1909

The Year Of 1909 Has Come And We Can Scarcely Realize That We As A Class Will Now Leave The Old School Forever. In September 1905, The Class Of 1909 Made Its Appearance Within The Halls Of The Danville High School. We Looked Like All Other Freshies So The Upper Classmen Proceeded To Get Aquainted With The "Bashful Ones." Consequently The Barber Had A Short Period Of Prosperity Which We Shall Not Forget. We Cannot Forget Those First Lessons in "Good Form" Given Us By Our Elders In The Chilly Atmosphere Of Those Indian Summer Evenings. The First Few Weeks We Went About Doing Our Duties Quietly And Trying To Learn The Customs Of Our "Avowed Betters"(?)
Being Observant And Willing To Learn We Soon Perceived That We Needed Organization As Well As The Rest Of The Classes; So Putting By The Bashful Ways Of The Ordinary Freshmen, We Met On October The Fourth, 1905, And Organized, Thus Being The First Organized Freshman Class In The High School.
Through Efficient Leadership And Perseverance We Won Unprecedented Honor And Respect From Our Class Brothers And Sisters. How Well That Experience Has Aided Us Can Only Be Shown By The Records We Have Made During Our High School Life.
In Our Sophomore Year New Avenues Of Success Were Opened To Us, And How Eagerly We Strove For Honor In Literary And Athletic Contest. The Girls Basketball Team Was The Undisputed Champion Of The School And The Class Track And Baseball Teams Were The Pride Of The Class.
The Junior Year Was Rather Uneventful But We Kept At Work In All The Departments Of The High School Life And Succeeded In Capturing Second Place In The Inter-Class Track Meet. Through The Influence Of Our Principal, Mr Smith, The Maroon And White, The Monthly Publication Of Our School, Was Successfully Launched With A Staff, A Large Majority Of Whom Were Members Of This Class. How Proud We Are Of Its Existence And Of Those Who Successfully Launched It.
As Seniors We Worried About Our Credits In Physics And Geometry For We Have Already Learned That "It Is Human To Err." Ira Jones Was Unanimously Elected As The Choice Of Our Class For A Leader During Our Senior Year And He Has Proven Himself Of The Honor By His Conduct Throughout His Past School Life. In Our Last Year We Appreciate The Opportunities That The Dear Old School Offers And We Shall Have All Endeavored To Take Advantage Of As Many As Possible. We Have Striven To Do Our Best In Our Senior Year, And Throughout The Entire Course, That Our History May Be Written In The Minds Of Men And That We May Well Be A Model For The Other Classes Which Will Have Completed This Course In The Future.
In Our School Life As Well As Elsewhere It Requires A Constant Struggle To Keep Up With The Standard; Consequently Many Have Dropped Out Of Our Midst And Our Class Is Not So Large As Some Of Our Predecessors. But We May Well Console Ourselves With The Facts That The Standard Are Higher And It Is A Survival Of The Fittest.
Now We Have Finished Our Course In The Danville High School And Pass Out Into The Wide, Wide World. We Have No Fear For The Future However For The Training We Have Had Has Amply Prepared Us. The Members Have Always Been Loyal To The Orange And Black And To The Maroon And White And We Feel That Some Of The Class of 1909 Will Make Their "Mark In The World."
May The School Be A Blessing To Its Future Members As It Has Been To Us. We Leave Its Halls Forever But We Will Never Forget Those Four Jolly Years Spent In The Danville High School.

Note:-Since The Writing Of This History Ira Jones Has Resigned From His Position As Class President And Beryl Jones Has Been Installed In His Place.

43 Seniors Graduated This Year Of 1909

William Howard Taft Was Elected President Of The Untied States on Nov-3,1908.

1908

Forward
Another Year Is Sped And Added To Danville's Past. With Its Close We Present To The Alumni, And The Student Body, This, The Fifth Annual Medley. To The Record Accurately And Completely The Activities Of The School Year Has Been Our Aim. We Have Striven To Perform Satisfactorily The task Allotted Us. If In This We Have Succeeded, Even In The Slightest Measure, Amply Shall We Feel Rewarded.
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Contrary To All Preceding Years, Mainly Through The Efforts Of Our Principal, Z M Smith, This Year Began The First Edition Of Our High School Monthly "The Maroon And White." As A New Publication In Our School It Reached The Highest Expectations Of All And Is Well Worthy Of Praise.
Most Of The Credit Is Due To Editor-In-Chief Southworth, Who Labored Conscientiously Throughout The Year On His Work. Eight Publications Occur Through-Out The Year, No Edition Occurring In September, Because Of Not Enough Time, And None In February On Account Of Mid-Semester Examinations
The Staff This Year Is To Be Congratulated On Their Good Work, And It Is Only Hoped That Time Will Raise Our High School "Monthly" To The Highest Possible Standard.
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History Of The Class Of 1908
Early In September, 1904, We First Crossed The Threshold Of This School Building As Scholars Of The DHS. We Were Just As Green As Any Freshmen, Made Just As Many Mistakes As Any And The Upper Classmen Made Remarks About "Bringing' 'Em In Go-Carts Next." Nevertheless We Preserved, And The Large Number Of Freshmen On The Honor Roll That Year, Testifies To The Fact That Our Perseverance Was Rewarded. And So During Our First Year We Won Recognition Among "The Powers" Of The DHS.
The Next Fall We Came Back With Renewed Determination To Make A Record. According To Custom We First Organized As Sophomores, Wisely Choosing Myrtle Sanford To Guide Our Still Faltering Footsteps.
In Athletics We Did Quiet Stunts Just To Let People Know We Were Still Here. In Baseball, Well The Athletic Editor The Medley For That Years Wrote:"It Is Not Necessary To Mention The Sophomores For They Are Out Of Sight," Which Was As Good A Recommendation As We Could Wish. Even As Freshmen Only One Class Beat Us In The Final Standing. Next Appeared The Class Meet In Which We Made The Dignified Seniors And Haughty Juniors Hide Their Faces In Shame. In The Meantime Our Girls Had Gone In For Basket Ball And Were The Undefeated School Champions.
As Juniors We Elected Edwin McCord As President And Again Came Up To Our High Athletic Standard By Capturing The Class Meet Once More.
Our Senior President Was John Garriott. We Conducted Ourselves In Much The Same Way Again, Leading In Athletics.
When We First Enrolled The Size Of Our Class Was Remarkable, But A Great Many Were Unable To Keep Up The Fast Pace Set By The Majority So That We Are Somewhat Small In Numbers.
However It Is Quality And Not Quantity That Counts And Our Quality Is What Gives Us The First Place Among Classes.
Not Only In Athletics Has The Class Of 1908 Taken The Lead, But Also In Every Other Branch Of High School Life. In Literary And Newspaper Work And In Debating We Have Done A Great Deal, Furnishing Many Good Men.
In Society We Have Done As Well As In Everything Else. We Have Never Allowed The Other Classes To Bother Us And Nature Has A Rule Favored Us. At No Time, However, Have We Allowed This Part Of Our High School Life To Interfere With Our Studies.
Our High School Course Is About Finished. All Through It We Have Stood Loyally By The Old Gold And Blue And Maroon And White, And We Now Look Back With Intermingled Joy And Sorrow At The Four Jolley Years Spent In The Old DHS. One Cannot Remain Stationary, He Must And Will Either Advance Or Go Backwards And I Am Sure That All The Members of '08 Will Advance. In Fact If The Earth Continues Circling The Sun, If Mankind Exists In The Future, The Author Of "Who's Who In America," Will Have To Add To His Work, The Names Of Some Of The Members Of The Class of 1908 Of The Class Of The D.H.S.
46 Seniors Graduated In The Class Of 1908.