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

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THE ORACLE. and gracious manner, won countless friends, who affectionately wish her success. F. S. B., ’02. MI88 HAWES. Coming to Watkins two years ago, Miss Julia M. Hawes has taken up with the same untiring energy and natural ability the training class work already so far advanced by Miss Feek, and carried it forward to its highest state of efficiency. Miss Hawes, who is a resident of Oakfield, N. Y., graduated from Cary Seminary, Genesee county, in 1887, and in 1890 she completed her course at Buffalo Normal School. But experience is also of as great value as college training, and Miss Hawes has had two years experience in training class work at Palmyra and also taught at North Tonawanda and Batavia. If ordinary teaching requires the years of careful training and the degree of natural ability which so few possess, to be a teacher of teachers must require even greater training and an immense amount of ability and tact. Miss Hawes has proven in the two short years she has spent among us that she possesses these qualities in the highest degree. Respect for her ability and success as a teacher, combined with an admiration for her charming personalities, could not fail to win Miss Hawes many friends and acquaintances among us, and all who know her hope that she may long continue with us and forward the work which is of such inestimable value to the school and community. M. F. R., ’02 MISS BROWN. Miss Katherine Brown has for several years held the sceptre of the seventh grade with grand success as a teacher. She received her education at Watkins High School, supplemented by one year’s professional training at Oswego Normal School, where she proved herself an apt and learned pupil. Her training was superintended by Dr. Sheldon who at that time was considered one of the best teachers in the state. She left her work there and has held a position in the grades ever since. Few teachers are confronted with the difficulties which the seventh grade presents The facts which the pupil has learned in the several grades must be consolidated and for the first time he must be prepared to face the dreaded regents’ paper. His mind requires an entire change before his arrival in the High School. Miss Brown has shown herself thorough and efficient in every respect and deserves the highest praise for her perseverance and ability. She has always been held with high esteem by her classes, and her former pupils remember her with the greatest respect. We believe the school exceedingly fortunate in securing the services of Miss Brown. .T. M. E., ’02.

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fi THE ORACLE. which even at that time he must have perceived to be his life work, rise steadily and rapidly from its old position to the front among the schools of its class in the state. It is still growing under that same wise and careful guidance. It is to him that we owe all that we have derived from the splendid school which has almost been our home for the past few years ; and now we who form the twentieth class that has received the inestimable advantages of the excellent graduating course, which ho organized in 1883, gratefully extend our most sincere thanks, and dedi cate this book to our beloved principal and friend, in token of our honor and esteem. F. E. 1). S., ’02. £7 £? PROF. JOHN BEERS. Prof. John Beers came to Watkins High School from LeRaysville, Pa., September 3rd, 1901, to succeed Prof. Buck as vice-principal. Prof. Beers graduated from the Candor High School in the class of ’95. He then went to the Collegiate Institute at Tonawanda, Pa., from which he graduated in ’97 with the highest honors of the class, being valedictorian. Going from there to the Syracuse University he pur sued a classical course, taking foreign languages as a specialty, and graduated in 1901 with such a record that he was elected a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society for scholarship. Prof. Beers is now teacher of foreign languages, history, literature and geometry, and in his class room he is never t iring in his efforts to help and explain. He has taken a great interest in the athletic welfare of our school, helping the boys to organize their efficient basket ball team. Although Prof. Beers has been but a short time among us. all who know him, both in and out of the school, wish him the greatest success. C. E. S., ’02. MISS GAYLORD. Miss Carolyn Gaylord was graduated from Cornell University in the classical course in June, 1899, after taking a preparatory work in the Corning High School. She then entered Watkins High School as pre ceptress and has since fulfilled her duties in a manner that proves her admirable preparation for them. Miss Gaylord has charge of the English branches for the most part, and while her method of conducting these classes is both instructive and interesting she undoubtedly excels in the sciences. She is so thoroughly informed in these subjects, so well read and so enthusiastic over them that not even the most inappreciative pupil could fail to share her interest and grasp the ideas which she wishes to impart. During the three years which Miss Gaylord has spent among us, she has always been eager to advance the school’s interests, being the first to assist the girls in their athletic sports, and the leader in many of their literary and social affairs. She has set an example of sweet womanliness to the girls of the school and has, by the charm of her personality

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8 THE ORACLE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ....OF THE.... WatKins Academy and High School. MEMBERS) Mary M. Freer, ’88 (Mrs. Charles Searles), Cripple Creek. Col. ♦Gertrude M. Martin. ’84 (Mrs. C. McCarthy), Batavia. Lulie O. Martin, ’84 (Mrs. Loel Smith), Watkins. Sara H. Wihnot, ’84, Watkins. S. Helen Cass, ’84 (Mrs. Milo Shepard), Watkins. Nellie J. Hennessy, ’85 Watkins. Julia T. Donovan, ’85, (Mrs. -). Alcora S. Crane, ’86 (Mrs. Lathrop), state Washington. Bessie B. Johnson, ’86 (Mrs. D. G. Thompson), Trinidad, Col. Lola B. Thomas, ’86 (Mrs. Thomas), Elmira. Katharine Whippy, ’86, Watkins. ♦Mary A. Donovan, ’86. Julia A. Roe, ’86 (Mrs. Lansing Davis), Guatemala. C. A. Adella Dodson, ’87 (Mrs. Win. Latimer), Mansfield, Pa. Sarah Smith, ’87, New York. Helena H. Haight, ’87, Watkins. Catharine Phinney, ’87 (Mrs. Mott Taylor). Watkins Herbert A. Morgan, ’87, Auburn. Edward A. Thompson, ’87, Buffalo. ♦Daniel S. Tuttle, ’88, Watkins. ♦Edward J. McCaul, ’88, Watkins. Daniel Van Duzer, ’88, Idaho. Robert L. Pellet, ’88, Watkins. Anna K. Donovan, ’88 (Mrs. John Sullivan), Watkins. Mary N. Fitzgerald, ’88, Watkins. Ella P. Beckwith, ’88 (Mrs. M. Case), Watkins. Edith C. Johnson, ’88 (Mrs. Jule Stein), New York. Katherine Maloney, ’89, (Mrs. T. McKenna), Watkins. Lusena A. Smith, ’89 (Mrs. Howard Peck), Watkins. William W. Smith, ’89, Montour Falls. Helen E. Freer, ’90 (Mrs. N. C. Crofut), Watkins. Jane H. Hill, '90 (Mrs. O.M. Palmer), Montclair, N. J. Sarah C. Pope, ’90 (Mrs. A. C. McLachlin), Jamaica, L. I. LenaS. Vanderlip, ’90 (Mrs. W. H. Houstoni, S. Bethlehem, Pa. CarrieM. Hawes, ’91 (Mrs. H. O. Bennett). Penn Yan. Mariana McCaul, ’91, Watkins. George R. Smith, ’91, Burdett. Daisy C. Vanderlip, ’91, Watkins. Delia Crum. ’92 (Mrs.--Brown), Long Branch, N. J. Lida M. Haring, ’92 (Mrs. W. Hillerman), Reading (’enter. Frances G. Shulenburg, ’92 (Mrs. C. Rogers), Watkins. Margaret Pellet. ’92 (Mrs. Ross Nichols), Brooklyn.