Hornell High School - Maple Leaf Yearbook (Hornell, NY)

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- i-...i.-.-...- The Volcano GLADYS ACKERMAN. The golden melody of her voice enthralls the heart. The future iholds great promise for Gladys, for added to her glorious gift of song, she has those qualities 'which make for suc- cess-perseverance, modesty and ambition. IOLA ANGOOD. A spirit from bright heaven come. She moves -among ns like va gentle spirit which spreads peace and good will wher- ever 'ilt goes. She excels in every other phase of life because of her true loyalty to what is worth while. BENJAMIN M. BEAR. The man of independent mind. Ben once Wrote so fast on the typewriter that they called out the fire department to extinguish the flames that 'stantecl from the friction. VVe say, That if work and ambition were a horn, that Ben would be a brass balnd all by 'hiinselff' HAZEL FAIRBANKS. With craft and skill to win and excel. Hazel is the star of the girls' basketball team. To her their success is largely due. Girls' Basketball Captain C333 Manager 645, 1535 Vice-President of Athletic Asso- ciation C4J. 1922 Eleven

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The Volcano The Senior Class 1922 OFFICERS FASSETT MAHER .......... President MARY MCINTYRE ..,,..... Treasurer HELEN SMITH ..... -Vice-President RUTH LUSK 4---------- Valedictofian RAYMOND GEARY .... . .... Secretary ANNA STEWART. ...,... Salutatorian Class Colors-Maroon and Blue Class Motto-Possunt quia posse videntur CLASS HISTORY Alas, comniencenieirt and the dissemination of tour ftlrnifteid bretlhieim -t91'l'l'lll!H.3lt,9S ou-1' phenomenal career in our beloved emporium of concentrated thought. Our incom- niensurable achievements are now in the annals of history. As we gaze back on our four cycles of scholastic endeavor, we perceive accomiplishments enormous enough to dislodge the wisdom tooth of a prehistoric mastodon. Gur indomitable energy if coalesced into one wallop, -would make the terrestrial orb resemble an ossifled hip- popotamus. We have absorbed the benigniti-es of knowledge from protoplasm to psycho- analysis. Specific apodfices of our athletic prowess over less talented satellites have presented themselves. Members of our conglomeration of notables have attained the acme of perfection in dramatics, orfatory, mins-trelsy, literature, science, music, and art, Cboth line and terpsich-oreanj. An arnamalous amelioration of thaumaturgy has been 'wrought by us. This apogee is discerned in the phantasm-agoria showing the paramount metamorphosis in the institution of learning since we entered it. We have promulgated an ambiguous epoch in .the school's history, which some pansophic pro- fessors, in a rhapsody abounding in hyperbole, have declared the milleniuim. We our- selves take this inforrniation from our panegyrists with an anodyne and a grain of sodium chloride, but our -example will apodicticly be ra beacon cynosure for lower classes. A reininiscence of our startling success might lure us on to poinposity were it not for the ilnagnaniinity of our minds. We realize that our academy, its environment, and our capable instructors have acted as a catalytic agent in evolution of our career. Again we are compelled to .acknowledge th-at we are nei-ther omnipotent nor omniscient. This hypothesis is aptly demonstrated -by the monstrosity -that even in our u1tra-pru- dent midst 'there are -two examples of anfractuosities-symptoniatically speaking, one of our members incured encephalitis meningitis Cwater on the brainj as t11e culmina- tion of an unqnenchable thirst for knowledge, while another was so very unsophisti- cated -that he labored under the mental delusion that Professor Clark adorned his cerebral extremxity with' a wig. Nofthwithstanding this, no lackadais-ical adherents of Mephisftopholes have contaminated our iaisseniblage by their presence, and Whatever idiosyncracies nray exist, they have been successfully externiinated by an avalanche of aneni-onies. It is the cause for numerous contractions of the myocardium that our exodus need-s be attended by several uncontrollable catastrotphies. Regretfully we must relinquish our good fellowship and friends, tried and true. We must allow our places to be filled unsuccessfully by delinquent underlings who are now imbibing superfii-cial knowl- edge in our Hall of Fame. But visions for a refulgently resplendent future b-id us to turn our backs on these trivialities and to- strive on and on. In the dim future necromancy portrays our names emblazoned on the obelisks of liistory, and our deeds recounted to the last syllable of recorded time. V Te, 1922

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The Volcano I l Twelve I 9 RANDOLPH TAYLOR. A stranger from a strange land. From fardaway Arkplort there came a rosy cheeked youth some four years ago bent upon acquiring adequate preparation for life in our worthy institution. Not only has he accomplished his mission, but like- wise acquired angular proportions, instead of the curves and tendencies to rotundity which elilaracterized him as a Freshman. DE WITT SHAFER. Down the valley he comes, sublime, From Arkport, and always on time. DeWitt is one of 'the few fellows who dares venture into the 't'1'rig class. He also ventures live miles from home each day, in order to be :with us. We are glad that he does, too. EDWARD CLARK. A change has been W'I'lOlllgl1t in him of latef? Why? ls it due entirely to feminine in- Huence? Surrounded constantly by a rosebud garden of girls as 'he lingers in the front hall, it is not to be wondered that wh-at Dr. Johnson so aptly 'called the refining infiuence of female society should show its effect. R. BROWNSON MARTIN. He has the iirst of Yankee Virtues, Corn- mon Sense. Brownson is a line fellow, and is liked by every one. He always greets you with a jest or smile. Volcano f4Jg Cheer Leader C3J, C433 Glee Cl-ub ill, C233 Orchestra f2J. 22