Richburg Central School - Quill Yearbook (Richburg, NY)

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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.

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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.

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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.