Veedersburg High School - Pintus Yearbook (Veedersburg, IN)

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FRESHMAN CLASS First Row Cleft to right? Edith Griffin Jennie Reynolds Georgia Rose Overfield Esther Youngblood June Hullihan Mabel Marsh Louise Nixon Helen Wynne Marine Winkler Thelma Chatt Dor's Lytle Second Row Cleft to right? Nyle Padgitt Mary Roberts Greta Oilar Floyd Poole Homer Carpenter James Lynch Wesley Thomas Catherine Mettee Buryl Shirley Yvonne Butts Thirza Brewer Isma Zimmerman Third Row Cleft to righth Frances Dimmick Lewis Cable Norval' Lang Kenneth Wilhite Hillard Manning Leslie Keeling Jasper Fogleman Alfred Dobbs Charles Layman Emil Butts Robert Hutchins Borden Sm-ith Lucetta Morgan Ina Mae Butts Fourth Row Cleft to right? Robert Welhauser Byron Furr Reuben Beam Cedric Campbell John Gunn Troy Timmons Royce Whitehead Willard Minnick Gerald Gookins Paul Arthur Teegarden Fred Harrison Junior Burkhalter Delmar Butts Labert Boggs Jacob McClain Charles Odle

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THE FRESHMAN Noah Webster defines the noun freshman as a word meaning a novice. Rather a comprehensive definition, because a novice is a beginner. And what beginners the Freshmen are! It has long been the general conception that a Freshman is a tall, gawky, green looking fellow, with large ears and feet. Perhaps the aver- age Freshman does display some of these qualities, but we should not be too ready to condemn him for that. A Freshman has many difficulties to overcome. He comes into a new environment where he meets strange people and has to become familiar with a new curriculum and routine. Then, too, the other students of the school consider him very insignificant, and give his opinions no recog- nition. These influences reduce him to a state of mental dejection and in a short time he becomes the victim of an inferiority complex. Really, aren't we all Freshmen ? A student entering the first year of high school is a Freshman. The Senior of today will probably be a Fresh- man in college next year. If one does not attend an institution of higher learning he becomes a Freshman in the school of life. A Freshman is laying the foundation for his high school career. If he does not get his lessons his later years in high school will be more difficult. If we who have passed the first year in high school would cease to lay barriers it would be of invaluable aid to the Freshman. We shall have barriers in our paths and we may fail to clear them. Why should we not help the under-classman to feel more secure by giving him a boost instead of a kick ? The Freshmen this year are not angels, but they seem to occupy a rather prominent place in the book. Three years from now they will have a Pintus of their own. Watch them-for they, too, will find new worlds to conquer. Beg pardon ! You don't know the members ? So sorryg and may we present for your approval-the class of 1933. Look them over !

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EIGHTH GRADE HISTORY As a general rule, little or no attention is given to the Eighth Grade. There seems to be no reason for this. It is granted that the majority? of them will constitute next year's Freshman class. In the presence of the high school students the Eighth Graders are far from unobtrusive. They are often seen and more often heard. They, too, have to accustom themselves to a new environment. It will not be long until they have slipped into the routine. Without doubt they will make good Freshmen. Veedersburg High School will some day be proud of them. As the Seniors make their exit the school will Welcome the Freshmen of 1931.