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

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We have muscle as well as brains. In athletics we have Bernhard. Hazard, Smeed. Ilubscher, and others. The success of the girls' basketball team has been largely due to Louise Justice, captain of the team. Among our actors we boast of Dorothy Cross, Alpha Mcnzie, Edith Airy, Richards. Brown, and Smyth, who distinguished himself as a tragedian in the Evening with Dickens. We have also been well represented In all musical organizations. Let it not be supposed that because we have taken such an active part in all school activities, we have been behind in scholarship. On the contrary we have been as successful in this respect as in others. There are many in the class who have loyally upheld her honor by keeping the scholar- ship of West High up to a high standard. Everybody knows the grinding faculties of O'Kane. At the close of our High School career fond memories of old Fitzhugh High and of East High linger with us. but dearer than these will always be the thought of our own Alma Mater. West High. We are soon to leave these familiar walls, classmates and friends will separate. But though far away we will always look back with fondest memories to thp days spent in West High And in all the years to come may we. thy loyal sons and daugh- ters. bring naught but honor to thy name and prove ever worthy of thee, our glorious Alma Mater, West High School. GENA LAWLER, Class Historian.

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Class History 0:e bright day In September, four short years ago. “ JT, the class School opened wide her doors to admit the youths and maiaei - creake(j of nineteen hundred seven. For a year the stairs of the1°.l .’“L for though and groaned under our cheerful tread. They groaned ; weight of we were not at that time great in stature, verily even then the wet nt knowledge in our learned heads weighed down the old stairs them to groan. . of To recount all of the great achievements ihat have made tne naughty seven famous would take much time and space, tu« content to recall only the most important. Our start In high school life was a happy one. When we Bnier t e Fltzhugh Building, we were “monarebs of all. wc “surveyed, to o • ® there was none to dispute ’ There were no boastful “oophs, mis Juniors or haughty Seniors to sour our dispositions by their teasing, never had to endure being called green and fresh. True, the teachers som - limes “sat upon'' the greenest and freshest of our number when occasion demanded. But these occasions, be it said to our credit, were rare ana life on the whole went on slowly in the old high schools. • In the first year of our reign many of 1907 s sons and daughters dis- tinguished themselves as actors. Our production of “Ivanhoe in the Assembly Hall of the East High School was a great succcess. in spite of the fact that it was our first attempt at any thing in that line. Early in our career we began to earn a reputation for debating. We bad a debating society during that first year whose greatest achievement was a most en- joyable picnic. But as our minds broadened we found the old building too small and narrow. So at the beginning of our Sophomore year we betook ourselves to the East. High School, where our minds were more free to develop—and develop they did. For :.ur!ng this year we found among us many a budding genius. Our Junior year ushered in the most notable event of our High School career, the completion of our own West High School. It was with regret that we separate I from some of our classmates and left East High School, but the new Alma Mater has more than recompensed us for the old. This third year hut added to our glory- Our “Prom” was the social function of the year. We were at this time imbued with a lofty desire to elevate the stage, to introduce into West High something of more literary an 1 dramatic value than the ordinary farces. So we gave “An Evening with Dickens.” This was a success both financially and dramatically—especially dramatically. It also discovered to us actors hitherto unknown. In our Senior year, under the wise and careful guardianship of the King, the star of our fame reached its zenith. The budding geniuses of our Sophomore and Junior years blossomed out into poets, authors, actors, orators, debutors. musicians and athletes. Our class football team won the inter-class championship In our Senior year. The girls of the class gave a fair in the corridors, which was a distinct success. All who came to the Seniors concert can testify to its excellence. Our Senior play. “The Conti- nental Dragoon, equalled any performance ever given in the High School. The class of June, nineteen hundred seven, has been well represented in all branches of school activities. The success of “THE OCCIDENT” during the past year has been in a great way due to one of our members. Dorothy Cross, editor-in-chief. Doreen Frost, our class poet; Dorothy Cross and Raymond Fuller deserve special mention for their literary work. We have been well represented in debating. The debating society has for the most part been supported by Seniors. We are proud of Katherine Baxter and Rebn Rnapp, who held their own so well in the debate with East High Raymond Fuller and Carlisle Taylor, who represented us in the debate with East High, have brought honor to their class as well as to West High School Richard Powell, Dorothy Cross and King Brown debated against the fvi High School.

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Senior Play “ A Continental Dragoon M Given at West High School, May 24, 1907, under the direction of Mrs. Charles B. Ellis. Dramatis Personae. Captain Harry Peyton. Major John Coldcn....... Mr. Valentine........... Williams................ British Soldiers........ CufT, the negro hoy..... Sam, a slave........... Miss Elizabeth Phillipse Miss Sallie Williams... Mollie, a maid.......... ............William Richards ..............S. King Brown ................Paul Emerson .............Raymond Sterling Alfred O'Kane and Ward Head ...................John Lynn ..............Reginald Gilman ...............¥ Alpha Menzie ..................Edith Airy .............. Maiile Brooks BUSINESS STAFF Theodore C. Hazard.............. Clinton Sager and Marion Mac Lean Edward Auer..................... Harold Gregory.................. Hiram Bryan....................... Herbert Allen................... ..........Business Manager Assistant Business Managers ..........Property Manager .............Stage Manager •......Advertising Manager .................Electrician •In pi nee of Dorothy Cray who was ill.