Harley School - Comet Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Dear Mr. Ewell, Becoming a senior was something new to usg becoming a teacher was something new to you. We leamed together. Problems arose and were solved. We often asked for help and you gave it to us freely, and often that help penetrated deeper than the problem itself. We leamed facts and figures but it seemed that beneath that there was something which you were trying to show us-a sort of way of making the most of life. It would be impossible to thank you for the intangibles which we are unable to express in words, but if you can understand that which we are trying to say . . . thank you! The Class of 1953 22

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Matson Ewell Dear Seniors, One of the most stimulating and recur ring parallels emerging from the history of man's thought is the analogy between man and the political state. From the earliest chronicles of Western thought the Greek student, Plato, spoke through his idol, the wise and humble Socrates, in- dicating similarities impossible to ignore. We cannot help but admit a resemblance between ourselves as individuals and the political body we tolerate. It reveals our 1 innermost selves as any creation reflects its author, and like authors we must con- stantly answer for our work. We must defend, we must guide, we must better the child of our making. You, the class of 1953 of Harley School, as well as being the most politically aware young group I have ever met, are perfectly delightful individuals. Admitting that great individuals make their society great, I must recognize you as a class unusually gifted and able. What you are collectively, at mis moment, you are best. Never again in your lives will you be as close together as you are now. But the good qualities you have leamed together you will carry with you to the end of your days. The value of these you have discovered yourselves. Teachers do not teach. They only try to arrange things that you may leam. You depart with sound skills, but more than these, with an attitude, awareness, and judgment of a very high order. lt will be a joy to watch you exercise them in your new lives. But perhaps of greater worth to, and certainly more appreciated by, an inexperienced teacher is the fact that you are a class of heart. In spite of your enthusiastic exploration of philosophic ideas and your vigorous participation in democratic management, you have not lost sight of those essential relationships which balm the activities of humanity: Tolerance, Charity, Love. Within these lie the hope of the world. With you go the hopes of mankind. God bless you, Bud 2 1

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CLASS WILL We, the C1258 of 1953, being of little mind and nobody, do hereby de- clare this to be our Last Will and Testament as of Friday, the twelfth of june, 1953. Donn leaves his mints to Mr. Davidson. Clem leaves Fry's house open to last minute parties. Sally leaves for Vermont. Ted leaves the K-K retreat to jay Gilbert. The last of the Kennedys leaves. Barby leaves Madame with fewer problems. Fran leaves the class waiting at the Battery in New York. Pris leaves her title, Queen of the Smoking Room, to Jay, next year's king. Jud leaves Ike well installed. Sue leaves the ledger quite unbalanced. Alice leaves Lanny in a turmoil, trying desperately to answer her ques- tions. Bob leaves a not-so-grand piano to Trumie Bullard. john leaves his athletic record to anyone who can parallel it. Kermit leaves joe. Phil leaves the moon completely shot. jon Hill leaves his sleeping pills to Deane. The Class of 1953 leaves Bud Ewell slightly bewitched, bothered, and bewildered. To the juniors, we leave Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday in the Smoking Room. Witnessed by General McDowell of john Brown's Body Signed by the Twelfth Grade English Class, led by General McDowell 23