West Chester High School - Garnet and White Yearbook (West Chester, PA)

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THE GARNET AND WHITE 29 LITERARY (Enmmrnrrmrut 0ai| June skies gleaming bright above us, June flowers blooming, oh so gay! Birds are singing June time anthems All to hail Commencement Day. Now we know our journey s ended Through the maze of High School years, And we leave behind us laughter. Work and care and even tears. Paths we've known we ll leave behind us: New ways open to our feet. We shall go on strange adven'ures: Joys and sorrows we shall meet. 1 926” is passing With its colors waving high. White and purple, truth and honor. So we bid you all good-bye. In each heart will be entreasured. All those things we hold so dear— All the friendships, deeds of greatness. Little things that made each year. ” 1 926 remembers And, remembering, goes its way, June has come with birds and roses: June has brought Commencement Day. —Marion Green. 1926. Salutatory (Delivered at the Commencement Exerciss of the Class of 1926. June 10. 1926) We, the Class of 1926, welcome you, Members of the Faculty and the School Board. Friends, and Parents. We are glad that you have come here tonight to see these commencement exercises which symbolize our first real success in life. When we first entered High School four years ago, it seemed to us that we should never r'ach our goal, but we were wrong. The years have slipped by very quickly indeed, and at last we have accomplished our aim. The years we have spent in High School are really the basis of our lives—the foundation for our future. All of you are in some way responsible for this training, and you may be very sure that we thank you. During these years we have gained much knowledge, and it is now our duty to make the most of the opportunities which our Parents, the School Board, the Faculty, and our Friends have made pos- sible for us. Members of the Faculty, you have guided our minds in the right direction: you have encouraged us when we were discouraged; you have done your utmost to send us out from High School as good American citizens. To you we extend cur greetings.

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28 THE GARNET AND WHITE Alma Mater Words and Music by SAM BARBER, '36 Maestoso 4 1. West Chester High, to thee our Al-ma Ma - ter, Prais-es we sing, and 2. So may we strive, that when Life’s dawn is past, Mind-ful of thee, and pledge our love a - new. Les-sons of Life and Truth to us im - part, lov - ing to the last, We shall have lived the virtues thou hast .taught. Knowledge to serve, to each a loy-al heart. We shall have found the vic-to-ry we sought. Sing then a song un - d 1 di|iii u to our col-ors bright. West Ches-ter High, The Gar - net and the White! Copyright 1928 by Sam Barber

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30 THE GARNET AND WHITE Top left—Officers. Girls’ Athletic Association. Top center—Art Club. Top right—Officers. Boys' Athletic Association. Center left—Officers. Senior Class. Center middle—D. Webster Meredith Prize Speaking Contestants. Center right—Officers. French Club. Bottom left— Senior Essay Honors. Bottom middle—Officers. Dramatic Club. Bottom right—Senior Honor Pupils.