Petersburg High School - Missile Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

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The Missile 23 Miss Wright and Miss Hunter are considering seriously the organization of a club for Freshmen and Sophomores, in order that more girls may become interested in this work, and also to establish class organization in the school. So think it over, girls; all of you are young Christian women, so why not participate in Y. W. C. A. work? You can easily realize the benefit of this work, which embraces the educational as well as the social side of our school lives. s. a. c. GMjmfttg (0ur uferntta. Our High School, having practically everything of the the best, both in material and equipment, has not been found lacking in its various athletic teams. One thing that does not balance the scale is our support of our teams by rooting. When a member of a team does not play well, a bit of cheering will go a very long way in encour- aging him; if, on the other hand, he does play well, then will not our cheers incite him more and tend to show our appreciation ? In looking over the various schools of the country, we find that in the curriculum, along with their important subjects, is rooting, to which a few minutes every week are devoted to the practicing of yells. A beginning has already been made, but not enough students have turned out to join the rooting class. Let us begin the work se- riously now and support our worthy teams by learning to root for them. We can have our regular yells, which every student can easily learn, choose our yell leaders and hold a meeting for about fifteen minutes once a week. We trust this will meet the hearty support of the student

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22 The Missile tides describing his experiences in Uncle Sam’s navy. This shows that at least one graduate is thinking of the place where he received his start in life. After Mr. Rid- out completes the account of his experiences, we purpose to have an article or letter from one of our former stu- dents published in each issue of our magazine. We hope that this will help to make them take as much interest in us as we have in them. We keep track of them, but it is surprising how very few of our alumni think of us enough to subscribe for the Missile, which some of them have even helped t o published. If the alumni only knew what an influence they could exert over the present pupils, we feel sure that they would not hesitate in using it. The pupils will see that boys and girls who have left school many years before still love it, so why should not they who are in it love it? Once get them really to love their school and half the work is done; it will be a very great impetus to harder study and more interest in the school activities. We are very willing to work for something we love. So wake up, you alumni, to your obligations to your Alma Mater. a. g. Class ©rgamzatimt. Girls, we want you to become more interested in Y. W. C. A. work. School spirit must be increased in this way, and let us have a larger number of girls as repre- sentatives of the High School in the Y. W. C. A. work. You have seen the good results obtained by the Friend- ship Club, which has been the active club of the school and in which only a small number of our girls are repre- sented in comparison with the large number in the school.

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24 The Missile body of our High School, for it will aid greatly in secur- ing the laurels for our school. s. r. z. “iBook lag.” The students of the High School will be surprised to learn that since we got into our new library the pupils of the school have donated one hundred and thirty-four books, of which eighty-two were donated during the term of January, 1918, to June, 1918, and fifty-two from No- vember, 1918, up to the present day. Special mention should be made of Rousseau Ellington and Donald Good- wyn, who contributed twenty-four and twenty-three books respectively. Miss Mollie Rives has also contributed four books. A large percentage of these were contri- buted to the Juvenile Department, of which the pupils make use and of which there were very few when our new library was opened. It would be a very good plan to have a “Book Day,” as was suggested by the librarian, Miss Rcbertson, so that all pupils and friends of the school may contribute a book. But we are short of shelves for them. As the School Board tries to do everything they can for our ben- efit, so we sincerely hope that they will give us more shelves for the library, that we may have our “Book Day” real soon. s. r. z.