Athens High School - Arena Yearbook (Athens, OH)

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 Three years and nine months ago the grades sent forth into this high school a new class, conceived in ignorance, and dedicated to the proposition that both Seniors and Freshmen are created equal. Since then we have been engaged in a great civil war, testing whether this class or any class so conceived and so dedicated can endure against the faculty and five per cent. We are now leaving the great battlefield of that war. We have come to say farewell to that field where we have struggled and frolicked that the name of Athens High School might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we do this, but in a larger sense, we cannot edu- cate the Freshmen, we cannot instruct the Juniors, we cannot greatly better this high school. The brave students of the past who struggled here have immortal- ized A. H. S. far above our power to add or detract. Athens High will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what we did here. It is for us, the going, to here dedicate ourselves to the unfinished task of education which this faculty has thus far so nobly carried on. It is for us to here dedicate ourselves to the great work remaining before us, that from these walls of learning we take increased devotion to that cause for which the faculty gave their full meas- ure of devotion. We here highly resolve that this class, under the faculty, shall have a new desire for education, and that this school, by the students, of the stu- dents, and for the students, shall not perish from the earth. —Mary Peoples. Twenty-two

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Harold Graham—“For the two of us— Class Day Committee (4); A. H. S. Minstrel Show; “Roof Garden Revue”; Mohican Min- strel; “Broadway Revue”; Glee Club (1); Band (3); Sergeant-at-Ar ns (1, 2, 3). Mary White—“ If they ever put a tax on love.” Friendship Circle (4); Decoration Committee (4); “Roof Garden Revue.” Hunter Brown—“K-K-Katv.” Boys’ Glee Club (1,2); Football Team (2). Clarence Pidcock—“Cutie, who tied your tie?” Boys’ Glee Club (1, 2); Baseball Team (3); U. S. Army, ’17, T9. Florence Hayes—“I’ll sing you a song of dear old Dixieland.” Dorothy Dent—“You made a little dent in deep in my heart.” Friendship Circle; Brown Prize Winner. T wenty-one

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Class Prophecy Ladies and gentlemen, in order to fully acquaint you with my identity and the reason I am writing of the persons whose names you will find mentioned herein, I will try to explain myself and my reason for existing. My name is Skygack, and I am the first visitor on this planet from that remote unit of the solar system. Mars. Since landing here I have often thought that I would like to write con- cerning the most popular and prominent people I have met here. I arrived on this planet in South America, in a sparsely populated section of the Chilean Andes, and the first occupants of this globe whom I cast my eyes upon were two men with long hair and bearded faces, who introduced themselves to me as mining engineers, and being the most prominent in their profession today, I know you will have no trouble in ascertaining their identity. They instructed me as to the best way which I should follow to find a seaport. I took their advice, and eventually came to the town of Saylorsville, where I met several unimportant personages. A few days later I set sail on the steamer Panama, bound for San Francisco. I was very interested in the commander of this vessel, Captain Peter Collins, who proved to have a very wide knowledge of men and affairs. Several other inter- esting people whom I met on this trip were seven renowned New York capitalists, George Banks, Paul Cotner, Dick Faubion, Eph. Shirley, Ellis Woodworth, Carl Ramsey, and William Witt, who had, as I understood it, come into their immense fortunes by financing the invention of a noiseless soup spoon by one Messiah Kech- ickian. Also on board the Panama there was a party of missionaries, returning to their native land after sojourning among the Hottentots of South America for several years. Their chief, the Rev. Darrel Herron, I found a very interesting man, and his colleagues, although members of the fairer sex, were very interesting and polite, and great interest was shown by them in my lectures about the people of Mars. The most prominent ladies in the party, which numbered nearly fifty, were: Frances Devlyn, Beryl Cone, Helen Copeland, Myrta Ashworth, Mabel Wagner, Ila Beal, Ethel Beekman, Della Clifford, Lucille Hunter, and Mary Law- head. Upon arriving at San Francisco several days later, I rode in one of the B. F. Taxicabs (famous over the entire country for their service, and owned by Mr. Hunter Brown and Burdette Foraker) to the Davidson and Kircher Bros. Hotel, the most magnificent in the state. Everything and everybody seemed very excited at this time over the coming presidential election between Miss Marian Bush, candidate of the new Universalist Party, and Miss Mary Peoples, of the Anti-Cigarette Party. However, as I was not very interested in the politics of the country (they being entirely controlled by women at this time, the most prom- inent of these feminine politicians being Miss Dorothy Slutz, Miss Dorothy Kirch- er, and Miss Madge Wyatt), I paid no further attention to the election. Several weeks later I left San Francisco and journeyed to Denver, going by air in one of the well-known passenger aeroplanes owned and controlled by Mr. Chester Edgar and Mr. Richard McKinstrv. Upon arriving in Denver I was very much surprised to find a man still holding the office of mayor in that city. Mr. Littler proved himself to be a very interesting and sociable person, as did hiis secretary, Mr. Harold Liggett. While in Denver I spent a very enjoyable evening at the Graham Theatre, owned and operated by the Messrs. Clinton and Harold Twenty-three