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

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Superintendent of Schools il' Sheldon E. Guile, A.B., Ed.M. if Some thirty years ago the present high school, Owego Free Academy, was built. Now, a short dis- tance away, a new high school takes shape. To- gether, they are symbolic of your T958 TOM TOM. However, neither the old nor the new has real significance without that human factor of which you, the youth of this area, are representative. ln effect, these buildings help bridge the gap between one generation and the next. This, then, is your task, to take from the old those enduring qualities that will make the new, wherever or whatever it may be, purposeful and useful to yourself and others. Board and StaFf congratulate you on a fine record and wish you well in future years. Sincerely yours, Sheldon E. Guile SUPERINTENDENT'S OFFICE STAFF Front row, left to right: Betty Lou Halstead, Clerk, Louis Pistolese, Business Manager, Barbara Babcock, Accountant Clerk Row two: Sheldon E. Guile, Superintendent, Florence Stupok, Stenographer, Betty Weber, Senior Clerkg William Carson, Transporta- tion Director

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The Board of Education had a very full year. Seated, left to right: Orville B. Shafer, LaVerne M. Brister, and put into Operation losl September? Washing' George Pfingie, Huy.-,ld Newcomb, Pregidenf, ton Gladden Elementary School was opened in The Apalachin Elementary School was completed Standing: Keith Famulener, Gerald Tubaugh, Lennart Erikson. Februclryi Owego Centro' School ls being reno' vated. These needed advances are due to our progressive and tarsighted Board ot Education. if SENIOR ., Q., umm Q.-unn. Progress is being made on our new High School building which will be ready for fall occupancy. i' 6

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O.F.A. Principa ir Kenneth A. Vance, The Old and the New We are planning to move into a new high school before another year begins. Students, as well as faculty, are looking forward to this transition. Edu- cationally there will be many changes and im- provements over our present situation. We shall find ourselves in larger and more pleasant sur- roundings with rooms equipped with more modern facilities, an auditorium of which we shall be ex- ceptionally proud, and a gymnasium with sliding doors so it can be used by boys and girls at the same time. These are but a few of the improve- ments and changes. However, let me advise you no matter how great the improvement in building structure is, scholarship will not improve on your part unless you take advantage of the opportu- nities provided. ln moving from the old to the new, let us not stay as we are, but let all of us improve, too. This is an opportunity, don't pass it by. Success is not determined by our surroundings, it is merely a factor. B.S., Eol.M. ir Mrs. Irene Harders, always ready to give help from the office, assists Literary Editor Vickie Bing- ham locate a student schedule card.