Abbot Academy - Circle Yearbook (Andover, MA)

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ABBOT CLASS BOOK 1910 iltra IStgrliiw Wilson Andover, Mass Courant Board Class Book Board Senior Play r QIlaaB Initials E ver H timorously F rivolous C ontinually M aking H armonies M aking F unny O beisances L avishing D evoted P hrases L atin ' s E nthusiastic T autologist M arvelously B rilliantly W ise 22

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A B BOT CLASS BOOK 1910 Claverack, N. Y. Odeon Senior Play Hgbta lEtetta Sraak Newburyport, Mass. Sec. and Treas. of College Senior Class ' 10 Second Hockey Team Senior Plav 21

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senior IftHtorg We are now about to close our career as active members of our dear old Abbot and before we leave we want to tell you of the many different feelings we have experienced since we began to contribute to the annals of Abbot Academy as the Senior Middle class. When we found ourselves an organized body of 27 members, in September of 1908, we began to build our air castles and imagine how great we should become before we separated for our different occu- pations in life. The Seniors no doubt thought we were not quite as great as they, and perhaps we were a little awed by them. But now that we are dignified Seniors — no doubt it would be better to omit the word dignified, for we fear that is the unknown quantity in our case — we wonder how or why we ever feared the Seniors. But we did. When our dear friend Lydia was elected class president we felt then that we should be successful, and after you have carefully perused our class book we will let you judge whether we have been or not. Our first chance to prove ourselves came in the Senior Mid. play which consisted of ' scenes from David Copperfield in which we revealed several illustrious amateur actresses among our number. We were held in suspense for some time as to whether our elders, the Seniors, would invite us to their February dance. They did invite us, partly, we always believed, because they knew they couldn ' t have a very good time with- out the Middlers. Xext came the problem of field day. Those in charge spent weary hours thinking up 23