Salem State University - Clipper Yearbook

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A fourth, with confidence in her friends, gave the assur- ance that she could furnish the best of recommenda- tions. Some of our number did not have to practice writing to superintendents, but left us in April to become teachers. Marion Howard has gone to the jacob Tome Institute in Maryland, Mollie Rowe is at Salisbury Plains, Annie Pottle went to Paxton, Mass., Louise Pryor, to Melrose, Hattie Carlson, to Rowley, Edna Towle, to Beverly and Charlotte Wells to Amesbury. We miss them one and all, for the 1904 girls have a soft spot in their hearts for one another. This june we bid farewell to school-girl life and go to take our stand in this work-a-day world. We are proud that we graduate in 1904, for we celebrate that year beside our Commencement, the Semi-Centennial of the school. It has been suggested by a ,member of Class I that they of ,54 and we of ,O4 unite at a banquet. Then difference in ages will be forgotten, we'1l be girls to- gether, chatting and laughing over the pleasant memo- ries of days spent at Normal School. Besides this dis- tinction we are the 90th class, one of the biggest to graduate, and rumor says there are ninety of us who will receive diplomas. ' M. C. B. M. L. N. a 27

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One of the Seniors, with the aid of our drawing master, designed and presented to the school a hymn board which is a very artistic addition. Shall we in years to come forget that 'April Fool's Day when there was no song numbered 178? No indeed. We had intended to give a play this year, just as the previous year's class had done. The plan did not work, however, and we were obliged to give up the idea and postpone it for next year's class. We did not intend to leave school without doing or having something a little extra, so we decided to publish a class book, The New Mosaic. The Seniors this year gave a party on February 22, then all learned what it was to have a dance at Normal School with young ladies and gentlemen. The gentle- men invited remarked on g their way home, Salem Normal isn't so bad after all ! We should say not. The juniors gave us a good time several weeks ago when they had a Japanese afternoon. On April 30, Seniors and Juniors together gave a party to the teach- ers. The S. N. S. festivities of the class of 1904 end with their reception at Commencement. During the last few weeks the girls are busy finding positions for next year. There have been scores of ap- plications sent to superintendents. One young woman, two months before graduation wrote toa superintendent, I will be graduated from the Salem Normal School in June. Another informed the person to whom she ap- plied that she was prepared to teach any primary or grammar grade. A A third, with possibly six months' experience, said her specialty was the second grade. 26

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