Owego Free Academy - Tom Tom Yearbook (Owego, NY)

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S O P H O M O R E S Good little children, I know you're being consumed with eagerness to hear all about the 1936 Sophomores. Open your ears, now, and let me tell you all concerning the wonderous work of those wise ones. To see these snappy, vital, unique personalities stalking the corridors of the O. F. A., who would believe that they are last year's batch of Freshmen? With what allantry they came through the chilling terrors of initiation! My, how brave those mortals be! Beimre that first year of high school was over, the gifted freshmen were listed among the future leaders of the school. Teachers all over the school welcome with open arms the sophomores to their classes, for they know well the remarkable intellectual ability of this class. They round the dangerous curves and angles on the road to geometry with ease, and they leap enormous prepositions and conjunctions in English and Latin. Dorothy Ryan, Nance Haywood, Ruth Roe, Miriam Allen, Georgia Anna Shellen- barger, and Percy Van Etten, usually represent the Sophomore Class on the high honor roll. In the field of sports, the sophomores can modestly believe themselves indispensable to the O. F. A, I have been told-oh, but, one moment, can I trust you not to mention this to anyone? I can? Well' all right. It has been said that Linley Grant, football and basketball player, will some day be to the O. F. A. sports what Vadas is to Colgate, and what Rubinoff is to the violin. Take a bow, Lin! Lest you think Linley be the only outstanding sophomore athlete, let us hasten to mention Fred Livermore, Bob Jamesson, Dick Knox, and George Taylor, prominent members of the football teams. George Taylor also made a splendid appearance in Junior Varsity basketball, together with Reigart Lowry. Stay that impatience of yours, girls, there's also a feminine side of this sporting tale. Such sophomore girls as Frances Naatz, I-Ierta Wilke, Mae Belle Rosengrant, Betty Frank, Lucy Vose. Mary Kushner and Ruth Rauch shone on the hockey field. Some of these girls were members of the basketball team. Ruth Roe, Janice Nichols, Marian Allen, Carolyn Runnals, Gertrude Smith, Tina Tilly, and Nance Haywood gained recognition on the basketball floor. Now that I have told you all, aren't you sorry that you're not Sophomores? Don't you think that it would be a pleasure to be one of the members of this super-studious, super-athletic, and super- everything class? OFFICERS RICIIARIJ KNOX . . Prefident GEORGE TAYLOR ..... Treumrer LINLEY GRANT , Vice-Prerident ROBERT JAMESSON .Ytudent Council Reprefenmtire JANE XIAN Buskmic . . Secremrjy MISS DEYOE, Miss CHRISTINE SMITII Clan Adzliyerx 'Wi'-ililg , xx ....m-Us ww- N-Ms. N. .,,,,,, rx ' 17

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J U N I O R S h AN,-I . . .X . ' . CLASS OFFICERS RICHARD CORNWELL . . President JEAN TURNER . . Trearurer PAULINE ROSEBROOK . . . Vice-President MARY FAHL . . . . Student Council LAURA TUTTLE ..... Secretary CLARA MARIE RooT . . Reprerentativef MRs. NICHOLS, MR. EALES . . Adviferr In spite of the wind and snow blowing at a furious rate outside, I sit comfortably in a deep chair before the warm fire, with its leaping flames reflecting in the crystal at my side. As I gaze into my crystal I can clearly see a glorious past and a brilliant future in store for the Juniors of 36. Hear ye, juniors! Your class seer will now retell your past and foretell your future. In your freshman year you came through the ever dreaded freshman initiation with Hying colors. Your reputation as good sports was then established. That year several of your number gained renown in basketball and football. Among these I see most clearly that sturdy half back, Dick Corn- well, energetic Ed Ferguson, and cheerful Smiles Morse. The scenes in the crystal change, and I see you now in your sophomore year. I can clearly see that you have gained more prominence in the O. F. A. through your activities. Dick Cornwell, Ed Ferguson, and Smiles Morse still walked away with honors in the sports field, and many more in your group went in for this type of activity. The crystal gradually brightens as I note the largest class in high school-the Juniors. What is this strange brightness? As I peer more closely, I see that it is the reflected glory of those members of your class who have brought honor upon you through the earning of high scholstic standings. Who are these people? Now the faces of William Granger, William Goodnough, Doris Chubb, and Louise Babcock appear in the cyrstal in answer to my question. In sports I see the Juniors win even greater glory than before. Those boys who participated actively in the first two years are now lettermen. Dick Hauver, Harry Gibson, Lewis Davis, and Tiny Finn are also prominent this year in the sports world. The girls, too, have taken honors. Beverly Bettis, Nell Stiles, Gladys Myers, Helen Kushner, Jane Hurlbirt, and Alice Reynolds, were among those who earned distinction on the Hockey Team. Outstanding participants in basketball were Jean Turner, Louise Hulslander, Alice Reynolds, Dorothy Howe, and Marie Root. An excess of class spirit was displayed in the preparations for a Leap .Year Dance, held at the Flats Community House on February 29. This dance was a most enjoyable one, and we proved to the Seniors that they had no monopoly on financially successful parties. 2.6 1 l

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F R E S H M A N if N. W--:Am F Rx, V 3,1 .. . so is A r. X ,W -I . ....... M--N..........-........7.......'.h.-... OFFICERS KATHERINE PETZOLD . . Preriderzt HOWARD VAN NEss .... Secretary LAWRENCE WINSLOW . Vice-Prefident JUANITA BARNES . Student Council Reprexentative MANFORD ESTES . . . Treasurer Miss DEAN, MR. LooM1s . . . Aduirers The Freshmen feel just like the words in the songfgoing round and round. The Seniors helped push the first valve down, and initiation went round and round. This annual Freshman initiation was one of the first school activities that provided enjoyment for the upper class- men at the expense of the Freshmen. Since then we have found our stride and are now showing them what we can do in a practical line as Well as in the ridiculous. We push the second valve down and make society go round and round. Our first social function was a Freshman dance held in the school gymnasium before our Christmas vacation. This dance was the first means of providing us with funds to be used in the future. We push the third valve down and the sports go round and round. We are very proud to say that we have Freshman boys and girls in many of the sports. The boys, while in the eighth grade, won a banner in basketball-so there is no question but that they will represent our class as bright and shining stars in that sport while they are in high school. The girls represent the class in hockey and basketball. We push the fourth valve down, and the music and voices go round and round. In Glee Club, Band, Dramatics, and Orchestra, there are a number of boys and girls from the Freshman class who will undoubtedly follow that line of work in the future and be succesful. We have pushed the last valve down and we hope you will still see us going round and round. We realize We are young and undoubtedly green-but we are learning, and before our four years are over we hope to make as good showing as our illustrious Seniors-or perhaps even surpass them-so watch our smoke! 2.8