SUNY Plattsburgh - Cardinal Yearbook (Plattsburgh, NY)

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Motto ov yap koyoicTL top Lov aTT€vhdt,op.€v Kapirpou noeio-0a.L p.a kov rj rois Spw AeVot?. (By deeds, not words, our care it is to make our lives illustrious). Colors — Garnet and Silver. Senior Class Officers Roy R. Rum i ' i k, President Ethel M. Coknwkight, Vice-President Albekta V. Shearer, Secretary Delou A. J. Bombardier, Treasurer Anna M. VVinfE, Salutatorian D. Byron Brady, Valedictorian

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THE FOUNTAIN Presented lo the Plallsburgh Stale Norma! School by the Classes of 1916 and 1917

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Our Mellow Past Years after people began to talk of the Pittsburgh State Normal, the Class of ' 17, largest ever enrolled in the roster of P. S. N. S., began its two years ' march through its time-honored class rooms. The middle of September, Nineteen Hundred Fifteen, marked the beginning of our training days. There was no blaring of trumpets, no beating of drums, nor great declamations. The event was unheralded in the eternal fitness of things ; it was looked upon simply as one of the fits. It was announced only by the steady pour of bewildered looking Juniors — some weepy-eyed, lost, and a little discouraged. Above it all was the merry laughter and ceaseless chatter of the noisy perfectly at home over-bearing Seniors, as they assembled in the corridors on that sunny September morning. Junior year promised to be a novel experience. What were Psychology and Reading .Methods in our lives? The generals wore a pleased grin, The Gods were Good, ' while the by-word of the Commercials was They ' re piling it on ! It took but a few days for everything to get under way and for a number of the less courageous members to get out of the way, since several of our number believed that discretion was the better part of valor and preferred home, mother, and the piano to Business English and Gregg. Early in September, the class assembled and chose Mr. Rumplf as its pilot, believing that they had in him a man who would not take a serious situation too seriously, and one who would work zealously in behalf of the class. Of the first few months of Junior existence we need not speak. They remain as a vivid memory that none of us has forgotten. Rush parties, witli all they entail, and Sorority pledging were quite exciting and full of interest. Movies were attended with a quiet dodging of teachers, and through it all there was study, for some a great deal, and for others a little. Under Doctor Henshaw. both classes were given a steady and substantial diet of Psychology, while the Commercialites partook of Business Arithmetic under Dr. Kitchell. The dessert in the menu was supplied by Miss O ' Brien, when we were made don sneakers, and bloomers and mark time — Mch ! Mid-years, with their blackening effect upon some, rolled around. A most formidable thing which confronted every unexcuscd Junior was an oral, not mathematical, but psychological. This consisted in passing through a third degree. conducted exclusively in psychological terms and with the un- fortunate subject seated in an isolated chair facing a smiling examiner. Page fourteen