Technical High School - Techtonian Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

Page 20 text:

usin'lfi1 e. H Senior President's Address Ga! X69 T is a pleasure for me, as representative of the Senior Class, to welcome you, our parents and friends to these exercises. We are very happy to 'QS have with us so many of the faculty and we appreciate the presence of ln j' the Junior class-our successors. NVe welcome you all most cordially tgfgiibl and trust you may enjoy this afternoon with us. ln another month we will be graduated. Our weeks in the class- rooms and hours of study are not the only important parts of our education. NVith this instruction and study we have also acquired ideals, which have been fostered by our principal and faculty. ln this atmosphere of industry, honesty, loyalty, and co-operation our characters have been moulded. These ideals will remain with us always. We have been taught to give service, to work without thought of gloryg to accept honorable defeat. In the four years we have spent together, four years all too short for most of us, we have known the sweet taste of victory and the bitter taste of failure. VVe have kept on striving both in failure and success and each has helped to mould our minds and characters. Now, at last, the day of parting draws near. Tech has been a home, soon it will be a menory. Tears till our eyes even in the the triumph we feel because of tl1e summit attained. As we gather here today our feelings are blended by the emotions of sadness and elation. - We are extremely grateful to those who have made our graduation possible, to our parents for their willing sacrifices and to our teachers for their interest and guidance. May I quote from a eommenceinent address delivered at the University of Xlfiseonsin, in 1911: The school sends you forth today with Godspeed, intrusts to you the good name of our widening l:01llll1lllll'ty, sunnnons you to loyalty, urges you to organize all your resources of n1i11d and spirit into the unity of a high aim-tl1e resolve to realize i11 your own lives the masterful purpose of the school, which is to be in ever-fuller measure at once the standard bearer and servant of the state. Go to your work and be strong, halting not in a world of men, Balking the end half won for an instant dole of praise. Stand to your work and be wise-certain of sword and pen, VVho are neither children nor Gods, but men in a world of ll1011.', -Jerome Wilker, Senior President Fourteevu

Page 19 text:

ff 7' 'nn I f' ILA 6 9-H6 -Wx rg, A ' sr 1 XX 'fl 1' Il Y mf ex f r 5 ' l lf fl 7 4 2 A X' Nxxhxl 1-ff W .mmm V

Page 21 text:

. .W msn 1 I Q Senior Class History 'T Rt. t'fHllilJS, ilfleniliers of the faculty, Friends, Classmates, do you remem- Vi her the tirst time we met in this auditorium-in SODi't'11llJ01', 15323-600 if panic stricken, fear-ridden graduates from lower planes of learning? 9537 lilow important we had 'felt the previous June! Illow insignincant by .5 ' beptember. And how dliterent' was that 0.t'U2lSl0ll from this meeting in which we gather to say farewell to Teelnncal. Do you remember how fearsome M r. Costello seemed, how we cowe1'ed lower and lower in our seats with every word he spoke, how confused we were by the lzu'nclred.s of direc- tions. VVhal insults, what inditrnities were heaped upon the heads of the unsuspect- ing: freshmen. Each sophomore meant one m01'e tortu1'er. XVe slunk a1'ound the school continually on the watch for frolicsome upperclassmen. VVill you ever forget the day before the Christmas holidays when two sophomores became so bold that they applied shoe polish to the face of one of our classmates to brighten him. Before the end of the year we lost some of our number. And how fortunate it: was for us that when Robertson felt that duty called him from the paths lead- ing to higher learning he seeu1'ed a position on one of those palaces on wheels operated by the International, namely, the Clinton Car which was clue to arrive at: 'l'eeh at 8.43. He furnished the tardy student with many an excuse and incidentally collected transfers good or otherwise which were thrown at. him luv the rushing' mob as it left the ear to seamper through the portals of Tech. Or, have you forgotten that pleasant ninth hour in Room 108-conducted for those students who were interested in doing' their homework in that happy atmosplleref Some of us were included in the number who prevailed upon Hasty to issue permanent passes of admission to this room and there we held daily coinnnuiion with our text books. Costy took a iiendish delight in send- ing to this reformatory some of us who were able to enjoy it. We feel sure that the freshmen have lost much through the abolition of this worthy institution. This most popular room was known by the illuminating name of The Jug. We know that it is because we were such willing patrons of this Jug and pre- ferred this hour for quiet study, that many of us made the honor roll. We finally ea-unc through those first hectic days with only a few casualties as the presence of so many of us here today testifies. The following autumn we, the lowly freshmen, returned as sophomores without suffering the usual shrinkage in numbers-again the iulluenee of the Jug. My how we strutted around. Now we felt as though we really had a place in Tech-that we were an important part of the school. But how crestfallen we felt wl1e11 we dis- covered that the custom of initiating freshmen had been banished. NVe had waited patiently for a whole year to visit upon the heads of the new arrivals in 'l'eeh di1'e vengeance ,l'or all the tortures we had sulfered at the hands of our predecessors. And now we were cheated of that privilegeg threatened with terrible punishment if we tried to settle old scores by teaching the freslnnen a. few badly needed lessons in etiquette. We are sure we never behaved i11 such an nnseemly way. What a feeling of importance we had when more responsibility in school activities was placed upon our shoulders: when we began to win places upon the teams, to take a part in various school organizations. Occasionally some Fifteen