R J Reynolds High School - Black and Gold Yearbook (Winston Salem, NC)

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THE BLACK AND GOLD There were times when with manifold doubts Our feelings We could not control, But we still pressed onward and upward Till at last we reached the goal. With joy We think of our conquests And our tasks which were well performedg And we resolve with the same stout heart To meet the trials to come. We grieve that our paths must separate On the broad deep sea of lifeg But we will each think of the other And be more manly in our strife. We hope for each one a bright future, Much success in the coming yearsg May each strive with courage and valor To answer the call that he hears. Mary Efird, '15 xx .-4 KN ff ' -.

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22 THE BLACKA GOLD ND Thomas Wilson shines in athletics, So, also, does Arthur Spaugh. Bertha Ferguson and Lettie Green Are the best friends I ever saw. Both Isabel McRae and Mary Sink Are quiet, but very nice. So are our specials, Louise Brown, Lucille Snyder and Albert Price. Drpheus Wright loves to tell of our future, Lelia Hauser tells of our past, Allan Owen, with his contradictions Will add spice until the last. Elizabeth Conrad and Louise Crosland Are our most excellent cooks. Emily Vaughn and Della Dodson Do not bother themselves with books. john Henning is one who says little But is always willing to work. The business of the Black and Gold Edwin Stewart does not shirk. Bessie Hutchings and Margie Hastings Crack jokes to make time pass. Marguerite Davis and Eva Logan Do the studying for the class. This friendly band has trudged on its way With little time for leisure, The days were filled with study and toil And sometimes, too, with pleasure,

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24 THE BLACK AND GOLD Glass Qllhrnnitles tratlon of Super1ntendent Latham that a goodly number of boys and girls entered the Seventh Grade of the city schools, which was then a part of the High School. From the four quarters of the town they came, from North School, from West End, East Winston and Salem, Furthermore from the Schools of the rural districts came students, and from neighboring towns, for the fame of the High School was beginning to spread abroad in the land. OW it came to pass in the beginning of the adminis- And Principal White numbered the students that had entered the Seventh Grade of his school, after the numbering wherewith their several teachers had numbered them, and they were found to be one hundred twenty and two. And Principal White said, Behold the number of boys and girls who wish to enter our Seventh Grade is great, one room is not sufficient to hold them all. Therefore, O Superintendent, you must give me more teachers, that two or more Seventh Grades may be found. So it came to pass that in process of time three Seventh Grades were found. Then Superintendent Latham began to plan greater th'ngs for the High School. On the second day of the second month in the first year of his administration began he to plan. And these are the things which he did plan: an Eleventh Grade to be added to the School system, a new department of Modern Languages, that those who eschewed Latin might choose German or French, and a thorough and systematic Commercial Course, which was to take four years for comple- tion. So that at the beginning of the second year of our High School course we found that in spite of our hard labors of the year before we were still only freshmen,