Ithaca High School - Annual Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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THE FACULTY 13 dvi NEISH of A.B., Elmira. Head of Comm cial Departmen . Appointed 1917. .f MAUD A. PALMER W4 06,10-,., A.B., C-ornellg A.M., Columbia. Appointed 1919. HILDA PETERSON Owego Normal School. Drawing. Appointed 1913. MARION PLOSS B.S., New York 'Sta-te College for Teachers. Appointed 1916. MILDRED POTTER A.B., Cornell. History. Appointed 1918 MARGARET M. REIDY A.B., Cornell. Head of Science Department. Appointed 1919. MAUDE L. M. SHEFFER Ithaca High School. Appointed 1902. JEANETTE I. SMITH A.B., St. Lawrence. Mathematics. Appointed 1917. BES-SIE M. SPEED French. Appointed 1918. EVA SPIOER Oswego Normal School. Training Class Teacher. Appointed 1916. THELMA STEVENS Ypsilanti Normal School. Librarian. Appointed 1918. MARJORIE S. SURDAM A.B., Syracuse. English. Appointed 1918. MARIAN TOBEY A.B., Elmira. .Supervisor of Primary Grades and Director of Training K x Class. Appointed 1915. f CJMQQQ 'J 1 LUCY TOWNLEY f U f . Q.-Zigi 1 thaca High Schoolg Rf ihester Business Institute. Commercial Subjects. Appointed 1917. HELENE G. VAN NESS A.B., Cornell. Latin. Appointed 1919. MAY WAGER Geneseo Normall School. Head of History Department. Appointed 1897.

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12 THE ITHACA HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL JULIA T. DRIS-COLL B.S., College of St. Elizabeth. Appointed 1917. ALICE EVANS Alleghany. Head of Department in Mathematics. Appointed 1893. J - GLADYS GILKEY I ' A.B., Cornell. Appointed 1919. CLARA GROH A.B., St. Lawrence University. Appointed 1918. ANNA S. HARLOW B.S., New York State College for Teachers. Domestic Science and Arts. Appointed 1918. SARA KELLY Cortland Normal Sehlool. Acting Head of .senior High School Department of English. Appointed 1900-1909. Reappointed 1911. KATHERINE L. KERR Oswego Normal School. Appointed 1919 HELEN M. KNOX A.B., Cornell. Latin. A-ppoi-nted 1905. JULIUS KUHNERT BJS., B.P.E., Rochesterg Springiield 'Training School. Physical Director. Appointed 1916. HOWARD LEWIIS Mansfield Normalg Rochester University. Physics and Clhemistry. Appointed 1918 MABEL L. D. LEWIS A.B., Rochester University. French, also in Latin Department. Appointed 1919 MARJORIE LORD A.B., Smith. French and Spanish. Appointed 1918. ALICE MAGEIE Geneseo Normal School. Appoinited 1917. DAVID E. MATTERN A.B., Cornellg Bush Temple Conservatory. Instrumental Music. Appointed 1914 MARY V. MCALLILSTER P'h.B., Cornell. Appointed 1898. RUTH L. MILLER A.B., Syracuse. French. Appointed 1919.

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'ffl Sottonfft OUNG ladies and gentlemen of the graduating class. On behalf of your teachers, your friends, your parents, and this community permit me to eX'tend to each and all of you most hearty congratulations upon your suc- cess in graduating from the Ithaca High School. It is a gr-eat ere-dit to this city that a school is maintained of such high excellence and upon you rests the re- sponsibility of proving anew that the public schoofl is t.he natiion's strong tower of defense by showing yourselves at all times intelligent, efficient, patriotic, industrious citizens of the community, the state and the nation. My experience with thousan-ds of young people leaves no doubt whatever in my ,mind as to tkhe results. Possibly you have heard sometime someone say that school is a preparation for life and so it is, but it is something more, it IS life. lf you have leariled to be honest, industrious, painstaking and thorough i11 your school work tlhese char- acteristics will follow you into your future, and the reverse in true. If you have shirked every responsibility possible, if you have been satisfied with 'half-work and contented with just getting through, disaplpoilrtment awaits you not far in the future, and you will have to unlearn these habits if you succeed, no miatter how bitter may be the task. Your diploma is a letter of -introduction, a sign board pointing the way to the great possibilities for young men and women of ability in further study, in business, and the professions. Never was the world so much in need of sound leadership, never was there greater possibilities for a-biility and industry. These are days of large undertakings, of combinations. The days of the stage coach and the itinerant shoemaker 'have gone and in their places have come steam, electricity, gasoline and factories. Great changes in the methods of business, i11 socziety are taking place. The training of fifty years ago does not meet the demands of to-day. Our high schools give a training equal to the colleges of that day, over a much broader field and our colle-ges have made corresponding progress, whille b-oth are close to the needs of the average man. Formerly it. was considered necessary to educate only the few who went into the ministry and later those who went into law or medicine. A little reading, writing, and arith- metic was taught for brief periods to the few others interested. To-day education is as broad as tihe activities of man, -and this extension has b-een made without loss of seriousness in study. It can be truly said that to-day education is the master passion of t.he American people. Success in any line of work demands training. In all walks of life we are asking for t.he man who knows. No longer can man meet successfully -his fellow man by doing poorly the work that a horse can do better, and neither can 'he afford to have his horse do what he can invent