Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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F 0 R E W O R D 63? VERY COMMUNITY HAS ITS HISTORY, BUT FEW CAN BOAST OF A FINER TRADITION THAN THAT OF SENECA FALLS. CIVILIZATIONS POINT WITH PRIDE TO THE EMAN- CIPATION OF THE OPPRESSED, BUT FEW PEOPLE REALIZE THAT PIONEERS IN THE WOMEN,S RIGHTS MOVEMENT THAT FREED WOMEN FROM THE TABOOS AGAINST THEIR SEX FIRED THE OPENING GUNS IN THEIR CRUSADE FOR WOMAN,S POLITICAL FREEDOM IN OUR LITTLE TOWN. IN THIS ANNUAL DEDICATED TO THE PRESERVATION OF THE RECORD OF A SCHOOL YEAR MAY WE PAUSE TO HONOR THOSE DISTINGUISHED WOMEN OF THE PAST WHO HAVE GIVEN SENECA FALLS A PLACE IN THE SUN.

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iii' A 'FX THE 1935 MYNDERSIAN publifbedby THE SENIOR CLASS MYNDERSE ACADEMY SENECA FALLS NFW YORK

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MISS EMILY BENNING SMITH History Instructor WHEN MACAULAY SAID THAT TO BE A TRULY GREAT HISTORIAN IS PER' HAPS THE RAREST OF INTELLECTUAL DISTINCTIONS, HE MIGHT HAVE HAD IN MIND OUR MISS EMILY SMITH. HER WEALTH OF HISTORICAL LORE HAS BEEN SUCH A VALUABLE CONTRIBUTION TO SCHOOL LIFE THAT THE CLASS OF NINETEEN THIRTY-FIVE IS HAPPY TO NAME HER DEDICATEE OF THIS, THEIR MYNDERSIAN. S EDICA IO