Gloucester High School - Flicker Yearbook (Gloucester, MA)

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Clara Emerson Wheeler, ..... 131 11 heeler Street English Course : Eair Committee (4). General Course : Eair Committee (4) ; Erench Play (4). Charles Frederick William IVetterer, a -E A-, . 14 Summer Street General Course : Business Manager “ Crimson and - White ” (3) ; “ Taps ” Board (4) ; Class Basket Ball Team (3) (4) ; Sergeant Major (3) ; Major (4) ; Class President (4) ; Prize Speaker (4). Bessie Sweetser Woodbury, 3 Exchange Street FORMER MEMBERS OF 1902, Hester T. Babson, Bessie J. Barber, Sarah L. Blackburn, Daniel A. Mahoney, H. Wilbur Perkins, George A. Bust, Nannie C. Bohlin, Marion E. Higgins, Ada H. Holland, Sherman A. Swift, Eben H. Tarr, Annie L. Watson. Bernard S. Harrison, POST-GRADUATE PUPILS, Marguerite D. Haskell, Bertha A. Mahoney, Annie M. Warner.

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Edavin Rowe Marshall, $-e-a, ... 16 Washington Square Classical Course : Prize Speaker (1) (4) ; Class Basket Ball Team (3) (4) ; “ Crimson and White ” Board (3) ; “ Taps ” Board (4) ; Social Committee (4) ; Pirst Lieutenant (4). J ohn Douglass McLoud, $-e-a, ... 3 Mt. Pleasant Avenue General Course : (’lass Treasurer (4) ; Quartermaster (4). Madeline Say ward Rowe, ..... 9 Poster Street Classical Course : Pair Committee (3) ; Social Committee (3) ; Senior Girls’ Theatricals (4); Prizewinner, Composition (4). Edavard Bennett Rowe, 4 E A, .... 4 Blynman Avenue Classical Course : Winner Haskell Medal (1); Editor “Crimson and White ” (3) ; Social Committee (4) ; Captain (4) ; “ Taps ” Board (4) ; William Proctor Roave, e-a, . . . 63 Washington Street Special Course : Entered Senior Year ; (’lass Basket Ball Team (4). Susie Milbury Roaa e, ...... 37 Chapel Street General Course: Pair ( ’ommittee (3) ; Senior Girls’ Theatricals (4). Elizabeth Claire Smith, ..... 9 Oak Street General Course. Marion Wetherbee Smith, ..... 8 Orchard Street General Course. Marion Friend Stickney, ..... 6 Prospect Square Classical Course : Pair Committee (3) ; Social Committee (3) ; “ Taps ” Board (4) ; Senior Girls’ Theatricals (4). Warren Lincoln Savett, i» e a, .... 17 Ho ey Street Classical Course : Class Treasurer (3) (4) : Business Manager of “Taps” (4); Second Lieutenant (4). Alphonso Remby Tarr, i -e a, , . . 612 Western Avenue Classical Course. Stephen Benjamin Warner, i -e-a ? . English Course. 18 Gnwe Street

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1902. One bright morning in the early fall of ’98, — to be exact, the sixth of September, — a crowd of frightened youngsters might have been seen hovering about the side door of the High School, until Mr. Bacheler, taking pity on us, marched us into the basement, allotted each a nail, over which the owner’s name was promptly scrawled, and then ushered us into the big study room, amidst the hearty applause of the upper classmen. The girls, of course, according to their kind, had gone in before school and secured their seats. Being an exceptional class, we suffered very few mishaps during those first few weeks, but whether that was because we all had the schedule on the back of our blocks, or because we strictly ignored all the kindly advice given us by the Sophs and Juniors, I can’t tell. Some of us plunged boldly into the Classical course, prepared to face the terrors of Greek and Latin ; some chose the General, frightened perhaps, by that mysterious word Greek; others took the Modern Language course, disdaining to study anything as “dead” as Greek and Latin, while still others, being content with plain English, took the Business course. This latter class has graduated and passed on into the world. Some have already risen to positions of honor and wealth, while the others are getting there as fast as they can secure the neces- ary “ rising material.” Good luck to them ! Our greenness gradually wore off, and we ripened to high school ways, until finally we became so accomplished that we could leave the study room for Miss Howe ' s when Mr. B. called, “ First four numbers!” and could talk across- three aisles right under the teacher’s nose. It took time, of course, and many sad failures, to acquire this proficiency, but ( 2 )