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

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Wee eles: @2eN ale tAS IN and as the Sophomores of their day had done urto them, even so did they do unto these new Freshmen, and did show no mercy unto their sufferings, and no heed unto their lamentations, until all were bruised and full of much sorrow. Now it so happened that this land to which they had come was ruled over by one known as Mr. A. C. Kimler, a professor of much wisdom; 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 hot!” And as he spake unto them, so was it done, and they chose their wisest ones to be their leaders, and called themselves. with much pride, The Class of Two- and-tive. And as the Class did journey through the land, behold, there were two lads who were very handsome, and having tasted of all the joys of this land departed from us. One to go to the distant city of Pittsburgh, Penn., and the other to the great institute of learning in our own city, Hishburne Military School. And the whole number at the end of the secund year was eighteen. And it came to pass, at the end of these two years, that the wife of our beloved professor was stricken with illness and did go from this country to a far distant place. and there was much grief and sorrow in the land. For greatly was this woman loved by all who knew her. Crd CER Pil: Now it so happened that the citizens of this great land, seeing the multitudes that were coming into our land, decided to build for «1s a new institution of learning. This news was Teceived with great joy throught the country and many who had never thought of our great school before decided to enter into our halls of learning. Among these was our now famous heart-breaker, but who at the time of his coming into our land, was a blushing bashful, boy, Berryman Fitzhugh. From the East side of our country came many, because of the consolidation of their land with ours. Some came willingly while others only because it was necessary in order to increase their wisdom. Among these was the greatest orator of the land and one who still holds that place, Marvin W. Myers. But all of these were received into our midst with a hearty welcome and much rejoicing, and as time passed we became as one great body. And it came to pass soon after this it was announced, by that great body, The Parent Teachers’ Association, that the new school would be completed in the next two weeks and with that a “gym.” The latter by special effert of the principal. Great was the excitement throught the land at this announcement and it seemed as if the time would never come when we should enter into this new house of learning. But after much patiently waiting the day finally came and our joy knew no bound. Then as baskethal! season drew near many of our class who had been stricken with this disease in the I‘reshmen Class were stricken a-new and with much worse cases. It soon became evident that we were to have one of the best teams in the whole iand and challenges were sent out far and wide. The result of this was, in the end of the season we were second best in the whole land, and proud was the class of Twenty-and-Five that three of its members were star players.

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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,

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WS eS One Nee N And behold, as th: Class went on its way in great rejoicing through the land of plenty and of promise, they did decide to give unto their leaders the Seniors, a great feast, and did send messages to all members of the class in the different parts of the land, east, west, north and south, saying, “Come ye and make merry with us, for we know you are about to depart into a far country, and all things are now ready for a great teast.” And it came to pass when the guests had feasted and were departing from the festivities, they were exceeding glad that things were as they- had been proclaimed, and did give much thanks to the Class of Two-and-Five for the pleasure they had provided for their enjoying. And thus the Class of Twenty-and-Five passed through the third year in the land of learning and lo, the whole umber at the end of this third year was twenty- five. CHAP IER LV: Now this, the fourth year in the history of this great and wonderful Class of Twenty-and-Five has been one of much hard labor, and but little resting by the way- side; for preparations have been making ready for them to take their final departure from the land. Now it came to pass, as their pride grew to a great bigness within them, that the Class began to wish for rings befitting their station; and many messages were sent to the big cities and all the towns round about for samples of their fine jewelry ; and at last, after much considering and reconsidering, the Class professed itself to be satisfied with its choice, and rings were purchased with which they rested weli content. And it came to pass that some members of the Class were again stricken with that fever known as basketball and did once again try to be the victors. It su happened that five of the six on the team were members of the Class of Twenty-and- you, that broad is the gate, and wide is the way that leadeth to the High School, and many there be that go in thereat ; 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 Twenty-and-Five sojourned in the land, and gath- ered 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. But “let us not be weary in well doing, for in due season we shall reap if we faint not.” And now may the blessings that ever attend the noble and good and true, follow and abide with us, each and all, now and forevermore. Amen.