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

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Journalism in H. H. S. AT THE beginning of the term the Press Club organ'zed. It determined to give the students a chance to show what type of publication was desired. By an almost unanimous vote, the student body voted to follow the plan of last year's staff and publish a newspaper instead of a magazine. Four issues of The Green Parrot were published. The Press Club headed by Richard Pelton, President: Peg Wood, Vice-Presidentg Marion Pierson, Secretaryg Helen Ellwood, Treasurer, appointed the annual staff. They began work early in the spring. The following new members have been elected to the Press Club: Joseph Donohue, Caroline Mitchell, Philip Allen, Richard Brayton, Frank Spedding, David Laird, Jack Wood, Elizabeth Ochoclnieki, Christina Casale and Eleanor Little. Just turn back with me in memory About a dozen years or moreg We, all scared and in a tremble, Sought the kindergarten door. Round by round we climbed the ladder Mounting higher with each grade, Till at last we passed the eighth one With a good foundation laid. There a bright and happy teacher Turned our sorrows into joys, With some drawing, games and stories Made us happy girls and boys. Poem Then we found ourselves in High School With four years of work ahead- And we now approach the end with Mingled happiness and dread. There's been beauty in the com- ing, Beauty in the going, too-- As we leave these halls of learning For some greater work to do. High ideals, good aims and cul- ture VVere not gained from books we bought, But by contact with instructors Wliose advice we often sought. Now we're standing at the gate- way Pondering on which road to rakeg May we all be filled with wis- dom, May we ma1'e no grave mis-- take. We stand clothed in youths strong armor Knights beginning a great quest- Life now lies before us- openg May we make ours 2 success. Now farewell, our Alma Mater, Vve must leave these friendly lfallsg May we profit by the lessons We have learned within your walls. -J. K., '32.

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Parrot Staff STANDING BACK ROW LEFT TO RIGHT-Frank Spedding, William Gaherty, Richard Brayton, Joseph Donohue, Alfred VVinston, Philip Allen, Jack Wood, David Laird. STANDING SECOND ROW FROM LEFT TO RIGHT-Marv Metzger, Mar- garet Kinney, Elizabeth Ochodnicki, Joyce Knights, Eleanor Little, Barbara Dedicke, Edith Nelson, Caroline Mitchell. FRONT ROW FROM LEFT TO RIGHT-Virginia Spedding, Helen Elwod, Margaret Wood, Marion Pierson, Richard Pelton, John Moore, Lois Kraus. Annual Staff STANDING--Marion Byrnes, Charles Bechtold, Esther Paetznick, Philip Allen, Al- frvd Winston, Joyce Knights, Jack Wood, Sara Mahoney. SEATED-Betty Grainger, Eleanor Little, Peggy Wood, Richard Pelton, Marion Pierson, Jack Moore, Celia, Gross- man, Anna Borichevsky.

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11933 Class istoiry IN THE fall of 1928 a large number of students entered Herkimer High School as the Freshman class. We did not organize and therefore we were very inactive. However, several students of our class gave readings at the art and sewing exhibition. We organized under Miss Gohringer in our Sophomore year and elected John Shults, presi- dentg Richard Pelton, vice-president, Elizabeth Googin, secretary, and George Endres, treasurer. Our class had the distinction of being the first Sophomore class to present class plays. Two one- act plays were staged, The Clock Shop and The Pot Boiler. In our Junior year we organized with Miss Jones as adviser. Stauring Shunk was elected president: Richard Pelton, vice-presidentg Elizabeth Googin, secretaryg and Richard Jurewicz, treasurer. ln January the class play, The Patsy, was presented and later in the year the Jun- ior Stunt Show was staged. Junior studen-ts participated in the Thespian plays, the musical oper- etta, Hansel and Gretalf' and the Prize Speaking Contest. The Junior class was represented on the championship football team. In our Senior year we organized under the guidance of Miss Cook. We elected Richard Pelton, president, Ronald Hart, vice-president: Evelyn Deane, secretaryg and Alfred Winston, treasurer. Due to the large membership of our class and the active interest in dramatic work the class presented two three-act plays, The Millionaire and Kempy. Senior students partici- pated in the tri-city play, Dawn, the Constitutional Contest, the Prize Speaking Contest, the Thespian play, Captain Applejackf' the musical operetta, Windmills of Holland, and in many assembly programs conducted by the Student Council. Several students played on the championship football team and participated in other sports. A strange, mysterious, and wonderful light is the light of memory, and in the dim future when the members of this class, whose brows are now flushed with youthful ambition, look back upon the years, it will be with the thought that the brief time spent in the Herkimer High School is as a sparkling sunbeam in the shadows of the past. -Marion Byrnes.