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.