Woodberry Forest High School - Fir Tree Yearbook (Woodberry Forest, VA)

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MALIIIE FIIHETHIJ SHT The editing of a school annual may become a veritable fool's paradise if you consider that what you are expending so much work on is nothing more than another leather-bound volume designed to accrue dust on some remote bookshelf. No, a yearbook must be more than just a catalogue: it must catch, in word and picture, the spirit of the school. it represents. Whatever else it accomplishes it is our hope that THE FIR TREE will reflect Wood- berry Forest as the school it is to us. Having run amuck countless times in the course of its preparation THE FIR TREE this year has lost all its artistic and literary pretensions. Nevertheless, despite war, despite rationing, despite costly errors and broken deadlines, it is not without pride--and a profound sigh of relief-that the Editors present the product of their way- ward but loving labor-THE 1943 FIR TREE.

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Bllllli I minififrafion ln no department of the School have the rigorous demands of wartime been more acutely felt than in the faculty. It is with wisdom and foresight, how- ever, that the remaining masters have helped Woodberry students stem the tide of a period dilli- cult for all. There have been times this year when waves of restlessness and demoralization have passed over the entire School. Often it has not been easy to realize that, even in wartime, education is essential. But somehow we have stood firm. Woodberry will survive this and all other wars so long as it is backed by men of such caliber and learning.