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

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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

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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 H I G H EIGHTH GRADE TheJunior High eighth grade classes are organized into three groups, called the 81, 82, 8i s, and meet in the Junior Study Hall for home room meetings and activities. Each group has its own oflicers, who have conducted the meetings for a ten-week period each. For the last ten weeks, regular oflicers from the entire eighth grade had charge. One of the most successful activities was the Halloween Dance. The class choose Junior High Indians for its name, and the class pin is an Indian head, with the royal blue and gold. Student Council-Eighth Grade-Judson Hunt. Eighth Grade Officers: Judson Hunt, President: Lawrence Wiltse, Vice-President, Rita Hastings. Secretary, Elizabeth Hetherington, Treasurer. Monitors: Gene Griggs, Marie Snover, Robert Wolf, Douglas Davis, Bruce Baker. Class Advisers: Miss Catlin, Miss Pfistner, Mr. Hetherington. 81 Class Oflicers: Elizabeth Hetherington, Teresa Wolslegel, Rita Hastings, George Andrews. Class: Eleanor Albro, Richard Allen, Anna Bailey, Edna Berg, Pauline Berkeley, William Brooks, Daniel Brown, Dayburn Buck, Irene Chalker, Harold Cook, Lucy Cornelius, Paul Deuel, Marjorie DeWitt, Ruth Doyle, Donald Ferguson, Charles Gentzel, Gene Griggs, Francis Keefe, Anna Kushner, Janice Presher, Robert Rieg, Elizabeth Simons, Winifred Slocum, Charlie Smith, Donald Smith, Alan Tucker, Robert Wolf. 82 Class Of'licers:Judson Hunt, Genevieve Van Riper, Freda Farnham, Carl Bowgren. Class: Louis Baier, Thelma Bartlow, Rosa Beere, William Clark, Margaret Crowell, Douglas Davis, Robert Dean, George Espe, Joe Harris, Jesse Howard, Alice Hudson, Robert Inscho, Dorothy Lurcock, Frank McNeil, Frederick Miller, Gerald Myers, Virginia Pease, James Schenk, Elvira Shumway, William Sibley, Marie Snover, John Stiles, Virginia Swift, Jack Thomas, Jane Thomas, Marilyn Tilly, George Van Bushkirk, Adeline Van Housen, Genevieve Van Riper, Mae Winfield, Virginia Wolff, Barbara Woolever. 83 Class Oflicersz Esther Wagner, Thelma Whitmarsh, Elmerna Moon, Florence Preshur. Class: Edwin Andrews, Jennie Arnold, Lois Babcock, Bruce Baker, Wilbur Berg, Florence Curkendall, Edwin Hammond, Arthur Howell, Thelma LaValley, Charles McKeel, Hilda McNeil, Elsie Murray, Alfred Parker, Clarence Reynolds, Henry Rollins, Richard Treat, Elaine Warner, Lawrence Wiltse. I 4 7-9