Stockbridge High School - Panther Yearbook (Stockbridge, MI)

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very prominant part. All of his literary work is noted for its beautiful diction. My travels next brought me to New York, aud while there I visited Rob Brown who resides in one of the large mansions of that city. Rob is one of the greatest elec- tricians and 'inventors of the day. His-greatest achieve- ment was the inventing of a way to comvrniinicate with the man in the moon. 1 I As my cash was running low, on arriving at Cincinnati, I visited a 'bank and there behind the casl:-ier's desk I found Grace Hallztf Sooniafterfwgradauation she took a course in elocftion, a studyiivvhiulznrshe, taught for some time in Cin- cinajti, . sheftheiftsenteredfa life-'partnership with a banker of that city. QI cannot remember his name.D t 'One day, shortly afterthis, while riding- on the train, I was surprised to meet Nat. 'Hynes, accompanied by a beautiful woman. Nat taught schools a few years, after inishing school, after: which he went to Milwaukee and secured a positionmvith a -large lumber firm. While there he became acquainted with a rich heiress, who changed her name sto Mrs.Q Hynes. After marriage they .took a -wedding trip through. the United States and Europe, from which they were? just returning. n I - S it , A g I ' A qWhile in a hardware store, somewhere in Michigan, last week a familiar voice attracted my attention and I was sur- prised when my old friend, Elnathan Skidmore, grasped me by the handg tHe, too, had take-n a college course, and while at college I most of his -leisure hours were spent- singing love songs of his own composition for his own' amusement. Elnathan wrote 'several good. poems. but not until he wrote, Between the Hours of 9 and 11, P. M., did he attract much attention. The inspiration for this poem, he told me, was gained from personal experience while attending high- school at Stockbridge. . Thus have been the .destinies of the Class of 1903, who surpassed all previous classes, and which have been .the

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Glass llbrophecy. fflfv gIFTEEN years have passedrsince the'Class of 1908 Ei graduated frombthel Stockbridge .High School. 'Al- aclillxffb' though it has been fifteen-years, -it seems scalely half - that time since my class spent' those golden liurs together. ' ' - - - . Shortly after graduation, 'I Went West and taught district school forawhile, after Wl1ich'.I ,worked -in ca store. In 1915, I got a position as traveling salesman for a Chicago Hrm,1and.itlhas been my good Qluck, in my trips, to run across nearly all my-old class mates, and now, friends, it is my pleasant dutyto tell you of their varied successes. One day While strollingalongcthe streets of Chicago, I met'one'of,1ny:old classmateS, Grace Cooper. Grace said she and her old chum, Ruth May,- shortly -after graduation, had taken a literary courserat the: University of Michigan, and: she had since been teaching in Chicago, While Ruth was a missionary .in India, where she is having .pgreat suc- cess and is doing-much good teachingethe.nativ.es.. A , From Chicago It Went to Milwaukee, and While -'-pas sing the First .M. ' E. church of that city, one Sunday night, I was startled by the eloquence ofthe preacher, and upon en- tering, Whom, should I find in .the pulpit but Charles .Stock- ing.. Atter S graduating Charlie - studied for the ministry, and since has had charge of some of the largest churches in this country. He has also written Wsomeyery inspiring poems. The principle poem Was Lucille, a poem -which never fails to touch hisheart, andone in which he acts a

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ideal of all classes which have since graduated. - Of the future 1' can tell nothing, but, 'judging the future by the past, We can only hope that the next fifteen years will be as successful as the past fifteen years have been. LEE C. KENNEDY Rs 4' ,giant gg X 4 5323 2546 w My ll srgom si V .V WN w W W l h fran! 'gulf 9 gg xv S' in W firggdy E mt ,uRlg?lQfQ5 WZ Yi 375 ' 5 A 'ss' l 1 U - ' nw lf' 1 - E,-Xi ng ' 'Sag,x',r1-- L, r i f if si PQ' 5 , Egg avg ' l E N f 7 ' ' ', ' x QA' 1 f. V , , '- l ,l!f4Ifi ':' Y 4, 5 X . , N11-,.Y,.flyn:,n54.f,W' 'I l ' : ' J iz. WEN M f ' , E , J 54--sfff? X ' ww vm X wja 5533? X N 4 ,f ,-'-,.f-xii 5 , ll l f -4 uf'-x ,,Y. -1 fn ll me E I mm .Q :N EQ 4 ,M Nix tw N , an , X' f X wigs W , XX I W x QI n I 7' 1 ill X I I -X A-Blin-