The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1922-07-29
=s;lzsTU5fRDfAY!l' EVENING. JULY %, 1922.
EAsANr5vALLEY REUNION.

NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. AALo-SA11s.s
EsehoolS reunion in Pleasant Valley which is
xSs planned forsthe first Sunday in September is
anosts original and pleasing idea and the occas-
Ion should be enormous success. if former
ktsashers and old pupils be notified in time to
SgathersinSf for It. .sssE
sch DOL, according to report, organized
64aMssT That was long time ago. but there
some of the first scholars still living who
tellsmany Interesting stories of school daysin
HIeasant7Ya Valley ffty.eight years ago.
this reunion should be possible to see the
the training of the little rural
srhooI house upon the country's citizenship as a
There will be men and women who are
sstpwersHofa strength in their chosen fields of en-
and these will be able to relate certain
SthonEhtss truths first impressed upon them m
fhes fttle@P1easant Valley school house. that have
asscIung with the years and frequently balanced a
parting of ways incalculable
$sInSerectas
mon viii be a close communion affair in
sfhatnoS outsider will be able to feel cord of
affection that school days there have
ssinterwoyens between the scholars once assembled
lettering walls of this particular school,
As matureNyears come it is difficult to form
risndships. Thu spirit withdraws within itself
trusting confidence Of youth vanishes
AnectionE 1gs not SO eager, and life is SO full of
that time to cultivate new peo-
p1es dleaTn to trust and like them is too scant
s attempt.
The real, abiding, friendships of life are formed
SInAschoolg days. The years spent in mutual inter
sharing mutual Joys, sorrows punishments
rewards, BIND together for all tme.lan no
school mate cansstray far away, vanish from
senongh for his actions or his progress
intereststo the school mates left behind
Pleasant Valley school reunion Will bring
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES have not seen each other for
wears, but affection will have waned in that
and greetings Will be sincerely glad and
THE teachers who spent years in the ser
school house will be able in many in
see the happy fruition OF their labors
will see the "sIow" pupil over whom they had
aisgivings,-a fine, alert business man, and they
Hssees the Handicapped scholar who has beaten
and up to his place in the 1t is
scertan3 that the reunion, where they look in
sfacesof men and women from whom they parted
ssrns theseyeso OF manhood and womanhood will bring
#tossthem the assurance that their time has been
we'll spent, and their work well rewarded.
The pleasantly Valley school bell will ring with
gasting sadness that September Sunday even
enough #cloaked with joyous clamor for a
Sreturn the scenes of the past carries with it a
regretNfor swift speeding youth, and there will be
sabsenceaot Beloved feet that once trod alongside
30 buoyapt1y. In the main though it, will be a
happysdays and should result in drawing closer the
esa1umni ito the present aims and hopes of the
:Sschool. Things vastly different from what
few ago Schools like that
s@ofPleasantVa expanding into ambitious de
sysstoS keep pace with the front ranks of educa
stions and girls graduating from this school
Saxpects to have much the boys and girls who
sdnishS alike course in the cities. It takes COM
boosting to do this and the sympathy Of
sEparents and alumni