Pontiac Senior High School - Quiver Yearbook (Pontiac, MI)

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MISS BLANCHE AVERY

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DEDICATION TO MISS BLANCHE AVERY, ONE OF THE WELL LOVED AND HONORED TEACHERS OF PONTIAC HIGH SCHOOL, THIS VOLUME OE THE QUIVER IS AFFECTIONATELY DEDICATED. SHE WHO HAS GUIDED MANY A STUDENT OVER DIFFICULTIES BY HER UNTIRING EFFORTS WAS ONCE A STUDENT IN THIS SAME SCHOOL. MISS AVERY WAS EDUCATED IN PRIVATE AND PUBLIC SCHOOLS OF PONTIAC AND LATER ATTENDED THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN FROM WHICH SHE RECEIVED HER A. B. DE- GREE IN ENGLISH AND FRENCH. SOMEWHERE ALONG THE WAY MISS AVERY MUST HAVE ACQUIRED HER DESIRE TO TRAVEL FOR SHE HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN ARDENT TRAVEL ENTHUSIAST. SHE HAS VISITED EU- ROPE SEVERAL TIMES AND THUS GAINED MUCH INTER- ESTING INFORMATION WHICH SHE IMPARTS TO STU- DENTS, THUS MAKING THE STUDY OF LAN.GUAGE MORE VIVID. DURING ONE OF THESE TRIPS, MISS AVERY ATTENDED A SESSION OF THE ECOLE SCHWEITZER IN PARIS. SHE WAS IN THAT CITY AT THE START OF THE WORLD WAR.

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FOREWORD BUILD THEE MORE STATELY MANSIONS, O MY SOUL, AS THE SWIFT SEASONS ROLL! LEAVE THY LOW- VAULTED PAST! LET EACH NEW TEMPLE, NOBLER THAN THE LAST, SHUT THEE FROM HEAVEN WITH A DOME MORE VAST, TILL THOU AT LENGTH ARE FREE, LEAVING THINE OUT GROWN SHELL BY LIFE ' S UNRESTING SEA 1 Taken from Oliver Wendell Holmes ' poem The Chambered Nautilus