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

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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

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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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The last of all the list was she, But by no means the least, The most profound a lawyer she, , You ill find in all the east. And in that learned Boston town Q She ever holds her own. We? re glad she joined the 794's, And proud to make it known. And now, no more across the wire X Came a familiar tone, I left the telephonascope And pondered there alone: H No more need there discussions be Upon the benefit Derived from education, for You ill all of you admit That certainly some of this class Have risen to heights of fame, V , Which, tho' they might have wished to reach, They scarce hoped to attain. - But since the Fates haye been so kind, We'll each of us agree, To wish for each succeeding class As much prosperityf' ' EDITH L. SELLERs.