North High School - Northern Lights Yearbook (Akron, OH)

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VIOLET T. KELLER “Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.” — Longfellozv. Violet can be quite contrary, Though it’s only temporary; First we use persuasive powers, Then she pounds the keys for hours. Glee Club 4, Censowe 2-3-4, Commercial Course. RUSSELL PAUL HARRINGTON “I dare to do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.” — Shakspere. A handsome boy with curly hair, Who plays like Paderewski’s heir. Never guilty of any folly; Never even said “By golly.” Glee Club 2-3, Band 4, Track 4, Technical Course. GRACE EVELYN HUNTLEY “A creature not too bright or good For human nature’s daily food.” — Wordsworth. Grace to the mission fields would go The seed of knowledge to widely sew; And while telling heathens of better days, Will she teach bobbed hair and modern ways? Literary President 2, Glee Club 2-3, Censowe 4, Declama¬ tion 2, Classical Course. MERRILL D. WITMER “Thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated to close¬ ness and the bettering of my mind.” Merrill a Virgil some day would be And make all the pupils like you and me Sweat ’neath their collars his lines to translate Save us, Oh save us from this awful fate! Scholarship letter 4, North Star Literary Staff 4, Classi¬ cal Course. Page 14

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INEZ MARTELL SEAVER “A violet b ' y a mossy stone, Half hidden from the eye! Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky.” — Wordsworth. A dainty daughter, modest and sweet, Full of sunshine, in dress neat, Pretty eyes and golden hair— This maiden, meek and debonair. Glee Club 2, Honor Roll 2-3, Censowe2-3, HisTory Course. P. ARNOLD CALCAGNI “Life is real, life is earnest. — Longfellow. Lo and behold his bashful eyes, Wherein a world of wisdom lies; At bookkeeping he is a shark, We know, some day, he’ll make his mark. Scholarship Letter 3-4, Commercial Course. EDNA R. HUNSICKER “For never anything can he amiss When simpleness and duty lender it.”—Shahs fere. She can cook and bake, design and sew; She is quiet and modest, as all of us know, She’d make a domestic science instructor, But even a better home conductor. Glee Club 1-3, Censowe 1 -2-3-4, Censowe Vice President 2, Home Making Course. RALPH EDWIN SOMMERS “Self reverence, self knowledge, self control — These three alone lead life to sovereign power.” —T ennyson. Here is Ralph Sommers, so lank and so lean, His hair is so curly, his form like a bean. Though not an Italian for Spaget he’s a fiend, He cuts it with teeth so sharp and so keen. Technical Course. Page 13

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BESSIE DOROTHEA SELZER “You don’t catch me brooding over trouble when there are a thousand pleasant things to think on.” — Anon. Like the ripple of laughing water, Her giggles fill the air. She’ll make a good stenographer This maid without a care. Glee Club 1-2-3, Literary Secretary 3, Commercial Course DEAN F. WARING “The great thing in this world is not so much where zve stand, but in what direction we are going.” — Holmes. Dean Waring is a quiet mischievous boy The girls forever he tries co annoy In English class he tears his hair; When it comes to math, he’s always there. Technical Course. ETHEL GRAZELLA PONTIUS “The same old role, the role that is what zve make it as great as we like, Or as small as zve like, or both great and sinaU,” — Whitman. A good, big bunch of jolly fun. Does she finish what she’s begun? Well. I should say so—every line— And her work is always in on time. Commercial Course. ROBERT J. RUTHERFORD “We think our fathers fools so zvise zve grow; Our wiser sons, no doubt, will think us so.” — [’ope. Now there’s our friend, Bob Rutherford, His drums they rattle like a ford; For a great violinist he has the hair, But if Kreisler heard him, he’d flee in despair. Orchestra 1-2, Band 4, Technical Course. Page 15