Dorothy Holmes was Vice-President, with Ruth Norton Secretary and Anna Much Treasurer. After excessive, but customary quibbling and procrastination, class activities began to function. Harold Javins was President of the student body of Mount Vernon, the new school to which the class had gone. Gladys Potthast headed the Dramatics Club, and Dorothy Holmes wisely directed the affairs of the school paper and the Year Book. Thus, the first graduating class of Mount Vernon consumed four years of high school life.
Nothing is so priceless as the memories of temptations, pleasures, and friendships known in youth.
Therefore, may it be natures desire that each member of the graduating class of 1940 cherish these memories, as he does now, no matter what may be his destiny. The first principal of Mount Vernon High School was Granville C. Cox. Mr. Cox served as principal of Mount Vernon from 1939 to 1945. In the fall of 1945 Mount Vernon High School welcomed its second principal, Mr. Melvin Landes. Mr. Landes served as principal from 1945 until his retirement in 1973.