Queensbury High School - Orbit Yearbook (Queensbury, NY)

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Qucensbury — J Growing In recent years, the residents of the Town of Queensbury have seen and felt a great change in their community. On January 1, 1961, our town became a first class town, having attained a population of over 10, 000. The great population increase is evidenced by such developments as Cottage Hill, Mea- dowview Lane, Ridge Meadows, Glen Acres, Hillcrest, and Westland. Many new businesses have been established; and two new shopping centers, which will each contain a large number of stores, are now under construction. In addition to businesses and homes, Quaker Road - an east-west bypass - and the Northway were simultaneously completed last year to aid travel in the area. The school system has always been of primary concern to the people of the community. In 1948, the residents voted to incorporate all the small school districts into one, authorizing the building of a large district school. With the town's tremendous growth in population, the residents again had to go to the polls in May, 1961, where they approved the bond issue to construct a new high school, which will greatly relieve the overcrowded conditions in our present school.

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ROBERT B. PATCH High School Principal WILLIAM H. BARTON Supervising Principal It has been the role of your school to provide opportunities for that growth which will best fit you for the years ahead. Your parents and the other voters of our school district have made continual sacrifices in a never ending attempt to provide the best education they could afford. Now, as you arrive at the end of your senior year and move on to whatever lies ahead, may you realize that you can never stop learning. Learning results in growth and growth results in change. May you continually seek to make those changes which result in greater good for your fellow man and for your country. ROBERT B. PATCH Working Zogether to Provide kerle (VICE-PRESIDENT), Mrs. Pauline R. Joslyn.

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Community The entire student body attended the ceremonies at which Governor Nelson Rockefeller formally opened the Northway. The Governor was intro- duced by Assemblyman Richard Bartlett. the class of 1962, feel that the people of our town have made possible all the benefits we have received from our education, and they have always in times of crisis made wise decisions where the edu- cation of their children is concerned. In apprecia- tion, we dedicate this 10th volume of the ORBIT to the residents of the Town of Queensbury. When the proposed new high school (above) is completed, our present school will serve junior high and elementary students.