Piedmont High School - Tris Yearbook (Piedmont, WV)

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14-T--ij , f ll --Il ,ego-ga-ET!lfr1s4 ,,e,.:.eg 015132 Iaeart ut illllahge Glenville College versus Smith College, November 8, at the Smith Stadium. This was the sign which was causing so much excitement and enthu- siasm in the halls of the main building of Smith College. The coming game would be the one in which their star halfback, Bert Heyward, would out- shine the star of last year, who was a member of the Glenville team. Bert Heyward was loved not only for his skill in football but also because he was an all around good fellow. It was the thought of seeing the beloved halfback star in the most important game of the season that made study- ing a little hard that day. There was one girl, however, who could not study because she was very unhappy. How she did want to see that game in which her ideal would play. Madge Duncan was a little nurse who was trying very hard to get a college education. By working night duty in the hospital and by sacrificing all the pleasures of college life, she had nearly succeeded. Al- though Madge was a senior in Smith College, she had never attended a football game, for all her extra money had to provide for her invalid moth- er. For months she had worshipped Bert Heyward from afar, knowing always this was all he could ever be to her. Would he ever notice a shy, little golden-haired girl, when he had around him always a dozen of the most attractive girls in the college? This day, the most exciting day of all days, Madge pored over her books long after the last student had left the room. Her eyes were on the book, but her mind was far away dwelling on the football game in which Bert would play and which she could not attend. The gentle touch of Miss Mays, her history teacher, aroused her from her reverie. Madge jumped up with a startled look. I must have been asleep, she said, I must hur- ry in order to reach the hospital on time. You have plenty of time, said Miss Mays detaining her. I want to ask you to go to the game with me to-morrow. You will do a lonesome spinster a great deal of good by going. I will see that another nurse takes your place to-morrow evening, she added as Madge was about to protest. As her objections were swept away one by one Madge consented to go. That night everyone wondered at the gaiety of quiet little Madge. The first half was over and the score was in favor of Glenville. All Smith held its breath. Then there was a great shout and a burst of ap- plause. Bert had made a touchdown. How happy Madge was as she pray- ed with all her might for her Bert. There was another great shout and then the silence of -death. Madge shrank and grew pale as she saw Bert being brought towards her on a stretcher. Just as he had made his sec- ond touchdown, which won the game for Smith, he had been knocked un- conscious by the weight of falling bodies heaping on him. She ran to him and during the interval of waiting for the ambulance she did the things that she knew must be done at once. The thought never entered her mind, when she climbed in the ambulance, that she had never even met Bert Heyward. Her only thought was to help him. Page seventy

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S I I ,gi-1 Q5 ns Q Fha, Qfter Examination Examinations are over, And all is said and done. All the playing pupils have lost, Those who have worked have won. Now comes a day of reckoning, We wonder who's to blame For all of the great rejoicing, The sorrow and the shame. Here, this is where the trouble lies, I'll tell you what is wrong, They leave work until to-morrow, They say it won't take long. This is the way of all losers, Who think forever of play. N 0 matter where you are, my friends Don't look at life this way. If you would be a sure winner, Just hold your head up high, Don't say I can't to anything But always say I'll try. ELDRED GREEN '27 I Page sixty-nine

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sill s i , o f L.i,..r All through the night Bert was unconscious, but at dawn Madge's faithful watching was rewarded when she saw her patient's eyelids flutter. He looked at her, smiled, and dropped into a restful sleep. The next even- ing when Madge went on duty he surprised her by saying, You are the shy little girl whom I always see in history class, are you not ? As Madge nodded in the affirmative she was singing in her heart, He did notice me. He did notice me l I shall always bless this accident for making it possible for me to tell you all that I must, he went on, I always have wanted to meet you, but you always disappeared at the wrong time and-Oh, Madge, I just have to tell you that I love you. Will you marry me? Could you care for me just a little? I will care for you as I have always cared, Madge whispered as she knelt beside him. LOLA HARDEGEN '27 Page seventy-one