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

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' T15 i-XJ al IFMHVJ vazwvvfsf 'af 17 'frh'Z1g' ,dmv Qmwyav . W 1, J 17 Inv 'Z w2 ,,fSl1 is, . 1 '-hf 1,- S t. Philip and St. james' High School Early in Sewptember our guides assembled us for the next stage of the ascent. A few of our number, for one reason or another, did not remain with us for the Sophomore climb. These we regretted to lose, of course, having counted on having them with us throughout the entire ascent. Scarcely had we begun the scaling of Sophomore Ridge than we realized that, if we were to make it we should need all the skill and experience we had acquired in comingp up the Freshman Foothills as well as the very best effort we could ,put forth, snares, pitfalls and entanglements, virtually covered the whole area to be traveled, Unexpected troubles overtook us, too. Several of our number were taken sick and had to be brought back to health and strength before they could resume the climb. Distractions diverted the at- tention of some of us at times from the immediate task before us, with the re- sult that progress lagged until the inattentive members were induced to focus their entire effort and attention on the task at hand. We elected our class oH'icers, but paid no dues. The class kept two gold-fish in a bowl. Every noon time the boys would give them a dive. One day Larry Walsh picked up one and it slipped out of his hand and out of the window into the mouh of a prowling cat. The next day we missed the other one. We were informed that . Cox had it for supper the night before. I guess he thought he had as much right as the cat. From the heights of Sophomore Ridge we could see far below us, just starting up through the Freshman Foothills, another party of Mountain Climb- ers eager like ourselves to master the High School Rockies. The difficul- ties they were obviously having with some very reflection we recalled that those self-same obstacles had seemed just as scrious and insurmountable to us the year before. When June came around again we found that thanks to the steady effort made during the year under the direction of our skilled and helpful guides our teachers we had reached the summit of Sophomore Ridge which as the maps showed was at the very foot of Mt. unior. During the hot months we camped in the cool and quiet of the shade of some vacation trees that nestled there. Mt. unior-as we found by consulting the typographical survey of the High School Rockies-is the second largest formation in this great mountain range. It is so situated and so formed that none but mountain climbers of the highest skill and ability can hope to subjugate it. The knowledge gained and experience acquired on the way up Freshman Foothills and Sophomore Ridge are absolutely essential to the successful ascent of Mt. unior. While our guides were still anxious to help us in every possible way they seemed to .x,- K-T anna' af .Al nick, 4 if ' N ' , M - ' 5 Q B - 5 - ' 5 E V CO g A '-4 5 E Q g . by U ' N. 5 5 ' . E Q - X ,G 'IL ' '- - AM sb .WJ 'isa'- 15?- 1' ,fx vvsuvw ff. ':fYs!'.. -