Otego High School - A Te Gen Yearbook (Otego, NY)

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Wahine In September, 1943, Margie Downie, Carolyn Foote, Mary Short, Elinor Vroman, David Ferris, Andre Ouimet and Bruce Trask entered the first grade at Otego Central School. In the second grade we studied about Indians. We put on an assembly Ixogram for the first six grades. Marie Krueger, Claudine Sperry and Peter Holden joined us in the third grade. We studied about Egypt in the fourth grade. Mrs. Tuttle taught us how to make a map of a country with sand, sawdust and water in the fifth grade. We made the map of Great Britain. We studied about China and made chopsticks with which we ate a Chinese meal. Millie Veen joined us in the sixth grade. In this grade we put on an assembly program about the Pilgrims. Janice Fuller, Larry Leahy, Dale Norton and Ralph Tompkins came from West Oneonta School to join us in the seventh grade. Claudine Sperry left us at the end of the year to go to Oneonta Junior High School, We took a trip to Albany and Cooperstown when we were in the eighth grade. In Albany our class visited the State Capitol and the State Educational Building. We stopped at Howe Caverns on the way home. We went to Cooperstown and visited the Farmer's Museum, Fenimore House and the Baseball Hall of Fame. Upon entering the ninth grade we found our advisors for the next four years to be Miss Car- penter and Mr. Bonner. It was in that year that we had our first dance. Blossom Time was our theme. We had two additions to our class this year, Flora Smith and Glen Crandall. We also lost two members of our class, Lynn Cowperthwaite and Ann Haggerty. In our tenth year we had our second dance, Music was furnished by Linus Houck. It was also in our tenth year that one of our old members rejoined us and another of our members left. Claudine Sperry came back from Oneonta and Joyce Barker left us to go live in California. In our Junior year we had to decide on our class rings. We put on a one-act play for an assembly program. The name of the play was Little Darling. The cast members were Edith Rothman, Marie Krueger, Millie Veen, Claudine Sperry, Andre Ouimet and Larry Leahy. We had a Christmas party at Mr. Bonner's house and the majority of the class attended. This year we were able to have two dances plus a prom. The prom was the thing that we really looked forward to. Claudine Sperry was chosen to be Queen of the prom. Her attendants were Margie Downie, and Millie Veen. The crown bearerfwas Michael O'Hara and the train bearers were Joan Eckert and Eileen Sallie. Our Senior year was the busiest of our high school career. We undertook the Senior Play, Drums of Death, with the following cast, Elinor Vroman, David Ferris, Marie Krueger, Claudine Sperry, Margie Downie, Dale Norton, Glen Crandall, Flora Smith, Millie Veen and Peter Holden. After this success we undertook the 1955 ATEGEN, This was followed by the traditional Senior trip to New York City and Washington, D.C. We wound up the year with graduation. We wish to thank everybody who has helped us to have twelve wonderful years.

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BRUCE R. TRASK ROBERT B . UTTER MILDRED M. VEEN ELINOR L. VROMAN

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As I hitch hiked back to Brooklyn from Otego, I kept thinking of how our class had changed during the past ten years. Our reunion was held at Bruce Trask's huge dude ranch, the B-B-T fBee-Bar-Teay. He is now building a ski lodge on Franklin Mountain. While I was lounging by the swimming pool on the ranch one day, I met an old classmate, Marge Downie, and we immediately started to gossip about our other classmates like we did in the 'good old days. After all these years, she is still single. She now runs a very successful bachelor's home. We found out that Millie Veen is now a famous singing star on Broadway under the name of Mildegarde. In between shows she has time to take care of her family of five. Suddenly Claudine Sperry came out of the water and joined us on the patio. She told us she had been Mrs. Pete Sabedra for the past ten years. Her twin boys who are five resemble their father in every way. On the other hand the three girls look just like her. They're the cutest triplets. Claudine had met Elinor Vroman in the new department ,store in Otego which is the largest in southem New York. Elinor announced that she had married the owner of the store, Dave Ferris. It seems they carried their part in the Senior play farther than we expected them to. As a sideline, Dave is the editor of the Otego Daily Chronicle. One of his reporters, we found out, was Mary Short, another one of our classmates. She writes a nationally famous beauty column called 'Figures for All. Flora Smith is also on the Chronicle payroll. She gives advice to the lovelorn under the name 'Darlene Dugan, She was always good at writing love letters. I noticed in the Daily Chronicle that moming that Glen Crandall was appointed Police Chief of West Oneonta. It must be his part in the Senior play helped. It's a funny thing though but he is still losing his ba.dge. We also read that Andre Ouimet has signed up with the New York Giants football team as quarterback for another year. We hear that he still hasn't settled down. I guess he'll probably be a bachelor after all. It was then that Bruce came over and told us that the entertainment for the evening would be fur- nished by Bob Utter and his 'Green Cactus Boys. He has a blonde hillbillie singer named Yodellin Toots. In real life her name is Carolyn Foote another graduate of '55. She's still blonde after all these years too. After all, she does run a beauty shop for peroxide blondes. They have appeared over station WOTE in Otego. The television station is owned and operated by Larry Leahy. He started out eight years ago with a job over WNBF -TV as a sports announcer and gradually worked his way to the top. Claudine said her children adore watching Pete Holden's kiddy show Cowboy Pete's Ranch Time Round- Up' over WOTE television. They especially like to hear him play his guitar while he's telling a wild west story. Janice Fuller's huge limousine pulled up then. She was discovered by a Hollywood talent scout while pumping gas at her husband's gas station. Since then she has appeared in many movies. Later in the afternoon, Dale Norton drove up in his robins egg blue Cadillac convertible with leopard skin upholstery and diamond dashboard. It seems that for the past six years he has been in Africa as a guide for big game hunting parties. His huge mansion in West Oneonta is now covered with African trophies. That evening Joe Tompkins gave a speech after dinner. He always was good when it came to public speaking. Now he is a professor at Vassar College. Joe always had a way with girls but Nancy keeps her eyes on him now. Our reunion was over with all too soon and I am now on my way back to Brooklyn. I had to hitch- hike because the ash-tray in my Cadillac was full and the new one hadn't arrived yet. I have a program on which I broadcast the Brooklyn Dodger ballgames especially for the women. In case you've wondered, I'm Marie Krueger.