Annie Wright School - Shield Yearbook (Tacoma, WA)

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le THE RISE DP THE STAR OF 193B In recalling the past of this year s Senior Class represented by the star, we have uncovered many things. Our star started on its course in the first grade, the first year that the new building was occupied. Although the pioneers have not been together for all twelve years at the Seminary, four of our members began school together in the first grade, Margaret Kelly, Jane Harmany, Doro- thy Mueller, and Edith Ann Fogg. In the second grade Dorothy LaGasa joined the group, and Elizabeth Allen entered the ranks in the third grade. A clear memory of our third and fourth years recalls autograph books we gained for good citizenship. We remember well how the required three stars would not appear on the blackboard for some people, and how the much coveted little books eluded our grasps till Commencement Day itself. We cannot forget our reciting Hiawatha when we still wore blue uniforms. Our numbers were enlarged in the sixth grade by Jane Bourne and Katherine Fovargue. Jane has remained with us through all these years. The year of our eighth grade was a very busy one. At Christmas time we were carollers in the Christmas play. We gave a dance that year also, the first and last of eighth grade dances. We held it in the recreation room, the music being furnished by a piano, but we had a fine time and counted it a great success. For our play we presented ' The Princess and the Swineherd. How Mrs. Hiatt struggled to keep us in order long enough to produce it! At the end of the year our graduation from the Lower School was all important. On that eventful day Dorothy LaGasa was awarded the high-point athletic cup and Jane Bourne, the scholarship cup. In 1933, our Freshman year, Betty Garrett, Tishelle Hirshberg, and Johnnie Bruce joined us. Some of us were elated to win positions on the Gold or Blue team in various sports. That year we won the class song contest. We were so fond of the song, indeed, that we still sing it. Some of us served at the Prom, attired in sailor suits and stationed behind punch bowls and at the door. It was a thrill as well as an honor. The most vivid memory that most of us hold of the Freshman- Sophomore Hop that year is the accordion in the orchestra. Through all these things wc rc guided by our president, Lois Button The next year our rapidly growing class was increased by Anna Fry, May Sanford, and Anne Cowell. Jane Bourne was president, and under her guidance we won the stunt banner with a group of song and dance numbers. Athletic honors in diving were won by Jane Bourne, and in tennis doubles by Dorothy LaGasa witli her sister. The crowning glory was the Hop. The gymnasium was resplendent as a circus tent, and we even had invi- tations in the form of tents. You shpuld have seen the orchestra, immersed in sawdust and paper caps. Barbara Bishop, Elaine Tubbs, Audrey Gay, Emily Pitchford, Ruth Clark, Jeanne Evans, Frances Oakley, Burdette Craig, and Dorothy Stewan joined us last year. With their help we again won the stunt banner. By this time we had graduated from the Hop age, and our attentioas

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SENIORS 1936 KLIZABKTH MERRICK Port Ian J, Oregon Entered in her senior year. Nev and Society Editor of Tlic Crest and The Shield. Plans to enter Scripps College. 1 IIANI OAKI.KY Tacoma, Waihtngton Entered in her junior year. Enter MAY SANFORD Tacoma, Washington 1 o i DOROTHY STEWART Boise, Idaho Entered in her junior year. Busi- ness Manager of The Crest and The Shield. Choir. Will enter the University of Washington. DOROTHY MUELLER Tacoma, Washington Entered in the first grade. Plans to attend the University of Wash- ington. EIVflLY PTTTHFORD Aberdeen, Washington Entered in her junior year. Sec- retary of the Sorority. Art Editor of The Oest ' and The Shield. Will enter the University of Washington. OXNE SHEPHERD Ashland, Oregon Entered in her senior year. ELAINE TUBBS Adams, Oregon Entered in her junior v- dent of the Athletic A Holder of the Key. X ui ca:er the University of Washington.

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ike iSkteld were turned to the annual Junior Frolic which we gave for the Upper School, and to the Prom which the Juniors always give in honor of the Senior Class. The Frolic was an immense success from the point of view of the guests. The Prom motif was the star, and it was very appropriately carried out in the Great Hall. At Christmas time several of our number were in the annual Christmas play, and all of us joined Miss Wilson in her cottage for a Junior party. When May Day came, we staned the custom of the Junior class ' s parading around the dining room at breakfast singing It Ain ' t Going to Rain No More, and indeed a charm this custom has proven itself to be these last two May Days. Yes, we were up and stirring at the traditional hour of five o ' clock to decorate the Queen ' s throne. Betty Garrett was Maid of Honor, the sole junior attendant to the Queen. We must not forget the class breakfast at the Ta- coma Hotel, and what fun the Bishop was. That year athletic honors were won in tennis by Doro- thy LaGasa. The class teams were viaorious in volleyball and were second to the Seniors in basketball. We were guests at the Junior-Senior banquet at the Country Club and had a marvelous time, even during a few uncomfortable moments. This last fall we were joined by Gertrude Chess, Elizabeth Merrick, Yvonne Shepherd, and Maya Vandcrspek, who left us at mid year. We fell heirs to the Sorority this year. Our initiation was most impressive, although questionably sol- emn. From this initiation soon evolved Friday eve- ning gatherings and a Sorority dance with the foot- ball motif, which was given shortly before Thanks- giving. And then there ' s the spade — there are beautiful blue and white ribbons on it now; we found it in a piano exaaly a week after it was hidden. We attended the Junior Frolic and were guests at the Prom, two verv pleasant evenings with the Juniors as hostesses. Early in the fall, we offered a treasure hunt as our class stunt. Soon came the Christmas play, with our class again well represented both in the cast and in the dancing. Several of our girls have been outstanding in their dancing all their years here at the Seminary. Five are members of the Dance Club. At Christmas time again this year, we were invited to a party in Miss Wilson ' s cottage, after which we went through the halls at midnight singing carols. Our May Day was a grand success. Burdette Craig, our very fair Queen, ruled over us graciously and charmingly. The rest of the class, in dainty net dresses and large picture hats, formed her court At the Athletic Association Banquet, Elaine Tubbs, president of the Association, presided. Along came the Junior-Senior Banquet at which we were hostesses to the Juniors, and the formal and in- formal Sorority initiation. We were then engulfed in final examinations. The star, however, rose above the storm to shine brightly on the Senior play — Twelfth Night. Then came Baccalaureate Sunday with its address to the Seniors. Class Day soon followed with the class prophecy, history, and farewell. On this day we planted our class tree, a California redwood. That night we made our last will and testament and later burned our star on the Athletic Field while we sang our songs and were in turn answered by the others, grouped on the hill above us. After this ceremony we sere- naded the Juniors outside their windows. Com- mencement brought the star of 1936 to its zenith, and indeed its officers, Jane Bourne, Margaret Kelly, and Burdette Craig, led the class of twenty- six members to fulfill its motto — Stella non Sulcus ' Be the Comet not the Tail.