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

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St. Philip and St. james' High School 'J?'-ff NV'-- 'KF a greater share of the responsibility for the ultimate success of our project. By this time, too, we had acquired a certain measure of pride in our skill as mountain climbers and we began to get a better perspective of the relationship between what we were doing with what had already been done and with what was to follow. The whole enterprise became more significant, more meaning- ful, more purposeful for all of us. With less difliculty than we anticipated, we arrived the following June at the summit of Mt. Junior, which, as we knew, marked the beginning of the final stage of our adventures. There we made the usual summer camp, re- flecting, at times, during the long, hot days, on the tasks, the perils, the possi- bilities that lay before us. U Undaunted, however, we enthusiastically began in September the hazard- ous enterprise of scaling dangerous Senior Peak, which is surmounted, as the feel that the time had C0018 When, for OL11' OWI1. good, we must need 2.SSLll'1'1e maps show, by Graduation Rock. In the earlier stage of the ascent, uip the High School Rockies, a little slipping back now and then, was not particu- larly serious. This was particularly so when we came through the Freshman Foothills. On Senior Peak, however, one slip may be fatal to the -whole pro- ject. There is neither time nor opportunity there, to remedy damage done, making uip for lost time on Senior Peak is practically out of the question. Every moment, every step counts. Our guides, while still willing no give aid where needed, made it clear that they expected us to carry our full share of responsibility and to see to it that the things which needed to be done were done without undue prodding by them. Presently, they pointed, you will be climbing che world mountains alone and unaided, and the more you learn to rely on yourselves while we are still with you, the easier will it be for you when you have to rely on yourselves alone. Senior Peak we have successfully scaled, and we stand on Graduation Rock, peering across the valley for a better view of the world mountains, up which we must make our respective ways alone. We have conquered the formidable High School Rockies, and we look back upon the achievement with pride and satisfaction. A pleasant glow of affectionable recollection suflices us, too, as we review the long and happy years spent together as we struggled side by side mountain climbers of 1928. oseph McDevitt,i 28. , J ! 1928 01411111141 - N-v ,a?Wf 'Qv-v'm2a.Aft

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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!'.. -

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,limi Class Knocks From one of us, for each of us, A message I'l1 give if I may, P11 make the words terse, Try to put them in verse, -.M 'Q23 1111 pW,,gV'J' WB very 1' And hope you'll enjoy what I say. The Class of 1928, Is one you will lind up to date, They're gleeful and glad, Not glum or sad, As chums they are always Hrst rate. Now Mary Flynn is an astute little lass, She dropped all her school books in the Its easy to see, I'll pick up, said she, And go to the head of my class. grass, -Z' '5f,,war-v . And Mr. Chick lVlcCann's daily fate, Was to come to school very late, But there came a day, Of too much delay, What happened is sad to relate. .7 , J' f' Inu Old OS Cane tried to discourage one day St. Pierre the trig teacher, but nay, Though all the day long, I-Ie got his work wrong, Just try it again, Q She would say. Larry Walsh once said, tearfully, To learn things is easy for me, But the trouble I find, Is just that my mind, '-1 4... 'NU wF ,,J f'ar if: 5 2 5 P 2 is Q E E 2 F Forgets them so quickly you see. 5 if 3 'U F vs' 2. 3 Q. ff 'Sa Qi 3 'Ji 5 Ui. C0 G U' O 2. 14 E i 'l la if YJ f x, 55 fu-A 31:-. 45en A-'J' AJ M 'LJ - Q y awmllhaa were T r..T ' 19 fx-Mrimvh Alun -,,1 4-5 -' My yy: v ' 4 ,- 1 .i , 44.