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

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FLORENCE CALLAHAN None knew her but to love her.

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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.