Auburn High School - Follies Yearbook (Auburn, IN)

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The STAR Og 2 ER ae a Galera oa) ORR etl @ oN By DORIS M. GROGG =D Sar WE. We, the Senior girls, or the boyless class as we have been Our class is characterized as the class of 19-4, and the year nine- called, have more opportunities than some like to admit. teen-hundred and four its self affords boundless opportunities for Horace Greely advised young an energetic young woman. men ‘‘to go west and grow up with the country,’’ and I sup- pose he meant young ladies as well. Whether he did or not, we consider this good advice, but you may depend upon it we will not go to Utah. Longfellow pictured Priscilla at the spinning wheel and Evangeline in her plain room with great shelves of linens and that pictures his heroine as a school teacher, a stenographer, or Those woolens she herself had woven. ‘The modern writer maybe a news paper reporter. ‘Times have changed. good old days of long ago are gone forever. We, the women of the zoth century, have more advantages than did the Puritan girl of the 17th century, or the Acadian girl of the 18th century. [he common schools and the high schools are filled with girls, Our great land is dotted with girls seminaries and all the colleges, deserving the name, admit young ladies as well as young men. ‘The time has been when peopte thought it unnecessary to educate the girls, but that time, too, is past. What is the result of this education? ‘The women are hold- ing thousands of positions which used to be held by the men only. Now there are school girls, office girls, telephone girls, lady stenographers, lady photographer, lady teachers, lady preachers, lady physicians, lady magicians; in fact as the little boy wrote when given the subject, ‘Girls’? upon which to write a composition: ‘There are many kinds of girls. | honestly believe there are a thousand different kinds of girls, or one girl can be a thousand different girls when she wants to be.”’ Ancient history records only a tew great women. Aspasia, the wife of Pericles, is said to have been the greatest woman of The best thing that can be said for her is, that she was a brilliant and her age, in fact the greatest of all Greek women. fascinating conversationalist. Cleopatra is the great Egyptian heroine, and she certainly has not been made famous by her virtue and wisdom. B. C., the date of Cleopatra’s death, to the 15th century A. D., no very great From about the year 31

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HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY. Miss Mae Provines, Eighth Grade. Miss Flora Hoffman, Musical! Director. Orval D. Tyner, Principal, B. B. Harrison, Superintendent. liss Julia M. Hodge, Asst. Principal.

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SENIOR CLASS. Doris Grogg Lulu Bateman Ruth Keeran Doretha Swanders Zoe Gibtord Joy M. Shutt Floride Lackey Jessie Trowbridge Clara Feagler Lona Krum Dorcas Provines