Roxboro High School - Rocket Yearbook (Roxboro, NC)

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JULIA FRANCES YANCEY “In every rank, great or small, Tis industry that supports us all” Yes, Julia always performs her duty. She made a faithful student and will certain- ly succeed, because labor never loses its re- ward. Now, don’t think she is too serious, for she has always taken part in outside ac- tives of the school and made good. She has also the ability to appreciate the humorous side of life, and even likes to sit with other students “to study.” Pat is.) Sia ot tel A er OUR CLASS Our Class in number is seventeen, With as fine a teacher as ever was seen. Beth is a girl, who is full of fun, And Willies motto is “lesson’s well done. We all know Hallie, who loves to read, And Bessie, who does not believe in speed. Giles has the easiest course of us all, And Julia is studious, quick and tall. Argument, for Robert Burch is sport, While on spelling Robert Long is short. Willie Hall’s in a constant rush, And Mary Lou can assuredly blush. His firm foundation is Samuel’s pride, While Clarence loves in a Ford to ride. But speaking of Jewels, Nannie’s a “pearl”, And Isabel’s a good old musical girl. Minnie Lee is expert in dressing hair, While Ethel, a senior, can fall from a chair. Last of all is a girl named Nell, Less said the better so “Fare Thee Well”. —NELLIE B. WOODS. ES ee ne, ee EAN

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MINNIE LEE WINSTEAD ““A face with gladness ever spread, Soft smiles by human kindness bred” Minnie Lee’s gentle manner has no doubt won for her many friends. She has al- so become very studious and we are sure she will reach her goal. Though very pretty, she has the unusual faculty of not thinking so herself, but leaves it to other people to do the thinking. MARY LOU WINSTEAD “She is as good as the best of them” Mary Lou came to us asa stranger in the ninth grade. Because we did not know her we though of her as a quiet girl who never wanted to join in any fun, but wanted to study all the time. We have been with her for three years, and now find her a good friend, ready for fun and glad to join in all good sport. 20

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HISTORY OF THE SENIOR CLASS The High School career of our class began on September 10, 1917. We all came on that first morning, thirty-six in number, feeling our importance, because we were in the High School. It seemed that our hearts desire was fulfilled. The year passed without any very exciting events except the society parties. We attended them for the first time and were so thrilled over the fact that we could think of nothing else for days before hand. We won for ourselves the name, “Angels”, in our Freshman year, and lam sure we have certainly lived up to it all the remaining years. It was here that we were initiated into the mysteries of Latin and Algebra. May I not add that to the future Freshman classes, we all wish them as much pleasure in the studying of these subjects as we have had. We all returned the following year full-fledged Sophomores, although our number had been reduced to twenty-nine, we could hardly realize that we were ever as green aS the Freshmen seemed to us. We were certainly never as young and inexperienced, as they. As we look back over.our four years we all agree that our Sophomore year was the very happiest. We had become accustomed to High School life and things were not new to us then. We did not have to take life so seriously, and I may say none of us did. That year some of the most attractive members of our class entered. We were glad to have them and all led the gay care free life of a sophomore. But not so with our Junior year. We settled down to hard work. Always we were reminded, “Now children you will be Seniors next year.” I really think we came to stand in awe of the word “Senior”. All during the year we were constantly thinking of the “Junior-Senior Banquet,” we were looking forward to it, yet we were dreading it, because we knew that “Banquet” meant money, and everybody knows that a Junior never has any money. But when it all came around we were ready, and gave the Seniors a banquet in keeping with their dignity. We also gave to the world our first publication during our Junior year. First it ap- peared in the form of a small newspaper. After that attempt, we decided to try some- thing better. So we published the first Annual from Roxboro High School. Although it was not the best annual in the world, we were proud of our work. Finally, the wonderful day arrived and we were Seniors at last. But none of us felt a bit different from last year. We were not dignified in the least. Our class had been re- duced to seventeen, but for all that, we still had the largest graduating class that Roxboro High School had ever sent out into the world. We had been told by people whom we thought much wiser and more experienced than we, that our senior year would be easy. Not so with us, we could understand fully, now just what the teachers meant when they reminded us that we would be seniors the following year. Although we have had to study so hard, our last year together has been a very happy one. We are so congenial that we have learned to pull and work together. All the members of the class are interested in everything that happens. . We all say we will be glad when graduation comes, yet there is not one of us that will not be a little sad, when the time comes for us to séparate, and to make a place for ourselves in life. In after years all of us will look back on our few years in High School and truthfully say that they were the happiest years of our lives. THE PROPHECY From the day I was appointed to foretell the future of the class of 1921 until the night of March the first I was troubled very much as to what would become of sone of cur 22