East Lansing High School - Ceniad Yearbook (East Lansing, MI)

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Guy D. Smith Guy D. Smith was born on a farm one mile south of Mason. He attended a district school until eleven years of age, when he entered the Mason city school, from which he graduated at the age of seventeen. The next three years of his life were spent teaching school winters and working on his father's farm summers. In 1804 he entered Kalamazoo College and, working his way through college by tutoring and various other kinds of work, was graduated in 1898 with a degree of A. B. Mr. Smith was quite prominent in college, being a member of the college ball team for four years and of the foot ball team for three years, besides being President of his class two consecutive terms, pres- ident of Sherwood Rhetorical Society and president of the college Y. M. C. A. for two years. After graduating Mr. Smith accepted a position in our school, where he has charge of the ninth grade assembly room.

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Grace Smith Miss Grace Smith was born and brought up in Saline, Washtenaw County. Here she attended the public school and graduated from the High School. The next year she entered the Ypsilanti Normal School. After graduating from the Normal she taught three years in the Man- chester High School. She next took a course at the University of Michigan, completing it in 1897. Last year she accepted a position as teacher of English and History in the Caro High School, but gave it up at the end of her first year in order to accept a position as teacher of the same studies in the Lansing High School.

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Ernestine Robinson Miss Ernestine Robinson was born in Central New York, where she lived till she was eight years old, when she moved to this city. She attended the public school here and is a graduate of the Lansing High School. In 1892 Miss Robinson entered the Kansas State University, where she remained one year, entering Ann Arbor as a Sophomore in '93, where she graduated with high honors in '96. While here she became a member of the Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity. After leaving the University she accepted a position as teacher of English Literature in the High School at Sault Ste. Marie. She held this position for two years, giving it up in '98 to accept a similar posi- tion in our school, which she is Hlling very satisfactorily.