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GLAD I GAME
When I entered the Elizabeth City State Normal
School on September 5, 1925, I was very much dis
satisfied. However, after meeting many of the
teachers and students I “settled down” and began
working with them. By so doing, I gradually became
more interested, and by the end of the year was
greatly pleased, for I had never had a more success
ful school year.
The next year I returned with a desire to work
and to gain all of the information that would raise
me to a higher level. I met a large number of my old
classmates with whom I worked until the end of the
year when I left with a feeling of sadness mingled
with joy.
On entering the third year class, many of my
classmates did not return. Some had married;
others were not so fortunate as to be financially able
to continue their education. I began work with
many new teachers and practically a room full of
new students, but the work was pleasant and I left
again with greater determination than ever.
The last year brought even greater hope, but it
draws to a close. State Normal, when I look around
and think of the many ways in which I have been
helped by you and your instructors, of the many
people whom I have been able to learn, you may hear
me here at the close of this school year saying, “I
am glad that I came.” Of all my years in school
this has been the shortest, the most interesting, the
most exciting, and the one of which I am most proud.
State Normal, I shall do everything that is in my
power to spread wide your honorable name.
Priscilla P. Jordan.
JOKES
Teacher: “You had some good ideas, but you
were rather slow in passing them over to the class.”
Student; “They were rather slow in coming.”
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Teacher: “Did you see a prophecy in that an
nual ?”
Student; “I didn’t see anyone except white people.”
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Miss Jones; “What did Miss Harris say we were
to put in our note books?”
Miss Bowser; “That speech of Chaucer’s about
‘Sleep No More’.”
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Teacher: “What is the name of Professor Ein
stein’s wife.”
Student: “Mrs. Einstein.”
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Teacher; “Close your eyes and visualize some
thing, Mr. Parker. What did you see?”
Student; “I didn’t see nothing.”
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SENIORS OF ’29
S is for service, long and true.
E is for earnest, faithful and ever ready, too.
N is for near the goal we have strived to reach.
I is for ideas noble and strong.
O is for onward and upward we go.
R is for ready, willing and right.
S is for success, sincerity and strength.
—Helen C. Bowser.
SPORT LIGHTS
BASKETBALL
Together, together, always together.
That’s how the high school will be,
Together, together, heedless of weather.
We will always win.
We strolled the courts together.
Played with the ball together,
And we all have said we will win this game.
For days we practiced together,
Learned all the signs together.
We’re young, you see,
But we’re hard to defeat.
High School always will be together.
With this in mind, the high school girls went out
on the field on Thanksgiving morning at 9 o’clock a.?
fresh as spring and as green as grass to attack the
well trained and wide experienced Junior Normals
in the season’s first basketball game. With the
wonderful cooperation of those on the side lines, the
High School girls were able to give the Juniors a
“tight time.” At the close of the game, the score
was 5-4 in favor of the Juniors. Every one felt it
was the best game played on the campus and al
though we were defeated in score, we could not
call ourselves beaten. With this splendid showing
the High School girls had no trouble in making the
team. In every game of basketball which has been
played this year the High School has been well repre
sented. The line-up is as follows: Guards, Lillie
Parker, captain, Vernice Selby, Estella Tillett,
Mabel Pritchard, Katie Speller; forwards, Katie
Jones, Mary Allen, Vera Skinner, Mary Whitaker.
TRACK SPORTS
STATE NORMAL HOLDS SECOND ANNUAL
TRACK MEET
On Friday, April 19, the Elizabeth City State
Normal School held its second annual Field Dayv
exercises. No event of the season has brought to
our school a larger and more enthusiastic crowd.
Among the schools that were represented in the
various activities were:
Booker T. Washington High, Norfolk, Virginia.
Dunbar High, Elizabeth City, N. C.
Roanoke Institute, Elizabeth City, N. C.
Rich Square Institute, Rich Square, N. C.
Washington High, Washington, N. C.
Hertford High, Hertford, N. C.
Elizabeth City State Normal.
The activities included: basket-ball, tennis, one-
hundred yard dash for girls, fifty and one-hundred
yard dashes for boys, broad jump, high jump, relay,
pole vault, low hurdle. The Booker T. Washington’s
representatives showed wonderful athletic ability
and were successful in carrying back to Virginia all
of the first honors.
In the basketball game played in the morning
between Washington and Rich Square, Washington
found it a very easy matter to defeat by a score of
22-4. In the afternoon, the one-hundred yard dash
for girls was won by a Roanoke representative; first
honors for fifty and one-hundred yard dashes for
boys by Booker T. Washington. First honors for low
hurdles also went to Booker T. The Virginians again
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