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

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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.

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37 BLACK AND GGLD ln history and in science, in commercial branches and domestic science, in 'gmathn and Latin, We have toed the mark. lvlany of us, however, would have appreciated Virgil more if his Aeneid had not lived after him. As for Working eighth grade girithmetic problems, We were perfect geniuses! llm sure Mr. Moore will vouch for that. And now the time of Commencement is at hand, our joys, our frolics, our hard times We have already begun to think of as in the past, and already June--three-years-from-now-looms great be- fore us, When as Alumni and Alumnae of old W.-S. H. S. We shall hold our first class reunion. The friendships We have made will never cease. Whereve1' We may go, or Whatever We may be, it will always be for the ideals and the principles We have built during our four happy years at the Winston-Salem High School, and for the honor of the BLACK AND GOLD. -KATHLEEN HUNTLEY. DEBATING TEAM