Parsons College - Peira Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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Life Works of l909i Lf- f'P'?NX 2 fl-2,1 ' ' N UQ! Q51 i l N 'i Y l rf' N3 Aki, . .n . . . XL A REAT doors swing on little hinges. On a warm evening in the f-,il i autumn of l904, four boys and three girls, having risen to the It Q dignity of third year Preps and having evaded the vigilance of their mammas and the dean, met at the old cider mill on the outskirts of Fairfield and organized as the class of 1909. Who could then have conceived of the present Junior Class, with its brilliant record of achievements, its thirteen loyal members possessing enterprise enough to edit the first Col- lege Annual, and talent enough to present the best class play seen in years? Where lives the man whose imagination could have pictured the happenings of their Freshman year, when the few who had survived the Prep commencement of 1905 found them- selves, a small part of a large and spirited class, ready for anything considered part of college life? How, though grea'tly outnunibered, in the class scrap, their boys fought to the finish and then ugirding their tattered raiment about their heroic loins, posed for a , picture! Or how, the following spring, they burlesqued the Senior recognition service and appeared in chapel in kimonas and dunce caps, were unceremoniously fired and ate New Chicago pies in view of the chapel windows! Oh, those were wonderful days and Fine! Fine! Superfine! was heard ringing through the night air as often as l'liyi, Kiyi. Everyone knew about f the Class of l909. Reunited in their Sophomore year, with a few additions and subtractions, things moved on as before with more class spirit and more excitement than ever. The faculty 27

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. Elsie Eugenia Zich A heart to resolve, a head lo contri Myrtle Luella Whitmei' ..,.. Ich lfomme spat, doch ich k0fl7lT'lC.M An accent very low In blandishm Of subtle-paced council in distress. lVlyrt, l..yclia. Behol A girl with too much modesty to admit of her fullest devel- - opment. Has a pronounced mania for magnifying other people's good points. Will do anything for her friends and grieves that she cannot remember the names of all the P . I . . . reps s terribly in earnest and has hitched her wagon to a star. ent, but a most silver flow d a twentieth century wonder! Aurelie Edith Zichy ................. Garden Grove No matter what the discussion be, I always find room lo disagree. Sensitive, swift to resent, but as swift in aloning for error. Yocle. Tall, dignified and thoroughly un- ostentatious. She was born with a troublesome sense of th .d. . . . e ri lculous side of life and her fellow beings. Impetuous and hasty, with violent likes and dislikes, but always on 'the square. Her weakest oint h and blonde hair. p s are er insatiable curiosity y ..... . . .Garden Grove ln every deed ve and a hand lo execute. Before we Else, Cean. Sa proceed any further, hear me speak. full of enthusiasm and energy that ...........WestLiberty spontaneously they are bubbling over at all times and on all th. d . . ings goo for the college and for her frlends. 'lo all on the campus her lively whistle is known. Her quick wit can grasp a lesson and a situation in a minute She hate ' . s m- tensely but loves more intensely. Her talents we cannot number fthe latest tielcl of investigation being that of music, especially tenor in chapell. Her originality is unexcelled. Never too busy to undertake and accomplish one more thing. 26

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as-Qu-11 considered that they committed an extravaga extravagance was on 'the part of the boys who times. So in return for the skating parties, l nce in the matter of class meetings, but the tended to the financial side of the good brouses, Bernhart jaunts, attic phonograph parties, etc., the girls issued invitations to still talk. That year several members of the spent much of their time collecting specimens year was marked by vigor and achievement, Hrm cementing of college friendships, which weaken. a chafing dish spread of which the boys class were victims of the kodak craze and for Sophomore books. As the Freshman so the Sophomore year was marked by the business cares and home interests will never And now the dignity of upper classmen made records in athletics, literary work, art, Student Volunteers, and are pronounced by In fact, being composed of leaders along so nature of the sulphite and often differences in sits becomingly upon them. lhey have music, scholarship and dramaticsg boast three I9I0 the most conceited class in college. many lines they partake decidedly of the opinion cause little explosions during the process of putting through the many important projects which college tradition demands of the Junior Class. 28