Lapeer High School - Pantherscope Yearbook (Lapeer, MI)

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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.

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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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yruphrnj BERNICE KAY ... MMMI i umi[u was to Ih- famous for di eoveriiig a medicine which should one plan- one one thousandth of a drop on their tongue would oual.le thm to in.itntr -ItI.' and “an.v wMhtfe’;. 5nu l.ym-h w,u- vory nmrh ■d.-utttted with tb«- managoment of the Flint Ihiilv Joun......in Junior partn.-r. IWmc. »'h» »■=“• »•« «- « .................. ,» •living in Flint. Vena was doomed to spend her days as a leader of a Salvation army and as her co worker she had Lottie hut queerest ol all I saw Jessie Tiouse and Hollis Un.eivaux married and living happily in Klim. I Grace Moore, our staid member, a famous Christian Science hoalcr and the world would soon rewound with her praises. Marie was a country school teacher and was very, very stru t al ut the spreads the children would have and would pmlwhly have had for many years longer if they remained in school. Minnie was a nurse. She was in Brazil nursing wounded I . S. soldiers. Zola's fan swmed very indistinet but I managed to sec that she was the Matron of a Baehelor iirls’ Home in New York, ('arson had taken Mr. Shipman's plan- and was certainly making good. Winnie was riinninga (ireen House in Gmnd Bapid and was renowned for lies Kose “Sweet William”. Malawi Misener had gone to Lansing five years after her graduation as private secretary of the (iovenor but she had lieeit there lint ten days when she eloped with a private deteetive. But just as I saw my own face alas ! My friend woke me and I have liecn wondering to this day what I •night have been.