How many of you remember Rat Day at Page County High School? The below article describes how it got started back in 1965. We don’t know the exact year it end, but this initiation is no longer carried out.
Last Friday, Oct. 15, Page County High School had an exciting initiation for all eighth graders in the school. The ideas for the day were thought up by our SCA executive council and by Mr. Bodkin, the school principal. To make this an eventful day for the members of the classes and grades, as well as the eighth graders, we required those being initiated into the school perform small duties for upperclassmen. One of the things especially enjoyed by the upperclassmen was that they could require any eighth grader to take their place in line and wait for their lunch. Among other duties the eighth graders were required to sharpen pencils, carry books, carry lunch trays, and perform other small duties for upperclassmen, such as performing in the lunchroom. The most comical and exciting thing, however, required to do, was to dress as gypsies and to wear a sign on their backs saying RAT, giving the initiation day the name of “rat day”
This article title Out of the Archives From October 28, 1965 appeared in the Thursday October 22, 2015 edition of the Page News and Courier Newspaper.
The below picture and article was in The Page 1977 yearbook, page 109.
