Ontario High School - Echo Yearbook (Ontario, NY)

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JUNIOR ECHO It is not so much the question Where one gets as How he gets there. The decisions a man makes may have a lasting effect on where he gets, but this business of reaching a certain goal is not nearly so important as the question, how he reaches it. If a man has played the game fairly and squarely with all his might, he may be a victor without extensive material rewardsg but if he has cheated or mounted to the heights at the expense of others he may count his career as a ghastly failure. There are two kinds of pleasure in the world. One is the pleasure of over-coming and the other is the pleasure of yielding. lf we give ourselves up to the pleasure of yielding the end is bore- dom or perversion-the eventual destruction of our ability to enjoy anything at all. If we persist in the pleasure of over-coming and do the things we do not like until we have learned to like them, we grow strong and vigorous and our capacity to enjoy things con- stantly increases. One cannot run away from weakness: he must some time light it out or perish. The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer. There are many men who feel a kind of twisted pride in cynicism of the way others do what they themselves dare not even attempt. There is no more unhealthy being, no man less worthy of respect than he who either holds or feigns to hold an attitude of sneering disbelief toward all that is great and lofty. Much has been given to us and much will be rightly expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves: and we can shirk neither. It is our hour to run our race. We are going out into the world to be citizens and representatives of Ontario. We must have those qualities which make for efhciency and we must also have those qualities which direct the efficiency into channels for the public good. There is nothing to be done with that type of citizen of whom all that can be said is that he is harmless. Virtue which is dependent upon a sluggish circulation is not impressive. There is little space in active life for the timid good man. The man who is saved by weakness from robust wickedness is likewise rendered immune from the more robust virtues. We must be able to hold our own, we must be efficient. But if our efficiency is not guided and regulated by a moral sense, then the more efficient we are the worse we are and the more dangerous to the world about us. Courage, intellect, all the master- ful qualities serve but to make a man more evil if they are used merely for that man's own advancement with brutal indifference to the rights of others. lt makes no difference whether such a man's force and ability betray themselves in the career of money maker or politician, soldier or orator, journalist or popular leader. lf the man works for evil, then the more successful he is the more he should be dispised by all upright and far-seeing men. As we leave these halls of learning we are not only going to be called upon to do some of the things done before but we shall be expected to do them better than they have been done before. The world expects great things, noble things. Do not let, us disap- point those who look to us for assistance but let us acquit ourselves like men and thus bring credit upon the institution that so tenderly nurtured us during the days of our preparation. Again l welcome you, one and all. 13

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l-- -- JUNIOR ECHO ' 0 Hermia C. Hallauer H EDITORIAL 1 Dear Readers and Fellow Students: For the last two years the Junior classes have published the junior Echo, and made it a great success of which not only they themselves, but also their under-classmen were very proud. We being Freshmen when the first edition was published, thought of the future, wondering if we should ever be noble Juniors and put out the finished product of which they were so proud. But now our chance has come. Last January, when we were told that it was time to begin work on the l924 Junior Echo, the teachers tried to convince us that a smaller one would be necessary on account of the size of our class. We did not want our lack of members to produce an apparent backward step in the publishing of our annual, so we determined to do our best to make it as complete as possible. lt has been our aim to put in nothing to offend anyone, but only that which is interesting and instructive. At last we have it completed. We have worked, and worked hard to make this book acceptable to its readers. We may have failed in some places, and excelled in others, but we hope that you will judge our book as the product of earnest and painstaking efort on the part of the class. G PRESIDENTS ADDRESS G. Carlton Cone OUR years ago tonight thirty of our little Freshmen were seated in the audience beside their mothers and fathers witnessing the class functions of the graduating class of l920. lt was then that our minds began to look forward to the time when we should be Seniors. Since that time we have fought many battles, several of which were lost, but now the heaviest battle of all, the Regents, has been won. We have been victorious and tonight the largest class ever graduated from Ontario High school bids you welcome to their class functions. Not all have the opportunity of holding big positions in life. Not all would fill them satisfactory if they did. Whether an opportunity comes, early or late, is of no great consequence. The thing is, what are we prepared to make of it when it does come. Some tangible effort always precedes opportunity. It may be described simply as hard work, as intelligence, as experience, or as doing the thing that's ahead with the utmost there is in one. Real achievement is attained by never being satisfied with anything less than one's best eEort. 12

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-l---1 Jumon sci-io 0 H SENIOR CLASS HISTCRY W Orian Stevens HERE is no need to call upon the gords or any supernatural being to reveal the history of the class of '24. for the class of '24 has a history which will speak for itself. Our present Senior Class, then consisting of thirty-four members, met as Freshmen November l, l920. We were an extraordinary class, both in numbers and brilliancy, as was shown by the fact that we were allowed to elect officers the very first year. XVe elected Mildred Tanner, presidentg Ruth Turner, vice- presidentg Ethel Young, secretary, and Donald Fewster, treasurer. We chose cardinal and cream as our class colors and for our motto we chose Now we have launched, where shall we anchor? Later in the year wepurchased class pins, and March 30 we had a party at the home of Lelah Rouch. The Sophomores joined with us that year in giving the high school picnic at Pultneyville, the day after commencement. We had a very happy school year but our summer vacation was clouded by the death of our president, Mildred Tanner. She was loved by all who knew her and our class suffered a great loss. As Sophomores we returned with only twenty-one students remaining of our former thirty-four. February IO, l922, we organized, electing Donald Fewster, president: Melville Sheahen, vice-presidentg Ruth Turner, secretary, and Ethel Young, treasurer. The colors were changed to cardinal and gold, while Be Square CBZY' was chosen for our motto and sweet peas for the class flowers. At the close of the year the high school picnic was again given by the Sophomores and Freshmen at Pultneyville. When we returned as juniors, the next year, we found that there were twenty-two students in our ranks. We resolved that our junior year should be the best and liveliest of all. We organized in September. Carlton Cone was elected president: Doris Huxley, vice-president: Ruth Turner was re-elected secretary and Donald Fewster was elected treasurer. We kept the same colors, motto and flowers as the year before. Early in October a junior party was held at the home of Carlton Cone. ln November most of the Juniors attended Julius Caesar, the Shakespearian play which we studied during our junior year. ln January we selected and pur- chased our class rings. Later we gave a play entitled, Lost, a Chaperonf' The greatest achievement of our junior year was the Second Junior Echo. This was a great success. We finished our Junior year by entertaining the Seniors at Sea Breeze and South Park in the afternoon and at the Eastman in the evening. The weather that day wasn't very pleasant but we had a jolly time between showers. ln September, l923, twenty-one of our number took their seats in the Senior row. We anticipated this year being the greatest and best for we knew that we were the largest Senior class graduat- 14