Bennett High School - Beacon Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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SALUTATORY By Henry H. Work, Jr. Salutatorian I-Iospit6s hon6r5.ti, praecept6r6s, comitiis, hic congregimti ut n6- biscum hanc diem celebritis, in n6mine scholae Bennettcinsis salutem plurimam dimusg prbgressuri v6s salutimus. Alma Miter quae n6s prfldentiam et v6rit5.tem exquirere docuisti, 1:6 salutimus. AVE, diizs gradu:Z1ti6nis nostrae, quam cum commixtis animis gaudi dol6risque iam pridem expectimus, t6 salutimmus, Doctor Rh6des, qui nivem nostram per quattuor laetissimiis ann6s gubernivisti, t6 salutimus. Praecept6r6s ciri, qui pro n6bis tam diligenter 1ab6r:?1vistis, v6bis maximis gritiims agimus et salutem plurimam dixmus. Condiscipuli, quibuscum risimus et lacrimivimus, lusimus et lab6r5vimus, qu6s relinquimus ad laborem nostrum suscipiendum, v6s salutimus. X Signum scholae nostrae, ti: salutimus. Sententiam memorii semper teneimus Optima Futura.

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i q,i 'Miss ELLIOTT nhggxn k--,-ef.. .4-,. .A . .,, A 1 r Sf12l91J?0Y?lH0m?.R901?3 Teacher MRS. WILKINSON Dean of Girls and Senior Girls' Home Room Teacher

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I6 The Bennett Beacon Senior Class History By Paul E. Harris, Historian Once more the sands of time have emptied themselves into the lower chamber of our hour glass and we have come to the end of our high school careers. The portals of the past are swinging open and we shall pause for a brief space to look down the years which have passed since first we entered Bennett. , On that bright September morn in 1925, when we began our Freshman year, there were realized the hopes of many citizens, who had eagerly awaited the erection of our magnificent building, and had had the responsibility of bringing to pass the dreams that had made our school possible. We are the first class to have received a full four years' training in Bennett and there' fore the first real test of the success of her aims and ideals. Have we achieved our task? The size of the Class of '29, the largest in the history of our Alma Mater, is sufficient proof that we have succeeded, for, if so many have accomf plished what was necessary to obtain a diploma, truly we have not failed our trust. But let us look through the mists of the past at accomplishments other than scholastic attainments. Our lirst year was spent in the more or less uneventful life of a freshman, in becoming accustomed to our new environf ment and laying the foundations of future years. But in that group of young people, fresh from grammar schools, were the potential actors. athletes, scholars, and authors who were to carry Bennett to noble heights and place her among the foremost schools of the country. In September, 1926, we returned to our duties as Sophomores, one step nearer our goal. The girls entered room 123, in charge of Miss Wood, and the boys were placed under Miss McNerny in 124. The second year is perhaps the one in which the majority of high school students really begin to take active part in the extrafcurricular activities which add greatly to the enjoyment of high school life. And so it was with us. During this year we began to take our places on the athletic and debating squads, in the dramatic and literary activities, and to prepare for the work in which we were to excel, thereby bringing honor to our school and to our predecessors who had established those branches of activity. At the completion of that year, half of our high school course had been accomplished. The following autumn, we returned again to begin what is believed by some to be the happiest year in high school life, the Junior year. Miss Brettle, in charge of 223 and its annexes, welcomed the girls and Miss Patterson took her boys into 224. Now members of the junior class were to be found in all the various branches of scholastic activity, gleaning new honors. We were represented on the hockey team which won the first cup for Bennett, on the debate team which tied with Lafayette for the city championship, and in the