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

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JEWELL WEBB “BLONDIE” ‘And her sunny locks hang on her temples like golden fleece.” GRACE BEATRICE WIMER S GRACE « “The fruit of patience is sweet.” WILLIAM B. WHITE WILLIE Hi-Y Club; Assistant Edito r of WIL- SONIAN. “One learns by study and experi- ence.” CHARLOTTE DOROTHY WRIGHT “ad A CCVES Dramatic Club; Choral Club; Advertis- ing Manager for WILsONIAN. “Happy am I, from care I’m free; Why aren’t they all contented like me?” WILLIAM HARLOWE SDL lim Basketball; Dramatic Club; Baseball. “What silly things wits are.”

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PHYLLIS LORENE SAUFLEY SET Ye latou Assistant Editor of WILSONIAN. 5] “Industrious. GENEVIEVE SMITH SCOTT “JENNIE” Public Speaking and Debating Club; President of Girl Reserves. “Speech is better than silence.” MADE lS CE ESSELARPE “MABEL” Dramatic Club; Secretary-Treasurer of Debating Club; Manager of Girls’ Basket- ball; Editor of Junior News-Virginia; Choral Club; Basketball; Monogram Club. “I can single handed move the world.” PAULINE HANGER THACKER Si ORs Yeu Dramatic Club; Choral Club; Basketball; Staff Reporter of Junior News-Virginian; Monogram Club. “Precious things come in small packages.” ROBERT WHITE “BOB” President of Dramatic Glub ) biaye Club; Student Council; Business Manager of WILSONIAN. “True-hearted, whole hearted, faith- ful and loyal.”

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Senior Class History ; In 1931 the present Senior Class entered the Woodrow Wilson High School. While still in the grammar grades, we had been emphatically inform- ed that we were a terrible bunch, and we thought ourselves quite the thing in troublesome children. Imagine our surprise when we were told, at the first chapel program after entering high school, that we were con- sidered very good pupils, and that we looked to be a most promising class, in fact, one of the most promising that had ever entered Wilson High. What a gnashing of teeth there was at this startling information— we were goody-goodies—, and thereafter we set about to be as mischiev- ous as possible. There came the unwanted and uncalled for day when we were to be initiated by the Sophomores. Some of our number objected violently. Margie Lee Phipps crawled under Miss Royston’s desk to hide, but she was discovered and dragged out then and there. We were made to wear our clothes wrong side out. What a lot of raw seams were exposed! But we survived, and swore vengeance on next year’s Freshmen. For the first time we belonged to a real literary society. How proud it made us feel! We were well represented in other things too. Virginia Hiserman, Sara Baker, Pauline Thacker and M. V. Griffith began to make basketball fame. We had representatives in the Student Council. We gave chapel programs. Why, we felt as though we might be Seniors rather than Freshmen. But this feeling soon changed. We realized, when we became Sophomores, that we didn’t know as much as we thought we did. Mr. Harmon was the Sophomore home-room teacher, and Miss Vaughn taught a class of Sophomore girls. While we were in Mr. Harmon’s English class, we gave a series of debates which so interested Mabel Sharpe that she joined the Public Speaking and Debating Club; and shot straightway to fame by proceeding to make the debating team for that year. Before the year had well begun, we had the pleasure of hazing the Freshmen. We did not inflict any great hardship on any of them, ex- cept the ones who were very particular about their style of dress and could not stand to come to school looking untidy. The class officers of our Sophomore year were Wilbur Ross as class President, Billy Bragg as Vice-President and Pauline Thacker as class Secretary. Jewell Webb was selected to represent the Latin Club at the University, with Phyllis Saufley as alternate. When we became Juniors we entered more and more into Scholastic