Gloucester High School - Flicker Yearbook (Gloucester, MA)

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ODE TO 1903. Softly, my comrades ! Our school year is closing ! Time strikes the hour, we go at his call, Others will come in to fill the ranks opened, There by their work will they rise or they fall. Our future — though list’ning, we know not its message Or what it may bring us, of good or of ill. Let it face us with courage and earnest endeavor, Strong in the purpose that conquer we will. Let us make of our lives the best we are able, With love and good will holding all in their sway, And crush ’neath our footsteps base passion ignoble, While still climbing upward o’er life’s rugged way.

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OF 1903.

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1903 , [Being an article from the Gloucester Telegraph June 24, 1933]. I was present at the graduation of the class of ’33 G. H. S., which was held yesterday afternoon in our City Hall, and as I looked on the bright young faces, happy yet sad, on their day of farewell to the dear old school which has been their home for four years past, my thoughts were carried back over thirty years when I was one of a group bidding our farewells to the same dear home. The class of ’33 was much more numerous than that of ’03, but can their record ever equal that glorious one which our own dear ’03 has made for itself ? We fear not. The class of 1933 was addressed by one of us, United States Senator A. Chesley York, the youngest member and most brilliant orator of the U. S. senate. How well I remember his first attempts at oratory in the old days. Another member of the old class was there, t( Billy” Howe, proud and happy, for another William was on the platform. “ Billy,” as we called him, is now President of the United States Canvas Co., which was formed a few years ago. These two, with myself, were the only members present of 1903, but while my mind is full of remembrances called up by the sight of yesterday, I will go on and tell of that record to which I have referred and which we hold to be so grand. “ Joe,” now the Hon. Harold Laurie, is at present corporation lawyer of the Steel Trust, and one of our millionaires. Prof. Elliot Rogers is no doubt well known to all of you on account of his recent marvelous astronomical discoveries in connec- tion with the moon. Dr. Howard Quimby is now in Europe, completing his studies in Vienna. Miss Hattie Allen is also well known on account of her wonderful stories of child life which have just appeared in book form. Arthur Myron Tarr, who was our class president, has made his mark in the world of music and he is at present conducting his own orchestra in a tour 23