Windsor Locks High School - Herald Yearbook (Windsor Locks, CT)

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24 THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD JUNIOR CLASS NOTES. The Junior Prize Essay Contest was held in Memorial Hall, June 2, 1922. The judges had a difficult time trying to decide which essays should take the prizes. The Junior girls are very much interested in athletics—especially baseball. Several of them recently went to Suffield to attend a game. Suffield School vs. W. L. H. S. Our worthy class president Nathaniel Pastore played an important position on the team. As we watched from the bleachers we were thrilled with his fine playing. During parents ' week, we sat during school hours very nervously for fear that some of our parents might come and visit. None of them did, however, as most of us suffered great lapses of memory during that time and forgot to extend to them an invi¬ tation. Elva Metelli and Dorothy Groves are con¬ sidered the best entertainers in the class. They have memorized numerous poems for every occasion for the English teacher as a result of whispering. Frey promises to recite them for us some day soon. The Juniors have enjoyed this year’s work immensely and when we receive our report cards with the word “Promoted” written across them our happiness will be completed. We congratulate the Seniors on reaching the goal of graduation so successfully. We have enjoyed our association with them and we will miss them next year. We hope they will have the greatest possible success dur¬ ing life. SOPHOMORE CLASS NOTES. One recess, just before Easter vacation, Miss Eastman gave our class a “maple sugar” party as a surprise. Our hostess read the poem, “Sugar Making in Old Ver¬ mont.” Needless to say we spent a very enjoyable recess and all were sorry to hear the bell ring. In Biology we are studying “Cleanliness,” and we’ve had at least one practical appli¬ cation in the case of a few persons with dirty hands! What would happen if:— “Don” Wallace payed less attention to Junior girls? Clara Blodgett ceased blushing? “Joe” Conroy came to school on time? Aldo Metelli became angelic? Gertie Cone stopped practicing art? Mary Byrne lost her voice? The Sophomore the Freshman girls have combined to make a baseball team. At a meeting, “Joe” Wallace was made “Cap¬ tain.” We have had quite a little practice and feel sure of success in the game which we expect to have with the Juniors. Teacher in Biology: Under what heading does a fish belong? Bright Soph: Under Water. The report of victories for our boy’s base¬ ball team seems to be rather discouraging. But after playing the Juniors and Seniors the score showed there was yet a chance of success.

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD 23 “FRITZ,” REGIMENTAL MASCOT OF THE SEVENTEENTH INFANTRY. It was in the year of 1911, before the people of the United States ever knew what the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was, that the 17th U. S. Infantry, was ordered from Fort McPherson, Georgia, to the manouver camp at San Antonio, Texas. The camp of the regiment was situated where the Quartermaster Storehouses are on Wilson Street. The old Cafes were patronized then to a great extent along Hood Street and many an old battle was pulled off on Rattle Snake Hill. The Regiment arrived March 19th, 1911, and it was on the 27th of March that the Regimental Mascot was born. His mother was killed a few days after, being run over by a truck, and Sergeant George W. Clayton, then 1st Sergeant of Company “G” 17th Infantry, picked up this dog, raised him and called him “Fritz.” From that time he has been with the 17th Infantry. He got to be quite a dog and accompanied the regiment on its marches to Leon Springs. When the regiment fired on the Range, Fritz was there and barked when he heard the rifles being fired. The Regiment was then ordered back to its station after being here for nine months and Fritz left his home state, The Lone Star. 1914 found the 17th again on the border, stationed at Eagle Pass and Fritz had already grown pretty big and was quite a scrapper. He had a number of fights here and came home sometimes pretty well chewed up. It was here that he was awarded his Mexican Border Medal. The 17th went into Mexico and Fritz was left in Eagle Pass until the Regiment came out and went with the regiment to Chickamauga Park and Ft. Oglethorpe, Georgia. During the years of 1917 and 1918, the 17th was split into sections and were stationed at Springfield, Massachusetts, Camp Sevier, S. C. and Chickamauga Park, Georgia. Fritz was located at Camp Sevier, Georgia. Then the Regiment was ordered to Camp Meade, Maryland, and it was here that the mascot was honorably discharged for the second time and reenlisted for third hitch. He was awarded the Victory Medal, the three silver chevrons, and the Victory button was issued to him at a later date. Sergeant Clayton then became the 1st Sergeant of the Supply Company afterwards termed the Service Co., later the Head¬ quarters Service Co., and Fritz came along. He went absent 13 days and came home all chewed up. At first he wouldn’t come back to the Company. He stayed with the Regi¬ mental Sergeant Major on account of his knowing that he did wrong and knew he would get punishment. He was tried and sentenced and as this was his first offence he was sentenced to be tied to the front porch for 30 days. He accompanied the regiment to its sta¬ tion at Laredo, Texas, and made the hike from Laredo to Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. He will soon be discharged and is spending his leisure time on the front porch sunning himself. Regular old crab. Gives every one a growl who comes along. His record: 10 years, 11 months and 10 days service (continuous) with the 17th In¬ fantry, giving him his well earned title,. Regimental Mascot. Rated Dog 1 cl and draws 20% for over 10 years service. He has the Victory medal, the Mexican Border Medal and the Victory Button. Also three silver chevrons. He has the entire sayso in the orderly room. He is entitled to a complete set of equip¬ ment. Bunk, mattress, sheets, pillowcases, Infantry, on the Company Clerk’s chair, to him and gets anything he wants. Any one desiring to see the old boy can find him reigning supreme in the Orderly Room of the Headquarters-Service Co., 17th blankets. Has his chow and water carried A. C. Miglioria, ’18. -(o)- SENIOR NOTES After some consideration we realized that we had players enough to organize a base¬ ball team. We had a meeting and elected our Manager and our Captain and soon be¬ gan to play fast teams. Our team showed the fight and the spirit that has always existed among the former players of the W. L. H. S. The Line-Up was as follows: F. O’Leary, Piaggi Catcher Leary, C. O’Leary Pitcher J. O’Leary Short Stop Rohrlick 1st Base Pastore, Lashway 2nd Base McCullough 3rd Base Pickles, Conroy Left Field Wadsworth, Barry Center Field Ricci ' Right Field The Senior Class held a banquet at Hotel Bond, in Hartford, June 10th. All the mem¬ bers who attended made it a very enjoyable occasion.

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THE HIGH SCHOOL HERALD 25 JUNIOR PRIZE ESSAYS. THE VALUE OF AN IDEAL. (First Prize.) It probably seems a little strange to be talking of ideals in this practical world of ours which has no time to spend in foolish fancies or vague dreams. Yet the foremost of our captains of industry and the poorest laborer had at one time in their lives a vision of the place they would like to occu¬ py in the world’s affairs, say twenty years hence. Every one does not attain his goal, but some do reach it, and if some can, all can. History tells us of great people who had visions and ideals about the future. A legend says that the night before Sir Launfal set out in search of the Holy Grail he had a vision of how he would find it. In his book “Utopia” Sir Thomas More visualized the future England that he wanted to see. Of course some of his ideas are absurd, but many of them have been adopted, and the reforms suggested by them have worked out very successfully. Prominent men in our own history be¬ came great because they set their goal and then worked hard to obtain it. ' iheodore Roosevelt visioned a place for himself in world affairs. He attained the place, but not until he overcame great phy sical and mental difficulties. Many of the leaders in the business world of to-day were poor boys. They rose to positions tney now occupy by always Keeping in their mind the goal they hoped to reach, and the perfection they wisned to attain. If such men as these found it necessary always to keep in mind a vision of what they wanted to be, it is just as necessary, ana perhaps even more so, that we Hign School Students know what we want to ao, and decide upon our careers before we leave school. The reason why a particulor vocation must be decided upon can perhaps best be told in the words of a prominent educator who in an address to a group of students said, “There are two ways of shaping your career. One is to drift with the tide, the other to have a definite goal. The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going, but it jostles the dreamer to the side lines.” This man is one of the leading men of affairs and has attained his position with¬ out help from others. His advice can be observed with great advantage by we High School Students. After a career is decided upon and a goal set, the next thing is to tram and fit our¬ selves for the vocation we nave chosen as life’s work. In order to do this we must choose the studies best adapted to our special case, cultivate the habits that will best develop our powers of thought, con¬ centration, and determination, ana picking the friends and associates, whose influence and companionship will all tend to make us the kind of people we wish to be, remem¬ bering that a man’s character is judged by the people he associates with. When our goal is fixed and our training begun, we will gradually broaden our views, forget our own petty desires and take an interest in the things around us. Then we see the world as it really is and our place in it. Experienced people tell us that this is a process of disillusionment for we then be¬ gin to see for the first time the true nature of our goal; over what sorts of roads we must travel, and what expendi¬ ture of effort will be necessary in order to obtain it. This process will probably change our whole order of living but we will become adjusted in time. At graduation from High School or Col¬ lege most of us begin to feel this change for then we start upon an entirely new era in our lives. Up to that time we have measured ourselves with boys and girls, we know their mode and understand tnem. But what the world expects of us we have yet to find out. Just now we were Seniors in High School, prominent figures in our little world—finished products. Now we are novices again as green as in our first school years studying a problem that seems jo have no rules and is not accompanied by a set of answers. Presently we recognize