Odessa Montour Central High School - Odessanean Yearbook (Odessa, NY)

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The True Nature of Commencement Commencement, to me, appears the most appropriate name that could he found for one's first important step into the great adventure of existence. It seems much more proper than that older word graduation which for years has held a meaning synonmous with it. When one is graduated from grads school, high school, or college, he isn’t really graduating, he is only commencing. Commencing to face the tremendous struggles and seemingly insurmountable obstacles that will be thrust before him from time to time in the days of his maturity. These conflicts will cor.stitue that thing which we sail life. life is entirely different from its etymological relative, living . Life is only the fighting against inherent desires, and wrong beliefs in our daily routine. Living should be, and is made up from a large scope, not only the deposition of wrong, but also the exposition of right. That is living. The man who would impulsively help a feeble person across the street is the man who is living. While the one who only thinks about it and passes on is just having a life. I think that man should be judged before all by the manner in which he attempts to coerce the problems before him. In other words is he living or only having a life? In school, high school especially, students gain a knowledge of living , and not merely life. Organizations for this purpose are encouraged to go on with their work. Thus, school is only a beginning of worldly problems, and graduation a kind of second commencement.

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DDESSA HUGH SCHOOL FACULTY NOTES Mr. Goold------------Principal Subjects Taught - Ma.thematics and History. Education - Lyndonville High School; B.S. Hobart College; Graduate work at Cornell University. Extra Curricular - Coach of Boy's Basketball Tfeam, Miss Edna Dana-------Vice Principal Subjects Taught - Mathematics, Science and English, Education - Tunkhannock High School; B.S. Oberlin College; Graduate work at Oberlin.: Extra Curricular - Librarian. Miss Margaret McMahon Subjects Taught - French and History. Education - Sayre High School; U.A. College of MT. St. Vincent; Advanced work at Pennsivania State Coll Extra Curricular - Junior Class Adviser. Miss Lorreta Farrell Subjects Taught - Honemaking, Design and Economic Geo. Education - Johnson Dixy High School; E.S. Cornell Uni. Extra Curricular - Sophomore Class Adviser. Mr. Wayne Willis Subjects Taught - Agriculture and General Science. Education - Ithaca High School; B.S. Cornell Eniv. Advanced vvork at Cornell University. Extra Curricular - Coach of Soccer and Ease-ball Teams; Scoutmaster. Miss Louise Palmer Subjects Taught - Music and English II. Education - Mansfield High School; Mansfield State College; Graduate work at New York University. Extra Curricular - Glee Club; Orchestra; Coach of Girl's Basketball Team. Miss Evelyn Joyce Subjects Taught - English and Latin. Education - Clifton Springs High School; B. . Keuka College. Extra Curricular - Senior Class Adviser.