Petersburg High School - Petro Schola Yearbook (Petersburg, WV)

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l!ary Duyton Freda Whetzel Van Meter Viola Keplinger Her voice • onc. •lew an e •• Vikin Do, as ever soft celient thing L toff 2 H3he cannot frown, she never tries, her heart is always 7. o y - Viking Lot Staff 3 Future Hebemur, era 3-4 dometi:. «o fro. her eyes I did receive fair speech- less messages. Vikin0 Lot Staff 3 annual Staff 4 ov; tiie history of the Class of Six and Forty, of the high school of the city of Petersburg, County of Grant, State of 'Jest Virginia, as in this wise In t e be innin , in the one thousand, nine Hundred and 'orty-second year of oar ord, und in the ninth month, there entered into this Land of Learning, nine -nd fifty seeKers of Knowledge, Sorae came up from the eighth grude, here they had for many months been busily engaged in storing their raind3 with the honey of wisdom; some ..ere 0reen and fresh from a far country; some cane from farms; where tney iad been tillers of the soil; and some were from other halls of instruction. “nQ it c me to pa33, as they did enter this land, that they ere received with .. ila we loomings unc rejoicings oy those who, it was decreed, should henceforth lead t ;era jp the slippery by-ways of knowledge. i-ikewise, it came also to p as tnatthey were received with malicious glee by a certu.n ..ila bind of beings who were called Sophomores, and who because of tneir .ierce t-ste for Freshmen blood, did pounce upon them daily and nightly, and did Cause them to suffer grout things, an. to a-y in their hearts Behold, blessed be the name of Education, for because of it nave we endured tore-t torments, both of the body -nu of the mind. Verily have we been murtyrs tc it3 grout and noble cause. Ana «a they dvelt long in the land, they fell in with the customs of the in- habitants thereof, ano their strangeness wore away, and they each became as one emongthe rest. and it cuue to puss, after some raon h, that their eyes were turned toward grad- uation, out many, with one consent, began to ;.»ke excuses. hc first suia, Hi am poor in health. Therefore I cannot graduate. Another said, HI am dull anu cannot learn. I pray thee have rae excused. a third said, I must needs toil at home. Therefore I cannot graduate. Anc still another said, I am going to bo married, and therefore 1 need not graduate. oc thus did this class decrease in numbers until the rtiole number at the end o: the first year was one and fifty. CHAPTER II . ov it came to rusa at the beginning of the second year that a new band of youths aid co:„e up from the adjoining territory, and Class of six and forty, in Ue new dignity c its pro oticn, rememoereu the days of its own greenness, and as o..e sOf.ho-.ores . tiieir uay hau uone unto them, even so uia they dc unto thc..e now :rcunaen, an. - ia show no mercy unto tneir sufferings, and no heeu unto tneir uuientuti, until il were oruisec ana full of much sorrow. i.ow it oo nu nee t ::-t this lunu to whicn they hau come -us ruled over by one .nown S8 . Oarleton Browne, a professor of much wisdom; and at he beginning of the second year, he spake unto them, 8uyin0 in Go, 6ather ye in u ooay, und .r0unize you selves into a class, that ye may gain t ength, anu that your courage may ux hot '