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my children, it did my heart good to see your beaming faces! And again, tit your first June Dance, the few of you who went seemed to enjoy your- selv’es thoroughly. How little and unsophisticated you seemed to be going to dances, for I never can get used to how quickly the younger generation grows up now. As every year the membership of a class changes, only
Dorothy Blanche, your president that year and the next, and Laura Butter­ field, who has held many class offices during your five years, are in your class now, who were in it then.
Freshman year Julia Keedy, your president Junior and Senior years, Charlotte Nichols and Kathryn Verlenden, the Katzengamer Twins, and
Jeannette Strong, known for her sweet disposition, entered your class, The three events worthy of note this year are, first, that after the school play /4 lcestis, in which most of you took minor parts, Laura Butterfield was taken into the Dramatic Society; second, you made $73 on your table at the Fair; and third was the jolly spread that you and the Sophomores had together in the spring. Also, for the first time, you organized a class team, which was defeated in all its games.
Of your present class, Annabel Lombard entered the next year, and Marion Drake, who had been in the school from the Elementary on,
transferred, anci joined you. By this time, you had settled down a bit and set to work in earnest. In the fall, several of you made the hockey team. and during the winter your keenest interest was your basketball team, The team won two victories for you over the first and second Academics, but was unfortunately defeated by the Juniors and Seniors.
Then spring came with its excitement over the Fair and over Shaw’s play, Casar and Cleopatra, which the Dramatic Society gave, Most of you were in the play, and the few of you who had speaking parts did your­ selves proud. I know, my children, as I came down from my cliffs that night and heard every word of it. That year you had the refreshment table at the Fair, which is, perhaps, the most attractive looking but the most difficult to make money on. Gertrude Fearing was the president of your class and with the hearty co-operation of all of you, she managed the table very capably. In fact you made an even hundred dollars, which was
more than had been made at that table previously, This year is greatly to your credit.
When the fall of Junior year arrived, you were every inch upper class- men, in spite of your ridiculously young appearance, given to you by the
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