Kibler High School - Scholastics Yearbook (Tonawanda, NY)

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-fx - l' 5 ARE -A i I M fl mill' 3 The Washington Trip FROM the beginning of this school year, the students have been asked to sell tickets or candy or megaphones, and the money received was to go to the Washington fund. I wonder how many of us quite realized how important that Washington fund really was. The seniors have raised money in various ways this year. There have been movies, plays, candy sales, and even a balloon sale. Our Senior play was one of the most successful ever presented by a senior class of Tonawanda High School. It meant work-hard work, but the cast received their just reward when the following week they boarded the train for the Unknown-the goal toward which we had all been striving. In Washington, we moved rapidly. Our time was all too short. Our worthy chaperones, Miss Farrell, Miss Bellinger, and Mr. Tussing, seemed to be gifted when it came to getting us to bed nights, that is, most nights. The Hotel Hamilton proved to be a fine place, and its officials were most tolerant. There was a flying field not so far from the hotel, and when we might have been learning the significance of the paintings in the Capitol dome, or what the president had for breakfast, many of us soared away over the city, and felt ourselves quite lifted above earthly things, figuratively as well as literally. Probably the most beautiful thing we saw was the Lincoln Memorial. Its simple beauty is startling. The building itself is lovely, but the statue of Lincoln is beyond the power of description. It invokes both awe and reverence, and if the great man should suddenly speak, I doubt if one would be much startled. The most of us had never been further south than Mount Vernon, and not for any- thing would we have missed that trip. We hope that the Underclassmen with whom we part thisjune, will see to it that these Easter trips are carried on. It is not easy to be continually asking people for their support of this or that or the other thing, but when you have taken the trip and realize what it means, you will not be sorry that you did your bit toward sen ing your class to Washington. Now, in behalf of the Senior Class, I Want to thank every one who was loyal enough to support us, although they may have received no reward. They will be rewarded when their class has its trip. Take it from one who knows, you will never regret having worked for so line a cause. GLADYS ELsoN I ,AZZKQE Q, , 1' 7-9

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f A - .W 2 Q . i .N K N f .fu lv-all Kai Commencement Wiz have been looking forward to our Commencement for four long years, but now we find it hard to realize that the important event is really at hand. Soon we shall no longer be the ranking body of the High School-the seniors-but merely alumni. The happy activities of the Commencement season will begin with Class Day on Saturday, june 15, at Creekside Park, near East Aurora. The afternoon will be spent ' Th S ' in games and sports, then will come supper and the regular program. e enior President, Harold Struebing, will give the first address, then the Junior President, Clyde Wagner, will try to outdo him. The donors will furnish more fun with their clever and sometimes too appropriate gifts to their classmates. The girls donor will be Anna Gromlovits, and the boys' will be Thomas Rowley. Then comes that great gulf, Regents. Some of us will breast the current and reach the other shore cum lafzdef others, mirabile diem. Some may even get lost in the Waves and reappear, belated but undismayed, next January. I.et's hope their number will be small. The next event will be Baccalaureate Services in the Auditorium, Sunday evening, June 7.3. The sermon will be given by the Rev. W. Merle of the Evangelical Church. Commencement exercises will be held in the Auditorium on Tuesday evening, June 15. The salutatory will be given by Josephine Colby. The orator elected by the class, Lyell Hauger, will be the next speaker, and the faculty-elected orator, William Harmon will follow. The valedictory will be given by Caroline Hatfield. Rev. H. Elliott Chaffee of Syracuse will give the address. The diplomas will be awarded by Mr. W. Kibler, President of the Board of Education. Then the class of 192.9 will be disbanded, and we shall join the ranks of the great outside world. .-ZZV1 ' 18

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, 5 i X '! DQQWBWF The Cleese Well I WE, the members ofthe Class of 1919, being in our right mind Cat least, we hope we areD do present this as our last will and testament. Item. Item. Item. Item . Item. Item. Item . We do give and bequeath to our honored Principal first, our gratitude, second, a well-earned rest, third, all the automobile tools we lost in auto mechanics this year. ' We bequeath to the faculty the hope that we may not turn out as badly as they predicted. We bequeath to the Juniors our dignity, our study hall, our senior advisor, all our old books, the pencil sharpener in Hall A., and the front seats in assembly. Deal with them gently. They are not used to your rough Ways. We have taught them what to expect from a Senior Class. We also bequeath you all of our bank account after our debts are paid. If there is not enough money to pay the debts, we bequeath them to you. We bequeath to the Underclassmen to hopye that you may in time reach the height of erudition to which we have elim ed. Of course you never will, but it won't hurt you to hope. We bequeath to the president of the Junior Class, the stand neat the head of the itairs where our president used to park between classes. Why? Don't be oolish. The space near the drinking fountain, however, we do not grant to anyone. That must be kept sacred in memory of Tom. We bequeath to Buford Bellinger the right to patrol the upper hall at all hours, formerly held by Joe Dreyer. We do bequeath to the junior Class as our most sacred legacy, the reputation we gained on our Washington trip. We adjurecyou not to injure it, to come back from your sojurn in the capital with a recor even better than ours. To this document, we do ajix our band QWe can't ajford ez .realb on the laet day before Commencement 197-9 EMMETT KENNEY, Attorney 412 7 ' ,, ,A A Ee ., 30