Schenectady High School - Shucis Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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IEII IIEIEI' 'IEII' I SHUCIS 'EE El' WEN' 'IEW 'lil Vol. XVIII Established by the Class of 1906 No. 6 Glass Harm The Fates bend low o'er a tangled skein, One spins, one winds, and the shears ol the last Are open to sever the thread of Lifeg Unwezlried they work as the years glide past. Behind us lie in Z1 misty dream The sunny days of Z1 childhood goneg 'Twas but the start---as the thread untwists Our paths lead out to the world lbeyond. Like ripples that leave the secluded pool And venture on toward the open sea, XYe go to dance with the foamtipped waves ln restless streams of huinztnity. The dawning day holds a task for us, And whispers of things that are past our reach. The hardest lessons are still unlearnedg Books hold them not-only Life can teach. Let's not forget thzut in work lies joy, And lighten some burden along the way, To await the snip of the silken thread XVith song and afsnnile at the close of day. Carol Estabrook IIE!

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Uhr Bhuria ilirrullrrtinnzi nf the Grail CC1ass History, .Pune 19245 As the flaming june sun -dropped slowly behirnd the high mountains of Future Problems, Bingey, the old legend teller, sat in the -door of his new- ly erected cabin made of Secondary School Knowledge wood. Although he had had to work hard to get the wood for this little cabin, it was not as good as he would have liked it to be, but the best he could do under the extremely hard circumstanices. Many who had started with 'the wagon train but had straggled along and had just arrived had far more pri-mitive cabins than he. As Bingey sat smoking his pipe, his mind wandered back over the long rough trail which he had just traversed. Once more he pictured the bustle at the 'beginning of the -trail and excitement of preparation. He re- membered how the old trail blazers, Van Cott and Abbey had counseled their excited companions and had assigned to each the duty for which he was best suited. He smiled as 'he realized how much easier things would have gone if all had more closely followed this good advice. Then came the first week of slow 'travel to get accustomed to the hard life and wait for a few who were delayett 'by weather conditions. Four hundred fifty six wagons there were in -the company when' it boldly struck out into the wild- erness. Each wagon had an allotted amount -of text book tools and prac- tical experience food supplies. There also followed the live stock of liter- ature at the very end of the train. How easy the first year of the journey, under the careful leadership of the trail blazers, Van Cott and Abbey, now seemed as he recalled the more severe hardships they had had 'to undergo before they realched their desti- nation. How absurd the terrors related by travellers who had journeyed forth in the preceding years, 'but had been detained by lack of provisions, now appeared. How definitely was pictured the evening of election jusvt before they resumed -their march, after a short sojourn in a pleasant valfley of vacati-on, when faithful Van Cott, who was returning for more travellers, gathered the companies together and commended them to the guidance of a young energetic apprentice of his art named Sarver. The general hubbub at the first election when Leland Hea-th and Mary Savage were chosen lead- ers of the train, Mary Barringer keeper of the day 'book and Bernard Cohen banker for their scanty savings, seefmed like a joke 'beside the turmoil which took place at every general assembly of the much smaller company on the last hard miles of the journey. This place was the first scene of the parting of many of the travellers who preferred the pleasant valleys of paying jobs 'to the hard journey to the Lan-d of Greater Achievements. However, compared with the losses farther along the trail it was small. A tired expression crossed Bin.gey's brow as in his mind he again forded the Rivers of Examinations and a light of spirited hatred flashed in his eyes as again he fought the fierce, frequent and blood-thirsty attacks of the Indians of the powerful Homework Tribe. The frequent wranglings in which the companies became involved flashed on Bingeyls memory. Although now they seemed like nothing and had really been done for the best interests of the whole train at the time of their 'happen-ing they had caused great changes in the aspect of the pil- grimage. By no means the least important of these was when XVilliam 6