Richmond Hill High School - Archway / Dome Yearbook (Richmond Hill, NY)

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Page Twelve T H E DOME him fool me. Ya see, boys, Skinny saw me get th' apple. Balieve me, boys, I got even on Skinny an' he played me no more such tricks. We wuz th' best of friends after that. Here the clock struck ten, and the little party broke up by singing Si's a jolly good fella, he is, and Auld Lang Synef, Thus did the old folk of C- pass one of its wintry nights. Dora Glrzntz, l24. A Southern High School Almost every one of you have at some time wondered what the High Schools in the South were like. I have always won- dered What the Northern schools were like, and with Richmond Hill High School as an example I think Northern schools are in some ways better than Southern schools but in others not so good. I will tell you of the school I came from, and let you form an opinion of your own. Central High School of Birmingham, Alabama, has a very fine and wonderful school building. A German spy burned it to the ground during the war, but, as the Centralites say,- Fires may come and schools may go, but Centralls spirit lives forever. We were compelled to have school in churches. At last the school authorities found an old medical college to which they built annexes, The college was in a very unfavorable location, but we had to be content. It was behind a hospital, and the smell of ether and chloroform always penetrated the entire school. The building was too small to have an auditorium, therefore we had open air as- sembly. We sat on benches, and the speak- ers were on a platform. The programs were arranged by the various clubs. We often had famous and interesting men to speak -to us. Once a famous aviator, Jersey Ringle, told us how he learned to stand on the wing of an airplane while it looped the loop. Central has a hne collection of clubs. There are four girls, literary clubs, three Art Club, Pen and Ink Club, French Club, Spanish Club, Glee Club, Dramatic Club, Euterpean Club, the Good Speech League, and lVIirror Board. Important events of every year are the girls and boys' oratorical contest, the Club Debate, two operettas given by the Euter- pean Club, one Shakespearean play and one Senior play given by the Dramatic Club. These are held in the best theatre in the city. Central also has the Reserve Officers' Training Camp. The majority ofthe boys in the school belong to this camp. It is just like a real soldiers' camp. They wear khaki uniforms, have sham battles on the moun- tain, hike and drill. There are six com- panies, and a band of twenty-eight pieces. This is a very fine thing for boys, as it makes them healthy, strong, quick-minded, and fit to serve their country when they become men. Central has baseball teams, basketball, track and other athletics, but its specialty is football. Central is famous in the South for her football games. She was almost al- ways ahead, although she had one or two strong rivals. The strongest was Bessemer. The day before the game with this school the whole school paraded through the bus- iness section of Birmingham, cheering and carrying Bessemeris coflin and signs telling of her near defeat. Q11 the day of the game everyone was there. XfVe tried to out-cheer one another, and when we won we were the happiest students in the world. The school authorities are having a new High School built, and from the reports I have heard it will be one of the finest in the South. I hope that, from the things I have told you, you will form a good opinion of a Southern school. Garnett Lazzney. Uzzdiwidezl Attention Smith: How far fmeaning pagesj are they ? Jones Clooking earnestly at something from the windowj : Third inning, Giants bojfl-literary clubs, a Commercial Club, aheadf' If L. 'W' Wij7'J f sfo' e H l I

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T H F, D O M F, Page Eleven How Old Si Was Once Fooled OUTSIDE it was dark. The wind rushed by, brushing against the chimneys, whistling a merry tune, and endeavoring to tear open tightly shut and bolted doors and windows. Inside it was warm and light. Perkins's store, which was both grocery and post- office, displayed a cheerful scene. Gathered around the small stove, which extended its warmth to all, sat a group of aged men men with faces beaming full of jolliness and unheedful of the stormy, cruel Master Wind without. Waal, Si, ol' pal, spoke Perkins, you 've gotta do your bit now. C'mon, give us a nice little tale. Wasil, drawled old Si, who was just turning eighty but whose lust and vigor contradicted that age- VVaal, he drawled again, with his el- bows on his knees and stroking his thirteen haired beard and chewing away on his to- bacco at one hundred chews a second- 'WVaal, he drawled away for the third time, looking far into novvheres with his never-fading eyes as if to see the written story before him- All was still and all were patient, for they knew when Si said three Waals the fourth one brought out a story full of anticipating interest. Waal, came the last ejaculation, be- traying the ghostly and nightmaric tale that was to follow- Ya better all hold yer hearts an' keep th' color in yer faces an' hold on ta yer excitement. For here goes! IVVhen I wuz a kid about twelve years old I wuz comin' from school, an' I happens ta pass ol' Timothy's farm Qthat farm ain't no morej. I saw two red apples. Ya know apples a'ways usta get me in dutch. Waal, I saw those two apples, an' all I does is go over th' fence for 'em. I put one in me blouse, an' ate th' other. Nobody knew. Anyway, so I thought. Here he smacked his lips, as if recalling the delicious IZLSIC. Wasil, afther supper who should come to th' door but Fatty, an' he sez, sez he, ta me: 'I'm goin' ta Ol' Gypsy's house around th' corner. Ya know he comes every year this time, an' whoever is there he goes an' tells 'em their fortune. Comin'? Or are ya afraid ?' Ya know, boys, I never wuz afraid, so I goes ta th' barn an' gets me a lantern, an' off ta th' gypsy's house we were. VVe goes up th' stairs, an' th' creakin' made me think they wuz goin' ta fall ta pieces. But they didn't. Don't forget th' apple wuz still in me blouse. We sat down on th' floor, Fatty sayin' there wuz ten minutes afore th' ghost show- ed up. I wuz beginnin' ta get scared. It never happen' ta me before, an' I wuz seein' things on th' wall. Pretty soon we hears a noise, an' I gets scared again. U 'Stan' up,' Fatty whispers ta me. I gets up, an' as soon as I does that in comes th' ghost. It wuz all white, an' I got real scared then. This wuz th' scaredest mo- ment in allnae life. Th' ghost kep' movin' nearer an' nearer ta me, an' I kep' movin' far'er an' far'er from him till I got against th' wall an' I sat down with a bang an' out goes th' lan- tern, an' all I c'd see was that white ghost. I wuz shiverin' an' me hands were cold, an' I s'pose me face wuz as white as th' ghost. Then th' ghost begins speakin' in a shaky voice. 'K 'C'mon,' he sez, 'turn over that apple ya got from ol' Timothy. I know yal Ha, ya thought ya could get away with me, but ya aughta know ya can't fool Ol' Gypsy.' VVaal, what could I do? All I does is give him th' apple. I-Ie takes it, an' walks over ta Fatty an' sez ta him, 'Bad will come ta him, but good ta ya, an' maybe bad ta ya, too.' Then he walks down th' stairs laughin' an' makin' th' whole house shake. 'I-Ia, hal' he laughs. 'Some applel' he sez, an' then he sez again ta Fatty, 'Try an' get some.' Th' next day after I got over th' effects an' grabs hold of Fatty an' sez, 'Who wuz that last night? It wuz no ghost.' CA11' all th' while I thought it wuz a ghost.j Ya know Fatty a'ways wuz a coward, an' he begins beggin' me not ta hurt him an' tells th' whole story. He tol' me that the ghost wuz Skinny, an' he sed that he'd give Fatty half th' apple if he would help

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T H E D O M E Page Thirteen rultrirxz g racy The Faculty Adviser THIS title was suggested to me as l listened to an inspiring musical program in a Friday morning assembly. The Orchestra, Glee Club, two soloists, and the school combined and showed an earnest interestedness, resulting in a pro- gram of high excellence. Wliat made this fine assembly possible? The students, their training and talent. But we must not for- get the teacher known as the faculty ad- viser. There are a score of student activities in the school just as important in their way as the one mentioned above. l won't list them. l might leave one out. You know them, and if you have had any experience whatever in any one of them, the teacher or faculty adviser of that activity stands out before your mind's eye. You students furnish the material, the faculty adviser, the guiding hand. For years Flushing High School retained the Tennis title of Queens. Year after year we came up to the spring schedule with high hopes. We wept for disappointment when the famous team headed by the Scovil brothers, Earl and Kes,', went down to defeat before Paul Jenks, F.H.S. aggrega- tion. Finally our faculty adviser, hir. Fin- nigan, began to lie awake nights devising ways and means for winning the Queens title. He instituted a preliminary open tour- nament to bring out the tennis talent of the school. After selecting his team he an- nounced a challenge scheme, whereby any student could challenge a particular mem- ber of the tennis team for his position at any time during the season and the team member must accept and defend. The re- sult is evident: two years of untiring effort on the part of the team and the faculty ad- visor have brought the Queens title to the biggest borough's central High School,- Richmond Hill. The strength of Richmond Hillls intra and extra mural life owes much, as you will agree, to the faculty adviser. VVouldn't you like to see this group of teachers all to- gether, say at a reception or something of the sort given in recognition of their ser- vices?-every teacher in the school con- nected in any way with a student activity? These faculty advisers get rewards. They live in an atmosphere charged with energy, courage, growth, and, above all, one of youthful friendliness. But of all these re- wards your friendship and your apprecia- tion is the greatest. The faculty adviser doesn't always lie on a bed of roses. Wliat a disappointment for him when the marking period comes around, and two, three, or even more of his best players have to be plucked from his and your team because of failure in their studies! Your studious effort means even more to him than your friendliness. lf you are out for a team, drive hard on your studies, for a scholastic quitter deserves no more sympathy than a quitter of any kind. Richmond Hill may well be proud of her students, even boastful of their achieve- ments. The continued successful growth of a spirit of cooperation among the students and between students and teachers depends largely on the proper appreciation of work done by both. lVlore joy to the faculty ad- viser, because of the loyal and generous helpfulness of all of you who reap the benehts of disinterested sacrihce of time, money, and laborious achievement. We all know you, appreciate you,-yes, and honor you, Faculty Adviser. On August 1, 1922, FRANK STEFFENS, of the present sixth term class, died at the Coney lsland Hospital as a result of an ac- cident while diving. He had been spending the summer with his parents at their bun- galow at Rockaway Point. Frank left a clean record in the Rich- mond Hill High School. His name was among those eligible for Arista this term. Students and faculty extend their sympathy to the bereaved parents.