Lapeer High School - Pantherscope Yearbook (Lapeer, MI)

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HOLLIS LAMOREAUX Sixteenth: Marie Cronin bequeaths to Mabel Bowman her ability to stay away from picnics where she knows she is going to got caught. Seventeenth : Vena Dahn leavi s the pleasant memories of her school days to Miss Heed to travel through the dales, over the mountains to The den of The West. {eighteenth : The Baseball Team regret losing Hodges, one of their best players, since he has power by the process of symbiosis of keeping the players from becoming a monomaniac. Hodges lteqiicuths his work to William Brown. Nineteenth : Zolo Dent bequeaths her rubl r boot to Madeline Cutting to enable her to escape her physical lal oratory work. Twentieth : Bernice Kav leaves her pleasant smiles to Harry Macaulay. Twenty First : Neil Syiider leaves to Durand Smith the definitions of such wonts as -Micro COCCi prodigioeus”, • Sarcima ventricula”, “Symlteosis”. Twenty Sicond : Katherine Arlmry leaves to Justin Arms her book entitled “Inver’s Etiquette” which contain on the subject “How to Propose” and if‘followed according to directions good results can Is obtained. We hope Justin in his next effort. . , a , Twenty Third : Bertha Moore liequeaths her bakery to Irma Willard, since she knows the hrst thing to do m preparing new potatoes for the table, we think she is capable to run the Iwikery. . .. f We hereby appoint Paul Desjardines Kxecutor of the Will and revoke all former wills made by us, in testimony whereof, we hereunto set our hand and seal this nineteenth day of June in the year of our Lord, which contains information will succeed

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(Hass JfltU HOLLIS LAMOREAUX Be it remembered that We, the Class of’08, of Lapeer High School. being of sound mind and memory do here make, execute and declare this to Ik our last Will and Testament as follows : First: After the payments of all our just debts we give, devise and bequeath all of our real and personal Senior dignity wherever situated to the coming Senior class. Second : To the Superintendent and Teachers who have watched over us through this journey we leave our gratitude. Third : To the present Sophomore class we bequeath the honor of studying strenuously five hours each day five days out of the week for two consecutive years, except in c ase of sickness or vacation Fourth : To tin Freshman class we leave the duty of electing the officers which are necessary to perform the work of carrying the class safely through their Sophomore year. Fifth : (irace Moore licquoaths her ability of entertaining the . Y. Z. club to Mildred Mott. Those wishing information .as to how the work is being carried on, ask (trace. Sixth : .b ssie Crouse leaves to Curran Browne her wit and an abundance of bread erusts which he says makes his hair curl. Seventh : Boy Salisbury Inqueaths Ills power to concentrate his mind to Carroll Brown. Eighth : Bessie Tucker. Mablc Meisncr and Minnie Bust leave their know ledge as to how to enter the High School building oil St Patrick's eve and greet our faithful janitor, .loe Knight, by going to the top of the stairs, then turning around and running down all the time calling for “help”. This knowledge they leave to Cassic Coulter and Florence Yorker. yinth : William Johnson Uqueaths to Raymond Whitney his | octical genius and the promise of becoming an acrobat in the future. Tenth : Lottie Holcomb liequcaths her bashfulness to Dorothy Davis, which she may use to a great advantage. Eleventh: (irace Bennett bequeaths to Corrine Smith her knowledge ns to how to get over the fence and gather those large ferns for the decoration of the hall. Twelfth: Eddie Cunningham, the pharmacist, has on hand a few bottles of Dr. Frazier’s New Discovery which enables a pei on to concentrate his mind for five minutes, and it is also recommended fora monomaniac. Eddie advises local treatment and Insineaths the rvmiamler of the lx tth s to the High School faculty. Thirteenth : (irace Lynch has won fame as a newspaper reporter and is always ready to publish any news brought to her, such ;ls “Why do our High School Boys like to go to Oxford’’, “The Comedy of St. Patrick's Eve”, ’‘The May Basket etc. Her work as a reporter she leaves to Bernice Clark. Fourteenth : Winnie Ovaitt bequeaths her algebra to Schuyler Kudncr, the cartoonist, so that we may have a larger collection of picture in the rogues gallery. Fifteenth : Carson Pinkerton Ixquenths his seat of honor to Milton Valentine.

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JJrnjihrni BERNICE KAV lii the year 1915 a friend and I had been traveling in Italy. We had visited Venice, Naples and Florence, and had spent our last three months in Rome. Dear old Rome ! What a wealth of associations with the past. In her day the mistress of the world ! She was the center of art, civics and learning when our fathers, clad in skins, roamed the woods ot Northern Europe. When contemplating her greatness, we saw in fancy her Emperors returning from conquests, with Kings and Princesses chained to their cars as captive's and we heard the shouts of the people mingled with the measured tread of legions. We rebuilt her public works and marveled at their magnitude. We restored her buildings whose ruins still serve as models for the lieuntitul. When, during our many expeditions to the ruins, we saw the inissive columns still standing. I was impressed by the fact that Roman architecture was largely liorrowed from Greece. I was sie .od with an intense longing t: se? the home of its origin. This longing resolved itself into action and we were soon on our way to Greece. In others we spent days visiting the Parthenon, the temples of the Gods, and many other points of interest among which was Delphi or modern Castri. ’ The visit to Delphi was so delightful and the consequence so interesting that I must record it We found Delphi situated in a delightfully roniatic valley almut six miles inland from the Corinthian gulf. Along the north of the valley were the steep, wall like cliffs of Mt. Parnassus, known as the Phaedriades, or shining rocks and along the east and the west two minor ridges. Along the south the irregular js-aks of Mt. Cirphis. A small stream, the Pleistus. Hows from east to west between the mountains and receive a brooklet from the Castilian spring or what is now the spring of St. John. It rises in a gorge near the center of the Parnassian cliffs and is the spring from whose depths the priests took water for the orach . We followed the little brooklet up the gorge until we came to the spring where we sat down t: rest and refresh ourselves under the plane tree which tradition says was planted by Agamemnon, the famous Grecian leader against Troy. Mit! scenes so suggestive of ancient history it was natural for us to recall the days when we studied it. I thought of the old maps which traced civilization from the time Egypt Hit the torch” to the present day. I thought of that renowne I class of ’08 that used to have socials to relieve the “strenuosity” of our ancient history studies and I wondered wh it t!i y all could Is doing. We were somew hat rested so we went to the spring to hithc our hot fae»«. The first c intact with the water gave me the sensation of being traosporte 1 through spice. Distant seems nothing and wIkmi 1 at last stopped I cun hi re id the present, past ami future of all human lieiugs. Before m vision came mv schoolmates one by one and I saw Katherine as a successful farmer making a specialty of raising ••chickens” and always making a living for herself out of it. I saw Merle Hodges a well know n doctor living east of Lapeer in a small town called Attica. Neil, the hoy who had always been w ishing for ••.Moore” dates, had had his desires fulfilled and was living happily on his farm west of town. Wm. Johnson was still in the game ami was soon to Im the President of the National Bas Hail League. Gnus Bennett was successfully conducting a Matrimonial Bureau but I could see a shadow that was noon to engulf the Bureau and all and it looked desperately like “rncle Zepli”. Kd Cunningham was a pliarincceutial chemist in the navy.