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     The teachers of the class of '17 are Alice Armour, Hazel Siders, Grace Coleman, Florence White, Margaret O'Malley, Pauline Garvin.

     Dean Brooks, '15, and Mary Anderson, '16, were married on Thanksgiving Day and are living at the home of Dean's mother.  Dean is working at the C., M. & St. P. depot.

     Harold Bulkley, '14, has enlisted in the naval wireless service and is now at home waiting to be called.  He expects to take his course at Harvard.

     Sarah Thomas, '12, finished at Ames last year and is teaching in the Bagley High School.

     Ruth Paul, '12, is home after finishing college at Lake Forest.

     The following P. H. S. graduates are doing office work in this city:  Mable Trouth, '15; Gladys Miller; Helen Melick; Isabel Tucker; Mildred White; Jane White, '18; Alice Donavon, '16; Margaret McGoey, '16, and Olive Anderson, '15.

     Frank O'Brien, '12, has resigned his position at the Graney Shoe Store and is working for Henry Miller in the automobile department.

     Esther Towne, Mary Deeney, '15, and Edith Pearson, '16, are attending C. C. C. C. in Des Moines.

     Marion Hardy, '15, is the wife of Oscar Strahn, a former P. H. S. teacher, who is now a lieutenant.

     Lyman Wiltse, '16, is studying voice and violin in Kansas City.

     William Kerlin, '15, and Edward Anderson, '16, are students at Iowa City.

     Leland Cox, Kathryn Anderson, '14, Ruth Elliot and Mae Mathis, '16, are students at Simpson.

     Members of the class of '16 who are attending college are:  Edward Anderson at Iowa City, Dorothy Brown at Lake Forest, Alice Robinson at Cedar Falls and Alta Waters at Minneapolis.

     Lucile Haupert and Fern Stockwell, '17, are staying at home.

     Lois Waters, '17, is the wife of Clyde Bennet.

     Miss Mildred Bennington, '02, attended Grinnell College in 1905 and 1906, spent some time as cashier in one of the dry goods stores in Perry and from 1910 to 1914 took a course at the Illinois Training School for Nurses, in the Cook County Hospital.  She did some private duty in Chicago and later returned to Perry on account of the illness of her father.  In March of last year she was made superintendent of the King's Daughters' Hospitals, a position which she is filling with credit.

     Fred Melick, '02, took a three-year course at Simpson College and then received his A.B. degree at Northwestern University.  For the last seven years he has been in the employ of the government as mail carrier in this city.

     Elsie Passch, '16, and Sadie Brownell, '15, are teaching, Elsie in the Rippey schools and Sadie in a consolidated school at Otho.

     Edward Lee, '15, is working in Wichita, Kan., for the Phoenix Construction Co.

     Edna Trine, '15, holds quite a remarkable position for a girl of her age, being manager of the Pooler Concert Co., which is a branch of the White & Myers Lyceum Co., of Kansas City.  She is also a soloist.

     George Whiton, Clyde Loving, Ruth Kendall, Helen Miller, '17, and Gail Ward, '16, are working in different Perry stores.

     Frank Graham, '14, is a student at Ames.

     Verna Anderson, '10, is teaching at Norwalk, Iowa.

     Edna Anderson, 13, is the wife of Frank Berlin.

     Mildred Ried, '10, after her graduation form P. H. S. attended Grinnell College a year and graduated from Drake.  She is now teaching in a primary room in the schools of this city.

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