Peace College - Lotus Yearbook (Raleigh, NC)

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' i r THE QUESTIONING JUNIORS. mvLBB of 1905. Flower: Colors: Violet. Violet and Pearl Gray. (fffitrrs. Jane Swift President Bessie WooTEN Vice-President Gertrude Dills Secretary Sadie Elias Pansy Fetner Nellie Hines Corinne Harper Bertie May Ivy Pridgen UlrmlirrB. Louise Finley Lna Garrison Pauline Hill Mary Ledbetter Lillie Pair Saydie Richardson Lois Stanley Matilda Steinmetz Minnie Sparrow Benna Si ' Ruill Roberta Thackston Ina Woodall Ava Yelvington Katie Sikes Mary Sherrill Margie Scott Elsie Stockard Clyde Watson Roxanna Williams Mary Moore

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was the one who used to oppose it so hotlj-. Slie was a determined httle creature, always asserting her rights, which, I think, were scarcely as many as she imag- ined. I couldn ' t help smiling at her statement that when she was at school she never had the desire to break or criticise a regulation. Ah ! then she did not know that I was there. But she has gained new opinions and experiences since those days, and we are all justly proud of our Bessie. A lock of Whit ' s hair! Such beautiful redundant hair! ' T is gray now, I hear, and her once smiling face, the joy of Mr. Stockard ' s ninth period, is all wrinkled. She will tell you life is not a Summer ' s day. And what is re- sponsible for this? Why, Sissy ' s little boy, of course! She neglected Mr. Din- widdle ' s many warnings and Solomon ' s wise injunction and, consequently, the little dear was so spoiled he made life a burden for the devoted auntie. But now, since he has grown to be a man, Whit, worn out with care and crippled with rheumatism, has gone back to Peace to teach and beg the girls to profit by her mistake, and accept Mr. Dinwiddle ' s good advice: When in doubt, follow the cows. And here, too, is a picture of Stella. I remember the night she left it in the library for me, and how she laughed aloud when she read my note of thanks during roll-call — I suppose she must have been amused at my orthography, for I was not the fine speller in those days that I am now. It is useless to write of her ; she is too well known. Truly, she wsls the Star of our Class, the only one of the whole dozen to win fame. Her books are known and read all over the land ; they have been translated into every language. Well did we vote her the brightest among us. I am not surprised, when I think of that great stack of manuscript of hers on file in The Lotus office, for on the top of each one she handed in Mr. Stockard wrote Pass on to the editors. How proud she has made Buddie, Mamma, and Papa, the family! They were all familiar characters to us, for Stella dis- coursed upon them at breakfast, dinner, and supper. Well, well, here last of all is the Class group of 1904 Too sad to look upon, too sweet to lay aside ! The years at dear old Peace, what pleasant memo- ries they bring — happiest days of our lives! But I can not think of the Class alone. There comes before me each dear teacher, our President, whose whole life was given to our advancement. Our interests all became his. I love to think of him as ever pointing us to a nobler and more beautiful life. And our gentle adviser: how well I remember the day we elected her! Unanimously, did I say? I think every girl must have nominated her — she who entered with zeal into all our frolics — a sympathetic friend in our schoolgirl trials, and above all, a beautiful example of a pure, noble, unselfish womanhood, ever shedding its sweet influence over our lives. Such was the atmosphere breathed by the Class of 1904. Prophet. 13

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CLASS 1905 —