Titusville High School - Optimist Yearbook (Titusville, PA)

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THE OPTIMIST Editorials IN PASSING When we entered High School four years ago, Graduation seemed to be a very distant goal. When we became Sophomores, we began to think that if we persisted we might some day become Seniors. As Juniors, we realized that for us there was left only one more year of High School life and that in another year we too, would be graduating. But it was not until we became Seniors that the full realization that our school days would soon be over, dawned upon us. To many of us, Commencement seems the end, while in reality it means the beginning. It marks the end of our High School days to be sureg but it is the beginning of a new and important epoch in our lives, for soon we must take our places among the many millions of workers in the world. Graduation has been dehned as the Uparting of the ways. We find this to be true, for we shall no more meet as a class. Some of us will go to higher institutions of learningg others will enter the business world. We shall be thrown upon our own resources more than ever before. We shall have new friendships, new associations, new problems-but we shall always remember the happy days that we spent as a class in old T. H. S. THANK YOU The Optimist Staff wishes to thank the students and townspeople who have helped to make the Optim- ist a success. We wish to thank the members of the faculty, and especially Mr. Stetson, lVlr. Bitters, and Mr. Murphy, for the help that they have given us. Publication was started this year under very ad- verse circumstances. We were confronted with a debt of 3590 contracted last year. This has been paid and the Optimist is now free from debt. The merchants who patronized our publications are, to a large extent., responsible for this, and we want them to know that we have sincerely appreciated their help. We hope that the Staff of next year's Optimist will meet with the same hearty co-operation and in- terest that we have experienced this year.

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THE OPTI IS T S I I T T A U F S P F 1 L L E 2 9 3 H. S.

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THE OPTIMIST Valedictorian ....,.,A,,,A Salutatorian .,....,,,Y ,,,,,,, Third Honor ..... ,,,,,,,,,A Latin Honor.. French Honor .,,,,, Presldent ...,,,r7,,,. ,,,7,,,,,, Roll .,.r.,,ERWIN FRITTS .r.....,,.PAUL HARRIS DOLORES SCHEHR .. o.,o,.o. LAURA CHURCH .,.,,..MARION MARS of Honor English Honor ....,,r,, Mathematics Honor ...,..,,,, MARY PAUL DURAND FRANCIS LPHILIP STEWART Science Honor ...,.......,r... ,..,, . HIVIILLARD BOYLE History Honor .o,,o,,,, ..,......GEORGE. BECKER Commercial iHonor ,7..Y. NIVIILDRED MEADER SENIOR CLASS OFFICERS DURAND FRANCIS Vice President L..,L.,c,,, Secretary and Treasurer ....,... ROBERT BURCH DURAND NEFF FRANCIS Latin Scientific Course s,,s..,MARION MARS President of Senior Class President of umor Class Vice President of Sophomore Class President of Manager of Basketball I923 Glee Club l9l8 23 e e l ' , i I ' , i - i I ' I Hi-Y Club, Junior Play, junior Prom, Committee, Football I9I9-23, Basketball I.92l-23, Fire Team l920-23, Polite w th candor elegant in ease Here is one of the most popular members of our class. Proof-he is our Class Presidnet. Durand was our Junior Presi- dent and we liked him so well, that we elected him again this year. Active? Well we will just refer you to the above list. On the top of it all, he received the English Honor. '