Lockport High School - Forum Yearbook (Lockport, NY)

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EUGENIA F. XVHITMORE Jean Course-College Entrance Arts. Next Year-College. .-luibiiion-To Im inifwrtant enough 10 be iwzfrsfrgalcd by the Smale. Basketball 2, 3g junior Class 3: Senior Class 4, Senior Play 43 Girl Reserves 2, 3, 4. The Brain Trust is the place for you, When Bryn Mawr you are safely through. With Rex Tugwell and you too, The Senate and Doc Wirt will find plenty to do. , TO THE CLASS OF 1934 All hail to you 0 Classmates ever true! With joy complete I rise to greet anew On this, the long expected day of grace, The Class of Nineteen Hundred Thirty-Four, Since soon you'll find and take your well-earned place, Wliere many a class has been enrolled of yore. The Class of Thirty-four began to form When first was felt the great depressions storm. Of other classes' splendor you had none, Yet raised the standard of your class above The records set by each preceding one, And for your school inspired a greater love. New honors and new laurels have you gained To make the halls of Alma Mater famed. Of writers, speakers, actors you have raised A few, who will by many gifted ones Of all the world someday be highly praised, Like other of our country's native sons. U Classmates all, your ways will far be spread, And nevermore, when summer leaves turn red, VVill studies start for you in Lockport High, Let every one when autumn comes each year Save just one thought for friends and days gone by To help you keep your mem'ries true and clear. This Class to immortality is led, As with a stately measured step you tread, In cap and gown of blue with tuft of gold. Yet may your lofty spirit never die But lead you on to glories yet untold That you may soon far greater odds defy. -Eugenia F. VVhitmore, '3-4. Page Twenty-Two THE FOR Vflf

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lLllTlERARY ON WITH THE NEW HELEN Gamma, '34 YOUNG Nate Rusk was certainly glad he'd won that money. There had been enough to pay for his ticket and a couple of dollars left. To tell the truth, he hadn't felt just right about betting on a horse race, but the fellows had dared him, and he wanted to show them he was game .... Funny-the noise those wheels made. Seemed as if they droned, Come back, Nate, come back. .. , and now they challenged, Go on. Nate, go on .... Yes. he was going on all right-on to New York-and then where? Well, at least he knew where he wa.vn'f going, and that was back home, back to Rusk- ridge-not for a good while anyhow. He wasn't going to be one of these fellows -what did they call 'em-oh yes, these prodigal sons who crawl back home to keep from starving ...,., A lot of the people at home thought he was pretty lucky because his great great-grandfather had founded the town, because his father was the biggest law- yer in the county, because he lived in a big stone house on a hill and was going to Harvard in the fall .... but all these people, they didn't know how set and obstinate his father was, how sort of lonely the big stone house on the hill had grown, and how he hated the thought of Harvard and dusty, moth-eaten law- books in an office, and another lawyer to carry on the practice .... no Harvard now- VVell. thereld be no law-books now-no practice for him -he guessed he'd Rusk.. that was made that clear to something new .... calling his father Rusk . Still, every- Page Twclzty-Fozfl' one he knew called him Rusk, and plenty he didn't know too--it seemed to suit him some way. . VVhy hadn't Rusk even tried to under- stand? Annapolis was just as good a place as Harvard. Better, probably. Oh yes, he realized that the Rusks had al- ways been fawyers, but was that any reason why they always had to be- ad infinitum or something? Yes, he knew about the fine old family traditions too, but what difference did they make when a fellow hated the very sound of the word lawyer ? Besides, he wasn't any good in public speaking-never had been-and that was practically all a law- yer did besides thinking up alibis. He couldn't do that either .,.. He had set his heart on Annapolis long ago, but he l1adn't dared mention it until this morning. He had told Rusk there wasn't any use in going to Harvard to study law if you knew you'd never make a lawyer. Right there Rusk had stopped him- of course l1e'd go to Harvard --how tired he was of hearing about the Rusks! It seemed pretty good to get away .... Rusk hadn't seemed to care when he'd said he was leaving .... told him to come back in time for college .... maybe he hadn't believed him .... maybe he would now .,.. The train was slowing up as it near- ed a sizable city, and then, with alter- nate gasps and shrieks as if slowly strangling, it had stopped before a smudgy, stuccocd station. Tall, handsome, brown-eyed, Nate suspended his meditations to peer out THE FORVM