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

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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.

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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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September Ill, 1931, found our class as Sophomores entering the Big Study Ilall which was going to be our home for three years. The first year a dance was given to welcome the new girls-in our class, Pat Allen, Sara de Arechavala, Anne Brown, Martlta lioster, -lean Miller, Virginia Toombs, Anne XVallter, and lfrances Young. 'lihe next year there came to augment our junior dignity Saralouise Balter, Miriam Bopp, .lean Bradley, Betty l.ee, l larriett Moore, Iilivabeth Scott, and Marion W'illtinson. Last September, as '34 entered upon its career of seniority, Genevieve Baird, Nancy Branyon, I lelen l,ee Clarls, Mary lflllfl., Adele llancoclt, Rosa tlohnston, llelen Knight, Clare Neuhorl, Marie Scott, and Annie l,ou Wfliitalter came to share in our undertaltings. At the end of the sopho- more year, we were saddened by the death of lidna May Burns. As Iireshmen we had begun our record of winning honors and in senior high school, we made our reputation superlative. Xll'e went over lilo per cent strong all three years in the various Red Cross membership drives, class dues, and Annual drives. lfach year we have filled a number of Red Cross Christmas boxes for children overseas, and each year we have entered whole-heartedly in the two great all-school benefits-Needlework Guild contributions and the Christmas ti'ee for children brought by the Salvation Army. But it is in athletics that, as a class, we have won especial distinction. ln all volley ball and baslset ball inter-class tournaments since we were Sophomores, we have placed. ln field day we have excelled in traclv and in tennis. Mary lfrances Yates, of our number, has been for three years the tennis champion, and we boast four Seniors on the undefeated varsity of this year-Marguerite Roddey, captain for two years, Virginia Murray, lirances Latimer, and Iimily Timmerman. As a result of all these achievements, the class of 'B-l has been foremost in the Charlie contest. To carry on all of our activities, dirlerent methods of malting money pleasantly have been devised. ln our Sophomore year we gave an lzaster ligg hunt, ln our junior year we gave two parties, one at Halloween and later a circus. Anyone who went to the circus can still laugh at the numerous firealts and animals that we impersonatedg but the greatest entertainment was furnished by the ballet dancer, none other than Marguerite Roddey. This year we gave a Christmas party with a real sure-enough Santa Claus, and during the Spring we tools over the Saturday night dances at the Biltmore, utilizing the proceeds to support our friend, Mary lflifabeth lihomas, at Young Harris. liach year has brought distinctive spealters to Big Study llall. Among the out- standing, some we shall always remtmber, are: Dr. Grover, of Rollins, Ur. Beard, of the history department of Goucher and the Goucher president, Dr. Robertson, Mrs. W'hit- man, president of the Mount l lolyolxe Alumnae, llr. Anderson, of Wfesleyang Miss lltomp- son, Dean of Vassar, and Mrs. lford, Trustee of Smith. Significant readers and lecturers during senior high school were the great Slialtespearean interpreter, the late Mr. South- wiclt, and Mr. 'l hompson, both of Boston schools of expression. During the present year Mrs. Samuel Scott, of New Yorlt, in a lecture on Current Broadway l'lays, proved a real thrill. Among school events away from school in which we shared during our Sophomore year was the NXfashington Bicentennial Celebration held in Yorlttown, Va. I.ast year as Aluniors some of us went to the inauguration ol' President Roosevelt, and this year the entire school enjoyed an all-day trip to the Tate Marble Quarries. ln the N.R.A. parade last fall the entire school toolt part-class oflicers in the parade and the rest on the side lines. Meanwhile, we have XVORRHIN 'llhe first ordeal came with the pei'ennial Cirammar Test. Some managed to escape the extra gr.unmar class designed for the unfitted while others were given an opportunity to qualif'y. ilihe first really big bugga-bear was Chapel Speeches. But after surviving the tribulations of' qualting voices and ltnoclting knees, we declared to the iluniors that it was as nothing. The short story writing contest was the next absorbing worry Qsamples of these are to be found in this annualj-not bad, we think, for all that our critics are inclined to quote Chaucer about us on account of our achievements in athletics- l ul big - vw he was of br.twn and eeli of bones ! -l itixNc'1 s YotfNc,. tffofzlirlzzeil on flzlgt' 1203