Dover High School - Tiger Yearbook (Dover, NJ)

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THE TIGER were deceived. We only imagined that the teachers smiled more kindly upon the Seniors. We only imagined that they had exceptional privileges because alas! experience has taught us. The coming of our Sophomore year found it reduced. Some of our classmates found it necessary to go into the world and earn their living. The triumph of our Sophomore year were many and varied. Members of the Sophomore Class had places on the basketball teams. But although we were one step near the goal of our ambition a general restlessness prevailed. We were anxious to be Juniors and Seniors. How enthusiastically we would bid the Seniors good-bye for we realized that as each senior class departed we were one step nearer. And so before we knew it we were Juniors. We were really and truly upper classmen! How the Sophomores looked and how forced was our occasional bow to them. Was it that we suddenly became a superior complex? No, for hadn’t Juniors always acted in just such a manner. The laurels won by the class were numerous. Members of the class shone on the athletic field. Our reception to the seniors in June ’24 was reputed to have been the most elaborate even given. With gladness in our hearts we bade good-bye to the class of ’24 for our ambition had been reached. With joy and pride indescribable we commenced the final mile of our journey to the Land Of Wisdom. Here again the triumphs of the class were many. The problem of raising funds to meet our many expenses at graduation was a difficult one but we mastered it. Different clubs were organized. A committee was appointed to bring forth a class motto. The motto selected was “The elevator to success isn’t running; take the stairs.” And now as I write we are engaged in preparations for class night and graduation. Let us deliberate for a moment. God has seen fit to call unto that land from when no traveler returns our distinguished and well-loved teacher, Mr. Charles Platt. May we learn to appreciate more and more the splendid work he has done for us. Now we are prepared to depart, some of us to eat further of the fruit of knowledge in higher institutions of education, some of us to go out into the world and earn our living. But whatever we do let us strive to do our best. Class Officers President................................Albert Jones Vice President.............................Lulu James Secretary...................... Mary Ingraham Treasurers......Bessie Phillips, Marjorie Cruden Class Colors.....................Blue and white Class Motto—“The elevator to success isn’t running; take the stairs.” l’age 2C»

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•THE TIGER Class History It seems but yesterday since we started our four years of strenuous toil in the Dover High School. It was a quiet, peaceful September morning when we proudly became Freshmen of this institution of learning and started on the road for the Land of Great Wsidom in quest of the Fountain of Perfect Understanding. Our Freshman Class was large but as years went by numbers kept decreasing. We here may slightly change the wording of the Good Book and say, “Verily I say unto you, that broad is the gate and straight is the way that leadeth to the High School and many there are who go in thereat; but straight is the way and narrow is the gate that leadeth to graduation and few there are that entereth.” Our first year wras one of experience. It was with great difficulty that we accustomed ourselves to our novel and most interesting surroundings. But, however, we mastered the situation and quietly settled down to the inevitable task before us, striving to acquit ourselves in such a manner as to win a kindly smile from our teachers, who at first seemed to us most unbear- able. We found later that this peculiar characteristic was possessed by most teachers and that such teachers were merely teaching the one ultimate requisite of all courses, the one subject upon which all public education is built. This is discipline. Should this be eliminated from our curriculum it would be better that we cease travelling in quest of the Fountain of Perfect Understanding for it would be in vain. How soon we came to know our teachers, soon we were acquainted with their manners and we loved them all. Our affection now, even on the eve of graduation is, I may say, even greater than it ever was. Our Freshman class was exceedingly athletic and it was the aim of many to have their names inscribed on the School’s Honor Roll in gold letters. This aim was not in vain for when the Honor Roll appeared many Freshmen names were seen thereon. To us how like lords the Seniors seemed! How they promenaded through the halls! How kindly the teachers smiled upon them and what exceptional privileges they had! But verily I say unto you ye Freshmen to be, we Page 25

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THE TIGER Social Status Best Looking (Boy) Ppst Looking (Cirl) Curtis Jenkins Mildred Bray Best Dancer (Boy) Best Dancer (Girl) Best Sport (Boy) Best Sport (Girl) Best Dressed (Boy) Best Dressed (Girl) Most Athletic I Boy) Most Athletic (Girl) Neatest (Boy) Neatest (Girl) Musician Songbird Most Mischievous Waldemar Larsen Lulu James Harold Ronan Mary Toye Philip Burd Gwendolyn Kunkelman Willard Hon Marjorie Cruden Philip Burd Gwendolyn Kunkelman Irving Friedman Marjorie Cruden Mary Ingraham Noisiest Quietest Jennie Goldstein Ellen Nester Manhater Womanhater Mary Parsons Alexander Aristides Class Baby .. Alice Mintz Class Poet Biggest Bluffer Wittiest Myrtle Vivian Anna Lynee Donald McQuillan Class Optimist...... Class Pessimist..... Laziest............. Best Worker......... Tallest (Boy)....... Tallest (Girl i..... Shortest (Boy)...... Shortest (Girl)..... Class Vamp.......... Most Popular i Boy) Most Popular (Girl) Most Studious....... Girlish Boy......... Boyish Girl......... .....Mary Parsons ....Lillian Fogelson ...Clifford Johnson .....Bessie Phillips Alexander Aristides ..Dorothy Stringer ........John Moran ........Sara Meyer ...Evelyn Nylander .....Curtis Jenkins ...Marjorie Cruden ...Marion Rinehart ...Irving Friedman ..Louise Ackerman Suggestions for Senior Reading “Her Father’s Daughter”.......Louise Ackerman “Socialistic Ideals”.........Alexander Aristides “The Three Musketeers”....Gussie Mishkin, Lulu James, Stella Albin “Vanity Fair”............................Mildred Bray “Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary”. Philip Burd “The Flirt”...................Marjorie Cruden “Smiles”...................................Rocco Cleffi Page 27