Lansing Central High School - Oracle Yearbook (Lansing, MI)

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I can say that indeed, Upon a wheel, I Hrst gained fame, All know the biz' I made. . Grace Hagadorn, ,of Chicago, next, A kindergarten teacher, Ah! she 'd command obedience, So stern is every feature. She's taught the little ones that song, 4'The Yellow and the Blue, And for a chapel exercise They have to sing it through. My ,phone was next connected With,a studio in New York, Where day by day, Ruth ,sits and draws She thinks, by patient work, r Some day to bean artist great-g We know she willsucceedg Hers is a will that makes a way , ln any time of need. A large farm, Jessie Ballard runs, And in her yearlyraising , Of wheat, potatoes, corn and oats, She has. prospered ' quite amazing. Next steps up to the lphone, a form Decked out inred and yellow 5 'T is Harry Lewis-snake,charmer- A brave an,d,.dar,ing fellow, Who handlesidangerous reptiles now With manner .quite as cool, I ,

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Suffice to say, across the Wire, There came to me aright, A message from each class-mate dear, Wliich I repeat to-night. First, ringing up the central lphone, I asked for Anna,,Long, Who ls now in California, And called the Queen of Song. o She told 'me that she ld traveled far A O'er land and ,cross the ocean, Giving concerts every night, But now she 4' had a 'notion i To leave the stage with all its cares, Endow some Worthy cause, Some charitable institute, A home for aged Zczwsf' The nextone on the list, I End Is Nellie Gongwer's name, A And she, you 'll all ,be pai-ned to hear, Is quite unknown toifame., ,Q g She 's running now a, pop-corn stand, In Lexington, Kentucky, S And says When all her debts, arepaid. She Ill count herself quite lucky. A professional bicyclist next-f, , You know him+H'arry Casef- And it Was,quite 'a pleasure, too, To see his beaming face, I o , Said he, Although do not boast,

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As when he was a senior And brought such pets to school. For Burda Northrop, next I rang, A moment, then she came, UI live inrsingle blessedness, And Northrop is still my name. A patent medicine I make, A remedy most sure, Six bottles for tive dollars 't is, a And man or beast It will curef' 'Faye Lawrence, elocutionist, Travels from town to town, She is with the High School male quartette, And with them wins renown. An English teacher, Mabel Main, And with her methods new, She makes that study interesting, And quite instructive, too. Then Henry Ballard came to view, 4'Now what is your vocation?'7 I almost tainted as he said, y '4An honest politician. For though, in eighteen ninety-three, T heyhad one at the Fair, I had not seen for many years, , An article so rarei Next to the 'phone Rebecca came, A poetess, no wonder! A handsome home. in Florida,