Phelps Central High School - Highlights Yearbook (Phelps, NY)

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7?52 4 Qfckztwzg . . . In June of 1948 the Class of 1952, with a record number of sixty-three members including eleven honor students, turned its back on eighth grade and embarked on its high school journey. The class's first job after entering high school was to choose the officers who were to be its leaders. Assisted by our new advisors, Miss Joyce Mundy, Miss Jane Golding and Mr. Wilbur Hartmann, we elected the following officers: President, Donald Frid: leyg vice-president, Thomas Filiatreaug secretary, Susan Browng and treasurer Kathryn Gleason. In February of our freshman year, we presented, in assembly, a one-act play entitled Wildcat Willie Gets Girl Trouble. In the following month the class ventured to its initial money making project, which took the form of a donkey basketball game. This event seemed to have been enjoyed by all and proved to be very profitable to the Freshman class. :At the first class meeting of our sophomore year, we installed Donald Fridley as president, Jack Donaldson as vice-president, Kathryn Gleason as secretary, and Donna Ryan as treasurer. By this time, visions of New York City were beginning to take form in our minds. For our second financial venture was presented two one-act plays, one, a hillbilly comedy entitled Comin' 'Round the Mountain, and the other, a mystery entitled Whodunnit? On this occasion we played to a full house and boosted our treasury considerably. Not quite so profitable, but very enjoyable was the card party and informal dance the Class of '52 sponsored in the spring of its sophomore year. Our second high school year concluded, we were now getting into the swing of things. Every school activity was found to have members of the class in prominent positions, and we eagerly looked forward to our return to dear old P.C.S. as upper classmen. This was no sooner said than done, for that fall we found our lockers situated in the cross-corrider, and we were, we thought, becoming quite grown-up. As juniors, our class had been whittled down to forty-six members. We now also had only two advisors, since Miss Golding had left us the preceding June. Our first job, of course, was that of electing class officers. They were as follows: Harry Peake, president, Donald Nash, vice-president, Elizabeth Burnisky, secretary 3 and Mary Rathbun, treasurer. A In November of this year the class ordered those all-important class rings, which were being displayed by January. Our first money-making activity of the year was the sale of orange and black pencils with the basketball schedule printed on them. In March the Class of '52 again brought the donkeys to town for a basketball game brought a capacity crowd and a tidy profit for the class. On the evening of April 13, we brought something new to the auditorium of P.C.S. in the form of The Dixie Minstrelsf' The show consisted of class talent and was our greatest financial success thus far. The audience apparently enjoyed it very much, but it afforded the class as much pleasure too. By May 18 of our third high school year, the annual Junior Prom had rolled around, and this time it was our turn to sponsor it. We called the dance the Isle of Paradise Prom and decorated the gym along an Hawaiian theme. It seemed that no sooner had we entered our junior year than it was all over. Although we couldn't possibly make ourselves believe it at the time, we were entering the home stretch. Perhaps just as hard to see was the big city looming on the horizon. CContinued on page 323

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PMMHWH' h h re comes the mailman. I wonder if anything came for me today. Only one fi , Tetfs See now it's an invitation to my class reunion. Your presence is re- envjtcggegt a class of 1652 reunion being held in the Phelps Central School Gymnasium, que J une 21 1962 at 1:00. Come and see old friends and classmates. June twenty-first, thats next Saturday afternoon.. I'll have to check and see if I'm on dutv next Saturday. It doesn't seem like ten years have passed since the class f 1952 left its old Alma Mater. Ten years isn't really such a long time, because for ihe they have been filled with many wonderful experiences in the field of nursing. Saturday finally arrives and I set out to attend my class reunion. Kathryn Gleason and I go together because, since we live in the same town, and work in the same hospital it will be easier and more pleasant to travel together. Four hours later we pull up in the bus garage parking lot and start out for the gymnasium. Not having known that the gymnasium was enlarged, we are amazed when we see the size of the room into which we are directed. There is Miss Mundy and Mr. Hartmann. Upon inquiring, I find that Mr. Hart- mann now is the Principal of Phelps Central, and Jack Donaldson is acting as Vice- Principal. Miss Mundy is Art Director at her old Alma Mater, Syracuse University. Going on, I find Bonnie Hulster and Evelyn Eggleton chatting in a corner. Bonnie tells me that she and Evelyn are planning on erecting a Youth Center in Phelps and directing it themselves. They are just a couple of home town gals. Lowell Falkey is over by the refreshment table along with Bob Nagel. That's no surprise, they say that .Bob's appetite increases as he eats. Lowell tells me that he is coach at Clifton Springs Central, they haven't lost a game since he's been there. Be- tween mouthfuls, Bob informs me that he is teaching Mechanical Engineering at Col- gate University. Both Lowell and Bob are still bachelors by the way!! I am told that Harry Peake and Don Richmond run a garage over in Newark. They specialize in selling car accessories and Don gives a few hotrod lessons as a side- line. Carol Oaks, Betty Burnisky, and Jeanne Lundgard, are next in sight. Carol and Jeanne have a secretarial school in Rochester. They call it the O. Sz L. Secretarial In- stitute. They are doing pretty well as managers of a school. Betty is Nursing Director at Rochester General Hospital and she tells me that Donna Ryan is running a Pizzaria in downtown Rochester. I made a note of this because pizza has been a weakness of mine since my high schooldays. - After talking with the girls, I saw a group of fellows chatting about something which seemed to be very interesting, so I thought I'd see what it was all about. I recog- nized the fellows as Dick Lyon, Gordon Minns, and Bob Mosich, it seems that they are all truck farmers and they were discussing the poor corn crop of last year. Speaking of farmers, I was informed that Donald Fridley and Jim Goodman have a dude ranch in Texas and Alan Van Deventer is a stock buyer living in a town just east of Jim and Don's ranch, the Bar DJ. I Barbara Gaylord and Bonnie Krager tell me that since they graduated ten years 380, they haven't once lost track of one another. Bonnie married a 'month after she graduated and now has three children. Barbara is a social worker in Chicago and is now trying to start a fund to purchase an oversized Air-Wick to deodorize those famous Chicago Stockyards. 28