William Fleming High School - Colonel Yearbook (Roanoke, VA)

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mencemfnt cloyrd our Sanior year. We marched down ihe azyle to rfcezuf our dzplomzu, 41111 fl dup regrrt 0 leamng, for we :hall cherifh then' dayx -in hzgh school or the' nxt 0 our lzzff SE I ORS DONALD GLENN SUTPHIN Don JUDITH LEE TAYLOR Judy RICHARD EDWIN TOMLINSON Ricky RICHARD CHANNING TOWNSEND Dick WIIILIAM MARTIN UMBERGER Bill NORVELL WINCHELL WEST Norvell EDMUND PENDLETON WHITE Ed JOHN B. WVHITMORE, -IR. johnny

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CLASS CHRONICLES Now the history of the Class of 1952 of the William Fleming High School of the City of Roanoke, County of Roanoke, State of Virginia, is in this wise: ' In the beginning, in the 1948th year of our Lord, in the ninth month, and on the fifth day of the month, there entered into this Land of Learning, 120 seekers of knowl- edge. Some came up from the Eighth Grade, where they had for months been busily engaged in storing their minds with the honey of wisdomg some were green and fresh from a far country, some came from farms, where they had been tillers of the soil, and some came from other halls of instruction. Likewise it came to pass also that they were received with malicious glee by a certain band of wild beings who were called Sophomores, and who because of their fierce taste for Freshman blood, did pounce upon them daily and nightly, and did cause them to suffer great things, and to say in their little hearts: Behold blessed be the name of Education, for because of it have we endured great torments, both of the body and of the mind. Verily have we been martyrs to its great and noble cause. And as they dwelt long in the land, they fell in with the customs of the inhabitants thereof, and their strangeness wore away, and they each became as one among the rest. Now it so happened that this land to which they had come was ruled over by one known as Mr. W. A. Coulter, a principal of much wisdomg and at the beginning of the second year, he spake unto them, saying: Go, gather ye in a body, and organize yourselves into a class, that ye may gain in strength, and that your courage may wax strong. And as he spake unto them, so was it done, and they chose a leader, and called themselves with much pride, the Class of '52. But it came to pass that the Class of ,52 found favor in the eyes of this wise and worthy principal and success looked fair before them, and they were much glad. And the whole number at the end of the second year was III. In the third year a great cry went up from the throats of the Class: Lo, it doth happen that those above us, the seniors, are to graduate after many days. Therefore, it appeareth that there is much need of many dollars wherewith to provide the song and dance thereof. And so, thinking these things, the Class made a feast and the public was bidden that money might be brought into the treasury, and the coffers be filled. And lo, great crowds did come to a feast, and much money was taken into the treasury. And they called its name a Carnival. And behold, it did likewise come to pass, at about this same time, that the Class did aspire to dramatic honor, and did present to the people a great and wonderful play Pride and Prejudice, wherein each should act what he was not. And when it was finished, the multitude did cry out in their hearts, How grand and wonderful this thing which ye have done. And the heads of the Class did bc- come swelled to their fullest capacity of the praise they did receive for the great performance they had done. Now, when the six-and-twentieth day of the fifth month of the year of ,SI was fully come, this Class did give another great feast, and did send messages over all the land, east, west, north, and south, to all the Seniors thereof, saying, Come ye and make merry with usg for the Class of ,SI is to depart to a far country, and all thin s are now ready for a feast.' S a And so they in large numbers to the place did come, and did dance to sweet music, and did rejoice with the Class of '52 of the good fortune which had come to them, in re- turn for all their long and patient laboring at the tasks that had been set before them. Now this, the fourth year in the history of this great and wonderful Class of ,52 has been one of much hard labor, and but little resting by the wayside, for prepara- tions have been making ready for them to take their final departure from the land. Dick Townsend leadeth them in the right paths of learning. Then it straightway came to pass that upon sheets and sheets of paper, the members of the Class began to write down the greatest and most wonderful of thoughts, such as no one ever had thought before since the beginning of the world, that the people who should come unto them to listen unto words of deep scholarship upon the night of their Commencement should not need be turned away in disappointment. Now one of their advisers, Mrs. Mason, being herself wise in the ways of the world and of women, spake very gravely unto them, saying, Let your essays be of silk, even though your dresses must be of cheeseclothf' But they opened their mouths and answered her saying, Nay, both shall be of silk. We shall rent robes from Oak Hall. And as the prophesied, so was it done, even as they had said. So it has come to pass that of the 120 that entered this land in '48, only 98 will depart, for verily, vcrily I say unto you, that broad is the gate, and wide is the way that leadeth to the William Fleming High School, and many there be that go ing but straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to graduation, and few there be that find it. Four years hath the Class of '52 sojourneyed in the land, and gathered in large portions the fruits from the Tree of Knowledge. But it is written, In the day when ye shall have eaten of all these fruits, ye shall surely be driven forth from the land. Now, I say unto you, they must depart thence, to go each a separate way, to lands they know not of, to do they know not what. -aff 23 E1-