Prattsburgh Central High School - Franklinite Yearbook (Prattsburgh, NY)

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16 FRANKLIN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL W'e, the Class of Sixteen Freshmen, entered High School a year ago and was looked upon by the other students as small, insignificant and of very little importance-but at the close of the year we have proved to them our size, intelligence and ability. At the very beginning of the year we observed how sickly and under- nourished they all looked so one of our members immediately entered Dr. Bachman's ofhce for study and then went to the Bath Hospital and had an operation and back in school in three weeks to prove to these super- intelligent High School students the value of surery. Then when we wanted a party over in Lounsberry Gully a little Freshie had to get cars to carry the rest. Many of the Boy Scouts are Freshies and some of those in the Upper Classes have joined so they might play base ball with our Never Beaten T eam. XVe have proved to them all the year our efficiency in Algebra, Biology and Latin. How far superior we have been to the classes of former years is very evident by the way we have followed our motto, Progressus. Our estimation of the different classes is that the Seniors are small, the Juniors ----- Cnot worth mentioningj, Sophomores have big heads and in closing, Lest you forget, we took for our Class Flower, the Forget- Me-Not. -Phyllis Keyes. The Junior Class The class of 1922 was organized with Ralph Jones, as President: Ruth Sturdevant, Vice President, and Ida Murphy, Secretary. The Class Colors are yellow and whiteg the rose being chosen for Class Flower. The motto Tout vient a qui sait attendref' Next year the Senior Class will prove to the world that big things can be done in spite of small numbers. ' -Ida Murphy. Silly little Freshman Trying hard to learn, Needn't learn the Hre-drill- You're too green to burn!-Ex.

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FRANKLIN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 15 territoires de la Union excepte Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nworth Carolina, South Carolina, et Texas. Quelque des etats de sud sont parti aussi un jour pour la commemoration des soldats Confed- erates qui ont tombe pendant la guerre, Il a ete la maniere pour les enfants des ecoles de marcher dans un corps a le cimetiere precede par ies vieux soldats et le orchestre. A le cilnetiere des exercises tenissaient. Ensuite ils placent un drapeau neuf et des Heurs sur chacun des graves du soldat. Je pense c'est une tres bonne maniere de montrer le respect a notre pays dans le honneur des hommes qui se battaient et qui mourirent pour nous. Rosslyn C. Boyd. LE BUCHERON Un bucheron qui coupait bois au bord d'une riviere laissa tomber sa hache dans l'eau. Toute cle suite il commenca prier les dieux le trouver a lui. Mercure para et le demanda que la peine etait. 'Vai perdu ma hache, clit-il. En entendant ce, Mercure plonga dans l'eau et il eleva une hache d'or. Cette est-elle la votre? Non, dit l'homme. La prochaine fois Mercure eleva une liache d'argent. Cette est-elle la votre? Non, clit le buclieron encore. Le troisieme fois Mercure eleva une liache de fer que 1' homme connut aussitot quil la vit. C'est la votre. clit le dieu, et a votre loyante je vous donnera les autres aussi. Ida Murphy. LE COMMENCEMENT ET LA FIN Iinfant, a votre premiere heure, On vous sourit, et vous pleurez! Puissiez-vous, quand vous partiez, Lourire, alors que l'on vous pleure! The Freshman Class Greets You Motto: Progressus. Colors: Blue and VVhite. Flower: Forget-Me-Not. Oflicersz Yrooman Higby, Presiclentg Howard Donley, Vice President: Harriet Hatch. Secretary.

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FRANKLIN ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ANNUAL 17 The Sophomore Class of '23 Motto-- Be what you seem to be. Flower-The white lily. Colors-Green and white. Do you remember when you entered High School, that first morning, how you felt that your brilliance just seemed to shine forth? That's the way with all Freshmen, I guess. Really, we thought there never was a bunch of brighter shining stars than we, and it took our elder classmates a great deal of their precious time to keep our feet on terra Erma, that first year. However. we have found that a large amount of our surplus knowl- edge has disappeared. during our Sophomore year. We reorganized our class early this Spring and the Freshmen soon fol- lowed our good example, while the juniors with really too few for a class, have taken much longer to wake up than the Freshies. At our first meet- ing, we re-elected Catharine Cornell, our worthy President, making Hil- dreth Olney, Vice President. and Germain Crossman, Secretary and Treas- urer. At a later meeting, we decided to have a picnic. So seeing an opportun ity to arouse the Freshmen and Juniors, we invited them to join us. Some very kindly offered their cars, so we were able to go into the country. The party was a great success and all declared that they had a very enjoyable time. Now we are striving with our studies to have sufficient counts to become Juniors next year and Mlisto quod videmur esse. -Esther Blood. Senior Notes Owing to the large class last year and to various other reasons, the Senior Class of 1921 is very small and consists only of two members, Hilda Downey and Howard Hatch. Both belong, also, to the Training Class, so it is needless to say there has been more work than fun this year. The Class has had no separate organization, but has joined the Training Class. The motto and class colors are also the same. and the exercises will be held together this June. The Seniors are so very few. They are so wild and funny, But Franklin life will lonesome be Without their smiles so sunny. -Hilda Downey.