Wesleyan College - Veterropt Yearbook (Macon, GA)

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Class Song (Tune — Auld Lanp Syne.) Of all ttie classes gone before Tl ere’s rione so tried and true, Our nances will live foreverrx ore, Tile Class of 190Q Exanqs Iriave troubled Us not at all, We’ve inade an easy pass, fl Dip will be tl e rigfit reward For tfiis rnost brilliant class. Cfiorus. — Tlie Class of 1902, Tl|e Class of 1902, Our nuitis will live Tl e Class of 1902. Our ligl ts are out eacii nigllt at ten— Reproofs l ave been but few. We ' ve never flirted witl: tl e rnen. But done wt|at we ouglit to do. We tliat wear tne green and red. Bid you a fond adieu. We are tlie class tl at always led. We Seniors, 1902. rqy dear, forever nqore. K. E. and M. H 27

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MARY SIMS WHEELER. Member of the Philomathean Society; Business Manaf er of the Wesleyan; member of the Ale- Ihean Society. HATTIE WIMBERLY. Member of the Philomathean Society; Business Manajjer of Zio Zag; Exchange Editor of the li ' es evan; member of the Alethean Society; member of the “ Imps;” Treasurer of the Mission- ary Society ; member of the Basket-Ball Team. ANNIE E. WILLIAMS. Member of the Philomathean Society; Associate Editor of the Wesleyan. 1901; Literary Editor of Zig-Zag; President of the Alethean Society, 1901; Editor-in-Chief of the Wesleyan 1902; Secretary and Treasurer of the Class of 1902; Critic in the Alethean Society, 1902 ; President of the Missionary Society ; Vice-President of the Ale- thean Society; Reader’s place; member of the Basket-Ball Team. 26

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Class History of 1902 JK Shine out, fair Sun, till I have bought a glass, That all may see the Seniors shadows pass. There are histories and histories ; but I am not going to tire the audience by giving them a long history of the Senior Class ; nor am I going to give a short one, such as ‘‘Greene’s Short History of the English People”— concise in two thousand and fifty pages. We of the Class of 1902 greet you with a past record of which we have no cause to be ashamed. That we are brilliant and good goes without saying, and we live up to our motto: “ Work before play.” From the Academy to Freshman we have toiled, gaining in number till we have become Seniors. And now 1 will tell you a bit of individual history about e ch member of the Class of “ Naughty-Two,” t ina Van Meter, from the village of Kingston, in North Georgia, is the musical genius of the class, for she has not only received her diploma in that branch, but is now taking a post-graduate course. She entered Wesleyan after attending college in Rome, Ga., and she must have been ” Shorter” in knowledge, for she had to take her place among the Freshmen. Think not that Ina’s musical talent is her only possession, for her bril- liancy shines forth in another direction. Along time ago, while studying physics, she astonished the class by imparting the infor- mation that Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity and invented lightning. Procrastination, thy name is Mary Sims Wheeler. She is constitutionally opposed to work of all kinds, |and takes for her motto the maxim (slightly revised) of our American sage, Ben Franklin — Late to bed, and still later to rise, Makes a girl healthy, wealthy, and wise. Mary Sims has a wonderful knowledge of the Bible, as was recently shown. While studying Bible lesson one day, a friend was quoting the speech of Ruth to Naomi, “W ' hither thou goest I will go,” etc. Mary Sims listened intently, and then said: “Yes; that’s real cute. I see you have been reading the ‘ Love Letters of a Musician.’ ” On seeing a reference to Dumas’s novel “Les Trois Mousquetaires,” she said shecouldn’t understand how a man could write a whole book on three mosquitoes. « Hattie Wimberly has lived about in the State at large, but is just now residing in Oglethorpe. If she were not a preacher’s granddaughter, she says, she would be tempted to play euchre; for when hearts are trumps Jack is the right bower. After attending Sousa’s concert, Hattie was heard to say that she wanted to marry a man with legs like Sousa. Once, in Zoology, Professor Bonnell asked for an example of the amphibia. “ Kangaroo,” re- sponded Hattie promptly; it should have been tadpole.” She is sarcastic at times in discussing things in general, but not with her friends 28