Glens Falls High School - Red and Black Yearbook (Glens Falls, NY)

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SENIOR PLAY

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r 5 THE RED and BLACK SENIOR EDITORIAL In spite of the assertions of some people to the contrary, we firmly believe that most High School students. while Seniors, if not before, come to a rather definite realization of the value to them of their four-year High School course. Few students realize in their first and second years that what they are doing at that time is important in the end. It is then that they lay the foundation of their four-year course. The student forms habits not easily broken, which tend either to aid him materially or to be disadvan- tageous to him in the future. VVhat he does in school these first two years gives him something firm to build on, both as a Junior and as a Senior. While a Junior he begins to come in contact with the Seniors enough to realize that some dayfhe himself may graduate, consequently, he works harder and has more definite hopes and plans for the future. The Juniors should be observant and profit by the mistakes of the Seniors. We believe that it should be required of the Juniors that they attend the Commencement exercises and there sit en masse. So often a commence- ment speaker goes to a 'teacher and bewails the fact that he knows nothing of what a graduation essay should be like, whereas his attend- ance at the exercises the year before would at least have taught him the value of brevity as one of the chief virtues. Then we come to our Senior year. We begin to realize what High School means to us. Our study of literature has been a great pleasure, broadening and enriching our minds. Mathematics has made us think, an exercise good for our grey matter. Languages have made us work hard and learn to concentrate. History has steadied us, and with Science, which teaches us the wonders of life around us, has developed in us the ability to reason from cause to effect. And in activities other than our studies we have had ample opportunity to develop greater initiative and whatever talents we may possess. We are able to smile at the humorous school-boy definition of a Senior as one who knows and knows that he knowsfl realizing that we have obtained in High School but a foundation for an education, that we have completed only a good beginning, and that what we now are entering upon is truly a Commencement,

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7 THE RED and BLACK FANNY AND THE SERVANT PROBLEM A Quite Possible Play, in Four Acts, hy Jerome K. .lc-rome Presented by the Senior Class at Glens Falls High School March 23, 1923 The Persons of the Play Fann ............ ....... . .......................... O rplm Spicer Y Vernon Witherell, Lord Bantock ther husbanclj .... Lawrence Pierpont Martin Bennett ther butlerj ........................ Morris Halperin Susannah Bennett ther housekeeperj . .. ..... Vivian Chamberlain Jane Bennett ther maidl ............ .......... IV lary Solly Honoria Bennett tanother maidj ..... ..... Kathryn Hickey Ernest Bennett ta servantj ................. .... l Cclwarcl Gersten The Misses XVitherell ther aunts lay marriagej . . . ..... Frances Kiley Ruth O'Connor Dr. Freemantle ther local medical manl ............ john Weightman George P. Newte ther former business managcrl ....... Harolfl Rowe The Our Empire Company:- Katherine Dean, Lillian Duell, Irene Davison, Florence llonnhue, Louise Washburn, Eleanor Lyman, Vivian Lester, lil:-nt-lie XV:-lls, Gladys Yole. Staged by Claire DVilliams The action takesi place at Bantock Hall, the scene being unchzmgecl. ACT 1--Fanny's first appearance at Hantock Hall. ACT II-A few days later. An impossible situation. ACT III--The next day. An explosion. ACT IV-The next morning. The atmosphere clears. Note:-The curtain will not fall to mark the ends of the acts. The ringing of the gong indicates that the act is about to commence. Produced by special arrangement with Samuel French of New York. Musical selections by the High School Orchestra.