Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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Miss Smith, Assistant Adviser Mr. Wobmuth, Assistant Adviser Miss Julia H. O’Brien, Adviser CLASS ADVISERS i:s

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CLASS HISTORY Remember four years ago? Eugene Gustafson was our president. Everyone looked down upon us and called us kids. Rut we showed ’em when our hillbilly skit won the prize at the Junior Party. Then we proved that it wasn’t an accident by writing most of the Glee Club Operetta and capturing the leading roles. We also made history when our boys’ intramural basketball team walked away with the championship. Of course, we far outshone the sophs at the Frosh-Soph Picnic and closed the year with the feeling that we were definitely “somebodies.” We intrusted the leadership of our sophomore year to Roland Lind. We had lost some of our cockiness; and although our boys retained the basketball championship and our warblers were again operetta stars, do you remember how quiet the year was? In fact, it wasn't until the Frosh-Soph Picnic that we regained all of our old boisterousness and went forth to repeat our success of the preceding year. Didn’t things start with a whirl junior year? We had no sooner elected Harold Hart ran, Xorma Gustafson, Janice Olinstead, and Roland Lind class officers than the Junior Party was upon us. All the classes co-operated by putting on skits to carry out the Gay Nineties theme. Will you ever forget our Junior Play. “What a Life.” with Rill Rrignall as Henry Aldrich and Dick Trumble as the detective who solved the case of the missing band instruments? We brought down the house by just being natural. Then came the Junior-Senior Party with its Kookoo Kollege. The gym shook with the jitterbugging of students once considered the quietest in Mynderse. Late in May, Harold Bartran, Roland Lind, and Stephen Kelleher were chosen to attend Empire Roys’ State in Syracuse. In June, Harold Bartran and Anthony Sinicropi were selected to serve as Junior Rotarians for terms of six months each. The highlight of the year was the Junior Prom. The theme was “An Old Dutch Garden;” and Norma Gustafson was crowned queen in a setting of tulips, storks, wooden shoes, and windmills. The events of our senior year are not difficult to remember. We chose Anthony Sinicropi, Helen Marsella, Janice Olinstead, and Alex Lamanna to lead us through our last year in Mvnderse, and then turned our attention to the Senior Play. The group that had clowned its way through its first three years in school surprised Mvnderse with its seriousness in presenting a mystery-drama, “The Thirteenth Chair.” We had the audience practically on the stage in an effort to see “who done it.” With December came the ball. Decorations were Christmas trees against a background of blue and silver. Queen Helen and King Roland reigned for the night. Next, Alex Lamanna’s losing ticket team entertained Harold Bartran’s winners in a post-play pay-off at an informal evening party. Now we are looking forward to the annual Junior-Senior Party and awaiting with a mingled feeling of joy anti sadness graduation when we will sever all ties with life in Mynderse and enter into a new existence. Just to prove we could be decorous even with the temptations of an Indian theme, we give you this annual, the 1941 Myndersian, as a remembrance of our last year in Mynderse. For what success we have achieved in school our gratitude goes to our class advisers and especially to Miss O’Brien, who has given her patience, advice, and time in guiding our senior activities, preparing us for graduation, and extending her friendship to everyone of us. 14