Western High School - Concept Yearbook (Auburn, MI)

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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

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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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revolving stairways in the buildings. Gertrude has spent much time on this. She says it is because she wasted so much time going up and down stairs while she was in school. Genevieve Church, after teaching for a while took up a college course, and is making a record as she is to be president of Smith College next year. Blanche Pike is now famous as an author. Two of her best known books are The Good Girl and The Scholar. Florence Manning is now taking a personally conducted party for a trip abroad. In this party is one of our old school friends, Mrs. Anna Van Egmond Youno, who is now a widow. Agnes Trudell is a very versed business woman and is head of the main office of a large manufacturing concern. For a few years after Martha Sturn graduated she taught school, but that life became too monotonous so she took up the study of aviation, and now owns one of the famous North Aeroplanes. This aeroplane was invented by Oscar North, who always did soar head and shoulders above us in everything. She travels from one State Fair to another giving exhibitions of her won- derful skill in handling the machine. Wilbert Miller is now employed in the west by the U. S. Forestry bureau. Hazen Frantz has controlling stock in the 'Tobacco trust. Charles Hinman isone of the most prominent M. D.'s in his home town. Albert Light, t'Sleeplng Beauty of our class, has been aroused, and after traveling around, has settled down in Flint as president of an automobile con- cern. Mahlon Parsons is now a short, fat, good natured farmer situated on a very prosperous farm near here. Ammi King is a speaker in the House of Representatives. This position was obtained because of his excellent training in High School. Ivan Royal has made money in intensive farming, and is now a collector of old and rare books. Harry Wetters is a traveling salesman for a firm who manufactures a new hair curling fluid. Raoul Clement is making a name for himself as an architect. Roy Thomas is Manual Training teacher and physical director of the public schools in Grand Rapids. He has charge of a special course, How to make furniture out of soap boxes. I am having a fine time here and on my way home I expect to visit. Hazel Blodgett. Then I will return to Bay City and continue planning meals for my mother and father. ' Yours truly, FLORENCE PRESLEY. .fi-'i'i 'Slim In slr XCMM 1 'N 1 ff? it let W Xl rx .., ff 41 Q if a H