Jamestown High School - Red and Green Yearbook (Jamestown, NY)

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5 I. H. S. SENIOR ANNUAL 1931 I-as r l I ff 4 .wafma 4: I f Disgusted, ap 6 would prove 'I I S 55 fum I 9 d 9 : very interesting and Ih01'0l1gh- Q 5 2 indeed, but such . . If 'V - - - IY Put Outi I Q s 5 9 EiE ? intriguing ques- lT1HI'li6Cl H Il'11I'CL E Q ig 5 1 ajf tions as tha p05- design 011 the Q gf sibilities of life desk blotter. 64Who in this world ever was mean enough to invent such an uninspirational piece of literature as an editorialf' I in- quired of myself viciously, as still no brilliant idea was forthcoming from my weary brain. As a matter of fact, several ideas had already popped into my mind concern- but I rejected them all because I knew that my knowl- was extremely ing a possible editorial, edge of these subjects limited. There was that topic of the proposed two new high schools, over which the Board of Education and Superintendent of Schools labored for months, only to be heartlessly rejected by a vote of the taxpayers. Or there were the volumes that might be written about life beyond our school, such as: the bitter struggle for existence in a cruel world, the value of many friends and friendship, the thrill of achieving success through dint of much perseverance and hard work, or the value of good, common sense coupled with a practical imagination. Still another subject which might be interesting, was the matter of the un- solved mysteries of life. No, not so much the Rothstein murder case, although that on Mars, the fu- ture use of electricity, the cause and cure for cancer, etc., etc. The subject of love itself and the per- sons it has transformed and the miracles it has accomplished would, perhaps, be the most interesting and absorbing sub- ject of them all. But what do I know concerning the exhaustive question of two new schools except my own almost valueless opinion? How much could I tell concerning a life beyond our school, when I am only just graduating, and concerning unsolved mysteries and love, when I know only too well my immaturity in these matters? Still disgusted, disgruntled, and thor- oughly put out, I marked a fourth design on the desk blotter. Pk Pls Pk Pk And now the time has come for the seal to be broken. It is, therefore, with a great deal of pleasure, that the staff presents to you the 1931 J. I-I. S. Senior Annual. It is our hope that it will give enjoyment to you now as well as serve for a storehouse for your memories in years to come. At this time, thanks should be given to the following, who make the publication possible:

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Z , 'P L- THE RED AND GREEN SENIOR ANNUAL 1931 Jamestown High School JAMESTOWN, NEW YORK THE STAFF LUCIAN WARREN ----- Editor-in-Chief FRED HAYES - - - Business Manager GEORGE KESSLER - - Advertising Manager MISS LAURA FRECK ---- Faculty Advisor Contributing Editors RUTH SEYMOUR, '31 MARIE HANNON, '32 JAMES GOODELL, '32 ROBERT CRANDALL, '32 FRANCIS MARSH, '32 PAUL B. JOHNSON, '33 DOROTHY WATSON, '33 FRANCESCA GOODELL, '31 HELEN REED, '31 RUTH BENTLEY, '31 ROBERT STEWART, '31 ALTON ANDERSON, '31 DONALD PACKARD, '31 Art Editors MARY BENEDETTO PETER KLOMP FRANCIS LINDSTROM JOHN CHARLTON QCArtOOnsj JEROME MOBERG fPOStersj PAUL LANSING JOHNSON fCartOOnSj Assistant Business Managers GEORGE CLAPP, '32 ELLIOTT JONES, '32 PHILIP SWANSON, '32 HERBERT STRONG, '32 RODGER GUSTAFSON, '33 STANLEY A. WEEKS, '31 ROBERT TAYLOR, '31 WILLIAM INGLESON, '31 LAWRENCE BELL, '31 REGINALD LENNA, '31 Typists IRENE ANDERSON DORIS A. PETERSON EVA DAHLIN EVA MARTENSON FRANCES JOHNSON I J ENNIE TRAMONTANA ,m.'-fr A . I

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I. H. S. SENIOR ANNUAL 1931 7 You readers, who turned out en masse to buy the book. The advertisers who contributed gen- erously to the financial success of the Annual. The faithful staff who in a most satis- factory way, met the obligations necessar- ily incurred upon them by the publica- tion of the book. Miss Laura F. Freck, faculty advisor, whose wise supervision was indispensible. We of the staff believe that, along with all the other departments which each year grace the pages of this book, in one form or another, we have incorporated this year a feature which never before has been in a J. H. S. Annual, or, as far as we know, in any other school year book. We hope that this new department will prove as useful to the students as we intended it should be. This new department is the eight arti- cles following this editorial, which deal with eight vocations of the world today. Realizing, of course, that our space was limited, we had to cut down on the num- ber of vocational articles as well as the size of each article itself. We tried to pick the ones in which the majority of students would be interested. A word should be said about the authors of the articles. Six of them are prominent men of Jamestown: Robert Jackson is Well known in the law firm of Jackson, Durkin, and Leet. Leonard A. Bergman is city engineer. Walter H. Edson is trust officer of the National Chautauqua County Bank and Dr. Har- old A. Blaisdell is one of the most suc- cessful practitioners of medicine in Jamestown. Ellis W. Beck is the senior partner in the firm of Beck and Tinkham, architects and Merton P, Corwin, as prin- cipal of our school, needs no introduc- tion. The other two writers, although having a local residence, are nationally known figures. I refer, in the first place, to Bev. Dr. Lucius H. Bugbee, who, after serving as pastor for many of the largest Methodist Churches in the country, re- cently was made editor-in-chief of the Methodist Sunday School Publications: Dr. Floyd L. Darrow, the other nation- ally known figure, is famous for his scien- tific experiments and research, especially those for juniors. His books on science are rated among the great works of America today.