Petersburg High School - Missile Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

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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.

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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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The first assembly of the High School students in the new auditorium was held March n, 1919. The meeting was opened by singing “America” accompanied by the High School orchestra. Mr. Wolff presented a beautiful baby grand Mason-Hamlin piano to the High School on behalf of the students. The devotional exercises were conducted by the Rev. J. A. McClure of the Second Pres- byterian Church and a short talk was made by Superin- tendent Martin on beautifying and extending the school grounds. Superintendent Martin has extensive plans for the schools grounds. He plans to have a playground in the rear, from the school to Lawrence Street and from the backs of the houses on Guarantee Street to the alley back of Pine Street. There will be baseball, basket-ball and tennis courts; also a swimming pool. On the west side of the school there will be a play ground for smaller child- ren and in front a park for the recreation of the older girls.