Robert E Lee High School - Leeway / Record Yearbook (Staunton, VA)

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JOHN MAXWELL WHITE “Whitey” “The man that loves and laughs must sure do well.” Football ’25, Basketball ’25-’26, Baseball ’26, Hi Y Club. John is a newcomer into our midst this year, but he has already won a secure place in the hearts of his fellow classmates. John’s musical laugh is well known all over S. H. S. With sorrow we bid K. W.’s cave¬ man goodbye! ROHES WOODBURY “Woody” PHCENIX LITERARY SOCIETY “Some shout him, and some hang upon liis car To gaze in his eyes and bless him.” President Junior Class ’25, President Senior Class ’2o. “Woody’s” popularity has made him president of two classes, while his continual good humor and cleverness have constantly added to his popularity. “Rastus” is a good friend of both classmates and faculty.

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©nocont n©non©n( vppap r? 1 » JAMES PALMER STOVER PH CENIX LITERARY SOCIETY • “Who can foretell for zvhat high cause This darling of the gods zvas horn?” Football ’24, Hi Y Club. Palmer is the Beau Brummel of the Senior Class. As Shakespeare or somebody said—Contented with bis “Lot” he is not “Abel” to raise “Cain.” With Palmer go our best wishes for a successful future. MARY LOUISE TIMBERLAKE “Weese” l’HCENIX LITERARY SOCIETY “O, could you view the melody Of every grace, And music of her face.” Exchange Editor Record ’25-’26, Leeway Staff, Class Valedictorian. “Weese” has gone blissfully through her four years of high school and captured the highest marks in all her classes. It must be truthfully said, however, that along with her smartness she hasn’t for a minute lost her popularity, especially with the opposite sex. She has the rare combination of good looks and intelligence and we value her as one of the best treasures of the class of ’26. M |M I Ml i ' U i

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Class Poem Bessie Lewis, ’26 The prize, graduation, is ours, Seniors, The reward of our high school career— The goal toward which we’ve been striving Is reached amid glamour and cheer. We’ve worked and we’ve studied together, And hard it is for us all— To leave old friends and companions, Not to meet again in the Fall. May those who will follow our pathway Find something noble and grand, That will make their achievements simpler, Of the things that we had planned. There is one great debt we find we owe, It will be with us day by day, And that is to the Faculty, who Have paved our triumphant way. To the teachers and the students, too, Our final gif t will be The new and splendid building— Our future R. E. Lee! Fond Memory will brighten the future, And time will more firmly fix The great and glorious history Of the Class of ’26! And now, our parting is final, Our studious course is run, And if “blue”—we’ve but to remember That, “After the clouds, the sun.”