Falconer High School - Falconaire / Corridor Yearbook (Falconer, NY)

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jig :lm l-IYSICAL Education in schools today is emphasized greatly and rightly so for it prepares the student to enter the future, assured and confident of being both physically fit and mentally balanced. V In the curriculum of Physical Education, there are teams for the various sports. The different classes and clubs, therefore, can be compared to these teams. Thus, the following pages have been arranged in order to resemble a basketball, football, or baseball team, with the teachers as coaches, the students as players, and the main events of the year as the schedule. To have perfect physical and mental fitness should be vitally important to every one. Any graduate leaving high school realizes that to have a healthy body and mind is of great advan- tage in gaining desirable jobs, and in being able to compete against others for higher positions. Therefore, it is now more than fitting that the theme of this book be dedicated to Physical Education, especially since We are engaged in a great War in which being physically fit is most important. TABLE of CONTENTS DEDICATION COACHES TEAMS INTRAMURALS SPORTS SCHEDULE OF EVENTS with coMPL1MENTs of F. H. s. sUPPoRrERs

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Q46 QQRORIJQUR The ANNUAL of the STUDENTS of the FALCONER I-HG.-H SCI-IGOL FALCONER, NEW YORK - IUNE, 1945

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.741 CS mf QM, to Those Who Have Gone Out From Falconer High to Serve Their Country ' , f S - Ag 'o5:? 'Arf4sr will .4 T I1 MEAN rv: 'Y I Un E primed the pump of memory with graduation punch and felt its tingle grow into a sting at that first gush of familiar faces. This one crossed the Rhine that we might cross the street unmolested, that one helped close the Normandy Peninsula that we might close our doors instead of lock them and he, he lay shrinking with malaria that we might expand in knowledge. How Coach used to yell at this one for singing so loudly in the shower, but he's certainly proud of his record on that submarine. I-lere's one who walked daily three miles to and from school,- never could understand how he did it. He's a sergeant in the infantry now tstill can't understand ith. And they never knew what it was to fear anything bigger than a history test, never stormed any objective but the Home Economics Department on pastry day, never sustained any wounds save those from football spikes or Mary's hat-pin, seldom aimed at anything but the Frog Bottle in the Chem Lab and usually missed that. Yet Uncle Sam has seen fit to enlarge on these boyhood endeavors: teaching them how to storm a beach, how to treat their wounds with sulfa and penicillin, how to kill. God grant the cause worthy of the transformation, God grant not the concentration of their dreams into single golden stars to burn themselves out in this eleventh hour, but instead the expansion of their dreams on the blue hori- zon that heralds tomorrow. '