Herkimer High School - Ye Green Quill Yearbook (Herkimer, NY)

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To make and keep some real true P n-an-Q-sm. if . , - fhiturials Editorial Staff Standing, from left to right: Joseph Callahan, freshman editorg Katherine O'Don- nell, dramat'cs editorg Brayton Stadler, joke editor: Charles Ellis, business manager: Howard Kirby, editor-in-chief: Paul Zguris, assistant business managerg Thomas Dono- hue, sports' editorg Lona Bills, exchange editor. Seated: Emily Yale, literary editorg Virginia Brady, music editorg Ruth Yale, assistant editor: Irene Schrader, school news editor: Doris Underhill, girls' sports editor: Emily Denton, freshman editor. TO THE SENIOR CLASS Seniors as you graduate. Leaving memories so dear- Would you that nineteen twentyaeight VVere not until next year? Would you take another year To roam the corridorsg To vlimb once more the stairs: To whisk through many doors? VVo'1ld you take another year To study as best you couldg To listen to the teachers wordsg To do just as you should? VVould you take another year To have a lot of fun: To have lt'SSUIlS to be done? Seniors would you want all this' Would it seem good to you? Then stay, enjoy the utmost bliss Stay, we want you too. -Irene Schrader '29 y frieudsg THE APPRECIATION OF THE SENIORS Do we appreciate the Seniors? Perhaps not, because we have not thought of them as being beyond what we hope to be some day. The lower classmen may think of the Seniors as being superior but we Juniors do not. The Seniors as Freshmen were no doubt as timid as the Freshmen of 1928. Yet, let us consider and not allow them to leave without realizing that we do remember their service and achieve- ment. The Seniors have among them some who excel in dramatics, as shown in Pollyanna,, and others who have gained honors on the speaking platform. The orchestra will feel very keenly the loss of some of the Seniors. The Senior boys who have taken part in athletics have helped to make H.H.S, famous. These are the Seniors of '28. 'To the ,Seniors we wish the best of luck as they step out on the many roads of life. The remaining students bid the jolly Seniors of 1928 good-by, but not forever, because the Alma Mater of H.H.S. will never be forgotten.

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The Green Quill MARJORIE HUNT Sweets to the sweet. ALBERTA MARGARET JGHNSON Nor is there anything so fair, As ls the smile upon thy face.' MADELINE AGNES GRAINGER A flower which bends to the nighfs dark breezes gracefully. ARTHUR TETLOCK Still the center of his cheek ls red as a ripe cheery. Football '27. Q PAUL CHAPIN SKLEELS lt's terrible to be in love. Entered Sept. '26g Band '28g '28 Orchestra '2 7

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I 8 The Green Quill HONOR LEAGUE Several years ago the state department at Albany advocate-d and sponsored an honor league for high school students. Accordingly rules were drawn up and a league 'was orga- nized. Originally the rules read that any per- son who had forty regents counts with honor at the end of his Junior year or seventy-two counts with honor at the end of his Senior year, was eligible for membership. These rules remained in force until last year. They now state tha.t.from the highest forty per cent of the class, the faculty is to recommend thirty per cent of the number to the Senior Class which is entitled to elect twenty per cent of its enrollment. Honor league now -stands for other things besides scholastic records for, although they are important, still, character, ability for leadership and service are considered. Herkimer High School has many students entitled to wear the honor league pin. They are Mildred O'Donnel '24, Mary Pratt '24, Paul Hydon '25, Martha Krohmalney '25, Gorton Young '26, Mary Locke '27, Shirley Gressel '27, VVard Haller '27, 'Catherine Risely '27, Florence Metzger '27, Regina Weiss '27, Alice Law '27, Vernon Schrader '27, Dorothy Van Valkenburg '27, Gordon' Hoffstetter '27,. Alice Richardson '27, Howard Kirby '28, Marx Cristman '28, Emily Yale '28, -Ruth Yale '29 Four long years ago, you entered High School with the thoughts and hopes of receiving a diploma and the honor of graduating in four years to come. That time has just arrived. To-night, when this issue of Ye Green Quill, dedicated to you, Senior, and your fellow classmates is placed on sale, is your Class night. It is t'he second of the three important nights of your commencement. Last night you listened to the Baccalaureate sermon. To-morrow night brings what you have waited and worked for, your diploma and the honors gained in your high school career. Success -depends upon you. Thus far you have been successful in reaching this goal. Now finish your life with a much better and bigger success. You can do it. Your friends know that the world 'is open to you, and you know it. This week you will begin to explore that new world and it is up to you to seek for the best. But, you cannot seek and expect to find with a 'frown on your face or by failing to be true to your fellow associates. You cannot discover if you take the wrong attitude in in life, if you are thinking only for yourself. You cannot succeed if you do not have a helping 'hand and a kind heart. uSenior, you will bid some of your classmates farewell before you leave after your graduation. You will enter, each his ch-osen vocation. What are you going to follow, and what do you want to be? I know, you want to be a success in your life's profession, and surely you want to know of your classmates' being .successful too. Seek to discover the best, and be not weary or easily discouraged. You are not at the forks of the roadg you have passed that, but you have other cross- roads yet to meet. Before you choose which road to follow, think of the one which those people who wished you the best of luck, would want you to follow. Then follow that road and go the second mile. If you follow 'God's road, you will be a success. Senior, we students who remain in school are going to miss you, but even though 'we may not all congratulate and -shake 'hands with you, we also have down deep in our hearts that thought for your success in life. We wish you the best of it, but you must go the second mile, the better way, for he whosoever s'hall compel thee to 'go one mile, go with him two. Success depends upon you. -Charles Ellis Graduating from high school is an honor. Everyone congratulates the graduate, for he recalls when he was graduated. All remember how they felt on leaving the old school. Commencement, the beginning and yet the end. Alptha and Omega! We are leaving to begin, we hope, even a more useful life, and yet it is the end of the happiest of days. When we take our diplomas in our hands it is as if our hand were upon the door, closing it behind us. We have left the happy days, parties, dances and, happy meetings. We have left the teachers: teachers who so patiently redis- cussed the lessons, teachers whose advice helped us get that old problem, or that fierce translation, teachers whose advice made us retract and start on another path. Friendship is a great thing and many friend- ships ripened during the four years spent in high school. Now we are leaving, for college, normals, business houses and elsewhere. The friends we have made in the past four years will be met only occasionally. We will go our respective ways and meet new people and make new friends. But always old friends are best and we will always have in our hearts, a warm place for our friends whose friendship we gained in Herkimer High School. We shall no longer have the daily lessons in mathematics, langualges or ,science to pre- pare but we sihall have harder and more dini- cult lessons to learn. We have to learn them or be sorry. Hlow sorry we are that we did not study harder during our undergraduate days. Now we are at the end of our high school days and the road turns where we See no ending. -Emily Yale '28