Wicomico High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Salisbury, MD)

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Alice Causey Hili, ' Iier voice was ever soft. Gentle and low —an excellent thing in woman Alice, like May Powell, is one of the land-marks of our class for she has been in it since it began its honorable career in the first grade. She makes no attempt at dis¬ play of knowledge but when she is called upon in class is usually ready with a low but correct answer. We have only one charge to bring against her and that is we doubt her loyalty to Maryland but rather think many of her anxious thoughts are above Mason and Dixon’s line in a city known as Chester. Just why she allows her mind to wander into that section is not hard to imagine particu¬ larly if you could hear her give a description of one living there. “ Still water runs deep ” we are much of the opin¬ ion is verified in her case for while she does not say so much, yet we all realize she is thinking a great deal. Our advice to her is to bring her wandering thoughts and let them rest in our own Maryland. Hilda Howard “ Skipping all classes and chasing all around ITorvying all the teachers who will call me down Hilda has not been with us throughout our High School course. She entered this venerable institution in the fall of 1903. Before many days had passed we discovered that she possessed wonderful ability for getting into mis¬ chief and was always the one to be cai ght and rewarded by a “ bountiful blessing” from the teacher in whose room the offense was committed. Another of her accom¬ plishments was repairing the furniture in the Manual Training room. It seems strange but no sooner had she seated herself upon a stool that was somewhat weak than she had to regain her lost equilibrium and gather up the pieces of the stool which were scattered in different di¬ rections. After placing them in position, as “misery likes company.” she would innocently look on in the hope of seeing another unfortunate caught in her trap. Amid all her mishaps she has a sunny disposition and is one of the most popular girls In the class. Etiia May Jones ’ To follow foolish precedence , and wink With both my eyes is easier than t° think Ethais a down the river member of 05. Her home is upon the bank of the Wicomico and like another place upon the bank of another river is called Mt. Vernon. She is a hard worker and a close observer, particularly of the other sex. She has recently developed the desire for indulgence in the game of ball. Just how well she catches, we cannot say but she surely “ Nocks ” well and it seems she makes a safe hit occasionally. Ethais a popular girl in the school and her winning smile never fails to have its effect. She is so good in the relation of anecdotes many of which never occured, that the class chose her as historian. We will say, if her account is not correct, she shall not have it copyrighted. [191

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Edna May Goslee There ' s nothing so becomes a maid As modest st it in ess and humility Edna is one of our little ones. She has four eyes and is exceedingly modest. She does not like to be teased about a certain young man in our class. There is only one thing about Edna that bothers the teachers, that is her voice. She has never been known to speak louder than the squeaking of a mouse when it is aimost neces¬ sary to speak as loud as a threshing machine to be heard above the clatter of the voices of ’ 07 , while in the room with that class. Judging from her neat appearance one would think that she has spent long hours of hard study before the looking glass. She expects to become a school “maim” so we have learned. If she does follow this honorable work she surely can direct her pupils aright if an example upon the part of the teacher plays any part in the direction for she usually gets 100-plus in deportment. We shall be charitable enough to say that she deserves it. Pauline Kenney Goslee “ Me thinks she seems no bigger than her head Although one of the smallest, according to bodily di¬ mensions, in our class, yet Pauline is what one would call a good student. Ever since sheentered the class in I903,her studious habits have been observed and indeed we think that is one of the causes of her diminutive size, not the whole cause however, for Pauline is also the youngest in our class and will have we hope a chance as “ tempos fu- gits ” to rise as high as some of the rest have done. This maiden is very staid and sedate and we firmly believe she was intended for a “ Bachelor Girl,” for if she ever looks at one of the sterner sex, it is because they hapj en to be in her line of vision to some other object. How Pauline can be so quiet in the midst of such “gabbling, giggling gir.s will ever be a great source of wonder, there being so few in the class who have that power. Viola Miriam Goslee Rise ! for the day is passing And you lie dreaming on Our class giant in size but not in intellect, as no girl in our class has ever been known to prove herself superior to “ Chess ” in that respect. She is known to her class¬ mates as “one of the Goslins ” Lately Viola has betn seen wearing a w ide band ring on the third finger of her left hand. We wonder what this can mean. She is one of our Nourishing young ladies especially does she flour¬ ish her hand as if to shoo a fly from her nose. But with all of her “ flourisliings ” (we do declare they are many) her disposition is good, and considering her early rising w r hich she must indulge in, in order to drive seven miles and be at school on time we believe she keeps as sweet tempered as one could under like circumstances. [is]

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Gertrude Kilua.m You knoiv There are moments where silence prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken Just why Gertrude has never acquired the art of gab we will never be able to explain. Though she has been associated with a crowd of “ giggling girls ” for so long, she still has perfect control of her tongue and of those muscles of the face which excite laughter. (So unlike the rest of us.) The male sex seem to possess no attractions for this member of the class, consequently her brow is never clouded with th se worries that bother the “giddy ones.” Gertrude perhaps stands in a more favorable position with the teachers on account of her conduct and we be¬ lieve it would break her heart to injure, in any way, the feelings of any member of that August body, the Faculty. Ida Catharine McGrath “ Nothing is belter than wisdom Ida is one of our students from the country who has been with us during our High School career. She comes from the village of Fruitland, the land of the strawberry and blackberry and surely it does seem that the name of her community is in some way connected with her mind lor it is very fruitful as well as fertile. Her greatest fault is that she will never miss a lesson nor worry a teacher but probably her reason for that is that she expects to join the pedagogic circle after leaving the school and she fears her sins will find her out in years to come in her own schoolroom. Her precision is noticea¬ ble ; her attention in class is unpardonable, so attentive is she that she does not dare to move two seats down the aisle for fear she might fail to catch some half syllable. As to the boys she would never look at one unless by accident she sees a picture of one in a book and then she hurriedly closes the book to think of something more profitable. Olive Celeste Mitchell “ To, am with you always ' ' We now introduce to you one of the demure young ladies of our class. During the “Four Years of our Martyrdom ” there have been few times that she did not answer to roll-call, thereby setting us an example on punctuality. Now Olive has quite a liking for Astron¬ omy and would like to convince the class that the moon is the largest planet around which all the smaller ones re¬ volve ; but there is a difference of opinion and as she do s not often make mistakes of this kind, we will forgive her. She is usually very studious but in our last term became rather tired of Algebra and in some mysterious (?) way it disappeared. She made her way to the principal and with the most penitent expression imaginable said, “Mr. II - my book has gone through a hole in the wall.” (Of course she knew that we could not tear down the High School Building just yet and that she would likely be ex¬ cused. During our Junior year we decided that the class needed some one to care for the funds and elected Olive as treas¬ urer and this year elected her as one of the literary editors of the “ Tatler ” because of her ability along that line. [20]