Sauquoit Valley Central High School - Saghdaquadah Yearbook (Sauquoit, NY)

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SAFETY One of the important factors in the grade and high school education of your chil- dren is that they be safely transported to and from school. Your Board of Education and Public Service Commission checks your buses and drivers to see that the buses are in excellent mechanical condition and that the drivers are responsible and using all possible precautions to protect your children. However, the factor of the other drivers on the road makes a constant danger. Most of the failure of these drivers to obey rules is due to the fact that the driver does not know the motor vehicle laws. We are asking your cooperation in observing the following rule, in telling others of the rule and reporting to your school office violations of this rule. The rule follows: HA vehicle overtaking or meeting an omnibus, being used solely for the trans- portation of children to or from school, which has stopped for the purpose of re- ceiving or discharging passengers, shall come to a complete stop and then proceed with cautionf' ATTENDANCE Good attendance on the part of your children is an important factor in making more certain the satisfactory completion of his or her grade or high school course. Irregular attendance interferes with the proper educational progress of your children, causes disciplinary trouble and may lead to serious inconveniences to parents and children. Your school authorities have a duty to perform in enforcing the education- al attendance law which requires every student to be in regular attendance in school between the ages of 7 to 16 years of age. Working papers may not be given to a child until the child is at least sixteen years of age. A second result of poor at- tendance is that it penalizes the school program by cutting the public money of the district. Last year every dayls absence of a high school student cost your district 56 cents and the absence of a grade school student cost the district 28 cents in its public money.

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EDITCIQIAI. STAFF Editor-in-chief ..., . .... Elnore White Business Manager . . , . 4 ....... ..,. ....,. B e nnie Tyran Advertising Manager ........,,,...... .. ....., John Donahue Assistants ..,,.... .t.., F rank Peterson, Doris Zambon, Ella Jensen Sports Editor . .,..,........,....,...... Julia Loughlin Social Editors . , . , ,.., Edith Cobane, Nancy Kehoe Jokes Editor , ...,........,, Nancy Kehoe Class Editor ...,,......, .,......... E dith Cobane Circulation Manager .....,. i......,. ..,...... D e wey Roberts Assistants .,.... . .John Donahue, Edith Cobane, Bennie Tyran DEDICATIDN We, the Class of 733, dedicate our book to Mr. Clark whose loyal service and unselfish devotion we gratefully appreciate and acknowl- edge. With him as he leaves us go our affection and our hopes that he will hc happy in his new position. Class Motto - Never Backward Class Flower - White Rose Class Colors --- Green and White The juniors wish to thank all who have contributed in any way to the success of this book and wish to acknowledge the work of Martha Towne and Elnore White, who typed the material in preparation for publication. Cover Design by Dorothy Wenz Linoleum Block cut by Miss Green, Mr. Pembleton

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IN DEFENSE UE 66MACI3ETH 9' Some time ago, I read in a school publication an article which deplored the fact that the Shakespearian drama, Macbeth, is read and taught in our high schools. The pupil author seemed to infer that the reading of the play would be detrimental to students. I wish to say a few words in defense of this great English drama. The author of the selection maintained that uMaebeth ought not to be held as a model of literature for high school pupils because the play contains eleven murders and numerous soliloquies on morbid subjects. He pointed out that it por- trays bloody scenes and shocks with demoralizing speeches. As a result he could not understand why the play, classic though it is, could be tolerated for high school reading nor could he see that it would be of any help to a student. l believe that there are certain important facts which this author overlooked. 'He did not see that the play teaches a lesson-that it brings out clearly that, Crime does not payf' It is true that Macbeth did wrong, yes-glaring, black wrong-but llc paid for his wrong-doing ten thousand times. As a result of his murders, he became nervous, suspicious, mistrusted everyone, lost his friends, his self-respect, and finally paid for his misdeeds with his life. His wife, Lady Macbeth, an ac- complice in his first killing, paid too. She, because she could not forget her sin- fulness, brooded over it and became a prey to nightmares and sleepwalking. Finally, tortured beyond endurance, she became insane and took her own life. Both she and her husband were ruined by their fearful wrongdoings. What lesson do their ex- periences teach high school readers? Cannot even their immature minds discern from the experiences of these two characters the fact that crime always exacts a payment? Cannot they see from this play that the price paid for wrongdoing is great-too great? The play teaches a lesson just as obviously as any preacher could teach it. Then wherein lies the fault of lVlacbeth?,' Are there faults in it? l think not. As a matter of fact, l feel that the removal of the play from the high school reading list would mean the withdrawing of a great moral-a moral made known in an in- teresting fashion and consequently strongly impressed upon the minds of the high school readers. a'lVlacbeth will remain in our reading list. It cannot help staying there for it brings out the greatest of all lessons-the uselessness of evil. Sarah Pine.