Pottsville High School - Hi S Potts Yearbook (Pottsville, PA)

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Stmors' History, ll ISTORY is record of past eventsf' This old, familiar, oft quoted saying is destined to introd.uce the reader io those experiences, pleasant or otherwise, with which the Class of '97 met in their High School career. And now those same events recorded on my brain. crowd one upon the other so thick and fast that the pen seems not to reveal them quick' enough. Truly those stragglers coming clown from our hills, assem- bling at the main entrance of tne P. H. S., their promised land, joined a goodly band of pilgrims. about to enter into a foreign country, inhabited by they knew not what. Report was that the ruler of that domain and his coun- sellors were a gentle crowd 5 but there were giants, intellectual ones, too, to overcome. Sixty-three brave and stalwart youth and gentle maidens composed that band, and, while some were timid and feared to enter the great house of learning and encounter the giants there, the majority were eager for the fray, Now at the end of the three years sojournin that charming court of the P. H. S., and after those same Giants have been overcome and some not down on the curriculum, we sigh to think they are no more, those not down on the curriculum. No more as of yore. we tread those halls with the heavy and creaky step of a new pair of shoes. We know not whether our whole band got new shoes-for luck-with which to tread the llowery realms to which we had been admitted, or whether, the old ones groaning under the additional weight of much philoso- phy compiled in many books, not heads, which those same books were compelled to bear, gave vent to -their unwillingness in heart-rending creaks. Certain it is, those same boots were to blame for much for which we, the poor mortals who wore them had to suffer. Up and down those long iiights of steps, to the tune of f' Tramp, 'L Tramp, 'f Tramp, were we driven until we should learn, if perchance we ever should, to walk lightly and with a cat-like tread. ' Still they squeaked, those shoes, until we became Mid-A dlers, then the juniors shoes squeaked and we were con- sidered trained in the art of getting up and clown- the stairs in a manner becoming High School young ladies and gentle- men. Now if a report has spread about this town as to the con- duct of this Class of 397, we ' beg you clear public, to consider the make up of this company, and when you are informed that our tribe counts among its number those within whose veins Hows Pennsylvania Dutch, German, English. Irish, Scotch and French blood, you will readily see the necessity of making allowances for our conduct, especially when you re- member that the anzestry of the nationalities spoken of above, were ages ago all heathen. In addition to the above, we have a Minersvilleite, a New Bostonian, a Port Carbonite, and Landsfordite, all of which be-