Coquille High School - Laurel Yearbook (Coquille, OR)

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Li CLASS PROPHECY « r. While sitting in my chair and gazing idly out over our fair city, some Blue-birds chanced to light on the telephone wire near the window. They were exceptionally beautiful birds and thus attracted more than my passing interest. Unconsciously my thoughts turned to the saying that Bluebirds mean happiness and memories. Pondering this statement I dreamily watched them and while so doing I seemed to conjure a similar scene in the long ago. I seemed to be transported back to the last happy months of my school life. There rose before my semi-conscious mind a picture of the dear old High School Building and class of T7, while happy Blue-birds caroled outside. All that happy throng appeared clustered round the Assembly Hall as in the days of yore. They were the same—yet not the same. Following this train of thought I traced my classmates thru the years that spanned the Gulf of Time to the present day. Thru the struggles and hardships, heartaches and disappointments, to success at last, I fol-each one in his career. Our president, Ada Downs, was now a famous nurse and as the head of the largest hospital in New York, was loved and honored by all who knew her. Alexander Lowe was a wonderful engineer. He had worked out some new idea which had greatly improved his profession. Welman Ball would always rather talk science than anything else, so now he was perfectly happy as the head of the Science department of a large western college. William Philpott and his brother Euel were known as the most up-to-date farmers in the world. They were constantly in demand for lectures and articles on Scientific Farming. Edna Robison had been to China as U. S. Minister for several years. Under her clever management all our trouble with China had been cleared away and the two nations were on the friendliest terms. Zelma Strang had completed her musical education abroad and was famous the world over as a pianist. She was happily married now and was mistress of a magnificent home on the Hudson. After the Great War, our German Paul had sailed for Germany, bent on building up the nation again. There he proved how diplomatic he really was. As a ruler he put the Kaiser to shame. Leslie Schroeder owned the largest newspaper plant in America. He had natural ability in directing and general supervision of work and had made a success. There was one classmate who always talked electricity wherever he went. The world over, Arthur Hooton was known and honored. One of my old friends was in the aviation corps of the

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LAUR es|£ Sixteenth—I, Edna Robison, bequeath to Katie Price my knowledge of flirting and men Seventeenth—I, Marion Schroeder, do will my love of dancing to Mildred Neely. Eighteenth—I, Will Philpott, bequeath my extreme modesty to Charles Willey. Nineteenth—I, Welman Ball, bequeath to Alice Curry my power to grow shorter. Twentieth—I Euel Philpott, will to Bessie Johnson my exhuberant spirits. In Witness Whereof, we have hereunto set our hands and affixed the seal of the Senior Class in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred seventeen. “Katherine Rogers” “Patty Capulet” SOMETHING NEW r m If the children come home exhausted from their examinations, it is no wonder. Fancy the mental strain they have undergone to evolve such answers as these, which were selected from those given by New York State pupils in a regents’ examination: The chamois is valuable for its feathers; the whale for its kerosene oil. Climate is caused by the emotions of the sun around the earth. The purpose of the skeleton: something to hitch meat to. A blizzard is the inside of a hen. George Washington married Martha Curtis and in due time became the father of his country. The alimentary canal is located in the northern part of Indiana. The qualifications of a voter at a school meeting are that he must be the father of a child for eight weeks. Gender shows whether a man is feminine, masculine or neuter. Four animals belonging to the cat family are the father cat, the mother cat, and the two little kittens. “The government of England is a limited mockery,” wrote one school child after patient thought.

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;VK|a| United States army. A brilliant woman possessed of tact and the desire to serve, Leanna Curry had risen to a position of honor and trust. My class was not without its School Marm. Clara Heller believed in modern methods of instruction, and as head of the department of Education at Wellesley she had greatly improved her profession. There is always some one who loves music and brilliant lights. Marion Schroeder loved her profession and had made a name lor herself. She had spent two seasons in London, once appearing before the royal family by special invitation. As a dancer she had no equal. Viewing these old School Mates I longed to talk to them. I wanted to tell them how glad I was to see them. I started forward but was blinded by a flash of light. This recalled me to earth and I found myself in my sumptuous but lonely quarters. Life had not yielded all I anticipated. The wealth I had inherited from my bachelor uncle did not, and I knew it never could, fill the vague longing for a soul-mate. The peace and happiness that comes from having some one with whom to share each joy and sorrow would ever be denied me. Travel and pleasure I found were not good substitutes. As the rays of the setting sun streamed thru the window, they seemed to me like the last rays of hope vanishing behind the horizon. The longing I had tried to banish from my heart returned and I wanted to see my class mates once more. Yet I knew that each was doing his part and the early prophecies were being fulfilled. I alone seemed a failure of all that class. Myrtle Cunningham T7. THE JOHNNY-JUMP-UP. m m m Wake, you beautiful flower; You blossom with heart of gold, Add color to each woodland bower, And bring joy the same as of old. The birds do sing, The frogs do croak, And the leaves do spring From the limbs of the oak.