Canastota High School - Toot Yearbook (Canastota, NY)

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THE TOOT COMMENCEMENT NUMBER VOL. I. Canastota, N. Y., June, 1921. No. 2 PUBLISHED SEMI-ANNUALLY BY STUDENTS OF THE CANASTOTA HIGH SCHOOL CANASTOTA, NEW YORK EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief LOIS E. TEWINKEL, ’21 Associate Editors HELEN M. TEWINKEL,’22 MARY A. MILMOE. ’22 Business Management AVERY MERWIN, '22 Business Manager ALTON SKELTON, ’23 Advertising Manager FRANCIS GREMS, ’23 Art Editor EUGENE LARCHER, '23 Subscription Editor Faculty Advisers MISS FRANCES MAE BULL MISS NAOMI O. SCOVILLE, MISS HELEN C. CARROLL. Literary Business GREETINGS Canastota High School may well be proud of the graduating class of 1921. Of the nine members, six have a total of 80 or more counts. Seventy-two counts properly distributed as to subjects are required for graduation. Five have a gen- eral average for the four years work of more than 83 per cent. The Valedic- torian of the class has an average for the four years of high school work of 87.93 per cent and the Salutatorian a general average for the same period of 87.66 per cent. These scholarship standings have an added significance when we realize that the passing grade in Regents examinations is 60 per cent and in school work 70 per cent. The class of 1921 has not been satisfied with meeting minimum state and school requirements. The results of the four years seem to indicate that the members of the class have been studying to acquire an education rather than merely to “get by . Not only are they of the first rank scholastically, but they -are young men and young women possessing the qualities necessary for the highest type of citizen- ship .

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6 THE TOOT Canastota H.gh School is proud of them but it wishes it had twenty-nine just like them instead of nine. We may believe that the nine show what old C.H.S. can do for pupils if they are willing. The only difference between them and the other twenty who oughht to be with them on the graduating platform this year is that they saw their opportunity and made the most of it, while the other twen- ty did not see or see ng, thought the job too big. The twenty looked at immed- iate conditions; the nine looked at ultimate conditions and results. But while prais ng the nine who “came through’’ and wishing the other twenty had seized the opportunity we cannot forget our own responsibilities. Are the twenty entirely at fault? Every child d ffers from every other child in natural equipment and inclination. Is our High school course s-o narrow that it appealed only to the nine? Would the other twenty have “come through” if a greater variety of subject matter had been offered. If the twenty had not been crowded into too large classes would their interest and enthusiasm have remained dormant? Could they have been aroused to the opportunities ahead of them if the pupils had been fewer and more individual attent'on had been given by the teacher? Would a greater number of boys stay in High school if a larger propor- tion of the teachers were men? Were many of those who left financially embar- rassed and would they have finished high school if they had been offered a part time schedule? All in all, are we catering to the few or serving the many? We wonder. But the problem will not be solved by wondering. Only much thought and hard work on the part of the people of the village, the parents, the faculty, and the pupils will bring about a solution. E. G. S. TWO IN A SEAT Voter of Canastota, we need a new high school building. Are you going to let us have it? It’s up to you! Your children are forced to receive their high school education in a building which is about half the required size. In the first place the work of the high school in all branches should be carried on in one building. As it is, the manual training department is in the Spencer Street School. We need about fourteen class rooms, equiped with ample black-board space. We have eight. For two years the study hall has been divided by folding doors that a part may be used as a class room. This necessitates the remaining portion, used as a study hall, to be so crowded that it is almost impossible for one to concentrate on what he is doing. There are many instances where two pupils occupy one seat and have insufficient room for text books. The cooking and sewing classes meet in the same room at the same time. This retards progress as the girls of one group are curious to see what is being done by the girls of the other. You knew that High School Hall hrs been condemned. You know too how great an extent the town reeds a public hall for athletics and other entertainments. A new high s hocl building can be erected which will supply all these necessities at the present time and for a good many years to come. Do these tacts mean anything to you? Are you especially anxious to have the place where ycu live scorned and looked down upon even by smaller towns because it fails to provide the increasing require- ments to promote education? What are you going to do about it? No doubt, very soon the town’s people will be given an opportunity to vote (continued on page 24