Ontario High School - Echo Yearbook (Ontario, NY)

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PRE.SIDE.NT'S ADDRESS Rexford A. Ransley IT is with sincere pleasure that the Senior class of l927 welcomes you, our friends, our parents and our faculty. We appreciate your interest in us, which is shown by your presence. We realize that it is an effort for mother to marcel her hair, to clean up the children and for father to put on a clean collar, but now that you are here we hope that you will feel repaid for the effort. Class night always has been an occasion that everyone can enjoy. There is a time for everything and tonight is a time for gaiety, at commencement we can be serious. - We realize that this is one of the most important steps in our lives and we are grateful to you all for making it possible for us to be the first class to graduate from this new Ontario High School, which we leave for those who follow in our footsteps, although they can never hops to come up to our standard. lt was not only through our own efforts but also those of the faculty that have brought us to our goal, graduation. They have tried to make our four years of high school more profitable, more enjoyable and to give us a good foundation for our lives when we shall be more dependent upon our own resources. We all regret that we cannot enjoy this fine new school and realize that the coming classes will have even better opportunities than we have enjoyed. But of course, with their meager mental equipment more inspiration and assistance will be necessary to bring them within hailing distance of the Class of l927. Again let us thank the townspeople, the Board of Education and the faculty, without interested co-operation we would not be here. We owe them a debt of gratitude that can only be re- paid in kind. A . E201

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ULD AND NEW NEATH THE WHITE AND BLUE By Myron Leenhouts Here's to the school Old O. H- S., Whose memory we hold dear. And here's to the school New O. H. S. Where we start our studies next year. Our hearts go out to you old school, Your name we have long cherished Your fame we're sure will e'er endure Long after you have perished. Sometimes the road seemed rough and long For luck quite often failed us: Sometimes we thought the teachers wrong When they for lessons nailed us. But right or wrong we had to do just as they had requested Though often we would fret and stew And get all recongested. Yet we were never sorry For the work b'lievecl clone in vain We had never a care or worry When tests came 'round again. Yes, yes old school you've stayed by us And let us knowledge borrow You've mothered us through storm and strife Through sunshine and through sorrow. But now your race is almost run Your work almost completed We part with you as children do With toys almost depleted. 'Tis with mingled joy and sadness That from you we take our leave Yet with new and profound gladness As the new school we perceive- Dear Alma Maier loyal. true. To you our voices raise: We'll fight for you the, White and Blue Your name we'll ever praise. i211