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THE CLIFTONIAN Clifton Swings Grade and High School COMMENCEMENT NUMBER JUNE : 1930 MEMBERS OP CLASS OP 1930 Left to right, top row, they are: Marjorie Roth, Marian Sweeney, Warren G. Pierson, class adviser; Alice Cost, Orville Lagenor. Bottom row: Sidney Wheat, Dorothy Cornell, Inger Newland and Clifford Wilson. ALICE T. COST “TERRY” “Why work, why be studious? She had too much of a start on us.” Valedictorian (4); Editor-in-chief of Cliftonian (4); Editor of School News (4); Cliftonian Staff (3); Glee Club (1, 2, 3, 4); Junior Play (3); Senior Play (4); Vice-President of Junior Class (3); Senior Debate (4); Dramatic Club (2). Russell Sage College. SIDNEY WHEAT “SID” “He should be called ‘Stampede’ For when he smiles The fair sex goes into an uproar.” Cliftonian Staff (4); Senior Play (4): Junior Play (3); Baseball (4); Public Speaking Contest (4); Senior Debates (4), Business School. CLIFFORD WILSON “CLIFF” “Generally speaking, generally silent He speaks little, but when he does His weighty words make up for any silence.” Secretary of Senior Class (4); Senior Play (3, 4); Junior Play (3); Debate (4); Wearer of Sportsmanship Button. Post graduate. ORVILLE LAGENOR “O. LAG” “When he hears a good joke, he grins like a Cheshire cat When he hears a bum joke, he grins just the same.” Junior Play (3); Senior Play (4); Senior Debate (4); Public Speaking Contest (4). Rochester Business Institute.
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2 THE CLIFTONIAN MARJORIE L. ROTH “MARJ” “We know she’ll win out A general favorite whose middle name is pluck.’’ Salutatorian (4); Vice-President of Senior Class (4); Vice-President of Student Association (4); President of Junior Class (3); Associate Editor of Cliftonian (4); Cliftonian Staff (3); Editor of School News (4); Junior Play (3); Business Staff of Senior Play (4); Public Speaking Contest (3, 4); Second Prize Public Speaking Contest (3); Senior Debate (4); Dramatic Club (2); Glee Club (1, 2, 3, 4); Basketball (1, 2, 3, 4); Wearer of C (1, 2, 3, 4). Cornell University. DOROTHY B. CORNELL “DOT” “A little girl who will be a big success.” Treasurer of Class (3, 4); Senior Play (3, 4); Glee Club (1, 2, 3, 4); Public Speaking Contest (3, 4); Dramatic Club (2); Senior Debate (4); Wearer of Sportsmanship Button. Geneseo Normal. MARIAN SWEENEY “PEG” “I can’t study For when I study I have to think And when I think too much I’m too tired to study.” Glee Club (1, 2, 3, 4); Dramatic Club (2); Junior Play (3); Senior Play (4), Debate (4); Editor of School News (4). M. INGER NEWLAND “IKE” “A friend of us all. Ike can put anything over in a ‘big’ way.” President of Senior Class (4); Manager of Basketball Team (4); Editor of School News (4); Junior Play (3); Business Staff of Senior Play (4); Public Speaking Contest (4); Second Prize Public Speaking Contest (4); Secretary Junior Class (3); Dramatic Club (2); Senior Debate (4); Glee Club (1, 2, 3, 4); Wearer of Sportsmanship Button. Russell Sage College. SALUTATORY-OUR PLEDGE In behalf of my classmates, I wish to welcome all of you to our graduation, the most important event of our lives so far. Your presence here assures me that you are deeply interested in our progress and achievements. And because we feel and appreciate this kindly interest in us, we wish to extend our welcome to you from the bottoms of our hearts. To our mothers and fathers, who have made countless sacrifices for us, we say welcome. Our graduation wouldn’t seem complete if you were not here, silently congratulating us and telling us you are proud of us. And our teachers, we extend our welcome to you. It is you who have guided and encouraged our faltering footsteps over the path leading to this climax, our graduation. As incentives to do and to dare, your kindly words of advice shall ever ring in our ears, sending us on to do great things. Fel- low-students, to whom we shall soon bid farewell, we welcome you. You are struggling bravely along the rugged path, sometimes falling, yes. but in the end you will succeed, for you are made of the stuff that does succeed. And while you have the chance, make one last effort to strain everything in you, so that in later years you can meet life with a smile on your face and something to hit back with in your arm. Our friends, too, we welcome. You have been interested on-lookers, offering sympathy and advice whenever it has been needed. Soon we shall be coworkers along with you in this great drama of life and, as school boys and girls who are about to enter manhood and womanhood, we welcome you. Classmates, we have looked forward a long time to graduation. And now that this momentous occasion has arrived, we find that we have catches in our
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