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

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day, very much to the indignation of the Juniors. It was a mystery to all how this was accomplished, but later it was revealed in the public apology made by the boys. The Beta Nu sorority and Sigma Delta and Estabrook frater- nities are here represented, and former presidents of each of these fraternities belong to this class. The athletic spirit is encouraged and advanced by a large number of High School students. The president of this associ- ation is one of our number. Captain Miller of the base ball team, also editor-in-chief of THE CHAT, and Bernard Johnson, manager of the track team, are both prominent members of the class. The High School reception, one of the social features of the School, has occured annually in September. It is then that both teachers and students meet in a social way and thus become better acquainted. The social is a great advantage, too, to those who, coming from other places, enter this School as strangers. The different dispositions and traits of character to be found in the class I will leave to be disclosed to you by H our prophet and H giftorianf' Prof. George, our Superintendent, and Prof. Ross have been with us during the entire four years, very much to our pleasure and prontg Prof. Arbaugh, three years, Miss Comstock and Miss Worden two yearsg Miss Lindquist, Miss Bower and Miss Kelly, one year. As a class we wish to extend the hand of gratitude to the teachers for the kindness and patience they have shown us. We feel we can never truly repay them for all they have done for us, only as each may strive to fill with credit the place to which he is called. And now as we have reached the goal for which we have been striving and commencement is before us, we realize as never before how important to our lives is the training and preparation we have received at this School. This is truly for us the commencement of new responsibilities and new duties, the turning of a new leaf in the book of life. What lies before us is unknowng but be it light or shadow, disaster or victory, we feel that we are better prepared to live earnest, useful lives, from having spent four busy years in the Y. H. S. as members of the class of 1901.

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History of Glass of 'Ol ANNA B . HOLMES T WAS on the sixth day of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, that the history of the class of ,Ol began. As a Freshman class we were large in number, and besides were re-enforced in the middle of the year by thirty-three, who then entered from the eighth grade increasing our number to seventy- one girls and forty-one boys. Of these, twenty-eight have thought best to spend another year in the High School, a large number have moved away, and two have entered upon the path of matrimony, reducing our number to thirty, notwithstanding these losses, we hold the honor of being the second largest class ever graduated from this school. And it is worthy of mention that Messrs. Johnson, Harper and Parsons have completed the High School course in three and one-half years. The Sophomore year was one of great proht and pleasure to all, but, on the whole, the year was without any distinguishing feature except that which usually follows busy school-work. The Junior year, which bears the reputation of being the most diiiicult year of tl1e school course, was entered upon by the class, numbering forty-six, with courage and a full determina- tion to succeed in the work which was before them. The Junior Exhibition, the most notable event of the year, required not only a large amount of extra work in preparation, but also a great mustering of courage on the part of those who represented the class. At the beginning of the Senior year our class, realizing that they were now entering upon the most important year of the School and that responsibility rested upon them in a greater measure than ever before, reorganized and elected the following oliicers: President, Anna 'Campbell 5 Vice-President, Bernard J ohnsong Secretary, Lena Shaw 5 Treasurer, Mamie Evans. Violets were then chosen as the class Bower. Our colors, Violet and White, we have retained through the entire course. The spirit which deeply pervades the entire class was illus- trated when the boys of our class raised the Senior flag on Junior

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Glass Prophecy N ANCIENT times the people were ever in fear that they should bring down upon themselves the anger of the Gods. And so in every case they 'drst tried to 'rind out whether or not their under- taking Was pleasing to the deity to whom they were looking for success. And in case the Gods sanctioned it, then they carried out their plans. But if they showed signs of disapproval, then the project was given up. In our own age there exists a great tendency to fathom the futureg or, if I may use a more common phrase, the human race is ever on the alert to know its Enishf' Partly in order that we may not bring down the anger of the Gods by rashly entering that walk of life that now may seem most Bowery to us, and partly to gratify that prevalent desire to know ' 'our inish, I have of late spent considerable time in conversing with the Gods. And in case the future alloted to you is more brilliant than you ever aspired to, remember that your good luck is due to the Gods and not to me. In some years from now if you should ever take a walk down in the region of the equator, you would find Bernard Johnson there, engaged in the wholesome business of selling icicles. He is carrying on a very extensive and lucrative trade, and in order to cut down expensesL as soon as the dull season comes he starts out for the north pole with his wheelborrow, to get i11 his stock for the next season. Helen Gage has held several positions as school mam, but in each case the school-board has been obliged to ask her to resign because she played too much with the pupils. She was succeeded in her last school, which, by the way, was located not far from that region known as Tiinbuctoos by Bessie Emerick. And the board of education may rest assured that-it will never have to remove Miss Emerick for playing in school, as that is something very foreign to her.