St Pauls College - Tiger Yearbook (Lawrenceville, VA)

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CLASS HISTORY On September 5, 1948, two hundred and five students embarked upon a modern adventure. Leaving behind them the carefree existence of high school days, they came onto the campus of St. Paul ' s Polytechnic Institute with many vivid mental pictures evoked by that magic phrase college life. At the sight of the waving grass, the leafy sycamores, the campus walks and rolling hills, we knew we ' d stumbled upon a Utopia. The Freshman placement examinations brought us to our senses with the impact of a small bomb. After three days of this mental torture, we believed ourselves to be well orientated to this new life. However, along came some all right people with some all wrong (to our thinking) ideas of initiation which served to bring us to our senses even more. (This time with the impact of a large bomb.) Only the strong influence of our Advisor, Mrs. Frances Thurman, kept us from going off the deep end about those canes, bows and haircuts. Guided by her, we enjoyed an exciting Freshman Ball and finished the year with the usual confusion attendant to frosh groups. September, 1949, found us back again, this time in the mantle of the wise fools. Not quite as strong in number but with redoubled energies, one hundred and thirty-four huddled under the comforting wing of our Advisor and fought off our second year studies. The class canteen A Night In Hawaii that has not yet been seriously challenged, and a loving cup for the best campus group skit, added to our

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MRS. ELIZABETH JOHNSON Director of Business MR. ARTHUR WILSON Auto Mechanics

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prestige. We left for home in May feeling that all things considered, it had been a wonderful year. Only one hundred and three of our original number returned to the fold in September, 1950. An important year was ahead of us ... a busy year. We needed the efforts and resources of every class member to make it successful. The adminis¬ tration injected a stimulant in the form of another Advisor, Mr. Edward Strayhorne, and work, work, work was the keyword. Work we did, and produce we did as anyone who attended the fabulous Starlight Canteen or, Junior-Senior Prom will readily attest. Curricular matter was inspected, digested and assimilated and the year ' s end well showed the result of three years ' hopes, strivings and successes. Confidence, poise and a new sense of values were our mantles now. There were many mixed feelings accompanying our return last September. The pride of attainment was tinged by the sadness inherent to the last mile of any profitable journey and we embarked upon it determined to make this mile a mem¬ orable one. Mr. Joseph Thompson and Miss Beatrice Moore combined energies at our helm and we set out to chart a rather foreboding sea. We set out to do the best in our studies, to make our yearbook a best, to improve our school wherever and whenever possible. In short, we set out to do things. And we did. Class Historians LOUISE GOLDSBERRY CHARLES W. GREENE