Ontario High School - Echo Yearbook (Ontario, NY)

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PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS By Arline M. Risley Teachers, friends, and parents of the graduating class of 1926, we welcome you. The duty has fallen to me as President of this class and it is certainly a great pleasure for me to do this. We as a class appreciate the wonderful attendance which shows that we and our school are of some significance in our town. Some public speakers cannot speak well unless they get full inspiration from their audience. Their preparation cannot tide them over. We are not public speakers but we certainly do need the inspiration and aid of our audience. You must help us by entering into all the fun which our program presents tonight, in the same spirit in which it is given. This night is to be, as it has -been in many previous years, a night of joyousness and not of melancholy. We do not want anyone to be at all in a serious moodg that must be put over until commencement. This night is to be our very own and we want you to enjoy yourselves as much as we expect to enjoy ourselves, as it is to be one of our last meetings as students of O. H. S. We fully realize the seriousness of the step we are about to take into the wide and busy world but everyone is ambitious and we are especially so. We want to make a nr me for our school and our town. Eight girls in this day and age have every pos- sible chance to make a name for themselves and we are confident that we can do wt nders in the world. Ontario and her school have done much for us and we are going to do our utmost for her in return. We will try to pay her back with interest by making a name for our-'elves so that she can easily be proud of us. Never can we forget our town. our school or our faculty even though in order to fulfill our ambitions we shall be carried fnr from here. VVe earnestly urge our underclassmen to follow our fine examples. Always heed the instructions of your superiors, the faculty. They know best as they realize what is to come next. Take this one warning and you should reach the goal as we have. 'Ne wish to take this time to thank you, every one. Our teachers have been won- derful examples for us. We wish to thank Mrs. Kingkade especially for her kind aid in making these last days of our high school life a success. She has guided us in planning our programs and much must go to her for our achievements as a class who- have been under her supervision during 1925-26. Our underclassmates also have been very kind and considerate. They have made our school days not only easier but also much more interesting. Again I welcome you and hope that you will fit yourselves into the mood of the evening and enjoy this our class night with us. I4

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THE JUNIOR CLASS HISTORY By Ethel Leenhouts When our class organized in 1923 as Freshmen, we had thirty-three members. It was the largest class in the high school. In our first meeting we elected our class officers: James Whitbourne, president: Ralph Casey, vice-presidentg Edith Monroe, secretary and treasurer. Mr. Campbell was chosen as our class advisor. In our next meeting we chose old rose and sand for our class colors, and adopted the motto: May Knowledge Increase. Our class had greatly decreased in number when we organized in 1924 as Sopho- mores. We had twenty-five members. In our first meeting Anna Moque was elected president, Ethel Leenhouts, vice- presidentg Rexford Ransley, secretary and treasurer. Miss Du Mont was chosen as our class advisor, and we kept the same colors and motto that we had in 1923. After Miss Du Mont left, Mrs. Bridges was chosen to take her place as class advisor. Some members of the class attended the Shakespearian play, The Merchant of Venice. The Sophomores together with the Juniors gave a farewell party for Miss Du Mont at her home. The Sophomores with others celebrated Grace Bushart's birthday at her home. A picnic at Pultneyville given by the Sophomores and Fresh- men completed our second year. When we met as Juniors in September, we organized with seven members. lVIax Ver Dow was elected presidentg Myron Leenhouts, vice-presidentg and Anna Moque, secretary and treasurer. Mrs. De Long was appointed our class advisor. We kept the same colors and class motto that we had the preceding years. Werchose sweet peas as our clas flowers. VVe selected our class rings, with which we were all very much pleased. In January the number of Juniors increased to ten. VVhen we are Seniors we'll shine. VVait and see. 13 :E-L

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CLASS HISTORY Dorothea McCarty CHAPTER I Now the history of the Class of Six and Twenty, of the High School of the village of Ontario, County of Wayne, State of New York, is in this wise: In the beginning in the one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-second year of our Lord, in the ninth month, and on the second day of the month, there entered into this Land of Learning nine and thirty seekers of knowledge. Some came up from the Eighth Grade, where they had for many months been busily engaged in storing their minds with the honey of Wisdomg some were green and fresh from a countryg some came from farms, where they had been tillers of the soil, and some were from other halls of instruction. Now it so happened that this land to which they had come was ruled over by one known as William E. Start, a professor of much wisdomg and at the beginning of this first year he spake unto them saying: Go gather ye in a body, and organize yourselves into a class, that ye may gain in strength, and that your courage may wax hot 3 And as he spake unto them so it was done, and they chose their wisest ones to be their leaders, and called themselves with great pride, The Class of Six and Twenty. CHAPTER II Now it came to pass at the beginning of the second year that an older band of youths, which did come up to this territory in the first month of the one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-second year of our Lord did desire to join themselves to the Class of Six and Twenty. And there was great rejoicing in the Class of Six and Twenty, for that band was renowned throughout the land for its scholarship and class activity. And it came to pass, after some months, that their eyes were turned toward graduation, but many, with one consent, began to make excuse. The first one said, I must needs toil at home. Therefore I cannot graduate. Another said, My father and all his household are moving unto a far distant village so I must leave this Land of Learning and proceed with my father. And a third said, I am going to be married, and therefore I need not graduate. So thus did the class decrease in numbers until the whole number at the end of the second year was fifteen. ' To the city of Rochester there came a group of people acting out the works of the great man known as Shakespeare. Wherefore a number from the Class of Six and Twenty journeyed unto that city to behold the play which is called, The Merchant of Venice. CHAPTER III Now it came to pass soon after they had been in the land the third year, that as their pride grew to a great bigness within them, the class began to wish for badges befitting their station, and many messages were sent to the big cities and all the towns roundabout for samples of their fine jewelry, and at last after much considering and reconsidering, the class professed itself to be satisfied with its choice, and rings were purchased with which they rest well content. And it did come to pass that the class did aspire to histrionic honors, and did present to the people a great and wonderful play, wherein each should act what he was not, and they did choose as a sacrifice one of the great comedies of the age, Sun- shine. And the multitude did cry out in their hearts, How grand and marvelous 1 5 ,