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

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M ember of 03me Press Association Columbia 551101115112 f Kw - 195,3 W the 'iHigb School 1Recorber El paper bevoteb to the interests anb encouragement of high school life VOL. XLII SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., 1938 NO. 4 Acceptance for mailing at special rate of postage, provided for in Section 1103, Act of October 3, 1917, authorized December 18, 1918. EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-chief .............................................. Louise Johnsen Assistant Editor .......................................... Frederick Eaton Exchange Editor ........................................ Elizabeth Connolly Sports Editors .......................... Robert Dake and Geraldine Judge Art Editor ............................................... George Gottsche Alumni Editors .......................... Bette Wilson and James Cudney Faculty Adviser ................................ Miss Elizabeth F. Gorman BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Business Manager ...................................... Philip J. Landry Assistants ................... Evelyn Allen, Elinore Holland, Joanne Moody, Bernard O'Neill, Robert Walton, Haskell Ingmire Faculty Adviser .......................................... Claude Van Wie REPORTERS Senior1Joanne Moody, James F. Roohan; Junior1Robert Crannell, Betty Ashton; Sophomore1Dorothy Dake, Richard Harder; Freshman-Sally Wait, Richard Beach. Betty Stebbins, chairman; Marie Hughes, Minnie Clark, Emily Hills, Anna Heekin, Minnie Longo, Jane Staples, Patricia Staples, Olga Lendway, Thelma Sweet, Vivian Globerson, Jeannette Wilson. TYPISTS Betty Stebbins, chairman; Thelma Sweet, Jeannette Wilson. Ruth Wise, Mary Voskanyan, Betty White, Vivian Globerson, Anna Heekin, Jeannette Brusie, Patricia Staples, Jane Staples, Minnie Longo, Marjorie Henning, Emily Hills, Minnie Clark, Marie Hughes, Marie Coppernoll. 1 1 Editorials ....................................... E . . .............. 5 Class History, by Philip J. Landry, Jr. . . . . . . . . . 5 ......... 1. -. ............ 6 Class Poem, By Louise Johnsen ......................... V1 ................ 8 The Class of 1938 ...................................................... 9 Class Prophecy, by Frederick Eaton, Jr., and Antoinette Scotto ............ 41 Class Roster ........................................................... 45 Last Will and Testament, by Robert Dake ............................... 46 Miss Peppy1s Diary, by Louise Johnsen .................................. 47 Organizations .......................................................... 50 Athletics .............................................................. 64 Exchanges ............................................................. 78 Alumni Notes ......................................................... 79

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To Mr. Newton M. Connolly, who is completing his eighth year as principal of Saratoga Springs High School, this issue of the hRecorderh is respectfully dedicated.

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORDER 5 '3: u r ' EDITORIALS On June 21 surviving members of the class of 88 will recall the occasion, fifty years ago, when they were graduated from the Saratoga Springs high school. The attic of a member of the faculty recently yielded an invitation to the class day and commencement exercises of this year, which invites comparison with the present. In the first place it was an invitation, not an announcement, which the class issued, each recipient responding not only with his presence at the exercise but also with a gift to the young man or young ulady who invited him. These gifts were presented publicly, at the commencement exercises in the old Town Hall. As the hall rang with applause after the readingof each essay-and every member of the class stood and de- livered in those old daysea corps of ushers placed the gifts on the stage, with all the solemnity of a statesman placing a wreath on the tomb of Napoleon. Saratogians who remember the occasion declare that these gifts were not all floral offerings, though bouquets and sprays and even horseshoes bearing good-luck messages filled the stage. Boxes contain- ing bracelets for the girls and cuff links for the boys; other boxes holding gauze and feathered fans for the girls, writing sets for the boys; parcels holding parasols for the Hyoung ladiesfy umbrellas for the ttyoung gentle- men;H and books-whole sets of Dickens, Eliot, and Scott; soft leather bound copies of Longfellow or Tennyson or Browning for both girls and boys. Indeed it was the wealth of spoils en;iching the class of ,88 which led the Board of Education to outlaw the public presentation of gifts and, in later years, to encourage the use of the announcement. The diplomas which the class received were large parchment rolls tied with long ribbons in the class colors, terra cotta and blue. The old invitation was an ornate affair. That of the class of t88 consisted of two cards, bound together with a silken cord. It bore the picture of an owl, the class symbol, which was also painted in oils on the class colors, and the Latin phrase Concilio et animo vincimusf the class motto. The graduates numbered fifteen, of whom only four were boys: Joseph P. Bremen, president; John J. Healy, George H. Beers, and Thomas H. Gorman.