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

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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-

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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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30 THE BLACK AND GOLD Della Dodson was the next to visit my seer's den, little Della who used to be so good in class, destined to leave a henpecked husband to care for the pots and kettles while she paraded around the country, helping the suffragettes smash windows and the like. As Della left, Lucile Snyder and Louise Brown came in, followed by Allan Owen. The girls, I aforesaw were to be alas, old maids and live in a tiny home with their cats and Howers, while Allan was to carry the chain for the South- bound and in the course of time steal the hearts of many a maiden who chanced to cross his path as he journeyed from Waughtown to Wadesboro on business for the corps. A murmur of voice in my ears interfered with my vision one day, a strange foreign sound. At last I perceived that it was the dialect of the heathen Chinee and that it was Bessie Hutchins trying to preach in far away Chop-suey land to the almond eyed girls and women. Strange to say, it was on the day that Mary Elird and Emily Vaughn came to see me that I saw Theodore Rondthaler, always interested in science and inventions, and Arthur Spaugh, his boon companion, navigating some kind of H20 Flying Ship that they had invented. I saw them sailing up, up, into the distant blue towards the fabled land of Mars. Then the vision faded, and all I could see was two lonely widows,-one a school ma'am in far away Dagupan explaining the Farewell Address of Washington to a widely interested class of Philipinos, and the other the verse maker for the Country Lady's Magazine. Dthers of my classmates I saw were to follow literary lines in after life. Hortus Scott was to become famous as a preach- er, and by his glowing eloquence, his lofty flights of imagina- tion, attract great congregations, especially of women. jim Hankins was to become quite famous as teacher of a new system of pennmanship, so easy to learn that even a school teacher could make a passing grade by practicing fifteen minutes a day.