Ithaca High School - Annual Yearbook (Ithaca, NY)

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June 1, 1954 Dear l.H.S. Students, f'To thee, Old Ithaca High, we sing, Loudly let her praises ring. What do you think of as you read these words? Probably you picture yourself in Fos- ter Hall. The President of I.H.S. has just announced the song, you rise and stand erect. Be- fore the announcement there was whispering, but now the auditorium is still. The conductor raises his baton, the orchestra begins to play. One thousand voices-yours, your friendsf your teachers'-- sing, Stately 'neath the sloping hills .... Nothing is heard but the song, its music fills the room, the school,-the world for the moment. The time of this experience? It may be a September morning when you're a Freshman. You're newous and excited, and scared and happy, all at the same time. Perhaps it's a November athletic awards assembly or the April Honor Society induction. It may be June and the last assembly of the year, and your mind is racing ahead to thoughts of vacation. The time really makes no difference, for no matter what season, no matter what year, when students of I.H.S. assemble to sing their Alma Materf' the experience is much the same. Think how many teen-agers have stood as we now stand, singing! In 1906 when James Winslow first wrote the song, and the only big social events of l.H.S. were two dances sponsored by school sororities, students sang the Alma Mater. Still they sang in 1912, the year the school burned and classes met in grade schools and homes. Boys who were to fight in the trenches of France, and a generation later, boys soon to land on the beaches of Normandy or Okinawa, stood and sang as the orchestra played. All of these and many others like them have shared this experience with us. Think of how many other experiences we must have in common with them - studying in Ithaca High,s classes, suffering through its exams, cheering its teams, and enjoying its dances. Do you ever think of them and of I.H.S. in years past? Probably not. We of the An- nual Staff must confess that we didn't. We spend the major part of our days in school for either three or four years. We are willing to accept the classes, clubs, and activities as they stand, or else we try to improve them. However, we seldom bother to find out how they came about or who initiated them and for what purpose. One day last September your Annual Staff discovered that this was to be Ithaca High's fiftieth yearbook. As we looked through the forty-nine yearbooks which have preceded ours, we realized that here lay the story of those days past. These books included Ithaca High's first yearbook, the Senior Class Book published by the Class of 1905, and the first book en- titled The Annual, which was published in 1915. Through the years they have recorded the story of Ithaca High as seen through the eyes of those students who have preceded us. What better place is there to probe into the past a little, than our Annual, which is to complete a half century of the yearbook? In choosing this anniversary-historical theme, it is not our purpose to relate a complete history of Ithaca High. That is impossible in our limited space. Rather we are trying to show the development of the clubs, teams, and traditions most familiar to all of us as I.H.S. students in 1953-54. Sincerely yours, Janet Mack E61

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