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

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4 THE BLACK AND GOLD LOUISE: HENLEY, Pianist in Orchestra; Chairman of Program Committee of Chas. D. Mclver Literary Society, Sec- tion A; Member of Rooters’ Club; Member of The Pickwick Players; Member of Choral Club. Louise is very “high-schoolish’. She wants to see things hum. But Louise is also very jealous. She doesn’t want anyone but Seniors to make things hum. Her ambi-. tion is to be made judge at a trial of some Junior girls and to suddenly acquire Lucretia Borgia talents. Louise is holding very ably the position of a departed Louise, that of pianist in the orchestra. ELEANOR TAYLOR Secretary and Member of Pro- gram Committee of Charles D. Melver Literary Society, Section B; Assistant Business Manager of Black and Gold; Member of Rooters’ Club; Member of The Pickwick Players; Member of Choral Club. Eleanor is noted for her lack of self-control. She just can not make her eyes be still. And when some good-looking stranger comes in sight, those dimples qwi show. She can’t help it. She didn’t put them there. Miss Taylor is instigating a movement to have the school desks changed to face the windows.

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Che Hlack and Gold Published Quarterly by the Upper Classes of the Winston-Salem City High School Vou. VII May, 1917 No. 4 DEDICATION WE LOVINGLY DEDICATE THIS, THE SENIOR NUMBER -OF OUR MAGAZINE, TO OUR BELOVED TEACHER PROF. JOHN WATSON MOORE WHO HAS WATCHED OVER OUR CLASS WITH FATHERLY CARE AND WHO HAS BROUGHT OUR SCHOOL TO THE FOREFRONT IN ATHLETICS THROUGH HIS EFFORTS AS COACH

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hob BLACKS ANDEGOLD 5 MARGUERITE ELLISON Press Reporter of Charles D. Melver Literary Society, Section A; Member of Black and Gold Joke Committee; Member of Rooters’ Club; Member of Senior Social Committee. Marguerite has a head which is always devising schemes for having a good time. The Student Council was puzzled over how to deal with this pro- pensity of hers until they struck upon the happy thought of plac- ing her on the Sociai Committee. Since then her schemes have been of benefit to the whole class and many of the good times of the class at receptions have been due to the schemes evolved in her fertile brain. ‘POLLY POINDEXTER Polly startled the Seniors the other day by writing an essay in which she said, “I like English better than any other study I take.” ‘The class was relieved when it remembered that Eng- lish was the only study she is taking now.