Holyoke High School - Annual Yearbook (Holyoke, MA)

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Who's Who In 1933 ■a? Most Popular Girl Most Popular Boy Brightest Girl Brightest Boy Most Versatile Girl Most Versatile Boy Girl Most To Be Admired Boy Most To Be Admired Girl Most Likely To Succeed Boy Most Likely To Succeed Glass Musician ('lass Artist Best Girl Athlete Best Boy Athlete ('lass Genius Prettiest Girl Most Handsome Boy Best Sutured Girl Best Sutured Boy Most Studious Girl Most Studious Boy ('lass Gloom Dispeller, Girl Class Gloom Dispeller, Boy Class Belle Class Beau . Class Beau Brummell Class Chatterer, Girl Class Chatterer, Boy Most Quiet Girl Most Quiet Boy Most Bashful Girl Most Bashful Boy . Helen Downing Janies Dunn Barbara (lately John Appel Madelyn Alderman Robert Anderson . Helen Downing James Dunn Barbara (lately . John Appel Edward Nowak Mildred Pampel . . Ians Fun Chester Wilusz Joseph Freedman Catherine Spooner Rodrique Valliere Mary Long James Dunn Barbara (lately John Appel Florence Klopfer Pasquale Sandrilla Caroline Cnderdorfel Robert Mooney Henry Campbell Elizabeth LaBreeque Paul Gingras Nellie Prior Ellerton Glover Nellie Prior . Edward Stiles nineteen

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Some two months after we stormed the portals on Pine. Hamp- shire and Sargeant Streets—1 will not mention the subway entrance on Beech Street- a teacher in a distant clime heard the reverbera- tions of our attack and, filled with the spirit of adventure, came posthaste to join our doughty warriors. Our ranks were strengthen- ed by the advent of a new Head of the English Department. We have enrolled him as one of our class, for he enlisted with us. Miss Gorman, Supervisor of Household Arts, left at the close of our Junior year to put into practice in her new sphere of life as Mrs. James Gearon the theories which she had taught us in our courses in domestic science. She was succeeded by Miss O’Hern, who needs no introduction to the members of the class. Another change in faculty personnel which falls within our generation is the retirement from active duty of the Dean of Girls, our beloved Miss Fay. We shall think of her as graduating with us of going on with us as we take our places among the alumni and alumnae of the school. We are unwilling to go without her. She is here in the auditorium this morning, and so I take this occasion to invite Miss Fay to enroll under our flag and to march with us as we enter upon our new career. Thus is our history gradually unraveled before your eyes and even though we graduates-to-be shall never again assemble under these same conditions, time will never dim our fond memory of this occasion. In leaving Holyoke High behind us we shall not be pro- claimed famous as the Class of ’33, but as La Derniere Classe under Miss Fay. eighteen

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Class Oration—Our Choice JOHN J. BRESNA1IAX KEY chapter in our book of life has been closed. The time has come to meditate our future, to map out our course of life, to ponder our social heritage, or to terminate formu- lated plans. Let us take inventory. AVhat has made the present day and a bright future possible for us.’ The sacrifice of our parents and the American system of school- ing evolved through years of experimentation by the minds of creative thinkers. To the present day all we have, we owe to someone else; our greatest debt is to our parents, to our teachers, and to all the great who have made history. They have given us without hoping for material reward. They have helped mould our minds and characters for the best; they have assisted us to lay the foundation for our future life. We must now build upon our training and education. Still, we have a freedom of choice—as concerns our future. At the crossroad of life specimens of life’s offerings are spread before us. These are an honorable career, a mediocre existence, or a vicious, degraded life. This last offering we shall immediately eliminate, as no sane, decent human being will hesitate to discard this choice. May we consider then, the two other courses possible for us to choose: success or mediocrity. How will non guide your choice? In making a selection we must consider the subsequent payment, for we are subject to an immutable law which governs our existence. This law is compensation. We must take the bitter with the sweet, for every sweet hath its compensating sour; every good, its evil. Be the pay- ment for our choice immediate, or deferred, pay we must sometime. There is no escape; it is as inevitable as Death itself. “What will you have?” quoth God, “take it. and pay.” So, then, look well to your choice. Be equipped for your chosen work. Be ready to pay for what you take; then make the gallant fight for success and happiness. Conform to the law of Nature, and your chances for success are augmented. Violate it and you are doomed and forced to pay dearly. “Commit a crime and the world is made of glass.” says Emerson. IIow true that philosophy is! A perfect equity adjusts itself, too, in all phases of life. Man seeks greatness. He would have but one side of nature, the sweet, without twenty