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

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14 THE PEPPER POT of Music and the rest, four, exjfect to take Post Graduate courses. We have gotten a foundation in our high school. We appreciate the help of our parents and faculty. We are sorry to leave our school friends—but we want to go on and advance in knowledge (we hope) as well as in years. We are young, ambitious, impractical (yes) but filled with determination to succeed. Our confidence in ourselves is great. We have accomplished one tiny mile in the vast distance we have yet to go. Do we feel badly because of this mile which we have covered? No! We are glad to be graduated! We are glad to go on! We want to begin to see and to do worth while things. The “happiest time of our lives,” will begin when we commence our life work, the work we love to do, whether it be that of a teacher, an artist, an author, a pianist, a journalist, an architect or a landscape gardner, the work in which we shall succeed! —Jane Archer, ’28. The time is approaching when we will become the alumni or W. G. H. S. All through our High School years we have been happy. 1 am sure that every one of us love the dear old school and always will. We could not have enjoyed our High School life if we hadn’t been given support from our teachers, classmates and friends. We wish to thank Mr. Depew, our class teacher, for this loyal support and the interest that he has taken in us. We made greater successes of everything by his executive ability and patience. We appreciate everything he has done for us and we owe him a great debt of gratitude Our parents deserve a great deal of credit for standing by us and keeping us in school so that we could enjoy the pleasures which have been ours. Their interest is greatly appreciated. Mr. Beers, our principal, has stood by us through thick and thin and we wish to give him our sincere thanks for all he has done for us. To our teachers who have giv-

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THE PEPPER POT 13 Dedication We, the Senior ('lass of Watkins Glen High School, wishing to express our gratitude for the helpful service and unfailing friendship, dedicate this issue of the Pepper Pot to Mr. Gordon P. Depcw, our Class Advisor. Class of 1928 Jane Archer Horace Baker Elmo Berry Harold Canfield Esther Catlin Lu Fauna Chase Ruth Connolly Bertha Coon Janice Cooper Charlotte Davis Francis Davis Leona De Mott ' lioster Dill Franklin Durland Mariorie Ector Gladys Emmons Gertrude Roberts James Howard Charlotte Huey Harry Klube Mary Knapp Charles Love Mabel Maloney Kathryn Osterhoudt Mary Paradiso Carl Roberts Armida Sgrecci Donald Smith Doyle Smith Frederick Speech io Thomas Thorp Margaret Wetmore Anna White Commencement speakers. Another class graduates! Thirty.two students starting out on “the Glorious Adventure.” Our class is different. Unlike other classes we do not leave “with tragic regret and resignation”, we do not think that we leave behind us “the only happy days” that we shall ever have.” On the contrary we are delighted to be graduates and we are thrilled to think that it wdll only be a matter of four years or two years and then we begin the work in which we are most interested; the work of which we have planned and dreamed since we wrere grade scholars. Everyone in the class of ’28 seems to realize that a high school education is not enough and so nine of us are going to college, nine, to business schools, four to normal schools, some to aviation fields, some to Schools

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THE PEPPER POT 15 cn untiring efforts and have ever been loyal to us we do extend our most sincere gratitude. The cooperation of the Class as a whole has been excellent. We could not have had as great success or have made as much money if this cooperation had been lacking. 1 have enjoyed the privilege of being president of such a fine class and I wish to thank every member for their support and cooperation. The Junior class has aided us financially by the sale of candy, therefore we wish to thank them, as well as the entire student body for their splendid help during the whole year. The merchants and business men of Watkins Glen have aided us in almost every event. AVe appreciate their support. AVe send our sincere gratitude to Miss LaDow, Frank Cole and Frank Milieu for help in the Senior Play. AVe do not only wish to thank those mentioned above but everyone who has in any way aided us in our banner year. CHARLES LOVE, President of the Senior Class. -----------o----------- Valedictory It Can’t Be Done By Chester Allen Dill It can’t be done! That is the age-old cry of the standpatter, the conservative, whose own thwarted ambitions and desires make him cry down anything new. Those things outside his own experiences seem impossibilities. lie can’t do it himself and anyone who tries is a fool. 1 suppose that the first time Mr. Neanderthal tried to kill a sabre-toothed tiger with a bow and arrow instead of the old trusty stone hammer, all his relation and most of his friends cried, “It can’t be done. Just fancy, killing that fierce tiger with one of those flimsy arrows. Mrs. Neanderthal will surely be'a widow.” But the arrow