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.