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

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Member of . , Columbia Scholastic ' ' Press Association the ileligb $$$on 1Recorber H paper bevoteb to the interests anb encouragement of high school life VOL. XLIV SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y., JUNE, 1939 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 .......................................... Newman Wait, Jr. Assistant Editor ........................................... Jean McAllister Exchange Editor ........................................ Elizabeth Ashton Miss Peppy ............................................... Letitia McCarty Sports Editors .............................. Jerry O'Neill, Marilyn Sherman Alumni Editor .......................................... Elizabeth Connolly Art Editors .................................. Raymond Elliott, Jean Kindig Faculty Adviser .................................... Miss Elizabeth Gorman BUSINESS MANAGEMENT Business Manager ......................................... Haskell Ingmire Assistants ............. Joyce Foote, Ann Grippin, Patricia Crawford, Virginia Goodfellow, Bernard Serotta, Paul Harrington Faculty Adviser ....................................... Mr Claude Van Wie REPORTERS SenioryWalter Butler, Jean Wood; JunioryMollie Herzog, Robert Conners; SophomoreyMary Lazott, William O'Brien; Freshmany-June Knapp, Adelbert Salhberg. TYPISTS Evelyn MacFarland, chairman; Marian Cooper; Anne Moody; Helen McBride; Marian Matrazzo; Bette Krappman; Ruth Wilbur; Marguerite Clancy; Rose Abrams; Mabel French; Charlotte deMauriac. Goments Editorials ............................................................... 5 Class History, by Letitia McCarty ........................................ 7 Class Poem, by Agnes Goodfellow ............................... b ........ 9 Class of 1939 ........................................................... 10 Class Prophecy, by Virginia Goodfellow and Haskell Ingmire ............... 38 Class Roster ............................................................. 42 Class Will, by Newman Wait, Jr. ........................................ 43 Miss Peppy,s Diary, Letitia McCarty ...................................... 45 Clubs .................................................................. 43 Dramatics .............................................................. 54 Music ................................................................... 57 Athletics ............................................................... 64 Exchanges .............................................................. 8 Alumni ....... y ........................................................ 82 Saratoga. Chips .......................................................... 83

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THE HIGH SCHOOL RECORDER I . o I u u T0 MR. CLAUDE VAN WIE, head of the mathematics department of Saratoga Springs High School and capable adviser 0f the business staff of the Recorderf we respectfully dedicate this Year Book.

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T HE HIGH SCHOOL RECORDER 5 EDITORIALS m We have at last consummated our four years of scholastic efforts and are ready for graduation. Although we eagerly anticipate the exercises on the twenty-eighth, it is not without some reluctance that we leave behind us a period of our lives described by many as the most joyous and carefree of all. We should, however, consider our graduation as marking more than the end to a series of pleasant social contacts, since it also ter- minates an integral part of our intellectual development. For the past four years we have been exposed to knowledge in many varied forms, some of us absorbing much, others just enough to ttget byH with a minimum of effort. Everything from Virgilts Aeneid to Gres- hamis law, from artistic composition to abstract mathematics has been pounded into our skulls. Many times, when pondering some particularly abstract subject, we have asked ourselves of what possible benefit all these theories and rules can be when we shall probably never even think of them again after the Regents. The answer is obvious. T0 the student whose ideas are limited by the covers of a textbook, theoretical principles will have little future value. To others of us, however, such abstractions will be of immeasurable benefit, not because of what they explain but be- cause of how they explain it. Through them we should train our minds to arrive at decisions in the most direct and logical manner. We learn the value of methodical thought as opposed to hit-or-miss guessing. As our background is developed, so should our mental horizons broaden and thus help us to analyze problems more accurately for what they are. It seems to us that the l. R. C. convention at Poultney, Vermont, was a step in the right direction. Representatives from various coun- tries, including two German Nazis representing the axis powers, a Frenchwoman representing the democracies, and a Swiss representing nations desiring neutrality, were present and gave their views on the European crisis. From their talks we learned that there were three sides to the question and we were allowed to decide for ourselves which