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

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Page Eight 7' H E R E D A N D B L A 0 K Commencement Number MARY WELSH LUKE Class il, 2, 3, 43, Booth Committee Senior Ball 147, Usher at the Senior Play 449, Basketball 123, Captain cf Volley ball 149. There's nothing so kingly as kindness, And nothing so royal as the truth. Salutatory To you who have experienced all but the last hop in winging your flight o'er life's airway, our wiigspread may seem scanty, our motors underpowered. You have a great cruising radius. To you forced landings are but slight interruptions in a long iiight. Your skilled hands have successfully met the tailspin Adversity , the exigency of being out of fuel. Fitting it is that you, who have enabled us to build our craft, to fuel them, to tune them up for the first leg of our flight, should be present at our take-off into the unknown. Poised for iiight with idling engines, we now await the last words of advice. To you, who will strain to glimpse once more the vanishing specks on the sky- route to experience, we extend a hearty welcome. Alfred Decker. Valedictory Tonight I have the pleasure of saying a few words to and for the companions who have made our school life here a joy as well as a benefit. In behalf of the class of 1928, I sincerely thank the Board of Education, our Super- intendent, Mr. Taylor, the Faculty, and the citizens of Le- Roy for making possible the opportunities which have been ours in Le Roy High School. , Classmates: We are about to enter a new room, a new stage of life. Under the guidance of our teachers we have spent four happy, worth-while years in this smaller room. We have explored every corner and have profited greatly by that experience. Now the door is closing behind us, leaving the past to us only in memory. We can never again enter this room of high school hopes, work, and aspiration. We shall go various ways in life. Some of us will continue our edu- cation in schools and collegesg others will go on in the great school of the world. But, although we shall never enter this familiar room again, our life here will be a guide-post pointing the way to all that is fine and good in the future. Let us so work and live in this greater room of life that we may make our teachers and our school proud of us in the days to come. And, as we say farewell to our Alma Mater, let us make this our creed: I would be true for there are those that trust meg I would be pure, for there are those who carey I would be strong for there is much to sufferg I would be brave for there is much to dare. I would be friend of all-the foe-the friendless I would be giving and forget the giftg I would be humble for I know my weakness: I would look up, and laugh, and love, and lift. Janet McPherson. History of the Class of '28 The history of this remarkable Senior class will be re- corded in the annals of the school. Our members, whether in this school or another, through the grades and High School, have worked intently for their goal. The customary color battles waged between the Junior and Senior classes, from which more people emerged the worse for appearance and general feeling, this year were not entered by the Seniors. Because of the elimination of these savage strug- gles, the peace-loving Seniors have established a firmer friendship with our Junior friends. Organization, which is happily looked forward to in the last two years of High School, binds the class into a compact body. As Juniors with George Curtis, President: Pearl Rossborough, vice-president: Lynn Saulsbury, secre- tryg and Helen McKeon, treasurer, advised by Mr. Sey- fert, we were a happy and honorable class, proud of our colors, purple and gold. Our Senior year, which has passed much too rapidly, finds us a straight-forward, honest, and reliable group of students. When the class organized about the second week of February, the thirty-nine members elect- ed Joe Paolone to fill the ofiice of the presidency, Pearl Rossborough, vice-presidentg Merton Sperry, secretaryg and Edward Howard, treasurerg choosing Miss Connor as our advisor and Miss Combs as assistant advisory our colors, light green and silver: the tea rose as our flower, Vou1oir c'est pouvoir iwhere there's a will, there's a way? as our motto, we were determined to make our Alma Mater proud of the class of '28. This class has always had the knack of making money. Conducting many enterprises to expand the amount in our treasury, we can truthfully say that no undertaking was a failure. A baked food sale, from which we reaped a neat sum, through the kindness of Mr. Hudson and Mr. Wade, was held in their store during our Junior year. Two splen- did movies The Girl From Chicago, and The Dress Parade added to our nest-egg. As we always seized the opportunity to make money, we conducted candy sales at the evening Chautauqua. The Senior Ball, a. glorious event-, was held in the school gymnasium May fourth. Who could ever forget The Mummy and the Mumps, our famous comedy of three acts presented in Ingham Hall, February 23rd and 24th? The amount received from the Senior Ball and play was seven hundred and fifty dollars, bringing our whole sum up to seventeen hundred dollars. After the work came the play, the Washington trip! That will be an experience forever remembered by the thirty-five who had the pleasure of seeing Philadelphia, Annapolis. Atlantic City and Washington. The party, chaperoned by Miss Connor, left Le Roy April sixth and returned April fourteenth. While the train clicked along to the time of Freddie Deck- er's banjo, the LeRoyans were singing songs of the past and present times. Since everyone was bound to have a good time, we were amply rewarded. The Seniors have shown talent along various lines. This year, which marks without a doubt the highest point that the musical work has reached, owes much to members of our class who were so willing to cooperate with Miss Wu- son. When the orchestra was organized, being the first successful attempt since 1910, Alfred Decker, Charles and Clayton Ingles, Ralph Rubens, and Mildred Howard, made

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Commencement Number T H E R E D A N D B L A fy K Page Seven JESSIE MAC ANN JESS Class 11, 2, 3. 43, Glee Club 12, 3, 43, Invitation Com4 mittee at the Senior Ball 143, Usher at The Mummy and the Mumps 143. Her smile has shortened many a weary mile. HELEN MC KEON IRISH Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Usher at The Mummy and the Mumps 143, Red and Black Staff 13, 43, Treasurer of the Class 133, Decoration Committee of the Senior Ball 143. There is Helen of Troy, And Helena, the Saint, But they're nothing on our Helen We'll say they ain't! THOMAS MC MAHON PAT Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Bill Laidlaw in The Mummy and the Mumps 143, Decoration Committee at Senior Ball 143, Local Speaking Contest 143, County Speaking Contest 143, Baseball 143. Wherever he goes, A stream of jollity flows. JANET MC PI-IERSON JAN Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Glee Club 143,, Business Manager of The Mummy and the Mumps 143, Chairman of the Ticket Committee of the Senior Ball 143, Red and Black Staff 13, 43, Editor-in-chief 143, Valedictorian 143, Usher at Senior Play 143. A silent attitude is not necessarily a state of in- action. FRANCES MAC DOWELL SLATS Glee Club 13, 43, Punch Committee of the Senior Ball 143, Usher at The Mummy and the Mumps 143, Basket- ball 123, Volleyball 143. To enjoy happiness is a great good, but to be able to bestow it also on others is greater still. ELEANOR MAC KENZIE MAC Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Chairman of the Program Committee for Senior Play 143, Chairman of the Invitation Committee for the Senior Ball 143, Usher at Senior Play 143. There are souls in the world who have the gift of finding joy everywhere. VIRGINIA OLMSTED GINNY Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Glee Club 11, 2, 3, 43, Cheerleader 11, 2, 33, Phoebe Beebe in the Senior Play 143, Orchestra and Decoration Committees for the Senior Ball 143, Punch Committee for the A. A. Dance. Keep a bright lookout forward, and good luck to you! JOSEPH PAOLONE JOE A ' Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Manager of Basketball 143, Baseball 13, 43, Captain of Baseball 143, Sheriff in the Senior Play 143, President'of the Class 143, 'Iicket Committee for the Senior Ball 143. Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man. MYRTLE ROBLEE MYRT. Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Glee Club 13, 43, Maude Mullen in the Senior Play 143, Decoration and Invitation Committee for the Senior Ball 143. Myrtle, Myrtle, so they say, Has a new beau every day. PEARL ROSSBOROUGH JIMMIE Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Vice President of the class 13, 43, Local Speaking Contest 143, County Speaking Contest 143, Stage Committee for the Senior Play 143, Chairman of the Decoration Committee of the Senior Ball 143, Class His- torian 143. True worth is in being, not seeming, In doing each day that goes by- Some little good not in dreaming Of great things to do by and by. LYNN SAULSBURY LYNDY Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Secretary of the Class 133, Chairman of the lights committee for the Senior Play 143, Chairman of the lights committee for the Senior Ball 143. A man he seems of cheerful yesterdays and con- fident tomorrowsf' ANTHONY SCHIMLEY ANT Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Football 143, Stage Manager at the Senior Play 143, Decoration Committee at the Senior Ball 143, Ticket Committee at the Senior Ball 143. Ant is a boy we all like. He comes from Ireland like Pat and Mike! MERTON SPERRY MERT Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Secretary of Senior Class 143, Decor- ation Committee of A. A. Dance 133, Lights Committee for the Senior Play 143. Success is not earned by never falling but by rising every time you fall. STELLA SMITH RED Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Glee Club 11, 23, Chairman of movie benefit 143, Invitation Committee for the Senior Ball 143,' Costume Committee for The Mummy and the Mumps, Red and Black Staff. Ready in heart and reading in hand. RALPH RUBENS RUBEN Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Orchestra 143, Vice-President of Or- chestra 143, Property Cdmmittee of the Senior Play 143, Ticket and Decoration' Committee at the Senior Ball 143. Let yourself be known by your deeds. SUSAN WALKER SUE Class 11, 2, 3, 43, Miss Agatha Laidlay in The Mum- my and the Mumps 143, Punch Committee for the Senior Ball 143. Always quiet and demure Ne'er angry nor fault to find, Of high success she is sure Equipped with such of mind.

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T H E R E D A N D B L A C K Commencement Number Page Nine up an important part of it. If you attended the Glee Club concert you observed many more Seniors doing their share. Alfred Decker, manager of the football team, kept it busy playing with other good teams. Ray Dugan, our honorable captain, with the squirre1's tail flying from the top of his cap, led his team to victory in the Le Roy-Batavia game. Joe Paolone, as manager of the basketball team, booked up some very interesting games. It might be said here that the Junior and Senior boys held a basketball game in which the Seniors were the winners ias of course they would be.J Captain Paolone of the baseball team pitched a wicked ball for Eddie Howard to catch. Pat McMahon's red head was one bright spot on the diamond even when everything else looked dark. The speaking contest work that is arous- ing more interest each year brought the Seniors interested in oratory into the limelight. Six Seniors out of the nine who were selected in the local contest, carried away four of the six places awarded in the Batavia contest held there this year. Eddie Howard took first and Freddie Decker third, of the boys. Harriet Emmick second, and Pearl Rossborough third, of the girls. No one who came to our Senior Play, The Mummy and the Mumps, can deny that Susan Walker was a typical Agatha Laidlaw, founder of the most exclusive girls' school, or that Marguerite Hutch- ins, Virginia Olmsted, Myrtle Roblee and Harriett Emmick deserve the name of first class actresses. Eddie I-Ioward's title as the best ever is not disputed. Freddie Decker's Eng- lish brogue still is with him and Joe Paolone has won his Mahon has remained his aunt's obedient nephew while Ma- Mahon has remianed his aunt's abedient nephew while Ma- son Bradley has stopped trying to be someone else. This class has made its name stand out honorably among all the graduating classes and it is not through setting high standards for others to follow. After all is said and done, the Senior class of '28 is the best ever, firmly believ- ing in Vouloir c'est pouvoirf' Last Will and Testament We, the Graduating Class of the Le Roy High School, Town of Le Roy, County of Genesee, State of New York. being of sound minds, disposing memories, and having a great amount of understanding, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last Will and Testament, hereby revoking all former wills, codicils, and bequests of whatever nature. FIRST. We, the Senior class of Le Roy High School, do bequeath to the Faculty of said school, our sunshiny ways and lenient dispositions. SECONDLY. To Miss Hartley we leave an automatic excuse writer. We wish to state that it only writes on White slips. THIRDLY. To Bill Shamp we leave an automatic gun by which he can keep the ambitious students from the teacher's door. FOURTH. To the Juniors we leave the various meth- ods by which we have attained the prominent positions we now occupy. A To Virginia St. Clair we leave fond memories of seat 20 in row 8. To Eleanor Graney we leave a book on How to Bluff, realizing she is in great need of it. To Betty Piisterer we leave our unlimited vocabulary and the method of using it. To Si McKernon we leave a jar of cream that he may always have that school girl complexion. To Floyd Merritt we leave our sympathy and under- standing for his cutting classes. To Calvin Derrick we leave the ability to play a tune, on his new clarinet. To Mike Ripton we leave our fondness for staying at home evenings. To Margaret Steffen we leave the forceful method of training men. To Winifred Arnold we leave a book on Advice to the Lovelornf' To Mary Caswell we leave our patent non-stop talking machine. ' To Mary Moran we leave our good judgment and literary skill. To Donald Jeary we leave the rules on How to have a More Peaceful Sleep Between Periods. To Joe Spiller we leave a pair of rubber heels for the sake of peaceful quiet in study hall. To Geraldine Thomas we will our silent and indetectable method of chewing gum. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, We the Senior class, the testators, to this, our Last Will and Testament, set our hand and seal, this twenty-second day of June, in the year of Our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight. THE SENIOR CLASS. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the above named Senior Class, as and for their Last Will and Testa- ment, in the presence of us, who have hereunto subscribed our names at their request, as witnesses thereto, in the presence of said testators and of each other. fSignedJ E. B. TAYLOR iSigned7 MISS CONNOR CSignedl MISS HARTLEY Marguerite Hutchins. L.1-.- Class Song Higher, higher, will we climb That our names will live in time. For we too have a long story Telling much of '23's glory. We have heard the clarion call To duty, service, fine to all, For work is after all the best So 1et's accomplish it with zest. Honors which real merit gainsg As ever lesser worth obtainsg Triumphs we may gain from college, , All from the depth of knowledge. Onward, onward let us press To find what is real happiness, And wing our flight to a higher clime, To live a noble life sublime. Charles C. Ingles, '28.