Utica Free Academy - Academician Yearbook (Utica, NY)

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UTICA FREE ACADEMY 1907 In 1907, a faculty of less than twenty-five mem- bers was chiefly concerned with preparing students for college. Today, a high school diploma is the key, not only to higher education, but to business and industrial opportunity as well. The UPA faculty, numbering well over one hundred, has grown to represent the wide range of skills needed to meet the horizons of youth's interests and oppor- tunities. The present faculty includes instructors who are experts in mechanics as well as mathe- matics, in the homemaking arts as well as language. Despite the changes years have brought, Acad- emy teachers, constant in their purpose, continue to lead students through knowledge to wisdom, to train hand as well as mind, and to encourage youth to accept those principles of right living which underlie the development of sound character. Because of the high standard of professional training they render Utica's young people, the UPA faculty, as did its predecessor fifty years ago, commands the respect and gratitude of the student body and the community. ,-.-. fr UTICA FREE ACADEMY 1957

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Fin! Raw, left In rzglvt: Harry' Parry, Harry' L. Muller, Clarence E. Dawes. Teraml Row' Harry' Walker Bosticlchlohn Constable,Ashley' Locke, Harold Frederxc. Thls IS the first annual ever publlshed at the Academy and our alm has been to make rt representat1ve and ty plcal of the whole school rather than any one class Thus brxefly rn 1907 the hrst Academ1c1an was rntroduced to the students of Utxca Free Academy by a group of seven upperclass cdxtors The book whlch culminated the efforts of these first ed1tors was a sllm red bound volume yylth less than twenty plctures ln 1ts 112 pages Largely a llterary publlcatxon UFA s hrst yearbook contalncd a hlstory ofthe school, short stories and poems, as well as senlor statlsttcs school cheers and club and sports news Touches of personal humor drawlngs of a Crlbson glrl graduate, group pnctures of d1gn1hed young men ln the1r hugh stlff collars references to Tuesday mornmg assembl1es these and other detanls caught the flavor of l1fe at the Academy fifty years ago Unpretentrous as It was th1s hrst Academ1c1an yy as sxgnlhcant chlefly because If preserved and strengthened the tradmons of the past and created a neyy trad1t1on for the future FOllOWll'1glI'l the pattern of the class of O7 succeedrng classes have gathered thelr records and publlshecl thelr memory books to form as each year added a volume a continuous record of Academy hlstory And so because of the lnnoyatlon of 1907 yye of the class of 1937 publlsh our yearbook to keep fresh the memorles of our school our classmates and the eytperlences whlch have made our four hlgh school years the most yy onderful rn our llves The edltors of this hrst -Xcademlcran yy ere pxoneers sy mbollc of y outh s1n1t1at1ve and courage Chertshxng their herltage from the past yet keep1ng thelr ey es upon the future they were vyllllng to undertake a neyy venture ln the sery1ce of thelr school Because they represented the best ln UPA sp1r1t and trad1t1on vye the class of 1957, respectfully dedlcate th1s our anmyersary yearbook to the edltors of the 1907 AC ADEMICIAN l Y Q Q .- f , . . . ' . , . . , - y - . V' .-- , s y '- ' ' 1 ' r ' ' '- . 1 , , . , , , . , .. . . , .c . , I , v Q 1 , , . , . . 5 Y , ' 1 , . . , A y ' . 1 . Y - s V, , ' . A v a , 1 s - 1 Y . ' ' . . ' , . , . . . 1 . . Y V 4 , , Y . , , 1 1 A .

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