Gainesville High School - Hurricane Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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FRANCES WAUGH lFreshmanl Senior Mascot f g- 1 V fy EDYTHE HARRISON Athenian Octette This is Edythe, the best natured girl in the class lwhen she sees fit to come to classl. Though she is only a special, having joined this year, she was given a seat in the Hall of Fame , better known as Senior Room, for her regularity Q? perhaps.

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CRITTICNDEN GOIN Gainesville, Florida Ioan Full-back of lst football team The Senior class takes great pleasure in recom- mending Joe as an expert bookkeeper. Whenever he can't make things balance he starts a new book. He is another fellow who can learn history easily. We also discovered that he has quite a talent for drawing. An all round good fellow is Joe . T. J. SVVEARINGEN JR. Gainesville, Florida Topsy Jane Coach and Manager of Football Team 1912-13 Manager 1913-1-1. Left-end 1913-14 Athenian Octette A jolly old Scout is T. J., and he has the happy faculty of putting everybody in the same frame of mind. His services as pencil sharpener are indispens- able to the class-likewise his poems. He can spiel his- tory until you throw up your hands in despair and say, Cut off the phonograph .

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Senior Class History The pleasant task of writing our class history has fallen to my lot. I must confess that in making the effort to do so I am not unmindful of a quickening of those impulses which make cause for fear in the hearts of some when such a duty calls one to actiong but rather than let the thought fill me with trepidation I will be courageous. I will emulate the example of Laura Jean Libby or Ella Wheeler Wilcox. At first I was filled with the ambition to write a book like The Uncrowned King . I would make our beautiful school buildings and splendid equipment rep- resent its frontispiece. Its preface would be the good will and kindly devotion of our faculty while we were in the school of Yet-to-Learn . In the book proper would be written the History of the Pilgrims as they journey to and fro-fourteen jolly girls and two irregu- lar boys. Of these fourteen only Edith and Mamie learned their A B C's with the original class. The next year Belva and Josie joined the class, and the third year Ruth J., who had been a private school student, seeing the progress made by this class, became a member. A year later a native straying from the wilds of South Florida, known to her classmates as A second Bryan for speeches , had the good fortune to be taken in the class. Quickly in the next few years Hattie, Lucile, Anna Blair and Florence added their names to the roll of the Class of 1914. Then they came from far and nearg the shady groves of Mclntosh, the pleasant fields of Evinston and the fruitful plains of Micanopy each sent a pilgrim to our class in the eleventh grade. This gave us the unlucky number of thirteeng but Trenton, thinking this a disaster, sent a representative to become a member of our class, which gave us fourteen in num- ber. That made us twice lucky, for is it not twice the lucky number seven! Class of 1914 with its fourteen members! When we entered on our high school career some of the studies we all had in common, but we were given our choice as to Science or Latin. Some of us took the Science course, in which we learned much about bugs and flowers, the workings of the mind, and even how to keep a correct set of books for a whole- sale merchant. The others took Latin, wherein they followed Caesar through Gaul by means of indirect discourse, acquired the power of oratory through asso-