Lafayette High School - Oracle Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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MR. HARRY I. GOOD DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION OR a half century Lafayette High School has served its community on a high plane. lts students have gone forth into this an other areas, giving a good account of themselves. Men and women in all walks of life are numbered among its graduates-artists, lawyers, teachers, musicians, doctors nurses, businessmen, tradesmen, clergymen, social workers, clerical workers, and homemakers. All have felt the influence of this their Alma Mater, and all have gone forth to be of service to society. Lafayette can be truly proud of its fine achievements. Congratulationsl Harry I . Good 7

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DR. BENJAMIN C. WILLIS SUPERINTENDENT OF EDUCATION ONGRATULATIONS to the principal, faculty, and students of Lafayette High School on this Golden Anniversaryl The success ofa school is determined, in o large part, by the combined efforts of teachers upils, parents, and other citizens of the school's community. The measure of this success centers in excel- llent citizenship on the part of the graduates in the years ahead. Best wishes to those graduating in this memorable yeor, to the faculty, and, through you, to those who have preceded you. Beniamin C. Willis 6

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The Year! I0 Her Belong The Queen Whose Praise Our Lips Confess PON the western border of a domain extending wide, Encompassing our city, and all the satellites at her side, Throughout the cycle of a century's half our Lafayette has stood A presence strong, beneficent, striving ever toward the good. Within this spreading region many thousands now reside, Many thousands of her graduates who speak her name in pride. As they review in retrospect, across the intervening years, In the light of life's experience, the full significance then appears Of the service she has given, and they say, in understanding of the benefits bestowed, Oh how great their value, how deep the debt of gratitude owed To you, our Alma Mater, for your guidance and your care, For your great gifts, so freely given - for benefits rich and rare. To your doors we came as children, they opened to our call, They opened wide in welcome and that welcome was for all. You opened windows of the mind to vistas then afar Fields in arts and sciences we could in later years explore. So we grew in mind as well as stature, increasing year by year, Those powers of mind now forming in a favorable atmosphere. And greater gifts than these you gave, as we can measure now, Oh heritage of priceless worth with which our young minds to endow, That desire for increase of knowledge into our minds you wroughtp In our pliant youth you shaped it, fixed that desire in our thought That habit of the mind to seek - to know - to learn - to understand That striving toward a farther goal - 'twas ever your command. And when the time for parting came, because these blessings we had known, We were no longer children, but to men and women grown. Many other happy hours we enjoyed along the way When work was laid aside, and play became the order of the day, Those assembly celebrations for athletic victories won The songs and cheers that deafened ears, for valorous deeds well donep The Press clubs and the Chess clubs, the Hi-Y's and the Glees We ioined at our own option, which ever seemed to please, The candy sales and masquerades brought their own share of fun Interests and amusements, through the years, for everyone. When flaring posters through the halls announced a carnival gay, When dramas and debates set forth our talents on display, At racing contests in the pool, we watched the champions swimp Oh the excitement through the school, at news of dances in the gyml The Yuletide Season brought its ioys that memory oft recalls Christmas hymns sung sweet and clear by strolling caroiers in the halls. The joy when former classmates 'twas our privilege to greet When friends returning at this season, could in sweet reunion meet. Then, when after steady strenuous effort, earnest work the four years through When in June we made the finals marking thus the end in view, And before the gathered multitude, stiff we stood, a solemn band, With serious face and mien sedate, that prized diploma now in hand, Oh those joyous youthful days, the days we don't forget When our young years were happy years,-those years at Lafayette. Your early years were quiet years, the ways of peace you knew Bordered by the pleasant farmlands stretching northward to the view, You enioyed unusual setting near the growing city's edgep 8