Woodrow Wilson High School - President Yearbook (Portsmouth, VA)

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CLASS SUNG CTO the tune of But Not For Me l The time has come to leave dear Wilson Hi Each boy and girl is here to say goodbye. Goodbye to you, dear one You brought us friends and fun And taught us how life's run When it We try. VVe'll miss the Work, we'll miss the friends We knew The teachers, and the colors orange and blue So as we leave your door returning nevermore WVe sigh, farewell to you! By: FRANCES SAUNDERS CAROLYN GRIMES.

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CLASS HISTORY By JUNE LOCHENOUR Dear Girls and Boys: It's been mighty nice getting those V-mail letters from you lately. Let me see now-it's been some years since you left Wilson. Most of you asked in your letters how the Alma Mater was getting along since you left. Guess I'd better begin at the beginning. Remember 1940? Terrible things were going on in Europe and Asia. Terrible things were happening in the United States, too! As a matter of fact, terrible things were happening in the state of Virginia, in the city of Portsmouth, in a high school called Wilson. You guessed it! Another class of Freshmen timidly pushed open the big front doors of Wilson High. Our class! Some of us gazed around in a kind of petrified awe, others of us giggled nervously when ever an upper-classman came in sight and some few of us, who felt brave, gave everyone belligerent looks that defied them to call us Rats. That first day was a busy one! We spent hours searching for the elevator that some Seniors had told us about. You know-the same seniors that so generously sold us their seats in the auditorium. In the course of the year we elected Winifred McAlpine as our class president and soon most of us were wholeheartedly engaged in the business of passing our subjects. Outstanding examples of our freshman fervor, were Betty Jane Hathaway, Mary Claire Jones, June Lassiter and Hart Slater who had the top report cards in their registration rooms. Even at that time we knew we had an artist in our midst, for Lee Lively was named as one of the most outstanding members of the Art Department. Of course, there were a few problem children in the class. I have it on good authority that one member of the group received nine demerits before he knew what demerit meant. Well, by September, 1941, we felt like veterans, and as Sophomores we de- cided to settle down to business- monkey business. It was in that year that our most prominent class comedians reared their heads. And so, with tradi- tional Sophomore sense of humor, many of us frittered our time away, for there wasn't anything that we didnlt know about! Luckily, however, some real mem- bers of the intelligentsia were still with us, for it was that year that Evelyn Arm- strong and Russell Cherry joined the report card toppers. It was in that year also that Jackie Skeppstrom had the distinguished honor of being openly recog- nized as one of Wilson's thirty-nine red-heads. Then, too, Soph. June Lochenour won the Tidewater public speaking contest and once again winsome Winnie Mc- Alpine was elected class president. Yes, 1941 was a colorful year-and a tragic