Roanoke High School - Acorns Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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64 Qlcurns nf 1Kn'anuke 1919 Junior History lVlOTTO: Let Mutt do it. September 8, l9l6. It was for as a dreary day, fThough there was sunshine others sayj When with our shaking limbs aqualfe, We did our trembling way betalfe From R. 1. S, so haughty and proud, To R. H. S. soon humbled and bowed: Some weary months we passed this way, Till finally Sophs we became one day. fl-lere the fickle Muse forsook me and I was left to complete this, the third Chapter of our history, in Prosej F TER our first exams were over, those of us who had been faithful entered into our reward tif not restl, thereby becoming Sophs. As the cry of Ratsl no longer awakened consternation in our breasts, we began to take great pleasure in approaching and loaling around the entrances to the noble and commodious edifice wherein the future great men and women of Roanoke were earnestly pursuing elusive solutions to impossible Math problems, etc. Gur Motto as Sophs was: Spare fnotj the rod and spoil fnotl the Freshmen. While Freshmen our only ambition was to become Sophs, and as Sophs we thought only of the time when we would be Juniors, and now being Juniors we think of the time when, like the present Class, we will be grave and dignified Seniors, all of which goes to prove what Byron says: The gaudy toy so fiercely sought, Hath lost its charm on being caught. Our class has been well represented in Athletics this year, especially in Basket-ball and Football. In the former, we furnished two excellent players,

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JUNIOR CLASS

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1919 QICIJBIIS uf lKUH11UkB 55 Masinter and Shockley, and in the latter, lVlcClanahan and Brown gave material help towards winning the State Football Championship. We are not only noted for our Athletic tendencies, but through the stren- uous and untiring efforts of our President, Richard Redden, we have made a name for ourselves in a social way. It is also because of our Presidents work that we have inaugurated the Junior Dramatic Clubf' the purpose of which is to give a competitive class play with the Seniors. ' Never has there been joined in a single class the two attributes of quality and quantity in such profusion as in ours. Indeed we are considered the best class that the ex-R. H. S. has ever had or the H. S. will ever produce, with exception, perhaps, of the Class of 'I9 QTO be continued in I920.J PAUL PRICE. C. HOLCOMB- lVlr. McDonald, will Oxalic acid eat the bathtub? DUFFIELD MATSON- What is propganda fpropagandaj ? SALLIE B.- Husband of Mother Goose! KITTY COLE--nl went down to the ten cent store to buy something, but I had everything that cost five cents except soap and that cost six cents. I... Hester meets Willie Leap in hall: L. HESTER- Willie, what girl will be selected as class beauty? WILLIE- I will, of courseli' K. COLE- Miss Bohannon hung half-way out of the window to see the fire wagon. EMMA T.- I bet she knows the fire-man. MISS CARLISLE- What was the result to Austria when Russia took so much of her land? C. THOMAS-'il reckon it made Austria Hungary! CLAUDINE M. fcoming into the cloak room?- My dress looks like it came out of the junkshopf' VIRGINIA B.- That's nothing, mine looks like it came out of the hard- ware store!