Ontario High School - Echo Yearbook (Ontario, NY)

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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 ,

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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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this thing which ye have done! and the heads of the class did become swelled to their fullest capacity at the praise they did receive. And it also happened that certain fair members of the class said one to another, Behold, all the schools in the surrounding territories do publish an annual befitting their station. Indeed let us add to our dignity by writing one also. And the class did look with approval upon these sayings and an annual was pre- pared which they called the Junior Echo. And as the class did journey through the land, behold, they did see a joyful group, who did call themselves Seniors, gathered at the farthest gate. And the members of the Class of Twenty Six did look upon them in their rejoicing, and did prepare a feast in behalf of them, and lo! there was much reveling throughout the land. CHAPTER IV Now this, the fourth year of the great and wonderful Class of Six and Twenty has been one of much toil and weariness with but little resting by the wayside: for great preparations were being made for their final departure from the land. Now in the third month of the year some of the class said, Lo, let us journey far southward and see the great city, the country's capitol. And they girded themselves and set forth fearlessly and saw many strange and beautiful things. And it came to pass soon after their return, that the class did sit before an artist of much skill and cunning and he did paint a likeness of rare beauty as might well grace the Junior Echo and be handed down to future generations, and behold there was nothing like it on the earth, nor on the face of the angry deep. And now the Children of the Six and Twenty drew nigh to the Gate of Departure of the Land of High School Learning and the whole number at the end of the fourth year was eight, t'he officers of which are: Arline, of the House of Risley, whom the class with one consent did choose to be their president. Carolyn Anna, first daughter of Ernest of the House of Fuller, vice-president. Dorothea Olive, whose surname is McCarty, secretary and treasurer. So it has come to pass that of the nine and thirty that entered this Land in twenty-two, only eight will depart, for verily, verily, I say unto you, that broad is the- gate, and wide is the way that leadeth to the High School, and many there be that go in thereatg but straight is the gate, and narrow is the way that leadeth to graduation, and few there be that find it. 16