Roanoke High School - Acorns Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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1919 Qlcurns uf BDHUURZ N f 7 it N 'f 'X I. 4 .' ,E .S, L.: . t , X f 1 SN, N fx,5.Z ef f 53 K E: Qi' - . 1 is 3-523. 1 - 1 E ge - School Days. I wish I were a genius, I clon't think it's fairg If there wasn,t such a thing as school, Then I wouldn,t care. 1t's study, study every night Way till half-past twelve, 1t's into Geometry, Latin, French, And such we have to delve. Some follfs say these are happy days, The worst is yet to come, I clon't believe it, but if 'tis true Then blame it! here, 1'm done. ALBERTA ERB, '20

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82 Ht 012115 of IKUHTIUIQB 1919 FALL Miss BOARD, Instructor ADA ARTHUR ........ CARROLL NEBLETT .. LUCILLE PETERS .... RUBY URQUHART .... NANCY LUKENS ..... Bible Class OFFICERS President Vice Presideni .... . . . . Secrclary . . . . . . Treasurer . . . Historian Miss SPRING CARLISLE, Inslruclar TI-IELIVIA FRINGER HARRY NASH VIRGINIA BOULDIN . LUCILLE MUNDY .. . . GRACE HENTY

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84 Hnurns uf Ittuannkz 1919 A Students Cutlook HE great four-year conflict out of which we have just emerged, involv- ing so many nations of the entire world, however terrible it may have been, was not waged in vain. In this age of irreverence and frivolity, the student-the boy and girl in high school,-has been led to view life from a different standpoint. It is no longer to him a mere span of a few years in which he may pursue his own selfish ambitions and pleasures-not this, but a most sacred trust. The favorable conditions under which most of us live have blinded our eyes to the wants and needs of our brothers in distant lands. V But the untold sufferings brought on by the World War have stirred our hearts to such a depth that we are forgetting self, thereby becoming broader and more unselfish in extending to them a helping hand. The student begins to realize as never before that life is a sacred trust and given to him that he may serve mankind. Can one doubt, in view of these facts, that students are becoming broader in mind, more ennobled in character and grasping the gospel idea of the F ather- hood of God and the brotherhood of man, thereby fulfilling the law of love for one another? Thus, we are coming out from the towering threats of war into the clear sweet atmosphere of internationalismand brotherhood. We repeat that the costly lessons learned in the hard school of war have not been learned in vain. This, as nothing else, has awakened us to the realization of what an important place each and every one of us occupies in the world. May we live up to the teaching of Eleanor H. Porter, that each of us is just a small instrument in the great Orchestra of Life. We must see to it that we are always in tune, never drag or hit a false note, for then the harmony would not be complete. The High School student of to-day is Roanoke's citizen of to-morrow. The student's thoughts of to-day are the world's thoughts of to-morrow. Students! Let us do our part to preserve a national unity and practice a more catholic spirit which shall fill the future with a radiance and hope for which the world has so long been groping. When the tide of opportunity has flowed out, There is nowhere to float one's ship. I EMMA C. TINSLEY, '19.