Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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THE PIONEER 7 Charge to the Juniors. IT is every mortal’s duty to give help and advice to those who need it. When this comes from wiser and more experienced heads it is most highly valued. For the past year we have noticed how badly the advice has been needed by the Juniors. So before we leave, listen to a few words of good counsel and warning from us. The time when we leave this dear old familiar place marks a great epoch in your career. You will have to watch yourselves carefully to prevent remarkable swelling of your heads, for dignity such as ours you are unaccustomed to. Our well-carved desks you will now occupy, as is the custom, and our memories will gradually fade from your minds, unless brought to light by our names on the text book lists. That reminds me of another piece of advice. Do not mark your text books.’’ Follow our example and leave them as we have left them, free from marks and blots. You must remember that now you are no longer children, and the teacher will look for other things besides the childish trait of marking your books. Especially you who are in the geometry class ; your young fancies should be caught with the figures on the board. Under you rises up another Junior class. You will be tempted to look down on them, but forbear as we have forborne with you, and help them over the rough and stony places. Above all remember that you were once Juniors. Although we are small in numbers we are greatly interested in you. We are as Julius Caesar, who started a good work, and we hope that you will prove an Augustus Caesar and not a Nero. With one last farewell to you and dear old Goshen High we in person will leave you, although our thoughts will be anxiously turned toward you. Now you naughty eight do be good in ’08 THE CLASS OF ’07, K. G. H., Pres. Nineteen Seven is our name. Exalted is our station, And every day we went to school We gained some education. High School Athletics. APART of the most valuable training that a young man gets in the high school is obtained by engaging in athletic sports. This training hardens the muscles and gives him a strong and healthy body. Health is as important a factor in the world as is the knowledge of subjects taught in a high school. The men who make a success of life are the ones who are strong and healthy, able to give and take hard knocks. Occasionally we find a man physically weak, at the head of affairs; but such men are rare, and require a very strong will power. It is the healthy man who stands the best show in the battle of life. In past years Goshen boys have taken a great interest in Athletics. A year ago in the Memorial Day games, Goshen won fifteen points ; this year, however, we did not gain one. This failure can be accounted for in several ways. The older boys who have taken part in the games of previous years, have all left school. The younger ones who remain have not taken the interest in such matters that they ought. They excuse themselves by saying that they cannot accomplish anything. Certainly no one can go into the contest and gain a place unless he is willing to train hard for weeks Perhaps after training he cannot win a place, but he has lost nothing by the attempt. Beside his physical gain he is better prepared to compete another year. In conclusion I would urge all the boys who are left in school to train themselves and do their best. Do what you can for the honor of our dear old high school, and do not try to be excused from your duty and privilege. F. S. B., '07 AN ODE ON SALLY, THE COW. Sally started mooing on a Summer’s day, Jane went out to stop that mooing, Stop’t it right away. Take this swat, and here’s another, Angrily spoke Jane; “Take this kick and here’s its brother,” Echoed down the lane. ’08.

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CLASS CHARACTERISTICS. Title. Favorite Diversion. Sweetest Conversational Fabric, Ambition. Future Occupation. Favorite Expression. KATHERYNE HAYNE “Kat.” Reading, H. A. M. (let.) Everything. To makepeople believe all she says. Teaching infants. “ For the love of Peter.” FLOYD BROWN “Essie.” Looking wise. Nothing. To have a head of hair like Samson. Homeopathic “Dr. Killem.” “Ah! I don’t know.” OSCAR MARSH “ Marsh.” Trying to find a new girl. Chester. To be a man. Polishing up the handle of Decker’s drug store. “ By Jove.” MINNIE WOOD.. “Jane.” Giggling. Geometry. To raise roses. Sewing up grinning wounds. “Huh!” —M. J. W.. 07. ON H X W »—• o 2: w w

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8 THE PIONEER 3urttor Section. Class Roll. ALFRED WYKER, - - - President MARIE PARKER, - - - Vice-President EDITH STRONG, - - - Secretary ELEANOR P'ARLEY, - - Treasurer AUGUSTUS WALLACE, - - - Editor ETHEL LEWIS. FANNIE JACKSON ARTHUR SHEELEY. Class Flower—Wisteria. Class Colors—Blue and Gold. Reply to the Charge. DEAR SENIORS: Your advice has fallen upon willing ears, and we will earnestly endeavor to follow your various examples in all things possible. In most things we are sorry to state you are impossible. Your distinguished president has always been noted for quietness and submissiveness to others. She is a great lover of peace and sleep. Indeed, so fond is she of her morning slumbers that she seldom gets to school before half past one. Your editor, he of the unfickle disposition, whose words (and girls) are as unchanging as the weather. This precedent is surely noteworthy. The secretary, whose solemn face and sedate manners have always been remarkable (by their absence), truly a fitting model for all our members. Let the seniors point with pride to their secretary, who can giggle by the hour and hardly make a sound. And last, but not least of the members by any means (one glance is enough to assure one of that) is the treasurer; the witty, scintilating treasurer, whose forte is originality and laughter; he will certainly be a successful doctor. His patients will get well in self-defense. Seriously, we should advise Mr. Brown to confine himself a little less to study. However, it is lucky that the Senior class possesses one member who “ had time ” to get his lesson. But let us now turn to your colors. They are : fitting, if nothing more: green and yellow. Seniors, you certainly showed discrimination. No one will ever accuse, a part of you at least, of not being fresh; it is very self-evident that you are much too forward, even for people of your advanced years. Yellow reflects more light than any other color except white. You doubtless were aware of this when you chose your color. This little splurge of yours, this graduation, is only a reflector to show the shining light of the Junior class. In closing let me say in behalf of the Juniors, that while we make criticisms on you of the Senior class, we have your welfare truly at heart, and we wish you most complete success in your future life. A. F. W., ’98. - ■■ ■ ■ ♦---- The Choral Club. THE Goshen High School Girls’ Choral Club consists of eighteen members, who, under the instruction of long-suffering Miss Mitchell, have labored approximately once a week during the past school year, over the practicing of “The Shoogy-Shoo, Voices of the Woods,” et cetera; and, when occasions have presented themselves, such as the annual school entertainment, the oratorical contest, and others, they have attempted to render these selections in such a manner that the audience would not be obliged to leave instantly, in order to retain its usual health. The people generally pacified their desperately inclined friends in some manner. And then the commotion in the hall would, in a slight degree, subside. Anyone who has undergone the rendering of some of the Club’s “ music.” and has recovered, will call to mind the fact that the Choral numbers invariably been placed at the end of the programme. This was done so that after the singing (?) the girls might immediately escape through the back door and reach home without being mobbed. A MEMBER OF THE CLUB. ( Between the lines you can discern that extreme modesty is the cause for her satire.)