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

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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.”

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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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Salutatory R1ENDS, teachers, patrons and fellow students of Robert E. Lee High School, it is a great pleasure and privilege to have you present and to welcome you on behalf of the High School and the class of ’26. While because of the matchless activities of Mother Nature under our Baldwin Street school building, we have not in the session now closing had a “local habitation,” vet we have none the less had a “name.” Neither our enthusiasm, our effort nor our activities have been dimin¬ ished. We hope that our teachers have not found any curtailment of our work or inferiority in our attainments. We very greatly envy our successors in the coming enjoyment of the splen¬ did edifice now far on the way to completion as the capstone of the public school system of Staunton. They will work amid the perfect equipment and adequate facilities of that magnificent building which cannot fail to conduce to uninterrupt¬ ed and effective study and the comfort of its physical conditions will, without doubt, tend to help the teachers also in imparting their knowledge to the students. We regret very much that on account of the continuing unfavorable working conditions we have been able to do no more than that which is presented to you in our program this evening, but what we do exhibit is, I feel sure, a matter of great pride to each member of the graduating class and the real results are no less in the acquisition of knowledge, mental improvement and character building. Some of us may plunge at once into the serious and exacting world work; some of us will no doubt be so fortunate as to continue our studies in the higher and more advanced branches of learning. Whatever may be our lot I know none will forget the happy associations of the class of ’26. 1 bespeak for the whole class a happy, full, and successful future. Class of 1926, I salute you and for you give most hearty and sincere welcome to our friends who are present. -—Martha Merriken,