West Night High School - Echo Yearbook (Cincinnati, OH)

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CLASS HISTO RY-Concluded thank the Board of Education for this move as it made our class all the more ambitious by' sending to our camp the Washington students and some of the most worthy of the East Night crew. We found our iirst duty as Seniors to welcOme the newcomers and make them ac- quainted with our customs. The first month most atten- tion was paid to iiThe Evening School Voice. The editor needed copy, the business manager needed advertising, both of which finally came at the proper time and the journal kept growing each month. Our studies this past year were rather hard. Solid Geometry had to be mastered with a determined hand. We were introduced to Burke With his uConciliation of The American Colonies? and the drama, itMacbethfi both of which were liked by all the class. History and Civics kept us busy keeping notes. The foreign languages also played their part. Remembering the good time we had With the Seniors the previous Christmas, we invited the, Juniors to join us for a pleasant evening, which they willingly did. After the Christmas vacatiOn we came back With the determination that no one of the N ineteen Hundred and Fifteen Class would fail to graduate. On Friday night, May 14th, the Juniors tendered us a very beautiful reception in the form of a Moonlight Boat Ride, about seventy-five students being present. There is very little to add to this class history and as we are now through we must have Class Night and bid farewell to Dear Old West Night High. But, fellow class- mates, keep on striving, and if at times you get discour- aged, turn the pages of the Black and Gold and review the fiery ambition of the Class of Nineteen Hundred and Fifteen. -3 l-

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CLASS HISTORYHContinued of the Latin students taking advantage of this. With these three languages in our midst we were proud Jun- iors. Physics was made more interesting by taking the laboratory work on Friday nights, this making five nights a week of school instead of four as in the two previous years. During the first half of this year we hnished Ad- vanced Algebra which we were proud to say we con- quered. In the last half we finished Plane Geometry, and prepared ourselves for the four books of Solid Geom- etry to be studied the next year. In English we studied The Life of Samuel Johnson, ttDeCoverly Papers, and Grays ttElegy Written in a Country Churchyard. We found very little time for social work this year, as our studies were made harder by having Laboratory as an extra on Friday nights. However, we found time to get in touch with the Seniors and arrange for a Christmas social; one of the mighty gentlemen took the part of hggh. Santa Claus and presented each of us with a present. After making friends with the Seniors in this manner we felt more at home than heretofore. Just about the time our iinal examinations were coming on we were advised that it was customary for the J uniors to give the Seniors a reception. Everybody wanted to help on this committee when they learned that we were going to en- tertain the proud Seniors. We soon demonstrated our ability by giving an entertainment in connection with this reception. We then finished our Junior year, and everybody was anxious to be a Senior. The last night of school this year, the Seniors pre- sented us with the school banner and honor. They also willed us the publication of The Evening School Voice, the officers of which were elected before the close of the term. During vacation we were notified that school would open in the Hughes High School Building. We wish to

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Glass lpropbccy By CHAS. A. NIEMANi ,15. there are moments When the mind dwells upon a pleasant subject, then it is forgotten and we never think of it again. There are others which tend to make us ambitious, to give us an idea of: What will happen. Again, there are others which, although it will seem strange to some, put us into the future. One of this class, it has not very long ago been my happiness to experience. As it con- cerns the Class of 1915, let me tell you about this day- dream. F 7 F WHAT VALUE are day-dreams? ,Tis true Seated in a large Morris chair in my bachelor quarters With nothing to occupy my time, I filled my pipe and was soon blowing clouds of smoke into the air. SOOn I felt myself being borne on the wings of Time and carried into a land where one may learn the future of anyone whom -32- he wishes. Whom should I see but the grads of 1915 passing in review before me; and this is what the world had in store for them: The smoke of my pipe had long ago filled the room, and opening a window, I let in a little air. This draught blew the smoke around my den and soon I saw it blown, as like an apparition, into the form of J ames Scanlon. It seemed that during the fall of 1956, he has found time to become Mayor of a little country village of twenty-nine people, eleven chickens, six cows, and a horse. He has chosen Arthur N011, F. W. Schimanski, and Robert Wich- man to act on his Advisory Board. But by the way they are accepting small favors like government bonds and gilt-edge securities, we feel certain that they Will need the assistance of our lawyer, Bernard Quarters to extri- cate them from the clutches of the law.