Glen Cove High School - Profile Yearbook (Glen Cove, NY)

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THE RED AM) GREEN on the delightful bus tour of the city. After lunch we hustled into our coats and spent the afternoon at Arlington and Mount Vernon. Here the class was photographed. Saturday morning disappeared with our visit to the Lincoln Memorial and Washington Monument. The former, a tribute of America’s sentiment toward Abraham Lincoln, is an unsurpassed piece of sculpture in both size and beauty. In the latter, most of our Seniors wore out a great deal of shoe leather, climbing and descending its 900 steps. In the afternoon some of the class went to the Senate while others visited the city of Washington. Sunday afternoon, after a special dinner, the class, bag and baggage, bade a tearful farewell to the “beloved” Cairo. Soon the train was carrying them toward Glen Cove, leaving a deep regret in the hearts of all that they could not have remained longer. The trip was a most delightful one. The class is very grateful to Mr. Gribbin and Miss Richards who were the main reasons for its great success. Because of Mr. Gribbin’s careful systematic planning, the four days were packed full of trips which we enjoyed to the utmost. The god of the weather seemed to smile on us. The hotel service was excellent. Everything went off with a smash and a bang.j On Monday morning we awakened to find ourselves back home with a long school day ahead. And it seemed incredible that the long planned trip was over. A WORD OR TWO TC THE JUNIORS The school year of ’26 is fast drawing to a close. In June thirty-six boys and girls will leave Glen Cove High School never to return. These thirty-six students are the Senior Class of '26. and as such, have had the responsibilities and enjoyed the privileges accorded to every Senior class of the school. Next September, a new group of boys and girls will enter this rank and will carry on the traditions of the school even as we, the Seniors of this year, have. There can be no doubt, that of all the promotions and advancements of the high school course, that that from Junior to Senior is by far the biggest step. That is not true so much in the externals or any minor privileges or honors gained, as in the development and growth of the student himself. A new vista of college or practical work opens up to the Senior. Things assume a different relative importance in his eyes, especially the system and event of high school life. School discipline is relegated to its proper place in the consideration. This does not mean that the Senior becomes refractory, intolerant, or bigoted, but rather that he begins to value the real purpose and the spirit of school discipline. Though he has perhaps lost the awe of a lower classman for authority, he has gained in i'.s place an understanding and respect for the social and punitive law of the school. While less chastened in the spirit than his Junior neighbors, he probably is more obedient to the spirit of high school regulations. Necessarily, the advance in maturity of the Senior causes an alteration in his relations to the other classes. A lack of interest in the petty discontents of the Juniors is likely to be dubbed conceit by the younger class. Sometimes, envy of the upper classmen’s peculiar responsibilities and enjoyments causes an outbreak. And, of course, the Juniors have, as all Juniors do, the persecution delusion: “The Seniors treat us atroc- iously and don’t appreciate a thing we do!” However, I am sure that no Senior either depreciates the Juniors’ co-operation or persecutes them in any way. Such grievances exist only in the minds of the Juniors themselves. After all, next September will see the present Juniors installed in the Senior room, and experience will undoubtedly teach them, as it has taught their countless predecessors, a more broadminded and tolerant attitude. It seems quite fitting and proper that at this time of the year, we give the Juniors some hint of the dignity and responsibility of their future status so that they may enter the last year of ' high” with some appreciation of what it means to finish one’s high school education. We, the present Seniors, are well satisfiec [ 18 J

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THE RED AND GREEN Senior Class Notes THE WASHINGTON FUND At the very beginning of our fourth year, the Seniors undertook the sale of candy. Much to the surprise and gratification of the class, the candy profits came in thick and fast. The sale of candy contributed not a little to the Washington Fund. Every noon some of the Senior girls carried a supply of sweets to the rear of the study hall. At the er.d of the lunen hour, the hulk of candy was greatly diminished—thanks to our fellow-classmen. Besides the sale of sw'ee’.s the Seniors had other ways of raising “revenue.” One of these was the cake sale. The first cake sale was conducted on Saturday, October thirty-first. The other took place on Saturday, March twentieth. Both were carried on in Clingen’s Drug Store, which Mr. (fiingen so willingly extended for our benefit. They were particularly successful financially. On the last occasion two sales were held, one at Locust Valley and one at Clingen’s. On account of the initiative and industry of our Locust Valley classmates a large sum w:as realized from the sale held there. It had been the custom of the Seniors of previous years to conduct a McCall Subscip-tion Drive for the purpose of adding dollars to the “Fund.” So, following in the footsteps of our exemplary ancestors, we started the McCall Drive. Although it could have been more profitable. Miss Richards was quite satisfied with the several cheques we received from the McCall Company. The school play in which the Seniors took an active part, made us just four hundred and twenty dollars richer. You can now see why the horizon began to brighten and a distant picture of Washington appear on it. The last money making “scheme” of the season was the Senior Ball. THE SENIOR BALL Thefirst social event of the season attracted a great deal of attention. The Annual Senior Ball was held on January twenty-second in the Kindergarten Rooms. For weeks before the Seniors bustled around in anticipation of the event. Miss Cocks and Miss Richardson did a great deal of overtime work to make it a success. We appreciated their co-operation very much. The hall was decorated with red crepe paper and a large number of beautiful plants. The latter were brought to the school and arranged there by Mr. Wagnall, the florist. He is deserving of much praise. Manning’s five-piece orchestra furnished the music. Refreshments, contributed by the Seniors, were served. The dance programmes were made of red and black, the class colors. The Ball turned out to be a great success, thanks to all those who in any way contributed aid. THE WASHINGTON TRIP On April eighth at nine o’clock we (the Senior Class) assembled at the Glen Cove Station to await the outgoing train which was to bear us to Washington. From Pennnsyl-vania Station a private car carried us to Philadelphia where we went on a touring trip around this very historic city. Then we returned to our train and completed the journey. arriving at Washington at about seven p. m. Here we were greeted at the Cairo Hotel by a bevy of active porters who seemed to have an unlimited number of arms. We hustled to our rooms with the idea of removing the traces of fatigue, jjritne, and travel. The first evening we visited the Congressional Library. The massive structure was verv imposing in its simplicity and elegance. Although it rained quite a little, the trip was made perfect by the magnificent sight of our Capitol lighted up by the huge electric clusters. On Friday morning, the time fairly flew [ 17 |

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TIIE REI) AND GREEN that next year’s Senior class will fulfill its obligations to the school in a very satisfactory manner. Ray Freedman. THE SENIORS AS SEEN BY THE JUNIORS No, proud Seniors, your perch is not so lofty in our eyes as perhaps it is in those of the timid, unsophisticated Freshmen. Truthfully, we regard you without awe but yet, not without a little jealousy. Perhaps the privileges we so envy in you are bestowed or rather assumed by you, yourselves, who in your glory and self contentment think them otherwise obtained. Nevertheless, the fact remains that you have them, but happily for us, not for long. All year, you, the Aristocrats of Glen Cove High, have been begging us Juniors to help you with the reminder, “Remember, you’ll be Seniors next year!” Well, we didn’t mind that, for you are right there. We gave you the help willingly—then what did you do? Oh, yes, you thanked us—really very graciously. But every chance you could get, you “razzed” the poor unprotected Juniors, who must take all and say nothing. Yet, say we philosophically, this is school life; so we must bear our troubles and think of next year, Our Year. When you came back from Washington, one would think, to hear you talk, that none but the Seniors had ever been there. Wherever a Senior was to be found, the glories of Washington were to be heard. Then you had the conceit to say publicly that the school could not get along without you because in your absence the “Tattler did not appear. It wasn’t that we couldn’t manage its publication, but because you did not authorize us to do so. Anyway that is a Senior institution. We knew well enough to keep “hands off. ’ Yes, you are probably saying as you read this, “sour grapes.” Maybe we are, but we can’t help it. But for Seniors you could be worse and we really have a lot for which to be thankful. Of course, next year, we are hoping to surpass you. We admit you have done many things for the school and yourselves and have a lot to your credit. In conclusion, we must say we II he satisfied if we can only be as good as the “Class of 26. This, though grudgingly granted, you must admit, is a great deal for us Juniors to concede. Catherine Couchlan. Class History M iss Brandhorst has always said that when we prepared our history lessons, we must have studied out of some of our own productions. That is perhaps true because a new history, produced from our own lives, is about to be published, it is now in the hands of its publishers. The Taller Publishing Company of the Glen Cove High School. This eagerly awaited book is “Hogg s History of the Class of 1926.” Our class has always been a very illustrious one and is the largest to graduate from Glen Cove High School. Small wonder! For it is almost entirely composed of girls. We number twenty-eight of the fair sex and ten of the sterner. Yet we cannot deny that our few hoys have held their own against us and were even brave enough to go to Washington with us. Our High School career begins January 1922, when some of us graduated from the Junior High School. In September, we were joined by other friends from the Junior High School, who had graduated in June and some from Locust Valley and others from the Parochial School. Hence. September 1922, was our real beginning as a class. We started out with true school spirit by organizing our class of over 100 at once. We certainly felt important. We elected class officers: Joseph Dioguardi, president; we chose well, for he has held this distinguished office acceptably throughout the four years; Lydia Stringham, vice-president; Sue Dah- [ 19 J