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

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28 THE BLACK AND GOLD in the preparing of food, wholesome and palatable and of daintily serving the same, for our class is the first to have the opportunity of taking a Domestic Science Course. For inasmuch as the Women's Clubs of our city, under the inspiration of one of its members, Mrs. Garland Webb, did offer to furnish equipment for a course in Household Econo- mics, the School Board did generously add this department to our school that henceforth the girls of Winston-Salem might have opportunity of better fitting themselves for life, for as everyone knows. We may live without friends g We may live Without books, But civilized man cannot live Without cooks . And as for our Commercial Department, We consider it the very best in the State, and the work that our Class has done of the highest order. For the first time, the four years' course prescribed by the school board has been completed. And, as our commercial classmates have had such splendid training in all branches of Commercial work, We cannot help but feel that they will win their Way in the world in the near future. And now our work in the High School is over, and behold all of our acts, first and last, are they not written in the books of Mr. White, the Principal, and recorded in the registers in the office? And now that the time has come for us to leave the High School, we are loathe to lay aside our studies. Nay, We begged that We might remain, but our Alma Mater came to us, and, gently placing our diplomas in our hands said: Go, and win a name for yourselves. Behold, a great Work you have done in this kingdom, moreover you have set a good example for those coming behind, but you must leave us now in the last days of May. And with these di- plomas I am giving unto you, you must go forth into the world, and make yourselves known, and before many years have expired, the high school will be proud of all of you. The blessing of your Alma Mater rests upon you LeliaHauser, '15

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THE BLACK AND GOLD 27 And so with its joys and sorrows our junior year passed and when all the work which our instructors had set out for us was accomplished, with rejoicings we laid aside our books for a few weeks of vacation. And it came to pass that when vacation time was expired, that we came back much refreshed, and ready to conquer the Giant called Hard Work, whose abode is within the four walls of the Senior Class Room. But not all of our classmates came back: a few did decide to take a longer vacationg a few to enter the army of wage- earners, so that the number of those who did enlist as Seniors to battle against Hard Work, was twenty and ten. And as an Eleventh Grade, we went forth into battle, with our armour on, and our shields ready for Hard Work. And we fought a good fight, for in the end we did conquer the Giant, and he surrendered to us, for strong was our army in body and in mind. And so it came to pass in process of time, because we, as the Senior Class did consider ourselves competent of self- government, that we did send forth a petition unto Principal White and Superintendent Latham, asking that we be granted the privilege of governing ourselves. And inasmuch as our teachers knew our class to be strong, self-reliant and willing to work for the best interests of our beloved school, they gave us the privilege of self-government. So we are the first class in the history of the schools of Winston- Salem to have self-government, and we do believe we well deserve the praise of the school. Moreover, we trust that in the years to come the example we have set of governing our- selves will be followed by the classes who are to take our places as Seniors. . Now there are other things beside self-government that we as a Class do rejoice in, to wit: our Commercial Department, the play we did write, our work on the Black and Gold, the reputation our girls of the Addie Webb Kitchen have attained

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THE BLACK' AND GOLD 29 Qlllass ihrupbenp member it all the chirping of the birds the fresh - odors from garden and lawn, the cooling summer breeze. I was spinning along in my Ford, my happy thoughts keeping time with the chug, chug of the motor under me, for it was of graduation day I was thinking, of the joy of actually passing my finals, of making a clean 4 in Math., when crash! went the sound of shattering glass, and I was hurled headlong through the wind shield of my machine. The next thing I knew, I was lying in a white bed of the Hospital, a sweet faced nurse attending me. For many weary weeks I lay there, for like the woman in the Bible I suffered many things of many physicians, and like her again, spent all my living on physicians, and was no better, till one happy day there came to our City Hospital a young doctor who performed on the cells of my brain an operation so deli- cate and yet so marvelous that he obtained a world-wide reputation. I, too, began to acquire a reputation, for it soon became evident that because of the operation on my brain, a subtle psychological change had come over meg and at the hour each day in which I was hurled from the machine, I was thrown as it were into a kind of trance, and the future was spread as an open scroll before my clear mental vision. People who were interested in foretelling and such things began to visit me. One by one the members of my class at old Winston-.Salem High School began, to consult me as to their future. The first to come was john Henning, for strange to say, though old john seems so quiet and unassuming he has a heart afire with ambition. He was highly pleased, therefore, when my prophetic vision placed him, after years of hard work following the plow, high in the professional world of letters, as editor of a matrimonial journal. T wAs 3 bright day in June, 1915. HOW well 1 fe-