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FOLLIES OF 1920
THE 1920 ANNUAL OF LEWISBURG SEMINARY  

Over 100 Years...


The Follies would become the Saga and the Seminary would become Greenbrier College. Come with us as we flip through some of the pages. Come to the reunion to look at all of it. The annual was dedicated to Dora Mason Biggs, one of the two women who were ever heads of the school. Her daughter, Charlotte Biggs Brewster, is shown later in the Society Section. Some of you may remember her grand-daughter, Tate Brewster Hudson ’52.
Cover of Annual
Cover of "Follies of 1920"
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Seniors Graphic

"Wisdom and goodness are twin born, One heart must hold both sisters, never seem apart."


The annual had no pictures of faculty. The senior (college sophomores) class was presented with casual photos as shown to the right. In 1920, there were 17 seniors and 161 students in all.
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Victoria Virginia Knox - Senior Photo
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The Freshman Class (High School)
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The Junior Class (College)
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The Junior Class (High School)
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Marie Kersey, Art Editor
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The Sophomore Class (High School) in front of the former Greenbrier Hall that burned down in 1921.
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The Special Class (Note their shoes!)
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The Academics (class before High School)
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Organizations Title Page

- CLUBS -


There were many organizations - Two Literary Societies, YMCA, Dramatic Club, Art, Lambda Phi, Delta Theta Phi, Phi Delta Phi, Chorus, Big D, and the four shown here. Can you tell which ones is the Southern Club or the Northern Club?
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The Country Club
Not only did they have lots of organizations, they had a good time. The write in their history: "When the spring term rolled around the out doors became too inviting for the encouragement of hard study. Perhaps this may account for certain queer happenings, but such things as cutting class, midnight feasts, and the slipping down fire escapes have no place in so sedate and dignified a thing as history."
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The Thirteen Club
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Athletics Tile Page

- ATHLETICS -


Basketball was the main sport - one team pictured to the right. But as important as basketball was, horseback riding at The Greenbrier, walking to the cliffs, and canoeing in the Greenbrier River were equally enjoyable.
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Basketball Team

The Joke Section


This section goes on for 10 pages, but we'll include just a few so you can judge the humor for yourselves!
OMA: Did you know they'd been going together for some time? 

ALICE: Who?

OMA: Your feet.
MISS RUPERT: Well, Pat, how are you now?

PAT: Thank you, Miss Rupert. I am better than I was, but I am not as well as I was before I was as bad as I am now.
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"Jokes"
DANGEROUS GERMS
"You claim there are microbes in kisses?" she asked the young Doctor. "There are," he said. "What disease do they bring?" she asked
"Palpitation of the heart."
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- HIGH SOCIETY -


The Society Section included the six pages of superlatives, the yearly schedule of events including highlights with GPS (which became GMS), and some pages of great pictures. We cannot identify all the girls - they may have been fillers.
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Lots of ads - two of those businesses are still in existence! We all know Yarid's! Bella's, the occupant of what was the Houck's store, is a fancy gourmet shop - not weenies and candles.
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