Albany Academy - Cue Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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0 0 Q 0 THE COMMENCEMENT CUE Classmates: Need l recall to you what must be foremost in the minds and hearts ot all ot you? Our first day at school, our first C-uidon Drill, chapel, games, the Celebration just passed, and many other incidents crowd through our minds like a pageant. Never again will we be called upon to take part in these activities, but the treasury of our memories is tull. l-low swittly the years have passed and brought us to this day with an inward desire to stay here, but an irrepressible urge to go on. For go on we must: We shall step out into an age confused and troubled. But let us never lose sight ot those principles we have learned hereg loyalty, honesty, love ot truth, and service to others. And so, with hearts tull of mingled hope and sadness, we say to the school which we have cherished and will ever cherish, Farewell and God bless you. Page fzveizty-foiir

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I25TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 0 0 0 0 VALEDICTORY HOWARD GARBERICI-l HACEIVIAN, JR. We come to this Commencement Day with conflicting emotions- great joy, and deep sadness. This day brings to us the fulfillment of all that we have hoped for, worked for, lived for. Yet we dread to face the very hour of our hopes' realization, for it means the severance of ties we have long treasured. A few brief moments have made us Alumni of our Alma Mater, foster children of a fostering mother. Today terminates one phase of our education. We cannot remain here: we must go on to broader fields of endeavor. But may no day of our lives ever terminate our education. For education is not something which ceases when we cease to attend school. It is rather a continuous growth of mind and spirit. And of this growth the years we have spent here will be a vital part. But we cannot leave without giving thanks to those who have given so much to us while we have been here. What can we say in gratitude to you who have labored so patiently with us and into whose hands the train- ing of our minds has been given? What words can we use to thank you? lt is a gratitude too deep for expression, but a gratitude which each of us feels. Arid our parents-dare we reveal to you those hidden feelings of our hearts? You have made sacrifices greater than we shall ever understand that we might be here. And in return we have sometimes been wayward, obstinate, and ill-tempered. We cannot thank you. We can only pledge that we will try to be worthy of your sacrifices, that we will try to be the men you want us to be. And to you other members of the Student Body of the Albany Acad- emy, and particularly to you of the Class of l939, we extend our heartiest good wishes. lt is our desire that our failures may teach you success, and that you may carry on the traditions of this school as she enters the sixth quarter century of her work, Page twenty-three

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I25TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 0 0 0 0 CLASS HISTORY The Class of i938 first saw the light of higher learning in a classroom of that stately old brownstone building then located at the corner of La- fayette and Park Streets on Capitol l-lill. lt was the fall of l9Z6. Mr. Midgley was a sweet young thing in a pink bow tie, Mr. Stetson had no moustache, Mr. Lindsey was hockey coach Chall and the corridors still slept unshaken by the pachydermatous tread of Stephen Webber. Few re- main today of the old guard who can recollect that momentous occasion, but among the elect were and are Atwood, Perkins, Richters, Stein, Steph- ens, Were and Wood. Placed under the charge of Miss Russell we set busily to work learning our number combinations lused now only on the football field and in safe- breakingl as well as the gentler arts of drawing and music a la Miss Swan- tee's pitchpipe. We attempted no oratorios or operatic selections, the ulti- mate thule of our efforts being Postman, Postman , a little jewel long since mercifully forgotten. Then came the summer recess and the first year of our exposure to education was at an end. ln the fall of i927 the little band gathered in the now familiar walls for the next step in its educational progress. Our ranks had been increased by two-a tall, refined, precise youngster by the name of l-lenry Sage and one other who is as well forgotten, Meanwhile we had reached the parting of the ways as Atwood to McLeod became the A Section under Miss Mac- Latchie while Myers to Wood became the B Section still clinging to Miss Russell. That was a memorable year. There was Red Leahy, ridiculed by the whole class for his red hair and great obesity and Winne Druce, the unfor- gettable, who danced about like a jumping-jack. And who could forget the high wall in the yard where we weren't supposed to go lwe were on it more than any other place in the school when we realized we weren't supposed to bei and Stein's gang and Boilingame's gang. Remember the sweep? Wowll lt was in i928 that we were bundled off to the old Deanery at Elk and Swan to spend three eventful years. We were C Class now and just beginning to appreciate our importance. The A Section was placed under Miss Swantee but the B Section went to Miss Mills-remember Miss Mills? -ah-er-and time marched on as Burlingame dropped off and we got Page twenty-five