East High School - Orient Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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student presidents they have ever had. This office was held by Winfield Rietler. I-eola Mayer and Luella Good ridge played on the girls' basketball team. t hir fourth and last year was the most eventful one. In February we held our Junior Dance. post| oncd from our Junior year. It was an “all-around success. This year Helene Tierney was a member of the girls' debating team and helped East High to keep the Delta Phi cup. The chess team was captained and managed this year by two of our members, Sol Posner and Maurice Komenski. respectively. Engle Marks played on the school basketball team, and Winfield Rieller was Censor of the Roman State. Hernice Dodder proved a most capable editor-in-chief of Dtr Kamtrad. Class History [Continued] n The members oi the class have all worked for the interests of the school and have attained results of which the school and class may be justly proud. May this history help the class of January 1915 to recall in the future its happy high school days. IIelenk A. Tikrnky. Class Historian. Page Sara teen

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Class History n IICLENC A. TIERNEY I CANNOT remember what sort of day it was when the illustrious class of January 1915 entered East High, but I do remember that we seemed to be tagged, labeled or something like that, for we were objects of curiosity every way we turned. (1 have found out since, by observing the incoming Freshmen, that it was because of the dazed, perplexed expressions on our countenances). (hir career in old East High had begun. It took us a term to get our bearings, but the second term we organized. The confusion and excitement of our first class meeting! The first year we chose our class pins and started off the second by drawing up a class Constitution by which the class has faithfully abided. Our class was rather shy so our activities did not commence until our Junior year. But even then our class was not so much for the social as for the educational side. The class forgot its own interests and worked in the school's l»ehalf. During the year we held a very successful Hallowe'en party. A slcighridc was attempted in February, but the weather would not permit. The girls held a Thanksgiving party, but left the boys out. Two of the most important offices in the Roman State were held by members of our class, that of “Praetor Urbanus.” bv Foster L. Mills, and that of Pontifex Maximus,” by Winfield Ricfler. A Roman Trial was conducted successfully in October by Foster Mills. The Clarion's most successful year, financially, was due to Winfield Rietler's manage- ment. Our class claims the honor of giving the school one of the most efficient Page Sixteen

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Class Prophecy n ANNA CAROLINE MCK Pag Eight “Should .mid acquaintance be forgot An' never brought to min’? We hope the date will think of thin In nineteen thirty-nine. DECEMBER 31. l‘ 38—Twenty-five long, drear)' years spent amongst the heathen, thousands of miles away from civilization and friends, a stranger in a strange and hostile land. At last my mission here is ended and I am again free to join my own people. I have watched and waited for this eventful hour and it has come finally. Tomorrow our good ship will set sail for Home and I am counting the hours until I shall be in dear old Rochester again. What a vision home brings to my mind! Vividly I see the Class of January 1915 and how anxious I ant to know whether each one achieved the successes he was striving for. January 1. 1939—Set ? ail for San Francisco. Imagine my surprise when on board the vessel. I recognized the Captain as Whyland Sprang and I knew his ambition had been realized for he was at least running something. I asked him to introduce me to a party of tourists whom I thought looked familiar. One was Count Rockford Filski and another Sir William Grimm. English noblemen. What a change. thought I. “in my former class-mates! They were forced to go to America to put up bail for two people whom they thought I might know. Did I ? -Poor Maury Komenski had tried to get money under false pretenses ami was caught at it this time: no. he was not class treasurer but a politician: the other was Irwin Cole, the famous soapbox orator, charged