Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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ACTIVITIES Moreover, he gave a fine picture, The Duke of West Point, for the benefit attraction The class realized a profit of over $20.00 on this movie. The story told of a young cadet(Tom Brown) prominent in athletics but who enjoyed breaking rules of discipline. Through a misunderstanding he is silenced by classmates for breaking the honor code. Finally he is cleared of the charges in time to win a football game for Army. Basketball G-ame When it was known that, the Seniors needed a great deal more money to go on their trip to Boston, the village basketball l gue came to the rescue. The final play-off for the championship was held for the benefit of the Senior class. Members of the t earns even sold a great many tickets assuring a large profit which in turn gave the Seniors the necessary funds for the trip. The Senior class remains much indebted to the Village League for this final boost on the Boston trip. NATIONAL HONOR SOCIETY The Goshen Chapter of the National Honor Society was organized last June with seven members of the Class of 1938. They were: John Gehagan, Doris Haley, Catherine Lewis, Helen Ma.bee, John Meehan, Jack Peeso, and Harry Stewart. Not more than fifteen per cent of a graduating class may be elected to membership. Admission to the society is on the basis of highest average during the years of high school, plus a oopular voto of the student body on the other three qualities of leadership, service, and character. The vote on tnese three dualities is tabulated and averaged by the faculty committee, which at present consists of: Mrs. Marion Williamson, Chairman, Miss Leola Clement, George Gray, and William Camoaigne. Seven new members were Inducted in the Society this year. -hey are: Frank Bonauto, Margaret Bonauto, Virginia Vavrlcka, Theodore Wahl, ond Jennie Zielenski of the Class of 1939, and Mary Elliot and Lawrence Swezey of the Class of 1940. During the first meeting the following were elected: Frank Bonauto, President; Theodore Wahl, Vice President; and Maragret Bonauto, Secretary. Che of the first projects of the group is the collecting and arranging of material about higher institutions of learning. e c e purpose of the activities of the group will be to foster a desire for scholarship and leadership. -9-

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SENIOR TRIP At six-thirty in the morning, April 12, thirty-one, wide-awake, peppy seniors and two capable (and were they capable!) chaperons rushed for the best seats on the bus for the four-day senior trip to Boston. Wo were off i We had lunch at a roadside stand at 11:30. About 1;30 our sightseeing really began. At South Sudbury we went through the Old Mill; then walked across the road tc the Little Red School House, made famous by the childrens classic, Mary Had a Little Lamb, ; Further up the road, we visited the Wayside Inn, made famous by Longfellow's, Tales of a Wayside Inn, which he wrote while staying there. Among the attractions of the Inn was an old cupboard, with a holo in the center, where the tine ' Uood in opening bottles had been stuck thousands of tim.es. We arrived in Boston, disheveled but still full of spirit and pep, at 3:15. At our hotel. The Westminster, wo divided into groups of four and each group received a roun. Wc met our guide, Mr, Winn (inter Mr, Wind ), that overling before wc went to tbo Cr.ior Oyster House for dinner. After dinner we met, in one of the hotel rooms, with Mr, W?r.n who told us some of the things we would see during tho days that followed. Since it wan quite late when the meeting was adjourned, wo were content to write cards and get acquainted with our hotel before retiring. On April 13, the ringing of tho telephone and tho operator's chocry, Good Morning, 7;15, awoke us. Hurriedly we dressed, ate and were on our way by 8;45. Wo started the day by visiting the Museum of Fino Arts whore wo saw, among other things, Paul Rovoro'n accomplishments as a silversmith. Thon wo went through tho Christian Science Publishing Building whore wc saw all of tho operations necessary in tho printing of a newspaper or a magazino. Then wo walked through the churchyard of King's Chapel whore many famous early Americans arc buried. Wc ate at the Durgin-Park Restaurant; then wo visited Faneuil Hall, hotter known as The Cradle of Liberty, because of tho many triatio mootings hold there bbforo and after the Revolution. It is open to visitors, and for public meetings, without charge. V e thcr visited Christ Church, or Old North Church of Paul Revere Fame,1' which still displays tho signal lanterns with which Paul warned the courntryside of the British troops' march to Lexington and Concord. We also saw Paul Rovcrc's homo, which is an oxample of a Colonial homo. Wc wont to tho Navy Yard and say the famous frigato, Old Ironsides, or The Constitution as it is now known. We stopped at Bunker Hill, and most of tho seniors climbed the two hundred ninety-seven stops of tho Bunker Hill Monument 1 -10-