Port Allegany Union High School - Tiger Lily Yearbook (Port Allegany, PA)

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alu' eix;rr iCiUi Senior ©fftcers Oral Thompson,......President William Naegely,..Vice President Mary Mulcahy, ......Secretary Pauline Naegely.....Treasurer iflnttn Nothing Without Labor (Colors Maroon and White JPlouirrs Dark Red and White Carnations Mentor (Tbp Iflnn rrful It would be hard to write the history of the class of 1914 if it were not for the fact that it is the most interest-ting and wonderful class that ever attained to the dignity of Seniors. Some of the other classes may doubt this, but we know our class best and therefore are best qualified to judge. Even when we first entered High School, we were different than the majority of Fresh-menmen, we were not so green; or if we were, they tell us that we were more successful in acquiring the art of concealing that verdant color so common to Freshmen. Another event of our Freshmen year, tho not so much to our credit was the way we annoyed our istorp Class of 1UI4 teacher, Mr. Hannawalt. We justified our conduct by saying that the example was set by the upper classes. That year a Freshman, Carleton Kendall, broke the pole vault record at the county track meet. But misfortune came to us too, death took one of our classmates, Sam Crissy. The vear passed rapidly and then we were Sophs! Now we looked down upon the Freshmen and tried to make life hard for them. As a whole the year was uneventful. Mr Hanawalt, however, had left us and in his stead came Mr. Fetterolf, young, unmarried and welcomed by the girls. Now comes the year when we really showed the abilities, which have made

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udjr autcr 3Qily Unarii nf tEiUiratuw Mr. D. S. Helmer..........President Mr. C. W. Catlin..........Secretary Mr. G. V. Spraker.....Vice President Mr. G. S. Studholme.......Treasurer Mr. P. G. Kendall Stigh anil Gkaftrii i rluuil (iirarh ra Mr. F. A. Berkenstock Mr. H. C. Fetterolf Miss Kershner Miss Katharine Miller Miss Lawler Miss Dunnigan Miss Winship Miss Springer Miss Fuller Miss Shepard Miss Nellie Miller Miss Helmer Mrs. Reed Miss Lilly Miss Bowman Miss Lillibridge Sjuili rluml (Calruimr, 1013-1914 September 1, 1913 .........First Semester Begins October 17-31 ...................Teachers Institute November 27 ...............Thanksgiving Vacation December 24-January 5, 1914 .... Christmas Vacation January 19................Second Semester Begins April 10-20 .....................Easter Vacation May 8-9 ....................School Entertainment May 15....................................Junior Reception May 24 .....................Baccalaureate Sermon May 29..............................Commencement

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alir aujrr CUtj our last two years so successful. Our staff of officers consisted of Esther, Harold, Pauline and Russel. Immediately we set to earning money. We have the honor of introducing the now popular Friday lunch counter, which is quite a money making scheme. So successful were we that all the classes since imitate us. We had many wajs of earning money and all were just as successful as the lunch counter. We bought our pins when we were Juniors, another thing no other Junior class has ever done. We helped give the Freshman reception another innovation. Our reception to the Seniors was given late in the year and we have the Seniors’ word for it that it was a success, but the crowning achievement of our Junior year was the publication of the first High School Anual in Port Allegany, “The Tiger Lily.” The other classes scoffed when we started to work upon it but we were persevering and so in May the book was placed on the market and was received with enthusiasm; so much so that the demand was great er than the supply. Well, that year ended and we were sorry to lose some of our class-mates. And then .ve were Seniors—Seniors! Oh how proud we were and yet how sorrowfully we watched the days pass that drew on to the end. But we were happy too and we have enjoyed this year more than any other. As we wished to take a trip to Washington, we set to work to earn the necessary money for this trip. Because we had been wisely economical, we had a nice nest egg. We had lunch counters, picture show benefits, an extra lecture number, and soap orders, soap or- ders and more soap orders. During the first part of our Senior year the events were few, just another Freshman reception and a Halloween party. But besides all the things we have told of, there is one other thing. In the eighth grade we got the habit of giving something to the school. That year it was a small but extremely useful book, “The Age of Fable,” but during our Senior year the class gave to the High School a statue of Mercury. Of this we are very proud because we are the first to do it, but we are also very happy to leave the gift to our beloved alma mater. During the latter paid of the year events moved swiftly; work and play were nicely mixed. Exams—their name was legion but so were the affairs of fun. Mrs. Ventres entertained at her home one Saturday evening and two weeks later we were entertained at the country home of “Uncle Eber” after a delightful sleigh ride. To tell of the fun we managed to have in school would take the rest of this book so you will have to imagine it or look on the Calendar. The days passed and the hurry and flurry of graduating began. But why should we go further with this tale. We cannot tell what lies before us nor how many miles of land and sea may lie between us in the coming yea.s. We can only hope that all will be well vifc'i every member of the class of 1914. We are sure that you will agree with us as you read this that our class deserves the name of the “wonderful class of 1914.” E. McL, ’14.