Massena Central High School - Tatler Yearbook (Massena, NY)

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MARION WARNER C arson Peck llfemorial TATLER1931 FRANK SUTTON Undecided Hospital Camp Fire '28g Operctta '30g Llee Club '29, '30g G.A.A. RUTH WING IRENE WHALEN Camp Fire '28g Glee Club Undecided '29, Treble Cleff Club. Supl. A. W. Fortune We learn with deep regret that the Class of 1931 is the last to graduate under the administration of Supt. A. W. Fortune. Mr. Fortune is a graduate of St. Lawrence University and has devoted his life to the public schools of this state. After completing an enviable record as superin- tendent of schools in the city of Salamanca Mr. Fortune came to Massena in 1926, in charge of our school system during five difficult years, exhibiting exceptional administrative ability. During this period the school population, buildings and facilities have very materially increased. He now resigns to enter other fields of service. Mr. Fortune has entered into the civic and social life of the community and has made many friends among our citizens, but it is with the student body he is best known. Always commanding their respect, he has enjoyed their loyalty and esteem. Sympathetic and inspiring, the members of this class have received valuable advise, guidance and assistance from Mr. Fortune, and as this book will be deposited in the archives of our school as a permanent record, we desire to here record in this public fashion our esteem and appreciation of our retiring superintendent. The best wishes of this Class follow Mr. and Mrs. Fortune through the years to come, and may their portion be full of lifeis choicest gifts. '28, '29, '30g Operetta '78

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TATL E R1931 LOTON POF Oli Undecided Football '29, '30. BERNADEEN SMITH Slveelbriar, Va. Operetta '27: Senior Playg G. A. A. '28. '29g High School Play '30s Glee Club '28, '29g Public Speaking Play '30s Debate Club '29g Historical Annual '31, KATHLEEN SIWIITH Sweelbriar, Va. Operetta '29g Girl's Chorus '30g Girl's Glee Club '28, '29g Public Speaking Play. HAVENS PUTM AN A rm A rbor High School Play '28, '31g Boy's Chorus '28g Operetta '28g Public Speaking Club '31, THELM A SMITH .Monlefa ire Hospital KLA. A. '28, '29g Girl Scouts '29g Senior Playg Operetta '30. IRIS STONE Undecided TONY SPAGNOLA Prize Speaking '31g High School Play '31, HELEN SYAKOS Syracuse Un ivers ily Historic Annual '30, '31g High School Play '30g Art Editor of TATLER.

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TATLER 1931 F arewell, Alma Mater! Winter snows and long hours of midnight study are followed by the joy of spring flowers and the exhilaration of graduation. As the fifty-four members of the class of 1931 of Massena High School pass out from its portals we pause, and as we take a retrospective view we are stirred with emotions of regret and happiness. Regret because we realize that we have come to one of the important milestones in each of our lives where we are about to sever the bonds of companionship which are formed in no other period of life as they are in our boyhood and girlhood school days. Happy because we have been able to measure up to the high standards of our ALMA MATEB and receive from it our credentials of merit. To the members of the faculty who have with patience and wisdom charted and directed our scholastic course We express our deepest appreciation and it is our sincere Wish that the future may hold in store for them an abundance of life's choicest gifts. In this we include not only the high school faculty but our instructors in the grades who helped us to lay the early foundations on which We have since been building. To our parents who have labored and sacrificed to make our graduation possible we join unitedly in this public expression of our appreciation and affection. To that large group of men and women, the tax payers of Massena, who have with such deep civic pride provided us with this beautiful building and splendid equipment and facilities we acknowledge our indebtedness and pledge to them our determination to measure four square to the standards to which they would have us attain. To our ALMA MATER We pledge loyalty and to uphold the ideals and tra- ditions With which it has inspired us during the years ending with this graduation. For some of us this is the end of scholastic labors. Others will endeavor to climb higher the academis ladderg some will engage in business or industryg others will enter the professions or the fields of science, but Whatever may be our lot, Wherever unseen paths may lead us or the hand of destiny beckon, we shall all look back to our ALMA MATER and to Massena with pride and happiness and We pledge to them our loyalty and devotion. This is the creed of 1931. SEWABD EMORY HANMER, '31 Pres ident