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.

1907

Forward

In The Publishing Of The Medley, The Real Purpose Is To Establish A Medium Between The Student Body Of The High School And The Public Interested In Its Actions.
Considering The Fact That The First Medley Was Printed But Three Years Ago, In The Spring Of Nineteen Hundred And Four, And The Approval With Which It Has Been Received Upon Publication Since That Time, We Feel That The Medley Will Soon Come Up To The Highest Expectations. It Is Also Well To Keep In Mind That The Reputation Of This Or Any Other High School Is Raised Or Lowered By The Annual It Presents--Thus, A Heavy Responsibilty Rest Upon Those Composing The Medley Staff, In That They Must Keep The Standard Of The Danville High School Above Par, By Editing An Interesting And Well Balanced Annual.
In The 1907 Medley, We Are Conscious Of The Fact That All The Above Requirements Have Not Been Fulfilled, But At The Same Time We Have Striven To That End And Have Always Given Precedence To Anything Which Will Add To The Welfare Of The School.
Prior To The Year Nineteen Hundred And Seven, The Medley Has Been The Solitary Publication Issued By High School Students. The Question Of Having A Monthly Paper Published Has Often Been Debated Upon And Pronounced To Be Impossible, But Our Principal Kept Things Moving In That Direction, Until His Object Has Been Achieved. "The Maroon And White," A Publication "By The Students And For The Students," Will Appear Before The Close Of The Year. It Will Tend To Promulgate A Closer Fraternal Feeling Between The Student, Strengthen The Influence Of The School, And Act As A Splendid Training School For The Publishing Of The Medley.
Any Who Have Aided In Some Way, No Matter How Much Or How Little, In The Production Of This Volume, Have Our Sincere Thanks And Our Deepest Gratitude.
As We Move Aside To Make Room For The Next Class, There Is That Sense Of Satisfaction That Comes Of Doing A Good Work And Making It Easier For Those Coming After.
Principal; Zora Mayo Smith
31 Seniors Graduating This Year
The Medley Staff.

Our Future Monthly
"The Maroon And White," A Monthly Magazine To Be Published By The Students Of The Danville High School, Is Directly Due To The Efforts Of Our Principal, Z.M. Smith, Who Has Been Advocating The Edition Of Some Sort Of Paper, Ever Since His Arrival In Danville. Finally In The First Part Of April, The Plans Were Completed And The Election Of A Staff Was Left To A Committee Of Ten, Composed Of The President And Secretary Of Each Class And Two Members Of The Faculty. The Staff Chosen Was:
Raymond Southworth, 09- Editor In Chief
Edwin McCord, 08- Business Manager
Assistants;
Marion Ferris- Junior Class
Walter Kiningham- Sophomore Class
Calhoun Swallow- Freshman Class
Earl Max Scharf, 08- Athletic Edition
Lola Olmstead, '08- Literary Editor
Bernard Austin, '08- News Editor
Flavilla Grant, '94- Alumni Editor

The Monthly Will Have Seven Issues During The School Year--The Months In Which Examinations Come Were Omitted As They Would Not Give The Staff Enough Time To Do Proper Justice To Their Work.
With The Above Mentioned Staff Running Things, The Publication Of "The Maroon And White" Should Be Attended By Success, In Every Particular.

April, 1907
Extracted From Mr Smith's Daily Speech--"Get Your Tickets For The Senior Play, The County Oratorical Contest, And The County Track Meet, And Don't Forget To Subscribe For A Medley Before They're All Gone.

My Note; I'm Glad I Subscribed.......

1906

We Hope You Will Say This, When You Have Read The Book. We Have Tried To Make It Thus.
We Must Give The Class Of Nineteen Hundred And Four The Entire Credit For Establishing The Publication Of This Annual. The Class Of Nineteen Hundred And Five Deserve A Share, Also, For Her Annual Is A Splendid Remembrance Of The "Orange And Black."

We, Of The Class Of Nineteen Hundred And Six, Have Written This Medley For You. We Give It To You With The Hope That You Will Forgive All Its Shortcomingd(For We Know They Are Many) And Its Imperfections.

Rather, Will You Remember That It Is Written With The Idea To Inspire In You A Love, A Respect, Or At Least, An Interest In The Danville High School, That You May Promote Its Peace, Strengthen Its Congeniality, And Perfect Its Educational Abilities.
To Those Who Have, In Any Way, Assisted Us In The Publication Of This Book, We Are Sincerely Grateful. We Have Been Happy In The DHS And With Our Happiness We Intend To Push Eagerly Forward Toward The Best. We Leave Behind Us Those Whom We Hope Will Every Year Try To Publish A Medley Which Will At Last Reach Perfection And Be An Honor To Our Alma Mater.....The Staff.

Principal-Z.M. Smith

History Of The Class Of Nineteen Hundred And Six
We Originated As Members Of The Danville High School In 1902, And For Four More Years We Have Kept Our Reputation For Originality. Our Freshman Year Passed As All Other Freshman Years Pass--Our Minds Were In A Process Of Absorption.
We Took In Everything That Came Our Way And Did The Little Things Well, Waiting For The Greater Things To Come To Us Asking To Be Done.
When In 1903 Our Second Year Began, We Did An Unprecedented Thing By Organizing Our Sophmore Class. With All Due Solemnity We Elected Our Officers With Helen Wick As President And Chose Crimson And Gold To Be Our Standard Through The Years Of Strife Which Lay Before Us. At First The Seniors And Juniors Were Inclined To Regard Us As A Joke, But Our Action Was Not Fruitless, For All Sophmores Since Have Followed Our Example. We Did Not Attempt Much. We Were Content With A Few Laurels In The Literary And Oratorical Scope And Confined Ourselves To Conventionalities In A Social Way.
Our Garb Of Timidity Fell Away From Us When We Assume The Name Of Juniors. We Were Ready To Put Forth Our Best Efforts For DHS And 1906. We Re-Elected Helen Wick To Guide Us On Our Uncertain Way To Seniordom And Glory. The Juniors Were Represented In Almost Every Form Of High School Life--In Football, Basketball, Baseball,(Where We Shone Particularly), In Tennis And Track Work, As Well As In Literary And Oratorical Contest. We Found Recreation In Picnics, Receptions, Parties And Hayrack And Bobsled Rides. In The Spring The '06 Medley Staff Was Chosen, And In June We Vented Our Artistic Temperament In Decorations For The '05 Baccalaureate And Commencement.

When We Again Turned Our Faces Toward High School---Sadder, Wiser Seniors, "Si" Supple Was Exalted To The Place Of Honor Among Us. We Now Gave Our Thoughts To More Serious Affairs. To Raise Funds For The Medley, The Staff Presented "Mrs Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch," Which Became So Popular That It Was Several Times Repeated. In Athletics, Literature And Society, Events Took Their Usual Course, And As The Time For Graduating Grew Near We Began To Regret That The Happy Reality Of High School Life Must Soon Be Only A Memory.
We Have Laid No Claims To Superiority Or Pre-eminence, And Yet We Believe That By Some Chance The Elements Have Been So Mingled In Our Class That We Have Attained More Than An Ordinary Degree Of Success. O)ur Purpose Have Been Earnest And Our Methods, Honorable. We Have Finished Our Lesson Here, And Before Each One Of Us The World Lies, Enticing In Its Breadth And Freedom. Soon We Shall Be Engrossed In Learning Other Lessons--Bitter And Sweet--But In The Midst Of It All What One Of Us Will Not Gladly Hail The Memory Of "Dear Friends Of Early Times" And The Crimson And Black Of 1906?

"Our President"-Guy J Supple"Si"
There Were 50 Seniors This Year.

1905

"Lend Me Your Ears"
The Year Nineteen Hundred Four Marks An Epoch In The History Of The Danville High School, The Establishment Of An Annual. With The Second Volume, Now Issued By The Class Of 1905, We Think That "The Medley" Has Become A Permanent Feature Of High School Life. A Graduating Class Can Bequeath Nothing Better To The School It Leaves Than A Good Annual The Influence Of Such A Publication Is Wider And More Pronounced Than That Of A Single Gift, For Each Student May Possess An Individual Copy Which He Will Cherish Forever. The Annual Promotes Interest In The School, Good Fellowship Among The Members, And A Sense Of Responsibility In The Senior Class. Therefore, We Consider "The Medley" Beneficial To The Interest And To The Improvement Of The School.

Since The Innovation Is Often A Hazardous Enterprise, The Staff Of Last Year's "Medley" Deserve All The Credit For The Success That Crowned Their Efforts. This Year We Have Endeavored To Publish A Book Of Which Any School Might Be Proud. To Correspond With The Greater Cost Of Production, We Hesitate To Express An Opinion, Although We Believe It Will Add To The Popularity Of "The Medley".

We Wish To Thank Those Who Have Contributed Articles And Drawings Or Assisted Us In Any Way, Especially By Advertising. With The Best Wishes For Future Annuals, We Hope That The Students Will Heartily Support "The Medley" Each Year And Remain True To The Dear Old School.

The Staff.

Colors: Old Gold And Black
Yell: Aligaroo! Garah! Garoo! Rickety-Kex! Hullabaloo! Sis! Boom! Coxy-Malive! Danville High School! 1905!


History Of The Class Of 1905
We Started In By Commencing, A Very Good Way To Begin. Moreover, We Began All By Ourselves--"Nostra Sponte"--In A Perfectly Correct Manner In September, 1901--So No One Can Attach To Himself The Honor Of Discovering Us. And Now That We Have Ended In Just As Correct A Manner, It Is Only Right That We Leave Behind Us A Record Of The Few Footprints We Have Made In The Sands Of High School Life.
We Spent Most Of The Freshman Year In Watching And Waiting. We Were Just Ordinary Looking Freshmen, And Did Not Astound The Faculty By Any Promises Of Future Greatness. We Watched The Older Pupils To Find How Much They Were Getting Out Of Life, And Waited For The Time When We Could Go Them One Better. Meanwhile We Crawled Through Two Terms Of Algebra, And Came Back The Next Fall As Sophomores, Fully Prepared To Take Advantage Of Anything Coming Our Way.
In Our Own Opinion We Were Very Wise Indeed, But In Reality We Had Much To Learn. "Billy" Berry And A Few Other Dramatic Stars Loomed Up, And The Record Of The Literary Societies Began To Shine With The Names Of 1905. Aside From This, The Year Was Uneventful. The Tide Leading On To Fortune Came In Our Junior Year. We Took It At The Flood And Organized Our Class According To Precedent. "Shorty" Swarthout Was President, And Served Our Little Ship Of State In A Most Praiseworthy Manner. Can We Ever Forget Her Little "Spiel,""Seems Carried, And 'Tis Carried?" The Boys Insisted That We Select Prominent Colors, Partly For The Sake Of The Near-Sighted Seniors, So, Following Their Advice, We Have Always Been Loyal To Old Gold And Black. We Had All Kinds Of Fun That Fall; Hayracks, Picnics, Class Football Games And Parties, Both Our Own And The Seniors, For We Always Attended The Latter's Stayed For Refreshments, Tied The '04 Boys To Telephone Post And Occasionally Went Home In Carriages.

As Spring Came On We Elected Our Medley Staff, And Organized A Base-ball Team Which At The End Of The Season Had Won The Inter-Class Championship. In Connection With This, The '05 Girls Had Gained A Reputation For Rooting Which They Never Lost.
Other Classes May Have Contained Better Scholors Than 1905. We Never Pretended To Be Intellectual, But In Leaving We Feel That We--Perhaps More Than Any Other Class--Have Blended Together All The Phases Of Our School Life Into One Harmonious Whole, Which Will Awaken A Precious Memory In After Life, Bringing To Our Minds The Beloved Old

Class Yell: "Bosco! Bosco! Eats 'Em Alive! Danville High School! 1905!"

29 Senior Class Members Graduating. Theodore Roosevelt Elected President In Nov-08.