Oswego High School - Paradox Yearbook (Oswego, NY)

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xl Nxt Qsff xx' My 'IM ' Ere the portals of this striking edifice close upon our four years of en deavor let us go back in our memories and review for a time some of th adventurous incidents that we have had a part in while pursuing knowled e of Pythagoras Mark Antony ean Val ean Newton and others too num r ous to mention here Everyone must remember that eventful day in September 1925 when we entered this building filled with ideas of our own in regard to what we should do when we got to the High School A number of us paraded to th first row in the auditorium for we did not want to miss anything that Mr Riley fabout whom we had heard so much might say This proved to be a wise movement on our part as lVlr Riley requested all green members if the school the did not quite call us that to remain in auditorium after the others had departed by groups in accordance with the way each one spelled his or her name to the advisory sections When the rest of the freshies had seated themselves somewhere in proximity to the first row lVlr Riley we had not as yet earned the privilege of calling him Tunk discoursed at some length upon the merits of a college course Desiring to make a good impression we appeared very interested and decided to follow his advice lhen he very kindly asked us if everyone had discovered to which advisory section he belonged Of course we all had or thought we had To our dis may some of us found that we had gotten in the wrong section We lmme diately vacated amid the snickers of our more enlightened brethren you see they had been here for many years and very placidly sought out the room in which we did belong By the time registration day arrived the laborious task of arranging our programs and procuring lockers laborious because we thought it only right to stick with the gang in the matter or classes and the location of lockers was settled we too became settled and were soon initiated into the mysteries of plus and minus signs when used with x and y. We endeavored to learn the why of biology Latin and English. Reports jail mid-terms and more reports followed one another in rapid succession until in une l926 the Regents' exam. liberated a great number of us from our weighty sub- jects. Ol lf someone had only warned us about the trials that were to come in the course called geometry. What with sides and legs of this and that and angles and arcs of everything else not included in this and that, we were kept busy as beavers. Simultaneously we were acquainted with the doings of the ancients. Despite these labours, we made ourselves felt around the school and many bids for entrance to school clubs were received by mem- bers of our group. At the Commencement Exercises in ,lune some of our boys LMAIAA ' s- .0 BAA I- A Qflflllll :iff , , l A nt X A IRNA Class History . . I D . . . . l 1 g .2 J .- t ' . . . l . i . C i - . . . D i . 1 Y. D i . is l , ' 1 ' 'J f