Adams High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Adams, NY)

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CLASS OF ’52 HISTORY The year I1M0 was an important date for the most of us. where we first began our studv for the future. In 1948, we could hardly wait to be promoted to high school. Now, we are impatiently waiting to leave our Alma Mater and to capture what the future is holding in store for us. Our most important history started in our Freshman year, when we chose Bernard Baker as our president. Our vice-president was Alice Bezner: Secretary, Gayle Graves: Treasurer, Dick Miller; and our (lass advisor was Coach Pate. Our intramural officers were Bernard Baker and Gayle Graves. Our new classmates were: Vivian Casler. Anna Nowak. Henry Overton. Carrie Roberts. Laura Thomp- son. Alan Shclmidine. Madaline Shelmidine. and Charles Winegard, all of whom are with us at the present. Other classmates who left us during the course of time were: Herbert Crandall. Ronald Hess, Max Murray. Pete McGregor. Glenn Robarge, Dell Rollins. Peter Shelmidine. Robert Williams, Ronald Williams, and Evert VanCamp. Our activities included class dues, a hayride. and an enjoy- able time at Selkirk Beach at the close of school. We began our Sophomore year, consisting of 45 happy students, the all time high, by having Alice Bezner as President; Alan Shelmidine, Vice-President; Dick Miller, Secretary; Bill Farrand, I reasurcr and Miss June Lyon as our class advisor. Dick Miller and Nathalie Taylor were our intra- mural leaders. Our class activities were limited to class dues and a sleigh ride. Gretice Hamilton and Jacqueline Hager joined us during the year. Now, our hopes were high as we stepped into the Junior Class. We wasted no time in ordering our rings. Our president was Gayle Graves: vice-president, Ed Frappier: secretary. Joan Sullivan; treasurer, Dick Miller: advisor. Miss Reed. Alan Shelmidine and Nathalie Taylor were our intramural leaders. We made plans for the Junior Jubilee, which was a great success. At Christmas time we sold Christmas decorations. In the spring we were busily engaged in making and executing plans for the traditional Prom, where Joan Laemmermann and Guy Cowles reigned. We also had a hayride and a dance. Four new students included Carolyn Wilder. Marilyn Wilder, Joan Sullivan, and Patricia Steger. Our happiness was renewed when we took over the Senior’s scats at “Moving Up Day.” We started into the last stretch of our high school by electing Dick Miller as president: Carolyn Wilder, vice-president: Ann La Lone, secretary; Henry Overton, treasurer; and two very co-operative advisors; Mrs. Irene Howard and Mr. Schwartz, jointly. We were sorrv to lose Nellie Benjamin, who left to be married. We engaged The North Country Ramblers. Jerry Magee, and Mart McKane in dances, intermittently. “Aaron Slick From Punkin Crick.” our senior play, was a smash hit. We elected Bernard Baker and Nathalie Taylor to our intramural activities and are proud to have re- ceived the trophy for the past three consecutive years and have expectations of capturing it this vear. Our Senior I Playhouse was very well received and enjoyed and very successful. We are planning a hay ride in the near future, since we profited from our food sale. The Senior Class was honored at a formal tea held for them in the Homemaking Room. Great gains and accomplishments have been made in Fnglish class in respect to careers, activities, etc. 1 15 1

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Madeline Shelmidine is the proud owner of a chicken ranch in Diamond and her husband. Charlie Farney, is a big help in running this business. Bertha Brown no longer has to work to support her husband. Max Murray, because she recently “Struck It Rich” on a television quiz show and won enough money to retire. Ann LaLone and her husband, Ray Werchinski are now the stars of an exciting television program “Wierd Ways of the West.” Ann’s first experience with acting was in our Senior Play. In New York, that scientific tycoon, Bernard Baker and his able companion, Wayne Overton, have opened their new laboratory for the study of the common cold. They are being supervised by their old science teacher, F. F. Gordon. They hinted that they may have to send for that great scientist, Ed. Frappier. who is the professor in head of the science department at Buffalo University. Pro- fessor Frappier is noted for the discovery of the new miracle drug “Pensodrizen.” Professor Frappier said he is sure to find a disease for it soon. Dick Miller who started out in a hardware store, now has a chain of stores that are so widespread that they compete with such leading stores as Sears and Roebuck.” Mr. Miller also is backing the New York laboratory. Mrs. Francis Shattuck. the former Mabel Dobbin, is now living on the coast. She keeps all her little Shattuck’s busy selling haddock. They make their living this way. Ann Nowak is now teaching at Mannsville Central school. She has charge of the math depart- ment and she finds her (lass quite a problem. She is also married and has about seven children. Capt. Ralph Wagner is now commanding Company A of the National Guard in Watertown. Mrs. Hollis Shelmidine is acclaiming world-wide fame as the champion “Midget Auto Racer” in New York State. Mrs. Shelmidine, who was the former Carolyn Wilder of our graduating class, now claims she is going to give up auto racing, and start raising a family. Well. I managed to find out something about all my classmates except for Gayle Graves and it seems that no one has heard from her since she married Lester Zehr back in 1953, but knowing those two they are liable to be doing most anything. And so. Dear Diary. I will close now and go to bed for I have had a ery busy day. Good Night — — — [ 14 I

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CLASSES .11 MOHS Firs'. P.ow—Left to Right: Anne De Marse, F.laine Robarge, Lois Porter. Hazel Remington, Alice Moore. Mary Rhines. Edith Dickinson, June Ebdon. Second Row: S reJ MarJ, Perry Fowler. Ronny Heald, Miss Reed, Eugenia Fredenburg, Peggy Patrick, Avis Howe. Third Row: Lyle Gillette. Bill Freeman, Dick LaLone, David I redale, Dick Pearson. Ed Wise, Herald Richardson, Jim Bezner. Lloyd Miller, Richard Cheever, Floyd Brigam. Absent: Marilyn easier. David Bundy, Bill Hewitt, George Babcock. SOPHOMORES First Row—Left to Right: Helen Remington. Jane Pooler, Joyce Oderkirk, Kathryn Groves. Marsha Dickinson, Kathleen Murphy, Mary Kehoe. Alice Palmer. Second Row: June Dowker, Marie Filson, Jane Adams. Sylvia Nichols. Ida Shelmidine, Coach Pate. Wilhelmina Reed, Janice Dillabough, Anne Priest, Ruth Reeves. Catherine W id rig. Third Row: Leslie Sprague. Dick Heald. Bob Miller, Bruce Crast. Earl Lennox. Dick Pal- mer, Carl Trowbridge, Ed Heinrich, John Taylor, Bob Leuze, Virgil Robarge. Absent: Marilyn Brown. Ray Berry, Fred Cole. [ 16 ]