The Ocala evening star. [volume] (Ocala, Fla.) 1895-1943, 1915-05-31
CLASS HISTORY


IL seems pretty safe statement
that every class has q history and
there can be no doubt that the his
tories of all classes coincide in their
most essential particulars. For this
reason and because the subject of
class history has been rather fully
treated in the past, viii indulge in
no very extensive descriptions or
brilliant oratorical outbursts.
Ruby and were the only members
of our class that started in the be-
ginning of this long struggle; she
holding up the high standards of the
A class while ! showed my ambition
by progressing from the d class up to
the A.
One year later, our fair Susie and
our calm but studious Alfred entered,
thereby increasing to four the number
of those who were TO prove faithful.
We were in the third grade when
there came a young maiden of very
violent disposition who stamped on
the floor as she entered, threw her
books on her desk and made a few
harsh remarks and then answered to
the roll when the name "Olivia' Tof-
faleti" was called out.
In the fifth year Nan, inspired by
the great progress made by our class,
enrolled as member.
/ Welch Dewey, thinking he had
graduated from the Duval High
School, came to Ocala to increase and
polish his knowledge in the Ocala
school. But it was very humiliating
to Welch to be put in the sixth grade
when he thought his learning was en-
titled to a place of honor in the
eighth. WEIGH is a lean, lank lad
with poetical tenderness, an apologet-
ic manner, and a smile which would
do credit to a sister Of charity. He
looks down on the common herd with
a tolerant sigh and breathes an at
mosphere fifty per cent rarer than the
rest of us.
Next year we were amazed to sec
: entering the room a bright stal
| which in no time showed itself to bs
{ equal or superior to any other mem
| Der of the class and also made clear
to us that we were not all the stars
in the armament
! This new star proved to be Vivienn'
+ Eycleshimer and she sparkled and
shone mostly in the literary course.
The eight grade, or the gateway 4
higher learning, was successful,
passed, and we then entered on wha
is called our high school career
/ am not going to try to tell al
that has happened TO rs in the fou
, long years, but let me trace roughl.
, our course from the first days Of higl
school to the goal reached today
Freshman year started with tw'
more volunteers One was a nativ
of the sun-kissed cotton fields o
South Georgia, who needs little de
scription, for John is child who Ia
! an amiable disposition and perpetua
grin.
The other, a more unique fgur
than the rest Of US, strayed from ne
native home in North Carolina an
u had the good fortune to be taken int
the class. This specimen was Mar
garet, and the class win have to con
a fess there Is none like Margaret
The studies In the freshman yea
we all had in common Latin espe
n cially was a powerful enemy to tn
?, boys, while mathematics was the sam
4 to the girls Nevertheless, we con
> quered the foes Of the first year o
o our high school course
n We then faced sophomore year
s where we learned to trace Caesa
y through Gaul, to search out the goo
Il and evils of modern history, and
> delve into the mysteries Of bugs an
, flowers as portrayed in zoology an
d botany.
Il In the junior year we came to tn