Coquille High School - Laurel Yearbook (Coquille, OR)

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THE SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY. In looking through some of the most important papers the other day I recognized several names, the first one being our past president of the class of 1918. Miss Myrtle Neely, who after having traveled about for some years as a lecturer on Woman’s Rights, returned to Myrtle Point where she established a Young Ladies Seminary of which she is principal. The next I noticed was Miss Etta McLeod, who is now a second Mary Pickford. She made a great name for herself all over the world. She married an English Lord, but not being able to get along with him, has gone to Norway, Oregon, where she has settled on a farm, while her husband is in New York carrying on his business. Miss Maymie DeLong was next in line, she is well known as a great Kindergarten teacher. Here is Miss Gladys Nosier, she has always been noted for her humane acts, she always was bailing somebody out and getting after people for inhuman acts. She has also given several great lectures and because of it has been sent to Liberia as a representative for the United States. Miss Catherine Hersey is also a noted lecturer, although her lectures are of a different type. She is a great Christian Science Lecturer. She is also a great hynotist, palmist and mind reader. Miss Sylvia Neely has turned out much as we expected, as she has tried writing for several of our most prominent papers and important magazines. She is now writing blank verse for the Ladies Home Journal. Mr. Fred Lorenz, whom we expected great things of in the athletics, especially has over done upon that line. He won first honors in athletics at the University of Oregon. He then returned to Powers where he married the daughter of a logger, moving from there to Marshfield where he went into the wholesale dry goods business. Miss Doris Tyrrell, who worked for the County Agriculturist for some time, married a young man from Prosper and moved on to a ranch a few miles below Coquille, Oregon, which is now a very prosperous city of fifty thousand. She is a very

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used by the High School girls during the years to come, in hopes that their drug store bills will thereby decrease. I, Etta McLeod, do willingly leave to Alice Curry my reputation of being short of stature. I, Elmer Neely, will to Don Pierce my especial talent as Yell Leader. i, Doris Tyrrell, leave to John Stanley my ability to graduate without going to school. I, Marvel Skeels, will to Edna Olson, after my departure from High School, the privilege of riding in a certain olive drab bug. I, Fred Lorenz, do hereby will to Fred Harlocker my place as a guard in High School basket ball team. I, Nellie Johnson, do hereby leave my sweet temper and ireckles to Margaret Cunningham. I, Gladys Nosier, leave my perfectly good powder puff to be chained to the mirror in the girls cloak room, and used by the public at large. I, Sylvia Neely, will to Carol Rahskopf my power of saying nothing when the moment for silence has arrived. I, Mildred Norton, do hereby bequeath to Lester Bogard my love for the sciences. I, Flossie Lund, leave my grace in tripping the light fantastic to Viola Knife. I, Leland Peart, do hereby will my place in the Hlgn School orchestra to Chauncey Fish. I, Catherine Hersey, bequeath to Hazel Bean my interest in Beaver Hill. 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 eighteen. Molly Bruce (Seal) Marian Preston

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influential citizen now and has for the last two years been sent to the Legislature. Mr. Elmer Neely is a very prominent citizen of Coquille, Oregon, having taken Hoover’s place and working out the food question there. He is also working in the most prominent mill, being business manager. Miss Nellie Johnson was always noted for her great speeches she made while in high school, She taught school for some time and then moved to Alaska and is now a U. S. Senator from there. Miss Marvel Skeels is now a very noted character. After she went to the University of Oregon, she was a teacher in music for some time. She then went with an evangelist to sing and give readings for him. She was especially good at giving the reading, “How They Built the Church at Kehoe’s Bar.” Mr. Charles Oerding is our Soldier Boy, he went to France and proved himself very efficient in his line of war work. Charles afterwards was married in France, and became one of the leading engineers in the world. Miss Clara Lund became the owner of a large Dairy ranch in the Willamette Valley, she declared she was going to be an old maid but she finally gave in and married the farmer owning the farm next to hers. Mr. Leland Peart went to the Oregon Agricultural College where he took a very thorough course in Pharmacy, and in Chemistry. He later became the discoverer of a very great explosive and this very nearly ended his existence upon this earth, but he luckily escaped and became an undertaker. Miss Flossie Lund, who became a stenographer, later married her employer who was several years older than herself. He soon died leaving her a very wealthy, young and attractive widow. She then moved to Norway to live her last days. Miss Mildred Norton had probably the most eventful career of all. She became very proficient in science, and discovered the relations between dominant and recissive characteristics in chromosomes. After studying at Harvard, and lecturing for several years before scientific clubs and societies, at the age of thirty she came west and became the wife of the president of Willamette University, and now cooks for the college boarding club.