Richford High School - Searchlight Yearbook (Richford, VT)

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14 R. H. S. SEARCHLIGHT LA FACE SANS GLOIRE CUn Resume De La Comedie Heorique, Cyrano de Bergeracj Adorable, affable, bon, courtois liberal Spirituel, courageux, avec les elegances morales, Falot, un physicien, un independant, Un franc tireur des lettres, un savant, De pointes, de realisme trivial, un amateur. Un peu fou, un poete de talent inoui, un auteur, . Un homme d'imagination bizarre, un moraliste, Un musicien, un remarquable humoriste, Paradoxal, grand riposteur du tac au tac, Ceux sont les moyens de Cyrano de Bergerac. Donc, je dirai un peu de sa vie historique, Mais plus de son air, et moral et physique. En seize cent dix-neuf, d'un famille gasconne, il est ne Son education premiere est recue d'un cure Plus tard, 51 Paris, on l'envoie au College Beauvaisg Jusqu'a ce qu'il e-ut dix-neuf ans, il y restait. Quand du College il partait, Dans les gardes royales. il entrait, Ou il se repute un grand bretteur. Mais, en, ans plus tards, a la litterature, A la physique, il se devouait. En l'annee Seize cent cinquante-cinq, il est mort assassine. Rimeur, ferrailleur, voyageur aerien! Et quel aspect heteroclite que le sien! Mais bizarre, excessif, extravagant, falot, Il eut fourni, je pense, El. feu Jacques Callot. Le plus sol spadassin at mettre entre ses masques: Feutre e panache triple et pourpoint a six basques, Cape, que par derriere, avec pompe, l'estoc Leve, comme une queue insolente de coq, Il promenait. en sa fraise a la Pulcinella, Un nez!-Ah! reellement, que nez que ce nez-le. On ne peut voir passer un pareil nasigere Sans s'ecrier. Ohl non, vraiment, il exageref' Puis on sourit, on dit: Il va l'enlever- Mais Monsieur de Bergerac ne l'enlevait jamais. Soltl et vo1c1 sa phllosophie,-etre lufrubre, Rever, chanter, passer, rire, etre seul, etre libre, Avoir l'oeil qui regarde bien, la voix que vibre, Mettre, quand il vous plait, son feutre de travers, Pour un oui, pour un non, se battre,-ou faire un vers. Travailler sans souci de gloire ou de fortu ae, A tel voyage, auquel on pense, dans la lune! Une Epitaphe Philosophe, physicien, Rimeur, bretteur, muscien, Et voyageur aerien, Grand riposteur du tac au tac, Amant aussi-pas pour son bien!- Ci-git Hercule-Savinien De Cyrano de Bergerac Qui fut tout, et qui ne fut rien. Par Georges Edwarde Currie '27 JOKES Says Esty: I've nothing but my saxaphoneg Amy's nothing but her song: ' I think I'll get a violia And then we'll jazz a'o'1g. Boomy is getting downright lazy these days-one of Hurtubise's horses wouldn't take the bit and Boomy talked to him until he yawned. Driver: Madam, I am very sorry I killed your dog. Will you allow me to replace him? ' Madam: Oh, dear. This is so sudden. Miss Bush: What did you say? Tud: Nothing. Miss Bush: Certainly, but how did you express it this time? Miss Esty at the board in Geometry Class: Of course, I know I have a rotten figure. Livingston: How did you sleep last night, Tud? Tud: Not so good, old cheese, I dreamed I was pitching pennies and tossed all night. Tud's version: Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, . If my Ford won't go, then walk I must.

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R. H. S. SEARCIILIGHT I3 Phlltfi by Richford Studio , BASEBALL TEAM 1926 ATHLETIC EDITORIAL Our athletics this year have come up to the usual standard of the school. The boys' basket ball team, to be sure, was not very successful, but we kept up our courage and are now starting on an apparently good baseball season. Needless to say athletics play an im- portant part in school life. They should be given only a fraction of time, but that frac- ton should be a real one. Would not one way to make it count be by having right from the start a salaried coach or someone especially fitted for the position? Should not such a person be held responsible for a course in athletics as other teachers are for their departments? So far our coaches have been chosen in a haphazard manner, it has been a case of anyone, who would do the training. If we had a hired faculty coach he could be given authority to insist upon the boys training. Diet and other health habits certainly tell. In two of our neigh- boring schools one member of the faculty is hired because of his ability as a coach as well as an instructor. That both of these school put out winning teams seems quite evidently due to this system. We would like to have it tried out at R. H.. S. There is ample room on our own school grounds for the practice of field sports such as running, jumping, shot-put discuss throw- ing, etc. The number of pupils who can play on a basket-ball or baseball team is necessarily limited, but any number can qualify for these other forms of sport. An out-door track meet, one for the girls and one for the boys, held in the fall would be just the thing for us. Supervised exercise should not be for a few only. Fortunately for us we have now a per- manent baseball diamond. This has been made possible thru the forsight and gen- erosity of several of our citizens. We hereby express our appreciation of what has been done for us. May the interest that the new playground has awakened continue to grow in the school and community. ATHLETICS Opp. R. St. Albans at St. Albans 25 0 Swanton. at Swanton 13 5 North Troy at North Troy 0 20 Johnson at Richford 11 10 Swanton at Richford 2 9 Johnson at Johnson 13 19 North Troy at Richford 4 21 Enosburg at Enosburg 9 12

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R. H. S. SEARCHLIGHT , lb ADDRESS T0 UNDERGRADUATES Vestigia Nulla Retrorsum Never a Step Backward Tonight, we the Class of 1926, wish we could think of graduation as commence- ment-the opening to greater things, but instead, it seems the end of all that has been dear to us. Instead of looking forward, most of us are looking longingly back on the happiness that has been. There is only a short time for such reflection, however, for soon the farewells will be said and our class will be scattered, and then each must press on to what life has in store for him. We have been united so long in our common interests, common aspirations, common joys and sorrows, that it makes us very sad to sever these bonds. While now we hope and even promise ourselves, that we will always keep our friendship green, we know that after we are once separated, things can never be the same again. Only the memories can remain unchanged! This is why we envy you, Undergrad- uates. You have some years ahead of you to pass in the surroundings we have loved and always shall love so well. Let this be our advice to you-Make the most of the time left you. Don't ever wish one moment of it away! Get the best from your studies. Excel, don't just squeeze through. Work for the Searchlight. It will mean more to you if you do not let the editor do all the work. Go into athletics. If you cannot be on the first team, don't get mad and give up. Play the game for the game's sake, not because you hope to be taken on some trip. If you cannot be on the teams support them just the same. Go to the basket ball games, the base ball games, the receptions-partici- pate in everything connected with the school, so that at the close of your high school years, you will at least have the satisfaction that you have not missed one precious moment. You will have all the rest of your lives for outside things, but only a few short years for high school acti- vities. Do not tolerate a spirit of selfish- ness among you. Don't ask yourselves, be- fore you do anything, What am I going to get out of it? What if it does not mean personal glory for you? Are you not willing to do anything without pay? Besides you will get something out of it if you have the satisfaction that you have done your part and done it well. We wish that we could make our teach- ers know all that they have been to us. They have been not only excellent teachers, but good sports, our leaders and friends in out- side activities as well as our instructors in school. At times we may have seemed un- appreciative and hard to deal with, but we shall always thank and honor you for the aid and inspiration you have given us. And so, now that this period of our lives is nearly ended, we shall go forward bravely and hopefully into the future with never a step backward. Browning tells us that the best of life is last for which youth was made. We know that the happi- ness cannot all be behind us. In fact, even these years, which look so bright to us now, have had their disappointments and trials. We do not think of those things now, but they were very real to us when we en- countered them. The memory of these four years with their problems solved will help us in solving the problems of the future. The trials of youth being overcome, we are strengthened for the trials of manhood and womanhood. We hope to live our lives so that our age many be a time of satisfaction. The Class of '26 never has failed in any thing it has undertaken and we pray and triust that it will not fail in the game of 1 e. Laura C. Rounds CLASS HISTORY OF 1926 The purpose of this great history is to present to you in a clear and forceful man- ner the important events in the history of the class of 1926. We as authors of this history have two distinct objects in view. They are simpli- city of style because we know no other and impartiality in the treatment of all our sub- jects which are eighteen in number. We started up the long way to a high school diploma in September 1913. Of the eighteen graduating in our class, seven started together in the first grade. These are Laura Rounds, Hilda Demar, Dorothy Cull, Lorne Bruso, Robert Corliss, Wilbert Pat- ton and James McKenney.