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

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BLACK AND GOLD 29 An Apprvriatinn 1 T HAS been ten years since hdr. White came to this city to Jim? take charge of the High School, and all of us had the feel- CQ ing that, as it was when we came, so it would be when i we left,-Mr. White would still be sitting in the Princi- pal's chair, and we all expected that as he had greeted us when we entered, so he would bid us farewell when we departed But the Class of 1920 is the last to whom this happy lot will fall, for recently it has been made public that Wir. White has de- cided to leave our High School, at the close of the present scholastic year, for the Chair of Education at Guilford College. We knew that there had always been the closest ties between Mr. White and the Quakers, for Mr. VVhite graduated at Guil- ford, and was further associated with them by his attendance at Haverford College, Pa, but we had no idea that the call of the College would appeal to him until we heard that the session of 1919-20 would be his last with us. It is with the greatest reluctance that we give lylr. WVhite up. We feel that he is a vital part of our school life. He came to us when we were a comparatively small and insignificant High School and he has stayed with us year after year and helped us forge to the front till now we stand in the foremost ranks of our State High Schools. During the ten years of Mr. White's principalship, YVinston- Salem High School has made wonderful progress. The enrollment has increased more than one hundred and fifty per cent, and ad- vances have been made along all lines of instruction, literary, com- mercial and vocational, while in athletics, public speaking and de- bates our school has won a name for itself. Mr. Whiite's departure will be an incalculable loss to our school, and to our community, and especially will it be felt by those of us who have had the privilege of attending the High School since he has been here. For he has found a place as a friend in the heart of each one of us who have known him so well, and through his patient and earnest work with us, along a number of lines, we have all learned to respect him, and to honor him. Therefore, we unite in expressing our regret at his departure, and in extending to him our sincere best wishes for his new position. And while we lament, in the highest degree, our loss of so excellent a teacher, so proficient an executive, and so valuable a citizen, we wish also to extend our hearty congratulations to Guilford on being able to obtain as instructor one, of whom it may httingly be said: f'His life is gentle, and the elements So mixed in him that Nature may stand up, And say to all the world, 'This is a man.' -JOHN FRIES BLAIR.

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BLACK AND GOLD 31 Uhr Reign Elini Arr 6511112 g N E, the Class of 1920, made our debut at the VVinston-Salem High School at the perfectly proper time of entrance. Fifty-seven varieties we were--some light-headed, some am' brown-haired, some black-headed, and a few grey-headed, due to seven previous years of worry. In our Freshman year we were so numerous that every avail- able crack and corner was pressed into use, but by the time we had explored the mysteries of Algebra and Latin we had very no- ticeably decreased and three rooms were sufficient to hold us. Little time was there in our Sophomore year for gayeties and frolics, for our country was in need of all our spare time and pennies. YVe were very proud of our Service Flag, with its one gold star, and we earnestly spent our time knitting gay-colored quilts, and buying war-savings stamps for our country. By the time we reached our junior year we thought we were know-alls, but after the Seniors had directed us to the side-door entrance several times, our dignity suffered painful injuries, and we realized we were not yet those envied and irreproachable be1ngs+- High School Seniors. This, our Senior, year will certainly be a long remembered one, and especially the good times we had after class and when lessons were over. The gay Hallowe'en party when the Juniors entertained us with Hquips and cranks and served a real salad course with silver forks, though borrowed ones of course, will never be for- gotten. The year has not been one of frolics only, however, for we have worked at our tasks with a zeal that has always characterized the boys and girls of 1920. In all of our studies we have come up to the standard of other classes and -in English we believe that we have gone just a little further than other classes. At any rate, after our regular assignments in composition and letter-writing, our study of Burns and Shakespeare, Macaulay? and lVIilton and Carlyle, we have had a three-months' course in the study of present- day English with the Liierrzry Digest as text-book. This study of the topics of the day has been especially interesting to the girls of our class, in that they are confidently looking fo-rward to casting their votes in the presidential election of 192-1. In another thing has our class forged to the front-in that we have had military training, though not compulsory, during our senior year-and under an officer who has seen service over seas, Captain John Watson Moore.