates’ conquests in baseball, football, or any other branch of athletics? Where is there a defeated team that does not arouse the

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Athletics Robert Butcher. Well, I should say that the boys did get busy in organiz- ing a track team ! They started to train on one Saturday and by the following Saturday night each one of the boys repre- senting the Petersburg High School at the indoor meet at Richmond had received a silver medal for winning the i,ooo yard relay from McGuire’s School and Richmond Academy. Each one of the Petersburg boys had his opponents out- classed. Petersburg won the toss, thereby getting the inside track. The pistol cracked, and Pollard jumped about two feet ahead of his opponents, but, at the beginning of the second lap, McGuire’s man passed Pollard and got a lead of about 3 feet. Pollard, howlever, was not out the game by a long shot, for, on the last piece of straight, he put on all his steam and gave Booth about 4 feet lead on McGuire’s and about 2 yards lead on the Academy. From then on the race was won. Booth increased his lead a great deal, Barksdale did likewise, and Kinsey broke the tape with a lead of 10 yards over his nearest opponent, McGuire’s. Again we are indebted to Mr. Herbert Gilliam, who coached, picked, and carried our team to Richmond. It was his patience, carefulness, etc., that made our team bring in another victory for P. H. S.