Port Arthur High School - Sea Gull Yearbook (Port Arthur, TX)

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FRED ABBEY. Srmmry Tvnnis Club '15; Athletic Editor Sen gull '16; Second Team Football '15; Debating Clnbv 31 me good louking gim in the class. Fred 1n.- bpen able to persuade only one to accompany him co the rims parties. ADRIAN GORMAN. Debating Club '16. Adrian says: thu NLinle Trig gives him night mares. and that he sees ghastly forms 01' formnlns, iuncziam, logarithms Ind nmnlissa in his sleep. JOHN BESHARA. roubau '14, 'la; Glee Club '16: Debating Club. J never does a hull way job, sometimes hr meds hall the night on a ainghflessun, The I this n rccitations result Ildy may be seen from his mm- books and

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RI'TH BAXTER. P uphet Senior Class ';16 Hixtorlnn o! Sophomore 0 rlnrk, in fun she did but she smned at tw-elve thirtv GEORGE JAMES. Football 12 '13. 'I1. '15; Captain Fuotlull '14. 14 '16 Bush 13. '14. '15, '16: Pr:si ophnmore nml Juniors; Prosidonl M haniur Improvement Society; Secretary Debating Club '16: City Attorney 0! School State: Asxislnnl ' - nnger Sugun '15: Business Manager Soar gull '16: Organizer of Handhelders Union. Gan g9 maintains that about the best way to milk Foster. Frank 01' Earl believe wnu he says ix :0 mbom it into lhvnl. KATHERINE HALLORAN. Gm cm. '14. '16 Katherine seems co mink nun English class lu-gins at nine-thirky: also nm the Juniors should um mm. A party unlvss mp S9nion memL invited or not rHRISTY HALLORAX. Sergennl-At-Arms Senior cm; '15; Pruidpnt Bow mee Clnh 16. Christy is no: murh nf nn mum. not um ho is not physically nus. fur be dpmnnstnnlml his lighting Emmy against the '15 chm. 0mm hplpn make our r'lnxs fnmnus by his musical mom hnx'm VIRGELO. nuie is lnnlher recruit from the PPlimn sme She snyx thv Juniors mm mm. a nice bunch of mm. Who is m, Annie!

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History of the Class of 1916 Rb DOC! ebi 'ight morning in September, 1914, there ontered the doors of the Webster School then the only school in he town a group pof forty boys 2111111 girls.1t was stheir first day and no one could have foretold that those timid youngstms were destined to go through school breaking all records and 111019 fated to come forth as the glorious and all surpassing: class of 1916. No class comes out of school as it enters Just as there is a great change in mental condition, so there is a great Chan 0, in the personnel of the class. destined to go down 111 fame ast the planter of tho fi1'st seeds of knowledge 111 these wonderful heads was Miss Mar cha1 The disposition of these five, WN'P much the same as at pr.ose11t Marv knew a little less of numbL rs perhaps, 1101a May sat on he or little seat and swung her fat little feet thinking her desk a piano. Ruth was kept fo1 reception many an afternoon because she sang during recitation. Foster could never set stilL No one ever thought that timid little Vernon would some day he a great orator. The class kept growing and changing. Its yea1ly routine of troubles and trials was similar to that of most classes. When it came to its graduation as Eighth grad , the fqllowing members of the prese1 11t class 1eceived theil di 10- 111as:Ve1111011,Lora M ay, P11110138 Ruth 11Viola Fr,ank Marie, Kathe11,111e Cleo, Loretta, Mary, F1311 George and Gra Such a F1es11111a11 class as we m:de11 Nevci before had a class made the mud Freshman mean so muLh Scholarship was one of our distinguishing social activities often gave us a place 1n the corner or a place new the t each- er S de sk after school hou 1.5 130 ophomore career was similar to that of the preceding year. Per ha 6 VV'OIQ saving 0111'st11e11gth to be aused when we Were .1u11i01s.ThL' most interesting fact of the year, perhapsw the beginning of the fame of GL0 ergo, , trunk, Cleo and John as football star: and of 1511111 and Vernon as thnis Then we were Juniors, and such a class. Not one of us will forget that year. Those skirmishes with the Seniors will always 111' 111'111e11111L'1'1'41 by those