Wallace High School - School Daze Yearbook (Bristol, VA)

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Class History - Continued to be married, and therefore I cannot grad- uate.” So thus did our number decrease un- til the whole number at the end of the first year was thirty-two. In the fall of 1934 the Class of 1937 assembled again at Wallace High School We were no longer the impatient freshmen of the year before but the eager sophomores pressing on to graduation. While we were being assembled in our room there came a knock at our door and there stood Ernestine Hawthorne and four other boys and girls beg- ging us to let them join our class. We opened our hearts and took them in. They made our number thirty- three , of inhich Ro- bert Vaught was chosen president. The bas- ket ball games bet ween the classes were marked events that year, and the sophomore party was enjoyed with equal fervor and, if possible, mo re, as the classmates were now well acquainted with each other and had become firmly bound together by the victor- ies and defeats, studies and pleasures, of the preceeding year. We left our sophomore year with heavy hearts because our beloved teachers, Mr. Smith and Miss Rhea Lester, would not be back the next fall to teach us in our junior year. The only confort we had was that Miss Stafford and Mr. Parmer would be there to greet us. When we returned to school in the fall of 1935, our hearts were soon relieved of their burden because we found we had just as capable teachers as in the years past. Sixteen of the former class enrolled, and with the addition of Caroline Whitten, who

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Class History - Continued joined our class from Virginia High, there were seventeen, Lillian Lundy was again chosen president, with Ernestine Hawthorne, Secretary. Our junior year was one of study and meditation as our records of that time bear witness. The great problems of our lives, in the shape of Chemistry experiments and the thoughts of mighty essayists, em- ployed the time formerly devoted to sports. Our junior play was a great success. The most enjoyable social event given last year was the junior- senior banquet in compliment to the graduating class of 1936. They read- ily admitted that we surprised them in the excellence of our entertainment, and that we did them, as well as ourselves, honor A kindred spirit had grown up between the two classes since our rivalry as sophomores and freshmen, and it was with downcast spirits that wo watched them depart at the commencement season and leave us behind to step into their places as leaders of the school «. And now we have come to the portal leading out into life. This last year in our high school has been one of combined study and pleasure. We have grown somewhat beyond the grind of the junior year into the larger freedom of the senior. We have had many good times in our last year. The senior play was a great success. The an- nual, which we are proud to offer as the first attempt of its kind at Wallace, is among our best achievements. Now come the breaking up and final separation of the class of 1937, with only thirteen members, Wanda Price having joined our class from Virginia High School in the fall. We el- ected Ernestine Hawthorne president and Hazel Simcox Secretary .