Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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8 THE PIONEER High School Athletic Sports. Season of J907-1908. The athletic sports of the past season were quite successful considering the fact that at the beginning of the year there were not any trained athletes in the school. A basketball game with a team from Garr Institute, in which the G. H. S. team were victorious, opened the season. The second game was played with Tuxedo—our boys were defeated by a close score but the return game showed our superiority. There were no other games played, since the teams from Middletown, Walden, and Warwick, did not reply to our challenge. The members of the team are as follows : Parker, Ryerson, McNiece, Wyker, Seely and Welsh. In the Memorial Day games our boys scored one first, one second, and three third places, making a total of eleven points, which was doing well for such young competitors with so little practice. Capt. of Track and Basket Ball Teams. w « » Annual Prize Speaking Contest. On the Friday before Decoration Day, the third annual prize speaking contest of Goshen High School was held at Music Hall. It proved very successful, the declamation or recitation of every participant being delivered in a manner which reflected credit on the speakers and those who drilled them. The following program was rendered : Piano Solo, Florence Mapes, “ The Only Way,” Martha Sutherland. “Storming of Missionary Ridge,” Sayer Seely. “Connor,’’ Margaret Durland. “Toussaint L’Ouverture,” Harold Parker. “ His Defense,” Marie Parker. “ Almost Home,” Dorothy Phillips. “Shepherds of Judea,” Alfred Wyker. “ Piano Duet—Selected, Misses Smith and Schoonmaker. “ The Old Actor’s Story,” Julia Campbell Reid. “ Deathbed of Benedict Arnold,” Augustus Wallace. “Boots,” Edith Strong. “Summer Fancies,” Girl’s Chorus. Violin—“Bolero,” Julia Campbell Reid. Vocal Solo—“ In May Time,” Grace Potter. Decision of Judges. The results were as follows : The first prize for girls was won by Miss Parker, and the second for girls by Miss Reid. The first prize for boys was won by Mr. Wyker, and the second for boys by Mr. Seely. A week later the interscholastic contest was held with the following program : Piano Solo—Selected, Florence Mapes. “ How the LaRue Stakes were Lost,” J. Everett Crigar, Warwick H. S. “ Abner Barrow’s Defense,” Marie Parker, Goshen H. S. “ Sergeant Prentiss’ Last Plea,” Joseph H. Brown, S. S. Seward Inst. “ The Swan Song,” Grace Kane, Warwick H. S. “ The Shepherds of Judea,” Alfred Wyker, Goshen H. S. “The Gypsy Flower Girl,” Ruth C. Vernon, S. S. SewTard Ins. “ The Principles of Freedom,” Ellsworth Elston, Port Jervis H. S. “The Soul of the Violin,” Josephine Lyon, Port Jervis H. S. “ Piano Duet”—Selected, Misses Smith and Schoonmaker. “ Summer Fancies,” Girls’ Chorus. “ Violin Solo—“ Win March,” Julia Campbell Reid. Decision of Judges. Award of Medals, G. H. Baskerville. In this contest Miss Parker won first prize for girls, and Miss Lyon, of Port Jervis, won second. For the hoys’ prize Mr. Crigar, of Warwick, won first, and Mr. Brown, of S. S. Seward Institute, won second.

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THE PIONEER 7 Junior Section The Juniors, one balmy afternoon in April, were kindly guided through the first principles of parliamentary law by Professor Smith. Their maneuvers over this uncertain field resulted in the following elections : AUGUSTUS C. WALLACE, - President CORA ELDRED, - Vice-President M. JUNE THOMPSON, - Secretary MARY McCORMACK, - - Treasurer DOROTHY PHILLIPS, - - Editor Just enough honors to go around. Class Colors—Black and Gold. (Little dears, they are far too young to have heard of Princeton.) « « ! Reply to Charge. Dear Seniors : It is with most sincere regret that we see the time draw near when you must leave dear G. H. S. The charge that you have given us is very sarcastic. If we felt that you were in earnest, we might make a similar reply, but we know that when Americans feel deepest they show it least. And so you have used sarcasm to conceal your real regret at leaving ns. We feel the great responsibility we are taking upon ourselves in filling the places you j are so reluctantly leaving; and we know that a great deal of the spirit of the high school depends upon the senior class. And when we take your back seats, in the Fall it will be with a determination to keep up and if possible raise the high standard that you have set. I sympathize most sincerely with the president, not from my own experience but from what I have seen and heard of the senior class meetings. So far things have been smoothly with us because we have had no vital questions to decide. If it would not be too presumptuous for a junior to advise a senior I would suggest in closing that you arouse that sleepy company, the Alumni, and make it a pleasanter organiza- tion for yourselves and a more desirable one for us to strive to enter. A. C. W., ’06. » An Experiment with an Experience. In February the Physics class, composed of six Seniors and one Junior, were studying sound; and in order to do the experiment, “ Speed of sound in air, ” they went to the railroad track, armed with the necessary apparatus, a stop-watch, some cord, a meter rod, and a pistol. The Junior measured off a number of meters and took his place down the track, stop-watch in hand, while the president of the Senior Class stood at the other end of the space and fired the pistol. After this had been tried several times including, of course, firing the pistol, the Chief of Police, in evening dress, raised his window (it seemed the slumbers of this worthy one had been disturbed) and demanded that the noise be stopped, also that the culprits come to the Police Station promptly at six. The class hurried unceremoniously from the spot, where they were in danger of their lives. The girls thought rather nervously of prison fare and garb, remembering stripes were out of fashion, while the boys bravely endeavored to comfort them. When three tliirty came it happened on this particular day that every member of the Physics class hurried away, two of the young ladies going in an express cart. About four, the important individual, who had been so rudely awakened, came over to school, where he interviewed the teachers, and chanced to learn that no harm was intended, but that the class was merely trying the demonstration of a great fact. Even the “ wisest, ” can learn. M. R. D., ’08.

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THE PIONEER 9 A New High School. In introduction let me say that our reasons for desiring a better school is not because we do not like our old one, indeed we are very fond of it, for within its four brick walls we have enjoyed many pleasant hours; it has been the scene of many of our successes and defeats, and taken all in all has had a prominent place in our lives. Most of us are going to leave school now for good, and hence it can hardly be self interest which prompts us. We see room for improvements which are necessary and ought to be made and that is the reason for this attempt at an article. When Goshen High School was built about twenty years ago the plans called for a building twice the size of the present one. However it was not deemed possible at that time to carry out the plans and our High School remained as it is at present. During the past year the school house has been more crowded than ever before. Classes are tucked away in the office and at times two teachers are having classes at the same time in one room. In chapel every morning there are many of the scholars who have to sit two in a seat throughout the year, and when we have rhetoricals or lectures the room is so packed, that is, when the seventh grade comes down, that it is next to impossible to walk up and down the aisles. This brings up the second great want, that of an auditorium. In nearly every high school in the country there is a large room built to be used by the scholars as a place for assembling for chapel, lectures or social events; we have no such room. High School I, which has always been used for one purpose, is inadequate, is so crowded that when anyone speaks he may reach out his hand and touch almost half a dozen people on the head. When visitors come they are packed away in any space which can be found, while the music teacher every morning, after much exercising and side stepping, makes her circuitous route to the piano. One of the most annoying things in high school life is trying to study in a room where a class is reciting. In spite of everything one’s mind is sure to wander away from lessons to the work of the class reciting; and, turning the thing around, it is just as distracting to the teacher who is trying to teach a class, especially a large one, when in a room where the people not in class are constantly demanding his attention either by disorder or by questions about speaking, etc. Now all this inconvenience and disturbance is not necessary in the high school of a town like Goshen. Other towns have auditoriums and recitation rooms. Why can’t Goshen, the heart of Orange County, rich, prosperous, and beautiful, why should we suffer this lack? Let us have a new High School building or an enlarged one at least, one of which we may be proud and which we will not be ashamed to show' to the visitors from other towns. A. O. W„ ’08. i « t Slate Hill. It’s the place for relaxation From the rules of education, Is our Slate Hill. When the breeze is softly blowing And the brooks are gently flow'ing, ’Round Slate Hill; Then the w’orries of the school day Are forgotten in our own way Upon Slate Hill. As we sit there dreaming, musing Of the hard work we are losing On top Slate Hill; We forgive the teacher’s fretting By the pleasure we are getting On old Slate Hill. As we watch schoolfellows weary, On their way to studies dreary Go past Slate Hill.