Ithaca High School - Ithacansian Yearbook (Ithaca, MI)

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ITHACANSIAN reached our goal-we were now seniors and how dignified we felt and looked. A class meeting was held and officers elected as follows: President ............................................................ Victor Sawyer Vice-president ...... ......... R uth McNabb Secretary ...,........... .......... .............. I lva Sibert Treasurer ....................................,....................... Isabelle McCall There 'were but forty-seven of us left to represent the class of '23. The Senior girls were asked to move into Mrs. Conant's and Miss Foster's rooms to make room for the freshmen. Later in the year a class party was held at the home of Glen and G-uy Ellsworth and every- one had a very enjoyable time. The most enjoyable event in our senior year was the Senior banquet given by the Senior boys. . '. This was the last time we as a class would meet the school board. An enjoyable evening spent but back of it was the sad thought that it was the last time an occasion of this kind would Qccur with all the class, of '23 together. 4 Another blot on the happiness of our senior year was the return of our beloved friend and classmate, Grace Vallance, to her Heavenly Father. At last our Senior year closes and we are about to leave our places to others whom we hope will do justice to Ithaca High School as well as the class of 1923. We feel duly grateful to the faculty for guiding our faltering and sometimes stubborn footsteps through our high school days. These days have been days of hard and constant work but they were filled with happiness. , , r In the future we will look back upon the happy and 'care free days of our high school life and cherish the memories of those days. Let us forget the present and look into the future-The question for each one of us to decide is: Will the kind and thoughtful teaching we received in I. H. S. be put into action? - What will I befA success or a failure in life? - In this wonderful age of this old world there is a duty for each one of us td perform. Will we perform that duty successfully? If we will only remember and do it in honor of the class of, '23 it will be performed successfully. But I am confident that whatever, whenever, or wherever we are, our duties will be performed successfully and honorably to pre- serve the honor of the class of one-thousand, nine hundred and twenty- three. -ELOISE REYNOLDS. TWENTY -THREE

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ITHACANSIAN failed to see their opinion and so remained happy in our opinion of them. September 2, 1921, we came back to school with higher hopes and not with as faltering steps as the year before. After the students had become familiar with their work and teach- ers, a class meeting was called and officers were elected as follows: President ....,,...,,... I , ..,.,, ................ 5 ..... .... .... iV' ibl' Sawyer Vice-president N -.....fi?Virgi:EXMcWhi1:k Secretary ,,,,,,., ,,,.,,. . ,, ...........,,.. Bessie Dicken g Treasurer ,,,.,,.,,,,,,,..,..,,.,, , ,,,..,.,,,..,...,..,..........,... Grace Vallance Qur Sophomore year passed along smoothly with several enjoyable class parties. Our hardest task was conquering geometry but we mastered it with the aid of Miss McKenzie and ponies. When we found our class together again in our Junior year there were but sixty left from the trials and tribulations of our Freshmen and Sophomore years. We elected these ofiicers for the year: President ................................................ .......... R odney Lake Vice-president ...................... ........ Kathleen Davis Secretary and Treasurer .... . .... ................ E thel Stahl Junior Editor ................................................ Raymond Harvey I will review briefly our Junior history. As usual we Juniors held a fair and realized a large sum of money which we spent on the Seniors. After some difficulty our class rings were decided on and in time re- ceived. V At the beginning of the second semester some of us Junior girls had to take up our abode in Mrs. Conantfs and Miss Foster's rooms so as to make room for the freshmen who were just entering. We considered this a great privilege and although we hated to leave Mr. Wolfe and his jokes, we were secretly glad because now we were pu,t on a level with the Senior girls who previously were the only ones to have this honored privi- lege. . , A D A In May we took the seniors to Crystal and g-ave them a good time. When the High School Carnival was given, we wanted it to be a suc- cess so of course the Junior class took the responsibility. As all junior years must end, we left Ithaca High in June to return again in September as Seniors. We were happy, yet sad, in the thought that we had but one more happy year to spend as high school students. Summer vacation seemed to take wings and fly, so soon did we find our footsteps leading us again to studies and good times. This was our last year and every one wanted to make it his best. At last we had TWENTY-TW O fi. . 1 A rl

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V I tp' Si 1 F L X . ITHACANSIAN, Class Will I think nothing is more pleasant than to see a good man really rising in the world slowly, but surely, they seem to find their way to the front at last. There are some men who, so to speak, are bound to get on. When they have planted their feet on the first rung of the ladder, they must needs mount. V . Certain it is that life is a serious thing that should be governed neith- er by caprice nor thrown away on chance. Life is long, and its many succeeding ages and phases brings its many duties, and with the duties the highest responsibilities. Life is often rugged, it is not always young and joyous. Soon come trials, struggles, labors, and contrarieties of every kind., These are given us as :foundations of life. During the inexperience of our youth life flies gaily on like a pleasant adventure, without care, without any foresight, without any plan. And so have ours flown till the time has come when we must begin to make plans for our future. Occasions of learning and self-improvement come, stay with us for a short time, then fly, and the wheels of time shall not be reversed to bring them back, once they are gone. If we neglect them, we shall be permanent losers for this life and cannot say how much we may be losers hereafter. Before emerging from this sphere of knowledge, it is necessary to make arrangements for the distribution of certain articles which will be useless to us in the future and will aid greatly those who are yet to strug- gle in the paths of learning and have to gain the supposed- fame and knowledge of those departing. We will, therefore, take this day, the SEVENTH of JUNE, nineteen hundred twenty-three, to declare this to be our last Will and Testament. ARTICLE I. To the Seniors of next year, as customary, we bequeath the assembly room and contents and exclusively the right of sitting on the back seats talking, eating candy, chewing gum and consequences thereof, which consist usually of a front seat on platform. ARTICLE II. We give the classes the right of initiating plans for making money, so that they may cross the bridges of preparation and glide through the portals of opportunity in perfect ease. t ARTICLE III. We give to the Seniors of next' year the privilege of being bored and tormented by the Freshmen. ARTICLE IV. Vinal Tabor and George Teachman will, bequest and bequeath to William Knickerbocker and Frank Stone the privilege of con- suming gallons of oil in midnight study so that they may make of them- selves more worthy specimens of human nature. ARTICLE V. To the successor of Mr. Wolfe, we grant for one year, the right of disturbing the equalibrium of the lower classmen by yelling at them with such force that the echoes rebound and resound from far and near. TWENTY-FOUR