Binghamton Central High School - Panorama Yearbook (Binghamton, NY)

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Wisdom is common sense in an un-common degree. VVILLIAM SHERWOOD- Bill has had a hard time. As Business Manager of the Pano- rama about all he sees is Bills, You can see the serious trend of his character by look- ing at the Board picture. He expects to attend Cornell. This gentleman is learned and a most rare speaker. CLIFF TAYLOR-Cliff has been with us only a short time, but we have all learned to know p him as a iine fellow. He is very popular fespecially with the girlsj and will be one of our Class Day speakers. He had a tongue to persuade. FLOYD TYLERfTyler has been very prominent as a public speaker. He intends to study agriculture at Cornell after which he will use his oratorical powers to advantage on the cows. , Pleasant company on the way is as good as a carriage. BRONSON VOSBURY-Bronson has been very prominent in all kinds of athletics through- out his course and has been High School's 'tstrong man. He seems to be buffeted occa- sionally by Gales but is always in the best of spirits. Physicians of all men are most happy, whatever good success they have, the world proclaimeth: What faults they committ the earth coverethf' DANIEL WALKER-Daniel is a member of Senior Class and Debating Club. He will go to Buffalo University in the fall where he will add the title of Doctor to his name. Sober steadfast and demuref' HOWARD WILLETS-Indications point to Elmira fall-Myral for Howard's future. Will Dick Lo-see his fate? He has been very active in Debating Club having been Vice- President twice. 26

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Each particular hair stands on end, Like quills upon a ruffled porcupine. GEORGE SNOW-We never have been able to get this young man's Drift so we don't know what he intends to do. He is a quiet chap to whom this quotation is very appro- priate. Snow harder. All good things come in little packages. BERNARD SMITH-Bernard is a very quiet chap but he has been successful in the class- room. He hopes to take up Civil Service Work in the future. A man without a sense of humor is like a two-hinged door with the top hinge gone. MAURICE STANLEY-Maurice seems to have taken High School life as a dose of business mixed with hard work and to be swallowed at least three times each day. He has been Treasurer of Senior Class and Assistant Business Manager of last year's Panorama Board. What swift hand can hold his swift foot back! HARRY STANLEY-Harry is another one of these 'ere farmers and he 'll be right tl1ar at Cornell next fall. He has been prominent in athletics and botany UU. Art may make a. suit of clothes but Nature must produce the man. MILTON STEEL-This new-comer is described by some noted HJ artist as that fascinating man from Gloucester, Mass. He is certainly a great addition to the ornamental side of B. C. H. S. and poses as a hero in rescuing girls from stagnation. He has proved his worth in public speaking and received the iirst place in the Harvard Contest. By-and-by leads to the road of never. JOHN STANLEY-John is Assistant Business Manager of the Panorama andla sure enough happy-go-lucky chap. John pushes the Pan with all his might Qwhen the editor-in-chief pushes himj. 25- A '

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF NINETEEN HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN It was in the Fall of Nineteen Hundred and Nine that most of us, now Seniors, first assem- bled in B. C. H. S. We came from various schools in the city, in the surrounding country, and even from schools in distant places. Tl1e period of High School life lay ahead of us-unknown and untried, but we firmly made up our minds to try to succeed if fate, and the regents' board permitted. In the beginning with Miss Osgood on the first floor, under whose eagle eye we trembled in fear, then under Mr. Pierce on the second floor, and at last we arrived on third fioor, the goal of all our ambitions. Here our beloved Professor Knox ruled more by gentleness and his kindly personality, than by strict discipline and harsh rules. Many were the misdeeds we committed, some of which we now regret, but all of which Professor Knox corrected in such a manner as to make us truly resolve to strive for better things-to which our motton testifies - Sequere Optima -Seek the Highest. This motto was adopted in the Fall of 1911, when Mr. Garver assisted us in organizing as the Junior Class. We elected Lynn Howard as President. A constitution was drawn up and committees appointed to see about obtaining a banner, pins and many other things. This lent a businesslike air to our meetings. As for our banner, which you now see over there, I think we are justly proud of it. According to Webster- A black object is one which absorbs every ray of light thrown upon it. Gold signifying that which is very dear and precious. Is this banner, then, not of fitting colors? Representative of us as a body, who during our four years in High School have had intellectual rays of light thrown uponus-to be absorbed? The many things we have learned from books, acquired from other sources, and the memories of past events, all of which we hold precious, are typified by the gold on the black back-ground. On the day appointed we were successful in wearing our Class Colors and giving our Yell, 27