Petersburg High School - Missile Yearbook (Petersburg, VA)

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Class Poem By Mary Boisseau We stand with lifted eyes That seek the future skies Upon these steps that years have fashioned dear. Though discontent did touch Our heart ' s at times too much .... No matter now, the way ahead is clear. And though we’ve but begun Our journey to the sun, It none the less has shown its glowing face. What though the inbetween Shall often useless seem, The dawn is here and we have found a place. The right to try is ours .... Ahead lie endless powers That shall not cease to fill the flaming sky. Our lives, now young and bold, Are ours alone to mold — The world will ever welcome those who try. And oft in days to come, Our thoughts will backward run To live again the golden days of youth: How dear this school will seem, Where first we learned to dream And found a love for knowledge and for truth. iimimmimmiiimmiiiiiiiniimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiHiiiiiimimmnimimiiimmimiimiiiiimiimiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiimiimimmmiMiimimi Page nine .... iiiiiiiimiinimiiiiiiniii

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1. Shirley Ann Steph 2. Mary Hargrave Bo 3. Janice Ramsey Ye 4. Jane Sydnor Ellis 5. Haney Hardy Bell 1 6. Louise Harrison Pij 7. Martha Lee Madist 8. Sebia Dunn Meach; 9. Charles L. Guthrie, 10. Worthington Romai 11. Kathleen F. Lefeb 12. Ellen Heath Parser 13. Mary Willis O’Farr 14. Samuel Goode Jont 15. Charles H. Cuthbe 16. Mary Davis Hardis 17. Mary Virginia Cool 18. Jean Van Landing!: 19. Robert Fortescue V 20. John Ritchie Harwc.J 21. James Harrison Po ' li 22. Clerimond C. Gillie 23. Gerald Ashburn Dr 24. D’Arcy W. Roper, 1 25. William H. AlexamJ 26. Alfred Morgan Rucl 27. Rcbert Louis Jame 28. John Gilliam Bernaij 29. James Harrison Wil iiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiii ' V

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.€ aAMIc ' I Mill MiMMMiiiimiiiiiimiiiiiii 1 1 1 1 ii 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 iiiiiiiiiniMiniii iiiimiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiimii History of the February Class By Mary Willis O’Farrell OW THAT our school days, the days that we have often been told were the happiest days of our life, are draw- ing to a close, I do not think it would be amiss to cast our thoughts beckwards to our first day of school. That is a very important day in every child’s life .... second only to graduation. When our February class of 1935 reached the Junior High we can all remember how very proud we felt and thought then, indeed, the time had come to put away childish things. We were there for three happy years “in full content, unanxious for ourselves,” but when we reached Petersburg High School our smug confidence in ourselves began to wane as we advanced in our classes. And when we reached the Senior class we realized that we were “mighty small potatoes and many in a row.” The February class worked hard and in its achievements kept up the standard of the Petersburg High School. Among so many outstanding honors times does not permit me to go into the details of each and every one, but I should like to call your attention to two of the most important activities: athletics and “The Missile.” Our football team has indeed put Petersburg on the map. The honors won by the 1934 football squad are a matter of history, or I might say national history, for when a paper like “The Richmond Times-Dispatch” sends “orchids to Petersburg” we know we have attained the enviable. The class of 1935 is very proud of giving Eric Tipton to Petersburg High. Eric Tipton was captain of the 1934 football squad and also cap- tain of the 1934 baseball and basketball teams. He was also president of the Athletic Association. Harrison Willcox, Ben Kinsey, and Herbert Mann displayed great ability on the foot- ball field. Our 1934 football team was very successful by losing only one out of twelve games played and that loss firmly be- lieved to be due to injuries of seven regulars. Then came a thrilling climax, the post-season game with Baldwin High of New York. Ben Kinsey was captain of the 1934 golf team and Harrison Willcox was also a member of the team. The girls of our class also did well in athletics. Alice Dixon, Martha Lee Madison, Marian Procise, and Daisy Dean Smith re- liiiiiiiHmiiiiiiniiiiiiMii niiiiiMiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimmiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiitiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiimiiiiiiiiii) .... Page ten