Adams High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Adams, NY)

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Mr. and Mrs. William Johnson have been married for ten years. My how the time Hys by. Bill and Mary have six children now. three boys and three girls. Nice family. Bill is still a hard worker and is at the present pounding rocks at Levenworth Point Prison. 1 sat down to rest for a moment and Professor Arthur Kehoe came over to talk with me. Art is now a full fledged star gazer who has settled down in Fulton. New York. He claims his fate was decided by stars after a huge fist hit him. I picked up the paper and noticed that Guy Cowles is editor of the “Adams Terror” and is living in Adams. 1 asked Art if he knew any more about Guy and he told me that Guy is living fast and dangerously trying to control his wife, the former June Ebdon. I rejoined some of my friends and found out that Jimmy Weaver has retired from the Civil Air Patrol and is now manager of the “Top Hat” in Limerick. His wife, the former Marie Giovo, is bouncer, cook, scrub lady and his best customer. John Hill is the-street cleaner in 'Load Hollow. The population is 10. which consists of John, his wife, the former Ann Knapp, and their eight children. Much to my surprise I learned that Lyle Trevett is now operating a barber shop in Log London. He married the former Alice Moore and there are six little shavers running around Lyle’s and Alice’s home. The mighty Lester Zehr is now athletic director in the Green Settlement High School. Let is not married yet—but he is working on it very steadily. Last but not least I heard that Bill Sliter is still called the Renowned Traveler ol the Class of '51.” He is not married but is engaged to Hazel Remington. They expect to be married on December 32, 2000. Bill never did believe in rushing things and we see he still holds to this idea. Anyways you have to give a person time to change his mind if he feels like it. Good luck. Bill! As 12 o’clock came my last guest left and I sat down to go over all the events of the evening. I certainly enjoyed seeing all my old classmates and talking with them. I had missed many good times had by my pals, but this helped me to forget them. Climbing the stairs to bed I thought how nice it would be to do this every year. Well—maybe we can! [ 12 ]

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CLASS PROPHECY I came home the other night from work and to my surprise I found all the lights in my house were on. Wondering what the reason for this was, I went in and to my delight I found the house was full of my old classmates. As the year was 1968 it had been some time since I had seen most of them so I immediately started to chat with everyone and this is what I found my friends had been doing during the past 17 years: Christine Allison has started a telephone switchboard in Lorraine. This seems to be her only love (telephone work, not Lorraine). I remember when we were in school that she seemed fascinated by telephones! Down in Oak Ridge I found that David Thomas had been keeping things brewing. Dave is employed by the famous distillers of the Atomic drink “ZIPPO”—it gives you that extra kick. He is a well known chemist, for he is the man who put the Atomic power to work for the preservation of mankind. Dave believes everyone should be well pickled! I found that Joan Laemmermann had finished her nurses training. From what she told me it took a long time but she finally made it. It was well worth the time as she is now in a very delightful position in Albany. I saw a wedding ring on her finger but she refused to let me know her husband's name. I'm sure he must be charming though as Joan always had a nice “BUNCH of boy friends. I say bunch as I have known her to entertain four at one time! Ann Heinrich and Ed Moore, our charming couple, parted some years ago. Woe is Ed. Ann has thrown him over for our dashing red head, Bob Fowler. They are planning on an early wedding, as Bob is such an impetuous young lover. Congratulations!!!! Jill Larkin, the girl who always had a dozen fellows on the string has now lost her last chance for.marriage. Since Bob Miller, the string bean sheik has left her, Jill sits and pines away, looking over her rouges gallery, ou remember, that little blac book that she used to work so hard over in all of her high school classes. Wandering around the room a little more I ran into David Porter, the noted fashion critic, now designer of women's apparel. ()l course, no woman would be caught dead in the clothes he designs but then, as Dave always said. Who wants a dead woman? He complimented me on my dress and almost had a dead woman as I was so surprised to receive a compliment such as this from Dave. If you recall your high school days you will remember that it was very seldom Dave handed out compliments on the girls' clothes and when he did they put it down on their calendar or in their diary! A contest for the position of dog catcher was recently held in Lorraine and Ray Roberts won it over his worthy opponent Bert Pitkin. Of course, Ray deserved to win as he spent so much time at the village tavern diligently campaigning. No one seems to know where Bert was. Maybe he was serenading some ladies in hopes of getting their votes. He always used to have all the girls Hocking around him when he started singing. While reminiscing with Barbara Kellogg I f und out she has given up her gay. mad life of danc- ing and parties to pursue a less exhilirating routine. She is now President of the local Ladies Aid and also teaches oil painting to anyone who wishes to learn this. Mr. Ramon LaLone has taken a post graduate course at Adams High School. He is learning to be a local collector for the town dump. Ray had to give up the idea of being President, but he feels this job has unlimited possibilities. I he prominent pool hall operator. Wayne Overton, is having a time making ends meet. He has his wife, five children, Uncle Gaffney and himscll o support. His unde takes 50% of Wav lie’s profits for legal inforcemcnt. Mrs. Prank Ramsey, better known as Kay Moore the woman wrestler, is now employed as matron of an orphanage. Under her care are twenty-five children, of which ten belong to her. I overheard a group of my friends talking and learned that the Shelmidine Supply of Lorraine has been taken over as a branch member of the Lyman Super Market chain. Miss Lyman has been giving instructions to Mr. Shelmidine ever since he was president of the Senior Class. From what my fiiends said. 1 gathered Mr. Shelmidine has been following those orders too. Miss Lvman never was too hard on him though, so 1 imagine he is surviving. I hope business is good kids! [ 11 ]

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CLASS HISTORY In 1939 we, as a class, made our appearance a: Adams High School. From 1939 to 1946 we strug- gled through the first eight grades to become “green young Freshmen.” In our Freshman year we elected the following class officers to lead us through the first hard year: President—Barbara Kellogg, Vice President—Ramon LaLone. Secretary—Mary Ives, Treasurer—Mona Kinv berland. Coach Robert Pate was chosen as our advisor. YVe had many new members added to our class this year. Among them were Wayne Overton, Bert Pitkin. Ray Roberts. Ed Moore. Kay Moore. H.illis Shelmidine, Lester Zehr. Dave Porter, Dave Thomas, Robert Fowler, and Mona Kimberland. As far as activities went we didn’t do anything except a lot of planning. The following year we all became Sophomore;. Our Advisor was Miss Crabtree. Our Class officers were: President—Jill Larkin, Vice President—Lester Zehr, Secretary—Mary Ives. Treasurer—Bert Pitkin. The class did a lot of planning for a class picnic and finally went on one. We went to Selkirk State Park and a “great” deal of fun was had by all who attended. We had some new members join our class this year. They were Dina Jamsen. Janice La Cette, Sadie Corbin and Bill Ganci. Lester Zehr won the badminton finals in Utica. Good going. Lester. As we took the proud position of Juniors, we had for officers: Dave Thomas as President, Sue Ly- man as Vice President. Mary Ives as Secretary, Ber: Pitkin and Ray LaLone as Treasurer. Our advisor was Miss Reed. In October we ordered our class rings and when they came in November we were all very pleased with them. We held our first social event on May 19, which was a dance featuring the music of the Rider's of the Circle |. In June we held the traditional Junior Prom. Lester Zehr again went to Utica to rep- resent Adams in badminton but was defeated. We held a successful hayricle in the spring of 1950 and in the summer we went on another class picnic at Selkirk State Park. Dina Jansen. Janice LaCette, Bill Ganci and Sadie Corbin left us during the course of the year and Norman Percy left to join the U. S. Army. For our last but most important year at A.H.S. we selected Mrs. Howard as our advisor. Hollis Shelmidine was elected class President. Guy Cowles—Vice President. Mary Ives—Secretary, and Joan Laemmermann—Treasurer. We had only one new member join us this year. She is Joan Laemmermann from Watertown High School. The Senior Play. “The Groom Said No,” wa a big success and the students that took part cer- tainly enjoyed putting it on. We also had a Christmas Ball which was not such a big success but everyone had a nice time and enjoyed the music of Freddie Bastian’s Band. Our class colors are green and white and our flower is the yellow rose. For our motto we chose “After the battle the reward.” We held a Football Hop and several other r mnd and square dances during the year which proved very successful both in the financial and enjoyment field. The Yearbook stall, under the guidance of M s. Howard and Editor Guy (iowl.es. worked hard to publish a bigger and better yearbook “Memories.” f 13 ]