Annie Wright School - Shield Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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30 H Y A K from her brother saying that a rich vein has been struck in Ralston’s gold mine and all objections to the engagement and marriage are at an end. The curtain falls as Mrs. Thones is blessing the two couples. The cast was as follows: Edward Ralston, a promising young American, half owner of the Sierra Gold Mine Ethel Levin Chauncey Oglethorpe, his partner, second son of Lord Doncaster. . . Muriel Wilkenson Mrs. Ondego Thones, an admirer of rank ..Ruth Foss Sierra Bengaline, her niece, a prairie rose Hazel Small Lady Guinevere Llandpoore, an English primrose, daughter of the Earl of Paynaught Lydia Lowell The characters were well taken. Hazel Small was admirable in her part as Sierra and entered into it with dash and spirit from the very first. Ethel Levin’s interpretation of the part of her lover, Edward Ralston, was splendid. Lydia Lowell, in the part of the prim English girl, and Muriel Wilkenson, in the part of the shy lover, were simply convulsing. Both parts were difficult to interpret, but they sustained their characterizations perfectly. Ruth Foss, with her tall, stately car- riage, gave much dignity to the part of Mrs. Ondego Thones. The play was given before a large, appreciative audience and the players well deserved the rounds of applause which they received. The play was given under the direction of Miss Paula Fralim and Miss Ruth Guppy. TREE SPEECH It is a long established custom of Class Day that the departing class plant a tree or shrub, in order to leave behind it a pleasant memento of itself. The class of 1910 has chosen for its emblem the rhododendron, our State flower. We hope that it will grow to be a large and handsome shrub, and that in years to come it can be pointed out as a symbol of 1910’s love and loyalty to the A. W. S. The mysterious spell which has seemed laid upon class trees in years gone by, the weird doom which has brought their young lives to an untimely end, is a thing of the past; the spell is broken. We have only to look at Naughty Nine’s triumphant exulting white lilac to be sure of that. So it is with a happy confidence that we leave our rhodo- dendron in your care, ’ll, and beg of you to watch over it tenderly in our stead, so that it may live and beautify these grounds. Thanking you all for your kind attention, we will now proveed to plant our tree.

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H Y A K 29 charge of some large institution; a hospital, I suppose. Mrs. G.: IIow I should love to see her! (Business of mirror. Ap- parition in garb of “White Sister. ”) Mrs. C. : Well, that never would do for me! Mrs. G.: But how happy and peaceful she looked. Bess, I can’t tell you how much I have enjoyed all this. I must hurry off now, for it’s getting late. Can’t you come out for a week end with us soon, so that we can have a good long talk over old times? Mrs. C. : Yes, I think I can, and I shall be delighted. Mrs. G. : A week from Saturday, then, and I’ll call for you in the car. Good-bye. Mrs. C. : Good-bye. (Curtain.) THE SENIOR PLAY A large audience gathered in the study hall on Saturday evening, June 4, to witness the performance of the Senior play, “A Box of Mon- keys,” by Grace Furniss. SYNOPSIS The first act opens in the drawing-room of Mrs. Onego Thone’s Fifth Avenue residence. Sierra Bengaline, a western girl and a niece of Mrs. Thones, has been sent east by her father to separate her from her impecunious lover, Edward Ralston. While abroad Mrs. Thones has made the acquaintance of the Dowager Countess of Paynaught and her daughter, Lady Guinevere Llandpoore, and has asked Lady Guine- vere to come for a visit. Lady Guinevere arrives but at a most inop- portune time, as the Thones household has suddenly been bereft of ser- vants. Ralston, who has followed Sierra to New York and is making a surreptitious call on her, is mistaken by Lady Guinevere and later by Mrs. Thones for the new butler. In the midst of the confusion, Chaun- cey Oglethorpe, Ralston’s partner in an unsuccessful gold mine and a cousin to Lady Guinevere, appears and he, in turn, is taken for the expected new butler by Sierra. He manages to introduce himself to Mrs. Thones, who welcomes him with open arms as a cousin of the Earl of Paynaught. Act II. adds further to the laughter as Ralston shows Oglethorpe, who is an extremely bashful Englishman, how to propose to Lady Guin- evere. Sierra and Lady Guinevere then come in and a game of charades is proposed, the word “Matrimony’ being worked out. At this point Mrs. Thones appears and is disgusted to think that her niece and aristo- cratic guests are so familiar with the butler, but when his true identity is discovered, she is delighted to meet him, as she has received a letter

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H Y A K 31 PRESENTATION OF THE SPADE BY ETHEL LEVIN So now that the great day is here we Seniors have a tinge of sadness in our hearts at leaving the dear old school. But as we look around us and see the next class eagerly waiting to step into our shoes and the blooming ranks of undergraduates, we give our emotions pause, while we offer you a little friendly counsel. Through four long years of misunderstanding and silent endurance, we have patiently waited for this heart-to-heart talk. We should like to take this time and speak of ourselves — a most worthy topic. But do not be alarmed ! We know that you have come to listen to the sound of your own praises and we gladly undertake to show you exactly what you are. You, Freshmen, green as all Freshies are, are a fine class, generally speaking. Your spirit is unlimited, but why all this seriousness? — re- member that you have three long, hard years before you ere you reach your goal, so don’t look at the intermediates as inferior beings, for next year they will fill your shoes and conflicts may arise. Bear in mind this one thing — do not fight among yourselves, for that is a hard ele- ment to overcome and one which is the quickest to break up a class. And now we turn our attention to the champions of the school, the Sophomores. As yet you have taken your victories modestly and we hope you will continue to do so. We are proud to think that our sister class will have the place of honor on the loving-cup. Good luck to you in the future, and we hope that you will keep up the good work. To the Juniors we must say that you have done nobly so far. The Ilyak has been a brilliant success and too much credit cannot be given you. With all our hearts we bequeath to you our Senior privileges and may you enjoy them. Last of all, it is with much pleasure, intermingled with deep regret, that I anticipate relinquishing to you the custody c this dear and most zealously guarded spade, which has been a tradi- tional symbol of this school since its foundation, twenty-six years ago. We will lay it away for you in the securest place we can find, that it may not disappear or come to harm during the long summer months, and also in order that your energy and resourcefulness may have the test of an arduous search next fall. May success crown your efforts, and may you make a record for yourselves only second to that of your illustrious predecessors. Worthy President, and members of the Class of 1911, after you have found the sacred spade, guard it well, for remember it is a treasured relic of our school custom. It bears the colors of all the classes that have been graduated from this school, and about it clusters countless