Roanoke High School - Acorns Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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1917 QIZUEIIS ufIRua11ukz 59 My Memory Book T was a day about in the year l95O, when I was ransacking the ancient chests in the garret, that l found my old Memory Book. It brought back to me sweet memories of my younger days and friends, and I immediately extracted it from the heap of discarded rubbish, so that I might look it over in my leisure hours. 'That night as I sat before the glowing fire, in the twilight, I thought of the book and went for it. Resuming my seat I blew the dust from the back and opened the volume. On the first pages were souvenirs, clippings, letters, etc., which reminded me vividly of the happenings and good times at dear old R. H. S. I passed over these hurriedly as I was anxious for recollections of my friends and members of the 1917 Class, which I recall I had collected in the years following my graduation. The first familiar names I saw were those of Branch Spalding and Mal Payne, in a newspaper clipping which gave them special mention for bravery and gallant service in the war that broke out in l925. Opposite from that on the same page was another clipping, giving the names of Misses Jennie Ash, Anna Baker, Eva Bondurant, Myrtle Brumfield, Lyne Semple, Edith Rowland, Elsie Wright, Elizabeth Sanders and Mar- garet Thornton, who had patriotically enlisted as Red Cross nurses in this same war. The next souvenir was a scrap of moving picture film, pasted in, and after looking closely I discerned it to be a farce comedy. At the bottom were the few words, Fay Yost, the greatest comedian and rival of Charles Chaplinf, Turning the page I found a card announcing the engagement of Miss Claudine Avent to a young gentleman from Arkansas. Pasted below this was a stamp from Africa-I wasn't positive, but I think it was from Harley Erb, who had gone there as a missionary to the natives in the jungles. Across from this was a newspaper clipping describing the inauguration of l929, giving the members of the inaugural committee. Those of my acquaint- ance were, Godfrey Arnall, Mary Hill, Minnie Wortman, Massey Newcomb, Madolin Davis, Margaret Watkins, Alfred Davis, and Irvin Wells. Turn- ing to the left-hand corner l found a letter from Edith Davis, relating to me the details of the most magnificent inaugural ball in the annals of history, which she had attended, and of the old friends and acquaintances she met. Mademoi- selle Dujure fFrances Quarlesl, the world's most artistic dancer, gave a solo

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58 'Qtnnrns uf lkuanukz 1917 offices in the literary societies and clubs and some have been very active in athletics, showing an abundance of school spirit. And now as our high school career has almost closed we do not regret the time spent there but rather feel sorry over the thought of leaving it and the teachers, who have Worked so patiently over us, trying so often to make us understand the importance of study. There are many roads which We may travel through life and we know we must choose one, but We leave dear old Roanoke High reluctantly, Wishing that those who follow may have as happy and successful a schoollife as ours has been. ' HISTORIAN

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50 QIEDIZUS Elf 1388110132 1917 dance preliminary to the opening of the ball. Hattie Childress, Willie Leavell, Edna Young, Kathleen Baker, Dr. Walter Wood, and I-lon. Robert Stone, Secretary of the Interior, had also danced during the evening. The rest of this page and the next were covered with attractive souvenirs of dances and parties, but I could not recall them, so I turned over, and the first thing which met my view was a picture of Philip Powell with an inscription underneath, uprominent Lawyer, recently appointed by the President to the Supreme Bench. Below this was a very humorous cartoon from Cartoons Magazine, by Francis Bruner, and on the next page I found a program of a famous play by James M. Barrie, with Paul Hash and Vivian I-lutton, the great character impersonators of the age, playing the leads. On the left-hand side was a small box of wedding cake tied fast and I remembered it to be that of Rosa Bening and Earl I-lornbarger. Over on the next page was a pamphlet announcing the long list of actors of the Famous Players Film Companyg the familiar ones were, Clarence Kennett, Lena Bohn, Norma Wright and Reuben Staton, who had all attained fame as movie stars. Glancing over, my eye caught sight of a note. On opening it I found it was from Emma Cook, inviting me to be present at her first appearance in grand opera, which was to take place that season. Slowly turning over, for I was living over the past, I saw at the top of the page a small picture of the champion typewriters of America. I recognized many of my old friends among them-Evelyn Woolfork, Blanch Hubbard, Anthaline Franklin, Marie Nolte and Arthur Huffman. The last thing on the page was a newspaper clipping announcing the election of Mary T. Good- win, Ph. D., president of Vassar College. I turned the page but the next was blank, I had come to the end of my book and was somewhat disappointed at the abrupt conclusion of my sojourn into the land of memories. However, I had enjoyed it so completely that as I closed the book and laid it upon the table I gave a sigh of great happiness and contentment. R CLASS PROP!-KET. 2 TF Q x 'a I as 5 ' f t : . -if 'T ea' ' I 9,1 11. - K t all 4... N fp if I 'I 't r' thy!! 1. 't 3:1