Dunkirk High School - Ivy Tower Yearbook (Dunkirk, NY)

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cfmlkuktha ian '70 lflae Q' Dawning light in the morning, brilliant light at noon, calmer light in the twilight, and then the reflected light of the moon . . . Scrawling to write in infancy, struggling for knowledge about noon, wishing for wisdom by evening, and hoping an able record will be re- flected afterward in the calm light of the moon . . . You are done with the scrawling in the light of the dawning, you are shining brightly now in the light of noon . . . Q While I do wish you the more distant wisdom in the gentler light of the evening, and while I do hope with you that you may have a clear reflec- tion in the last light of the moon . . . But, right now, I sincerely bid you a good day in the light of your early afternoon. . ' -' Q i I f 5 , 1 r I' N MR. THOMAS E. HARNEY Superintendent of Schools

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auditorium in this building. Reconstruction work, however, began almost immediately, and the result today is one of the most beautiful auditoriums in this section of the state. Such then is the brief history of Dunkirk High School. May it always remain as a powerful beacon spreading its bright light into every corner of our beloved community. -711, eazzmzzwfw, vom High up in the Ivy Tower hangs one of Dunkirk's most treasured possessions, the old bell. Like our school, it too has a long and interesting history. When Dunkirk was still a small village, the Erie Railroad Company extended the rail- road to Dunkirk harbor. A bell, cast in Troy, New York, was placed on the dock to sum- mon and dismiss men from work and to signal boats lost in a fog. The bell played an important part in all Dunkirk's activities. During the Civil War, it rang out joyously for Union victories and tolled mournfully for those soldiers who did not return. When the Erie Railroad transferred its office to Buffalo, the bell was stor- ed in its freight house. Later it was pre- ' f sented to the Dunkirk Academy and Q l I was hung in the Ivy Tower. . ' ' I In 1918, at the ,signing of the 1 Armistice, it added its voice to thou- sands of others throughout the nation. After this it took part less and less in city activities, participating only in school events. The old bell was rung to celebrate athletic victories and to sum- mon students to school. Of late years it has not been used at all, as the rafters which hold it have grown too old. ,N Although the bell has long been silent, it stfillfhangs in our Ivy Tower, a symbol of the happy days which we, the Class of 1949, have spent in Dun- I kirk High. l THE OLD BELL page clcvcn

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n luemaaiam MISS MARY 1-Q. I.-XCKA Miss Iacka, for many years a leader in the educational circles of Dunkirk, passed away quietly in Brooks' Memorial Hospital, on December 27. She was a native of this city and was proud of the fact that she had spent most of her long life here. After graduation from Dunkirk High School, she attended numerous univer- sity summer sessions to further her professional training. Upon completion of fifty-one years of teaching, forty-nine of which were rendered in Dunkirk, she retired in 1934. Her first position in the Dunkirk system was at school number eight. Later she served in other public schools in the city, her last position being that of principal of the Iunior High School. In the fall of 1941, she was elected to the Board of Education and took office the following Ianuary. At the time of her death she was Chairman of the Teachers' Committee, 11 post which she faithfully filled for several years. cc Let us not mourn her goingg Let us rejoice to know That-earthly labors ended- She was prepared to go. Let us emulate her virtues That men of us may say: The World is brighter, better, Because she passed this way. page thirteen