Clinton Central High School - Clintonian Yearbook (Clinton, NY)

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held a very unsuccessful Tw1rp Dance The grrls were too t1m1d to ask the boys March 10 held a bake sale at the Grand Umon Moey Acee was our Masked Marvel and wrestled Tommy Saunders 1n the Boxrng Exlubrtron we presented conducted a magaz1ne sale durrng March and Apr1l and then we had II enough money for our PROM all the whrle we were makrng money we were strugglxng through eleventh year Amerrcan Hrstory readrng Shakespeare s Iulxus Ceasar under the guxdance of our cadet Englrsh teachers d1sect1ng prckled frogs rn b1ology lab recerved our Class Rrngs dunng Chrrstmas vacatron Forty nrne excrted Iunrors crowded the offrces wartrng for Mr Seyse to hand them out May 4 had our Iunror Prom STAR DUST 1951 and 1952 We re Senrorsl rt s been a mrghty struggle but we made rt elected to Student Counc11 Rrchard Dowsland JoAnn Wadsworth Anne Sprnk Wrllram Scoones and Wrlham Donojue Class Officers Presldent Wrllram Scoones Vrce Presrdent Moses Acee Secretary Jane Cresswell Treasurer Anne Sprnk at last we re all together rn the brg Study Hall' Mrss Batley and Mr Barettx are our class advrsors French class has decreased 1n membershrp from fourteen to one conducted another magazrne sale and netted S235 62 profrt started our drrve for advertrsements to flnance our annual IH December Never reached our goal and had to borrow S100 from the class treasury began edrtonal work for the 1952 Chntoman durrng Chrrstmas vacatron we ll never forget the Chrrstmas party the Trrg Class held The 1rls from chemrstry lab were xnvrted and we all played spm the test tube nor will we forget the trme Vmcent Vangura and Malcolm Desrmone almost blew the school up by puttrng phosphorus tnto the water rn chem lab The debates we had rn Pubhc Spealung Class were sp1r1ted but no more so than those we held rn Socral Studres Class We wound up our HCIIVIUSS w1th the tradltlonal Senlor Class Prcnrc Then Graduatron' And then? 5 Maia ZA ,, . ,, . .. u - vv u n ' --- ' --- --- ' --- ' lu - vv ' 1 --- ' - u u u , . -., . . , . -- - v 1 I 1 Q - 1 1 1 1 1 1 . ' . . --- . I . f - --- . . ',, . . ,, . . -..- ' ' ' ' - 8 . . ... . .. . . .

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00 Ulf ' To the To the To the years of 1948 and 1949 We were freshmen had Mr Chaney and M1ss Moore as homeroom teachers held our first class meeung September 24 to elect class offrcers Presrdent Frederlck Swartzman V1ce Pres1dent Moses Acee Secretary Jane Cresswell Treasurer Fanme May Dawes were more rnterested rn the go1df1sh rn the brology lab than we were 1n Mr Vrvyan s lectures on matter and energy held a Juke box dance rn November and 1ncreased our treasury from S2 '75 to 532 20 spent two months preparmg for the Freshman Track Meet held annually at Murnane Fxeld crammed lrke mad every Fnday morrung before classes passed for Mrs Petersen s weekly vocabulary tests left C C H S 1n June 1949 for summer vacauon reJo1c1ng because we had no regents exams to take years of 1949 and 1950 We were sophomores M1ss Jacobs and M1ss Davles were our homeroom teachers September 22 held our fxrst class meetmg to elect offrcers Presrdent urer Wtllram Scoones Student Counc11 Representatlve Rrchard Dowsland held a round and square dance November 18 Whooprng success' Some sophomore boys actually danced' started French w1th Comment allez vous and fourteen members 1n the class SPCUI CVCFY Hflh penod wntrng out the proposmons we had mrssed that mormng 1n geometry class robbed our parents flower beds 1n order to decorate the Cafelefla for the Senxor Sophomore Recepnon June 1950 We had reached the half way mark 1n our hlgh school career and were lookmg forward years of 1950 and 1951 We were Jumors homeroom teachers M1ss de la Porte and Mr Seyse held our first class meetmg September 15 to elect class officers Pres1 dent Wxlham Scoones V1ce President Moses Acee Secretary Jane Cresswell Treasurer Anne Spxnk Student Counctl Representauves Arthur Wxlson and JoAnn Wadsworth added S100 to our class treasury through our Jumor Raffle O ' I l Harvey Yandog Vice President, Moses Acee: Secretary, Jane Cresswellg Treas- . .. .. . ,, , - 1 . . , : ' ' ' '

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we any It s the year of 1962 Chnton 15 busthng wrth actrvxty But then wasn t rt always? Chnton the Ideal small town Uuca s mcest suburb' It has changed ln the ten years thatlhave been away but not much The change IS pnmar1ly a change of faces I nouce that my former class mate Walter S3V1Ck1 has taken over the management of the G L F and from what I hear he s dotng a wonderful Job I talked to Ray Frxestedt just yesterday you all know Ray he s the one who owns the b1g hog farm on upper Fountaln Street and he told me that Walt has 1mproved Chnton s G L F a hundred percent 1n the four yearshe s been managmg ll N1ce go1ng Walter And speaktng offarmers Inouce that Howard Peters has started hrs own darry the Petersboro Darry DrckSchm1dt has remodeled an old barn and transformed II 1nto an art studro He p1cked a beaunful spot for h1s studro It s sxtuated on Br1sto1 Road and commands a sweep1ng v1ew of the Onskany Valley Wh11eIwas vrs1t1ng Mrs W1lI1am Hargraves fthe former M1ss Ruth Colej I couldn t help openly admrrrng her beauufully decorated l1v1ng room Come to f1nd out rt had been remodeled by Don Huther now a professronaldecorator Asfor our other students of art D1ck Dowsland handles all the commerctal art for the Chnton Courrer I notrced as I read the last rssue that the ads had taken on a modermsttc a1r Els1eChurch1ll and Lo1s Hughes manage to take ume from thexr famthes to attend Mr Chaney s rught art fLo1s besrdes rs the v11lage photographer s cluef subject 5 B111 Scoones 1S a world famous sports commentator However ne has returned to Chnton and now wrrtes the column The Puckster for the Cour1er He rs known Just as well however as the CIIHIOH Comets' star hockey player Erleen Judge too has returned to Chnton She has held a promtnent post t1on as typtst and prrvate secretary to an Amerrcan representauve to the U N By the way I m spendrng my stay here 1nC11nton at the Alexander Hamtlton Inn presently owned and managed by Ronald Kuslenskr Very mee establrshment Ronme has there except for one thtng the plumbrng IS no good Two mghts ago the bathtub dram plugged up on me and we had to send to Allen s Hardware for a plumber Lo and behold 1f the boss plumber wasn t my old schoolmate Brran Welch I went 1nto Chnton s new moderruzed A 81 P not so long ago My what a change' Ken Schultz present manager has certarnly 1mproved the place Shrnny show cases cement floor and all' The s1te of the A 8a P has been moved and rt now stands where the Chnton Food Market and the Chnton Shoe Reparr Shop used to stand I bought a pound of steak It was d611C10US' I must compltment Moey Acee on the superb meat Acee's Meat Company rs now dtstnbuungl Harvey Yando has just bought the Park Hotel He s plannlng to remodel rt and add a dance floor Don Huther has been called rn to start operatrons I have heard that Harv has lured a top notch band to enterta1n hrs guests and the featured vocahst IS none other than our own Pat Roth' , . . . . . . . . , . . . classes. They also get a hand into the Town of Kirkland Art exhibition held annually in the Town Hall ,