Reidsville High School - Renocahi Yearbook (Reidsville, NC)

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lege work will be offered next session. Dlargaret King: Do you know where Mr. Perry is? Lewis Allen: He is manager of the N. Y. Yankees. Babe Ruth is now in the background. He played with the N. Y. Giants for four years and the-n they sold him to the N. Y. Yankees for 552,866,000 Byron: Say, let's make this an annual affair, for the more we get to- gether the happier we'll be. How about holding a reunion next year in Reidsville? You know that Alumni Asociation is doing wonderful work there! June Bug: Alia! The class of '29 started that ball rolling! Sol flocking at watchj: Gee! What kind of time do you folks have up here in new England? I hope Mrs. Schul- man won't see me tonight when I come in. Byron: Aw, Sol, why do you mention such a disenehanting subject as time? Nellie: YVell, I agree with Shake- speare that Parting is such sweet sor- row - the wee small hours are really herel Hostess: Oh, we must sing Auld Lang Sync before you leave. Host: Louise, let's sing our old svhool song first. Hostess: All right, for the sake of Auld Lang Syneu let's sing Old lleidsville High. l'1'une- lVashing- ton and Lee Swing. Q Old Reizlsville High 'lC'6,ll always cher- ish thee, To thee 1u'e'll ever, ever loyal be, :Inal we shall always sfrizle for 'uifory To malre old Reizlszville Higlrgo alown in history. Yes, true to thee, old Reirlsville, hon- orezl name, ll'e'll slrizve fo 'zui'n, rein, :vin umlying fame, In glad refrain, 1c'e'll always shout Ihe name, Dear old name, Reidsville Higl1.' lSlow Curtain as all sing Auld Lang Syne. j ,v.-.1 I1

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Hosless: All right, children, do you want to dance for tl1ese people. QThey nod.j Sarah will you play? QSarah plays and the children dance.j George David: I believe I could do that! Hostess: Oh, I have a happy idea. Let us dance the minuet. You all re- member the one we had in the seventh grade, don't you? Jack P: Yes, I was in it. Ilostessz How lucky! Each one in a colonial costume was in it. CAfter the dance they all applaudj Hostess: I couldnit think of having a party without a Senior quartette, so I'll ask them to sing for us. fThey sing.j lllary Richardson: Doesn't that re- mind you of the Glee Club and Mrs. IVomack? Hostess: VVasn't she a dear? I sup- pose you know that she is now head of the music department at the Reidsville Junior College. Byron: Mose did you like that? Nlosez I sho' did. It takes me back to dem good ole' days. Host: Mose do you want to sing for them? All: Good-Fine, let him sing. .Hose Qcomcs forwardj: Mr. John you knows I can't sing. fsingsj Nathan. Linh: That's the kind of singing I like. CMose brings in tea and wafers.j George David: CRises.j YVell, I guess I had better make my speech before I have stage fright. Nellie Nlitchellz Never mind about the speech making, George David. You may have stage fright but we would have something worse than that by the time you finished. - June Bug : I wonder where Aunt Sarah is now. I bet she would like to get another pull at my ears. Sarah Kemp: Don't worry, she has enough ears to pull without pulling yours. She married a rich banker two years after we graduated and built a home for orphans with his money. Nathan Linh: Teachers always were interesting persons to me. Let's see if we can find out what each teacher is doing now. There was Miss Mecum and- ' Sol: I know where she is. She is living in Florida and there she studies cooking instead of Latin. Hostess: Naomi, you liked Miss Baker so well I suppose you have been keeping up with her these years. Naomi: Yes, and by keeping up with her I had to keep up with Mr. Black- ard. She helped him make a success and now he is president of Duke Uni- versity while she presides at home. Irvin Lasley: I heard that Miss Con- ley was in W'ashington writing a His- tory of the United States-the best written yet, while her husband hires and fires cooks. George David: Miss Cralle is mar- ried and living in Reidsville, sending each day for groceries at the store with the checker-board front. Jack Pamplin: Miss Hall is now the head of a Commercial School with Mr. Butler as her assistant. Jack Saunders: Mr. Cheves is now the head of a synagogue eating sausage for every meal. A11-nie J. IViIlia1ns: VVhere is Miss Beach now? Sarah Firesheets: She is now con- ducting a school which trains girls for foreign missionaries. This is con- nected with Reidsville High School. Mf1rgarr't Bane: Just think of the improvements that have been made in R. H. S. since Mr. Arrowood has been there. The last ten years he has ac- complished wonders! Just to mention a few things-a manual training school has been added, a practice room for the Home Economics Department, the play grounds have been extended. a new gym has been added and two years col-

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Class istory of the Class of '29 ISTORY is a peculiar and fascinating thing. Often has it been compared with many things in this world. By far, one of the greatest comparisons of history is its comparison with nature. And better still is to compare it to some definite part of nature, so that no uncertainty can be had in the comparison. So today-let us take, for example, a beautiful little spring, set aside in some shady grove, pouring forth its sparkling waters to go merrily on its way. More than likely the scenery is rough, the ground is uneven, and flowers and weeds are grow- ing in glorious disarray on its rustic banks. As we follow this rivulet for some dis- tance, we find it joined by another similar stream, and together they combine to start traveling their long and winding course to the sea. As time goes on, it grows larger, its waters deepen, its banks grow smoother and more even, until Hnally, it is more than likely that this little stream has grown larger and is of some use to the people who dwell upon its shores. When at last its destination is reached and it joins the mighty sea, the waters are divided to combine with various currents and never, perhaps, to come in contact with one another again. But it is certain, how- ever, that this stream has done, and will do its small part in making up the mighty sea, which serves so many in the progress of the world. Now today, let us go back for eleven years, to be exact, to the day of September 1, 1918, when in the city of Reidsville, of the state of North Carolina, two groups of children started on their first career of life. To be exact again, it was in the first grades of the Lawsonville Avenue School and the Franklin Street School that these two groups of perhaps forty each began their career. Because they were some- what timid, bashful and meek was no fault of theirs, for they had had but little experience in this world and they were not initiated into its various rules and regulations. But as time passed and as days grew into months and as months grew into years, and as these were all left behind, the two groups became more accustomed to the school procedure and began to show signs of improvement. Similar to the course of the two small streams, these two sections combined in the year 19241 to form the seventh grade of the Reidsville High School. The next year this combination made up the freshman class of the Reidsville High school, and from the very first, it be- gan to take an active part in the various parts of the organization, such as athletics, debating, and music. Its members were becoming more polished and were making evident some of the fine qualities which had been hidden before. After continuing its course for four glorious years, it has arrived at its temporary destination, Senior- hood. This was due in part to the splendid teachers which we were fortunate enough to have, because of this, the class has excelled in progress and advancement. Today this class stands facing the sea of life with joy and sorrow combined, for some of us have far to travel and many places at which to stop before we reach our destina- tion and settle down to the ordeal of life. But, today we feel happy for the privilege of having known one another and for having had the joy of working together in preparation for the greatest thing we have to deal with in this world, and that is- life. -Joi-IN XVATLINGTON, JR. 26