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The Red and black Central High School St. Louis Missouri Volume XVI January and June 1933 Yet all experience is an Arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move'Subject: Eero Saarinen Gateway Arch Psychic Precognitive Painting

1933 · 007297 — St. Louis Mo. : Students of Central High School 1933 1933. Hardcover. Fine/No Jacket. 272 pp. ; profusely illustrated with artwork drawings and photographs ; red decorative cloth no dustjacket ; ONE OF THE MOST AMAZING PSYCHIC OCCURENCES is preserved in this yearbook. A member of the graduating January class of 1933 GENEVA ABBOTT PATTERSON 1916-2011 was asked at age 16 to imagine the city of St. Louis in the future and she amazingly created a watercolor depicting the St. Louis cityscape and INCLUDED THE ST. LOUIS GATEWAY ARCH 15 YEARS BEFORE IT BECAME A CONCEPT IN THE MIND OF ITS DESIGNER EERO SAARINEN IN 1947! The Gateway Arch was not completed until 1963. ; She added the following prophetic text spoken by Ulysses's wife Penelope from line 24 of Tennyson's Ulysses 1842: "Yet all experience is an Arch wherethro' gleams that untravell'd world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move" ; Geneva Abbott furthered her art studies at the Hadley Vocational School and became a member of the St. Louis Artists Guild. She worked as a commercial artist for International Shoe Company and then turned to work as a watercolorist in St. Louis Hilton Head South Carolina and Vero Beach Florida; the previous owner of the yearbook has added commentary and newspaper clippings of happenings to many of the senior class some documenting the deaths of several in World War II or by violence in St. Louis. Marriages of many of the women are recorded. Updated addresses and phone numbers of many former students are also added ; The yearbook has numerous articles written by students and show photographs and drawings in illustration. Subjects feature historical information about St. Louis lists of artists musicians with details of their lives and work are included ; all the artwork by the students reflects the then current Art Deco trends ; a very rare and historically important volume; and an exceedingly difficult-to-locate Saarinen collectible ; FINE <br/> <br/> St. Louis, Mo. : Students of Central High School, 1933 hardcover