West High School - Senior Occident Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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our good fortune and our good fellowship, we haven't been separated at all, just moved west, where wc have been able to do our work to better advantage, and show that a few miles of pavement can by no means destroy friendships so well founded during our three years of companionship. When I think of the glorious career we have had in our West High School, the beam of joy and pride that comes dries up all traces of tears and dispels all regret. What a year we have had of it! A new school, unknown, waiting for a reputation to be made for her, faced us. Her pupils have done their duty and June '06 her full share. Think over the enterprises wc have carried on during the year. There is not a single instance where the Seniors have not played their part successfully, if there was a part for them. In athletics—Football, Hockey. Basketball, Track, Baseball, all teams with a vast majority of Seniors on them. And besides her part in these larger enterprises. June '06 won overwhelmingly the inter-class meet, with her nearest competitor trailing far in the rear. The girls, too, have upheld their part in athletics. Both the Basketball team and the Track team have their full share of Seniors. In debating, the officers of the Debating Society arc all Seniors. There arc members on one of the boys' teams and the three speakers on the girls’ team are Seniors. In dramatics, wc can boast of as good a Senior farce as was ever given. Our play. “She Stoops to Conquer, was, in the words of many who have seen them all, the best high school play ever given. In musical organizations, too, wc have more than upheld our reputation in other things. Our school paper, even though confronted with many difficulties, has been a thorough success. No one will doubt but that this success has been largely due to the members of the Senior class engaged in the work. Not by any means to mention all who have done heroic deeds, there remain in my memory a few who have carried out their duties with willingness and thoroughness. There is Sutherland, our president, who has “gov- erned to perfection, and whose dramatic attainments every- body is aware of. There is Robinson, a star in every sense of the word, and the backbone of track work. There is Head, a business man and an actor; Levis, one of the defenders of the Amherst cup. Among the girls, Charlotte Dann is especially worthy of mention and praise for her untiring efforts to make the school paper a success. There's Wooden, Phillips, Brandt, Lewis, •• I.ang, Connors, Hagaman. Carroll, Gucker and others, whose fame you well know. However, while all these many and praiseworthy deeds I have mentioned have been done, our scholarship has not been neglected, and I am sure we have carried along this latter quite as succevsfully as the former. Our high school days arc soon to end, and wc arc to go on and up. some to higher institutions of learning, and others to divers occupations. Let us work hard. If we do there is no doubt but that wc shall be as successful in after life as wc have been m our high school life; that we shall do justice to our alma mater, and make her proud that she has fostered us so carefully, and brought us up to be men and women of the right sort. I.ANSixo Wf.tmokk, Historian. 21

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Class History It was in the fall of '02, when the high and mighty Seniors of the class of June '06, R. H. S.,E. H. S., W. H. S., first toddled up the steps of the old high school building and pulled and tugged at the massive oak doors, striving to turn them on their hinges to gain an entrance. We were just learning to do that difficult feat, with a certain degree of safeness to the doors, for some of us really were strong, and incidentally learning a little Latin, German and Physi- ology, and beginning to feel like “ grown ups ” with the new prefixes to our names; and then, too, bravely trying to survive the harsh, cruel usages of our ' who have you gots,” when we were summoned to a new place of learning. What a place it was! And doubly so when you stop to think of and compare the other with it. In the first place we exchanged a neighborhood of noise and dirt for one of quiet and cleanliness, dark gloomy walls for new bright ones. There was room for everybody, a place for everything and everything in its place, an equipment in every department to be proud of. and—but I am hopelessly waylaid when I attempt to give the merits of our high school, unless I make a bold dash and return again to my subject. It was here we began to ••tallow strong and develop into the mighty class we now arc. Our Freshman year came to a close, and we had been wise enough to keep quiet, observe, learn and get ready for future work. In our Sophmore year the first renowed •• Roman election took place under the leadership and guidance of Mr. Gray, and developed because of our earnest work and and attention. We were not so slow in athletics, cither. pushing hard the Juniors for second honors in the inter- class field day. It was in our Junior year that we began to do some- thing in earnest, and to show that the class is one of remarkable talent. Our farce was a most decided success from every standpoint, our ••Prom one of the most enjoyable ever given. In our little rushes with the haughty Seniors we were always on top in more ways than one. Even on •• Senior Day we were conspicuous with our red neckties, notwithstanding the efforts of •• naughty- five. We have always held our own with remarkable tenac- ity as Freshmen, Sophmores, Juniors. But as Seniors! I think no one will doubt but that we have made an extra- ordinary showing. And recall under what circumstances. We were separated at the beginning of our last year, much to our disappointment and against our wishes, some of us to stay East and some of us to go West. Here I must leave off recording the annals of our “ Oriental ” friends, and confine myself to our own efforts and successes, since the migration to the Occident. Alas, class of June '06. W. H. S.! But do not for a moment think I am driven to compassion. Far from it. Wc don't need it. My only thought was of the sad fact of our separation, that it had to come. It brought a lump in my throat then, and w hen I think of it now I cannot forget what a sad and memorable parting it was But it had to come, and we managed to dry our tears then, so let's do it again. After all. has it been a real separation ? Thanks to 20

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SENIOR PLAY SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER Given at West High School. May 4 CAST OF CHARACTERS Mr. Hardcastlc ....... Ward Head Mrs. Hardcastlc Pearle Grover Kate 1 lardcastle I.ois Turner Young Marlow Andrew Sutherland Hastings Lansing Wetmore Miss Neville Marie Quinn Tony Lumpkin . Everett Phillips Dolly (Miss Hardcastle's maid) . . Joan Lynn Sir Charles Marlow ...... . . Clinton Sager Diggory . Raymond Lewis Roger Servants of Horace Hutchens Dick Hardcastlc . Herbert Meier Thomas . . Francis Carroll Stingo (landlord of the “ Three Pigeons ) . . I-copold Gucker Jeremy (servant of Marlow) . Arthur Connors Slang I Francis Carroll Muggins Frequenters . . Herbert Meier Ammadab of the Inn ...... . Horace Hutchens Tom Twist . Raymond Robinson Norman Duffett ....... . Business Manager Francis Carroll Ass’t Business Manager I copold Gucker . Property Manager H. Acton Langslow . . Stage Manager Mrs. C. B. Ellis ....... . . Directress 22