Gloucester High School - Flicker Yearbook (Gloucester, MA)

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Bessie Parsons on receiving her high school diploma will depart immedi- ately for South Africa, where she will engage in scientific research, in quest of a certain plant that will keep mosquitoes away from Harbor View Court. Bertha Elizabeth Sanders and Miss Una Saunders, at the close of the high school year, will make an extended tour of the world. On their way home through China they will be so infatuated with the place that they will decide to make it their home and spend the rest of their lives there in unbroken in- dolence. Nettie Mae Terry, whose desire for exploring can never be suppressed, will make extensive preparations for a ten year Arctic Sea trip. She will finally reach the north pole, in which she will burn her name and the names of all the members of ’01. As the last roll was opened, I suddenly awoke and found myself lying on the sand. The sun had long since sunk below the horizon and the stars be- gan to twinkle as I slowly wended my way homeward thinking of the glo- rious future of the class of 1901. C. Knight, ’01. Joys of Summer Weather. I roam through the fields in the bright summer weather, And sit ’neath the shade of the tall willow-tree; I dance with glad feet o’er the sweet-smelling clover, And rest on the shores of the beautiful sea. I love the blue sky with its fleecy clouds sailing. In fancy I live in the castles above ; I dwell in the heavens with joy never failing, And fill all my life with a sweet pure love. Eotta D. Jones, ’01. 28

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travel over the U. S. giving lectures, and in 1922 he will deliver a lecture in G. H. S. Hall on the “Immortality of the Soul.” Elizabeth Greenlow will act in the capacity of drummer for the Larkin Soap Co., and no one she meets will escape her clutches. ' Her sales in one week will exceed the output of the factories. Lottie Rowe Lane, on finishing her college course, will open a young ladies’ seminary where she will fit young girls for college. It will have a finely equipped gymnasium, and basket ball and baseball (?) will be spec- ial features. John Hugh Lally after three successive attempts will enter the — bar ! ! where he will show his stored up genius, which he has held in reserve dur- ing his high school course. Annie Warner, who is remarkable for her cold bloodedness, will be found in the side show of Forepaugh and Sells ' Great and Only Circus. She will accept the position of lady snake charmer at a most exorbitant salary. Ethel Graham, being of a religious nature, will, at the age of twenty, en- ter a nunnery where she will endeavor to lead poor souls to the life eternal. The frivolous Miss Edith Ginns will apply for admittance to the New York Stock Exchange, and since she is interested in stocks and bonds and has already invested large amounts, she will undoubtedly amass a large for- tune. Lotta Dustin Jones will seek the retired and secluded life of a foreign mis- sionary. In 1903 she will depart for the Philippines and there establish a re- ligious school which will rival the G. H. S. Ethel Mae Thomas will be the first lad T captain to cross the Atlantic. She will command a Cunard Line steamship of 2,500 tons and do the trip in four days which record will never be beaten. Ella Hutchins Gerring will make her debut as a New York society girl. With her winsome smile and catching manner, she will win many hearts, finally marrying the second son of Sir Thomas Lipton. After taking a special course in gymnastics at the Posse Gymnasium, Boston, Miss Eva Mae Mears will accept the position of Gymnastic instruct- or in the Lynn High School, where she will form a new system far super- ior to the present Swedish system. Evaline Smith Nickerson will be found in the scarlet fever ward in the New York General Hospital. Her philanthropic work will reach from sea to sea, and her name will go down in history as a second Clara Barton,

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