Palmer Institute Starkey Seminary - Echo Yearbook (Starkey, NY)

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45 t - . , . 1-...ii- ' 1 F24 - N A 5-333 2 ,, QE ' 'Tig 'Ti lfzfffs - 5? ' ' if . 5322 4 l? ' 5. i - .42 - . L4 T V Q x i: 1 . - lf. 4 I 1 ,A ir Q ll . . . :ww-.f fi ' . f .I ,- ' X 5-nfl' - r.'-M 'xt cf fi X , r V4 . f ,M 2 . , Qlnarh 09. E. fllllgrr We have had the facts brought home to us, more or less forceably, at different times, that scholastic pursuits are of major importance at Starkey and athletics was secondary. This is as it should be, but :-Without athletics, if one looks at it from a financial standpoint, a school will literally go to pieces. Without the right person at the head of this all-important branch of school life, it is a detriment. Starkey was indeed fortunate in enlisting the services of Physical Director Oliver D. lVIeyer. Mr. Meyer has been with us for four yea1's. During these years, students have grown physically, mentally and morally under his expert council and tutelage. Those who are intimately acquainted with the school's activities, marvel at the teams he turns out from the material he is presented with. Mr. lVIeyer is a graduate of Ithaca School of Physical Education, the school for coaches conducted by Knute Rockne and Dr. Nleanwell, and besides this, he is a human store house of knowledge gained from personal experience on the gridiron, diamond and court. It is necessary for an instructor of any sort in a boarding school to be versatile, broadminded, and above all, to have personality. lVIr. Meyer has these three principal ingredients to the n-th degree. His word is accepted as final by all of the students, because he has the power and farsightedness to sense what is the thing to do on the many trying occasions that arise in the minds of the modern boarding school student. We are hoping and praying that Mr. lVIeyer will not see fit to leave us for many years to come. To find a man who could completely take his place, would be a task well nigh impossible. S ixty-J?-ve

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5 Q t', 9 Feb. 25 Dundee High School at Dundee Starkey went to the Dundee town hall to play basketball on a court about one third the size of her own and considering that she could not open up a 23 to 12 score had to be sufiieient. lVIareh 4 Penn Yan at Lakemont Penn Yan League team came down to play with Starkey as a practice game to get used to th: court on which she was going to play off a tie with Auburn. Starkey lost 35 to 17. lvlarch 9 Odessa at Odessa Starkey went to Odessa and was beaten in the last minute by a 27 to 23 score. I EDA, v-' Zi xv' ' , gwi lgvf. Sixty-four

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Girlz Basketball S onsberger, Diehl, Rawling G iH-ing, A. Voorhees LCapt.j, H ssey, Thompson, Cri