Lakewood High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Lakewood, NY)

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Q 'if' i SYS., . NK XX . 4 ii .IA 5- I J' ff-,rg . , xx- '-XiN'g -I .-'- t Fi X - ,A 4,- LEE R. MATHEWSON A lllflll of sovereigfz parts be is cfsfuelffzl LovE's LABOUR,S LOST O Mr. Mathewson-on the twenty - fifth anniversary of his faithful service as principal of Lakewood High School - We Wish to express our appreciation. During these years he has built up and main- tained high standards of efficiency and scholarship. A 9

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APPRECIATION UR principal, Lee R. Mathewson, was one in a family of five girls and three boys. He lived seven miles from Springville in Cattaragus County. After attending West Valley High School for three years, he went to Grifhith Insti- tute from which he graduated in 1912. He received the degrees of Pd. B., and B.S. from Syracuse University in 1917. He planned to become a government chemist. He took a physical education course during the summer session at Chautauqua. While supervisor of physical education in Rensseleer County for one and a half years, he had forty schools to visit every two Weeks. He next accepted a position as head of the science department in Amsterdam High School from which he entered service in World War I. He became a sergeant in the heavy artillery. Before coming to Lake- wood in 1921, he served as vice principal in North Tarry- town-on-Hudson. He received his M.A. degree from Columbia in 1929. The faculty held a banquet March 19, in honor of his twenty-fifth anniversary as principal of Lakewood High School. 8 1

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ALFRED LOWE O. D. MEERDINK ANTHONY FUSCUS STAGE CREW O' how full of briers is the working day work!! AS You LIKE IT OLIVE B. COLE MAE MARSH 10