Batavia High School - Batavian Yearbook (Batavia, NY)

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, .' ,:'-Tiff. . N . rr.,Llii?g.ii f3, li a.L24Lx.w.a4Ly4LQ1Lez1 guymmwimlmmaaummm mmmwimm 51 '33 , '33 SCHOOL SON O The Blue and the Whzte Our school has always favored 'I hat rich and glossy blue Which with white in combination Is beautiful and true They are always floating gayly And never out of sight While in unison we re singing Long live the Blue and White We will ever praise our High School Which in Batavia stands Individual Instruction Known now throughout all lands And its faithful corps of teachers For they know that they are working For the Blue and the White We recall athletic victories Cn many a day before How we captured prize and trophy But still we wish for more But we re sure that we ll not falter As we renew the light just because we re marching onward Neath the Blue and the White 1 VidM8db7B1h?idlfit1TfD1 hfiflMaYllfrI11lYMPffii1Tfh1 r F6N1Mif1h?nX1h'rh1Ifm1lfN1 r X . E Q E gl E 5 E Q , E 3 'H 5 3 Q E E . . . . . . E Q . ' E ? . ' ffl Q B H S E y . . D Q 2 . . . E Q B ' Q Q Their duties never slight, I Q - 5 ' . 5 l 'l . . . 5 1 E ' l Z Q . . Q y , , ' I E l ' . Q 5 It y Q WHHWWHWWWW WW Hwwn W E 7 l f Q-

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QA. pq- unumcntum BYE BITBIIITKIIE 4 lfnm Alhertns lfvahh 1859-1923 Exegl monumentum aere perennlus, I have ralsed a memorial more lastmg than bronze sand the Roman poet mm-teen centurnes ago, and he spoke truly The generauons come and go only to add more luster to hrs name Mr Ladd s greatest memorxal us m the lives and characters of those wxrh whom he came m contact The teacher or the admmxstra tor m the secondary school has scant tnme for creatxve work that shall make hrs fame assured Thousands of llves each wxth nts petty problems must be helped along to see the way more clearly to make the rnght decision For Mr Ladd days and nights were consumed m solv mg the problems of the many, m bearxng the burdens ot' them all A man wrth unusual clearness of vrsnon wxth remarkable gifts of cxpressnon, whose talents nf used for hrs own glory would have placed hrs name hugh among contemporary writers, was spent lh the ex actmg detaxl of school aclmmxstratnon He wrote well but had ume to wrxte only for occa sron He was a scholar but had few hours to pass on the treasures of learnmg to those who came after hlm He was great, but he was the wxllmg servant of all True knowledge, forbearance Justice, loyalty, unswervxng devotion to duty, the capacity for sacnlice. these qualmes whlch Mr Ladd had to an unusual degree are the only founda tions on which a ClVlllZ1lIl0h can be buxlt lt ls the task of the cxty whose streets he walked rn the pursuance of duty for more than twenty years xt IS the task of the schools he served to ruse to higher standards of thinking and conduct that If may not be said that this llfe was spent ln Valn MYRTA ELEANOR HUNN, lune 'Ith 1923 f is WM . Q-,.,Le,,...h- .,.., ,,,,,g 2 ia? y - -y'l I f f , , , , P' . 1' .I g 1 5 th ,, ... ' l 1