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

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Senior Play Given in West High School Assembly Hall, May 21st, 1909. “SILAS MARNER 99 Dramatized by and given under the direction of Mrs. Charles S. Ellis. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. Silas Marner...............................................Milton Bond Squire Cass............................................ Carlyle Kennell Godfrey Cass........................................... Frederick Cross Dunstan Cass...........................................S. Roy Bryant Mr. Lammeter.................................................Azel Ga Nancy and Priscilla Lammeter.............May Sheridan and Gertrude Fre Mr. Crackenthorp.................................................Lester Kennel Mrs. Crackenthorp...................................... Marguerite Lyo Mr. Kimble..........................................Hamilton Griswol Mrs. Kimble............................................ Gertrude Carrol Eppie............................................................ Helen Ston Mrs. Hodge............................................. Temple Hunga Myers.................................................Theodore Brigg Villagers............................. Benjamin Root and Raymond Burn Dolly Winthrop ................................................... Mary Pixie I he Miss Gunns.......................Elizabeth Dunbar and Helen Parke Mrs. Osgood....................................................Lorraine Bank Solomon.................................................... Ellis Ga The Minister at Lantern Yard........................James M. Spinnin Memljers of the Congregation at Lantern Yard...................... Arthur Levis, Eleanor Corcoran, Estelle Barnes. Norwena Sheldoi Bessie O'Kane.

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in West High School from the principal clown, all the members of the faculty seem to believe that their duty is more than the single teaching of lessons, they believe that the directing and molding of the students’ lives are important requisites in pedagogy. Moreover what is far more helpful to the student, our instructors have reflected their teachings in their own lives. Well you can see I am not a historian. I make too many digressions, but yet I am trying to put content into some of the form of my story. It was in our junior and senior years that we shone. First we had a successful Junior Prom and then gave a farce worthy of the school. We also commenced to figure as winners in interclass series, and for awhile 1909 was written on every championship banner. In this, our last year, we have been well represented on the various teams. Uderitz. Gumming and MacDonald starring on the football team, while Mac and Stahlbrodt have upheld our honor on the track team. Thus I might go through the list. For a climax I can mention our representatives on the debating teams. On the girls’ team this year there were Miss Leonard, Miss Howard and Miss Sheridan, all 1909 girls, and ones of whom the class may be pretty proud. On the boys' team Gumming and Spin- ning ably upheld not only the honor of the class but of the school as is shown by the retaining of the Amherst Alumni cup. There are still other members whom I would mention, those who. though less prominent in school affairs, nevertheless have been doing their duty as loyal West High students, and deserve their allotment of praise. I said at the beginning this history would be incomplete. ow I will give a reason. A history of a person to be a finished product must relate the events of a lifetime. So of a class, the history should not only narrate of its infancy but of its manhood and old age. For the writing of such a history 1 am handicapped. The class of 1909 is but in its infancy. Four years do not even constitute an era. And what historian takes up a history in periods shorter than decades? If asked to write this history thirty years from now, I could write more fully and completely. And yet in the main it would have the same tone, that of just pride in the achievements of the class and of endorsement of the spirit and character of its members. Still I hope this history may serve a purpose in pointing out to future classes just what a West High School class should stand for and accom- plish in four years. John Milton Colt, Historian.

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