Le Roy Central School - O At Kan Yearbook (Le Roy, NY)

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Commencement Number TH E R E D A N D B L A C K Page Seventeen S3333 QiidQiiidQQKWQWQ 3 NDR ESSAY 0 ELQDQQDEQEWQQWQQQQWQQQQKQQQQQQKQQQQQQQQQE Chivalry In various forms, have come down to us the noble practices that made chivalry the greatest ideal of olden days. But what are we, the youth of 1927, doing to per- petuate the fine arts of life? Apparently, chivalry is dy- ing out among us. Filial obedience and respect are gradu- ally becoming extinct, or if still alive, are so twisted out of their ordinary shape as to be quite unrecognizable. Everyday acts of courtesy are falling into disuse. The rights and privileges of others no longer are considered, chivalrous self-sacrifice is becoming a thing of the past, a virtue to be respected, but not acquired. It is gradually surrendering its famed place to the twentieth century motto, Every man For Himself. Unless a modern Renaissance is developed by the youth of today, things that make life fine will suc- cumb to the great onrush of materialism. It is, of course, necessary that we prepare ourselves to fight the battle of life, that we enter the ranks of those pushing forward to secure place, and power, and wealth. But it is infinitely more necessary that we be truthful, sin- cere, courteous, and self-sacrificing if we are to preserve that chivalry which animated the glorious past of our ancestors and which alone can make our descendants and the future of America fine, beautiful, and worthwhile. --Edward Murray. College and Health Who is there who does not want to be healthy? In olden days, it was quite the thing to be dainty narcissus but today the healthy, vigorous girl is the type that is admired: The regular training in the gymnasium, the boats on lake and river, the tennis courts, the golf links, the basket ball, the long walk through the woods in search of botanical and geological specimens, all have a rightful place in the well-ordered day. A statistical in- vestigation in this country shows that the standard of health is higher among women, holding college degrees, than among any other class. This formula was once noticed in a college freshman's room, Sickness is careless- ness, carelessness is selfishness, and selfishness is sin. -Lucille O'Shea. It,s Up to Us Because the world is overcrowded with a number of easily earned positions, the average mind is content to A depend on one-third of its natural intellectual ability. Yet, the nation calls for men. And the best educated men of today were not made so because of their natural ability fphsychologist not with standingb. There are in the world all kinds of people, big and little, dull and brilliant, honest and dishonest, capable and inefficient, industrious and lazy, enthusiastic and discouraged, selfish and unselfish, who occupy space. Does the type of mind determine the eventual position? Decidedly not! Men sometimes are masters of their fates. The fault is not in our 'stars' But in ourselves that we are underlingsf' -Roy M. Bater. A Tree Many a tree is found in the wood, And every tree for its use is good: Some for the strength of the grounded root, Some for the sweetness of flower or fruit: Some for the shelter against the storm, And some to keep the hearth-stone warmg Some for the roof, and some for the beam, And some for a boat to breast the stream. Whenever we look at a tree, we should think that it has gifts for us. If they are not wood or food, shade or shelter, they may be one of a long list of other good things we need in our every day life. Trees are such common place things that we often overlook their full service to us. Trees make a great contribution to the world's beauty. They pay beauty dividends every day, no place is complete without them. A home without trees is charmlessg a road without trees is shadelessg a park without trees is purpose- lessg a. town without trees is cheerlessg a country without trees is hopeless. Trees give us shade and shelter. Beneath their friendly branches, man finds refuge from the scorching sun and angry winds. Today, as in past ages, man seeks the shade of friendly trees to Write and enjoy what others have written. Some of the worlds' greatest thoughts were born in the soft shade of friendly trees. Whenever I see trees shading occupants of benches in our city parks, as they shelter the lambs that gather at their feet in pastures, I think of their friendliness. -Mildred Hefler.

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Page Sixteen TH E R E D A N D B L A C K Commencement Number Name Delbert Ellison Lucille Smith Gerald Caswell Thomas O'Mealia Ellsworth Wilson Edward Murray Eugene Morris Marian Clarke Monica Ripton Dorothy Brooks Kenneth Michael Francis Tully Marian Waldron Lewis O'Shea Robert Taylor Margaret Jones Florence Caccamise Erma McColl Mildred Heffer Richard White Charles Panepento Ambrose Lapp Paul Lynch Catherine Wilcox Freeman Ellingham Marian Cass Elizabeth Allen Ruth Brown Ray Ewell Charles Bater Willard Pulleyblank John Murdock Agnes Cullings Roy Bater Bradley Kingdon Lawrence Clapp Ellsworth Waldron Isadore Basso John Verney Bertha Stakel James Gordon Agnes Gibson Beth Boatfield John Forti Rita Christner Mary Langdon Miller Boldt Gertrude Graney Lucille 0'Shea. Marguerite Hoy SENIOR CHARACTERISTICS Ambition To understand French Up in the world To be sitting on top of the world Paint Washington Monument. Feather-weight cham- pion. To be another Ben Tur- pin To sell peanuts To have long hair Teach Domestic Science Take in as much money as I did this year To lick the Irish To conquer the Dutch To teach in the grades To be a physician Night watchman in cemetery To be a lady To be punctual To have long hair over night To get in by 10:00 some nite To see the world in a Ford To go thru the world fwith a shovell To know history To teach French To do away with Oral Topics forever T0 HV to Paris To be an authoress To be somebody To be a lady aviator Authority on Caeser To stay single Prohibition director Pullv's assistant To be able to remember Continue growing? in- tellectually! To be successful A big medicine man To sell ice to Eskimos To run 100 yards in 4 seconds To be a student To be a success A great Intellect To be a six-shooter To graduate To sell second hand forms To be another Lind- bergh To graduate To ily across the Oatka Able to giggle f?J Able to sit in the back of Study Hall just once. Walk around world. Acquired Habit Studying too much Early to bed and early to rise Out too much Too many dances Eating too little Getting on the Honor Roll Going with Marian Listening to the fastest talker in school Herb Talking too much Never swearing? Being a good boy Too many women Getting my lessons Letting the other chaps take my lessons Smoking too much Writing notes too much Wasting time Forgetfulness Riding in a Jewish Packard Opening windows Making too much noise Not studying Studying too much Learning poetry Singing Dodging Getting in early Going to Batavia Working Helong Ray Ewell Getting out of wo.'k Chewing Forgetting Buving 2 quarts of gas, all at once. Accommodating Drinking imilkll Singing Giowaig a mustache Trying to keep awake Riding in Dreaming Pushing Dancing Studying a Ford Giggling Giggling Getting in 8:59 a. m. 1 Getting in early Talking in classes too much. Going to church school before Should be A lawyer A business woman Rich A doctor A blacksmith A banker A barber Monkey trainer A nurse Good for something A boy scout A jockey Musician A Hi-Y-Boy Fortune hunter Good Smart A Puritan An old maid ill An artist A six-footer Better A taxi driver Enjoying a life ocean Wave A bother An actress An heiress An animal on the trainer A widower A farmer A big coal What have Ambitious Bright, according to size and ice man you? President A millionaire It'll bite A shark Brilliant A nurse An orator Nice Good Premier A Chem teacher Taller Free from rheumatism A doctor A librarian An angel Will be A Pick and Shovel art- ist Behind. a counter in Woolworths Working at the Jell-O Taxi driver Rudy's successor A bell-hop A piano-tuner An old maid C?J Kitchen mechanic Nothing much Behind the fork A teamster Cook A soup-rano Street cleaner Not so good-perhaps Dumb - Man-hater An old maid C?J Conducting a wheel-bars row on the corporation Shorter and fatter Very little A farm hand In Heaven fmaybeb Something Iomebody's Stenog. Somebody's Nurse Dealing in second hand furniture Somebody's boss An inspiration That's the question Three guesses Unsettled Try and guess Boot-black A piano-tuner President of U. S. A rock bass A coal heaver An old maid Nothing Terrible Funny Who knows? A house-wife Grown up some day Shorter before I grow old ' Good Probably a book agent! A Wandering?

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Page Eighteen TH E R E D A N D B L A C K Commencement Number Beauty It is satisfying to feel that in this materialistic twentieth century, we have true worshipers of beauty in the highest sense,-the artist, the sculptor, the poet. Each brings out the excellence of the art of his choosing. The artist, by painting, can gladden the eyes of millions yet unborn and raise the mind on high by some scene that caught his fancy: the sculptor can make grace and loveliness live for a thousand ycarsg the poet, by his words can give to airy nothingness a local habitation and a nameg the musician, by a single strain, caught from the eternal harmonies, can recreate the dust of buried emotions and make us kin to the immortals. They all develop our feeling for the beauti- ful and raise our thoughts from sordldnessg they give us pcacc and joy and gloryg they carry us to heights from which we must bring back the natural out growth of beauty,-goodness. -Erma McColl Hom c There are certain elements that must go into the making of a home, and fthe greatest of these is love, a house in which love has no abode is but a pile of wood and stone, be it ever so splendid and elaborately con- structed. The poorest house, on the other hand, if love dwell there, is a home. Another element in homemaking is patience, although people may truly love and respect the members of their family, they are likely to be intolerant of their faults. Is it because we see them every day, that every defect in character is so exaggerated? To keep family life pleasant and homelike, it is better to be patient and stop to think, before we break the harmony by a sharp word or unkind action. Forbearance will go a long way to keep any establishment running smoothly. Another im- portant element is courtesy. It is easy to be polite to strangers, but the real test of manners is how one conducts himself at home. If people acted as courteously toward their relatives as toward strangers, many a place, now only an abode, would be a home. -Catherine Wilcox. Practical Forestry We can scarcely realize the importance of the develop- ment of our forests. Ninety-five per cent of our uses of wood are deemed absolute necessities for the present day civilization. From the cradle to the grave, we never live a single second, nor draw a breath, without owing our com- fort, safety, and welfare to the forest products. Because of the need for constructing larger buildings, bridges, and steamships, many old uses of wood have passed. 'I'here has been a gradual substitution which is simply a change in wood use. Formerly, goods were packed in wooden crates: now, they use pulpwood boxes. But great industries have created new uses for wood. The manufacturers of auto- mobiles, insignihcant twenty years ago, now demand enor- mous quantities of oak and maple. By investigating the nature of wood, chemists have opened entirely unexplored fields. In wood is found the cheapest source of several chemical compounds. I defy you to name a single object in your home that is not made of wood itself or in which wood has not played an important part in the making. -Ellsworth Wilson. The Humor of Faith The fashion of this world passeth away --they, alone, who know this are the truly light-hearted of the world. St. Lawrence, directing the roasting of his own body, with the nicety of a cookg the Irish peasant who says, Thanks be to God Me rheumatism is much worse today -these are some instances of the humor of faith. In its fulness, per- haps, only the saints have it, those serene beings, beneath whose calmness flows and undisturbed ripple of laughter at thc follies and pettinesses that surrounded themg whom no adversity disheartensg whose eyes are bright with eternal merriment looking upon the fashion of this life which pass- eth away. In the latin words. Quid hac ad aeterni-tatem, the great saint, Aloysius Gonzaga, was want to consider the thousand and one minutal of daily life- How does this look in the light of eternity? We can imagine the boy saint as he passed quietly unassumingly through the streets of Rome on his way to and from school' perchance arousing the mind of some passerby the thought: There goes another example of gloomy a fanatic, looking at life in a warped, crabbed manner. Yet, the passerby would be the fanatic the narrow minded many Aloysius the ham- orist. For if the spectator expressed his scorn in words, the boy would have said, Quigd ad aeternitatem and gone on boy would have said, Quid hae acternitatem and gone on -Marguerite Hoy. The Le Roy Roller Mill During the years following the Civil War, the mill was the best known in Western New York. The best brand, the celebrated Genesee Flour, commanded a higher price than any other product of its kind manufactured in this country. Even in Europe the Genesee Brand was honored by a special quotation and annually hundreds of barrels were shipped over-seas. On one occasion the Lathrops sent six barrels of the Genesee Brand, the barrels sand paper- ed, polished, and embellished with flags of the United States and Great Britain, to Her Majesty, Queen Victoria. It was acknowledged by the Lord Chamberlain of England in a letter to the delighted miller. But, the old order changeth giving way to new, and the mill is no more. The development of the vast wheat areas of Canada and the United States has changed the location and character of the milling industry and gradually the business at LeRoy declined and llnallv ceased to op- erate in 1923. We fancy that some of the old inhabitants of Le Roy, as they gaze on the broken walls and the grass grown scars of the site of the old mill, once Le Roy's most important industry, must sadly sigh for youth and the days that are no more. -Gertrude Graney.