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

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I it THE CLASS OF '42 HE CLASS OF '42 with few exceptions entered the halls of Lee High School from the grammar school in the year 1937. The newness and bigness of it all greatly impressed us and, indeed, gave us a little fear of what was to come. We had all the perplexities that a freshman group can possibly have. We had both embarrassments and failures but, at length, we became accustomed to our new surroundings, and with a feeling of pride passed on to the Sophomore Class. We returned the next year with all the usual assurance of sophomores, think- L. ing as sophomores will, that we knew all there was to know. Before the year was over, however, we met some unforeseen obstacles which camed us to lose some of our pride, and we advanced rather timidly into the junior Class. When we became full-fledged Juniors we began to take pn a little dignity and reserve, imitating as far as possible, the seniors. We took ihrt in more important discussions and meetings, and even took a small part in some of the senior activities, we had a taste of what the senior year was really to be like. Then at long last in the fall of '41 we became Seniors. We were, indeed, 1 proud, and conscious of our dignified position. We now began to realize, also, that we had formed ties, and made friends from whom it would be hard to part. As gf' we pihsed for a moment at the beginning of the year and looked back over our 1' previous years of fun and progress, we felt a real sadness. But sentiment was V soon forgotten and we settled down to work, for we, as seniors knew that at the A completion of the year we would be leaving to go out into a world in which there is a great crisis, the greatest ever known to mankind. It was necessary for us to Q- W realize, that this should be the busiest Senior Class ever to attend Lee, in that, if we would have to accomplish so much to better prepare us for the emergency which must be met. ' A We chose for our motto Regard the past, look at the present, look forward to the future, and for our colors, red, white, and blue, very appropriate at this time. We knew the difficult task that lay beforfus and worked hard to gain our goal, Some pleasant events of the year were the senior play and the senior dance, ,i which served to break the monotony of school work and give much needed rest , and pleasure. 'We know that high school is not the end of education, but that in the years :Q A' to come we must work hard to succeed, just as we have done while members of 3' r the Class of '42. 5 .4 ' . .W ., A. W 0, K .

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SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS -IOHN lVlARSllAl.l. RIIJIJLIC Editor l.l'L ZUlI-X' l.t'lllZll'7', '41-'42 Senior Dramatic Club, '41-'42 lloys' Hi-Y Club, '39-'40 Football, ,40-'42 MARVIN VIACKSC DN NLll.l, Presiclcnt junior Clz1ss,'4O-'41 Varsity Football, '40-'41 Varsity lizisketball, l41, Czlptzlin, '42 RPICIJRID Club, '41-'42 MARTHA l3lil.l, ROIJRIGUICS Girl Reserves, '41-'42 President l71'CSllIllZ11l Class,l39-'40 llresiclent lll'Zll1lLllICl2ll1 llrznnzltic Club ,41 Senior Dramatic Club,l42 GEORGE ANDERSON RYLIC, .IR Football, '41-'42 Baseball, '40-'41 Boys' Hi-Y Club, '40-'42 Boys' Chorus, '38-'42 JEAN PARKICR lllCKl,Ii Secretary Senior llramzxtic Club, '41 '42 Girls' Hi-Y Club, 40-'42 '40 Riccoun Club,'4-'42 Secretary Players' Dramatic Club, '39-