Wilson Memorial High School - Hornets Nest Yearbook (Fishersville, VA)

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DLS OF Nee aN FACULTY Mr. Dwicut PENNINGTON Hur -ey, A.B., B.S. Supervising Principal Mr. A. C. Kimter, B.A., M.A. Latin and Mathematics Mr. W. C. MarsHayu History and Spanish Miss EvizABetTH WatTTs English and History Miss Dora BRYANT French, English, Mathematics and Bible Mrs. THoporE ALPHIN Domestic Science, Latin and Mathematics Mrs. Dopney Davtes Science and Mathematics Mrs. Burorp CREASY Commercial Work

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We SOM Nee awg CLASS HISTORY City of Waynesboro, County of Augusta, State of Virginia, is in this wise : In the beginning, in the twenty-and-one year of our Lord in the ninth month, and on the fifteen day of the month, there entered into this Land of Learning, seven-and-twenty seekers of knowledge. Some came up from the Eighth Grade, where they had for many months been busily engaged in storing their minds with the honey of wisdom; some were green and fresh from a far country; some came from farms, where they had been tillers of the soil, and some were from other halls of instruction. And it came to pass, as they did enter this land, that they were received with wild welcomings and rejoicings by those who it was decreed should henceforth lead them up the slippery by-ways of knowledge. Likewise it came also to pass 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 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 inhabit- ants thereof, and their strangeness wore away, and they each became as one among the rest. N the history of the Class of Twenty-and-Five, of the High School of the Now it came to pass, soon after they entered the land, that they were one and all seized with a strange infirmity, which did cause them to act with much fierceness and strangeness of manner, and to grapple and wrestle with their fellows in much rage and seeming ferocity. Wise men were called to look upon them, who did examine them with much care and pains, and did finally pronounce the in- firmity in the male “football” and in the female “basketball,” and did assure the frightened leaders that the malady, while it needs must be contagious, and likewise sometimes fatal, was yet a necessary evil, and one that even the wise men knew not the way to cure. So, with many anxious fears, and dire forebodings, did the instructors allow the disease to run its natural course, and lo, none was killed, and few were seriously injured, whereat there was great rejoicing throughout the land. And it came to pass, after some months, that their eyes were turned toward © graduation, but many, with one consent, began to make excuse. So thus did this class decrease in numbers until the whole number at the end of the first year was twenty. CHAPTER: Now it came to pass at the beginning of the second year that a new band of youths did come up from the adjoining territory, ‘and the Class of Twenty-and-Five, in the new dignity of their promotion, remembered the days of their own greenness,