East High School - Orient Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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CII AS. H. HAWKS Vice-President SARA ROSENFELD Secretary 9 FRANK SILVERXATL Treasurer ETHEL WEST Assistant Treasurer

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Jfiftpdebenti) rabuatton EAST HIGH SCHOOL Cla of June, 1912 Cla Dap Officer Master of Ceremonies............................. Class Orator..................................... Class Prophet.................................... Class Historian.................................. Class Poet....................................... , . Walter Schiebel ..Albert Hubbard .......Julia Rogers ......Albert Perry Frank G. Silvernail Commencement Senior Day.... Picnic....... Class Day.... Memorial .... Chairman of Committee ...............................Grace Worthington ...................................Stuart Colvin ..................................Sara Rosenfcld ..................................Burbank Y'oung ...............................Raymond Hawkins Commencement Culrndac Senior Day..............................................................June 14 Class Day...............................................................June 13 Class Picnic........................................................June 24-26 Graduation Exercises....................................................June 25 8

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Class JMstorp UNLIKE most historians this one does not remember whether the day on which the glorious class of June, 1912, entered the East High School and were accordingly enrolled as students, was rainy, sunshiny or snowy. Suffice it to say that like all other classes before us, the summer following our “graduation” from grammar school had wrought many changes in our appearance. Trousers had been lengthened, hair put up on the top of the head, and dresses given several added inches in the vain effort to escape the horrors of being called freshmen. Hut all in vain, alas, our feelings were not to be spared and like every class that preceded us and no doubt like every class that shall follow us, we were duly received, tagged, labeled, etc., and our labors, sorrows and joys in East High School began. The first year, what a wonderful year that is! The new experiences, the trials and tribulations of a stranger in a strange land arc as nothing compared with those of verdant freshman year in high school. The first class meeting! Who can ever forget it? The excitement which always follows an organization of freshman was not lacking at our first meeting, and the speeches, the golden eloquence of the faculty who received us and after much good advice, wise sayings and dignified gestures, finally announced that henceforth we were to be called the class of June, 1912. Of course we did not do much the first year; the school seemed to be able to get along without sending to us for counsel so we wisely kept still and got our bearings. Football, that magic word, was not to remain with us long, for after what seemed to us a single taste, the delightful morsel was taken away, and the chance to show our real metal was at hand. We accepted the decision and tried our best to be the same loyal East High students in the other sports. We succeeded, and the records for the four years will show many things which the members of the June, '12, class have contributed to athletics. Our class was the first to take up cross country running and the results from this new sport speak for themselves. What was true of cross-country running is true of everything and many are the faces which will he missed in the various activities after the class is gone. Dramatics seem to have been the special forte of this class. The Junior Farce and the Senior Play were considered the best ever given in the school and large sums were added to the class treasury by these two events. The Junior and Senior dances were also great successes, and slcighrides, etc., were among the social events which helped to promote friendship among the members. To enumerate the many events in which the class has played a prominent part would be impossible. The many track victories, the basketball champion- ships and cross-country successes are but a few of the honors which the class has attained while in school. The Glee Club opera was largely possible through the members of this class and in many ways June, ’12, has tried to serve its Alma Mater. Not alone in social and athletic events has the class been prominent, hut studies have not been neglected. June, 1912, will he the largest class to leave Fast High School and the high scholarship attributed to it is very gratifying. But although we arc leaving East High School we are not forgetting the many excellent lessons we have learned there. We are taking all these with us and we shall strive to maintain our high record and to keep our eyes fixed on the goal to which they have been taught to look while in East High School. Albert D. Perry, Historian. 10