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

Page 22 text:

20 THE TA T L E R—1 9 2 8 Would we not have envied them these things? But despite our lack of them we had as good a time. Besides our children must have the best opportunities possible for our country needs men and women who are of that stern stuff which bids them die for it at need and a country is never worth dying or living for unless it has been built up in morality, prosperity, and knowledge by the boys and girls of other times, our ancestors, our par- exits, and now you and me. Therefore, let us the people of today do our best to train and equip the present generation of boys and girls to be the statesmen of tomorrow. How can we do it? By giving them encouragement, showing interest in their scholastic activities, aiding them by our patronage of plays and entertainments, buying their paper, their “Tatlers”. Perhaps we will learn something ourselves from their fresh ideas of life and living. And let me say to the students themselves, quoting the words of a great man, a beloved man—Theodore Roosevelt. “With all my heart I believe in the joy of living; but those who achieve it do not seek it as an end in itself, but as a seized and prized incident of hard work well done and of risk and danger never wantonly courted, but never shirked when duty commands that they be faced. And those who have earned joy, but are rewarded only with sorrow, must learn the stern comfort to great souls—the comfort that springs from the knowl¬ edge taught in times of iron, that the law of worthy living is not fulfilled by pleasure, but by service, and by sacrifice, when only thereby can service be rendered. “No nation can be great unless its sons and daughters have in them the quality to rise level to the needs of heroic days. Yet this heroic quality is but the apex of a pyra¬ mid of which the broad foundations must solidly rest on the performance of duties so ordinary that to impatient minds they seem commonplace.” “Remember too that alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back you, the children, in whose hands rests the fu- ture of the years.”

Page 21 text:

19 THE TATLE R—1 9 2 8 by the sight of a Senior class ring, come the holidays. Then after a few days fun the mid-year examinations or tests bring fear and trembling to the hearts of all. Soon after the beginning of the second semester plans are gotten up for the Junior- Senior Banquet. No sooner are plans made, it seams, than the time for the Banquet is here and after a night of brotherly feeling, studies are again resumed. Graduation time draws near, “Tatlers” are bought, and excitement rules. Commencement night comes and the Juniors see the Seniors receive the parchment that sends them out into the world or the schools of higher education, and are rendered speechless by the thought that the following year they will be in their places. Vacation comes and goes. In the fall school opans again and a new class of Seniors enters and settles itself ready to give directions as to how the school should be run. Soon, however, lessons are taken up in earnest, the routine of study being broken by the arrival of the class rings shortly after the holidays. Senior dresses are started and the first Girls’ Manual Training Class begins its work, composed of Seniors alone. Then the Junior-Senior Banquet is given and a good time is had by all. Finally, the crowning event! Graduation! Diplomas are received, good-byes are said and pouf! scattered to the winds! meeting again we know not where. The editor’s pipe had gotten cold, the typewritten manuscript had fallen unnoticed from his hands. As one looked, he smiled. “Those were the days,” he thought. What was that little verse they had known their last year? It was something like-oh yes: “Thus with our song of rejoicing Our way to the goal we make, Ever with eyes up ' .ifted To the ideals of “twenty-eight.” Suddenly he brought his feet to the floor with a bang, picked up a pencil and drew the paper to him. Hurriedly he began to write. “Have any of you ever thought back to your high school days? You have, I know. Have you ever thought what a pleasure it would be to see the hands of old classmates outstretched in hearty greeting? Have you forgotten the life you used to live, the life of fun, when you went to high school in the twenties, ’28 or ’29? Can you not picture the old high school sitting majestically on the hill, with its old classrooms, its funny characteristics? Old? Yes, but dear to the hearts of its students. Perhaps some of you have never forgotten those days; the basketball games, baseball, volley-ball and such. Do you remember too how proud you were of Mr. and Miss Self? Now turn your mind to the present day classes. See the well-equipped high school you have built for your children. See the airy classrooms, the gymnasium, the pool, athletic field, campus, and various other characteristics familiar to the pupils now.

Page 23 text:

21 THE T A T L E R—1 9 2 8 Senior Class CLASS OFFICERS HOMER WHITE, President EDWARD WARD, Vice President MARY TESTA, Secretary ANNE JOHNSON, Treasurer ACADEMIC AND GENERAL Adkins, Aline Baker, William Beard, Marie Brewington, Bessie Brewington, Carroll Brown, Helen Brittingham, Anne Brown, Margaret Clark, Constance Clarke, Ernest Cooper, Doris Covington, Nancy Dallas, Betty Davis, Irma Derby, Dorothy Farlow, Mildred Fields, Dorothy Mae Freeny, Howard Grier, Mamie Gunby, Dean Harris, James Harris, Katherine Hearn, Gladys Holloway, Betty Holloway, Florence Holloway, Marie Hopkins, Henrietta Hopkins, Hilda Huffington, Sara Humphreys, Margaret Johnson, Anne Krause, Albert Livingston, Alverta Malone, Irma Malone, Virginia Mellott, Alcie Morris, Mildred Parker, Thomas Perdue, Leila Powell, Maurice Robertson, Pauline Rounds, Gertrude Shockley, Edna M. Stewart, Margaret Taylor, Mary Louise Terry, Della Toulson, Isabelle Truitt, James Truitt, Kendall Waller, Clyde Waller, Virginia Wanner, Betty Ward, Edward Watson, Lillie White, Homer COMMERCIAL Baker, Mildred Bounds, Louise Bozman, Florence Brittingham, Hampton Brown, Simeon Calloway, Iva Culver, William Holloway, Howard Matthews, Mildred Shockley, Edna P. Smith, Ronald Stewart, Sarah Taylor, Richard Testa, John Testa, Mary Tilghman, Katharine Tyndall, Katharine Young, Elva