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 '

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And us he s, uke unto the;.., so Wus it uone, unu they chose their wisest cnes to oe tneir leauers, anu called tneumelveu, ith much pride, the cl.ss of six and forty. »nd »0 the clu3s did journey through tne lunu, benold, there was u nuiden who huo 3t ayeu far frou the communies with which they had set forth, and wus touch sorrowful, «no us the toetabers of the class uid look ..pon her in her loneliness, their hearts were 3tirred in pity for her, and they oio open wide unto her that she 8houlu be gathered in. «nd the whole number at the end of tne second year was six anc forty. CH ITEA III It came to pass that the cluss of six una forty continued to find favor ir. the eyes of tneir wise and worthy leader, l£r. Browne, and success looked fair before them, and they wore much 0lad. But a greut cry went Up from th throuts of the greedy classi LoJ if it doth happen that we are to gruduate ufter many days, it appe roth that th’oro is much need of many dollars wherewith to provide the seng anu cance thereof! And jeliold, it oio come to puss, that the cluss uid aspire to histrionic hon.rs, anc die present to the people u ureat and wonderful ploy, wherein each should act what be was not; and they did choose us a sacrifice u comedy of groat humor, and Brother Goose wus butchered to rauke a junior hollduy. «nd lo! the awful deed was done; and the multitude did cry out ih their hearts, Heavon forgive tnca, for they know not what they do! und with their lips, How Orano und wonderful this thing which ye have done! and t.ie heads of the class did become swelled to their fullest capacity at the praise they did receive for the murderous dccc they hud done. Now it came to pass, as their pride 0rew to u great bigness within them, that the class began to wish for symools befitting their station; und many messages v.ero sent to the big cities und all tne towns round about for sunplee of tneir fine jew- elry; und at lust, after much considerint, und reconsidering, the class professed itself to be satisfies with its choice, und rings were purchased with which they rested well content. «nd behold! tne juniors did prepare a feast. And they did bid to come to the fea3t those who were before them, the worthy seniors; and they did request the pres- ence of those who did teach them, and that body known us the Board of I'ducution. and wnen the gues a did at lust depart from the festivities, they were exceeding glad thut things were us they had been proclaimed, and did 0ive much thanks to the Class of six and forty for the pleasure they had provided for their enjoyment. And behold, as the class went on its way in great rejoicing through the lund of plenty und of promise, they did overtake two more aarasels who .-ere wandering ulone, and who cried unto them with a loud voice, saying, Take us into your class, we pray you, for our companies have gone far on without us, and v.e cannot reach them, though we follow fast unu far. And as they spake unto them, even so uid the class of six unc forty listen ano have compassion upon them, and it wus done unto them even us they hud askeu. «nd lo, the whole.number at the end of this third year was thirty. tfUKTER IV Now this, the fourth yeur in the history of this great und onaer'ul class of six and forty has been one of much hara labor, and but little resting by the wuy3id j for prepurutions have been mukin reauy for them to take their final departure from the land. And it aso came to pus3 that the cluss, finding themselves ost faithful, chose to be one of their colors, the hue of refineo gold, unu 'or the other, th» blue of celestial skies, which was to oe unto them a symbol of truth, «nd they die blend to0 ther bolu with the blue, to procluim unto the worla that t-.ey diu ev r meun to be true men unu women in the great land toward which their steps were directed. Now it so happened that this eluarf of six anu ! orty, finding within themselves what noboay else uad discovere- therein, with one consent did adopt unto themselves mot o in this ».ise with the ropes of the pust we will ring the bolls of the future. And they, ano ali their pec les, unu ail the lunu far unu neur, rejoiced thereat, anc there wus much ringing of bells unu shouting in jubilation. «nu it cume to puss in this yeur that this class haa need of a sun of monry where- with to purchuse a memorial to their h.nor. «nd they did l.bor and 0ive of th fruits of their labor. Likewise did they bia tne .eople of the countryside around about their city to come anu view ut great price the results of their cispluy of greut tulent in the guise of a eativity in mune Sing for your Supper. And lo! the peo le did stop their ears an- uiu flee in tecror from this class of six anu for y, unu did seek s:ne .luce of refuge. But behold, the class looked upon it unu oelieved it o bt Oo u. «nu they did use of their suostunce to ,urchase thp .emorial.