Ypsilanti High School - Ypsi Dixit Yearbook (Ypsilanti, MI)

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Glass of foi ROSS K. DE CEW UNIORS! Yea, Juniors! That means us. We do not claim to be anything more, nor do we wish to be considered as anything less. Two, and nearly three, long years have rolled over us, since we made our first appearance in this, our Prima Alina Mater -long years, but years of pleasant toil and still more pleasant learning. We feel we are ripening, bit by bit, and by the time another year has passed away, will, like the fields of grain, be ready for the harvest. Then some of us will be thrown into the mill of the world, to be thrashed fproviding we have not been sufiiciently thrashed beforej until it can use us. A freshman once, and a sophomore too! How vague and far away the Junior looked ! The senior was visible only on clear days, when the clouds of his superiority, were driven away by the winds of geniality. But now, glorious now ! We stand where we can look back and see the freshman climbing, bid the sophomore take courage, and, looking forward, grasp the senior's hand. We feel we are the center of importance CU and, according to chemistry, our valance is three. lt is unnecessary to detail the many lines, along which, we, as a class and individually, have gained eminence. We feel assured that this is known to the world at large, and a second rehearsal would not only be tiresome, but a vain repetition. But it may suliice to say, that undoubtedly we have in our midst, future states- men, and great artists in literature, art, and science, and tho we have not as yet identified them, nevertheless we feel they are there. The aim of the class has been high, and daily it strives to realize, if only in part, its significant motto, Nunc aut numqua1n, Now or never. It seeks to do faithfully its present duty, leav- ing the future to care for itself. Thus it paves tl1e way for its own progress, and the wheel of its future rolls smoothly on.

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a paint wagon of his own now. Ida Coates and Myrtle Shaw are teaching kindergarten. Floyd Wilcoxson is a football coach. Theodore Rohn is the owner of a baseball franchise in the Oklahoma league. Having a superb eye for business, he, in person, sells and collects tickets, acts as mascot, sells score cards, sweeps out the grand stands and chases balls which go over the fence. Anna Faust is a Red Cross nurse and is rendering good service in the war between United States and Germany over the question as to which shall have the sole right to sell soda water at the North Pole. Blanche Cady is also engaged in the same work. Albert Richmond has attained his ideal. That is, he is employed as a model for tailors' fasl1io11 sheets. Fred Everett is the sole owner of a large farm. Mamie Reinhart alld Edith Robbe are engaged in missionary work in China. Norman Johnson is catering to the youthful mind which so early thinks of literature. He thinks up some exciting tale and Grace Hinkle, his stenographer, is always near to record it. Mabel Arnot is the matron of a children's hospital. Sarah Pester and Elva Hinkle are postoflice assistants. Freud Zeigen is the manager of a restaurant at Nome City. Kate Joslyn reads proof for David Brooks, who is an amateurjournalist, and during vacation, runs a newspaper simply for amusement. George Goodspeed runs a Chinese laundry on the American plan. Olive Collins is the president of the Ladies' Twenty-first Century Literary Club. James Fraser is an artist who paints landscapes and high board fences. Thus do we find the members of this class entered upon the duties of life, and altho very much occupied with their work, they still find time to think occasionally of the pleasant moments spent in the High School. mi?

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3unior Glass WUTCCYS RICHARD GOODSPEIQD - ANNA HOLMES BERNARD JOHNSON MAv READ - Ross K. DECEW - - MO'1x'1'O-Nll11C aut uumquanl. COLORS--Purple and W11ite. C1855 ,lyell We are the class of Naughty oneg A naughty one will never run. Fight yes! Run no! Hippity! Hippity! Heigh-O! President Vice-president Secretary Treasurer Dixit Historian