Statesboro High School - Criterion Yearbook (Statesboro, GA)

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ufiiwy R JOYCE WEST Cu rent vents Club, Original Club, 2'-,rv CECIL WILLIAMSON WATERS fr-inf . X Football, '34, '35g Track, '34, '35, '36g Dramatic Club, '31, '3Zg President Current Events Club, '35, '36g President T. E. T. Club, 'Jog Assistant Snapshot Editor CRI- TERION. History BACK IN THE FALL OF 1925 an eager band of youngsters approached the first grade room with all the awe that Alice must have felt as she followed the white rabbit into the intricate mazes of a true Wonderland. .- Possibly they were just as dazed by their rapid introduction Y, 5- to the new round of school life as Alice was by her rapid fall I down the rabbit hole. However they soon felt the thud which proved they had landed in a world so different that the only --A -. fi D I fn I u - ft! V mu ,fa I i1 , ,lQ1T g 1,nAE1A3 x K gnaaii 'xx ... ': f-'iT Q thing to do was to become adjusted as soon as possible. Q-E C 3' ..- .- Q. o 2 D FV :r 'na :r 53 W : o P91 ill 0 5 5-1 0 P9 :r- O M--.fe or-:Do Sand 56 ng:- :r' L2 22 -E o 503. 5- :s-gba ra-Dorf' .-.8,'?,,Q' O N mast o gi :Fog 23410 Q00-ro HEMQ' to 50 We? gg-1:3 Q-Hg-rv nm E' warg 505: X421-ng HD'-. o :sm -i-2 53 5 wgbeo. 5' s-v 1 E: sims 0 30'-11 P.-,Revo I V aa 5 Q- F' 3' ro D .3 5 rw ET aa FY fi. 'Q -vs 9.- '5- 5. D UQ 2 ro '1 rn FY 'J' rn Q- O O 'Y vi 0 -+1 vm 'U fl- 5. 'IQ NIGX-1324 I ll ou umluv f 73N T. l 2 nl -4 3 T 4 ,E 1 ft , , Reading and English. qfl- li ,N i When we reached the third grade we found, as Alice did, a small door behind a low curtain. We saw written on this door Geography. We tried the little golden key to the lock and found to our great delight it fitted! At Hrst the passage in the hole took from a labeled bottle with the words Drink Me. We indeed had to drink fast and to our of Geography was small and the Hrst doses taken made us feel very small like the doses poor Alice I astonishment we soon found ourselves growing larger in that knowledge.

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SENIORS EMING S UMAN Football, '12, Club, '14, 'sn O Circulation Manager CIUTEMON. JEWEL GRACE STRANGE riginal Clubg Entered junior Yearg Basketball, '35g Cur ent Events Club, '34 '35 ELSIE EVELYN WARNOCK lcfbfmul Entered junior Cl.-ssg Current Events Club, '34, '35. B. W. SI-IELLNUTT Circulation Manager Hi-Owl, '36. WILLIAM OSBORNE SNEED Entered junior Class, '3i4g Band, '35, '36g Harm Club, '3s, 'J6. ELISE WATERS ony Music Entered junior Yearg Current Events Club. ALLEN RAPNELL Entered junior Class, '34. , ,ggi 22 hw 'W .f ' W lv 'v lv' Q, 115 ps .al-f ai 'lil , .3511-

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As we reached the Hfth grade we had grown so tall m henghr and knowledge that at trmes we began to shed tears regrettmg our prrmary days We drd not shed enough tears however to swrm nn luke Ahce because we knew that we stall had harder subjects to conquer Whxle nn the slxth grade we looked as nf we were all astomshed dumbfounded ammals of Wonderland gathered around Mnss Sallxe f Z lnstemng to her wrld adventurous tales Drawmg near the end of the seventh grade we grew as large as Alnce dld whale vxsxtmg Wonderland s Rabblt home We felt that all we had to do to get control of all was to stretch our arms and grab We soon began to shrmk Q A 5 1' awe -5 X 1 f N4 'X l Z-N Rf! ' QC agam when we stumped on Algebra W X had to go to the wnse to seek advrce so X i we m1ght know whxch way to turn nn il! the hall of knowledge Our advnce proved about as successful to us as Alxces drd from the caterprllar We began to feel our natural selves agam when we were mtroduced to Scnence We nursed nt and cared for nt as Alxce cared for the baby of the Duchess whxle plates and dxshes crashed about her After carmg for nt fm 91 so tenderly many of our grades turned out as Alnce s baby a pxg Q . .. , . I' 1. 3 'i w' fy!! f I . . . e X Q , X3 . - f , ,ii . , . . ' ax ibn -1' kim I I . ' ' N , Xa - s, . A ' - 7 ' ' Wx ..4'x ' - - - i I gk L , . c 1 ? ,s 5' 4 ,ag s , . 2 - k,,qfi.f . ---- as l f N-'Af , 1 f f A ' ' W V 'j,,, 'X , ' v' . . . ' Q O U Q E . . . ' vb If N S ' 2 .3 Y . . Q7 152:17-i--H . ... . . 1 1 -' fe ff 'Y ' 'o , ax - XX W . , i . . . . AZ . ' mi at A c A X fb xv W J 914 ill? ,...- K lffggili, ' C Y F x JU' QAM, Curtns served as our Dormouse throughout our hugh school days always seemmg asleep and wakmg up too late and ask mg unheard of questxons ? - ' As we approached the problems of Government and Geom etry rn the jumor year we sometnmes felt as Ahce must have when she had her xllummatmg expernences w1th the Cheshnre Cat Sometxmes we were there and sometxmes we weren t' At least the answer seemed to dxsappear as completely but we really dad try to keep the grm However much we hammered away at each day s tasks nt seemed there was always more to do and before we were half through we felt that we were f- hterally drowned ln a sea of work a S fx SK The latter part of our semor year f ? was Ahces Mad Tea Party e H . ,Li Sig' made great haste to brmg all Hnstory notebooks and Enghsh notebooks to a close 03 Whrle attendmg banquets and enyoymg other semor actnvmes we were remmded of fl .Kr 8- the partnes that Alnce attended of the Kmg and ueen of Hearts of Wonderland George acted as the Whnte Rabbnt blowmg the trumpet and callmg our attentxon to the most xmportant actnvltnes takmg place Our school days are about to end as d1d Alxces dream just hke a mass of cards all trymg to draw the rmght one to wxn the battle of lrfe Howes er we don t mtend to let xt end m confusxon for we hope to brmg our won dermgs nn the Wonderland of knowledge to a happy conclusnon and with our dnplomas actually be A dream come true'