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

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The Volcano i ACKNOWLEDGMENT The students of Hornell High School wish to take this opportunity to express to Mr. Dodge their deep appreciation of his untiring efforts in their behalf during the past four years. Both as Principal and Superintendent, they feel that his sincere personal interest in their Work and achievements has been an incentive and inspiration. The new Hornell High School-his dream and ideal-has been made a reality largely thru the zeal and devotion manifested by him. i922

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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