Lafayette High School - Oracle Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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OMPARABLE to the very heart tif an elin is Lafayettefs faculty. just as the trunk carries nutrition to the branches and leaves of the tree, the faculty imparts knuwledge to students. Ex- perienced teachers strengthen youths' desire tu learn. Many times in the future students will be reminded of the wise guidance of a teacher. f CHARLES E. ANDE RsoN

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Love Naught Can Sever N 1903 small elms clustered protectrvely around a new burldmg 1n 1955 mature trees surround a worthy school dearly loved by many If they could speak these trees would doubtless tell of three respected prrncrpals M Arther Detmers Captam Calvert K Mellen and Mr Frank R Gott devoted teachers and numberless students who have grven Lafayette her rrch tradrtrons In May 1953 hundreds of alumnr retumed to pay trrbute to Lafayette on her frftreth brrthday These graduates en joyed remrmscrng over occurrences of therr student days Some remembered athletrc contests at Lafayette Freld or the Harvard Cup team that scored 200 to 0 for the oppo nents or the state champronshrp basketball teams Others spoke of debatrng clubs candy sales rn the audrtonum or the 1923 24 school year when 2400 students were en rolled All recalled the senror boys Arbor Day programs rnaugurated ln 1904 and many the senlor grrls Mem orral Day programs begun ln 1913 Present students wrll remember the band leadmg JUIIIOIS and sen1ors as they marched to the john A Boechat monument at Colonlal Clrcle for memorral exercrses each Veterans and Memorral Day They w1ll also retarn the memory of the day the Yale cup was placed rn the large case rn center hall Lafayette s champronshrp crew th junror Senror prom and the annual fun packed Varrety Show They wrll remember therr classmates who were choxces for the All I-hgh football and basketball teams But most of all they w1ll remember the frrendshrps and good txmes that four years of hrgh school grve to every student Through the years Lafayette students have been urged to follow the school s motto of Loyalty Honor and Servxce and to Be strong and of a good courage Gott has often read the West Pomt prayer askmg strength to Make us to choose the harder rrght mstead of the easrer wrong Each student body has been guarded agamst the seeds of prejudrce or mtolerance and has grown to usefulness through experrences at Lafayette the elms protected also from dread Jrsease have grown to even greater beauty Constancy to lrfe s best purposes wrll brrng contmued growth to our Alma Mater guarded by stately elms

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