Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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THE PIONEER 21 We wish to congratulate Miss Lewis for the way in which she lias advanced the standard of the Goshen High School. We feel proud to have been even Juniors while she presided over the school as a Senior. We wish that Miss Lewis will continue in her good fortune in the future and that her second year may be as prosperous as the first. Editok. Lincoln’s Gettysburg Tablet. rfjttt EMORIAL Day was celebrated in a manner that will be remembered long by those who were fortunate enough to be present on the occasion. The celebration, which included the unveiling of the bronze tablet bearing the address of President Lincoln at Gettysburg, presented to the Board of Education by Major Murray Camp, Sons of Veterans, and which is placed in the main hall way of the new High School building, was under the direction of the members of the Sons of Veterans, under the able direction of Fred B. Hock. Mr. Hock deserves a great deal of commendation for the able manner in which he directed the affairs of the day. The Camp is to be congratulated upon their choice of tablet. His immortal words, delivered on the historic spot will never die as long as the English language is spoken. After invocation by ltev. Walter A. Wagner, the presentation speech was ably delivered by Capt. A. J. Moore. The unveiling then took place by a grandson of a veteran, E. Thatcher White. Prin. M. C. Smith with appropriate words then accepted the tablet in the behalf of the Board of Education. To the members of Major IT. S. Murray Camp, No. 120, Sons of Veterans, we extend our heartiest thanks for such a inag-nificient tablet. Editor. Training Class Next Year. TTllE friends of the school are rejoicing w over the selection by the State Education Department of Goshen as a location for a teachers’ training class. The class will be organized for next year and already a number of applications for membership have been received. The prospects for a large class are very promising. Goshen’s New High School Building. iTUSHEN’S new High School build-ing is fast nearing completion and the citizens have been watching with a great deal of pride the growth of this stately edifice. Contractor W. C. Altmann has about finished the work of plastering and a large force of carpenters are busy on the wood work of the interior. The building will be one of the finest school structures in this part of the state, and when the grounds are properly graded and the lawns made, it will be one of the most imposing buildings in the village. The work of construction has been closely supervised by the architect and the members of the board of education, and under the painstaking direction of the general contractor, all the embarrassing mistakes and costly errors which are so common in the erection of public buildings have been avoided. Contrary to the first opinion of many the site selected is in nearly every respect an excellent one. It is in a conspicuous

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I'O THE PIONEER The High School Glee Club made its first appearance and rendered some excellent selections. The club had been under the instruction of Miss Aneita D. Hunter, one of the teachers, and much credit is due Miss Hunter fjr their good work. The stage and boxes were appropriately decorated with green foliage. The judges were from out of town and were Principals Raymond I.. Freed, of Chester, and Kasson Beilby, of Washing-tonville. The first prize for the girls was awarded to Miss Alice Dayton, whose subject was “The Whistling Regiment.” The prize was $10 in gold. Miss Maude Sclioonmaker received the second prize for the girls. Miss Schoon-maker spoke on “Bill Perkins’s Toboggan Slide.” The prize was a $5 gold piece. “The Signing of the Declaration of Independence” was the subject of Saver Seely’s piece, which was awarded the first prize for boys, of $10. Henry B. Merritt received the second prize of $5 and spoke on “The Negro in the New South.” During the evening Miss Florence Mapes made her debut as a vocalist and was well received. Her singing was generously applauded and Miss Mapes was compelled to respond to an encore. The accompaniment on the piano was played by Miss Adele Schoonmaker. Miss Philena Young, who is a pianist of considerable ability, rendered a piano solo and the applause which followed was so prolonged that she was obliged to respond with another selection. The donors of the prizes were Supervisor George F. Gregg; President Joseph Merritt, of the Board of Education; Deputy County Clerk William N. Hoffman, and Principal Montgomery C. Smith. The winners of the first prizes represented the school in the interscholastic speaking contest at Music Hall Saturday night. The program follows: Chorus, selected High School Glee Club “The Black Horse and Its Rider” Orlando Smith “The Whistling Regiment’’.Alice Dayton “The Negro in the New South”--------- Henry B. Merritt “Biff Perkins’s Toboggan Slide” Maude Schoonmaker Vocal Solo Florence Mapes “The Heart of Old Hickory” Harriette Houston “The Singing of the Declaration of Independence” Sayer Seely “Ole Mistis” Emmy Kattmann Piano solo, selected Philena Young Chorus Glee Club Decision of judges. Congratulations. ALICE B. Lewis, TO, has again made the Goshen High School indebted to her for keeping up the reputation of the school. Miss Lewis has just finished her Freshman year in the New York Medical School. With the close of her first year she has earned the honor of obtaining the Freshman Scholarship, which amounts to fifty dollars in gold and an equal amount towards her tuition. With this, she has been appointed Assistant Preceptress of Physiology.

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22 THE PIONEER part of the town and in close proximity to the old high school building, which will render the management of the schools much less difficult than would be the case were they at a considerable distance from each other. The lot is directly in front of the old building and has a frontage of nearly 200 feet on Main Street and 350 feet on Erie Street. The building follows the general lines of many of the best schools of recent construction and the plans have been given the highest praise by the State Department of Education. The exterior walls are of the finest quality pressed brick, of a light buff color, with trimming of Indiana limestone. The interior walls are of fireproof macolite blocks. The heating and ventilating system was installed by the Johnson Heating Company, of New York —the system used being the direct-indirect radiation. The boilers and coal bunkers have been placed in the extreme rear of the building, removed as far as possible from the class room, thus minimising the danger from fire and removing the noise and the dirt of the fires from the rest of the building. The ventilation of the building will be effected by four fans, driven by small electric motors. The toilet arrangements, which are in the basement, are automatic flushing, and are of the most improved type of sanitary plumbing. This work, as well as the plumbing for the other parts of the building, is under the direction of Frank C. Hock. The building is piped for gas and wired for electricity throughout and a system of call bells, fire alarms and telephones has been installed. The building is entirely above the level of the street, and although the first floor is used partly as a basement, it is, in fact, the first floor of a three story building. The building provides for four grade rooms and the high school department as well as for several unassigned rooms, which will later be used as the growing needs of the school may require. An auditorium seating five hundred is provided for and also a gymnasium with locker rooms, etc. The gymnasium, which is designed for physical training classes, will also he adapted for basket ball and other indoor games. The main entrance will be on Main Street, with two entrances at the sides, one for the boys on Erie Street, and one for the girls on the side next to Music Hall. The side entrances, which will be the ones used by the students, will let into a long corridor extending through the center of the building. At either end of this corridor stairs will lead to the floors above. As one enters the main entrance in front, he will find himself in a lobby from which opens the Board of Education office and the teachers’ room. These rooms will be large and well equipped for their purpose. On the basement floor are the lockers and toilet rooms for the entire building, two unassigned class rooms for future expansion and the big gymnasium, whose dimensions are about 45 feet x 70 feet. From the front lobby a broad flight of stairs leads to the first floor above. The corridor on the first floor above the basement, running the entire length of the building, is sixteen feet wide, and an inlaid mosaic floor is planned for. On this floor the four corner rooms are to be primary grade rooms. The libraries are to