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

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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

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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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who 011 iho thild floor as well as by those of us who have pictures that were taken on the 1011f that da Hhe organization of the Juni 101' Improvement Society marked another st op in 0111' p10 gross. The fla 110w in tho lihr'aly, music cases and the bulletin homds are permanent mementoes of the wo1k we accomplished as Ju11 11101's. 111 Se ptembm 1915 it was with a mingled feeling of 1egret and elation that we 1calized that 0111 class had grown to be Seniors The regret came wit the thought that this year was to be our last 0110 togetheri The elation came with the thought that we were so near our goal 'I'hm'o w01'1' twenty-om' of us Ihvn, we were leaders in all forms of school activities. The record of our athletes is found elsewhere During 0111' Junior F 11 City Attmncy Granville Staffmd as Judge and Poste1 Mayer as a Polie eman Fwd Abbey 1s Cashiel 0f1ho School State Bank The Port Arthur Uivh School Debating Club was mainly a Se11101 organization and composed for the mosi part, of Seniors 0 are now getting valuable experience as reporters for The News No class has left more visible signs of its ene1gy than have we The palm' in front of the school building was planted by 0111' class with solemn ceremony,m it over continue to grow and f101111sh, may the pupils who are ye at to enter sehool look upon it as a symbol of our class and strive to make their history as perma- 111'111 11ml ill11s11'i011s as has been that of the 1916 class. 7V V., '16, Ten Years Hence E? Q3 After years of study and later success, we returned to Port Arthur, the metropolis of the South, where we had spent 0111' school days. My companions wore Mesdamos Triviulio and Mai'tinque, better known to us as Marie Deady and Katherine 111111012111 eha d just completed our first tour of the United States and 0111' va cation was Vto be spent in our old hon 10 As I gazed from my window in the Hotel Plaza 1 first saw the building in which so many of us had parted as Seniors and had since become known to 9 world This gave me an idea which I immediately put i11tu execution and in a few days the last acceptance to my week end party for the Seniors of 1916, was 1111 The first to arrive was the worldis famous classic dancer known to us as