Abbot Academy - Circle Yearbook (Andover, MA)

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COLLEGE PREPARATORY CLASS HISTORY [NCE we are only a College Preparatory class, and do not belong, correctly speaking, to the body of ancient and honorable Seniors, we feel, naturally, a little diffidence in placing before the public the history of our class. Yet, knowing that because of our ardent efforts in her interests we deserve a place in the annals of the school, we venture to relate the short story of our life. The class was brought into existence on the first Tuesday after school commenced, in September, 1900. Two of our members were new comers in Abbot ; the rest of us, eight in number, had been in school two or three years. All together we comprised the large class of ten. Our number was reduced later in the year by the with- drawal of two members. The College Seniors hold the proud distinction of having the first spread of the year. It was held in the class president ' s room and was a great success. The next event of importance was the play, written by two mem- bers of the class, an adaptation of Because She Loved Him So, which was given shortly before the Christmas vacation. This was 29

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college: preparatory class 1901 MOTTO Fide liter COLORS White and Gold Officers Harriet Alihea Lee Julia Charlton Rockwell Clara Locke Thomson Helen Isabella Buck President Vice President Secretary Treasu?-er v 2cS

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the first play of the year presented by the girls, and owing to the hard work of those managing it and to the clever acting, won great applause and was talked about for a long time afterward. The Vaudeville Show, which took place during the early part of the winter term, although not a College Preparatory entertainment, but participated in by members of all the classes, had for its originator and head a College Senior. We are a very athletic class. One of us is president of the newly formed Athletic Association, nearly all have been on the basketball team in former years, besides working hard this spring on our own account, to produce a victorious team on Field Day. One of us is a prize runner, who won last year the fifty yard dash, with the remarkable record of ! One of us also won both the slow and fancy bicycle races. As only the Seniors and Senior Middlers are allowed to play baseball on Field Day, we cannot show what shining lights we are on the diamond. So we shall have to be content to stand aside and give our best support to the Seniors. If we had had a longer life, much more might have been said to our glory, but still we hope that after school is over here we shall be heard of in the different colleges towards which we have been struggling for so many weary months ; and, also, that the class which follows us will not entirely forget the college class of ' 01. V 30