Gainesville High School - Hurricane Yearbook (Gainesville, FL)

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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-

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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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ciation with Cicero, also learned much of the beauty and rhythm of poetry from the great Latin poet. In our American Literature we have studied from the nar- row Puritan Cotton Mather to the wide democracy of VValt. VVhitman. In English Literature from Beowulf to the Idylls of the King. In order to leave the heroes and great men of our country fresh in our mind, we are making a thorough study of our United States History, this our last year in high school. A few words about our mathematics. In algebra our teacher would say, You get it and don't be mere pencil pushers . NVhether such alliterative admonition helped to stimulate us to renewed effort I do not know, but we did get it. Yes, our trig. was hard, but the study of geometry, that instructive science which treats with the properties and relations of magnitudes, was made much easier when our figgers were put on the board and explained. Our class has never been especially interested in athletics of any kind, but we always took pleasure in lending a helping hand to those who were. We are all members of the Athenian Literary So- ciety and at regular intervals convivial gatherings and good-natured repartee have often tempered the per- plexities and brought joy and gladness into our school life. The teachers' pictures in this Annual are arranged in the shape of our class pin, our shield. This pin has G. H. S. written on the face in Greek letters and is bor- dered with emeralds and pearls, green and white being our class colors. Our associations, too, have been very pleasant. Both last year and this on certain days we have spent our dinner hour happily together partaking of many good things that the class members have prepared. The parties have also been very much enjoyed by all. Even our Suffragette parade afforded us much pleasure. Our class has organized the Alumni Association. NVe think our school has grown large enough to have such an organization. So ends the high school history of the Class of 1914. NVhat next? Matrimony? Perhaps. Business? Possibly. School-teaching? More than likely. Politics? Certainly. SARA DAXVKINS, Class Historian.