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

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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

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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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JAiry-Fairy-Mau'y. Her season had been a strenuous one and she was glad to enjoy the deli 'htful breezes 0f the HCit ty 1111-11 S0211 11111111'11iatcly after Miss Imhoff ca amp, M1'.G1-iffi1h in his fast car which 1oceived the best tof care 11his immense automobile establishme e111 Quie apaity arrivedl 011 the H11111it,o11, 11g them was 1111111111 Roberson, 110w Chief of Police of the cit 0f Nedeiland,a Tho pow e1 01 XVall street of Sabinc' 1s 110119 other than 1111211111125. To him the city owes its international w'powei and influenc 1:01 e city on s.111r Stat f'f0111 who retains the Icputation 0f 1ei11g a most famou us 111 awy 1 11 Vi them came Miss Smith the well known 11csig1'1e1, who now makes the Ammican st Beaumont sent us Miss Horan who hat shome work so much that she took a special comse in electricity and invented 1111 apparatus which does all her house work by merely pressing a bu 011. From Port Neches comes the founder of the most exclusive girls seminary Who to us is Virgie Vauglit. We are 111110011 surprised for her to come, back to as single, but reports say it is not for 1011 , e next arrivals were Cleo Doweil, who is President of the University 01' Port Arthur, 111111 Lora May Seafei's, whq has 1'001111t1y won fame through her literary war 5. Having failed in his most cherished dream to 111', called HGrandpa, he is now the best known football coach in the world Goorgo James Lucil1e Breaux is the11a11110unc1'11 11s the famous woman chemist who has made some g1eat discoveries, help u othe housewi e. Vax vasco who was made world re110w111'11by his ha111lca1vi11g,' 1s to us John B1'sha1',a a fellow stu1t1e11 111 contrast with 0111 worldly occupations is the loved evangelist, 1 1'1111 Abbey, who took Billy Sunday :1 plac Hhe ownms 0f the la1gest tlolieat:ss1'11 establishment in the United States are Miss Elnora Heid and Annie Virgelo. This shows what a domestic science course in the PA, H1 S 131111 1111. The only one that can really wea1 handsome creations 101 men is 0111 own MP1 Hallm a11. gain she comes 1'1-om across the waters 111111 hopes to stay, Marguerite Ballards says 1101' fiancee expects to arrive in a few days, 111111 they will take M12 111111 Mrs Castles pm eal s,t and 1:he least 111 stature t0 a11'ive is Broadway s favorite come- 11ia11 Foster May e1'1 Our first evening: 's cntmtainment will he an informal dance gix an by Mr. Adrian German, th1' owner of the, million 111111111 Plr'asure Pie 1', . '16.