Abbot Academy - Circle Yearbook (Andover, MA)

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When we gathered together again in the following September, this time in the Senior Parlor, we found that our numbers had diminished from twenty-five to nineteen, in spite of which fact we are the largest class in a number of years. We elected our officers for our Senior year and talked over the things that we could do to show what a wonderful and original class we were. Our first inspiration drew our class nearer together. We had a jolly straw-ride to Haggetts Pond. Up to Christmas vacation our work kept us very busy, but in January we started up again with new ideas. We had a moonlight skating party on Foster ' s Pond and a theatre party over in Lawrence. We gave a very successful tea to the faculty, but our great idea of the first of the year was our dance. Instead of the regular Senior Reception we gave the school a dance after the Senior Middle play Later, in February, we gave a dance ourselves. Until the Spring vacation we were very busy on our play, Shakespeare ' s The Tempest , but we did not mind the hard work or the giving up of the bright afternoons when everyone thought it was such a great success. We won in the Indoor Meet and on Field Day, dressed to represent our class flower, the daisy, we again won, though not until after a hard struggle. On May 19, the Trustees and the Principal gave us a very enjoyable time at a dance 20

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X X October, nine- teen six, we, the class of nineteen hundred and eight, elected the officers for our Senior - Middl e year. We were proud of our class, in the first place, for their good acting in the play, Who ' s to Win Him. Later on, in March, we showed our spirit at our class spread. All winter we worked hard at athletics and in the spring, though we lost in the Indoor Meet, we had the crowning triumph of beating the seniors on Field Daw We did not feel apart, however, from the seniors because of this pleasant rivalry and we worked and ushered our best for them at their play. When the spade was handed to our president at the close of the year we had a feeling of the coming importance tor our class, though we hated to see the old class leave. •9

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Miss Mason and Miss Kelsey gave us a picnic at Alderbrook Farm, and on May 26 we had a delightful time at the home of one of our number in Winchester. We are looking forward to our class supper and the many things we have still to do. Then comes Commencement and then the World, but we are all sure that, with such a training as our Alma Mater has given us, we shall be ready for it ; and we are even more sure that through the years our class motto, Unity and Ambition , will still hold us as it has during our life in the class of nineteen hundred and eight. Katharine A. Wlrster. 21