Agnes Irwin School - Last Strand Yearbook (Rosemont, PA)

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Heisler, Eugenia Ketterlinus, Sarah Morton, Harriet Leaf and Harriet Marshall are C. P.'s. As may be imagined they are very learned and studious. We began the year riht by choosing Anna Brinton for our president and Marjorie Taylor for vice-president. Kate Jayne is editor-inschief of the Irwinicm, and her assistants and the athletic association editors and managers are ladies of great talent and ability, so how could we do otherwise than have a most successful year? Kate Jayne has organized a dramatic club, which, thanks to the faithful work of its members and its excellent president, has turned out even better than our anticipations. The members gave Twelfth Night on March 30th, which was a great success. The cast had a tactful UQ and encouraging C? ?J coach in Mr. King. Miss MacIntosh's absence this winter has been a great disappointment to us, as we had hoped so much. to have her with us during our graduating year. I cannot do justice to our short and simple annals without mentioning our illustrious history class, the pride of the whole school. By the end of the year we will have finished funless they finish us firstj two large, dry tomes, whose contents have been crammed into us like stuffing into a roast chicken. But virtue is never unrewardedg we have mastered nearly all the Plantagenet kings in proper sequence, and three or four of the presidents. We have also learned the date of the Magna Charta. and few facts about Christopher Columbus. Is it not touching to observe such scholastic diligence in ones so young? And now my task is over. A veil is once more drawn over the past, and before me the curtains of destiny roll apart, disclosing a brilliant future for the class of 1914. But now I trespass on our Prophet's territoryg and so, bowing to my enamoured CPD audience, I modestly retire. MoL1.y Woob BAILY 29 I-. I gf.-

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B II, 1910 The next year we had a terrible fright. 2025 had just been added to the school, and rumors were afloat that the BII's were to be installed there. Our feelings were lacerated. We felt that we had graduated from the little house and its vicinity. However, it was a false alarm, and when school opened, we found ourselves comfortably settled in Miss Dowe's room.. Laura Heisler, Mary Laird, Arrean Miller, Isobel Page, Marjorie Taylor, and Helena Robinson joined us. After infinite labor on the part of our worthy president, we acquired class rings for the first time. They were ugly enough to frighten one, but we were much thrilled with them. In February, Katherine Ogden came to help us chase the Glooms. I don't mean to be personal, Katherine, but those cherry hair-ribbons were the envy of the whole class. Otherwise, the year passed uneventfully. We had become hopelessly good and uninteresting. We were never sent to Miss Sophy, and seldom dismissed from the room. Is it great wonder, then, that we left no footprints on the sands of time P B I, 1911 The next year, Helen Doughton, Christine Rehn, Hansell Earle, Maida Fox, julia Hamp, Susie Ingersoll, Mary Merrick, Marjorie Morris, Florine Pearson and Elizabeth Wister arrived. Then a great thing happened. Hobble skirts came into fashion! Anna Brinton a-chieved everlasting distinction by being the first in the class to possess one. We also had the up-to-this-time-unknown treat of being alone while preparing for and recovering from ro-ll-call, as Miss Natt was busy calling the roll in other rooms. This left us unchaperoned, and we made the most of it. Those above, below, and beside us must have often wondered at the hurried patterings of little CU feet across the bare floor. But these and the shrill squeaks which occasionally rang out at embarrassing moments were merely evidences of innocent amusement and spirits. A II, 1912 Mary Denkla, Edith Ellison, Hope McMichael, Huberta Potter, and Cornelia Leidy joined us in A II. Edith Gillingham jumped up a class and became one of our most studious C ? l ! lj members. Then we spent one more winter overlooking our beloved alley, thronged with ragmen and neighbors' cats. We also achieved geometry fsome had it thrust upon themj, and we took up German, in which we have made great UQ progress. At the mid-years, a great blessing dropped on us with a crash. Was it the ceiling? No,-hush,-it was Isobel Rodgers! She came like a sea-breeze on a hot summer day, and, well,-we've felt breezy ever since. Nothing else of particular interest happened, except that most of us took to parting our hair on the side, and Wearing Qnot imbibingj buns. A I, 1913, 1914 Only three new girls came to our illustrious class this year, but they possess the charms and talents of more than thrice their number. QMarcella Cerboni, Frances Randall and Rebecca Lycett, bow this way, please.J Laura 28

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