Westfield High School - Weather Vane Yearbook (Westfield, NJ)

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3D tUhe J33eail]er 1-lane (Elaaa muj Words and Music by Florence Mundy We've worked and we've played together, In the four long years gone by, At first we were only Freshmen, But with spirits flaming high. Determined to pass with honor. At the end of the High School year. And finally we joined the Sophomores, And our hearts were full of cheer. Another hard year we struggled To become the Junior class. Each person a faithful worker. And striving to do his best. Despite all the loyal backing Of our teachers true and kind, A few of our friends and classmates Were left far, yes, far behind. But the rest of the class kept together Through the year of twenty-three, The jolliest crowd of Juniors, That you ever hope to see- We worked yet enjoyed the best times That the school could give with pride, And in June the carefree Juniors, Became Seniors dignified. So now we are “worthy Seniors”. Yet no longer gay, but sad. For soon we must leave our high school, And the friends here we have had, And on life’s ever widening pathways, We will journey on to fame, While the laurels we win in the future. Will re-echo Westfields’ name.

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32 ®lje Jflcathcr HJmte Ottnrial With the current issue, The H eather I ane has completed its third successful year. It started in 1921. pub’ishing, during the year, three numbers of about thirty-two pages. l ast year the magazine averaged forty-eight pages. This year, contributions have been so numerous that the average number of pages has been fifty-two. and five issues have been published. The Senior ls ue is in reality a Westfield I ligh School Annual. It is an experiment which the Board has undertaken with full confidence that the school will support the enterprise loyally. It represents the highest achievement of three years' progress and presages attainments of greater merit in the future. When we look back over the history of The Weather I'ane we find that six of the present workers served on the orig.nal Board: Mary Bell. Gwen Smith, Paul Colson, George Thayer, Jack Worth, and Harold Thorne, all belonged to the valiant adventurers f 1921. Their three years’ training has rendered valuable service to The ll'eather l ane this year, and lias made possible the rapid growth of the magazine. Football players toil in the mud and heat of scrimmage and conflict during the crisp, clear days of autumn ; Basketball players struggle on gym floors in the cold, dark days of winter: Track and Baseball men fight for the honor of Westfield in the burning suns of June. All play under the stimulus of loud cheers from the sidelines or the galleries. It’s “A long Westfield—with three teams on the end’’ for every activity. But Weather I'anc editors toil from September to June, even from June to September again, often stealing hours from the night and precious Saturdays entire, to give the school a magazine of which she may be proud. Have we no cheers for them? Come on, school, a long Westfield—with three Weather Vanes on the end. Let’s hear it. Hip. hip-! Jessie Orgill. Alas, JJnnr $nrirk The man, seen wearily trudging the dusty country road, was evidently a Knight of the Side Door Pullman sadly out of his chosen environment. His appearance on the exterior strengthened this fact. y si le front this doleful situation. Samuel Yorick. known in the company of his co-knights as Soulful Sam, was suffering the pangs of an unrelenting and unsatiated desire for a generous portion of that celebrated staff of life. His unshorn visage was barred from any intrusive glance, but his eyes held the baleful expression commonly seen in the orbs of the homeless and hungry dog of the streets. 1 lowever great was his hunger, his observation was ever alert, and his keen sight revealed to him an apple, apparently lost from the sack of a market-bound apple merchant. Drowning men clutch at straws, and