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

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P I -V' C 4m Preparedness WE HEAR AND RIMD of the necessity for national preparedness for self-defense. This seems no more essential to our nation than it does to students as individuals when they leave the protec- tive environment of their homes and schools to take their places in this changing world. We have only to stop before the employment offices of our local factories, State and Federal employment bureaus, or check on the number of applications for positions when a vacancy occurs to see the immense competition that exists for personal services. What are some of the things in which we need to be prepared? I would list them as follows: physical fitness, mental alertness, educational background, open-mindedness, critical and accurate knowledge of the affairs in our immediate and remote environment, vocational and avocational information and skill. The first essential in this preparedness is a strong, healthy body, free from any physical handicaps or diseases. The present program in health and physical education in our own school aims to develop this physical well-being. We coordinate the work of the class room and the physical examination together with corrective clinics for teeth, tonsils, eyes, ears, chest and orthopedics. It is to the advantage of all students and adults in this community that they assure to themselves the full benefit of this specialized program. Our central school has a wide diversified, educational and vocational program to give to its students, together with the necessary information, mental discipline, and growth. This pro- gram extends as far as the financial ability and the demand of the students permits. It is not necessary to mention our commercial, agriculture, home-making, and industrial arts fields. The college entrance course best supplies information and mental discipline. The last few years have been full of government experiments, rapid scientific development, political changes, specializations in various fields. These developments have been so rapid and so different that the unprepared individual has not been able to keep pace. Many of these changes and experiments have brought forth controversial issues to such an extent that only the prepared and mentally alert individuals have been able to understand the meaning even in part. One comes away from these exacting problems in our everyday social, and political life weary and disheartened. Proper recreation is essential. This recreation must take the person away from the harrowing tasks of the day to give mental relaxation and muscular exertion. Unless one is trained in the healthful, proper, recreational activities he is apt to drift into other activities which may be physically and socially harmful. Our extra curricular program supplies this demand. The opportunities for securing this preparedness exist in our own central schools. Each student has six years, grades seven through twelve, to take advantage of the programs and activities which are offered. Every student should make the most of their six years in this school so that they will go out better equipped to fulfill the vocational, social, and political duties as future leaders and citizens in their respective communities. page twenty five

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EPP? page twenty-four F f'V' C 4- Thrift Ile Mull zwiw 1411111 mba ii Ibrzniful for. .md llvriflj' with, az liflle. -BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. THRIFT is not only referred to as systematic saving but it is also referred to as wise spending. In return for saving we receive a security for the future. To be saving does not mean to be stingy. Saving merely means to live below one's allowance and to regularly put aside something. In the year nineteen hundred and thirty-seven, the Sauquoit Valley Central School completed its first year in the School Savings through the Savings Bank of Utica. A school bank creates in youth the habit of saving. If a person does not cultivate this habit while in his youth, he will probably never save in later years. It is the part of wisdom to acquire desirable habits while young. Saving and thrift is a key to happiness and prosperity. -MARGARET T. WEIGEL. Sclhrooll Days Wlien the day comes to leave our school, Wliere we learned the Golden Rule, Our school, we know that we will miss, No longer will we know the blissg Of riding on the buses, Remembering foolish fusses, That we had in days gone by. No longer will we see the red and the black When our boys were fighting back. Think of all the games we won, But most of all we had some fun. --MARY COLLINS.

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W. ,-., wmv ,f,.,, .. PIN'-C4 ' Touring Scientists TWENTY-FOUR science students began the first lap of their long anticipated journey at the very early hour of six o'clock, Monday morning, April 10th. Most of these future Einsteins were very wide awake and feeling very gay and witty, including our most es- teemed instructors, Miss Cassidy and Mr. A. P. Walker, and our well-renowned bus driver, Mr. Michael North. About ten o'clock everyone began to look in his respective lunch bag and sample a bit of what he found. We reached Corning around one oiclock, and the different groups went to various restaurants to have lunch. From there we went directly to the Corning Glass Works. Upon arriving at the glass plant, we were given several folders and booklets all relating to the subject, glass . On the front of one of these booklets was shown a rather short old man, in working clothes, blowing glass. We had not gone so very far in the plant be- fore one of the groups recognized a man who looked exactly the same as the one on the cover of the leaflet. Upon inquiry, we found that he was Charlie Nelson. He was a very jolly and humorous man. He gave us his auto- graph and told us many amusing stories. I think he held everyone's interest for a certain period of time, and I believe he was really enjoying himself. Nearly all the workers in the glass plant have huge lung capacity, and they can make their faces as round as apples in a few short moments. We were very much surprised and interested to learn that nearly everything made at the plant is made by hand. The work- ers make neon sign tubes, electric light bullts, exquisite vases, finger bowls, coffee pots, movie hlm lights, baby bottles Cof which we each obtained a sampleD, thermometers, cock- tail glasses, and many other things. Approxi- mately four men sit around a huge furnace. Each has a separate work bench, and there p lge twenty-six are four holes in the side of each furnace, one for each man. The men each have a long iron rod, on one end is a small piece of melted glass and on the other . . . guess what . . . the man! There is a hole running straight through the rod. The men blow through this hole to make the shape of the article wanted. The only tools they possessed were a pair of shears, a pair of tongs, a paddle made of appletree wood, and a pan in which they put the excess glass. They measure things merely with their eyes. They are simply breathtak- ing, they are truly artists, each and every man. Some of us were taken to see the first 300- inch telescope lens that was made at Corning. There was a flaw in it, so another one had to be made. We saw the very large machine in which the telescope had been molded, the compartment in which it had to be cooled for ten months, and the lens itself. It was really something to see. We saw material made of glass, one would have thought it to be silk had not he been told otherwise. We all agreed that we could have stayed on at the glass works one whole day. After leaving the glass works, we went directly to Olean where we registered at the hotel. It was six olclock by that time, and our first day was slowly drawing to a close. Most of us had dinner and went to a show. We had to be up at S o'clock the next morning and on the road at six. Nevertheless, we were not prevented from having a good time. Mr. Walker told us to use common sense, and I believe most of us did so. We had our breakfast at live-thirty the next morning in the hotel dining room. It was very much enjoyed by those who were awake enough to know what they were eating. It had been sometime since the majority of the group had been up at such an early hour. We stopped at Lackawanna to visit the Bethlehem Steel Plant. Only the boys were permitted to go through it, but they reported