Watkins Glen High School - Senecan Oracle Yearbook (Watkins Glen, NY)

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HOARD OF EDITORS.

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THE ORACLE. 5 COMMITTEES. Finance, ------ Norman and Wait. Teachers. - ... Wait and Cass Repairs, Insurance and Supplies, Shulman and Norman School Library and Apparatus, - Cole AND Haughky Text-books and Curriculum, .... Cass and Cole Truancy and Indigent Pupils, - Haughey and Shulman WATKINS HIGH SCHOOL FACULTY. 1901-1902. Samuel S. Johnson, -John A. Beers, Carolyn B. Gaylord. Julia M. Hawes, Katherine Brown, Principal Vice-Principal Preceptress Teachers’ Class Preparatory GRADE TEACHERS. Mary N. Fitzgerald, • Helena M. Haight, .... Grace L. White, Helen M. Johnson, • Daisy C. Vanderlip, .... Elizabeth N. Maloney, Sixth Grade - Fifth Grade Fourth Grade - Third Grade Second Grade First Grade J THE FACULTY. PROF. S. S. JOHNSON. AS we. who are about to leave our dear Alma Mater forever, look back over the many happy days we have spent within its protecting walls, and then remember with sorrow the few remaining to us, we search for the cause of these feelings which in vain we endeavor to suppress. We think of the pleasure, benefit and kindness which has always been ours during our instruction under its tutorship, and we ask how can we ever bring ourselves to depart from so good and true a f.iend. But the friend is not the school itself, it is those who have created it for our better preparation to nobly fight lifes battles. So let us carefully peruse its history and find to whom we owe this lasting debt of gratitude. Twenty-six years ago we find a little country school, disorganized and shaken to its foundations by mismanagement and frequent changes in the principalship until it could scarcely be called a school at all. suddenly take root with new courage, and, reorganized and guided by the hand of one whose natural ability combined with a most careful preparation which enabled him alone to cope with the great problem,