Salem College - Sights and Insights Yearbook (Winston-Salem, NC)

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History of Class 1905 -» T is a fragrant retrospection to glance back over the history of an honored •41 and honorable class. The Foolish Dictionary gives as the definition of •• history ■• the evil that men do, but thanks be to the individual honesty and perseverance of each member of the Class, this can not be applied to the Seniors of 1905. Intelligence and moral worth combined can be the only basis of class prosperitv and. I trust, with this fonndation the thirty-seven girls soon to drop link bv link from the Class chain, w not soon be forgotten. The calamities of vesterday are the p Jtectors of to-day. The sea of school- life which we have jnst navigated and from which we are landing safely at Port Diploma •• is full of perils, but it is not an nr mown sea ; it has been traversed over ?nd over again and there is not a sunken rock or treacherous sand-bar which is not marked for our avoidance bv those who ha -■ -)receded us. We all live dm lifes. the external lif. which the world sees and the internal life of hopes and fears, jovs and griefs, t Mures and successes, which is hidden from the eyes of the world and revealed only to a few. This is especially true of a college class. . To-day we meet to glance over our history, and then on the morrow it will be stored away as a sacred memorial of the Class of 1905, amid the departed triumphs nnd failures which go to make up the eternal past. For four years our own in- dividual histories have been closely allied with that of the Class. Together we have plaved the various r6Ies which if played unerringly lead up to that enviable position of •• leading lady. Together we have viewed the ups and downs of green young Freshmen, bold bad Sophomores, love-sick Juniors, and to-mght you see us as we have jovfullv and successfully completed the r61e of stately Seniors. A Class was starting-point of three of our members, Louise Greenert, Gertrude Tesh, and Esther Hampton. Who would recognize in the sweet girl graduates of to-night the little school maids who eight long years ago started Pt the foot of the ladder and who have carefully climbed up round by round until thev have safelv landed at the top and are now ready to step off into the world! ' Swiftly has Old Father Time cut off the successive months for us since we were green voung Freshmen. Our greenness has ripened into the brilliant burs of wisdom, ' Still, we have shadowy recollections of long hours spent m poring over Caesar and even building facsimiles of his bridges, which, had that learned

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Senior Class YELL Rip! Rah! Rip! Rah! Rip! Rah! Rhe Who are ? ' ho are ? Who are we? Can ar one meet us? Can any one beat us? Xot while our class is still alive!! ' !! Hurrah! Hurrah!!!! 1905 Colors Flower Emerald Gre . White and White Carnation

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gentleiiian been alive, niiglit have contained valuable suggestions for C -Esar him- self in tlie bridge-making line. In our Sophomore year we organized for the first time.— not that it was neces- sary to have officers to keep the bold bad Sophomores in order, but because we had begun to feel our importance enough to claim organization. We selected our motto, •• ' irtue bears off the palm, our colors— green and white— and our pins, gold shields set with emeralds and pearls around the enamel which contained thj letters A. K. N., the Greek symbol of our motto. We have never changed our colors, motto, or pin, thus proving that though our brains have become more in- dented by •• Hamlet,- Longer English Poems. Childe Harold. and the like that our tastes are the same and that consistencv figures largclv as a trait among us. And then, almost like a stereoptical view, our Sophomore vear was waved by and we hailed the Junior. Being together in room, company, hfe, naturally pro- duces a closer class relation. Probably in our Junior year for the first time we felt that true class spirit which has meant so much to us. On September 1st, 1904, the one sad event of our college life cast a shadow of sorrow over tlie entire Class when we lost one of our most honored members— Josephme Seddon. She had faithfully worked up from Class A, successfully completmg her Junior year, when the Angel of Deatli presented her with the di- ploma of another graduation than ours. And so she passed, lamented by all who knew her, mto that fair realm where the weary are at rest. Finally, we reached the coveted position of Senior. We were at last to be re- yarded for ,iur years of hard labor by the Oxford cap and gown. And what one of us d,d not consider it reward enough when first she donned her dark apparel and jomed the long procession which filed up Main Street to see-but mostly to be seen ! W hat one of us did not feel her ambition kindled to do wonders ! for Resistless burns the fever of renown Caught from the strong contagion of the gown. Early in October we elected officers for our Senior year, which resulted as tollows : Nell Rhea .... p - , r resident Cammie Lindley .,-,,, Vi.c-President RIyrtle Deane Second Viec-Prcsident f= ' ' = ' ' P Secretary Lula McEachern Treasnrer Florence Moorman Historian Ora Hunter n , roct 10