Gloucester High School - Flicker Yearbook (Gloucester, MA)

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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

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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 the European capitals. Roger Gale is now one of our first electrical en- gineers and is in charge of the system of power stations of the Metropolitan Railway Co. Miss Power is now Instructor of English at Heidelberg Uni- versity, at which place Miss Thayer is an assistant. Wetmore is a civil engineer and it was under his direction that the great Bellport Dam was constructed. Richardson started in as a mechanical engineer and is now Vice President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, while Burns is chief electri- cian on the same road. William Hodgdon, known here as “ Hero,” is now a civil engineer and has charge of the construction of the new Panama canal. Herne is an instructor in Physical Culture at the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, New York City. Misses Merchant and Palmer are both librarians, one of the Boston Public Library and the other of the Carnegie Library at St. Louis. Major Charles. Lufkin is well known to all for his gallant defence of the church of Malos in the late revolutions in Luzon. Captain George Cunningham was appointed to the U. S. Marine Corps about five years after graduating from this school. Miss Coath is now in the Island of Guam and is superintendent of the school system there. Wheeler is a soldier of fortune. Eor some years he was known as one of our rising young lawyers when suddenly he left the country for Brazil. He was en- gaged in several revolutions there and was at one time president. Since then he has been concerned in several South American states and has at one time or another been dictator of most of them. At the present time he is instructing the Chinese Boxers in the art of war. Miss Severance is an instructor in the Salem Normal School and we are glad to sa}’ that she has at last reached Salem. Miss Elorence Wonson is also an instructor at that institution. Miss Woodbury is the author of several works on philosophy and has visited most of the countries in the world. Harold Wonson is now Assistant Constructor in the U. S. Bureau of Naval Construction and Re- pair at Washington, D. C. McDonald is manager of the U. S. Importation Co. of Boston and Pike is vice president of the same house. Shute and Webster are now the capitalists of this city, having formed an ice and fish combine some ten years ago. Miss Dustin is now studying music in Berlin 24