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

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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

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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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MARY EDNA IMBRIE “Little do ye know your own blessedness; for to travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive, and the true success is to labor. —Stevenson. Edna Imbrie’s full of fun; You always see her on the run; She’s happy on a tennis court, For she’s of the athletic sort. Glee Club 2, Censowe 4, Basketball 1-3, Classical Course. FREDERICK W. DAVIS “ 11 e hardly find any persons of good sense-—save those who agree with us. — Rochefoucauld. Now Frederick Davis an athlete would be He knows all the teams in the whole countree But he doesn’t know his geometry On that Miss Kempel and he agree. History Course CLARA E. OLHOEFT “A light heart lives long.” — Shakspere. At a quarter of nine With her nose in the air, This lady walks in With an air, “I don’t care.” Glee Club 3, Censowe 3, Commercial Course. RUTH MARIAN MAHON “A spark of mischief lies in her quiet manner. — Anon. Ruth’s a player of joyous jazz. Musical ability she surely has; If she would be a teacher great, She must let this jazz abate. Censowe 4, History Course. Page 16