Ontario High School - Echo Yearbook (Ontario, NY)

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CLASS PROPHECY Time I937 Ruth Schimerhorn ONTARIO has grown greatly in the last ten years. When l was graduated from Ontario High School ten years ago it was quite a small town compared with what it is now. Ontario has a Chamber of Commerce, due to it's great population. I d been employed at the Chamber of Commerce Bureau for mor than seven years when the President came to me one day and asked me to give an account of the class of l927. Of course, l was glad to do this because l knew that all the members had mad great success on going out into the world. Through the aid of the directory and some of my friends l was able to collect the fol owing information. Gordon Allen, after leaving high school had gone to the Buffalo School of Pharmacy and after finishing his course there had set up a good business as a druggist in East Williamson. He had a thriving business there because of the patrohage of so many of his former girl friends. Lester Ameele had gone to Boston to an ,oratorial school to develop the Bostonian's way of speaking more correctly. He graduated from this school with high honors and later he ran for governor of Massachusetts and was elected by, a great majority. As a governor he is very popular. As yet no 'fair lady has won his heart: he still avoids single as well as married women. Homer Barnhart took up an extensive course in physical train- ing at Ithaca in order to develop his great ability for running. He has won several national championships as the' greatest runner in America. Ethel Leenhouts is considered one of the greatest designers of dresses and hats in the world. She even excels the French de- signers. Her great taste for designing was displayed in the Senior Play ten years ago when Ethel took the part ofl the maid. Every- one knew that E.thel's profession would be in designing. l Myron Leenhouts has won great success on the stage. He is one of the greatest comedians that has ever appeared on the stage. He has composed a great number of sorigs which are very humorous. These have added much to his popularity. Anna lVloque entered the General Hospital after leaving high school and trained three years as a nurse there. After finishing her course she went to Siberia and became head nurse in one of the large hospitals there. While working there she met a young officer from her home state and cupid did the rest. No doubt Anna's winning smile captivated him. i261

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THE SENIOR CLASS HISTORY--Continued Next they chose Vice President Myron Leenhouts And the treasurer Anna Moque, And they said to Anna, Be thou also scribe of all our doings, And they chose their colors rose and silver You shall hear how the Seniors Make their money for their pleasures- ln their third year high they published The famous junior Echogn And they also gave the banquet For their superior fellow classmates. ln their fourth year they sold candy, Every noon to fellow schoolmates: And they also gave their drama For the joy to themselves and to you. Honor be to the Seniors Cried the teachers, cried the schoolmates When they came in triumph homeward, With the sacred wealth of learning. And they say, Farewell forever! To their clear old Ontario High School, To their teacher and their school friends, And to all those who helped them, ln their four hard years of toil. L Once more they say, Farewell,'i ln the glory of the sunset, ln the purple mists of evening, But when they wake again tomorrow, They will be in rising sun light, To struggle on for honors ln the higher field of knowledge. I-251

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CLASS PROPHECY-Continued Rex Ransley a famous architect has designed many wonderful homes since he took up this work. I hear that he is now designing for himself a home at Miami, Florida. l wonder who the lucky girl may be? Max Verdow, the great candy manufacturer, owns one of the largest candy plants in the world at Chicago. The Verdow Candy is known everywhere because of the guarantee that stands back of it, Guaranteed not to make you fat 'and the more you eat the more you want. l think this was always Max's motto in high school. Neva Wemes took a course at Oswego Normal school. After spending three years there, she began teaching in Williamson as many of her former friends live there. She made such great success in teaching that she was offered a position as dean of Vassar Col- lege which she accepted. I hear her success is just as great there as it was in Williamson. ln this survey l discovered that the Class of I927 has been one which has come to fame and with all these things attained in ten years, one may expect greater things in the future. l THAT IRREPRESSIBLE. IMPULSE. By Marjorie Horner LAUCHINC and talking seem to be a natural tendency, and l seem to unconsciously think that I am endowed with a certain right to develop this tendency at any and all times fto the dis- pleasure of some and delight of othersj. This said tendency seems to run in the family. There is nothing so entising to me as motion, even if it is only the movement of the jaws. I not only like to talk but l enjoy hearing others talk. l am inclined to think that the atmosphere has something to do with my unspeakable behavior during the last class in the after- noon. The odor of the laboratory is enough to distract any one less disposed to notice it than l. lf one converses on interesting topics she is less likely to be so emphatically aware of the dis- agreeable side of existing and repugnant distractions. l really do not know where my head could have been. l seem to have forgotten all that makes the teacher glad to gaze into the uplifted, wistful eyes of her all inspiring subjects. lt's an omission that renders the teacher out of patience and peevish, sometimes. lt is exceedingly difficult and almost entirely impossible to concentrate when one is tired of school, hungry, and can so easily F1nd'an outlet for her irrepressible eruptions. E271