Draper Central High School - Dragon Yearbook (Schenevus, NY)

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A avliiwafwfff P5 KW Presenfing Mr. Howard E. Balcer, our assislanf principal. To him we are indebled for a slricl and efficienl enforce men? of lhe allendance rules of our school. lncidenfally, if is he who is largely responsible for our good behavior in flue halls and several of our classes.

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13 J 4, 'il I ll l ff. THE PROGRESS OF DRAPER HIGH SCHOOL The lasT school disTricT formed in The Town oT RoTTerdam was organized in AugusT. I9OI. as DisTricT No. I4. The young disTricT conducTed school in a house on Guilderland Avenue unTil I904, when The legal voTers auThorized a new Two-room building To be locaTed on Guilderland Avenue. souTh oT Curry Road. The new building sTimulaTed growTh and in I909 Two addiTional class rooms were added. School opened in SepTember, I9IO, wiTh a pupil regisTraTion oT I64. The school prospered and I9I3 arrived wiTh a pupil regisTraTion oT 320. The voTers were again called TogeTher and The presenT building was sTarTed wiTh an eighT-room uniT on The presenT siTe. One Sunday morning in May, I9I4, The neighborhood was aroused by Tire in The old school. The Tire compleTely desTroyed The old sTrucTure. The enTire sTudenT body was TransTerred To The compleTed TirsT uniT oT The presenT building. The period oT The World War caused a rapid developmenT oT The disTricT, when I92O was reached, The voTers again auThorized an addiTion oT eighT rooms and The old audiTorium To accommodaTe The 539 pupils. The High School was esTablished AugusT I7, I92O. and The name Draper High School came inTo exisTence wiTh a TirsT year sTudenT body oT 68 pupils. June. I924, was a red leTTer monTh because The TirsT High School class oT 20 pupils was graduaTed. The crowded condiTions required a special meeTing oT The voTers again in I925. The building was enlarged by adding I4 rooms and The presenT AudiTorium-Gymnasium. Our High School had reached 4-O5 pupils wiTh 8I5 in The grades. This addiTion was crowded by I928 and The voTers relieved The siTuaTion by adding IO more rooms. Tacing Earl STreeT. To accommodaTe The approximaTely I4O0 pupils. The depression did noT slaclcen The growTh oT our school, buT made iT impossible To add more room: ThereTore, The basemenT was uTilized in I93l To care Tor The laboraTories, lcindergarTen. and one sTudy hall. During I932-I933 The T.E.R.A. devel- oped The old audiTorium inTo The presenT shop and domesTic arTs deparTmenT, which helped Temporarily To make room Tor our I8OO pupils. LasT year Tound us perplexed To know how To Tind seaTs Tor approximaTely 2,033 people. The voTers aT The May meeTing appoinTed a commiTTee To invesTigaTe The school condiTions. This commiTTee suggesTed The addiTion of 6 rooms and an AudiTorium. A meeTing of The legal voTers approved The recommendaTion oT The Board oT EducaTion and commiTTee on February 24, I937. Thus. again, a building proposiTion is under way. The STaTe DeparTmenT has informed us ThaT This addiTion is The lasT ThaT can be made To This building. We hope ThaT The school problem will be seTTled Tor The communiTy. whose people have so consisTenTly and loyally solved The problems of educaTion Tor Their children. The building growTh is imporTanT To care Tor The physical needs oT The sTudenT body. buT I believe The moral. spiriTual and educaTional developmenT oT The sTudenTs has Tar exceeded The maTerial expansion. A well-Trained TaculTy, wiTh a group oT happy sTudenTs, TogeTher wiTh a parTnership-ownership school aTTiTucle, develops The aTmos- phere Tor educaTional accomplishmenT. I EARL B. ZIMMER.

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f,ccu l ml l - Xi PROGRESS OF THE HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATE The high school graduafe of I937 faces a more complex world Than any of his predecessors. Whefher he inTends To confinue his formal educafion or whefher he infends To go info indusfry. he has a more varied and possibly a more momenfous choice To make Than high school graduafes before him. Man occupafions formerly open To The high school graduafe now are open only To The college graduafe and many formerly open To The college graduaTe now require one or more years of graduafe sTudy. The boy or girl choosing college. Technical school, or business school musT choose his career four or more years in advance in order To reap The fullesf benefif of his educaTion. The graduafe wishing To commence his gainful occupafion immediafely has a difficulf choice To make. Too offen he Takes a job wiThouT considering The fuTure. Too offen he is forced To Take'The firsf one open because of economic necessify. ln order To live abundanfly a person musT develop as age and capacify for developmenf increase. Therefore iT is well To look for a posifion wiTh opporTuniTy for advancemenf so ThaT your life may be full as well as your pockefbook. There is a Tendency among humans To reduce life To habif. If This is done iT means ThaT a person has arbifrarily limifed The environmenf To which he is To reacT. and. Therefore. has shuT ouT The possibilify of furfher development This does noT mean ThaT The individual should noT acquire man habifs, b'-T iT does mean ThaT There musT be a sphere of acTiviTy. beyond The habifual. where There is a place for The furTher develop- menT of habifs. Colvin sa s: The difference befween The erson who confinues To make progress all Through his life. and The one whose real Iii is ended in early man- hood is ThaT The former always possesses an open mind and The aTTiTude of finding in his environmenf furfher possibilifies of adiusTrnenT. Therefore, leT us remember, when we choose a vocaTion. or an avocafion, or any form of recreafion. To choose Those acTiviTies which lead To furfher acTiviTies and noT Those ThaT keep us in a ruT. LeT us keep in mind ThaT real social progress depends on The progress of The individual as well as on new invenfions and new scienfific discoveries. HOWARD E. BAKER.