Saratoga Springs High School - Recorder Yearbook (Saratoga Springs, NY)

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORDER 15 pencil When passing thorugh the corridors, as a protection to the walls. Application for said mufflers should be made as follows: 1. Present With your requisition a doctofs certificate proving that you have no mind. l 2. On an affidavit swear that the aforesaid muffler Will be used only When passing through the halls of the Saratoga Springs High School. SixthlyeWe do bequeath as follows: The special privilege of wearing cretonne curtains on the rear window of all four wheeled vehicles. But aforementioned privilege Will extend only to members of fair and sterner sex who have the habit of riding in proximity in aforementioned vehicles. Seventhlyw-After careful thought and study the Senior class does herewith set aside a sum of money to be used for the express purpose of discovering and exterminating all insects tunderclassmenl Who may deface the sacred walls of S. H. S. in any way, shape or manner. 'Slaid sum Will be used only in convicting aforementioned specie of such heinous crime. Eighthlyv-We request that a lost and found department for strayed chewing gum be established and also a checking department Where one may park his gum between certain established hours. We do this for three reasons 1. To keep relics of the fire unburdened by excess baggage. 2. To give the fish a chance to play around in the drinking fountains Without getting all gummed up. 3. To save the expense of renewing gum oftener than once a week. Ninthly-To all members of the faculty we give our heartiest congratulations for having turned out such a finished product as this Senior class is determined to be. Lastly-We do appoint as executor of this, our last will and testament, Mary Harriette Adams. Class of 1928 of the Saratoga Springs High School We do declare this will absolutely and positively legal, the best that could be made considering the one Who drew it up. ALFRED E. 1SMITH HERBERT HOOVER

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14 THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORDER THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE CLASS OF 28 DRAWN BY CHARLES LELAND SWICK Know ye by our plenteous, philanthropic and bounteous bequeath- ments that this be the testament and last will of the Class of 1928'. We, the Seniors, having been declared of large minds and few thoughts but with healthy appetites; in order to establish justice in the division of the spoils, to insure scholastic tranquillity for our diminutive successors, and to provide for and insure the future of the insignificant underclassmen who shall survive us, do declare, assert and pronounce this our last will and testament. We hereby repudiate all former wills made in periods of strife or agitation and all wills made when we might have known better. We demand that all our gum, candy and all other bills by us rightly incurred be paid promptly and at once. All our bequests, real, rational or imaginary, we do give and hand down as follows: iFirstly-To our faculty members, Miss Smith, Miss Hays and Miss Wells, do we extend our best wishes for a pleasant voyage to and a safe return from Europe twherever that may bei. SecondlyeTo Mrs. Buckham and Miss Scutt, who are leaving S. H. S. tbecause we areiU We extend our best wishes for future success and happiness. Thirdly-We do lend the would-be Seniors of next year one of our members whose post graduate duty it will be to keep in their stalls all underclassmen while said would-be Seniors are passing from auditorium. Thus the Seniors will pass out expeditiously, in order of their high rank and unmolested by lesser pests. Fourthly-eWe do bequeath to some worthy J unior twhere is he?i the high privilege of scuffing his feet in manner of one Percy Wein- stein. If such worthy Junior cannot be found, we deem that this high honor descend to a Sophomore who will exercise the right in all class rooms, study halls and corridors unmolested by any member of the faculty. Fifthly--The 'Sleniors after long and loud consideration do devise and bequeath to each absent minded pupil one rubber cap for each and every pencil he may possess; to be placed on writing end of said

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORDER ROBERT HODGESsssBob, ssSWede Class President, IV; Student Council, I; Orchestra 1, II; Sportsmanship Emwblem Isl, III, IV; Delegate to, Sportsmanship Convention, III; Varsity De'bate, IIl; Varsity Baseball, 11, III, IV; Assistant Manager, III; Varsity Footlball, III, IV; Manager Basketball, IV; English Third Play, 111; School Play IV. ssThe boast of heraldry, the pomp of power. MARY LYNCH Class Vice-President IV; B2 Club; Secretarial Club 1V; Basketball III, IV; HRecorders, Typist. sgSorrow and grief P11 put away Such things agree not with my day. LEO ZUCKERMAN-uZuke Class Secretary IV; Varsity Debate III, IV; Drill Leader 11, III', IV; English Third Play 111; School Play IV; Assistant Business Manager Recorder IV; National Oratorical Contest, III, IV; Degree of Honor National Forensic Leagues uHe adorned whatever subject he either spoke or wrote upon by the most splendid eloquence. JOSEPHINE APPLEGATE Class Treasurer, IV; Student Council, 11, III; Chorus II, III, IV; Sportsmanship Brotherhood, Isl, III; B2 Club, IV; Debate Club III, IV; Recorder Reporter 111; Christmas Caroler, IV. nA noble maid whose friendly ways Will win her friends throughout her days. ANNA LAFFANssAnn, uLarfin Valedictorian; Corresponding Secretary Debate Club IV; B2 Club, IV; Editor-inaChief uiRecorder IV; Winner Honorable Mention Lions Club Contest; Win, ner Second Prize Senior Essay Contest, IV; Glass Poet, IV; Chairman Nominating Committee, IV; Rep- resented in Scholastic Book of Student Verse, Saplings, III; Sportsmanship Emblem IV. sln joys, in grief, in triumphs, in retreat Great always without aiming to be great.