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

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Now, what will they have to relate, What news will we obtain? Jo Appleyard, I asked for next, ,I Said she, HWe live in Texas, My husband owns a large sheep ranch, We have no cares to vex us. We spend much time in travel, And have foreign countries seen? f'Truly thought I, 'fWho would not long For a life all so serenef' And now I see Frank Presley's face, And ask him to relate ' Some facts about himself, since he' Left school, a' graduate. ' - And nothing loathe t9 talk about The subject, he ran o'er The chief events in his career, Since eighteen ninety-four. r But after quite a varied life And searching for renown, He took unto himself a wife, S And calmly settled down. And now, as down thes-treet you go, You read a modest sign-' 4'Professor Presley, Gladiator, ' Office hours fromsixeto ninefl S I Then next Grace Lemon's name I call,- A business woman -she, ' - A - ' - She 's organized, and now'-control-s -

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Deep questions to expound- ' So wise a sage, you 'll all agree, Can nowhere else be found. Now Eva Ward steps forth and says That she ls enjoying life, Living now in Africa- A missionaryls wife. Frank Merwin still in Lansing lives, He runs the Business College, And that that school at last succeeds, No doubt you all have knowledge. In Harper Hospital, a nurse Whoin all the patients bless Is Fannie Nichols found, and there, Clad in her sober dress, She moves about with noiseless tread, To comfort or to cheer, A ministering angel she, All will her name revere. Grace Robson next responded, As she stood there at the lphone, One could not help but notice . How care-worn she had grown. ttlndeed, my life 's abusy one'7 Said she, you 'll that admit, When I tell you that I 'm running now The hotel at Dewitt. And now the list is shortened much, And only Eve remain, 4

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A great stock company. An article they manufacture, Which will hold its place, 'T was something needed years ago, To beneht the race. An electrical hand-organ lt is Gi so superior make, The faults of those of former years, This now can obviate. And only masters can induce Into their music rare, The shades of feeling, this can put Into a popular air. Lou Eichler, after leaving school, In travel spent a year, 2 She journeyed all thro' Greenland, And then decided, here She ld nobly labor hard, to make The people whom she saw Desire to be more cultured. So for the Esquimos She, Shakespearean classes organized. Chautauqua circles, too, And in one town a Science Club Its existence owes to Lou. Belle Gensterblum, Qwe ire glad that name Has two iambic feet, ' We thought it would be hard to use, And make the verse completej