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

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SENIOR CLASS COLORS MOTTO . FLOWER TREE . . VINE . . . ...... Gold and White Aspiramus Noblissimis ................. Daisy ...... Virginia Poplar Officers. President ............................................ HARRY COATES Vice President ....................................................... Secretary ........ ................................................... Treasurer ......................................... MADGE BURRELL Members. Annie Martin, Florence Fowler, Inez Shelton. Kathryn O’Dea, Emily Lee, Abigail O’Daniels, Elizabeth Haughey, Harriet Gethler, Grace Lovell, Pearl Wilson, George Beardsley, Harry Coats, Randolph Wickham. Senior Boast. 'Tis a difficult duty for poet to tell All the things this year’s Senior class has done well. But to show how above other classes we stand, We need but to mention a few of our band. First in position O’Daniels appears, Highest honors are hers for her work through these years. Next in line with much knowledge and mountain of fame, The ’’Oracle” editor—Wilson, her name. There’s Bessie and Hattie—a fun-loving pair. When there's any mischief, they always are there. Then comes Grace, so quiet and calm, with her work That her eyes never to the westward do lurk. Thank fortune, our money is safe and secure ! No worthier treasurer could we procure. We entrusted it with a bright-eyed “Squirrel, So ready and willing, a real “classy” girl. There’s Flossie in everything always so true. The Wickhams, in argument equalled by few; And Inez who always has much she must tell 'Till the teachers must needs interfere with the bell. And other much gifted class members there are— Such as “Dope,” the thoughtful, and Kathryn, his “par.” Emily and Annie in gathering knowledge are bent On the whimsical poet they made President. Now farewell to the school that’s so precious to all. Farewell to the glad days we fondly recall. Farewell with our wishes for all that is best. To the school that stands foremost among all the rest. H. C.

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ORACLE STAFF Editor-In-Chief: PEARL E. WILSON. Assistant Editor ............. Athletic Editor ............. Rusiness Manager ............ Assistant Business Manager Artist ....................... Cartoonist .................. KATHRYN M. O’DEA GEORGE BEARDSLEY RANDOLPH WICKHAM . . INEZ SHELTON MADGE BURRELL . . . FRANK WESS EDITORIAL. We admit most introductions are dry and uninteresting but let this be the exception which proves the rule for herein we intend to tell you all about the teachers new to the High School this year. Miss Florentine J. Knapp, preceptress, has won the love and confidence of the student body. She spent her early life in Waverly, N. Y., where she attained both Grade and High School education. Then she decided to bestow her talents upon the community at Elmira College from which she graduated, receiving the degree of A. B. By some good turn of fortune's wheel we found her here as our preceptress at the beginning of the school term, which has quickly sped away. Miss Callahan, the successor of Mrs. Roberts, who fled away in a quite an unforgivable manner, came to grace our school with her enchanting presence—so enchanting that every student from the freshiest Freshie to the most seniorfied Senior has fallen a victim to her captivating charms (even the post-graduate spends spare moments in sketching pictures for her amusement.) Miss Callahan graduated from No. 3 School at Elmira, from E. F. A., and from Elmira College with the degree of A. B. We all feel that we were fortunate, indeed, in obtaining such a fine teacher to complete the year. Our Vice-Principal, Mr. Garnet F. Roberts has justly received the esteem and admiration of many Watkins High School pupils. He graduated from Alden High School in 1902, then proceeded to take a classical course at Buffalo Normal and in 1908 graduated a medal student. He then attended Syracuse University for two years as a special science student. With such an excellent record he came to Watkins High School where he has become deservedly popular. Under such a faculty staff as Principal John A. Beers and Miss Caroline F. Barnes together with the afore-mentioned teachers, many fortunate students will next year take up the work we have so nobly advanced.

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Florence Fowler. Nineteen years ago in the sunny month of June, when all nature had donned its best array, dear little Flossie Fowler came to bless this world of ours. From early childhood her charming ways and stunning looks made her beloved by all. At the tender age of seven she entered school life at Odessa, and soon acquired all the knowledge which the school offered. Now she began to look about for new worlds to conquer. Watkins High School holding forth great rewards lured her to its shrine and—who can tell perhaps some kind oracle disclosed the future and the happiness in store for her. At that sweet budding age of sixteen, ‘•Flossy” entered the High School. Here she has won not only the rewards derived from knowledge, for “Knowledge is power,” but she has won unbounded admiration from every student, both masculine and feminine. Of course she has always had small “love affairs,” but never any serious ones until this year. At least it appears to be for each night in the week, we see “Ran” calling at “Waits Fraternity.” Now as the year draws to a close she sails “Out of the harbor into the sea,” we her classmates heartily bid her “Bon voyage,” amid our good wishes and cheers. Madge Burrell. “Good things come in small packages,” is well illustrated by our treasurer, Madge, commonly known as “Squirrel.” She began her school life in the first grade at the tender age of seven, where with her winning smile and sweet manner it did not take her long to win the love of both teacher and classmates. This she has succeeded in doing all through the eight grades and since ’07 when she entered the High School, she has been a general favorite. Madge has always been somewhat partial to the opposite sex and evidently believes that “Variety is the spice of life,” for she scatters her smiles and favors equally on all. An exception might be made in the case of “Dock,” who perhaps received