SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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The Mid-year dance was an event — the Juniors doing nobly in making it one. Normal peacefulness was undisturbed until one bright morning in March when a little game of tag was enjoyed through the corridor, a professor being It. This was followed shortly by a game of hide and seek. It was such an easy matter to hide for that period this particular morning. Each pair of participants felt perfectly safe in the thought Oh! we are the only ones playing the game. However, they were checked up and unexcused — the sad fate of an unsuspecting ten. Then June with the Color Rush — Class Day, when the Juniors rallied and sent biff for bat — Graduation and at last farewell — the half-way mark of Normal days was passed. On September 15. 1916, the Class of ' 17 reassembled and resumed its climb up the Mount of Perfection. For the second time Mr. Rumpff was chosen as class president. A few familiar faces were missing, having cast their lots in other walks. We courageously approached our new subjects and rushed wildly for the bulk-tin board. When some members of our class were posted for the eighth grade, they felt disheartened for vivid memories of a past semester came before them. Rush season, with its picnics up the river, tea dances, the eventful middy dance, when our twenty odd appeared as Sweet Simple School-girls. the Clionian and Agonian receptions, and finally pledge day. with its usual excitement terminated the social squall. The next thing of importance to claim our attention was the Mid-year dance. In an interesting election Mr. Brady was chosen general chairman to take charge of the important function. After extensive preparations, it was held on the evening of January 30 and resulted in the greatest social success of Normal life, and still retains a cherished place in our memories. The new semester brought new subjects and new teachers. History of Education with its endless chain of 0 ' s and its scattered tens, has helped to make the days bright or dark ; English class, with its never changing why, how, where, and when to study Literature; History of Commerce, with its ceaseless expounding advocator, have made dark the happiness, which we might have found in life. At the present writing, our History can go no farther. In conclusion, let us make mention of members who, though perhaps not mentioned explicitly, have been remembered in every line, and whose inspiring efforts form an integral part of the history of the Class of ' 17. To Alma Mater, and to our Professors, who have given us these things that we cherish most highly, let us express our sincere gratitude. . M K. M. McMartin. Pikjc fifteen

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Our Mellow Past Years after people began to talk of the Pittsburgh State Normal, the Class of ' 17, largest ever enrolled in the roster of P. S. N. S., began its two years ' march through its time-honored class rooms. The middle of September, Nineteen Hundred Fifteen, marked the beginning of our training days. There was no blaring of trumpets, no beating of drums, nor great declamations. The event was unheralded in the eternal fitness of things ; it was looked upon simply as one of the fits. It was announced only by the steady pour of bewildered looking Juniors — some weepy-eyed, lost, and a little discouraged. Above it all was the merry laughter and ceaseless chatter of the noisy perfectly at home over-bearing Seniors, as they assembled in the corridors on that sunny September morning. Junior year promised to be a novel experience. What were Psychology and Reading .Methods in our lives? The generals wore a pleased grin, The Gods were Good, ' while the by-word of the Commercials was They ' re piling it on ! It took but a few days for everything to get under way and for a number of the less courageous members to get out of the way, since several of our number believed that discretion was the better part of valor and preferred home, mother, and the piano to Business English and Gregg. Early in September, the class assembled and chose Mr. Rumplf as its pilot, believing that they had in him a man who would not take a serious situation too seriously, and one who would work zealously in behalf of the class. Of the first few months of Junior existence we need not speak. They remain as a vivid memory that none of us has forgotten. Rush parties, witli all they entail, and Sorority pledging were quite exciting and full of interest. Movies were attended with a quiet dodging of teachers, and through it all there was study, for some a great deal, and for others a little. Under Doctor Henshaw. both classes were given a steady and substantial diet of Psychology, while the Commercialites partook of Business Arithmetic under Dr. Kitchell. The dessert in the menu was supplied by Miss O ' Brien, when we were made don sneakers, and bloomers and mark time — Mch ! Mid-years, with their blackening effect upon some, rolled around. A most formidable thing which confronted every unexcuscd Junior was an oral, not mathematical, but psychological. This consisted in passing through a third degree. conducted exclusively in psychological terms and with the un- fortunate subject seated in an isolated chair facing a smiling examiner. Page fourteen

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LILLIAN COOKE, Poughkeepsie, N. Y. Poughkeepsie High School. Delta Agonian. WILLIAM SMITH, Parish, N. Y. Parish High School. ADELLA E. MATTSON, Jamestown, N. Y. Jamestown High School. Delta Clionian. OLIVE MORGAN DEGOLIA, Syracuse, N. Y. Central High School, Syracuse Uni- versity. Central Business School, Syracuse, N. Y. KATHLEEN ROCEILLE BUCKLEY, Whitehall, N. V. Whitehall High School. Delta Clionian. Secretary Welfare League. Class (lifts. Captain Basketball Team. Page sixteen