Wicomico High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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SENIOR CLASS Everette Hearne, President Rosalie Freeny, Vice President Mary Griffith, Secretary David Wroten, Treasurer Miss Lois C. Bloxom, Class Advisor Class Color, Blue and Gold Class Flowers, Violet and Tea Rose Class Motto: By our labors we hope to succeed. SENIOR CLASS ROLL Adkins, Bertha Bailey, Helen Baker, Elva Bounds, Blanche Bounds, James Bratten, Jesse Brewington, Martha Brittingham, Olga Brown, Elmer Byrd, Lester Cathell, Mary Jane Chandler, Beatrice Chandler, Stanley Cooper, Winfred Coulbourne, Elizabeth Davis, Marie Davis, Thomas Dennis, Nancy Dickinson, Bruce Wilson, Disharoon, Daisey Elliott, Ralph English, Marian Fisher, Maude Fooks, Mabel Freeny, Rosalie Gordy, Flossie Griffith, Mary Harmon, Katherine Hearne, Ethel Hearne, Everette Hearne, Lena Hitch, George Holliday, Virginia Holloway, Ethel Huffington, Paul Hunt, Gladys Huston, Allan Jones, Grace Rebecca Wroten, Jones, Helen Kenyon, Edison Messick, Lala Mitchell, Aline Mitchell, James Moore, Marian Owens, Manson Powell, Howard Richardson, Furman Riggin, Mildred Shockley, Ella Smith, Harry Smith, Dorothy Strickland, Bessie Truitt, A. Ruth Truitt, Ruth A. Wailes, Cornelia Wilkinson, Doris Wil liams, Louise David 20

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Our Freshman year was one of rivalry. We were determined to keep pace with the Sophomores in every line of school activity. In the Victory Girls and Victory Boys Campaign, which was organized at this time, we made for ourselves a record. We also carried off the honors in athletics. Under the leadership of our class advisor, Miss Madge Hayman, we pre¬ sented a play entitled “Whiskers.” Here many of our present Senior “stars” were initiated to the stage. The following year the majority of our members returned as full- fledged Sophs., realizing our importance as all Sophs, do. With our prev¬ ious training for theatricals we were able to stage two very fine plays dur¬ ing this year: “Dinner at Six” and “Miss Typewriter Lady.” It was Miss Wilson who had brought us safely through another year. The fall of 1920 found us at W. H. S. enrolled as members of the Jun¬ ior class. A large percentage of our class answered the urgent call of the business world and entered the Commercial department. Under the direc¬ tion of Miss Ruth Powell a Junior Cafeteria was organized. This was well patronized. The financial success of this organization made it possible for the Juniors to entertain the members of the faculty and Senior class at a sumptuous banquet near the close of the school year. With the kind assistance of our class advisor, Miss Lankford, we gave to the students two plays—“Gassaway’s Freaks” and “The Teeth of the Gift Horse.” We entered our Senior year with glad hearts yet with a feeling of deep regret when we realized that soon we would be leaving W. H. S. and those with whom we had been so happily associated. Early in the fall of 1921 we held our class meeting and elected our officers. Mr. Garner was chosen class advisor. With his assistance we presented a comedy “A Watch, a Wallet, and a Jack of Spades” to the students. At the beginning of the second semester new class officers were elected. At this time Miss Bloxom was elected class advisor. It has been through her untiring efforts and kind assistance that we have been able to “cany on” so many successful undertakings in this, the last half of our Senior year. To Miss Ruth Powell we wish to express our hearty appreciation for all she has done for us during the years we have been at W. H. S. To all our teachers we owe a debt of gratitude, for much of our success is due to them. They believed loafing to be a menace to the nation and consequently gave us plenty of work to accomplish. Thus with ever varying fortunes we have come through the years to¬ gether and now we are approaching the climax. Soon we will separate to the four winds of the heavens. As we go forth into the world to make a name for ourselves let us ever keep in mind our class motto: “By our labors we hope to succeed.” VIRGINIA HOLLIDAY, Historian. 19

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‘‘Virtue in her appears so bright and gay We hear her with pleasure and with pride obey.” Bertha Sheppard Adkins Salisbury, Md. This is Bertha, our Editor-in-Chief, a natural born leader. She is first in this book as she is first in everything. The great responsibility that falls on the shoulders of the one at the head of the “Tatler,” has been efficiently held by Bertha. She knew what to do and when to do. We all wish that we had her power of concentration. She never loses her head like we do, but she always Nevertheless she shocks us all once in a while by her childish actions which do not at all agree with her dignified position in the Senior Class. However, as we can be young only once we suppose this accounts for it. And really if you looked the world over we do not believe that you could find any one person more loyal and true to her class and classmates than Bertha. Choral Club Editor-in-Chief Vice-president of Athletic Association ‘‘A cheerful heart is a good medicine.” Helen Mildred Bailey Salisbury, Md. You can always tell Helen by her rosy cheeks and sunny smile. Usually she does more than smile; hence the appropriate nick¬ name. At certain times of the day Helen is very sober and gloom over-spreads the erstwhile smiling and carefree countenance. And it is all on account of that infernal trial balance. The only trouble with it, as a rule, is that it is simply unaccommodating and will not balance. But in her misery Helen will find consolation, for there are many fellow sufferers. Helen is quite an accomplished actress, for in every play which the class has presented, she has taken an important part. Being talkative and amiable, her portrayal of the Irish is excellent. We gladly recommend Helen as an efficient typist, since she holds an enviable record for accuracy in the manipulation of typewriter keys. Cheer Leader Volley Ball Team looks calm and peaceful. 21