Knox Memorial High School - Seymour Yearbook (Russell, NY)

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A Wmdmg Road he we moved slowly down the corridor to stand ln the lower hall xx her two plaques stand mserlbed to the memory ot Forrest C lbbons and Carrre Glbbons Hoxx many youngsters have read the two plaques as elasses pass daily through the halls up the slxghtly xxorn stalrs past the Tlffany w lndow on the landing and on down the eorndors The lett hand plaque wrth rts Latln IIISLIIPIIOII had nexx meamng today S1 monumentum requlrls erreum spree It you seet a man who dedleated hls llfetlme are the reeolleetlons of hlm rn th role of Sehool Com mlssxoner prlnelpal board member and good extlzen Our eyes xx andered to the rrght hand plaque Carrle Caswell Gnbbons teaeher and preeeptress He legaey w1ll long endure rn the llxes and eharaeter ol those xx ho were prxvlleged to haxe her as a friend and teaeher Tl e elamor and moyement ln the hall qulekened xxlth the adxent ot another busload ot puplls and as they crowded past us the thought eehoed It you seek a monument look about you And nt xx as then that we looked atea er young faees and saw a lrvlng monument a monumen beyond prxee KNOX NL HORI141 CI:1NTRAI SCHOOL CENITRAL DISTRICT NO 1 TOXVNS OF Russell Clare Plerrepont Canton Hermon Ereeted 1931 BOARD OF EDI CAYION Theron L Clark Presldent Harold R Curtls Vlee Presldent Kenneth G1fT1n Mxgnon W Hateh jesse S Rumfeldt I-Iattle S jones Clerl XY!1ll1am G H Wrese SLIPCIYISIIIE Prrnexpal Clarence E Armstrong Dxstrlet Superrntendert Benedler Ryan 84 Sayer Arehrteets Suecessors to A W Inman Rouse Putman Co General Contraetor CHAPTFR Ele HT FRO Xl CI:Nl:RATION 70 fI:NERATION 'I HINK tl e ulmolf 111111 rfwnelul lmzv been fire 11111111 my 0 111 11Il11ge says Mr George Burt former president of the Russell Board of Edueatlon for three years Mr Burt ehaxrman ot eyery sehool meeting tor txxentv years or more and one ot those taking an aetxve part xn the eentr 1l1zat1on has been 1 vrtal part of the evolution leadlnv to our sehool system of today 'ilu ufwol hm n1e11111 ezuyffvzflg 171 my Ftflllltl 111111 remarked A B Shaw trustee tor tlurty srx years and treasurer nearly as long He too has long had the xx eltare of the sehool at heart and xx as espeelally lnter ested IU Htllllflg the musle department Looknng baek oxer the years Mr Burt and con tempormes Mr Shaw and joseph Van Sant note w1t1 satnsfaenon the great ehanges both m taerhtnes anl eurrleulum slnee they went to sehool They are happy that their deseendants can be among those to enjoy the Improvements which haye ween aehleved througn th years Mr Shaw and Mr Burt b 1th attended tlve l11Sf0I'1L Old Arsenal Tllffll' teachers rneluded Ida Hostord Lena Boyd Inez Fairbanks Marx Farrell Mary Clark Jen me Xxfhxtmarsh and Mllton Clark Tezrfwll 111 thrive 1!11y they report 1efe1ze1f 11pp1ox1n1111eIy 11111 lynn fre! 11111111 1 y1111 Elght grades xx ere taught the tlrst three or tour on the low er floor Mr Burt says that th ars nal was heated by two box stoves one upstalrs and one dow nstaxrs Wtmod was the tuel and nt was carrled rn by the puplls morning reeesstlme and nlght O111 lfllllklllq 1111141 he adds was fimnglvt 171 by 11 llplf 1111! IIC 1111 111111114 0111 111 1101 uzme d1ppe1 Algebra was taught rn 21Ll1ellfl0U to the usual subyeets Reeallxng h1s el smates Mr Burt mentlons Fred C lbbons Roy and john Smith Iztta Caswell Frank and Rome Jenne A B and Wxll Shaw George and Chase Daniels The pleasures of the day were skating and sliding down lull rn wlnter and playing baseball ln summer There were no league games at that early day Mr loseph Van Sant started sehool at the age uf 5 IH Dxstrlet No 17 at Sllyer Hill Beeause ol his tender ye rrs lus teaeher used to allow hnm to take a nap on a beneh b slde the stove That teaeher must have been Anna Gale whom he refers to as hxs frrst Others who taught lum were Mary jane Stevenson Lottie Colton Plaque Ill New Wing Jamtors Hull, Howland and Moore Discuss Day's Work .I , , 1 ' A ll ' F 1 ll R ' Y ' ,. ,. 1. , ' . I . A v y - I A . O . , , y H . , .4 '.l ' ' . 1 1 ,I i Y y 'Q . V ' . ' I - 1 . -' ' , 11 ft 1 ' ' ' 4' , . - - 2 ' , . . ' . , ' ' V. ya ' ' W '- ' -. 1 1 1 .AM s . R I . 4 V ,g W , , I . A 5 1 'i 1 Z , - '. a l Q ' V Y 7 . , I ' ' I Q A a A y s U J, , , - . l a . .v I ' A ' 1 I 1 1 'Q A ' , . , ' V V , V I v 0 . I . . . . . . S I V 'V ' . . , - , K - W A ' - ' , I. 1 'v '- ' ' ' - . V. lu , - A 4 '. V- 1 - - 1- y S - - ,y 1 yy l to education and his loyalty to thrs school. How' v1v1d I 1, 1 Q ' V , K- ' , . . . . g. . K LW t gl ' - I ' 1 ' - 'ass . . . 1 , , . ,. - 1. M f ' v ' S A , ' ' . , . ., 1 ' 1 I . I ' ' , . ' ' el, . , , A I y y , 4 Y . , , ' ' , , ' . . . . ' . V e 5 I - I . A F . A U 1 vs A 6 U ' 'fe ' , I ' 'N '- D ' fa ' ' .- . ' ' ' H 'A .2 , ' .. - Y ' - , 1 ' . ' ' V X . - 95' . , . . s . ' l F V x F r ' Y . 3 , . . , , , :V , T NMMA. . 1 . . . , A 1 . A S ' U N 1 A A . .... F N . A ' , ...,,....ee,,,,......... ' I '

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Ground Breakmg For New Wing August 1950 Workers Move Steel Beam IIlt0 POSltl0l'l nnal plans rcady tor approval hxds could non he called or In the m antrm several changes had occurred on the Board of Education Passing through the years For rest Glbhbns Frank Richardson Charles Fox Wrllram Shrnners less Rumfeldt and Grover Hatch had served At the ground hreaklng rn August 1950 the Board of Educatron consrsted of Theron Clark Harold Curtrs Xsfrllram Shrnners jess Rumfeldt and Grover Hatch The opening of the hrds dropped a hombshell rnto an eager and happy group The brds vxere nearly 590 000 over our possrhrlrtres lntense protracted conferences non follow ed a hurrred trrp to Utlca to meet a repre sentatrve of the State Department another to Plattsburg to meet mth archrtects and engrneers Frnally a two day s ssron xxhrch resulted rn the elrmmatron ot enough costs to allou the hurldrng ended the long and often drscoura mg yourney Along xuth the Board memhers 1 xery xaluahle nd was tound rn Clarence Armstrong thc D1str1ctSupcr1ntcndent Late hours or long gournexs offered hrs trme freely A hnal change rn the Board ot Fducatron durrng cm strtctron tound Mrgnon Hatch replacing Grox er Hatch and Kenneth Cnttrn replacrng Mr Shrnners On Tuesday beptemher 4 1957 the nrst classes cnt red the long 2lVKZilfCLl and eagerly antrcrpated rung to Knox Memorial High School We were noxx trulx lxno Memorral Central School Prmcrpal XVxese CHAPTER SEVEN THE STORY OF THREE PLAQFES N the new wing of the school we paused one morning last fall to read a small plaque. It was a simple wall plaque mscrrhed mth a neat lrst ot names Here were lrsted the men and uomen who had vsorked to plan and build the new Sung rn the1r oH1c1al Capacrtles as hoard members Here xx ere the names of school admrn rstrators of archrtects and eontractors XVe were not deceived by the slmplrclty of the plaque It should have been rnserrhed mth the parns takrng hours of many years for years go xnto the com plex planning and hurldmg of a central school As vre gazed rt took on srgnrficance It was a symbol ot devotron to a task well coneerved and vsell done No plaque IS large enough vse mused Through the years other hoards have struggled to lay a nrm foundatlon tor this hnal planning No lrst IS complete vue thought but hon httrng thrs partrcular lrst IS And then we mov ed asrde because there xx ere youngsters crown drng around to read Quddealy ue telt an urge to read agarn the plaques V1 he old hall Caught up rn a stream of student traf The New School as a Center of Community Actlvlty Russell Home Bureau Meets Mrs Mildred Burt and Mrs Jennie Hull Preparing Lunch In the New Cafeteria Kltchen , . , - , . . , , . K . ' , e A l at . - , S ix, . .. , , r - . , . . , . , :fel . g , ' - . . ,R it ,A . . , Al' . , - - ,'.'.. - V IX: B- ' . 1

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jack Welclm and Stella Van Ornum The teachers were boarded around at the homes of varrous tamrhes rn the dxstrrct Benches served as seats Among hrs class mates were Chester Van Ornum and Myron and Byron Barry In later lnfe Mr Van Sant was trustee for 8 years and collector for 5 years ln Drstrrct No 17 Durrng that time he bmught and Installed the bell on the school house Ezen rn thofe day! the rehool uaf lhe 60011711171 J renier zrhere Ihey had Srrndaj Srhool Jorlal actrzmer and 1el1g1o1rf ferr leer was Mr Van Sants evaluation of school Myron Burt second generation member of th Burt famrly mentrons qeute a lrst of principals who came and went durrng the time he vs as rn school These xx ere Mrs Hart Messrs Louls Mott Hanson Srmmons crpal It vsrll be rememb red that for a tlme he was School Commrssloner In school mth Charles Cameron Michael Coloton j Clalr Wrlln1arth Mavon Burt IS non a r may man' clerk hvmg rn Utica Mabel Van Sant lP1keJ proudly states Avian' Geralrhne john and Rrfhafa' haze 713161 altended an, Mayon vsere and the late The School and Community Make Use of Over 10 000 Volumes in the Library other school Thxs Knox Memorral famrly member ev plams that the hrgh school courses vsere grven rn the study hall fnoxn the freshman roomj and In the small room besrde rt called Mrs Grbbons Room At tha tlme and untxl comparatrvely recent trmes the large room m front was used as a chapel There she humorously adds bender program: ue heard alto rom the przn crpal 1 anythrng ua: urong Mrs Prke hsts as some of her school companrons Ethel Guyette Eva Burvsell and the elder Stanley Dygert When Florence Shavs CHxllJ attended hlgh school rn Mr Gibbons teaching staff besrdes hrs vufe were the MISSCS Susan Maher Mildred Rnch Maude Holden and Mabel Clark For a year Home Economlcs was taught at that tlme bv Mlss Clark Her most vrvrd re membrance, she states, was that of the gxrls' basketball team led by Miss Holden Mrs Hrll can recall the ded: cation of Knox Memorlal Hrgh School, also the work ln elocutron and smgmg, so gracrously donated to the school by Miss jeannette E Gibbons Among the pupils of her trme she hsts the Mlsses Ella Curtls and Maude Wrlcox and Mrlfred Hewlett and Kenneth Harmer james Burt began hrs schooling under Mrs Grace Busses Line Up In New Loading Area Moore Gerald Curtis taught some of the grades The school became departmentalrzed at this time Durmg hrs school years the Mlsses Dorrs Hornumg and Ruh Clark Albert Loucks Norman Broun and Wrltz Trel Sanford Chase and Mlchael Mrller were wxth htm too There were tvso outstanding teams at that time the champronshrp basketball team and the champronshrp baseball team Mr Burt states that h can swell remem ber playmg on both teams and havrng as has coach Hugh Kelly We zz on I1 rhamp1onrh1p hafheihall game from Hanrfzllle III an ozerlmze peuod by one porn! al rhf Bfruef F1eld Home rn Canlon he sand Pro Gila hone uadded a neu hal rrp and threu ll 17210 lhe alr ll mme doun 111 Ihe froud and he nezer tau hlf haf affarn The home uaf all Since leaving school james has umprred hlgh school brscball games Loulse Plke tl hasey hrst vsent to school rn South Russell where MIS Madelme Wcrr was her teacher Other grade teachers xx ho taught her were Blanche Touslev and Ray Loope In the high school Mr Gibbons nrst was prmclpal then Alb rt Loucks Other teacher xt ere Mrs Byron Greenfield Mlss Vrrglnxa Snell Wrltz Tlcl and Miss Ruth Clark Among hcr classmates vsere Dorothy Hughes Rosahe Smlth and Kathleen Tovx ne The currlculum covered French Latm economlc geog raphy chemistry physics mechanical draw mg trrgo nometry busrness arxthmetrc English and hrstory Instead of the two squads of cheerleaders me have today there were only tvso girls rn those years to rnsplre the team on to vrctory These were Rosahe Smrth and Louise herself Each mormng of this year of 1951 52 to the doors l l Home Economics Department Otters Courses In Cooking and Sewing , ,Jas 1 ' I 4 ' K - Q - ' - ' - - 41 411 4, I .li ' ' . ' ' ' ' U l I I ---- r v U 1 ' ' el' 4 M. '? 5 1'f - . . . ., . . n , Y ' I . and Cole. I.ater Mr. Forrest H. Glbbons became prln- taught. Stan Dygert, Wesley Scouten' Harold Toqrne, .. k v Y Y , ' ' I , y ' . 1'-, ' ' , . I ' all ' . . I 5 V . - ff I 4 . ,I I . I ' 1' ' 1 I ' I 4 Q J K 2 ' . 1 'rl ' .' v J . . A 'I ' ' , e 1' . s -- h 1- ' .. ' ' ' y' ' , ' 7 I . A v I Q S - A 3 7 1 7 -I 7 I yr ' , ' ' V' ' ' A , . - a V - - 1- - , H 5 , ' I . . . ' . ' ' ' Y ' ' , fr , 'r , . , ' lr ' l ' - , . . , . , .f I . V U .,, . . 3 I I . g I