Annie Wright School - Shield Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

Page 21 text:

THE HYAK. 15 especially, we give a most cordial welcome. This year, as every year, there has been a little feeling of rivalry between the Junior and Senior classes, but it has never interferred with our hearty friendship with each other as individuals. You, members of the class of 1907, will know soon both the pleasures and responsibilities of Seniorliood; and that your Senior year may be as happy as ours, you have our best wishes. Our class motto, chosen by our Bishop “To Kalor Katexete’’— “hold fast to that which is good ” — has been the key note of our Senior year. So we have striven to “hold fast that which is good,” in the advantages of learning and culture, which are offered to us so liberally here, to “hold fast to that which is good” in conduct and school discipline, and to the true friendship we have formed here, we mean to ever “hold fast.” Once more we bid you welcome all our friends, and hope to see you here on many another class day. CLASS PROPHECY . SCENE I. Lucy Cook (seated by the table)— Enter, Mary Atkinson, Millicent Hanson, Grace McDonald and Goldie Elliot. Lucy (rising and advancing toward the others) Good afternoon, Mary, I’m ever so glad to see you. (They shake hands and Lucy turns polietly to the others, starts back a step and exclaims) Grace! This is good — Goldie (coming forward) It’s fine to see you again, Lucy, how are you? Lucy (enthusiasticly) and Goldie, too, and can this be Millie? Oh! this is too good to be true. When did you all come? Millie— Last night; we’ve been staying with Mary. Goldie— Weren’t you surprised! (Laughs.) Mary— D idn’t I tell you I’d bring some guests you’d like to meet? Lucy— Well, now come and sit down and tell me all about everything. (All sit.) We can talk better with a cup of tea, can’t we girls? (Serves them.) Grace (taking cup)— This is lovely, Lucy, so refreshing, and so ap- propriate, too, for an . Goldie (Hastily.)— For an afternoon call, just the thing. (All look relieved and Lucy smiles wisely to herself.)

Page 20 text:

14 THE HYAK. ADDRESS OF WELCOME .. Parents, friends. Alumnae, and fellow students, we welcome you to our Class Day. It has been for us a day long expected, long hoped for, the centre of many happy thoughts and joyous preparations. But now, as the day at last is here, a feeling of sadness comes over us, as we appear before you, for these exercises mark the end of our school year at the Seminary, which we have learned to love as our home. No class has ever had more cause to feel at home here than has the class of 1906. Out of the class of seventeen members but three have been here for only one year. Of the others, four have attended the Seminary for two years, four for three years, one for four years, one for six, two for seven and one for eight, and for one, classmates, this has been the only school which she has known. Is it strange, then, that we part with re gret, especially after a Senior year rendered happy by many new privileges? This year has been, too, a pleasant and prosperous one for the school as a whole. The general atendance has been larger than for many years, and our class is the largest which has ever been graduated, the nearest ap- proach to it being the classes of 1893 and 1905, each of which contained eleven members. You, returning Alumnae, have doubtless noticed the paved streets with- out the Seminary which have taken the place of the dusty roads, and with in the Study Hall, the fine, new schedule, which renders it impossible that any girl shall now be confused in regard to either her recitation or her practice periods. What seems to us the pleaantest innovation is the society formed this winter under the auspices of our class, and the cozy room, which has been appropriated for the meetings of the Delta Pi’s. But the most im- portant change in the life of the school is the successful establishment, this year of self-government. We welcome you back then, Alumnae to a flourish- ing school. We are glad to have you with us today, our parents and teachers. We thank you, one and all, for the hearty co-operation and encouragement that you have given us in our school work, which we hope has not fallen short of your expectations. Schoolmates, we welcome you to your class day exercises, for soon we must part company to go divided and separate ways. To the Juniors,

Page 22 text:

16 THE HYAK. Millie— Do you live here all alone, Lucy? Lucy— Y es, all alone. Goldie (horrified)— Just think of it! Grace— Don’t you get terribly lonely? Lucy Why, no, it s lots of fun living alone— maybe you don’t be- lieve it, but it is! Millie (sighing) — Yes, I should think you would be very happy. Goldie— Why that sigh, Millie? Millie (leaning back)— Oh, nothing! Grace (to nobody in particular) — If anybody should want a divorce — Patfield and Patfield are the lawyers to obtain it. Why, girls, (dropping to conversational tone), Archie and I have had twenty-four divorce cases in the last two weeks. (Goldie and Mary make signs of uneasiness and try to stop Grace.) Millie (arising angrily)— What do you mean by talking that way, Grace? Grace— Oh, nothing personal. Nothing personal at all, really Millie, I — I was just wondering how the business is getting along. (Turning to the others for justification.) I’m sure that ' s very natural — Archie says he couldn t get along alone at all. I ' m the life of the partnership, according to him. But I just told him I wouldn’t stay away from class reunion for anything— not even the business. Lucy— T hat ' s just right! Goldie — Good for you, Grace. That ' s just what I told Frank. He wanted me to ride over with him to the San Antonia ranch. He says it al- ways pleases the boys so much to have me come. Lucy — The old class spirit ' s as good as ever, I see. Mary — And just think. I gave up a trip to Yellowstone Park to be here! Robert’s been promising to take me for ever so long. Lucy— Now girls, do tell me about yourselves. I ' m just dying to know ! Mary— You begin, Millie. You know you wouldn’t sit up with us last night, and I haven’t even heard your husband’s first name. Millie— Well, his name is Gustave— Gustave von Schwielerlind (All look horrified) and he’s a musician. Lucy (laughingly)— Oh, Mill!