Hamburg High School - Echoes Yearbook (Hamburg, NY)

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T R I FO L I O -iw-M- MR. MOFFITT, APPROVING THE CERTIFICATION LIST Left, Miss Ione Pierceg right, Mr. Frederick J. Moffitt. Mr. Moffitt's Office HIS is a very quiet place, with little of the hustle and bustle which seems so charf acteristic of a place of business. But in that very quietness is the secret of real eiiiciency, for, in an atmosphere of softly clicking instruments and lowered voices, the affairs of Hamburg Public Schools are conducted. With such a place as the setting for its administrative center, Hamburg High School should be expected to have nothing lower than the Class A rating which it enjoys. Miss Ione Pierce is the Superintendents secretary, and also acts as secretary to the Board of Education. Her cheery smile greets every request, and her willing hands do all extra tasks ungrudgingly. The inner oliice is a sanctum. Here the superintendent of the Hamburg Public Schools labors painstakingly day after day. However, in and out of office hours, he is familiar to the students as a rare friend, whose helpfulness and genuine interest in them and their personal problems, has endeared him in their memories. Fifteen

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TRIFOLIO T THE BOARD, CERTIFYING THE SENIORS FOR GRADUATION Left'to right: Miss Ione Pierce-secretary, Mr. Henry Stratemeier-president, Mr. Charles Bradley, Mr. William D. Allen, Mr. J. Frank Hartman Mrs Sylvia Heath Mr Paul Clark Mr Donald Sham Mr. Muffin. ' ' ' ' ' ' V1 ' Board of Education TUDENTS of Hamburg High School have neither the opportunity, nor the desire to be bored of education , when their school lives are so well regulated by the local school board. This organization has replaced the oldffashioned District Trustee System, with the modern type, the Board of Directors, and in this capacity, has made Hamburg High School a truly beautiful place with thoroughly upftofdate equipment in all departments. Despite the present increasing demands for economy, the Board has steadfastly refused to minimize school expenses, so that the iinest, and only the hnest, teaching facilities are available to boys and girls of Hamburg. Is it any wonder, then, that with such competent supervision, students, faculty, principals, and superintendent find school life and school work pleasure instead of drudgery? Fourteen

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7. .y- T R I F O L I O lifilift'-'Ti I P-mn... Miss ROBBINS, PAUSING TO RECALL THE Miss ECKHARDT, MEETING ONE OF HER BABY DAYS OF THE CLASS OF '32 STUDENTS IN CONFERENCE Left, Miss Lovinia Robbins: right, Viola Left to right: Genevieve Croop-secretary, MCCl9l1HHdYSSCl'Cta1'y- Miss Florence Eckhardt, Brian Welch. Miss Robbins OME years ago, when we Seniors, now so sedate and dignified, sat in tiny seats, and recited the ABC's, there was one person whose patient teachings guided us and formed in our impressionable minds, the foundation of our entire life in school. This was Miss Robbins. And so, to this dearly beloved counsellor of yore, we simply say, Thank you, with the utmost sincerity. Miss Eckhardt VERITABLE refuge ,from the stormy trials of Junior High School, is Miss Eckhardt, whose cheerful and sagacious words have set many a disheartened student on the uphill climb to success, and whose long hours of toil have made Junior High School a community, with student government, a student council, and a student publication. Each one who passes on from her community, looks back on those days as the happiest in his life, and finds interwoven with these remembrances, memories of a true friend and willing helperflvliss Eckhardt. Sixteen