Richburg Central School - Quill Yearbook (Richburg, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 52 of the 1940 volume:

THE QUILL jj A nineteeng iA tyxiSity PUBLISHED BY RICHBURG CENTRAL SCHOOL . RICHBURG NEW YORK Dedica t i o n To the teachers of Richburg Central School we dedicate this 19 0 edition of The Quill in appreciation of their whole- hearted cooperation and for their faithful guidance during our high school career. The Staff MARY C. CRONE. Adviser ROBERT MASON ALONZO BESSEY WALTON MASON DOROTHY BURCH JAMES MAXSON CLAYTON CHILDS NEIL REITZ MAY FORD MARGARET STRICKLAND JANE LANG DALE WEST In American life, education plays a commanding role. It is the cornerstone of the government, the servant of every home. It influences the decisions of the courts, the prac- tice of the professions and the progress of industry. It finds expression through the press, the pulpit and the public forum. It touches every facet of our complex life. What Can We Do For Our School W E have often heard the question, What can the school do for us? For a change, suppose that we reverse the order of this question and ask, What can we do for our school? The first thing that we can do is to accept and appreciate the opportunities which the school affords us, and we can make the most of these opportunities while it is our privilege to attend school. We must always remember that we are very fortunate, indeed, to have a school such as we do have, in a community no larger than Richburg. Secondly, we can cultivate an active and receptive mind, so that we can make the knowledge presented to us our own in such a way that we can contribute our share to the work of the class, and so that we can use this information as a basis for future achievements. Thirdly, and perhaps this is the most important, we can cooperate with our teachers and classmates. To do our best for our Alma Mater, we must be coopera- tive. When given an assignment we can do it cheerfully, and try to do each task better than we did the preceding one. When asked to do a favor, we can do it willingly. We can intelligently obey the rules which are necessary for the school to establish in order to operate efficiently. By obeying the few necessary rules, we will eliminate the necessity for forming any additional ones. If we cooperate with our teachers and our classmates, both will have pleasant memories to take with them ’rom the class-room. They will want to share these memories with outsiders, and thus will our school spirit be uplifted and commended. In our school sports, we can play the game fairly and squarely. We can refrain from getting even with any member of the other team who we feel has been unfair to us. We should overcome any secret ambition which we may possess to monopolize the limelight at the expense of the team and the school. Desire for personal honors should be subordinate to the desire for the advancement of the team and of the school. By accepting our responsibility as students, we shall learn to become good citizens in school. Strangers and members of our community with whom we come in contact will be favorably impressed by our school spirit. Therefore, when we need to call upon these outsiders for their support, they will consider it an honor and a privilege to have some part in our progress. By becoming good citizens in school, we will have done much toward laying the foundation for our success as future citizens of our country. Our school can then regard us with respect and it can, and will, be proud to say of us, See, I helped to make him what he is today; he was once a part of me. Lastly, we will have built up a tradition which the students who come after us will hesitate to undermine. Thus, can we be a present and a future asset to our school. Thus, have we answered the question, What can we do for our school? WALTON MASON, Editor-in-Chief MARGARET STRICKLAND, Assistant Editor Conten ts Administration Seniors Juniors Sophomores Freshmen Grades Organizations Athletics Equipment Seated (left to right): Bob Mason. Margaret Strickland (Assistant Editor). James Maxson. Walton Mason (Editor-in-Chief). Clayton Childs. Alonzo Bessey. Standing: Mae Eord. Jane Lang. Neil Reitz. Miss Mary C. Crone (Adviser), Dale West. Purple Quill Staff J HE STAFF wishes to thank the Board of Education, Principal Donald L. Abbey, Mr. Dee Good- rich, Mr. Donald Loomis, and the Art Department for their support which has made possible our pub- lishing this book. THE STAFF Administration Looking Ahead FOR a person to live only in the present shows faulty judgment. He, who has achieved success in maturity, has in his youth realized the wisdom of planning for the future. The future is only what one makes it. To make the most of life is to take a long look ahead. The man, who has driven his car to a desired destination safely, has adopted the policy of looking ahead. He has held to the road before him, accurately judging the curves and being constantly alert to danger. He has been required to think clearly and quickly and act with careful judgment in the discharge of his responsibility. No captain pilots his ship aimlessly into mid-ocean. He has estab- lished his goal and chartered his course before embarking. He not only hopes to reach the designated harbor, but to realize his hopes; he seeks to hold firmly to the chosen path, gravely considering affecting condi- tions, carefully avoiding shoals and obstacles, and constantly observing the ship's position in his viligant control of its course. To have a purpose in life and to make it true is the goal of success. Whether it be fame, fortune, family or friends, the realization of your hopes demands that you, as the master of your destiny and the captain of your fate, accept and adopt the policy of looking ahead. If you are wise, you will take charge of yourself, assume responsibility for making the most of your life, and determine to achieve the goal which you have set before you. Sincerity, courage, diligence, a sense of values, self discipline, and an accurate perspective become integral factors in your achievement of success. Determination to hold to your chartered course, in spite of discouragement, temptation, and difficulties, will ultimately bring you to a safe and successful anchorage. DONALD L. ABBEY, Principal Loft to right, seated: Annabelle Maxson. Treasurer. Freshman Representative- Barbara Bowen. Eighth Grade Representative: Phyllis Voorhees. Senior Representative: Lucile Wightman. Secretary. Sopho- more Representative: Mr. Abbey. Principal: Mrs. Rice. Faculty Advisor: Ethel Clark. President. Senior Representative: Laura Wightman, Freshman Representative. Standing: Clarence Allen. Seventh Grade Representative: Vern Allen. Sophomore Representative: Alonzo Bessey. Senior Representative: Leo Kingsbury. Senior Representative: Gerald Wightman, Vice President, Junior Representative: Donal Thomson. Junior Representative: Bill McElroy. Junior Representative. Student Council UNTIL the year 1938, there had been only talk of organizing a student council. It was an organ which would benefit the school in several ways. Thus when it was organized it set down as its aims: I. To unify student organizations. 2. To aid in the school administration. 3. To aid in carrying out law and order. 4. Promote healthful activities. 5. Give students realization of self government. 6. Promote best interests and ideals in school. These aims have, to quite an extent, been carried out. Of course, the organiza- tion is comparatively young, so in the future, the council will undoubtedly be more efficient, more essential, and more important in the school program. The council consists of eleven student members: three Seniors, two Juniors, one Sophomore and one Freshman, elected by the members of their respective classes, plus the president of each class. The seventh and eighth grades are each represented by one non-voting member. In addition, there is a faculty member, who is chosen by the voting members of the council, and the principal who automatically becomes a member. Thus, each group which goes to make up a school is represented: the execu- tive body, the faculty, and the students. Through this representation of all groups, better coordination of all activities is accomplished, and student government is made vitally effective. DONALD L. ABBEY B. S. Wheaton College Chicago University New York University Supervising Principal For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also roap. DONALD LOOMIS A. B. Albcny State Coilege Science Freshman Class Adviser To be successful, keep trying to be a better man than you are. BEATRICE COLLINS A. B. Alfred University Mathematics Sophomore Class Adviser Search for the true things in life. Keats said. Beauty is truth, truth beauty. MARJORIE TYMESON A. B. Albany State College McGill University Language Junior Class Advisor Continued effort leads to success. MARY C. CRONE A. B. Cornell University Buffalo State College English; Journalism Senior Class Advisor Learn to obey orders before at- tempting to give them. ELIZABETH M. COOK A. B. Elmira College Geneseo Normal History; Library Junior Class Adviso ' Life is not so short but that there is always time enough for courtesy. TINELLA D. RICE Plattsburg Normal Nazareth College Syracuse University Albany State College Commercial Senior Class Advisor Most of us guess too much. What we need is to face facts squarely. Do we do our best work at all times, or do we just lazily expect chance to take care of our lives? LUCILLE FENTON B. S. Buffalo State College Home Economics Freshman Class Advisor Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. FLORENCE PHILLIPPI i B. S. Buffalo State College Art Sophomore Class Advisor A thing of beauty is a joy forever. Its loveliness increases. It will never pass into nothingness.'' W. PHILIP AUSTIN Fredonia Normal Eastman School of Music Ithaca Conservatory of Music Music If one would ever become the mas- ter of any great art. he must first of all become its slave. IRA A. BROWN B. S. Ithaca College Cortland Normal Physical Education Coach If you can't participate in a sport be one anyway. VINCENT F. DAVIS B. S. Cornell University Agriculture Always be ready with a sunny smile and a helping hand. CARRIE HALL R. N. Syracuse St. Joseph Hospital Syracuse University Nurse Teacher In your search for fame and fortune. While you're looking out for wealth, Don't forget what Nature gave you. Make the best of your health.'1 ARLENE FUNK R. C. S. '38 Rochester Business Institute Office Assistant Give to the World the Best That You Have and the Best Will Come Back To You. HELEN C. CARR Geneseo Normal Grade I If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. MARY R. HORNSBY B. S. Buffalo State College Grade II There's nothing so kingly as kind- ness, and nothing so royal as truth. JUANITA CADY Wellsville Training Class Buffalo State College Geneseo Normal Fredonia Normal Houghton College Grade III Be honest. Remember you have to live with yourself all the time. VIVIAN C. HILLMAN Geneseo Normal Fredonia Normal Buffalo State College Grade IV The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts. MARIAN UPDIKE A. B. Houghton College Geneseo Normal Geneseo Library School Grade V A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver. MARGERY M. MASON B. S. Buffalo State Coliege Grade VI A pleasant smile is valued and it does not cost much. HERMAN KOHNKEN Canandaigua Training Class Geneseo Normal Buffalo State College Grade VII Don’t think that the world owes you a living: you owe the world the re- sponsibility of accepting oppor- tunities— the main opportunity being an education. BERDENA V. JOHNSTON Friendship Training Class Geneseo Normal Scranton Fredonia Normal Grade VIII Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting, get understanding. Take fast hold of instruction: let her not go: keep her; let her not go: for she is thy life. ALICE BAKER Friendship Training Class Grades I. 2, 3. 4, 5, 6 Wirt No. 10 It is much easier to be critical than correct. RUTH BRIGGS Friendship Training Class Grades I. 2. 3 Clarksville No. I Let us not be weary In well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we fcfaint not. LOUISE UPDIKE Alfred Training Class Houghton College Geneseo Normal Fredonia Norma! Grados 4, 5. 6 Clarksville No. I His is never alone who is accom- panied by noble thoughts. ANITA ANDERES Fredonia Normal Grades I. 2. 3, 4, 6 Clarksville No. 4 Never throw aside the opportunity to learn just a little more. C. MAXINE MILLIS B. S. Mansfield State College Music in Rural Schools M usic hath charms to soothe the savage beast, Tc soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak. PHYLLIS VOORHEES Major-Mathematics: Minor-Science; Senior President; Bolivar Central School. I; Noon Hour Basketball and Volley Ball Leagues 2. 3. 4; Library Club 2. 3. 4- Homemaking Club 2, 3: Glee Club 2. 3. 4: Social Club 4; Mixed Chorus 3, 4; Studenr Council Member 3, 4; Class Vice-President I. 2: Class President 3. 4- Giee Club President 3; Secretary and Treasurer. Social Club 4- Cumulative Letter 2. We see Phyllis, commanding as ever, performing wonders of modern surgery at the famous John Hopkins Hospital. LEO KINGSBURY Major-Mathematics; Minor-Science; Senior Vice-President; Cuba Central ' School I. 2. Have you ever heard of the Kings- bury Theory in Math? You will somo day. NORMA CARTWRIGHT Major-Commercial; Minor-Homemak- ing: Senior Secretary: Purple Quill Staff 3: Noon Hour Basketball and Volley Ball Leagues I. 2. 3. 4: Soc- cer: Girls' Softball 3: Girls Tumbling Team I. 2: Glee Club I. 2. 3: Dra- matic Club I. 2. 3: Social Club 4: Orchestra 1.2. 3: Junior Play; Senior Play: Freshman Secretary; Girls' Ten- nis Champion 3: Girls' Foul Shoot- ing Champion 2; Cheerleader 2. 3. 4. Already we can hear the echoes of Norma's nimble feet as she goes about her daily household tasks. CLAYTON CHILDS Major-Commercial; Minor-History; Senior Treasurer; Portville High School I, 2: Purple Quill Staff 4: Soccer 3. 4- Baseball 3. 4: Basketball 4; Rifle Club 3, 4 Photography Club 4- Social Club 4: Secretary-Treasurer Rifle Club 4; Junior Treasurer. We believe television will never be perfect without the benefit of Clayton’s scientific mind. ALONZO BESSEY Major-Science: M inor-Mathematic : Purple Quill Staff 4- Basketball 3. 4: Easeball I. 3. 4: Soccer I. 3. 4; Track 3: Noon Hour Basketball League I. 2. 3; Glee Club I. 2. 3. 4: Rifle Club 2. 3. 4: Photography Club 4; Social Club 4: Orchestra 2: Mixed Chorus 4: Student Council 4- Junior Play; Senior Play. May Alonzo soar as high in his profession of aviation as his imagi- nation soars in the classroom. MAUDE BOWKER Major-Commercial; Minor-History: Volley Ball 3. 4 Social Club 4; Senior Play. Maude's dependable nature will qualify her as the best private secre- tary her employer ever had. ELIZABETH BURDICK Major-Commercial; Minor-History. Elizabeth's sweet nature will never cease to be an inspiration to the executive to whom she will be an able private secretary. MARY CASS Major-Homemakina: Minor-History: Basketball I. 2. 3; Softball 2. 3. 4; Homemaking Club 2. 3: Archery Club 2: Library Club 3. 4: Dra- matic Club I. We are sure that Mary's shy poise in meeting any trying situation will be an asset to her as a house- wife. DELLA JEAN CLARK Major • Music: Minor - Homemaking; Noon Hour Basketball League I, 2. 3. 4; Girls' Tumbling Team 2- Glee Club 2. 3, 4 Photography Ciub 2. 3. 4- Mixed Chorus 2. 3 4: Girls Foul Shooting Champion 3: Cumulative Letter 2. 3. If there is ever a second Paul Whiteman, we hope that Della Jean plays in the violin section of his orchestra. ETHEL CLARK Major - Homemaking: Minor • Music; Portville High School I. 2: Softball 3. 4; Volley Ball 3, 4: Noon Hour Basketball League 3. 4: Homemaking Club 3: Glee Club 3, 4; Social Club 4 Mixed Chorus 3 4- Junior Play; President of Student Council 4. The curtains part, and the hero- ines' picture is flashed onto the screen. Notice the enchanting coif- feur. It is a la Ethel. EVELYN CLARK Major - Homemaking • Minor-Art, Portville High School I, 2: Noon Hour Basketball League 3. 4- Home- making Club 3: Library Club 3, 4: Social Club 4- Glee Club 3. 4; Mixed Chorus 3, 4: Vice President Homemaking Club 3. We distinctly hear. Now chil- dren . That is Evelyn addressing the pre-school children in her Day-by- Day Nursery School. MAE FORD Major-Commercial; Minor-Art; Pur- ple Quill Staff 4- Glee Club I, 4; Social Club 4. Mixed Chorus 4. The door to a Free Clinic for chil- dren will open some day and May will confront her patients in a doc- tor's white uniform. GEORGE GIDDINGS Major-Art; Minor-Mathematics; Glee Club I. 2. 3; Rifle Club 2. 3. 4; Mixed Chorus I. 2. 3: Orchestra I. 2. 3. 4 Student Council 3: Junior Play: Freshman President; Manager Soccer Team 3: Cumulative Letter 1. 3. In the year 4000. art collectors will include in their prized collec- tions, masterpieces by the immortal George. ELIZABETH HURD Major - Commercial; Minor-Home- making; Softball 3; Tumbling Team I; Noon Hour Basketball League I, 2. 3. 4 Archery Club 2. 3: Glee Club I, 2. 3. 4 Homemaking Club I. 2. 3: Dramatic Club I; Library Club I, 2. 3, 4 Mixed Chorus 4: Operetta I: Senior Play: Cumulative Letter I. 2. 3. We predict that Elizabeth wiil be a most efficient secretary to a most precise executive. MARIE JANDREW Major-Art; Minor-Homemaking: Shin- glehouse High School I: Noon Hour Basketball and Volley Ball League 3, 4- Tumbling Team 2. 4 Homemaking Club 3. 4; Library Club 4; Social Club 4- Junior Play: Senior Play; Cheerleader 3. 4. Not so far in the future we will doubtless find that Marie has done the illustrations for Macy's adver- tisements of the Spring and Winter fashions. CONNIE JANDREW Major - History; Minor Art; Noon Hour Basketball 2. 3; Social Club 4: Homemaking Club I. 2. 3: Glee Club I. 2. 3: Junior Play: Senior Play; Freshman Treasurer: Cheer- leader 3. 4. May Connie find fulfillment in her desire to became a modern house- wife and may she apply her knack for beautification on her children. WALTON MASON Major-History; Minor-Mathematics: Editor-in-chief Purple Quill 4: Bas- ketball 2, 3. 4: Baseball 2. 3: Track 2. 3. 4: Tennis 4; Tumbling Team 3: Tennis Champion 3: Softball 3. 4: Captain Noon Hour Volley Ball 3. 4- Coach Noon Hour Basketball 2. 3, 4: Glee Club I: Library Club I; Dra- matic Club I; Photography Club 2, 4; Rifle Club 3, 4; P. F. A. Secre- tary 4: Cumulative Letter 3. It is our opinion that many Future Farmers will be expertly trained by Walt. ROBERT RAMSELL Major-Mathematics: Baseball 2. 3. 4- Basketball 3, 4: Soccer 3. 4; Rifle Club 4- Glee Club 3. 4: Stage Man- ager Junior and Senior Plays. It is lamplighting time in the out- lying farm areas. Suddenly in each window gleams a brilliant light. Bob did the wiring. JAMES MAXSON Major-History: Minor-Science: Pur- ple Quill Staff 3. 4- Basketball, Soc- cer, Baseball 2. 3 4: Noon Hour Leagues I, 2: Coach 3. 4- Tumbling Team 3: Softball 3. 4: Rifle Club 3. 4; Photography Club 2. 3: Dramatic Club I: Social Club 4; Library Club I: F. F. A. 3. 4: Glee Club I; Senior Play: Sophomore President: F. F. A. Vice President 3: Social Club Vice President 4: Cornell Judging Team 3, 4- State Fair Judging Team 3, 4. We can hear the gym warning bell ring. We have but a few min- utes to talk with Coach Jim before basketball practice begins. NEIL REITZ Major-Mathematics: Minor-Commer- cial: Portville High School I. 2: Pur- ple Quill Staff 4; Soccer 3. 4: Base- ball 3: Manager Basketball 4: Rifle Club President 3, 4: Social Club 4: Senior Play. We are expecting Neil to outwit the scientists of the past and defi- nitely solve the problem of what electricity is. LANSON SKINNER Major-Art; Minor-History: Track 3: Noon Hour Volley Ball League 3: Rifle Club 2. 4 F. F. A. Club 3. 4 Glee Club I. 2. 3. 4: Social Club 4: Junior Play: Senior Play: Farm Shop Judge 3: Cornell Judging Team 3. 4- Angelica Fair Judge 3. We forecast that interior decorat- ors in the near future will be featur- ing furniture designed by Lanson. MARGARET STRICKLAND Major-History: Minor-French: Purple Quill Staff 3: Assistant Editor 4 Noon Hour Basketball League I, 2. 3. 4; Library Club I. 2, 3. 4- Social Club 4 Photography Club 4- Home- making Club I. 2: Archery Club 3: Glee Club I. 2. 3. 4: Dramatic Club I: Sophomore Secretary. When the New York Philharmonic Orchestra opens its winter season in N. Y. C. in 1950, we shall expect to hear Peg playing piano. EDWARD TOAL Major-Commerciai: Minor-History: Soccer 1.2: Basketball 1.2. 3: Noon Hour Basketball League 3: Dramatic Club I. 2: Freshman Vice President. We hope that Ed never strikes a dry hole when he drills his oil wells. GERALD WIGHTMAN Major-Mathematics; Minor-History; Junior President; Baseball 2. 3: Bas- ketball 3: Glee Club I. 2. 3: Mixed Chorus I. 2. 3; Orchestra 2. 3; Junior Play; Student Council I; Vice President 3; Cumulative Letter I, 2‘ Scout I. 2. ' How will I get this done if I can’t speak? LINFORD WILCOX Major - Music; Minor - Mathematics; Junior Vice President; Boxing Team I: Basketball League I. 2. 3; Glee Club I, 2, 3; Photography Club 3: Orchestra I, 2. 3; Mixed Chorus I. 2. 3: All State Orchestra 2, 3; Con- cert Master of Orchestra I, 2, 3; Manager 2, 3; Sectional Choir 2, 3; Violin Duet 3; Junior Play; Music Letter 2 .3: Scout I. 2. 3. What did you say? I didn't hear. VERNETA MOSES Major-Commercial; Mi nor-Language; Junior Secretary; Noon Hour Basket- ball League I. 2. 3; Library Club 2. 3; Archery Club I; Orchestra 3; Mixed Chorus I, 3; Junior Play: Freshman Secretary; Cumulative Let- ter I. I've checked it over a dozen times. CHRISTINE FLYNN Major-Latin; Minor-French; Nazareth Academy Rochester I, 2: Junior Treasurer; Glee Club 3: Photography Club 3: Social Club 3: Mixed Chorus 3: Junior Play. 'May I speak, please? Thank you. DONAL THOMSON Major-History: Minor-Mathematics: Basketball 2. 3: Soccer I. 2. 3: Track 2: Glee Club I. 2. 3: Social Club 3: Orchestra I. 2. 3; Mixed Chorus I. 2. 3; Orchestra Librarian 2: All State Choir 3: Freshman President: Presi- dent Orchestra 3: President Social Club 3: Student Council I. 3: Junior Play: Cumulative Letter I. 2: Music Letter 2: Eagle Scout 2. Say—! Why hurry? BILL McELROY Major-History. Minor-Art; Basket- ball I . Assistant Manager 3: Soccer Manager 3: Photography Club Presi- dent 3: Social Club 3: Rifle Club 3: Glee Club 2. 3: Orchestra I. 2. 3: Mixed Chorus 2. 3: Sophomore Presi- dent; Student Council 2. 3. What? MARY CADY Major - Mathematics: Minor - Latin; Noon Hour Basketball League 3; Library Club I. 2. President 3: Pho- tography Club I. 3: Glee Club I. 2. 3; Orchestra I. 2. 3; Mixed Chorus I. 2. 3: Sectional Choir I; Junior Play: Sophomore Treasurer: Cumula- tive Letter 1, 2. What! Whore! When! Which and Why? ANNA JANE CARPENTER Major-History; Minor-Latin; Noon Hour Basketball and Volley Ball Leagues I; Glee Club I. 2; Library Club I. 2: Photography Club 3; Latin Club 2: Homemaking Club 1.2. That's what you think! JAMES CARTWRIGHT Major-History: Minor-Commercial; Basketball I. 2. 3; Baseball I. 2, 3: Soccer I. 2. 3: Glee Club 2. 3: Rifle Club 2. 3: F. F. A. Club 2. 3; Social Club 3: Mixed Chorus 2. 3; Orches- tra 3: Junior Play 3. I've never heard of that before! JEAN DICK Major-Music: Minor-History: Basket- ball and Volley Ball Noon Hour League 2. 3: Library Club 2, 3; Photography Club I: Latin Club 2; Social Club 3: Glee Club I. 2. 3: Orchestra I. 2, 3: Mixed Chorus I, 2. 3; All State Chorus 3: Sectional Choir I; Orchestra Librarian 2: Cumulative Letter I, 2. I cen't stay for detention ‘cause I have to----. ROBERT DORRETT Major-Agriculture: Minor-Science Soccer 3: Rifle Club 2, 3. 4: F. F. A. 2. ’ Well. I should say so!” MAY HAMILTON Major-History; Minor-Language: Cuba High School I, 2: Library Club 3: Social Club 3. Yes. my lessons are done.” JAMES HARRIGER Major-Mathematics: Minor-Science: Social Club 3: Orchestra 3: Fresh- man Treasurer: Posture Tag 2: Per- fect Attendance Award I. ”1 still don't see why it can’t be this way. GLADYS HOSMER Major-Commercial: Minor-Home- making: Glee Club I, 2. 3: Library Club 2: Homemaking Club 2: Social Club 3: Mixed Chorus 2. 3. Mine won’t baiance.” WILLIAM JORDAN Major-Science: Minor Language: Noon Hour Basketball League I. 2: Glee Club I: Photography Club 1,3. ROBERT MASON Major-Science: Minor - Mathema- tics: Purple Quill Staff 3: Basketball 3 Assistant Manager I. Manager 2: Track 3: Noon Hour Basketball League I. 2. 3: Photography Club I. 3: Social Club 3: F. F. A. Club 2 President 3: Junior Play: Cornell Judging Team 2: Moving-Up-Day Captain 2: Perfect Attendance Award I. 2: Cumulative Letter 1.2. You re right! I’m wrong. JANE MIX Major-Commercial: Minor-History: Basketball Noon Hour League 2. 3: Library Club 2. 3: Archery Club I: Glee Club I. 2: Orchestra Librarian 3: Mixed Chorus I. 2: Freshman Vice President: Sophomore Vice President: Library Club Vice President 3. Well, why wouldn't it be? JUNE TYLER Major-Commercial: Minor-History: Giee Club I. 2. 3: Library Club I. 2: Mixed Chorus I. 2. 3: Orchestra I 2. 3: Junior Play: Cantata I. 3. Oh. my goodness! JACK WOMER Major Art: Minor - Agriculture: Basketball I. 2, 3: Baseball I. 2. 3, Soccer I. 2. 3: Track I. 2: Noon Hour Leagues I, Coach 2. 3: Soft- ball I. 2: Rifle Club I. 2. 3: Social Club 3: F. F. A. 2. 3: Sophomore Vice President: Cornell Judging Team 3: State Fair Judge 3: Ping Pong Champion 2, 3: Badminton Champ 2: County Ping Pong Cham- pion 3: Marble Champion I. Well, why didn’t you say so? ALAN YATES Major - History: Minor - Science: Baseball I. 2. 3: Soccer 2. 3: Track 2: Tumbling Team 2 Rifle Ciub 2. 3: Photography Club 3: F. F. A. 3 F. F. A. Secretary 2. Shucks! I’m not the Wizard of Oz. Well, you see, it's this way-----------.' Standing, left to right: Miss Collins, Miss Phillippi (Class Advisors). First row at left: Mildred Burdick. Betty Hardman. Erna White. Harold Stohr. Richard Smith. Second row: Ethel Burch. Betty Jendrew. Leska Wightman. Dale West. Charles Kinsey. Oliver Hurd. Robert Womer. Third row: Morris Lyman. Betty Skinner. Leta Reitz. Howard Bessey, Jean Corbin. Douglas Graves. Robert Fitz- gerald. Fourth row: Vern Allen. Kathryn Cannon. Sarah Corbin. Dean Corbin. Lucile Wightman Eva Rae Cleveland. Warren Shannon. Fifth row: Betty Allen. Rhea Bradford. Leo James. Anderson Biddle. Missing from picture: Lester Harriger, Merle Brenneman. Sophomore Class CLASS OFFICERS VERN ALLEN - JEAN CORBIN - BETTY JANDREW - LESKA WHITEMAN - LUCILE WIGHTMAN - MISS FLORENCE President .........................................Vice-President Secretary - Treasurer Student Council Representative PHILLIPPI MISS BEATRICE COLLINS Class Advisers Standing, left to right: Miss Fenton. Mr. Loomis (Class Advisors). First row. at left: Jerry Gid- dings. Lloyd Monahan. Betty Jane Young. Annabelle Maxson. Marian Jandrew. Second row: Garth Woodkirk. Neal Clark. Alan Ayars. Theo Saunders. Marie Tyler. Lorraine Jones. Third row: Du Wayne Allen. Phyllis Clark. Aileen Hamilton. Jean Strickland. Charles Cornelius. Marie Carpenter. Tourth row: Francis Riganey. Clara Carpenter. Mark Wightman. Earl Bowker. Laura W.ghtmon. Clara Hamilton. Aletha Moses. Fifth row: Dorothy Hamilton. Lyle Jandrew. June Dutton. Frances Slocum, Doris Ramsell. Missing from picture: Myrtie Mae Slocum. Freshmen Class CLASS OFFICERS ANNABELLE MAXSON - ALAN AYARS MARIAN JANDREW BETTY JANE YOUNG MISS LUCILLE FENTON President - Vice-President Secretary - Treasurer MR. DONALD LOOMIS Class Advisers Requirements for Graduation GROUP I Constants required of all pupils: ‘English four years .... ‘American history .... Science, ninth year .... Social studies, ninth year ... Units 4 I I GROUP II Sequences in two different fields selected by the pupil: ‘Major sequence.....................................................3 ‘Minor sequence.....................................................2 GROUP III Electives........................................................ 4 16 All subjects in group I, except English and Ninth Year Social Studies, may be counted toward major or minor sequences in group II, provided a total of 16 units is earned. Pupils may select major or minor sequences from the following fields: Mathe- matics, Science, Social Studies, Foreign Languages, Art, Music, Agriculture, Home Economics, Commercial. ‘The passing of Regents examinations is required in all starred subjects in which Regents examinations are given. All other subjects may be certified by the principal provided courses have been approved by the Department. DIPLOMA REQUIREMENTS SUMMARIZED I. ACADEMIC DIPLOMA: English 4 years, Physical Education 4 years, Social Studies, General Science, History C, 3-unit major, 2-unit minor, enough electives to make 16 units. II. COLLEGE ENTRANCE: English 4 years, Physical Education 4 years, Social Stud ies, General Science, History C; 3-unit major of Latin 3 years or French 3 years or Science 3 years: 2l 2 unit minor of Algebra, Intermediate Algebra, Geometry: enough electives to complete 16 units. An average rating of at least 75 per cent, with a minimum passing mark of 65 per cent for any paper must be obtained in all subjects. These examinations may be taken at any time during the last three years of the high school course. III. MUSIC: English 4 years, Physical Education 4 years, Social Studies, Gen- eral Science, History C, 3-unit major in Music (Rudiments of Music I, Harmony I, Harmony II), other music courses 2 units (' 4 Unit a year in each chorus, orchestra, and glee club practice is allowed). IV. AGRICULTURE: English 4 years, Physical Education 4 years, Social Studies, General Science, History C, 6 units of Vocational Agriculture, Agriculture I, 2 units of elective Home Projects. (16 units). V. BOOKKEEPING: English 4 years, Physical Education 4 years, Social Stu- dies, General Science, History C, Introduction to Business, Typewriting, Bookkeeping 2 years, Business Arithmetic, Business Law, Economics, 3 electives. (16 units). VI. ART: English 4 years, Physical Education 4 years, Social Studies, General Science, History C; 3 unit major of Representation l-ll, Design l-ll, Mechanical I, Advanced Art ! 2 unit, 2 units in other art courses, 2 unit minor, 2 unit elective. (16 units). Standing, left to right: Patricia Lyman. Barbara Bowen. Margaret Hardman. Bert Womer. Seated, fit desk: Mrs. Johnston (Teacher). First table, at left, left to right: Joe Saunders, Elizabeth Ames- tcry, Marcella Seager, Margaret Hardman, Virginia Champlin, Cecile Kline. Delores Peterson. Nor- man Brenneman. Back table, at left: Pat Childs. Lloyd Higby, Glenn Harris. Doris Drake, Freda Frost. Betty Dutton. Howard Moses, Seldon Jordan. Center table: Nancy Jandrew. Jean Marie Stafford, Helen Shannon. Stella Hale. Howard Dorrett, William Marsh. Eilene Wilcox. Lois Ewans. Helen Lamb. Table at right: Wanda Hurd. Robert Wilcox, Berdena Kinsey. Jacqueline Goodrich. Wayne Tyler. Mary Fisk, Richard Burdick. Eighth Grade “THIS picture portrays an eighth grade mathematics class. The curriculum of the eighth grade provides for intense training in preparation for high school courses. Rules set by the state and prescribed by the syllabus are exemplifying a definite improvement in this process of preparation. Mathematics is the embodiment of arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, reduced to the simplicity of the practical problems of daily life within the comprehension of the average eighth orader. Homemaking, science, and art, as presented are guides for determining the answer to the great question, What course shall I take in high school? Character guidance is aiding each pupil to understand the importance of build- ing for citizenship, which after all is each individual's rating as a person; and taken collectively, sets the standard of the whole. What better passport for high school could an eighth grader possess? First row (left to right): James White. Mary Lou Jennings. Donna Stohr. Max Hurd. Clyde Stead. Second row: Leona Kelly, Eleanor Wightman. Richard Funk. MarJean Raney. Kathleen James. Phyllis Austin and Junior Bailey. Third row: Lulu Wightman, Betty Ramsell. Billy Gibbon, Clara Jane Wells, Pauline Fisk. Ethel Borden, Charles Borden. Fourth row: Margaret Allen. Bernice Thurston, Clarence Allen. Robert Hale. Alan Harriger. and Wilma Jones. Fifth row: Robert Stuck. Harriet Young. Betty Stewart. Willett Burdick. Calvin Pangburn. Mr. Kohnken (teacher). Seventh Grade j”HE students in this picture are intent upon an arithmetic lesson. The new syllabus for elementary mathematics stresses the importance of thinking out every day problems. These problems are problems which the students are likely to encounter later in life. Examples concerning the measurement of the school room, reading meters, constructing miniature buildings to scale, bring out realistic problems to be thought about. Everyday problems in insurance, installment buying, and social security require new uses of elementary mathematics. Some activities in arithmetic which were like life situations were: measuring the circumference of the smoke stack to find the diameter, measuring the room, reading electric meters, reading gas meters and measuring sidewalks to find cubic feet of cement. The primary aim concerns problems which will be as natural and life-like as possible so that when the student goes to school no longer he will be able to apply these rules himself. Making students live in school from a practical standpoint is better than academic achievement. First row: Marcella Seager, Charles Keech. Clair Burdick, Jock Clark. Howard Burrows, Florence Burlingame, Roy Sharp and Don Elkinton. Second row: Leola Harriger. Bernard Bessey, Jock Dixon. Lois Allen. Frances Gibbon, Helen Wightman and Lois Harriger. Third row: Jean Wightman. Marilyn Womer, James Coyle, Ann Strickland. Carol Jean Kinsey. Dick Allen. Robert Lewis, Glenita foster. Fourth row: Lida Frost. Breadon Skinner. Maxine Milliman, Milton Pangburn, Audrey Peter- sen. John Kinsey and LaRue Champlin. Fifth row: Tom Allen. Robert Baldwin. Arrilla Pangburn. Richard Cline, and Ernest Jones. Miss Mason (teacher). Sixth Grade THIS class in English grammar has taken up, or will take up, the study of the parts of speech, sentence analysis, letter writing, story telling, punctuation, poetry study and correct word usage. The lives and works of Rudyard Kipling and Sir Walter Scott provide abundant material for the Literature course. The subject matter in science, a subject not always mentioned in connection with elementary grades is quite general, including such topics as electricity, the seasons, weather, the solar system, and many other topics. The new arithmetic syllabus has simplified the arithmetical processes. Arithmetic still involves the study and appli- cation of fractions to practical situations, the use of decimals, and the solving of complicated word problems. Our class has been organized into a club, entirely managed by the students. The purpose of such an organization was to solve class problems, to better any unde- sirable conditions and in general, to develop a wholesome, cooperative classroom atmosphere in which each child could do his best work. Officers were elected every ten weeks. In connection with the club, at various intervals of the year Good Citizens were elected. They were selected as exemplifying honesty, courtesy, cleanliness, cooperation, good sportsmanship and all other characteristics that typify a good future U. S. citizen. Those who have been elected as Good Citizens this year are: Helen Wightman, John Kinsey, Maxine Milliman, Frances Gibbon, Marilyn Womer, Tommy Allen, Ernest Jones. Tirst row: Harold Bowker. LyIlian Moses. Richard Jones. Loretta Green. Second row: Virginia Hale Jack McCrea. Norman Austin. Jean Wilcox. Doris Cowles. Robert Hardman. Third row: Arlene Monahan. Dorothy Lewis. Carl Kuhn. Harry Paul Hardman, Lewis Feeley. Fourth row: Philos Burdick. Bernice Burrows. Gloria Maxson, Robert Dixon. Walter Peterson. Standing: Helen Cole. Donald Kuhn. Elmer Shannon. Beverly Harriger. Arlouine Dorrett. Richard Hosmer, Wilford Burdick. Miss Marian Updike (teacher). Floyd Jones, (holding chart). Absent: Richard Weidman. Fifth Grade I N this picture the students are studying a bird unit in science. The fifth grade science course sharpens one’s attention to the world of interesting things around him. There are six courses of study which includes: 1. Different ways in which plants get their food. 2. Causes of the change of seasons. 3. Substance changes. 4. The earth as a member of the solar system. 5. Changes in living things. 6. Conservation of natural resources. There have been two tadpoles, two turtles and two goldfish to observe daiiy. Occasional visits of pet rabbits help in the study of the care of pets. An interesting spring unit is bird lore. Here one studies about birds from pictures and charts, learns to know some by sight, builds bird houses and gains appreciation of nature. One of our extra-curricular activities during the year is the rivalry of the fifth and sixth grades for a health banner. The highest scorer keeps the banner. The grade which keeps it the greatest number of weeks receives a prize. The rules to observe and the points received are: head cleanliness 2, hair combed 2. clean arms 2, dean nails 5. clean ears 2, clean face 2. clean neck 2, handkerchief 5, shower 5. change underwear 5. The total for each day is 29. except Friday's score, which is 39. First row: Harold Abbey (facing class). Ray Keech. Beverly Lawrence. Edwin Widger. Ronald Kenyon james Dick. Celia Hurd. Helen Elkinton. Second row: Phyllis Cowles. Leona Kuhn. Louis Dobner. Donna Kuhn. Clyde Clemons. Frances Green. Richard Borden. Third row: Dick Faulkner. Sarah Elkin- ton. Shirley Seager. Gertrude Jordan. Richard Jennings. Milton Rogers. Fourth row: Minnie Allen Betty Lou Harriger, Maurice McCroa. Absent: Bernice Hale. Phyllis White. Vincent Middaugh Mrs. Hillman (teacher). Fourth Grade THIS picturo shows a fourth grade class meeting being conducted by the president. Harold Abbey. The other class officers are: secretary, Bernice Hale; treasurer, Dick Faulkner and vice-president, Minnie Allen. The fourth grade class holds a meeting every two weeks on Thursday afternoon during the last period. At this time suggestions for improvement of the grade are made, formal discussions take place and necessary rules are formed. This participation in these meetings is of value educationally. It stimulates critical thinking, teaches the pupils the procedure for carrying on a formal business meeting, and gives them an opportunity to express their ideas of good class room management. New class officers are elected each quarter. Preceding officers this year for the first quarter were president, Milton Rogers: secretary, Leona Kuhn: treasurer, Maurice McCrea. and vice-president. Dick Faulkner. Those for the second quarter were: president. Beverly Lawrence: secretary. Phyllis Cowles; treasurer. Edwin Widger and vice-president, Donna Kuhn. First row: Carol Cole. Leo Kenyon. Barbara Womer, Elaine Corbin, Elizabeth Corbin, Oliver Ames- bury. Second row: Harriet Sharp. Ward Keech, Carl Monahan. Kermit Billsborough, Jean Dutton, Betty Kuhn. Third row: Marjorie Ramsell, Llewellyn Monroe. Joan Webster. Mary Ann Dixson. George Steiner. Fourth row: Robert Sortore, Anne Jandrew, Julia Cook. Earl Jandrew. At the table: Lester Stuck, Betty Sutherland. Evelyn Hedden, Frances Burlingame. Elvin Cline. William Hosmer. Mrs. Cady (teacher). Absent: Geraldine Burch. Marjorie Middaugh. Sherman Foster, Naomi Pangburn. Third Grade THE students in this picture show how diligently they study geography in the third grade. They begin the study of geography in this grade. On the walls are paper dolls dressed in cotton wool, linen, silk, and rubber. They have cotton growing in the room. They have made booklets illustrating land and water forms. These booklets have pictures and definitions of the different forms of land and water. They also made a picture of the shadow of one child, drawn at noontime. The shadow is taken four times a year: September, March, December and June. This is to show the change in the position of the sun, at different times of the year. The third grade have a health contest with the fourth grade. To win a health banner at the end of the week is the coveted goal. Twenty-nine points is a perfect score each day. This is a list of the points and how they are won: Head cleanliness 2. hair combed 2, brush teeth 5, clean hands 2. clean arms 2. clean nails 5, clean ears 2, clean face 2, clean neck 2, clean handkerchief 5, Friday showers 5, clean underwear 5. We have won the banner fifteen times this school year. i- First row: Mary Lou McCrea. Saunders Kenyon. Gordon Mason. Doris Clark, Howard Green. Dona d Shannon. Second row: Edwin Gibbon. George Cowles. James Cornelius. Dorothy Jordan. Edward Wallace, Laura Earl. Third row: Wayne Milliman, Donald Otis, Nedra Burrows. Wesley McCrea. Jerry Faulkner. Fourth row: Irving Burdick, Alfred Jones. Gerald Monahan. Janet Billsborough. Keith Steiner. In the extra seat is Earl Harriger. Miss Mary Hornsby (teacher). Absent from picture: Edith Greene and Virginia Cooley. Second Grade HERE the second grade boys and girls are writing their spelling lesson in a class that combines spelling and writing. Although reading is still important, second graders begin to make use of the A B C’s, as spelling is introduced in this year of school work. They begin by studying the alphabet until they are sure that they can recognize the letters; then they learn to spell simple words. Towards the end of the year, they can spell quite difficult ones. Their writing improves, too, in this year at school, because they are more accus- tomed to holding a pencil and to following lines. This year they tried an experiment. When their pencil writing became very good, Mr. Loomis made ink one day in their science class. Then they used it for some of their lessons, but they found that it was more difficult than writing with pencil. The second graders are in a health competition with the first graders. Their rules and the points which they get are the same as the rules which the third and fourth grades have. First table (left to right): LeRoy Green, Lois Cowles. Ronald Green. Second table: Donald Foster, Jack Dutton. Patty Billsborough, Betty Stead. Winston Monahan. At Post Office: Lawrence Cook. Merrit Burdick. Circle: Gertrude Peterson. Herman Foster. Kenneth Skinner. Arthur Sharp. Norma Hardman. Shirley Hardman. Douglas Benjamin. Mrs. Carr (teacher). First Grade THESE first graders are very interested in getting the story which they are reading ■ just right. Neither do they want to miss any of it. The curriculum includes, as major subjects, reading, writing and arithmetic. Reading is the most important. Children are not ready to read on the first day of school. It takes from two weeks to perhaps four months to build up an interest in, and an understanding of. reading, before they can begin their first book. Through the year they expect to complete about three pre-primers, two primers, and two first readers. The child is expected to learn approximately six hundred new words. Arithmetic has been simplified in the new syllabus so that now we are only ex- pected to learn to count and write numbers to one hundred by I s, 5's, and IO's; learn the simple combinations whose sum is ten or less, and to understand a few simple mathematical terms. Activities correlated with social studies included a model Post Office named The Cotton Tail Hollow Post Office. and a model farm in the sand box. Correlat- ing art and science, the children put paper leaves and clay birds on a real branch to add to the landscaping around their play house which has been part of the first grade equipment for several years. Grade 5 (entreme left group) left to right (seated): Mary Lou Sisson, Elton Thurston. Robert Dennis, Ellodene Den- nis Betty Lou Lamb, Dennis Allen. Stand- ing Charles Woodkirk, Patricia Ann Lewis Audrey Murray. Grade 4 (center group) seeted: Frank A an. Standing: Guy Ham- • r.art Herring Mack Ray Wells. G■ -ide 6 (eitrema right) standing: Bruce B, «n Burton Allen Miss Louise Updyko (teacher). Manley Dennis, Denzil Per i.m Jr.. Arthur Higby. Sitting: Delores Carlson. Dora Crooks. Clarksville No. 1 GRADES 4-5-6 (UPPER ROOM) A GAME is being made of the fundamentals needed in arithmetic in the third grade. This particular lesson shown in the picture is a pupil conducted drill in multiplication. The farm on the sand-table is the center of home activity studied throughout the year in the first grade. This unit correlates with our English and art. A free reading period is being enjoyed by the second grade. GRADES 1-3 (LOWER ROOM) HOBBIES are being discussed in a socialized English class including the three grades of the room. During our school year we have centered our attention upon hob- bies. A feeling of self-assertion has been developed by each child explaining his hobby. Interest in others has increased, as we have invited guests to display their hobbies. Newspaper articles are being searched to find what type of hobbies other people enjoy. In our work we have broadened our experiences and created new interests that go to make up those ideals and objectives desired in modern education. Third grade at the blackboard: Jessie Kingsbury. Betty Lou Dennis, Gretta Carlson. Junior Carlson. Carlyle Short, Miss Ruth Briggs (teacher). Fir:t grade at the sand-table: Malcolm Woodkirk. Junior Hopkins. Billy Higby. Cs:il Cheney. Clifford Waters. Second grade at their seats: Eleanor Baxter, June Allen. Charles Crooks. Hazel Sisson. Teddy Butts. Barton Bowen. Anna Mae Burch. Clarksville No. 3 K 1 ISS CLARK, who is substitut- ing for Mrs. Tower in Clarks- ville number 3, teaches grades one. two, three, four, five and six. Front row: Bernard Childs. Allan Karl. Miss Clark, Margretta Fisk, and James Foster. Back row: Jean Hamilton. Lewis Frost. Donald Fos- ter, Lois Frost, and Josephine Fisk. Clarksville No. 4 K S ISS ANDERES of Clarksville ' number 4, teaches grades one, two, three, four and six. Front: Douglas Wightman. Alice Emke, Mary Ann Emko. Betty La Fever. Back: Miss Andores. Joyce Emke. Faith Sisson, and Ronald Wightman. Wirt No. 11 K 4 RS. BAKER, who teaches in ' Wirt number II, teaches grades one, two, three, four, five and six. Florence Stuck. Kenneth Stuck. Mrs. Baker. Virginia Fitzgerald, and Don- ald Stuck. In very front: Jimmy Paddison. Organization Orchestra FIRST VIOLINS Linford Wilcox, Concert Master Lucile Wightman Dorothy Burch June Tyler Mary Cady (not in picture) Mark Wightman Della Jean Clark Lorraine Jones SECOND VIOLINS Norman Austin Jean Dick Jerry Giddings Jean Wightman Leta Reitz Eleanor Wightman Margaret Allen Phyllis Clark Wanda Hurd Lois Evans Clarence Allen Helen Wightman FLUTE Jean Corbin Dean Corbin VIOLA Sarah Corbin Florence Burlingame Lulu Wightman Donna Stohr CELLO Margaret Burch Laura Wightman Margaret Mix Aletha Moses STRING BASS Betty Jandrew Verneta Moses Gerald Wightman OBOE Phyllis Austin CLARINET Eva Rae Cleveland Eilene Wilcox (not in picture) Kathleen James Frances Gibbons BASSOON James Harriger TRUMPET Don Thomson Bill McElroy Leo James TROMBONE James Cartwright HORNS Billy Gibbon Richard Jones TUBA George Giddings PERCUSSION Harold Stohr, Snare Drum Howard Bessey, Bass Drum Betty Allen, Cymbols Betty Skinner, Tympanni Glee Clubs FRONT ROW: Clara Hamilton Lucile Wightman Ethel Burch Marian Jandrew Elizabeth Hurd Betty Jane Young Dorothy Hamilton Theo Saunders Lorraine Jones Marie Tyler Betty Skinner Kathryn Cannon Eva Rae Cleveland Norma Cartwright Evelyn Clark Mary Cass SECOND ROW: Mr. Austin (Instructor) Della Jean Clark Betty Allen Phyllis Voorhees Ethel Clark Betty Jandrew Leta Reitz Jane Mix Aletha Moses Gladys Hosmer Jean Corbin Jean Dick Laura Wightman Christine Flynn June Tyler Verneta Moses BACK ROW: Douglas Graves Alan Ayars Francis Riganey Bill McElroy Jerry Giddings Donal Thomson Gerald Wightman Alonzo Bessey Lester Harriger Linford Wilcox Lanson Skinner Leo James Mark Wightman Garth Woodkirk Front row (left to right): Neil Reitz. Clayton Childs. Second row: Walton Mason Alonzo Bessey, Alan Yates. Jim Maxson. Jack Womer, Bill McElroy. Thira row: George Giddings. Lenson Skinner. Robert Dorrett. Oliver Hurd. Jim Cart- wright. Warren Shannon. Fourth row: Miss Collins. Mr. Abbey. Missing from picture: Robert Ramsell. Rifle Club THE RIFLE CLUB of 1939-40 is ■ much improved over that of last year. Four teams have been choosen for competitive shooting. At the end of the year it is our annual custom to have a supper sponsored by the losing team. This year, arrangements for off- hand shooting have been provided for and have proved much of a success. Mr. Abbey and Mr. Austin are the advisors this year and they have placed much emphasis upon safety. Photography Club UR main goal is to give to those who wish it. the opportunity of learning how to take good snapshots, develop the film, and make the prints. Robert Dorrett. Alan Yates. Merle Bren- neman. Garth Woodkirk. Alan Ayars. Alonzo Bessey. Dean Corbin. Howard Bessey. Clayton Childs. Marie Carpenter. Betty Jandrew. Leta Reitz. Marie Tyler. Jean Strickland. Lorraine Jones. Neal Clark. Marian Jandrew. Lucile Wightman, Linford Wilcox. Lester Harriger. Jean Corbin. Mr. Loomis (adviser), Francis Riganey. Margaret Strickland, Robert Mason. Earl Bowker. Jane Carpenter. Christine Flynn Walton Mason, Bill Mc- Elroy. Annabelle Maxson. Della Jean Clark. Mark Wightman. Ralph Skinner. Front table (at left) (left to right): Jean Corbin. Jane Mix. Betty Allen. May Hamilton. Back table (at left): Jane Carpenter. Marie Jandrew. Lucile Wight- man, Mary Cass. Table at right: Ethel Burch, Jane Lang. Elizabeth Hurd. Leta Reitz, Sarah Corbin. Standing: Margaret Strickland. Verneta Moses. Connie Jandrew. Evelyn Clark. Norma Cartwright. Phyllis Voorhees. Eva Rae Cleveland, Mrs. Cook (Librarian). Library Club T HE principle purpose of library ’ club is to teach the girls some of the fundamentals of library practice such as checking books in and out, book mending, making bulletin boards, cataloging, and book processing. The girls be- come student librarians and assist in the library when the librarian is absent. A thletics front row (left to right): Jemes Cartwright. Clayton Childs. Donal Thomson. Jaclc Womer, Alonzo Bessey. Walton Mason. James Maxson. Back row: Neil Reitz (Manager), Oliver Hurd. Bill McElroy (Assistant Managers), Ira Brown (Coach). Missing from picture: Anderson Biddle. Robert Ramsell. Basketball K i EMBERS of the Second Team are: Bob Mason, Morris Lyman, Harold Stohr, ' Warren Shannon, Merle Brenneman, Francis Riganey, Lester Harriger, Gerald Wightman, Jerry Giddings, Lloyd Monahan, Howard Bessey, Richard Smith. Won 5—Lost 3 Games. LEAGUE GAMES R. C. S. Date Team Place Op 43 January 1 1 Allentown T 19 40 January 18 Whitesville H 8 26 January 25 Alfred T 21 27 January 30 Andover H 37 43 February 9 Allentown H 15 27 February 22 Alfred H 32 19 February 27 Andover T 37 22 February 29 Whitesville T 15 NON-LEAGUE GAMES 32 November 29 Portville H 33 22 December 9 Cuba T 28 16 December 16 Cuba H 19 21 January 9 Bolivar H 18 14 February 24 Bolivar T 31 First row (left to right): Richard Smith, Wanda Hurd. Della Jean Clark. Alonzo Bessey. Lloyd Monahan. Jean Corbin, Laura Wightman. William Marsh. Dean Corbin. Second row: Robert Fitzgerald. Virginia Champlin. Leo James. Annabelle Maxson. Bob Mason. Jean Dick. Francis Riganey. Leta Reitz. Third row: Douglas Graves. Seldon Jordan. Phyllis Clark. Erna White. Robert Womer. James Maxson. Walton Mason, Marian Jandrew. Jean Strickland. Betty Jandrew. Fourth row: Howard Moses. Norman Brenneman. Patricia Lyman. Maude Bowker. Rhea Bradford. Connie Jandrew. Lanson Skinner. Neil Reitz, Doris Ramsell, Ira Brown (Coach). Fifth row: Richard Burdick. Robert Wilcox. Howard Bessey. Harold Stohr, Vern Allen. Berdena Kinsey. Betty Skinner. Eva Rae Cleveland. Nancy Jandrew. Sixth row: Howard Dorrett. Garth Woodkirk. Oliver Hurd. Phyllis Voorhees. James Cartwright. Marie Jandrew. Evelyn Clark, Jean Marie Stafford. Ethel Burch, Clayton Childs. Seventh row: Ethel Clark. Jack Womer. Glenn Harris. Merle Brenneman. Betty A len. Morris Lyman, Lloyd Higby. Kathryn Cannon. Eighth row: Sarah Corbin. Norma Cartwright. Bill McElroy. Alan Yates. Wayne Tyler. Barbara Bowen, Dale West. Bert Womer. Noon Hour Volley Ball T HE largest group ever assembled for an intramural sport turned out to play volley ' ball this season. About eighty boys and girls, divided into eight teams, partici- pated. The teams were selected according to their strength index, making the teams quite evenly matched. Front row (left to right): Clayton Childs. First Base: Alonzo Bessey. Field: Gerald Wightman, Right Field: James Cartwright. Short Stop: Alan Yates. Catcher: Neil Reitz. Left Field. Back row: Oliver Hurd. Manager: Merle Brenneman. Third Base: Jack Womer, Second Base- Harold Stohr: Werren Shannon. Catcher: Jim Maxson, Center Field: Ira Brown. Coach. Absent: Robert Ramsell. Field: Chris Biddle. Pitcher: Anderson Biddle. Field. Baseball R. H.S. TEAM PLACE OPP. 15 Allentown H 4 9 Scio T 10 7 Wellsville T 7 0 Wellsville T 4 13 Scio H 15 16 Allentown T 5 Soccer THE soccer season was very short. Only three games were played ' by our school. R. C. S. TEAM OPPONENT 7 Scio ............................................ 0 0 Belfast ......................................... 0 0 Friendship I First row (left to right): Alan Yates. Alonzo Bessey. Jack Womer. James Maxson. Harold Stohr. Second row: James Cartwright. Warren Shannon. Donal Thomson. Clayton Childs. Merle Brenneman. Walton Mason. Neil Reitz. Third row: Vern Allen. Morris Lyman. Douglas Graves. Bill McElroy (Manager) Ira Brown (Coach). Oliver Hurd. Lin- ford Wilcox. Howard Bessey. Missing from picture: Anderson Biddle. Robert Ramsell. Equipment Standing (left to right): Linford Wilcox. Cecile Kline, Richard Burdick, Neal Clark. Helen Shannon, Helen Lamb, Robert Wilcox. Beatrice Baldwin. Wilma Jones, Stella Hale. Ei ene Wilcox. Clarence Allen, Patricia Lyman. Phyllis Austin. Dorothy Hamilton. Seated, first row: Kathleen James. Socond row: Pauline Fisk. The kitchen staff (standing behind counter): Ralph Skinner. Betty Allen. Mrs. Cornwall. Kathryn Cannon. Cafeteria OUR cafeteria operates on the cash and barter system. We founded this system to give all students a fair chance. Those who are unable to pay cash, do have vegetables, fruits, eggs, potatoes, and milk to exchange for our school money. This may be used only at the cashier's desk for food and is a very adequate moans ot handling this phase of our transactions. Approximately one-fourth of our returns result in the barter system. The attendance for the entire year has kept very even, ranging from 90 to 128 each day. The addition of the chocolate milk to our daily lunch has been not a little incentive. It may be of interest to you to know that our entire attendance from September 7, 1939, to March 12, 1940, was 10,562. The arrangement of the cafeteria for service has been improved this year, and we do appreciate the use of the dining room. It is much pleasanter for all concerned. We think that we can say very sincerely that the hot lunch for grade children has had a great deal to do with getting children to eat vegetables which they thought they didnt like. Your children nay not eat the vegetables he should at home, but at the cafeteria they eat them all. This is due, many times, to the fact that their play- mates call them good and, rather than be different, they too. eat them and like them. We encourage all children to drink milk. Those little bottles with the drinking straws help us greatly. We use as much milk in the daily preparation of food as we can. All cocoa, and many desserts are whole milk products. So you see we feed for health, our most essential asset. Standing (left to right): Morris Lyman. Howard Bessey. Dean Corbin. Robert Worrier. Miss Lucille Fenton (teacher). Seated: Ethel Burch, Norma Cartwright, Connie Jandrew, Mary Cass. June Tyler, Elizabeth Hurd. Home Economics IN the picture the boys are shown making the filling for a butterscotch pie. Ethel Burch is making cotton crepe pajamas: June Tyler, a rayon flat crepe dress; Norma Carlwright, a beige tweed spring coat; Mary Cass, a soft wool plaid jacket; Connie Jandrew, a blue flannel spring coat; Elisabeth Hurd, the jacket of an aqua wool suit. There are five different courses being offered this year for high school in Home Economics: Advanced clothing, Boy's Chef, Elementary Foods, Ninth Home Eco- nomics, an Introductory Course, and Elementary Clothing. The seventh and eighth grades have classes three times a week. The eighth graders have a Homemaking Club which meets each Friday afternoon during the eighth period. The class is divided into three groups, and each Friday one of the groups is responsible for a twenty minute entertainment, the rest of the time being devoted to club projects. The Boy's Chef Class is really more than the name implies as the course includes much more than cooking. Some of the units included are Grooming, House Planning. Architecture. Furniture and many other interesting subjects. Advanced Clothing is a class which aims to develop an appreciation of individ- uality in dress and to develop and promote skill in clothing construction and sewing for the home. Ninth Homemaking is designed to cover all the subject matter pertaining to Home Economics in brief, introductory units. Its purpose is to develop interest in the field of Home Economics and to help the girls discover the field in which they are most interested. In Elementary Foods the girls learn how to plan, prepare, and serve meals for different occasions. They also study food buying, kitchen planning, dishes, silverware, and many other things pertaining to foods. Home Economics II (Elementary Clothing) gives the girls a sound groundwork in clothing construction. They also study about grooming, color and textiles. Front table (et left): Vincent Davit (teacher). Neal Clark. Back table (at left): Howard Motet. Richard Burdick. Robert Wilcox. First table (center): Alan Harriger. Second table (center): Howard Dorrett. Third table (center): Wayne Tyler. Fourth table (center): Calvin Pangburn. Fifth table (center): Charles Borden Bench (at right): Glenn Harrit. Industrial Arts T HE boys of the seventh and eighth grades have Industrial Arts classes two periods ’ each week where they learn tool manipulation and make simple projects. Their work includes woodcarving, wood finishing, simple sheet metal work, household repair, soft metal casting, and elementary work in electricity. They also have work in proper- ties and the uses of the various woods and metals used in their work. Future Farmers of America THE FUTURE FARMERS of Richburg is a club whose membership is limited to boys taking Vocational Agriculture and it is affiliated with the State and National Associations. This year the boys participated in judging contests at the Allegany County Fair where they ranked first in the county and also in state contests at the State Fair and at Cornell University. Each boy has a home project and also studies methods of successful farmers in this area. Our team was the county champions in F. F. A. touch football and softball. Robert Dorrett also won individual county honors in ping pong. Front row (left to right): Richard Smith, Dean Corbin, Howard Bessey. Rob- ert Womer, Morris Lyman. Second row: Charles Kinsey. Walton Mason. James Maxson. Bob Mason (President), Jack Womer, Robert Dorrett, James Cartwright. Third row: Lanson Skinner. Alan Yates. Neal Clark. Douglas Graves. Merle Brenneman. Vern Allen. Vincent Davis (teacher). Missing from picture: Anderson Biddle. Robert Ramsell. f,r tabl« (at left): Leo Kingsbury. Gerald Wightman, William Jordan. tack table (at left): Robert Dorrett. Airnio Bessey. James Maison. Bn. i table (at right): Clayton Childs. Alan Yates. First table (at right): Bill McElroy. Donald Loomis (teacher). Walton Mason. Missing from picture: Bob Mason, Phyl- lis Voorhees. Christine Flynn, Doro- thy Burch. Science IN the back row, Robert Dorrett, Alonzo Bessey and Jim Maxson are conducting a distillation experiment, while at the next table Alan Yates and Clayton Childs use the common titration method to determine the amount of acid in vinegar. In the front row, Leo Kingsbury, Gerald Wightman and Bill Jordan measure the resistance and voltage of common electrical devices. Bill McElroy and Walton Mason prepare chlorine, while Mr. Loomis, center, assists in the experiment. Art THE general aims of art education are to arouse enthusiasm for beauty and to develop a certain amount of skill in creative handwork. The art students find many practical uses for their knowledge of design and color as these art principles can be applied in many other classes. The stage settings for plays offer excellent opportunities for the art students to display both originality and skill. Most of the classes are related to drawing, painting and sketching in the strictest sense of the word while in one class craftwork is done. Some of the projects are wood carving, leather tooling, tie-dying, metal working and many other useful crafts. The classes being offered this year are: Mechanical I and II, Design I, II, IV, and Representation I, II, III, V, VI. Seated (left to right): Jack Womer, Lanson Slcinner. Marie Jandrew. Clayton Childs. Robert Fitzgerald. Oliver Hurd. Leo James. Howard Bessey. Dean Corbin. Lyle Jandrew. Walton Mason. James Cartwright. Harold Stohr. At table: Doris Ramsell. Neil Reitz. Phyllis Clark. June Dutton. Standing: Miss Florence Phillippi (teacher). Bill McElroy. Seated, first row (left to right): Merle Brenneman. Second row: Ralph Skinner. Leska Whiteman. Erna White. Margaret Strickland. Third row: Leo James. Oliver Hurd. Leta Reitz. Mildred Burdick. Fourth row: Robert Fitzgerald. Rhea Bradford. Jane Mix. Standing: Dale West. Warren Shannon. Seated at Desk: Mrs. Tinella Rice (teacher). Typing Class T HE pupils who complete the business course should possess a satisfactory usable I knowledge of the activities in the world of business and its contributing agencies. In Introduction to Business, the pupil is encouraged to consider his home and school from a business viewpoint, with the result that he is able to understand better the business activities with which he and his parents have daily contact. The ability to do accurate typewriting is often the means whereby pupils are able to secure employ- ment. Skill in typewriting connotes much more than the ability to operate a machine. A correct knowledge of the form and arrangement of business papers is highly essen tial. It also develops the pupil's power to use good English, spell correctly, and to turn in work that is commercially acceptable. In commercial law the primary objective is to develop qualities of good citizen- ship and character in the pupil. Fundamentally, it is directly related to the principles of right and wrong as applied to business dealings touching the daily life of many individuals and it should be a subject of real worth. It develops the power to reason and exercise good judgment in the application of legal principles to business and private affairs. Bookkeeping is a vocational subject, but it also has its personal use aspect. It provides information which will aid him in managing his own business affairs intelli- gently. It teaches one to interpret business statements. It also develops the qualities of neatness and accuracy. The business course has as one of its primary aims to teach the pupil how to utilize to best advantage the facilities which business offers us. This is important because aren't we all a part of business? Left to right: Miss Carrie Hall (nurse). Patricia Billsborough. Nurse's Office |”HE victim of any injury or accident comes to the office to get the wound dressed. The picture shows a youngster receiving this first aid. Every break in the skin calls for the mercurochrome. to prevent infection. Antiseptic salve is applied under every dressing so that the gauze won t cling to the sore. If the injury is serious, the principal is consulted, and the child is given doctor's attention, from the family doctor if available, otherwise, from the school physician. Toothaches get fixed, headaches, earaches, stomach disturbances, any and all of the minor disturbances of life are smoothed out. Sprains and other aches and pains go under one of the heat lamps. This helps heal the sprain, and makes it more comfortable. It is here that physical examinations are done by the school physician, assisted by the nurse. Here, too, the children come with anything that is troubling them, for advice and consolation. And through it all, and underneath it all. is the steady effort to improve the individual health of the students, and to help them live better lives in healthier homes. Bus Drivers and Custodians SIX buses bring students to Richburg Central School. This is the list of the buses, their drivers, and their routes: Bus No. I—Mr. Herbert Wightman Pleasant Valley, Messer Hill, North-end of Cady Town. Bus No. 3—Clarence Allen Johnson Hill, West Clarksville. Bus No. 4—Percy Conable West Notch. Bus No. 5—Jesse Burdick Smith District, Jordan Hill. Bus No. 6—LaVern Wightman Inavale, East Notch, South end of Cady Town. Bus No. 7—Fred Mortimer West Clarksville to Cuba. a X