Abbot Academy - Circle Yearbook (Andover, MA)

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The Abbot Circle 1921 RUTH A. CROSSMAN Rufus Newton Centre, Mass. Two years. Leader Glee Club ' 21 Glee Club ' 20, ' 21 Fidelio ' 20, ' 21 Arm Band ' 20 Arm Bar ' 21 Honor Roll ' 20, ' 21 Business Manager Class Book ' 21 Senior Play English V Play ' 20 Senior-Mid. Play Bible Group Leader ' 20, ' 21 I say just what I think and nothing more or less. Who is that who is constantly moving her lips in an absent-minded manner? Can it be that she was once a nun, and having left her convent, constantly repeats her prayers w hich have be- come second nature to her? No, that is Ruth, our dignified fire captain, repeating her list of lieutenants. Truly, we wouldn ' t be at all sur- prised if you should sing them to us some night in A. C. A. instead of your song. And that re- minds us that here is another singer in our midst, and we feel that she, too, will bring us fame. HARRIET EDGELL ' ' Hat Gardner, Mass. Wellesley Vice Pres. Student Gov ' t. Advisory Board Courant Board Honor Roll ' 20, ' 21 English V Play ' 20 Honor A A Society ' 20, ' 21 Two years Vice Pres. of A. C. A. Bib ' e Group Leader Class Secretary ' 20 Draper Reader ' 20 Senior Play Basketball ' 20 Numerals ' 20 Arm Band ' 20 ' ' Nothing is impossible to industry. When you think of it, how many things are there that Hat hasn ' t received in the line of honors — Honor A, Stu. G.; A. C. A. vice presi- dent, basketball team, Honor Roll, etc. Conse- quently the class is pretty proud of her — and as for drag — well — Hat does have an awful time understanding the clever little jokes that go around the school; — but never mind, Hat, there are some others who have never heard of Goethe, too. 11

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The Abbot Circle 1021 CLARA LOUISE CLEVELAND Denver, Colorado Two years Glee Club ' 20, ' 21 Librarian Glee Club ' 21 Fidelio ' 21 Senior Play- Arm Band ' 20 A fine volley of words, gentlemen, and quickly shot off. Listen, is that a Victrola on the third floor front? No, that is just Clara Louise singing something from the latest opera. Surely if you c ' imb up the ladder of fame as speedily as you climb up Andover hills, you will be at the top long before we poor mortals below have reached the lowest rung. Abbot will be proud of you yet, Clara Louise, and when you come East on any of your concert tours remember we are all your friends. But, we beg of you, when you stay at any of the best hotels in the country, do not get up early to clean your room on Sunday morning; — the other guests might not be as obliging as we Abbot girls are. However, we wish you all suc- cess in your career, and here ' s to our Denver rep- resentative. ELINOR P. COCHRANE ' Ellie ' Melrose, Mass. Fidelio ' 20 Bible Group Leader ' 21 Two years Advisory Board ' 21 Arm Band ' 20 Of all the girls that e ' er was seen There ' s none so fine as Elly. Is Ellie from New England? Yes. Has she a New England conscience? You bet she has. Is there anything she attempts that she doesn ' t put her whole spirit into? She can even make the second floor wing behave when she ' s proctor. And her lessons? We bet they ' re prepared as well as anyone ' s. Everyone likes Ellie. Will she do big things in the outside world? Wait and see! 10

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The Abbot Circle 192 1 LOIS G. FLEMING Loie ' Cileasondale, Mass. Senior Play Two years Arm Band ' 20 Bible Group Leader ' 21 Long, may such goodness live. Well, Lois, we certainly admire a girl who has nerve enough to come down with mumps right in the midst of exams. But Lois is not the kind of a girl that is stumped by the mumps; she went right ahead and took some of her exams at the infirmary, and passed them, too, with marks which we unmumpy people envied. She may be rather quiet, but she gets there just the same, and we missed her sunny smile, and her apolo- getic excuse when she bumps into us, while she was away. FRANCES J. GASSER Fran Gasser Plandome, L. I. A. C. A. President Glee Club ' 20, ' 21 Vice Pres. Fidelio ' 20 Senior Mid Play Advisory Board ' 21 Three years Class Treasurer ' 19 Fidelio, ' 19, ' 20, ' 21 Numerals ' 19 Senior Play Student Council ' 21 Draper Reader ' 21 And Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these. Take her as a gouty old man (!) or a shrew tamer (!!) or as her own talkative sweet self - well, just take her — she ' s fine in all those char- acters. Just to look at her very New Vorkish clothes and hats or her fuzzy hair one wouldn ' t link her up with A. C. A. or Northfield — but that ' s Fran ' s other side. 12