Girls High School - Halcyon Yearbook (Atlanta, GA)

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1I'1IZI::s 6 S SINl GIRLS HIGH SCI-IOGL 0 valtant school we love your name We glory tn your work and ame You lead us to the knowledge ount You help us hzghest peaks to mount And all through lt e we ll ever smg your pratse And thankful be that you have shaped our ways REFRAIN Then here s to old Girls H tgh And here s to her black and gold May they ever greatness truth And auth en old CHORUS Gtrls Hugh Girls Htgh Your standard hugh Your sptrtt great Your noble cause proclatm Oh may your ltght orever beam Its rays resplendent o er us stream And shelt rmg auth and love and prlde Remazn the ardent seeker s guzde And e er your sun 0 lt e shall set Your works a golden crown beget Words by CHRISTINE GORE Tune Satlzng 2 . V 9 e ' f s . f , ' s u , . . , , . . , , 1 9 9 9 J' ' f - t ' . . , . . 3 V Glorious be your name, 9 . . 9 I 9 ' u if 9 A 5 9 , . f . . , . , . ' l , f 'f , - 9 9 G6 ' ' 99

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IHI1?3.I::1 6 9991 Girls High's curriculum in those daysD-- K - ' H 1 or was it a heavy number worded as if it were a discourse on day-dreaming, or the 1' secrets of the future, with fairy god- if 5 mothers and Prince Charmings thrown in - , - for good measure? ' .Q 1 How far away 1878 seems! Yet the I , senior class of that year chanted a farewell ' written hy one of 1ts members as youthful as modern and as regretful as any the class of 1928 will sing Goodbye upon another shore Across these dlmpllng ocean waves The cliffs will echo 0 er and o er Our voices ln eternal praise But wh11e upon this outward tide ln storm or calm we onward iioat Father be pllot at the helm A11d guide arlght each slender boat The girls of 1890 were undenlably modern 1n guiding aright their slender boats A member of that very class spoke as a senior of today might speak on The Woman Who Uses Her Education But lest such frank self reliance emphasized by graduation frocks no longer rullled and frllled but fashioned on slim severe llnes might make Miss Eighteen Ninety appear too mannlsh the speech which followed The Woman Who Uses Her Education was entitled It may be that the graduate of 1890 would not have called her younger sister womanly, since the modern girl of 1896 frequently enjoyed the sport of bicycling An ltem in the Current Events Column of the Girls High Record of the years states The craze of bicycle riding has been carried to such a degree that recently ln New York weddings and ball masques have been given on wheels It appeals to our sense of humor to believe that the class of 1896 rode to 1tS graduation exercises on bicycles However we cannot Verify the assumption by strict historical data What we can prove though is a feat equally remarkable to modern mlnds The seniors of that Very year mastered 7 7 7 7 an 0 - , ' 7 7 - - n 9 7 7 , , A . . ,, . . . . . ,L . . 77 ' ' CC ' ' 97 - ' -T 9 W - V V ' 66 ' ' 77 ' Womanly Women. L6 ' 97 ' ' ' . 46 . . . . 7 7 99 ' - e . ' 9 9