Southold High School - Snuffbox Yearbook (Southold, NY)

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 CHARLES JOHN SIMON You never made much noise or fuss about it, Charles, but you were always “there with the goods.” We all appreciate the splendid work you’ve done in athletics, and fear that, with your “business head” lacking, our enterprises will suffer. We give you a vote for success in Cornell, and in whatever you take up afterwards—no!—not a single vote, but a vote for every mile that you and the trustworthy “flivver” have covered since you started to “commute” to S. H. S. from Peconic. Delegate to County Athletic League ’23; Track Team ’23; Basketball, ’22, ’23, ’24; Baseball, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24; Manager Baseball Team ’23-’24; Business Manager, “Snuff Box” ’24; Secretary, Class of ’24. JOHN JOSEPH PURCELL “The sailor’s life is wild and free; The sailor’s life is the life for me!” Drop us a card, “Quack”, when you are sending some to the “girl in every port”, on your seventh journey around the world! Yes, we will miss your bright and many-hued neckties, that have dazzled our eyes for four long years. Seriously, though, John, we are going to miss your cheerful grin, and the sound of your laugh, to say nothing of your brilliant athletic work. Basketball, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24; Manager Basketball Team, ’22-’23; Baseball, ’21, ’22, ’23, ’24; President Athletic Association, ’21, ’23; Treasurer, Class of ’24; “Miss Molly”, ’23; Track Team, ’23; Associate Editor, “Snuff Box”, ’24. Page Seven

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FRANCES SWEET OVERTON We’re going to miss you, Franc, when we need someone to talk “nice” to the faculty! We’ve grown real accustomed to that “breath of Peconic”, and hope the folks in that far-away school in Massachusetts will like it as much as we do. W'e always counted on you, “Ovie”, to boost all kinds of social and athletic affairs, to say nothing of being a dandy hostess, when any of the boys wandered into our “half” of the room! And who, oh who, is going to try out all the new kinds of bobbed hair for us? Valedictorian, Delegate to Y. W. C. A. Convention at Southampton, ’22; “Clancey Kids”, ’22; Secretary Athletic Association, ’22-’24; Vice-President Glee Club, ’23; Editor-in-Chief of “Snuff-Box”, ’24; President of Class of ’24. KATHRYN THERESA FIELDER We have a feeling, Theresa, that it will be strangely quiet in S. H. S. next year! And how we shall miss little “Pee Wee” when we go to out-of-town basketball games! When you go into training to be a nurse, Theresa, don’t forget to notify all concerned that you must have ten minutes extra to fix that lock of hair that just won’t stay where it belongs ! Remember—“Little children should be seen and not heard”, even if they are big enough to be acquainted with half the pdople in Washington, D. C. Salutatorian, Vice-President Athletic Association, ’23-’24; delegate to Y. W. C. A. Convention at Rockville Center, ’21; “Clancey Kids”, ’22; Senior Editor, “Snuff Box”, ’24; Vice-President, Class of ’24. Page Six

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EDITORIAL THE NEW SCHOOL HOUSE Perhaps many of the taxpayers who are building the new school house fail to realize what it means to those now attending school. Yet we students, some of whom will enjoy the increased educational facilities for but a year, appreciate these new conditions that have been provided for us to work under, and these the more by comparison with conditions during the school year of 1923-24. The school building has for some years been very crowded. This was especially noticeable in the primary department and eighth grade. When the “Recitation Room” (a remodeled fire escape) was torn down to make room for the new building, it was necessary to divide the large High School room into two smaller rooms. One of these was used for a class room and the other for a study hall, with consequent crowding that made it a very unfit place for anything like intensive application to study. The ventilation and heating system were affected by this division. It was impossible to open windows without creating a draught and many days it was necessary to wear sweaters or coats during the whole session. We lacked proper facilities for physical training, for dramatics and holiday exercises. For athletic games we were forced to hire a poorly heated, poorly lighted hall which was much too small for the purpose. Much of the beauty of the grade entertainments and exercises, the fruits of hard labor on the teachers’ parts, was lost because of a crowded space for performing. The high school assemblies with two pupils in each single seat and some in chairs were indeed evidence of our need for more room. But now we have it! Now we can thankfully say “All that is over.” In classes there will be no more of the “Two in one seat” style. When we seek the principal, we shall no longer find him in his “private” corner of a room that seems to be an assortment of library and athletic supply department. In the new building there is an amply large office and a supply room. We have the best modern facilities for heating and ventilating the rooms—not only in the new but in the old building as well; and the plumbing is of the best. And the new auditorium—what more could we wish? Here the grades can present their entertainments with a stage and lighting arrangements to aid them and here, too, the higher classes can carry out any dramatic work they wish. Then with Page Eight