Mont Pleasant High School - Montaneer Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARIES OF A HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR January, I933-Today me and Slim come To high school and we was sure mixed up cause I never seen such a big place in all my liTe and we was scarred and wishing we was back in junior high The place being so big and being all halls. We iusT walked around Till I Tound a bunch of kids going inTo The adiTorium. Gee, I never seen a room so big and so many oTher kids looking Toolish oT which There was abouT 500. In The TronT on The sTage There was some ladies looking like Teachers and Mr. Spain, The principle. SeTTleing down, Mr. Spain give us a speech and Then we was Talked aT by Miss Maden, one oT The ladys, and Then by Miss Chalner and Mr. Shirly which Mr. Spain said was going To be our class deans. Then They give sheaTs oT paper wiTh room numbers on Them and Teachers names. They Told us To pick are home room Teachers Trom whaT They Teach which was on The papers To. Then They leT us go and Tind our rooms and we wenT Trom door To door looking aT The numbers on The Top unTill we Tinaly Tind The righT room. I Tound a couple oT kids l knew in my room buT They was mosTly new. There was a loT oT papers on The wall and The Teacher Told us To make ouT our skedules Trom Them. I had a loT oT Trouble and I guess The oTher kids had To, buT I goT one done and The Teacher OKd iT. During The nexT week sombody called The levling comiTee changed iT a loT buT we all goT seT- Tled aTTer a while noT being where we expecTed To be. February, I933-The sTudenT counsel give us a Treshmen raly. We was excused Trom IasT period classes and wenT To The adiTorium ware The band played aT us and The choir sung and some Tellows Trom clubs Told us abouT Them buT we Tound ouT ThaT we canT ioin unTil we're bigger. ATTer The speaches They Took us Thru The Tunels under The school and iT was dark in There. Some oT us was real scared and was we surprised when we come up by The girls gym. There They had a dance Tor us. The Tunny parT oT iT all was The seniors done all The dancing while us poor Treshies iusT sTood around. January, I934-We are now in ThaT TransiTional sTage beTween The humble, undigniTied sTaTus of Treshman, almosT universally denominaTed by our peers, The upper classmen. as Treshies and The sphere where The iuniors pursue Their merry courses, which aToremenTioned sTage is de- nominaTed sophomore. IWe dare noT even coniecTure The augusT plains aTop MT. Olympus, where iT is rumored, The seniors make Their abode.l During The Time when our prominence as a class in The maelsTrom of so- cial acTiviTies was languishing To inTiniTe nonenTiTy lThis Time being imme- diaTely pursuanT To The Tiasco appeIIaTed The Freshman Rallyl, our per- sonal cogniTion was increasing in a measure proporTional To The volume-

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YOUTH To pain? +he colour of our dreams. To compass love's fainl spheres, To glimpse elernily would seem A Jfribule +o +he years. Yer shadows of our filmy rears Are silhouelled where The vision of 'romorrows peers Along The visfas of despair. Therein +o vision muled hos+s Of old illusions slrew The pallid cenlruries wi'rh ghosls Of fading dreams fha? whisper 'rhrough The wishful Pas+'s long avenue. . . Now down fhe misfed passage fare The echoes of a paean's hue Along lhe vislas of despair. Sung no'r in gill, heraldic arms Thai' march bu+ +o deslroy- Voiced while 'rriumphanf youlh disarms To found irs own greai' Troy: An edifice, by girl and boy Hs ramparls reared. . .And There Now, fesfive Throngs disperse +heir ioy Along The visfas of despair. ENVOY You'fh's gay, ennobled armies limn The ages. and fheir banners bear The emblems now of conquesl' dim- Obscured. +he visfas of despair! Edward Tomasian

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Tric increase of a gas in The presence of heaT lphysicsl. We are uncom- plainingly doing mounTainous piles of homework by which our devofed pedagogues hope To increase our general knowledge of subiecfs which may, or may noT be relevanf To our needs in laTer life, and we are con- suming so much elecTriciTy in doing The said homework ThaT I sincerely believe ThaT The local uTiliTy is paying handsome dividends upon iTs in- debfed obligafions merely from The profiTs derived from our consumpTion. ln maThemaTics, for insfance, we employ, quiTe promiscuously, The ob- Tuse and acuTe angles, which simply mean, respecfively, angels larger or smaller Than nineTy degrees. ln every assignmenf, manTissas confound our logic, logariThms challenge our wisdom. and geomeTric'progressions baf- fle our inTellecTs. ln discussing our sophomore maTuriTy, we musT remember To com- memorafe Those awe-inspiring porTals which lead info The offices of our principal, whose sancTum sancTorum is The haven for The less forTunaTe, more Troubled souls. Here, from Time To Time, are poured forTh The soul-secreTs of a Thousand beings. AT The idenfical Time when we were being Transformed inTo inTelleCTual members of The species I-lomo Sapiens, we also found The Time To make many inTeresTing and, I hope, durable friendships. Also, a large maiorify of us availed ourselves of The occasions afforded us To enfer inTo The several fields of exTra-curricular acTiviTies, such as clubs of all sorfs and aThleTics, so you see Thaf our opporfunifies were noT squandered, buT ThaT we were, and sTill are, esTablishing The fundamenfals of a good back- ground and educafion for The fuTure. OcTober, I934--Well, The old class is finally geTTing down To brass Tacks. Our class deans picked The smarfies and made 'em inTo an exec. commiTTee unTil we should choose our regular officers. The firsT Thing They did was To fix up a shindig They called a rush parTy. They seemed To Think ThaT nobody knew anybody else, and l guess They were righT, because l saw some guys There l didn'T even dream were in my class. They soaked us eiTher Ten cenfs or a cake To geT in, and say, There sure was plenTy of cake. We had enTerTainmenT and eaTs and Then The parTy busTed up. Everybody Thoughf The Thing wenT off iusT The nuTs. November, I934-ln This monfh we elecTed permanenf class officers as follows: Roger Bilewicz, presidenfg Margery Sanders, vice-presidenfg BeTTy Tomkins. secrefary: and Duncan McFarland, Treasurer. December, l934-Our firsT class dance! We had a preTTy swell Turn- ouT: and when The shekels were counTed up laTer, There was quiTe a slice lefT over, a surprise To all of us, because mosT of The dances had been flops or iusf broke even. February, l935-AT The beginning of This, our Senior B Term, our class deans, Mr. Sherley and Miss Chaloner, incorporafed The scaTTered members of The execufive commiTTee inTo one home room under Mr.