St Philip and St James High School - Scholastic Yearbook (Phillipsburg, NJ)

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lj St. Philip -and St. james' High School fl . 1. 2' ! 1 4 ,I The Jlflountain Climbers of 1928 Q X. BOUT four years ago in Sevptember, 1924, to be exact, the class of , as Nil 1928, assembled for the first time. The members had a common 41 ' 1 purpose, a common objective, an ambition to be achieved namely, 1 , the successful accent of the redoubtable High School Rockies, 4 Q the famous mountain range whose innumerable crags and fast- !! nesses have appalled some of the most courageous young people in America. 1 Nevertheless though we realized all this every one of us was eager to begin Q . the perilous adventure. Q So, on'that pleasant September morning, which now seems so long ago, T 3 we started off, gay, happy, confident, taking bu.t little thought of the dangers E lx and troubles that might lie ahead. In our first year as freshmen we elected F the officers of the class. Our Treasurer tried to collect the dues and when f 5 they were finally paid he had 51.20, but as soon as he had it, he went out to A ' x spend it, that was the last time we paid dues to our Treasurer. The begin- V ning was slow and awkward, because we were unskilled and unaccustomed to fs such heavy going. Presently, however, when the strangeness of our sur- , roundings and the newness of what we were doing had worn off a bit, we be- pf gan to strike a steady rate of progress, taking the ravines and obstructions as Q' they came. 2 Now we know that the Freshman Foothills presented no obstacles of any L account, but at times we felt disheartened certain that never, never, should we be able to get over them successfully. Yet we were making steadier and i more substantial progress than wc realized. This became clear at Christmas i time when we paused for a moment and took occasion to look back over the X B ground we had covered. Q E By February we could look far enough ahead to see that the definite 5 S end of the Freshman Foothills would presently be upon us, and that steady, 5 5 unremitting climbing would be necessary if we were to be over them within 'E Q the allotted time. Our leaders forged steadily ahead, our sympathetic help- F5 1 ful guides spurred us on to further efforts the rank and file struggled on val- 6 iantly, and even the laggards seemed to feel a stir of energy. Before we rea- ,X fl lized it June was upon us, and the Freshman Foothills were behind us. With 0 69 a rousing cheer we made camp and packed our equipment in anticipation of is fp the renewed climb in the fall. Meantime--during July and August-we rest- K' ed and enjoyed ourselves immensely in the agreeable Vacation gulch that lay Q ,i between the end of Freshman Foothills and the beginning of Sophomore ll l Ridge. Q S n l ' . . ., . 2' 'E:i i1Wf:r f9vNf'-ff'-FH'- 'l A-' it 1928 014111114511 -' '1.p-Sm? 'Q'-v'Wz.Af'v,.3E