Ontario High School - Echo Yearbook (Ontario, NY)

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The junior Echo 5 'W - -IF'-f Freshman Class President-Carolyn Fuller Secretary-james Whitbourne Vice-president-Frank Hill -Treasurer--Dorothea McCarthy Arthur Allen Ernestine Fuller Roswell Pratt Gordon Allen John Furber Gary Raup Viola Arney George Barret Clarence Biecker Doris Bell Thelma Brandt Liela Brewer Mable Brockman Ralph Casey Mable Draves Marion Eaton Marjorie Hallauer Elsie Hilleger Stanley Johnson Earle Keeley Herbert Keeley Ellen McMahon Edith Monroe Anna Moque Leland Niles Beatrice Palmer 7 Arline Risley Ruth Schimerhorn Harold Sheahen Doris Thompson Mildred Thompson Irene Vandermill Max Ver Dow ElizabethWaterman Isabel Welch Neva Wemes ' President s Address '23 Pearl E. Leenhouts O-NIGHT, dear friends, is probably the last time that we as the class of 1923 may meet for a good time. Yes, we in- tend that these our Class Day exercises shall be just that informal. I know that you have expected that we, as graduates would speak wise things and in a serious manner, but, dear friends, please wait until Wednesday night, when we all promise to b-e in a more solemn mood and to carry thoughtful eac- pressions on our faces. As our program tonight proceeds, may we ask that you fit yourselves into our places, adapt your minds to our sentiments and enjoy with us our pranks Class Day might well be called prank day. Throughout all our school years we have been trained to obey all rules and regulations, to conduct ourselves correctly, to respect others' rights, and to esteem our authoritiesg but to-night we feel free from all this, we feel privileged to do things which have not been laid down for us by some teacher. The results, we fear, may seem startling to some of you, so we plead now that you understand that the nature of the occasion allows it. From time to time during our course, we have heard it said that the aim of modern education is self-expression on the part of 13