Rock Ridge Hall - Rock Ridge Annual (Wellesley Hills, MA)

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e twenty-tw BASKET BALL TEAM, 1912

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showed themselves heroes on the gridiron. The monotony of foot-ball training was broken by the reception given at the Senior house during the fall term. Basket-ball practice started right after the Christmas recessand the season was a remarkable one. Lambert, Smith, Cham- berlain and Zinn, also members of class '13 aided greatly in achieving this fine record. C. Wood of class 1912 made the inter- scholastic record for the number of points scored from the floor. The class team of l12 won inter-class games easily against tl1e Juniors. The class not only entered first into athletics with great spirit, but also led in other things, scholarship and social during the latter part of the Winter term. Le Roy Clemens, an old alumnus, favored us with a short stay. He immediately inter- ested the class of '12 in dramatics, and with his cleverness and the willingness of the cast, the play ff At Hilford 'i was given, which proved to be a wonderful success. Our president, C. VVood, who is just bubbling over with spirit, started things rolling and the rest of the class joined in and at the same time set a fine example to the rest of the student body. In base-ball the same spirit was carried out by the Seniors. Hills, a member of the class, receiving the interscholastic rec- ord for striking out 23 men. Other mem- bers of the class wearing a Rock Ridge base-ball suit, also adding to their credit, and in track we were also successful, 1912 being at the front. Our history is one dealing with all pleasures of school activities. NVe were leaders in our school standing and were the mainstay of the athletic teams. Our social life was never neglected and we continued to keep and improve the spirit which we started and which is now always present at all Rock Ridge gatherings. WVe feel that we have done well and i11 proof of that feeling our records are open to all. VVe of the class of 1912 hope that the classes to follow will take our work as an example and that these classes will not forget that in order to continue with the success of the present class hard work is necessary and true spirit must prevail. L. L. HILLS, '12 Page Twenty-one.

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Class Prophecy. A! sat in the den of my home one cold December night with an open grate fire burning slowly, hardly Visible through the smoke of my favorite calabash. This scene, combined with my drowsiness and the late hour, soon sent me to the land of dreams, and dreams which I am sure I shall never regret. I had a vision of my old classmate Leslie Hills who unlike myself, a confirmed old bachelor, had married and was now sitting by a card table playing penochle with his wife. Ilis hair had changed from the fiery hue of the older days to a shade almost black except for the lines of silver gray which ran through and became almost white about his ears. Even as I looked upon this picture of 'domestic happiness my vision vanished and I beheld Dr, Kenyon Chamberlain working in his laboratory concocting a sure cure JE :AE remedy for all ailments Whose only rival he expected would be Father John's. When a young doctor Chamberlain had raised a heavy beard for business purposes and, later finding that every time he shaved it off he caught severe colds, he still re- tained it. It too had turned gray but on the tip end it had become bright red from continually dipping it in his chemicals as he worked in his laboratory. The wrinkles in his broad brow showed signs of great thought and worry, and I could tell at a glance he was a leader in his profession. I next beheld YVilfley Johnson. He, after his graduation, had returned to Mis- souri and had gone into agriculture. But for a man of his broad mind Missouri seemed too small and he had gone far west to the great Basin, where after dis- covering a new method of irrigation, he was able to convert the most arid lands Page Twenty-three. i