Lyman Hall High school - Singer Chronicle Yearbook (Wallingford, CT)

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2 THE CHRONICLE EDITORIAL. With this issue we place our final offering before our readers. Although we have made great strides of advancement during the year, still we realize that we are far from perfect and we feel there is and always will be room for improvement in the various departments of the Chronicle just as there is in everything else. The Literary department is nothing less than a training school, the refuge of students who have an incentive to write. Unfortunately, however, very few students seem to have had the necessary incentive. It takes time, often a long time, for students to come to the realization that this particular department plays the most important part of any in the school paper. Not only original stories and verse have been encouraged but also articles on current topics of which we have had several during the year namely, “Electricity of Today,” “Single Session vs. Double Session,” and “The New High School.” Our Exchange department has grown continually so that now it embraces school papers from many states. This interchanging of papers serves as a means of keeping in touch with the student activities of schools as well as a means of offering and receiving suggestions for betterment. , The Alumni department has fared exceedingly well considering our handicap, the lack of a unified association among our graduates. There are no definite alumni activities to record and the simple chronicling of whereabouts and doings of a few gives this section a tone of monotony. Several, times have we attempted to obtain articles from our graduates but without avail. Our only salvation for the alumni department lies in the formation of an association among those who have the interest of our school at heart. , Criticism of school spirit and conduct together with pleas for manual training, better scholarship, and support of the Chronicle characterized the editorials. We are exceedingly glad to have been able to record a most successful year in sports especially in Basketball and Baseball. Besides publishing accounts of games we have exerted our influence toward securing the enthusiasm and support of the student body with some measure of success. Through these columns we hope to establish an active Athletic Association—one that will be worthy of the name. Our news and joke sections have taken care of themselves the former chronicling undergraduate activities and passing events and the latter the students’ wit together with carrying Out that old saying, “Every Knock Is a Boost.” , We have given our best efforts, efforts of which we are proud and which we hope will be a sound basis for next year’s staff to work upon. To Wallingford High School and the Chronicle—adieu.

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G[hp (Ehnnuclt' PUBLISHED BY THE STUDENTS Vol. 1 JUNE, 1917 No. 5 STAFF. Literary Department Editor-iu-Chief—Francis J. Brennan Associate Editors Natalie Bauman Frances Wooding Ruth Heilmann Katharine Riggs Exchange Editor—Hulda Kratzke Sporting Editor—Carroll Foster t Joke E.ditor—Thomas Latham Art Editor—Dorothy Collett News Editor—Catherine Keeler Reporters Ethel Chapman—Senior Leslie Rundle—Junior Muriel Lee—Sophomore Charlotte Doehr—Freshman. Business Department Business Manager—‘Harry Chase Circulation Manager—Katherine Haywood Advertising Manager—Harry Krupp Office Manager—Mary Bullis TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Class Poem Women and War . Mary Lyon, a Pioneer Thomas Downey Sally Lunn Our Class Gift, Picnic, Banquet, Classification Senior Class Pictures Class Will Class History Prophecy Song Class Honors Page 2 3 3 5 7 8 9 10 12 25 27 29 31 32 PUBLISHED BI-MONTHLY Application has been duly made for entrance as second class matter at the Post Office, Wallingford, Conn. SINGLE COPY, 15c SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 60c

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TIIE CHRONICLE 3 CLASS POEM—’17. The vista of the future years Is stretching endlessly away; It holds bright dreams and lurking fears But takes its color from today. 'Tis good to work. Ah do not sigh, And do not sadly shake your head Longing for knights in days gone by —Eternal romance is not dead ! We will not squander time, then grieve For opportunities long past. Improve each moment with a will Coy chance then often comes unasked. There’s joy in doing what we can To aid our country and our state; Whate’er we’re asked to do or dare —Be sure we shall not hesitate. Good soldiers true we’ll bravely fight Until the battle’s lost or won; Though hard the days and dark the nights A far-flung vision leads us on. Life’s road may seem too steep and hard For weak and untried feet to tread. But with the goal we seek in view, We’ll go with hope and without dread. Our life work is to fulfill dreams Of joyous work and happy days. High aims to follow till there gleams Romance in all life’s sordid ways. ETHEL CHAPMAN. WOMAN AND WAR. During the past three years the European war has been a subject of world-wide interest but not until the last few months has this subject directly affected our own United States. The question arises. “What will be woman’s part in the war?” Woman has played and is to play an important role in the grpat struggle. The militarist believes that bloodshed and war are instincts of man. Man, however goes forth to battle intent upon winning a medal of honor or some other reward, along with the battle, forgetting who must bear the brunt of the action with neither medal nor reward for their suffering. Who are these? These are the women; the women and children who pay an awful price for a thing that they have never desired. War has been incited by man, managed by man, fought by man; but the suffering paid by woman. She has no desire for it and