Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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THE PIONEER Goshen High School, Goshen, N. Y., June, Nineteen Hundred and Nine Editor-In-Chief, AUGUSTUS C. WALLACE Assistants. HAROLD PARKER. SAYER SEELY ..THE SPIRIT OF TRUE FRIENDSHIP.. WHICH WB WILL KNDKAVOH TO FOLLOW ' What silences we Keep pear after pear. With those who are most near to us and dear t We live beside each other dap bp dap, ■ Vnd speak of mprlad things, but seldom sap Gb® full, sweet word that lies just In our reach beneath lb® commonplace of common speech. 'Dhen out of sight and out of reach tbep go. Z3b® ® ctose. familiar friends, who loved us so. ‘iA.nd. sitting In the shadow tbep hove left. lAlone with loneliness, and sore bereft. We think, with vain regret, of some kind word. Z3bot once we might hove said, and tbep once heard. ..PREFACE.. 3N presenting to the public the fifth issue of The PIONEER, the Senior and Junior Classes of the Goshen High School wish to express their gratitude to those whose liberality has made this little volume possible. We realize that the citizens of Goshen have been called upon more than usual this year to help support various enterprises, and so the fact that they were willing to help our paper emphasizes in an unusually strong way their broadminded liberality and public spiritedness. For this reason we wish that the readers of The Pioneer would notice especially the names that appear in the advertisements and help to make these people feel that their kindness has not been in vain. The purpose of our paper, of course, is to make a record in some permanent form of whatever features of the school year seem worthy of preservation. In our columns will be found the essays that were awarded the prizes in the D. A. R. contest, the programs of our prize speaking contests and public debates and an account of other school affairs that have helped to make the year so pleasant and profitable. We would also advise our readers to have some salt on hand when reading this paper, as some remarks may need an ounce or even a pound of salt. EDITOR. ..CALENDAR.. SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 19—Alumni Business Meeting. SUNDAY EVENING, JUNE 20—Baccalaureate Sermon, Rev. F. S. Haines. TUESDAY P. M., JUNE 22—Promotion Exercises in Each Grade. WEDNESDAY EVENING—Commencement Exercises, Music Hall.

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GRADUATING CLASS, '09. AUGUSTUS C. WALLACE CORA H. ELD RED M. JUNK THOMPSON

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2 THE PIONEER ALUMNI ASSOCIATION President, ............ LOUIS C. MERRITT Vice-President,.........OSCAR A. MARSH Treasurer, ............. MARY OSTROM Secretary..................CHARLOTTE GLOVER Historian, ............ MARY E. BASSETT Senior Class Roll. AUGUSTUS C. WALLACE, President and Editor. CORA H. ELDRED, . . Vice-President M. JUNE THOMPSON, . . . Treasurer Class Colors—Black and Gold. Class Flower—Black Eyed Susan. Class History. 3T is more than a year since the class of nineteen hundred and nine was organized. Since that time it has been a model of studiousness, happiness and peace. It is true that our number is small but what we lack in quantity (?) we hope to make up in quality. On that memorable day in April, nineteen hundred and eight, five people (cautious by virtue of experience with the Seniors) could be seen gathering themselves together to say the rites and carnations that should make them Juniors. The following decision was rendered: Augustus C. Wallace - - - President Cora Eldred - - - Vice-President Mary McCormack - - - Treasurer June Thompson - - - Secretary Dorothy Phillips - - Editor of paper But in September we found that two of our members were missing, Dorothy Phillips departing for a distant school and Mary McCormack succumbing to the “attraction” of the Junior class. We chose for our class flower the Black-eyed Susan, and in selecting our pins stuck to our Junior colors, Black and Gold. We also planted ivy around the school, the only class claiming this distinction. Our worthy president and editor, Augustus C. Wallace, entered Miss Lillian Halstead’s Select School for the young, remaining there three years, Then, seeing the error of his ways, he entered Goshen Public School, here developing great argumentative and elocutionary abilities. In his last year he covered himself and the school with glory by winning the first prize in the Interscholastic Speaking Contest. Cora Eldred is purely a product of Goshen Public School. Entering the kindergarten of Noah Webster she has come straight through the grades, making the four years of high school in three years. The remaining member supplies the quantity of the class. Coming from Chester school two years ago she entered Goshen High. Now we have come to our last year in G. H. S. and we hope that as we turn our faces from school life to the future we may not be forgotten by those remaining, and may always hold our motto, “ Loyaity,” before us. Class Poem. A-LL like Augustus, the President, to whose name C-ontests in speaking have given much fame, W-hose talent in jokes was never thought lame. M-oumful is High School that she leaves so soon. J-oyfully she wakened the dullness of noon T-o laugh and drink sodas, thus did our June. C-heerful and studious, Cora could pass H-istory or Caesar; you see that this lass, E-ven last, is not least of this memorable class.