Elmira Free Academy - Torch / Sagoyawatha Yearbook (Elmira, NY)

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E?C2.x, DILLON A. CADY To Mr. Cady-by Whose judgment we have been directed always to our best advan- tage-We express our thanks and apprecia tion.

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To THE CLASS or 1938: What changes a few short years have wrought! Four years ago you entered the Academy as hoys and girls. Within the next few months you will leave as young men and women. For good or ill. your life here has helped to fashion you into the persons you will be to-morrow. If your faith in democratic institutions has been firmly groundedg if intellectual interests have been awakenedg if social contacts have been broad- enedg if moral insights have been quickenedg in short, if you have matured into Well-rounded personalities, then will rich dividends result from the investment that American Education has made in you. Into the anxious days that lie ahead we let you gof-with solicitude for your welfare, but with pride in your present success and in the promise of your future achievement. The hest wishes of your teachers and friends go with you. These wishes are not for the pleasures of idle ease but for the happiness and true content that come from doing a man's work and a womatfs work wherever life may find you. Maltbie Davenport Babcock has expressed so well the thought that is in my mind for you, that I quote his poem in closing. If it strikes a responsive chord, it will help to keep you in tune with the highest aspirations of our race: Be strong! We :ire not here to play, to dream, to drift: Wle have hard work to do, and loads to lift: Shun not the struggle-face itg 'tis God's gift. Be strong! Say not, g'The days are evil. Who's to blame? And fold the hands and acquiesce-oh shame! Stand up, speak out, and lmravely, in God's mime. Be strong! It matters not how deep intrenched the wrong, How hard the battle goes, the day how longg Faint not-light on! To-morrow comes the song. Cordially yours, March 1938 I F 0

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X .ef XD Q num C' x 0 .l DEPARTMENT HEADS Science . . . Dillon A. Cady, B.S.,Pd.B English . Albert B. Helrnkamp, Ed.D., lVl.A Math . . . . Helen M. Hibbard, BS Modern Languages . Harriet V. Kellog, A.B History . . . Rena Rockwell, A.M Latin . Elizabeth Tashjian, AB