Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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THE PIONEER 3 strict and firm with her scholars as the G. H. S. teachers have been with us. Marjorie Thompson travels up on the Erie from the renowned town of Ilarri-man. She entered G. H. S. in her sophomore year and is now ready for college. We wish her success. Ralph Pembleton is the poet of the Class. He has journeyed from the Webster School to the Erie School and then to Goshen High School. I think he will be glad to sit upon the platform and receive his diploma for his labors (like the rest of us). Elting France has traveled through the entire schools of Goshen and has reached his goal at last. We wish him success in his examinations. Margaret Findley and Lillian Illenberg are products from the Washingtonville schools. They both entered G. H. S. and the Senior Class this year. We will have to acknowledge that Washingtonville must have good schools, for Miss Findlay is the Salutatorian of the Class. Edith Nash came to G. H. S. in her freshman year, after graduating from the Denton Seminary. She travels back and forth on the dusty, dirty Erie every day. We trust she will carry her other trials as the Erie has carried her. Last, but not least, comes the Honorable William Bennet. Mr. Bennet obtained his earliest education in the little Gate School House, but the greater part of it has been received from the Goshen schools. Here is another brilliant lawyer (?) who is receiving his diploma in three years. Many rewards have been showered upon his early endeavors, and we hope he will receive as many in the future years. We will pass over the history of the author, as I am sure most of the readers are tired of this dry record. This is the extent of the Class of 1914, and we hope to add a few more to our graduates after the examinations. We will gladly welcome them and wish them success. M. B. By the Class of ’14 to the School. 1. A man is but a little thing, The trifling toy of Time; Let all the world with plaudits ring, ’Tis but the symbol’s chime. But who can measure The boundless pleasure Of friendship strong as love, Formed in thy quiet hall, Their fervor shall never fall, They are part of God above. 2. To thee, our Alma Mater dear, The thousand thanks thy due We pay and still in deep arrears Must ever be to you. God grant we live That we may give Due honor to the school; ’Tis all we ask, ’Twill be our task, And right shall win the duel. 3. The Class of ’14 passes on Into a world of strife. May never from our minds be gone Thy Golden Rule of life. Silver and red be forward bent, No worth comes without labor spent, Though Time still on the years may roll. Goshen, thoughts of thee ever fair Fill our hearts and will linger there ’Till softly glides away the soul. W. B.

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2 THE PIONEER Senior Class Roll. Reginald Waldo President Douglas Jackson-----------Vice President William E. Vogel Secretary Bertha Bookstaver Treasurer Marion Borland. Mary Fitchie. Edith Nash. Marjorie Thompson. Margaret Findlay. El ting France. Lillian Illenberg. Ralph Pembleton. Abram Clark. William Bennet. Karl Wehinger Editor-in-Chief Alice Dayton------------Assistant Editor Class Motto—Palma non sine pulvere. Class Colors—Maroon and Silver. Class Flower—Rambler Rose. Valedictorian W. E. Vogel Salutatorian Margaret Findlay Class History. A year has gone by since the Class of ’13 sat upon the platform of the G. H. S. And now the Class of ’14 is waiting for the happy moment when they can take the honored seats. The Class of ’14 is the largest to be graduated from dear old G. II. S., but let us hope that each class will grow, as we have done. First, comes Reginald Waldo, the honorable President of our Class. This worthy member travels back and forth to G. H. S. daily on the Campbell Ilall Flyer and Montgomery Express. He first started to study in this Temple of Learning in 1911 in his freshman year. He learned his A, B, C’s and the Rule of Three in the “little schoolhouse on the hill” in Campbell Hall. We all wish him success in his future occupation. Douglas Jackson, “the great lecturer on anatomy,” is our Vice-President. He is one of the illustrious fellows who are receiving their diplomas in three years. “Professor” Jackson started in the Goshen schools in the first grade and has worked diligently up to this honorable position. We hope he will never err and go to a prize-fight as Mr. Goodly did. Bertha Bookstaver has received the renowned position as Treasurer to this estimable Class. “Minerva” came to G. H. S. in her sophomore year from the large city of Bullville, where she obtained her early education. We hope she will remember the Class of ’14 when she sits before the fire in 1990. Now, comes the shining light of the Class—the esteemed William Vogel. He is a protege of the Yonkers schools and came to Goshen in the seventh grade. He has received so many honors that I can not begin to tell you about them all. He is Valedictorian and Secretary of the Class, and the winner of many prizes. We hope he will make his name and renown as a lawyer, and I advise the other members of the Class to remember to go to him with their divorce cases. Alice Dayton has toiled incessantly, both in speaking and in studying, from the first grade to the last year in High School. We wish her luck in her future occupation as an elocutionist. Mary Fitchie, another Campbell Hall citizen, journeys daily to Goshen on the Campbell Hall Express trains (she wouldn’t ride on a local). She first honored Goshen High School with her presence in her freshman year. I trust she will be as

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4 THE PIONEER SENIOR CLASS PLAY “The Frisky Salesman” CAST OF CHARACTERS. Smith, a Traveling Salesman Reginald Waldo Ebenezer Goodly, Professor of Anatomy Douglas Jackson Antony Goodly, D. 1)., Bishop of Ballarat Ralph Pembleton Richard Heatherly, Engaged to Marjorie William Bennet Thomas Holder, a Policeman .Fred Tieman William Bigbee, an Inmate of a Sani- torium Van Duzer Wallace Henry Fuller, Superintendent of the Sanitorium Wayne Crosby Mrs. Goodly, Ebenezer’s Wife Alice Dayton Cissy, Ebenezer’s Ward Marjorie Thompson Marjorie and Minerva, Ebenezer’s Daughters Marion Borland and Bertha Bookstaver Alvina Starlight, Mrs. Goodly’s Sister Mary Fitchie Helma, Swedish Servant GirL.Edith Nash The curtain rises! The play begins! What play? you would ask. Can it be possible that you have not heard of the cast, inferior to none in the whole country, who are to produce this play? Smith, a second John Drew, is the central figure, and around him are grasped actors and actresses formed for their ability. But take a look for yourself at Ebenezer Goodly, who is the first character to appear on the stage. Very quiet and dignified looking is Ebenezer until Mrs. Goodly enters upon the scene. Then we see that Mr. Goodly is merely a figurehead in the family circle. Superiority and meekness are portrayed most vividly in these two characters, and this lack and overflow of will power and determination, as shown by Ebenezer and his wife, hinge most directly on the outcome of the play. Their daughters, Minerva and Marjorie, are soon presented to us. Minerva represents a very quiet, unobtrusive young lady whose tastes have always been toward literary elevation, while Marjorie—but why mention her without Richard—hankers after the tastes of the majority of her age, namely, a beau. Marjorie’s intended, Richard, seems not quite a model young man in many respects, but his sportsmanlike character and ready stories appeal to one, as is ever the case. A very important factor of the Goodly household, as well as a very necessary one, is the maid Helma. Stupidity reigns in her “honest” soul, and we might add also, a love for money and pretty clothes. Cissy, just returned from California, shocks quite frequently her guardian, Ebenezer. Brimming over with witty sallies and wordly tastes, she causes much consternation in the plain home circle of the Goodly’s. Alvina, a love-lorn lass of fifty, or so, is looking forward to a visit from a bishop of the east. The two have had a most ro-inatic courtship, as they are engaged without having ever seen each other. Alvina’s eagerness to see her dear bishop reaches the pathetic, and we are all hoping the satisfaction of the two will be mutual. This seems a most opportune time to say