Western High School - Concept Yearbook (Auburn, MI)

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In fact, we were so fond of Geometry that after our class had been duly or- ganized and we were getting along famously, we chose as our class pin a geometrical figure-the everlasting triangle. We displayed our pins with great pride, but we had to return to sterner realities for we were about to write the examinations, which would determine how many were to become Juniors. Al- though we became Juniors with a slight decrease in number, our spirit was not lacking. As .Iuniors, we realized that a great deal depended on us. We had to keep up not only our studies, but the social activity of the school. We really studied very hard, but English, Physics and other subjects were more difficult, and although the E's were not as abundant as in our Freshman year, never- theless on the whole, we were willing to display our cards. Our next interest was to make our parties a success, which was not as difficult. Besides the several dancing parties that we gave, the Junior Supper and the Senior-Send-Off were affairs which no Junior of class of '13 will ever forget. W'ell, in short, we were glad of the Send-Off because when the Seniors were properly sent off, weren't we to take their places, a dignified Senior? Now, Senior is proud and haughty title, but we were each and every one able to live up to it. The day we entered room 9 we felt our importanceg from force of habit we did nothing shocking. We studied early and late on Chem- istry, Solid and Burke until we knew each book from cover to cover. We also assisted the teachers in teaching the Freshmen that High School is not all a lark. We could not stand the strain of hard and persistent study and so we give a few parties. Well, you know what a Senior party isgjust a. real good time, and in everyone we lived up to our reputation. And then our Coffee, our Theater Party, our Trip to Germany, and last but not least, our Yankee Peddler, -who will ever forget them? We have enjoyed every day at Western and a few of us a day on the Kawkawlin. As a class, we have usually been financially and intellectually successful. And let us hope that we as individuals we may continue the reputation of the class. 49 y 'bfnv reg eiodf AW, vifx f iQ were 5 W 5 'w , W1,,,gg.,-ga A v N X5 E Nt 040 'nys 0 Z ,D ,131 'Vg ., gf! S X el ' 1? T wi mxxbi S7 X2 7 gill. igifhl MTS? f QW c

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I I Uf fine rs President . , ,,.... A . ,, 4 ., WILBERT MILLER Secretary and Treasurer e,e,,e,.,e,, ABBIE RALSTON Vice-President ....., I n........ee ,..ee. A MMI KING Class ffistory of '13 NCE a long time ago, to he exact, four years ago, we all felt very im- portant. And why shouldn't we? For We had just received our diplomas, our passport to Western High-the Meeea of our desires. On a bright September morning we finally, with many misgivings, took the step which severed us from our childhood days. At the end of that September day each one of us was ready to swear that Crete was not the Ollly' place possessed of a Labrynth and a Minotoire, for was not Western a maze of windings in which we had become lost many times and were not the Sophomores waiting for their annual victims? Hut after a time, we became used to the maze and our loyalty to dear old Western was established forever. Although we were self-coniident we did not have confidence enough to organize our class, but we spent that year in getting four E's oI1 our card each month, in protecting our desks from tlIe onslaught of the upper Classmen, and in preparing to become Sophomores. The next September, although reduced in numlrer, we were very self- satisfied and ready to give the coming class of Freshmen our place as the target for all jokes and gibes. How we dreaded Geometry and Caesar, but nevertheless we wo1I Caesars battles and conquered the geometrical figures.

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Prophecy of the Class of 1913 San Antonio, .Tune 10, 1933. Mrs. Pierce Blank, Philadelphia, Pa. Dear Bessie: I promised that I would write to you while I was visiting Helen Wilson Smith, and tell you all about everything when I arrived in San Antonio. Helen and her husband met me at the depot. He attended to my. baggage, while Helen and I had a talk. We then motored to their home and arrived just in time for dinner. ' I think perhaps you will be interested in our conversation which was about all of our classmates. Helen has kept track of them. I will tell you all I can remember. Edna Walton is now head matron in the North Western depot, at Chicago, where she gives information to all the strange women who wish it, and looks after them generally. After graduating, Gladys Henessy took a trip West with her father, but she did not accompany him on his return journey, for we understand she met and married a young ranchman. You remember Hazel Kelly's good cakes. Well, she is making them now for sale and is earning a good living. Margaret Molynaux is doing settlement work in Chicago, and we know she must be successful. We all remember Abbie Ralston in our girls' basket ball team. She has kept on as she began, and is now physical director in Vassar College. Madeline Hewes is studying art in Italy and expects to return in a few months and open up a studio ln New York. We always said that Ethel Lisk would be a missionary. She is, in a way, for she is teaching an Indian School in the west. You remember how competent Hazel Blodgett was in school affairs. She is just as capable in her official position as president of the Detroit Civic League, and is head of a club whose aim is to reform politics. Mabel Valead is now a modiste, and fashions gowns only for the society leaders in Newport. You know, of course, how opposed Florence Kennedy was during her High School days to women's suffrage. She has been converted, and is called a second Anna Shaw. She is prominent as a leader of the large meetings, al- though they never begin on time. Helen Bacon has won renown as an illustrator for short stories, and in the last year has taken up the study of cartoons. ' Effie Horne has been made wealthy by her invention of a new musical instrument. The name of which I cannot remember. . Dorothy Goulet's name is not Goulet any more, but is an honored one, especially among the poor of her city where her husband works day after day to alleviate suffering. . - Sarah Shaver has won great recognition as a lawyer by her clever hand- ling of all sorts of cases. You would scarcely recognize Isabel Bennet. She has grown plump and has such rosy cheeks. All this is due to her work. She has a market garden where all kinds of vegetables may be bought .at a reasonable price. Gertrude Davis is forming a. company to induce all the schools to put