Washington Seminary - Facts and Fancies Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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PRESIDENPIMS ADDRESS It is with pleasure tinged with sadness that, as representative of the class of 1954, I welcome you here tonight, members of the faculty of Washington Seminary, parents, undergraduates-all friends. We are grateful to you, our teachers, for the patience with which you have heiped us over difliculties, and for the interest that you have taken in us as individuals and as a class. We know that we can best show our appreciation of you by living in the future in a manner that will typify the high standards which you have set before us. Mothers and fathers of the Class of 1934 here tonight, I bid you a very warm and cordial welcome. You, we would thank for the love and sympathy, the pro- tectfon and encouragement you have given us throughout the years. To you, under- graduates, we would express appreciation for the many happy times we have spent to- gether in the hope that in the future we may have occasion to reunite. May the coming years, when you are Seniors, be as happy and worthwhile as ours have been. May you have cooperation such as you have given us that will make possible the successful accom- plishment of your varied undertakings. To all of you, our friends, we want to express gratitude for your interest and helpful comradeship. The time has almost come for the Class of 1934 to say goodbye forever to Washing- ton Seminary and to the happy, the gay and the serious times that we have spent here together. Our parting makes us sad but the regret is lessened by the remembered joys of the past and the dreams for the future. Classmates, you have chosen me to act as your representative on this the night which marks the end of our undertakings here at the Seminary. I am proud to be a graduate of Washingtcn Seminary, but I am prouder still to be a member of the b:st class that has ever graduated from Washington Seminary-the Class of 1934. It may be said that with this hour life begins for us of 1934. We are going into the world and we as individuals must choose a course of action. May we all choose wisely in order that we may know success and happiness in a truly great sense. In parting with you, beloved teachers and classmates, allow me to thank you sincerely for every kindness you have shown me personally. Permit me further to thank you, my classmates, for the honor you have bestowed upon me by making me your pre- siding oflieer. I pledge to the Seminary my sincere loyalty, to my teachers my genuine admiration, and to you, my classmates, my fondest love. May the lives before you be as happy as these we have spent together at dear Washington Seminary! MAlil,U14.lil'l'1-. lioimimitv.

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I RANc:l2s FANT YOUNG Ailunla, Gvorgia Entered 1931 COLLEGE PREPARATORY COURSE Red Crossg Athletic Associntiong College Preparatory Club '52-'34, Secretary '32-'33g Art Club '31-'32g Penates Club '32-'33g Masque and Wig Club '31-'32g Glee Club '32-'34, President ,33-'34g True lVlI5SIi1V1MA Staff '33-,34, Exchange Editor and Managing Editorg Honorary Press Association '33-'34g Class History.

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M rang, kxlfwx SA X ,f . X .fx i H , fi elf CLASS HISTORY 1 Before the day on which we reach the happy, yet sad ending of our school years, is it not plausible that we look back on the days that have so swiftly passed by-those days in which we can no longer live? We must look forward, for in looking back our faces light with smiles, or our eyes sting with tears according to the memory fleeting through our minds. Our go-al is forward, but there can be no future without a past, so let us travel hand in hand back through the years of grammar grades and high school. I shall never forget the first day of my true school life. I set out to school, lunch basket in hand, to find several of my friends already gathered in the class room of our beloved Mrs. Davis, awaiting their first school bell. We were all a bit frightened, but very much elated over the fact that we were at last old enough to attend the best school in the world-Washington Seminary. The five small girls who began their school life to- gether were none other than the dignihed Beverly Rogers, Helen Lowndes, Anne Dargan, Catherine Gray, and Sara Hopkins. Gradually we progressed. We played and laughed our wav through the second and third grades, finally arriving at the fourth grade. Surprisingly there was no fourth grade for us. We were all so learned that we skipped the fourth grade, landing, as much to our surprise as to that of anyone else, in the fifth grade. In the fifth grade Miss Alice Downing became our guiding influence-and how glad we were to have her as our sponsor. That year Catherine Gray left us. Our sadness was appcased, however, by the arrival of Dorothy Shivers, Frances Latimer. and Joan Root. These three girls rapidly proved themselves assets by suggesting a football team. We all liked the idea and thereafter the field back of the gymnasium rang with cries of Touch- down! every recess. In the sixth grade there were no new arrivals, but we did discover a new pastime. That year we read Darius Green and His Flying Machine, and from that day on we spent every spare minute designing some new flying machine of our own. This venture proved disastrous to various parts of our anatomy. In the seventh grade we welcomed into our midst many who now grace this plat- form. They were Dora Bowden, Roberta Crew, Dorothy Emerson, Nelle Freeman, Eloise Gresham, Elizabeth L'Engle, Betty Martin, Virginia Murray, Christine Thiesen, Mar- guerite Roddey, and Catherine Gray, who returned to us that year. The next year we were promoted to Mrs. Olssen's room and found ourselves members of the next best class to high school proper-the eighth grade. That year our class swelled to twenty-two by the addition of Louise Duke, Ruth Hunnicutt, Emogene Witherspoon, Emily Timmerman, and at the half-year, Elizabeth Treseder. All of these girls immediately fell in step with us and proved themselves worthy of our class. Freshmen at last! There are several things that stand out in my mind when that word is mentioned. Some of them are: the addition of Mary Frances Yates to our merry group, the learning of our favorite hymn, Sweet Hour of Prayer , our prowess in volley ball, finishing second in the inter-class tournament, Marguerite Roddey s making the varsity her first year in high school, going over 100 per cent first in the MIISSEMMA drive and in thc FACTS AND FANCIES drive, our motto, Do in a day the things of a day , and, at the end of the year the tears we shed when we knew we had to leave Freshman Hall behind us and that Miss Sharpe could no longer be our sponsor. All through these years we laughed, cried, sang, and sorrowed. We had many good days and some bad ones, but I am sure that deep in our hearts we all hold dear those first steps on the path of life. I have done my best to give you a mental picture of perhaps the happiest days of our lives, and now Frances Young will give you her interpretation of the last three years at Wfashington Seminary of the Class of 1933-1934. SARA HOPICINS.