Mahopac High School - Wampum Yearbook (Mahopac, NY)

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Anticipating senior high school, the seventh and eighth sraders plan small trip and such activities as the Flag Day Program presented by the eighth grade. The “Freshies’ and. their parties; the

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impressions will remain with us until we go to our happy hunting ground. Who could forget the majestic beauty of the Lincoln Memorial, or the quiet simplicity of the Franciscan Monastery? The home of the first white chief, George Washington, Was an inspiration to us all; and the few of us who ventured forth in the hig “sky bird” that same day, will dream of this often. Yes, tours were interesting, but every Indian must have an occasional war dance, so we got out our best war bonnets al night and started a series of pow wows. Maybe we re prejudiced, but we think that we had the best tepee in Washington, the Hotel Ebbitt where many black squaws helped to make us happy. They even understood that we had to throw water out of the windows to appease the rain gods! We cant talk about our journey without some mention of George, who drove our streamlined “travois through the heavy heat and traffic of Wash- ington. He was indeed a kind, Friendly paleface, and we would have been lost without him. Now that we have returned to our native hunting grounds and lodges, we are ready to squat around our camplire and happily smoke our peace pipes, thinking dreamily of our southward trip, long over—the only one from which we did not return with paleface scalps!

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“Suffermores’, the “inbetweens’’; and the Juniors, who gave four one-act plays: all look forward to the day when as Seniors, not underclassmen, they will not say, ‘ashington, here we come!” , 29 but, “Washington here we are!