Mattituck High School - Reflector Yearbook (Mattituck, NY)

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4 DEDICATION 1 T LTHOUGH appreciating to the fullest extent every- thing that our Teachers, Mothers and Friends have done for us, we have decided to dedicate this magazine to one of whom little is said, he who pays all our bills, shoulders all our responsibilities and is not much trouble—DEAR OLD DAD—consequently to him this magazine is inscribed. n 1924

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pot Jo| For each and every joyful thing, For twilight swallows on the wing, For all that nest and all that sing, For fountains cool that laugh and leap, For rivers running to the deep, For happy care, forgetting sleep, For stars that pierce the sombre dark, For mom, awaking with the lark, For life new-stirring ’neath the dark, For sunshine and the blessed rain, For budding grove and blossomy lane, For the sweet silence of the plain, For bounty springing from the sod, For every step by beauty trod. For each dear gift of joy, thank God!

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PHOENIX Published by the students of Mattituck High School JOSEPHINE V. COOPER, Editor VIOLA M. HALLOCK, Buisness Manager CHOENIX is a bird famed in fable, held sacred by the Egyptians and said by Herodatus “father of history” to have come to Egypt every 500 years from Arabia. Of the many tales related of the phoenix, perphaps the best known is that when it was ready to die at the age of 500 years, the bird built itself a nest of herbs, lighted it by fanning with its golden wings and then died upon it. From the ashes a worm was generated whence grew the young phoenix. A belief has been declared that there was but one phoenix on earth at one time and it died upon the pyre it had erected, the worm which developed from the ashes became in its turn the only respre- sentative of the species. The modern use of the word is based upon these old legends. When a new building is at once erected upon the ruins of one destroyed by fire, it is said to “rise phoenix like from its ashes.” Thus we present “Phoenix,” our school annual, rising from the ashes of “Bosh.” EDITORIAL