Southside High School - Edsonian Yearbook (Elmira, NY)

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SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL Read and ye shall behold the key to success according to the leaves of Sibyl. Upper classmen are not so wonderful as ye think, therefore, think of them as equals. Do just as the supposed lofty seniors dog pick up papers from the Hoorg limit your corridor permits to two a period, try studying in study halls, make yourselves heard-when necessary. Heed these things and ye shall have a brilliant ca- reer in high school. jane Personius. Advice to Interiors In your efforts to attain the exalted position of senior, it would be well for you underclassmen not to overlook the requisite purging of your soul from sin. You, ever-advised, oppressed freshmen, lend yourselves to the quelling of the dis- order which seems to fall your lot, you, sophomores, limit the superiluous Haunt- ing of your newly-found libertiesg and you, juniors, forget not that, through over-confidence, you may still remain a junior, although a wiser one, perhaps. Walter Tolbert. Freshmen My dear Freshmen, you are little And your minds are very brittle, So if you'd be great and stately You must learn to walk sedately. Never think of chewing gumg Nor be down-trod, sour or glum. Always be polite to teachers, Always kind to little creatures, And, dear infants, e'er be merry, Bright and gay and ne'er contrary. This is how in ancient ages Children grew to kings and sages. Elizabeth VVheeler. Advice to Interiors XVe Seniors of 1929, with all the author- ity our experience dictates, give the fol- lowing advice to our inferiors: 1. Don't bring your teachers flowers and candy and expect an A-it won't work, 2. Don't think you know French when you have acquired the ability to say glibly Parlez-vous Francais , 3. Don't consider yourselves Latin stu- dents because veni, vidi, vici is an understandable phrase to you. VVe never did. D Eleanor Crooks. You younger classmen, such as seventh and eighth graders, frosh, sophs-yes, and even juniors- l. As seniors pass by you in Assem- hly, notice carefully their carriage, looks of profound wisdom and cor- rectness. They never make mis- takes. - 2. Never use such large words as stra- botamy, delinquency, and delirium- tremens. This is alone a senior pass- time Uoseph Motiska is the excep- tionj. 3. VVhcn you see a senior-you can al- ways tell one by his dignity-stand by and let him pass QThis is the last and only year he'll trample on your rightsj. Lack of space keeps me from telling you many things, which we learned sen- iors know you shouldn't do. Marian Frick. Vivid Memories O Captain! My Captain! Our game is nearly done XVc've circled all the bases, but they're leading by one run, The end is near, the cheers I hear, the stands are all exulting, NVl1ile follow eyes the man on third, ll runner grim and daringg But mi'gosh! mi'gosh! mi'gosh! Cap! You've got to knock him in, Cause on third base our last chance lies, If this game we hope to win. My Captain -does not answer, his lips are grim and still, The ball comes o'er, the bat he swings. ye gods--it's going still! That game is anchored safe and sound, the season's closed and done, For j,ust by way of making sure, our Cap brought in the rung Exult ye scribes, and cheer, you Frosh But I--l'm nearly dead I've yelled my tonsils inside out, And I'm going home to bed. Julian Daly. Page 29

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SOUTHSIDE HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL Page Senior Sense and Nonsense How it feels to be a Senior When anyone asks me if I am going to school, it gives me the same feeling as if I had just inherited a million dollars from an old aunt, to be able to holler back that I am a senior at Southside High School. I think it is a great honor to be a senior, knowing that under-class- mates are looking up to me for what is right and wrong. Norman Seeley. Life goes on and I with it. That night will come and I will live xt. Tears within and smiles without, A funeral in my heart, The joy of a wedding in my face, A rose thrown, Caught, And a thorn in my finger- The next day I will write a friend That last night was Commencement. Kathryn Bacon. My Senior Year Until now, my senior year, I had never realized what school had really meant to me. School never began to show me what a good ,place it was until now, when I realize I must leave it. I realize that this is the last senior play, the last senior prom, and other senior functions I shall ever attend in high school. It makes me wish I could start all over again and be a freshman just to be able to have another senior year. Wouldn't it be glorious to live again these four years-especially the last one? Helen Worster. Advice to Inferiors O under classmen, take some advice from one who knows,-a senior. You, O juniors, do not strut around next year telling of your high position in school,- for actions speak louder than words 3 you, sophomores, do not try to bluff in your classes- for a word from the wise is sufficient , you O freshmen, do not laugh at those above or below you who fumble,-for he who laughs last laughs best . Take this advice and in future years be a worth-while senior. Bernice Guile. 28 Never could I guess how it might feel to be a senior? Of course when a fresh- man I was sure I knew, when a sopho- more, I thought perhaps I knew, when a junior, I knew I didn't knowg and now that I'm a senior, I'm afraid I really don't know, even now. I have gone through all the changes, mental and phy- sical, from the freshman days, yet now Ehat I have become a senior, how does it eel? Freshman, you'd never guess. I have, to a degree, lost your self-confidence. Where are those happy, carefree days I spent with you, O Sophomore? It was while I knew you, my j,unior days, that I found myself lacking in all those qual- ities I most desired. You, senior days, the last days of my girlhood, have been filled with the realization that-I know nothing. Mary Catherine Heron. How I Feel About Commencement Having lived aboard the good ship Education through four years of changeable weather, sometimes flounder- ing on the high turgid waters of mathe- matics and Latin, sometimes riding leisure- ly ont the sunny, tranquil seas of French and English, I finally approach the end of my high school career. However, I am fully realizing that I am nearing the clay when, with lingering handclasps and many tearful auf revoirs , I sadly turn away with but a roll of parchment to ease my sorrows. I turn to our success- ors and believe I can truthfully say in behalf of my fellow class-mates, Juniors, we envy you. Kenneth Snyder. Commencement, I have been told by certain wise persons, means the end of school days, those happy days which par- ents refer to as the happiest days you will ever have , and the beginning of life. At the mere mention of word com- mencement , I immediately experience a queer, sinking sensation, which is best described as the feeling a student has when speaking in assembly to that grin- ning sea of faces for the first time. Would that I were a soph once more, looking forward not to the end of my happy days, but to two full years more in dear Southside! Need I discuss further my opinion of commencement? Drusilla Walters.

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fp , . r ' Wn'XW ' QW' fjflbfj YM SOUTHSIDE H H SCHOOL .AN UAL ' 1 1 4 Student Council Minutes The Student Council was called to order September 10, 1928, with Kenneth Snyder in the chair, Mr. Edson and Mrs. Austin on the sidelines. The motion was made and carried that the primary object of the Student Council be to create n more etficient school property committee for the coming year. It was moved and seconded that the Student Council purchase arm bands to sell to the student body. It was further moved and seconded that the Student Council purchase a set of ten edifying posters for hall decorations. Regular routine: Granting of two charters, jurisdiction over dances, disciplinary measures, were regular order of business. The last bit of new business was the election of the Student Council president for 1929-30. ' '29 Joseph Motiska, '30 --- Roberta Tetor, '30 Everett Schott, '30 --- Forrest Young, the Kenneth Snyder, President -- ............,........................... ----- Vice-President ..... ....... .......... .............. Secretary ...... Treasurer ........ ...... - -- ....... ------ --- '30 Sergeant-at-Arms -- ................ .. ........ ----- 01 Jack Thomas, '35 105 Fred Tuthill, '30 205 Roberta. Tetor, '30 02 John Vallely, '33 107 Richard Carlson, '33 206 Dorothy Hardiman, '30 03 Archie Hamlin, '31 108 Arthur Thorne, '34 209 Jane Personius, '29 04 David Sheehan, '31 113 Marice Cooklin, '34 210 Henry Davidson, '29 05 Kenneth Streete, '35 115 Robert Miller, '34 212 joseph Motiska,.'30 08 Olga Sbeclico, '28 116 Merrill Olson, '34 213 VVi1lian1 Simkin, '30 09 Forrest Young, '31 117 Jane Vlfebb, '35 214 Marion Kent, '31 013 Ralph Miller, '32 118 Kathleen Cooklin, '35 215 Charles Getman, '33 101 Louise Barrow, '34 119 Gwendolyn Geiger, '35 216 Helen Chatchew, '33 102 Margaret VVilliams, '31 201 Olive Peckham, '32 217 Margaret Daly, '31 103 Kathleen Murphy, '31 203 Viola Johnson, '31 218 Max Taylor, '32 104 W'esley Hager, '31 204 Loretta McConnell, '30 221 Everett Schott, '30 El-So-Hi Marion Quick, '29 Sophomore Representative, Beatrice Getkin, '31 Senior Representative, Florence Knapp, '29 Athletic Council Representatives Junior Representative, Eleanor Collins, '30 Eleanor Crooks, '29 Page 30 John XVi1son, '29