Danville High School - Le Tresor Yearbook (Danville, PA)

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ORANGE AND PURPLE Zl Class History By WILLIAM VANNAN Fellow classmates, as the time is drawing near when we are about to depart from the threshold of our high-school life, and emerge upon the broader scope of activities in the wide world, it is altogether fitting and proper that we should relate some of the events of our past exper- iences as a class. Four long years ago-and yet not so long-we began our upward climb of High School Hill. We started out a goodly number, there be- ing 66 in all. The number now has been diminished to 35, including the additions of one in the third year and two more in the fourth year. As Freshmen, we received the usual compliments awarded to such. We were the freshest ever. The upper classmen looked down upon us with scorn, and the Sophomores administered the usual hazing, but the next year we treated the Freshies to the same dose, so we were square. During our Sophomore year, we demonstrated our ability along the line of athletics by winning first prize in an indoor meet held in the Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. The contest was waged among the four classes. This contest consisted of the Snap Vault, Standing High Jump, Standing Broad Jump, 12 Tb. Shot Put, Running High Jump, Potato Race, Basket Ball, and Aquatics, in all of which our team excelled, totaling the ex- cellent score of 2241W points. By dint of much perseverance and diligence, we arrived at the three-quarter station as Juniors. During our Junior year, we awoke along social lines. The Senior class paid us a fine compliment by giving us a reception in the High School Auditorium about the middle of the term. We retaliated, by tendering them a banquet at McCoy's after their class play. The Sen- iors enjoyed the affair, in every particular, and it was a fitting send-off to them, from their high school life to the more trying conditions in the wide world. According to custom, our class took the lead along the line of a pic- nic, which was held at Columbia Park. It is to be hoped the custom will continue, for an enjoyable time is always assured. After much work and as a reward of merit, we arrived at the fourth year, and received the dignified title of Seniors. Approaching the end of the year, in order to be worthy of our pre- dessors, we decided to have a class play, and also a trip to Washington,

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20 ORANGE AND PURPLE President's Address By THOMAS S. EVANS We, the class of 1917, have, after four years of arduous labor, reached the climax of our High School career, and as we look back on these fond years we can well appreciate the untiring and able assist- ance rendered to our class by the Faculty and the Board of Education. We entered the good old Danville High School with the idea of do- ing and accomplishing things which had never been done before and to make it a place honored by all. As a class we have had our pennant lights, our hazing parties and many other mischievous undertakings characteristic of a real live student body and at times conditions were of a very serious nature, but these obstacles were cheerfully and wisely handled and we came out of each episode undisgraced. Our last year as students of Danville High School has been more or less hindered by many abnormal conditions but we have at last reached our goal regardless of these hindrances and as a class are proud of our record. We have always striven to keep our class standing above par and as we are about to leave this hallowed fortress of our education and thrust ourselves into higher activities we wish to thank again the Board of Education and each member of the Faculty for their unseliish assist- ance in keeping the record of the class of 1917 above the average. We appreciate the efforts of the School Board and Faculty to better the con- ditions in our High School and we have fond hopes of seeing accomplish- ed the task of building a new and more modern school, and we hope that all students may, inthe years to come, be benefitted by a new High School building, large enough to accommodate comfortably the ever-increasing attendance of the school, well-equipped and modern in every detail. To the class of 1918 we resign our position of leaders in the activit- ies of the school. Without any desire to boast we feel that during our leadership as Seniors the athletics and the literary standing of our school have been well advanced. Our earnest hope and wish is that our present Juniors will keep up the standards of efficiency, honesty, and energy of the past and that old Danville High School will continue to ad- vance in all lines of student activity. To the Board, our Faculty, the entire student body we now bid a fond farewell. Our thanks we again extend to you for your assistance to us, and your cooperation, and with you all remain our best wishes for the future.

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22 ORANGE AND PURPLE but owing to wars being declared, these projects were abandoned, to- gether with the regular commencement, which has been reduced to very simple form. This has been a great disappointment to us and will al- ways be regretted. During our four years we have furnished many fine athletes to our Alma Mater. Members of our class have always been on the baseball and basket-ball teams. In our Junior year, we again won first prize in the indoor meet. The success of our Athletic Association this year is largely due to the efforts of manager, Jack Gross, who secured a fine basketball- schedule and put the Association on a firm financial basis. It is to be hoped the Athletic Association will continue to be self-supporting. In addition to baseball and basketball, a bowling team was started this year, as a new project. The team, composed mostly of members of the Senior class, was entered in the town series, and as a reward of much practice, won the third series. The games were rolled on the Y. M. C. A. alleys. Along literary lines we have not been a failure, 13 of our number being on the staff of the Orange and Purple. The Orange and Purple had been at rest for a period of 3 years, and was revived by the class of '15, However, ,the paper was not put in cir- culation, but was merely read at each literary meeting. It remained for the class of '17 to put the paper into print and manage it successfully. Six issues were printed, and more than 200 copies were disposed of at each issue. As the results of our efforts, over 340.00 remains in the deserved success, as was ours. We, as D. H. S. Seniors, look forward to receiving our diplomas as the reward for our diligence. Having sur- mounted the High School Hill, we look eagerly upward at the lofty pinnacle of the World Mountain, and resolve with grim determination to do our best to reach its summit and attain success.