Waynesboro High School - Skyline Yearbook (Waynesboro, VA)

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THE AWFUL TRUTH—HISTORY UNE 1934 was an eventful month in an eventful year. It was a joyous time for us, but mostly for the teachers—we were graduating. But alas and alack! It was only from grammar school. That was all right, though, because we would be freshmen in high school next year. [hen we would really and truly be IT. September 1934. Hallelujah! Not because school was starting again, but because we were Freshmen! ‘The first week of our new-found glory went by quite peacefully except for an occasional wandering into a wrong classroom. The second week came— woe is us. [he Sophomores had adjusted themselves and then started to adjust us. They weren't allowed to haze us, but we lived hard anyhow. Just the thought of them was enough to make us shake our baby teeth. We had two literary societies that year, the Kimler Cary and the Kimler Maury. Pat Floyd was our class president and if it hadn’t been for the Sophomores we would have taken over the whole school. But that was all right because we were going to be Sophomores next year. September 1935. At last we have reached our goal. That is, most of us had. George Dedrick was left behind—poor George, he is still struggling with Freshman Math. Now we were sure, yes, positive that we owned the world. We got together in the fall and elected our officers. Rachel Young was voted president. This year we could join the Dramatic Club. We were all so sure that we would be second Garbos and Gables there wasn’t the least doubt but what we would get in and most of us did. Then the young prima donnas among us joined up with the Choral Club. Some of us who had that gift of gab joined the Speaking and Debating Club, and all of us walked on springs—for about a month. Then we discovered the Juniors, or rather they discovered us. But that was all right, we would be Juniors some day. September 1936. We were Juniors. We may have thought we knew before, but now we were certain we knew that we owned the place. So we elected our president. Pat Floyd was again honored with the position. Yes, indeed! We were the real McCoy, but then we came in contact with that dude bunch, the Seniors—still more upperclassmen! ? But they couldn't stop us so to get on the good side of them we gave the Junior-Senior Party. Some of us are still wondering if the Seniors came to our play, “Drums in My Heart’’, after we gave them that nice party, but never mind, we’ll get there yet! September 1937. Here we are! At last! Our goal, our ambition, and to top it all we were going to be the first class to graduate from the new high schcol. We just had to have our annual so we gave “Ihe Price Tag” for a Senior play. We did something no other Senior class has ever done before (we hope); we took ““The Price Tag’’ to Stuarts Draft and gave it before such a crowded house they hung up a sign “‘sitting room only.’’ Possibly there were fifty people there that night. Then we started the annual, then the Junior-Senior party and our uppermost accomplishment of all the long, weary years we had been in school Commencement and Graduation. ‘The awful truth brought to light. Any more would be like gazing through a mystic globe. Some of us will continue our brain work in college; some of us will continue our brain work in finding labor and a very few of us will continue it in trying to find our better half. These things are kismet. And so for another dedication we will ever be grateful to Wilson and Waynesboro High Schools, but especially to the faculty who have put up with us so long, that these things may be accomplishments rather than dreams. Mary CATHERINE DAVIES

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ELEANOR A. THOMAS Fredericksburg State Teachers B.S. Degree Bookkkeeping, Typing, Shorthand JOHN V. FENTRESS William and Mary College B. A. Degree History, Bnglish MARY GREENE Harrisonburg State Teachers B.S. Degree Bnglish, History, Bible ANNE REYNOLDS William and Mary College B.S. Degree aN Gecometry, Algebra 4 CHARLES P. CHEW Bridgewater College A. B. Degree Science, Physics, Chemistry, Geometry, Trigonometry, Safety Driving Course ANNIE GLENN DARDEN Ilarrisonburg State Teachers B.S. Degree English, History ANNE RUTH GARDNER Radford State Teachers B.S. Degree Home Heconomices SAMUEL CRAVOTTA Caljfornia State Teachers Pennsylvania B.S. Degree Industrial arts, Mechanical Drawing BPTHEL DAVIES University of Virginia Biology, Algebra RUTH ROYSTON William and Mary College B. A. Degree History, Latin Fr. B. GLENN William and Mary College B. A. Degree Spanish, English HHLEN HARRIS Fredericksburg State Teachers B. 8S. Degree Physical Hducation EVELYN COYNER Secretary

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