Chittenango Central School - Palladium Yearbook (Chittenango, NY)

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‘} tUCcteUu tt Why Our Year Book Is Called Palladium A certain wooden statue of Pallas Athena at Troy was called the Palladium. The Trojans held this in great reverence and thought that the safety of their city depended upon their posses- sion of it. During the siege of Troy, the Greeks stole this statue, but there must have been a second one because when the Trojans came to Italy under the leadership of Aeneas they brought with them a Palladium which the Romans con- tinued to look upon as essential to their security as a nation. Pallas Athena, or Minerva as she was some- times called, was the Goddess of Wisdom, who presided over the art of peace. Her head is often seen over the entrances to schools, libraries, and museums. The owl, too, the favorite bird of the goddess, is frequently found as a symbol of wisdom and learning. Therefore, I think that the school chose Palla- dium as the name of its yearbook because no word could make a more appropriate title than the name of a statue of the Goddess of Wisdom, who watches over as a guardian, the attempts of the students to publish a paper which will be larger and more interesting than the preceding editions. Just as the Trojans looked upon the Palladium as a safeguard to their liberty and well being, so we look upon our yearbook as a means to preserve the spirit and memories of Old Yates. -HAROLD FENTON '29 The coat-of-arms here reproduced indicated the original source and form of the surname Gate or Gates. The name has passed thru various forms of spelling—Yates, Yeats, Yate and so on. The coat-of-arms here shown was granted to Sir Ed- ward Yate in England in 1561. The family scat- tered into all parts of England and a number of Yateses found their way to American shores dur- ing the early days of colonization. The Yates family of Eastern New York descended from Joseph Yates, whr settled in Albany soon after the surrender of that province by the Dutch to the English. John 8. Yates, who gave and left so much to the village of Chittenango, was born in Schenec- tady February 1, 1784. He settled in Chittenango in 1816 and died here July 10, 1836. This crest was adopted by the class of 1954 to be the official traditional crest of the school and it is worn proudly on the Chittenango Class Rings and Pins. CO-EDITORS RON SANDHOLZER JOHN BUTTON CHITTENANGO CENTRAL SCHOOL Chittenango, New York