Elmira Catholic High School - Victorian Yearbook (Elmira, NY)

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Gn Getting Up ln The Morning Never is the thought Life is real, life is earnest so impressed upon man as in the early A. Mfs. Never does anything seem so real, so earnest, in other words, such a terrible job as the task that blitzkriegs you when the alarm rings and you think - I've got to get up - now. Speaking purely from a technical point of view, the situation is acute. You are suffering - admit it - from a psychological attack of predestined fatigue Cdogus tiredus.J The idea preys upon you - tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow I shall have to get up when the clock goes ling a ling, brrring kong kong kong brr ladle ladle ladle ladle. You mutter to yourself, yea - - - a veritable Macbeth f- that doth murder sleep! Even at work when you are deep in the nation's problems, you find yourself drawing miniature alarm clocks on your scratch pad. Snoozing to catch up on lost sleep, you dream that a fat. alarm clock, with a sneer on his face, tells you just to try not getting up and he 'll ring earlier tomorrow and give you the works. You threaten to take this two-timer apart but he gives you a blow that sets your head reeling - before your eyes he goes on day- light saving time and you lose another hour! lVhen you trudge home, you think that now you will sleep. But time seems to race. So quickly do the hours fly that at three in the morning you unconsciously open one eye to see if the clock is planning any sabotage. You actually long for the alarm to go off so that you can get up and shake the Hdaylights out of it. The cheery song of that radio man, Get up, get out, and meet the sun halfway, has all the hollowness of a death chant to you. There must be a remedy, of course. Persuade the subconscious reaction of the psyche - ? There is a better way. NVhy not abolish all alarm clocks? No ear-piercing shriek at five, no cursed reveille! Let us be liberated from this antiquated custom by a constitutional amendment. After all, our an- cestors killed oi their enemies so that they could get a good night 's sleep in peace. Write your congressman now. Provision for such a sleep should be added to the common law. Then you can put a. sign over the bed - habeas corpus -later, close your eyes tranquilly- to sleep, perchance' to dream. 0 sleep! it is a gentle thing, Beloved from pole to pole! Agnes 0 'Herron '42 The 1942 ECHO Page Th11tySm:

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In September, something new was added to Catholic High's list of activities-the Camera Club. At the first meeting' Cctober 3, the fol- lowing officers were elected: president Robert Erving vice- president, Joseph Currang secretary, Jean R-eidy, and treasurer, James Sullivan. Under the direction of Father Heisel, of St. John 's parish, the members of the organization have learned much about the technique of picture-taking, Great en- thusiasm among' our twenty- five ' 'shutter-bugs was aroused, as was proved by the clicking of cameras heard a l year. T116 CRIHCIG Clu L James Sullivan, Robert Ervin, Joseph Curran, Jean Reidy The School Orchestra-nEchoesn The members of the orchestra are Mr. Ray Devlin, directorg Eleanor 0'Haulon, pianistg Robert Lisi, saxaphoneg Robert Grace, clarinetg Eleanor Maloney, drums: Stanley Winiecki, guitarg and Madlyn Clunle, vocalist. The school orchestra has provided us with a great deal of musical entertainment during the past year. It has played for many school af- fairs, such as the Christmas A s s e m b ly, Washington's Birthday Assembly, the Sophomore-Freshman Dance g and also for Father Brien's party at the Country Cluvb, for St. Patrick's Sodality en- tertainment and for the Holy Name Society. We wish to extend our appreciation t.o Father Bisky, who founded the orchestra three years ago and, through whose con- tinued interest, it has become such a success. Our thanks also go out to Mr. Ray Dev- lin, the orchestra director. Page Tlvirty-Seven T lb 6 1 9 4 2 E C H O