Medina High School - Mirror Yearbook (Medina, NY)

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T H E M 1 R R 0 R To Our Readers F someone should tell a group of people that he had met dancing M fairies, droll elves, sage philosophers, fastidious exquisitcs, and humble rural folk, and that he had been in castles, prisons, cot- tages, eaves, forests, trains, boats, airships, and submarines all in one afternoon, you would immediately think that he was ai candidate for a straight jacket and a lunatic asylum. On the other hand, if he should say that he had been to the library, no one would become amazed. But the person who goes to the new library, which was so kindly given to the people of Medina by Mr. Lee and his daughter, Mrs. Mary Lee XVhedon, visits through books all the places that were mentioned in the opening sentence and more. There are books that provide amusement, books yielding historical knowledge, books of travel, books on religion, books on the progress of science and invention, books of poetry, and books of prose. Today you have before you another book-one which will acquaint you thoroughly with the life and work in Medina High School, our noble Alina Mater. Within its pages the reader will find t.he secrets of the students, their tragedies, their humorous incidents, and flights of imagination, dis- closed to him. The members of the staff have done their best. The rest remains for you. Is the book worthy of a place among the others of the world upon the shelves of our library? As in other years we have been assisted in our work by Miss Fergu- son, our English critic, Mr. Brown, Superintendent of Schools, and our advertisers. To them the staff extends its grateful appreciation, -The Editor. The Speaking Contests l4lDlNA 'High School has held two prize speaking contests this V year, one on .lanuary 31, the other on February 19, both con- tests proved very successful. That, of course, is the conventional way of saying that the contests were worth all the effort put into them, and brought into the light some speakers of enthusiasm and promise. VVe shall speak briefly of the awards: in the first contest, Bertrand Mallison took first honers, followed by Bernard Hart, honorable men- tion, and John Munson, for the boys, and Gertrude Arnett took first prize, Mabel Ross, honorable mention, and Alice Hates, for the girls. CForgive us if we have violated a sacred law of courtliness by men- tioning the boys first and the girls after thenrj YVe shall not make this error again. At any rate, it is only fair to mention the boys first, they deserve more honor for their achievement, since with girls talking is a gift of nature in the beginning. Page Twenty-eight

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T H E M I R R 0 R ,'..., 'I :Luv ,E+-S+.. The Mirror Staff of l929 Editor-in-Chief . GLADYS BEACH AssociateEditor' . . ELLIS JAMES TY PI S TS ICATHRYN SUHAIILA CLYDE DII.IICDN LIf!'I'UI'jj A zflzlwfivs Art . Ar-islfa DOROTHY BYRNES RIARY FULIIER ASSISTANT EDITORS Boys' Club . . . Harmonic, Ky Psi . Ilramutio, Eiymzimz . 0l'CRl'SfI'lI Rami E'0l'CI1f1HI y es . Alunmi I z:aturos . BARBARA M UNSON . LORRAINE GARRETT DELMONT AIALLISON, ANNA BIAE HIGGINS . ALICE SANBURN . XVILL 'BLACKBIIRN . BIARIAN GRATRICII . ELIZABETH RUMSEY . :XNNABEL IJINDKE . ANTHONY DONVITO . CARL CALDXVELII, RICTHARIJ UALDNVELI. . DOROTHY LEE GERTRUDE BROUGHTON, BETTY FINDLAY R E' POR TE RS . MISS XVILSON l aCulty Clfzss of I9 Class of 1930 fRoom 300j . , Room Room Room Room 303 200 ,207 206' 29 fRoom, 3062 BIARY SLACK JOHN AIOORE . IRMGARD PIETILXVIG . RUTH GILL . DONALD IIABTGAN . BTAOIVII BOYLE BUSINESS BOARD Aalvertising Illmmgers Circulatfirm Manager . SIDNEY RXIILEN, STANLEY SQUIRE . NEDXVIN HAIIES Page Twenty-seven

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, l THE MIRROR Vie ean not help remarking on the ex:-ellent ehoiee of topies in this l'irst eontest, and it seems of striking signifieanee that two topies in the hoys' eontest were two ot' the most vital and prominent topies of tl1e day. The first was tt l,indherghfAmhassador7' g the seeond, tt The Aholi- tion of War. And the third oration was likewise a prominent sulvjeet to ns, sinee it was entitled The linknown Soldier, and was a work of the gifted and powerful hand of one of our foremost present-day authors, Brnee Harton. We noted, also, that amonq the worlfs ehosen hy the girls appeared one of Fannie -Xlhonrne's delightful an'l human sketches. We must not, however, forget the seeond prize speaking' contest, for it is no less deserving ot praise than the foimer eontest. 'llhose who entered the field of hattle weie Ruth Altman, Mary Kerr, Elaine lien- nett, Uarlton NYalters, liohert lloyer, anl Gordon Howe. Ont ol' the melee Mary Kerr and Gordon llowe emerged triumphant, their re- speetive topies heing: The Gift of the Magi hy that master short stoiy writer, U. Henry, and 't'l'he King of l3oyville hy William Allen White. We are glad to see that so many stnxlents are interestel in pnhlie speaking, for it is a praetiee that will prove itself more angl more val- iiahle as time goes on. The prizes aie of little eonsempienee eoniparel with the improvement in poise and speaking' ahility. Speaking ot' prizes, we notieed that the prizes of the sec-on'l eontest were mentionel on the programs, lout there was no statement of awards on the programs ol' the first eontest. NVe trust, however, that sneh an omission does not mean that the speakers did not gain some reward for their efforts, for a little visihle reward eertainly does make a differenre, as we onr- selves ean testify. Besides, it is as a ll2lHfll50lK'lllCli to diy the teal s ot' a weeping purse. lint, to get haek to onr siilmjert. puhlie speaking de- velops voeal power and Cl'li0f'tiVG1lFSS, and ineieases a person's vom- inand of English. Most persons, in talking, don't open their lips widely enough, hnt mnmhle and mutter their words nnintelliqihly. The contest training helps to overeome this failing, and makes the speaker irore interesting to his listeners. Hefoie leaving our topie. we must not forget to mention two other elasses of people, namely, the eontest diieetois npon whose skill and patienee iests the sueeess of the eontest, and those who eontrihuted nmsie to give variety to the entertainments. The directors ineluded Miss Greta Ames, Mrs. Olga ll. Hinckley. Nliss Aliee l. Loveland, Miss M. Genevieve Smith, and lX'lr. llavis S. llollister. Among the musieal entertainers were Ellen Ennis, voeal soloist, Regina McClellan, piano soloist, Parl Brooks, saxaphone soloist, and the girls of the Harmonie Cllnh, led hy Miss Cooper, the musie teaeher ot' the High School. Every one of these entertainers gave exeellent perforinanees. VVe envy them their ability. fEllis James. Page Twenty-nine