East High School - Sunrise Yearbook (Erie, PA)

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June Class History At last we are seniors! What a wonderful word is “Senior”! It is like music to the ear of the undergraduate, for it represents the goal for which he is ever aspiring. When we were freshmen, we looked up to the seniors with great awe and respect. As we had heard of the horrible things which happened to freshmen, we were very meek until we attained the exalted position of sophomores. Now, we thought, we can show them how good we really are. And so we began the term. But, alas, the ending was very different from the beginning. We had reckoned without the juniors. They felt that they had a better claim to the friendship of the seniors than we. So passed another uneventful year. When we became juniors, we were on firmer ground and the goal was in sight. We helped with the Junior-Senior Prom and tried to make ourselves useful in other ways. Finally, we ended our junior year. All during vacation we wondered what would be the best attitude to assume. Should we be wise-looking and dignified, thus showing off to better advantage our great wealth of knowledge, or should we be gay and light-hearted and show everybody that being a senior is not such a great responsibility? It was quite a problem. But in the commotion of starting school again (the term wouldn’t be started right if we didn’t change our schedules at least five times), we forgot all about our attitudes and acted naturally. The time passed quickly, however, and in a short while, graduation was at hand. Graduation is a happy yet solemn occasion, for while we are glad to have finished our public school course, we do not like to think of leaving East High forever. 25 ELEANORE LIND.

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Commencement Speakers George Schau ........................ America Catherine Stunder ..... The Lure of America Vivian Rohrbacher ..... The Spirit of America Kenneth Fargo ......... The America of 1930 Class Officers Kenneth Fargo ........................... President George Schau ....................... Vice President Thora Scott ............................. Secretary Laurence Behan .......................... Treasurer

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LAWRENCE BEHAN Class Treasurer 4. A braver choice of dauntless spirits Did never float upon the swelling tide. —Shakespeare ELBERT LEONARD BENGSTON Senior Class Play 4. He had that grace, so rare in every clime, Of being, without alloy of fop or beau, A finish’d gentleman, from top to toe. —Byron HELEN AGNES BERKHEIMER “M” Club 4. She smiles, and smiles and will not sigh. —Matthew Arnold HELEN M. BOLTZ Gym Exhibition 1— Debating 2, 3, 4— “A ” Club 3, 4— Play Committee 4— Burns' Oratorical Contest (Local) 3— Mixed Chorus 3. Drive straight against embattled wrong! Faith knows but one, the hardest way. Endure; the end is worth the throe. —Laurence Binyon JOHN WILSON BURDELL Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4— Band 3, 4— Ring Committee 4— Class Treasurer 2. He is divinely bent on meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be moved, To draw him from his daily muse. —Shakespeare 26