Nyack High School - Tower Yearbook (Nyack, NY)

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FRESHMAN BOYS ' s President, Jolm Wolf Treasurer, John Anderson Vice President, John Mitchell Secretary, John Colgan We beg to introduce to the reader the noble class of 26 , the greatest class that ever entered the realms of N. H. S. We are famous as Freshmen and will be equally qualified as Sopho- mores tif we're luckyj. This picture was taken in the South Yard and not at the Zoo. The class started the year off by sending five representa- tives to the Football Squad. We took all honors in the Class Basketball Tournament. The class is led by the great sports- man and noble gentleman, John Wolf. fNote: No, the president didn't write thatj . It is unusual for a Freshman class to enter into varsity athletics the way this 1926 bunch has done and especially so for a Freshman to make a team. But some of our men have done it and are proud of the fact. Our class is a very large one and it is our wish that all of us may continue on through school together. If this could be possible we would be able to have the best Senior class that the school has ever been graced With, because after three years' cooperation with each other we could do about as We liked with the major affairs of the school. Watch yourselves, upperclass- men, lest we beat you in your own game. The Owl, Page 29

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SOPHOMORE CLASS President ................ Gwendolyn Olcott Secretary .... Florence Shaw Treasurer .................. Eleanor Wesel At the end of the second year of our triumphal march through High School, we pause to look back, over our laurel- strewn path, and we breathe a sigh of relief. Half our journey is over, and half of our victories are won. We fully believe that we are the smartest, most talented, most gifted class in the whole school. Our class oflicers are capable of holding down any office, anywhere, for after holding down our class, they have all the qualifications needed. We hold our meetings Friday afternoons, or rather, we hold them then if the class will hold still long enough to find out what's going on. If they won't we adjourn the meeting till the next time. Our super-human intelligence aided us in entertaining the rest of the school. in assembly, three times during the past year. And our class holds many of the noted actors of the High School! Four of ,our n1e1nbers, through competitive tryouts, gained admission to the new Dramatic Society-which was quite an honor. And two of them, along with two other Sophomores, took part in the Year Book play, Clarence and made names for themselves. 'They're not in electric lights on Broadway yet- but they ought to be, and some day maybe will be. The Owl, Page 28

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A FRESHMAN GIRLS President, Eleanor Kelly Secretary, Catherine Meehan Vice President, Mary Merritt Treasurer, Helena Blauvelt Last September, we girls of the class of '26, entered N. H. S. with the desire to better the standing of the school. There- fore, we devoted our time to study and left the social activities to the management of our capable Upperclassmen-a deed which we now deem very wise, on our part, for all the social events of the year have been unusually successful. Not long after our arrival in high school, we chose class officers and from that time we conducted our affairs in a' busi- ness-like manner. Orange and Black were the colors chosen by the majority of the girls and we consider it quite a coinci- dence that the boys' choice was the same as our own. By this strange fortune, we probably avoided a disagreement, because a member of our class, whose brother is in the opposite division, firmly declares that had the boys known we decided upon Orange and Black, they'd have taken Red and Yellow, just to be contrary-as boys always are! This may be so, but let us give them the benefit of the doubt, because of their willingness to ac- cept our design and motto and to pay their share of the expense for our pretty banner. We will conclude our brief history with the wish that when we who have followed the Plow, in the Field of Learning, behold in the distant horizon the sinking Sun, we will have reaped the Benefits of our Efforts and, by our Success, will have reflected in rays of glory the faithful assistance and undying zeal of our enthusiastic Faculty. The Owl, Page 30