Wilson Central School - Crest Yearbook (Wilson, NY)

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Senior’s Virtues The Senior Class of ’22, I’m sure you’ll all agree, Is certainly the finest class That there could ever be. Our boys are brave, our girls are fair, Our class the largest, too, The standards we make, the records we break. Show what our class can do. I’ve sung about the class itself, And that’s all very well; But each one’s private virtues, next, Are what I’m going to tell. Jean M. is our president; In choosing we did well. For in Senior plays; and speeches, too, She surely does excel. Miss Arline Carter, tho quite sedate, In truth is only shy For once I caught her looking out The corner of her eye! Miss Lydia who has so many beaus We wonder who she’ll pick One at a time they come too woo. To please they must act quick. Our baseball pitcher Russell is; Of him we’re very proud; Wherever he begins to twirl Leads us and all the crowd. Carol Thompson is a quiet child, And is very meek and good; She never talks back to her teachers dear. And always does Just as she should.

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GoaJ “I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith; henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness,'’ “Well done—Thou has been faithful—enter thou into the joy of thy Lord.” He aims to low who aims beneath the stars. Our Motto Our motto, “Be you yourself,” is somewhat original as well as difficult to understand the true meaning of at first sight. One would naturally, upon first thought, at once grasp the literal meaning. Hovrcver, on second thought, a normal minded person would remember that it is practically impossible to be anything else but one’s self. This true meaning is in my judgment (poor though it may be), that on many occasions and on many subjects vre should be controlled by our sense of right and wrong. It is not always best for a person to decide his course by the example of another, because different persons have x:nlike personalities and habits which should determine their paths. Every day circumstances are met with which often are solved by one person, and then copied by another. This may be the easiest way but “The easiest is seldom the best.” The majority very often has a great influence, over the minority upon others, whether their aim is good or bad. Many persons, especially the young in cities, nre often led astray because they have not the strength cf personality or a strong enough mind of their own to determine their own actions. Practically all children copy their parents, so that it is the parents duty to govern their own actions, so that the children do not learn wrong. HAROLD MUDGE

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Harold has a manner of his own. Indeed, he’s an awful tease Perhaps he wants us all to think He likes a girl named Pease. Miss Mabel has such flirty eyes The boys all call her friends; Ah! She pretends she’s so demure, But her ways she’ll have have to mend. Our Senior star is Bill Van Koughnet, Of all kinds of sport a lover Ho says such things in English class, From which we scarce recover. Helen Pease is another girl Whose grace and beauty we praise. She’s a leader in her classes. And also in class plays. At last this poem is written; I know it is quite long. There’s just one Senior not in it, And she’s the one who wrote the song. Our members are all counted now; You’ve heard of every one, And since there is no more to tell This jingle then is done.