Rye Neck High School - Scraps Yearbook (Mamaroneck, NY)

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FACULTY NOTES Scraps would never be complete with- out a word or two about our faithful teach- ers. Strange to say none are going abroad. Perhaps it is not the fashion this year and maybe those who have not been across want to be more patriotic and wish to see America first. At any rate most of them intend to spend their vacations at home. Mr. Bellows, however, is going to pass his summer among the hills of the Adirondacks where he lived during a part of his earlier life. The faculty this year, is going to lose three of its beloved members. Miss Hutchinson, who during the past six years has endeared herself to all, will leave a great gap which only she can fill. She has obtained a position in the High School at Yonkers which, incidentally is her home town. Miss McPhee of the Peekskill High School will become the new member of the faculty and will continue the work that Miss Hutchinson has so successful carried on. Another teacher who bids us adieu is Miss Dunn. Although she has been with us but a short time, she has made many friends among the faculty and pupils. Mr. Darling has coached his last team for Rye Neck because he intends to study for the medical profession. We regret that he is leaving us and we wish him success in his vocation. -Charles Silleck SCHOOL NOTES An interesting and original May-day pro- gram was presented before the assembly, on Tuesday, May 1, by members of the first year English class. The chairman of the performance, Henry Houpert, introduced the speakers in order. Nancy Reinke spoke first, on the origin of the name May. Then Selma Erickson and Alex Cambpell told of two great men who made history during this month-Lief Erickson and Col. Lindbergh. Helen Hance told of important birthday celebrations to take place in May. Lucille Tocknell gave an original composition, and Helen Curtain an original poem. Next, James Reed talked on the subject Birds and flowers of May. The last number on the program, a poem of James Whitcomb Riley's, rendered by Evelyn Rozofsky, was especially charming. --May Coakley PARENT-TEACHER NOTES At the last meeting of the parent-Teacher Association, an interesting musical program was presented, in charge of Mrs. Hanna. There were songs by groups of children from the grades, a piano solo by Nancy Reinke, a violin solo by Harold Harriott and several selections by the orchestra. A pleasing feature was a talk given by Mr. Colwell Conklin, the supervisor of music of the Mamaroneck school, about a musical conference which he had attended a few weeks previously at Chicago. --Andrew Kauppi W enzel Moor E A uleta Car R roll Clark E R Obinson Me Y er Houp E rt N amczy Coakl E y Fit C h Sillec K Steven S L eppert G1 A tzl Montgome R y G unn W E ndel Land S iedel T ifiin True S dell Ben E dum Goldman N Kaupp I Co O per Bo R el C urtin Coak L ey M A rtin Hain S Malinow S ki -Robert Montgomery Page Twenty-seven

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SUCCESS The manner in which a man spends his leisure moments may terminate in his suc- cess. The enjoyment of good literature is always beneficialg and though many people read for enjoyment, they are constantly ab- sorbing knowledge with it. If a personis leisure time is spent in gaiety, such as Broad- way life, much advantage can be .obtained, so long as this gaiety is practiced in moder- ation. Study can always be found beneficial, but a life of pleasure-seeking may assume harmful proportions if the person does not know where to stop. The value of Education in a man's life is great. For one thing it develops brains. It brings him in contact with world-wide af- fairs. and furnishes an incentive for work, for it is in work. and not in thinking of find- ing constant pleasures that we can have hap- piness. Get your happiness out of your work, or you will never know that work may be a pleasure. Many of the most successful men this world has produced reached their goal without the aid of a good education. Their argument was, and is, a business experienceg but these men are exceptions to the rule. Generally, a good education helps one im- measurably as a preliminary step towards the goal of success. When business experience can be backed up by knowledge obtained from a good educa- tion, the fortunate person that possesses it is sure to realize his ambition. Experience in business gives one a taste of the good and evil in the world and the realization that the full measure of success can be gained only by good hard, earnest work. The young man's resolutions are spurred onward by the great successes he sees flourishing about him. As Carlyle says, A determined young man in poor circumstances has to make the mater- ials with which he must work, and must make the tools alsog thus he has a great advantage over the man born into wealth, who has not much incentive to make a success of himself. If his home life is miserable and not at all harmonious, he is apt to adopt that type of attitude toward all his work. Discord can never be associated with suc- cess. Ultimate contentment comes from a source whence you employ and devote your- self to your own improvement and advance- ment in mind, morals understanding of things and affairs, and in efficient perform- ance of your duties. Youth is the most important period in a man's life. His ideals are formed when he is just approaching manhood. The man who has in him potential power and success shows his attitude by putting his heart and soul in- to his work. Sowing wild oats is not ex- actly necessary, but that depends to a very large extent upon the character of the per- son. Some people need to suffer from a mistake before they will go right. Expensive habits in youth will never make comfortable old age, for extravagance is a sieve that only leaves us the dregs of life. The ambition is at its height in the prime of a man's life, and sometimes a young lady enters into the picture and aids the young man to his success. But the drawback of this is that sometimes it is not the right kind of a girl. Most of our greatest Americans have been born in poverty, and in nine cases out of ten this has been the firm footing with which they have reached the top of the ladder. They have shown that they possessed talent, or the fine points which prevail in men of sterling worth. Abraham Lincoln is a fitting ex- ample of a man who with shining talent over- stepped the stones of disadvantage. Thomas A. Edison and Henry Ford are also out- standing examples of talent that overcame ob- stacles of poverty and lack of good education. When a man has been considered successful, he in most cases has amassed much wealth. This alone, however, is significant, although convenient. Is he happy? Has he been a help and an honor to his associates. his coun- try? Has he a happy home, and domestic tranquility, love and good will in his family? After the man has seen his dayg has enjoyed life and living, he maintains, educates and rears his children as useful citizens who will be a pride in his declining years. It is in the home that the future of great nations depend. 'Iihus. when a man has taken inter- est in family life. and thus has raised the standards of the nation, he has come to the acme of his ambition. Youth has the parting wordg for it is youth that plays such an important part of man's career. Evil and failure are self developing: virture and success must be developed. Therefore a well-spent youth is all impor- tant to success. Or in other words, be gay if you are so inclined, but be careful. You don't have to be careful with temperanceg you can't get enough of it!-Frank Namczy Page Twenty-size

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ALUMNI NOTES It is with interest that we watch the do- ings of those who have gone before us and fervently hope that we may do as well when we leave our school. Some of our graduates have gone directly into the world to seek the things that it holds for them while others have gone to seek higher knowledge. Of the class of '24 Laura Foshay and Roberta Stewart are Physical Training Teachers. The former at Rye Day School and the latter at the Y. W. C. A. of Wil- mington, Del. Jean Drews is a graduate of the class of '28 of Mt. Holyoke College. Earnest Eckley, Jr., is a student at Mid- dlebury. Muriel Gedney is a member of the graduating class of Smith College. Evan Humphreys, Jr., is studying Civil Engineering at Cooper Union. Mollie Humphreys is graduating with this year's class at the New York University. Evan Thomas is a student at Amherst Col- lege. Robert Trier, Jr. is studying hotel manage- ment. Weyman Walker, Jr. is a student at Dart- mouth College. Bertha Wendel, Amedeo Taiano, Elizabeth Harris and Eugenie Glatzl are in business. Many members of the class of '25 have followed their studies in various schools. liarcelle de Deauvolers has been awarded a prize for the most original work at New York University where she is taking a course in jewelry design. R. Depew Brewer is a student at Boston University. Paul Dujardin is a student at Brown University. - Alice Estep is studying at the New Rochelle College, Noami Haynes pursued her studies at Hunter College. Eliz eth Knudson is studying at Wel- lesl ollege. y icholas Oreska is a student at M. S. T. Elsie Thorell has been studying at Col- umbia. Robert Will is a student at Wesleyan Col- lege. Isabelle Zimpel is studying at St. Law- rence. Other members of the class are in the business world. Emily Boenke is representing this class in Europe. Irma Brennecke is now Mrs. Edward Hill. Helen Moore is graduating from Pratt School. Junius Bird, the illustrious member of the class of '26 is a student at Columbia when he is not exporing unknown Polar re- gions. Junius' latest Polar trip was taken last July when he traveled as assistant bio- logist to the Putman expedition John Brewer-Boston University. John Crawford-Dartmouth College. Helen Eckley-Mt. Holyoke. Edwin Grandstaif- Frederick Koch-Middlebury. Richard Zimpel-St. Lawrence. Thomas Carroll, Jr., of the class of '27 has entered Notre Dame College, Indiana, Stanley Hare is a member of the Sweeney School of Aviation at Kansas City, Kansas. Milton Langham is studing at Cooper Union. Helen Snavely is a student at Parson's Art School in New York City. Other members of the class of '27 are in the com- mercial world. -Vi0lCt Martin JOHNNY'S PLIGHT When Johnny did his lesson in his English for today, He came across a little word he simply couldn't say. 'Twas written in italics consequently it was French. Poor Johnny was excited, seated on his little bench. When it came his turn to read it, he was in a fearful grouch, You really cannot blame him, when he called it Sa main gauchef' The teacher wisely shook her head,-then John said, From the coach, Heknew he wasn't wrong this time, She held out sa main gauc-he. Poor teacher tried to tell him, when-a light shone like a torch, And Johnny spoke up bravely, and pro- nounced it sa main gauchef' Again the teacher looked distressed and John was nearly banned, Then just in time his buddy hissed, She held out her left hand. -Dorothy Fitch Page Twenty-eipht