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

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The Green Quill I 9 SENIOR DAYS AND WAYS History of 'Class '28 In the fall of nineteen hundred and twenty- four, we, the Seniors of nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, entered Herkimer High School. Wie were Freshmen, as all Freshmen are, quite inexperienced with the ways of the Upper Classmen. However, in time we soon overcame our timidity and began to feel the responsibility of our inportant positions. We found that there was much to be done and that there was no time for fooling. Durinlg' our first two years as a class we -carried on no activities because we were never organized. When we reached our much prized Junior year 'we felt ourselves more important than we were in our lSophmore year but not as important as we were in our Freshman year. We started our class organization in the latter part of our first semester. Under the super- vision of Miss Foley we met and elected Mar- jory Myers president, Marx -Cristman vice- president, Howard Kirby secretary, Brayton Stadler treasurer, and Miss Emily Jones class advisor. Our activities 'began as soon as we were organized. The Junior Circus started the ball a-rolling. We 'held it in the high school gymnasium which we decorated in bright colors with flowers and ballons 'hanging from the walls. Many acts were presented and afterwards danc- ing was enjoyed by all. As Juniors we pre- sented a sum of money to the curtain fund. We staged the play Under Twenty in the school auditorium after Easter. Then we held our Junior banquet for the Seniors at the Country Club. A delightful evening was enjoyed by every one. This ended our Junior Class program. Our activities proved a great suc- coss under the thoughtful guidance of our advisor Miss Jones and the Senior class ex- tends to her a hearty thanks for her attention and kindness. Our Senior class was organized in the be- ginning of the fall term 'by the Junior presi- dent. Howard Kirby was elected president, Emily Yale vice-president, Marx Cristman treasurer, Virginia Brady secretary, and Miss Ccok class advisor. Our Senior season started with a reception for the Freshmen and mem- bers of the faculty. After the reception danc- ing followed. Four Seniors Catherine O'Donnel, Marx Cristman, Emily Yale, and Helen Semit composed the high school debate team which was defeated first at Old Forge, then here at Herkimer High School. We presented the play Pollyanna' which was righly commended 'by the people of Herkimer and other towns along the Valley. As Seniors we sponsored the Sharon Concert which was held in the high school auditorium. In all our years of 'high school, especially the Junior and Senior years, we have had many classmen in public speaking, orchestra, band, and also in athletics. We are now leaving our dear old school and we will close the door upon this phase of our lives. We will go to the different parts and meet new friends, but we will always remember our high school and our faculty. We express our great appreciation to the faculty for their kind guidance through our years of school. To our Senior advisor Miss Cook we leave our best 'wishes for her kindness and fore- silght in helping us in our work. To all the students we say, Good bye, and wish them success during their remaining years in high school. We are going to pass from one of the happiest times of our lives, but few of us realize lt. 'Many times we will look back through the years and wish we were back at dear old Herkimer High. -Marjory Myers HERKIMER HIGH SCHOOL ADDITION UNDER CONSTRUCTION For the past few years there has been a definite need felt in high school for more space. All the space possible has been used and yet the classes have been crowded and teachers hampered by the lack of room, To meet this need the -Board of Education decided that the ivy walls should be expanded to include several more classrooms. The architect plans to use the three rooms at the north end of the building as a library. At present the library is installed in a very small room which is not large enough to accomodate the many students who use it every open period. Neither does the ventilation system meet the requirments of the state department. There is to be a new and larger shower room which is needed by the teams of the school. In addition there are the several larger class- rooms, one of which will probably be used by the classes in home economics. It is under- stood that a new manual training department will offer to boys auto-mechanics and printing. We hope that 'September will find the school installed in its new rooms and rejoicing in the larger quarters provided for the classes, -1Howard Kirby '28 WELCOME FRESHMEN! We are the class of 1931. Our .glorious fresh- man year is completed. We have enjoyed ll immensely, and think that it will he the jolllest year of our entire high school career, WVe shall be Sophmores in September. As we gaze upon the small green fres'hies we shall oondescend to give them a cold smile once in a while and enjoy their mistakes. As they wander about the building at the opening of the coming school year, they will faintly remind us of a time, a long while ago, when another freshman class was trying to get its bearings and settle down to the routine of high school life. If one, forlorn freshman timldly asks us to direct him to a certain classroom, we upper c'assmen will tell him where to go with a slightly amused. bored air. But that is only a part of hilgh school tra- dition. We will be -friendly towards the fresh- men, and appreciate them, for if there were no freshmen, high school could not exist very ong. So let our slogan, that we hand down to our successors, be Welcome Freshmen! -Alice Mary Perry

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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

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