Seneca Vocational School - Chieftain Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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Qfp ar HI swf UQ 81 In June, 1933, a group of six hundred elementary school graduates CI. Johnny Fresham among themj apparently physically and mentally fit to begin their life work, knocked at the doors of Seneca Vocational High School. Every precaution was taken to determine whether we would qualify for the type of work that would confront us when we should enter industry. IVIany questions were hurled at us by stern-visaged instructors: 'AVVhy have you selected the electrical trade, the machin- ist trade, photography, steam engineering? Our answers were invariably the same: Because I like that type of work. I have tools at home where I try to . . .H Ivly report card ran the gauntlet successfully. I labored through a written examination. I waited. Then came the glad news. I had been accepted. VVhat a weight was lifted from my mind when I heard that I was one of the fortunate ones! Two hundred and fifty-nine boys and I would enter Seneca. Three hundred were turned away. In September, my schedule fVVhat was a schedule, anyway?j was adjusted. English, mathematics, mechanical drawing and shop! VVhat do these names mean at Seneca? I should have liked only the last, but I soon found that I had to take them all. Five weeks passed. Came the examinations. I passed. Oh, this was easy! The tenth week came with a rush. VVhen the storm clouds passed, I found that I had failed math. It was then that I learned about another Seneca phrase: Called upon the carpet. Cold shivers ran up and down my spine. What would they say to me when I was called into the office? I made some discreet inquiries. What I discov- ered was disconcerting, to say the least: They don't say much. They act! Gee, I thought, if I had only studied I might have passed. Gathering the frayed skirts of my courage about me CI really thought about my motherj I reported to the office. Never again will I go on the carpet. Home work for me after this! January examinations . . again I passed. June followed with the same happy results. Walking home with my pal, I joyfully called his attention to my marksg he didn't answer. The following September he was absent. INIy heart ached for him, because it meant a blind-alley job, penalized for life, when a little effort would have assured success. The years have melted away, and hear I am a senior! Iviany of my fellow- students during the last three years have vanished in the past. Commencement is just a matter of a few days. Bring on the world! page six

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Senior History ScniorO1'licc'rs . Seniors juniors ,. ,,.. .. Sophomore-S Freslunen ,,.. ,. Honor Roll School Poem Retired Teacher Shops ,. Humor ,iii , Alina Mater llusic ....,, . ,,,.. School Activities Around the School Sports , Clif-crlezulers . Caught in the Act School Calcmlar ., ,.,. .. VVQ XVi1l Long Rei Atlvertiselnc-nts ncnibc-r Index I' 'YU If 0 7 S I9 ll 2 3 ji Zo 27 28 30 -l-ll -ll 43 54 37 6-l oi 611 60 7o

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Senior QEICCIS JOSEPH R. ALLEN, Prrsidflzt KENNETH REUKAUF, Serretrtvy ANTHONY F. PORRECA, Treasurer LESLIE GRAU B MAN, Vive-President page seven