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

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These visions abruptly vanished as I r awoke, but I was still not satisfied, and as I reached for my ff Prince Albert in order to continue with my visions I remembered that it was all gone. This meant that I must wait for the next appearance of the vision, and time will bring perhaps a dream which will be as enjoyable as this one. F. R. GAMM ON, J. C. MCCANDLESS. Page Twenty-Seven

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g' ' W ' vw' -'W Y' f --- - 1 ng , innocense was on his face. In his younger days he was always known as a great church goer and I was happy to perceive that he had carried out his noble inten- tions and had become a missionary. I next found myself in the prosper. ous village of No Hope. Here as I sat in the office of the only hotel of the village, after a breakfast of baked beans and brown bread, I got in a conversation with the mayor, the fire chief, the constable and hotel proprietor who proved to be a very talkative fellow. He at once told me of the additions to the town, the new Orph- eum theatre, headed by the famous Jew comedian, Lucian O'Connor. After din- ner I went down to enjoy the continuous performance. I went into the theater a little late and found the comedian in the middle of his act. The audience greatly appreciated the remarkable talent and en- cored time and again. The object of my next vision was Charles Ricker, whom I came upon hoeing potatoes in a large field. He told me that he had tried city life but it was too gay for him and so had gone into scientific farm- Page Twenty-six. ing. He had turned the once famous Poland Spring House into a dairy and was the inventor of a new milk separator. 1 Once more the scene changes and I behold my old friend F. Royal Gammon diligently at work swabbing down the decks of a huge man-of-war, Royal. Even as a youthful student at Rock Ridge he had always been desirous of serving his country. Now his dream had come true and I could see by the evident expression of satisfaction that shone all over his coun- tenance that he was reaping real joy in being able to help make his country one of the greatest powers of the world. Again the curtain fallsg only to rise again and I see another old classmate, James C. McCandless. 'fJlI1'1IT1l6,, had become the owner of a great sugar plantation and was now raising cane in Hawaii. His pros- perous appearance, as he drove a huge car about the plantation, plainly indicated that he had acquired no small portion of the worldly goods, and as he disappeared in a cloud of dust, I could not restrain a feel- ing of satisfaction that the knowledge of his success brought me.

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Class Will. fi fi 'df E, the class of nineteen hundred twelve, being about to leave this sphere, in full possession of a sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. And first we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our staunch friends and well-wishers, the faculty, trust- ing to their care that the funeral shall be carried on with all the dignity and pomp our position in the student and social scale of the school has merited. U As to such estate, as it has pleased the fates to give us, We do dispose of the same as follows, viz: ITEM 1. We give and bequeath to the Headmaster and Discipline Committee Page Twenty-eight. restful nights and pleasant dreams. We promise them a rest from nineteen tWelve's daily requests to go to Wellesley, or to Boston. No more Will we be called upon to bend our haughty knee to supplicateg no more will they be pained to refuse. How often have our desires been thwarted when there had been an excellent per- formance at that well-known Boston play- house, or when the world's champions were playing at Fenway Park. ITEM 2. We give and bequeath to the school as a whole the Rock Ridge songs, on condition that each year more shall be added, until we have a collection to be proud of. May Alma Mater be the theme of far better songs in the future l ITEM 3. XVe give and bequeath to our best beloved sister, the class of nine- teen thirteen, the beautiful new Senior