Excerpts from “The
Echo”, Winter –1925
Vol. XX, No. 2
The Echo – Published quarterly by
the students of
Editorial Staff:
Editor-in-Chief
– Art Canfield, ‘25
Assistant
Editor-in-Chief –
Literary
Editors – M. Herring, ’25; Ed. Case, ’25; M. Perrin, ’25; Z.
Haverstock, ‘25’; D. McLean, ’27
Athletic
Editors – Ann Finegan,
’25; Helen Dygert,
’25
Local
Editors – H. Jepson, ’25; W. Magee, ’27; D. Harvey, ’27; M. Chisholm,
‘27
Alumni
Editors – Rhoda Skinner, ’24; Helen Smith, ‘25
Exchange
Editors –
Art Editor
– Dean H. Elliott, ‘25
Business Staff:
Business
Manager – Lloyd Robinson, ‘26
Assistants
– Donald Homer, ’26; Gordon Turnbull, ’25; Carl Boyle, ’26
Faculty
Advisor – Miss Alice O’Connor,
English
Directory:
1925
Class Officers:
President -
Art Canfield
Vice
President – Ed Case
Secretary –
Ann Finegan
Treasurer –
Robert Aldrich
1926
Class Officers:
President –
A. Jenkins
Vice
President – R. Jones
Secretary –
D. Homer
Treasurer –
E. Stevenson
1927
Class Officers:
President –
Carl Boyle
Vice
President – D. McLean
Secretary –
M. Streeter
Treasurer –
M. Graves
1928
Class Officers:
President –
D. Goodnough
Vice
President – D. Johnson
Secretary –
D. Kaley
Treasurer –
H. Jenkins
Society Officers:
Minerva:
President –
Anna Finnegan, ‘25
Vice
President – Susan Murray, ‘25
Secretary –
Treasurer –
Mildred Perrin, ‘25
Delta:
President –
M. Herring, ‘25
Vice
President –
Secretary –
Ruth Fife, ‘26
Treasurer –
M. Swett,
‘25
Amphictyon:
President –
Lloyd Robinson, ‘26
Vice
President – Harry Corbin, ‘25
Secretary –
Art Canfield, ‘25
Treasurer –
Emory Laidlaw,
‘25
Athenian:
President –
C. Sayer,
‘25
Vice
President – E. Stevenson, ‘26
Secretary –
T. J. Whitney, ‘27
Treasurer –
G. Gingras,
‘27
Athletic
Council:
President –
Supt. L. T. Wilcox
Vice
President – Coach W. I. Graf
Secretary –
Lloyd Robinson, ‘26
Treasurer –
Mr. Graf
Lyceum
Club:
President –
Rhoda Skinner, ‘24
Vice
President – Susan Murray, ‘25
Secretary –
Marion Young, ‘25
Treasurer –
Gordon W. Turnbull, ‘25
Basketball-
1924-25:
Captain – H. Melrose, ‘26
Manager – Art Canfield, ‘25
Girls’
Basketball:
Captain – H. Dygert,
‘25
Manager – M. Young, ‘25
Track -
1925:
Captain – L. Robinson, ‘26
Manager – Art Canfield, ‘25
Basket Ball:
G.H.S.
vs. Brownville
In the
third game of the season the purple and gold quintet defeated the Brownville
five by a score of 32 to 19. The
visiting team played good basket ball and many of their plays were similar to
the ones taught by Coach Graf. Howard Jenkins and
Sayer shared the stellar role for our team
while Traye
starred for the visitors.
G.H.S. vs S.L.U. Frosh
All lovers
of basketball were given a chance to see one of the best games of the season
Friday night when the purple and gold quintet defeated the S.L.U. Frosh by a
score of 27-26. Almost as soon as Referee Fred Young had begun the game Al Jenkins made our first basket. He scored thirteen points toward our final
twenty-seven. The first quarter ended 11
to 4 in our favor. The visitors crept up
in the second quarter and made five baskets and one free throw against our two
baskets and five free throws. The half ended 20 to 15.
Both teams sped up in the last half.
The Frosh caged two baskets and three free throws against our one
basket, leaving us only one point lead at the final whistle.
S.L.U. Sophs vs. G.H.S.
Saturday evening
the purple and gold was lowered to half mast by the fast St. Lawrence sophomore
team. The first quarter was the most
interesting part of the game because as soon as we obtained a basket the sophs would get the ball down the floor and make one. The quarter ended a 6-6 tie. In the second quarter the visitors obtained a
slight lead and the half ended 12-10 in favor of them. If the third quarter the
visitors located the basket for 10 points while our boys were only successful
in making 6 points. In the final
quarter our boys obtained the lead and made 8 points to the sophs
6.
Skvorak, who fills a substiture
position on the S.L.U. varsity five made 21 of the visitors’ total score of
30. Captain
Melrose did not play as good a game as we expected and it is hoped that in
the first league game with
G.H.S.
vs. S.L.U. Aggies
On January
31, the G.H.S. quintet visited the Aggies of St.
Lawrence for another victory of 37-22. The
game was played in the Aggie’s barn and was witnessed
by but few spectators. The feature
player for the home team was their captain, A. O. Jenkins, while the stellar role of our team was taken by Howard, “Bear” Jenkins, who was high
scorer for us. The contest was fast at
times but we managed to do without Captin Melrose
who enjoyed the game from the bench.
G.H.S. vs.
On January
30, G.H.S. displayed a very slow and tiresome game of basketball against
G.H. S. Girs vs. Trinity.
The G.H.S.
girls’ basketball quintet journeyed to
Friday
afternoon, January 16th, the High School girls’ team defeated the
O.F.A. girls’ team on their own court by a score of 16-12. The Gouverneur girls did not play as well as
usual on account of not being used to so small a court. The baskets were poor and the floor was very
slippery. Ogdensburg substituted three
times during the game while Gouverneur substituted only once. Magee for Dygert.
Friday
night, January 23, the
The High
School girls defeated the Waddington girls’ team, Friday night, December 10th,
by a score of 19-6. The first half was
very fast and ended with a score of 7-5 in favor of the locals. The visiting team lost their center at the
beginning of the second half and this broke up their play as she was the main
stay of their team. Dygert was put out on personals
and three minutes before the end of the game Gouverneur substituted the whole
second team.
Track
Awards:
Medals were
presented to five of our track men who went to
BASSment Notes
In the
so-called Domestic Science room, on the twenty-fourth day of January in the
year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and twenty five, Miss Ann Finegan
entertained the two managers of the basket ball teams in magnificent
array. Many delicious forms of
refreshments were served and we considered that the guests had a very enjoyable
time. Mr. Gibbs who occupies the adjoining
apartments, strolled by, meaningly, and Miss Finegan
added the worthy gentleman to her list of other guests, namely: Mr. Arthur Bosphorus
Canfield and Miss Marian Annette
Young.
The Dramatic Club’s Successes
On the
evening of December 17, the newly formed Dramatic Club gave the students and
several townspeople a rare treat in the way of two, one-act plays. They were ably presented by the casts, and
all who were connected with the enterprise deserve hearty congratulation. The following are the titles and a list of
those participating:
A String of Pearls
Scene – The
Time – The Present
Cast of
Characters:
Ethel
Madison –
Peg Madison
– Dorothy Drury
Mr. Madison
– Lloyd Robinson
Miss Phoebe
Madison – Rhoda Skinner
Mr. Anthony
Augustus
Hannah, the
Maid – Louise Webster
The Kleptomaniac
Scene – Mrs. Burton’s
Boudoir
Time – The Present
Cast of
Characters:
Mrs. Burton
(Peggy) – Helen Jepson
Mrs.
Valerie Chase Ainesley – Marian Taylor
Miss Dixon
(Freda) – Marian Young
Mrs.
Charles Dover (Mabel) – Zelda Haverstock
Mrs.
Miss Evelyn
Evans, a journalist – Susan Murray
Katie, the
maid – Peggy Magee
In the
Hall of Fame
Arthur’s hair
Rhoda’s dictionary
Susan’s man
Ed Case’s Essays
Dean’s ability to be sick (when the
occasion aries)
Alumni
Notes:
A daughter
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Stanley A.
Dickson,
Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Johns are rejoicing over the birth of a
daughter, Elizabeth Groviene,
The
marriage of Miss Hilda Day, ’19 and Mr. Floyd Whitney, ’20, was solemnized
Miss Deborah Parker, ’22, has announced her engagement
to Mr. Meade of
A daughter
was born to Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Ramsay,
Locals:
Art: (speaking of the team) – “In a few
weeks, Casey will be our best man”
M.P. --- “Oh, What a nice way to ask me”
Gordon W. T. (to druggist) – “Will you give me
something for my head?”
Druggist –
“I wouldn’t take it as a gift”
Howard – “Alison – I will lay fortune at your feet”
Alison – “Oh, but you haven’t got a large
fortune”
Howard – “No, but it will look large beside
those tiny feet”
He won her.
Wanted: Some nice little girl to play with Howard
Jenkins.
About his own age and size.
A Ford
Owner’s Prayer:
I own a
Ford Motor
Surely I
shall not want another
It maketh me to lie down in wet places,
It leadeth me to costly garages.
It breaketh my wallet.
It guideth me in the path of ridicule, for its names sake.
Yea, though
I ride through the valley of the shadow of death
I fear no
danger for its name is Ford.
It’s
noise and it’s clatter, they comfort me.
It prepareth an accident before me and in the presence of mine
enemies
It has
anointed my head with grease.
My language
runneth over.
Surely its
noise and its gas bills will follow me unto the ends of the earth.
And I shall
swell in the house of the injured forever.
Things
that don’t agree:
Murray Raven and the girls
Marion Boulet and rouge
Arthur Canfield and Virgil
Alison and Howard
Albert Vigilante and height
Chelson Sayer and bashfulness
Miss Merritt and short lessons.
The Faculty:
The
faculty, the faculty,
They cause
us lots of trouble.
If they
don’t like this little poem
I ‘spose our woes will double.
But we want
you all to know them,
The way the
students do
So we’ll
take a chance and print it
(of course, its all not true).
Mr. Wilcox is our principal
And to our
parents writes,
Those
letters, which for many mean,
Two hours
every night.
Miss Jeffers in the office
On our
marks keeps both her eyes;
She has to
use a microscope
Judging from their size.
Miss O’Connor teaches English
Both night
and day, it seems;
And at the
closing of the term
Her class
with knowledge teems.
Miss Bowman, she loves English too,
And mayhap,
if she reads,
The first
line of this simple verse
Her poor
old heart will bleed
Miss Timm in many classes
On
evolution lectures;
How the
monkey, baboon and the ape
Changed into students and teachers.
Mlle. Rodgers come in
next
French is
her specialty;
And if you
pursue your text enough
You’ll
maybe land an E.
In Mr. Graf we have our coach
The
greatest coach in town;
And if the
player tries to stall
He sure
will ride him down.
We get our
science from Miss Smith
To Physics
she’s a light.
And though we
labor every day
Her records
are a sight.
Now we come
to Miss O’Neil
Who tells
us how to orate,
And when it
comes to teaching it
She
certainly is some curate.
From Miss Fife the girls get
Home
Economics and such things;
They can
make themselves quite useful
When she’s had them on the string.
We have a
dandy orchestra
And glee
clubs fine and bright;
Because Miss Hall works all the time
To make
them function right.
We love to
learn our History
From Miss Owen, bit by bit,
And if you
ever come to school
Perhaps
you’d like to try it.
Miss Williams many courses
Are sure a holy fright.
We do our
very durndest,
But we just
can’t get ‘em right.
In P.T. Miss Whittaker
Uses her
arms quite free;
She waves ‘em up, then waves ‘em down,
And then
says, 1-2-3-.
They say Miss Bell once went to school
You should
have seen her dust;
Her
teachers quite and she came here
To take it out on us.
Miss Carpenter is next in line
She gives
math day by day,
Some times
we never learn a thing
Her
thoughts are far away.
Miss Merritt teaches Latin
And I’ve
often heard her say,
“Allum, hallum, Skookum, doo”
Atha, Baska dora
day.
Prof Gibbs each day out in the shop
Shows just
how it is done
He tells
the boys, “That’s pretty good,
Now make
another one.”