Adams High School - Hilltop Yearbook (Adams, NY)

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DEDICATION We, the Senior Class in appreciation of, and grateful for her kindness and help, dedicate this year book to: MRS. HOWARD Alma Mater Dear Adams High School. Our oum Alma Mater, So high and so fine in the making of men, MV love you. dear High School, we love and revere you, As great in the training of soul as of pen. Your place on the hilltop, portrays well your value In the lives and the aims of the towns all around Your strong red brick buildings, imposing and handsome, Resembles your teachings and precepts so sound. May Adams High School, Our own Alma Mater. Ever continue to do her good work. To encourage good sportsmen as well as good scholars, And never one part of her fine creed to shirk. Lynda Park [ 2 ]

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THE BELL HELLO! You probably don't know me, so I’ll introduce myself. I’m a school bell, and right now I reside on top of the Adams High School right over the eighth grade room. I have been there since 1939, alter I was bought back from the contractors. How did I get in the hands of the contractors? It was this way. When the old school building was torn down. I was given to the contractors as everything else was that they wanted. It seems that in the contract, everything that was torn from the old building belonged to the contrac tors. From 193 to few years ago I was rung as a victory bell. Ellis is the way all the towns people knew when Adams won. Before my home in the new building, I was perched in a bell tower on top of the three story school and rung by the janitor by a rope extended from me to the principal's office on the second floor. In the old building. I was rung for school to start, classes to pass, and all the things that the bells are rung for, by the clock now. in school. In 1925 I was pretty much of a wreck so the graduates of that class had so much sentiment for learning and leaching that they took what money they had left in the bank and restored me, for which I thank them very much. Both before and after I was repaired I had been cracked, although as many times as I was cracked I was again patched. I have been in Adams since January 1. 1885. I was on top of the building, but then the school was a private boarding school. I came from Troy, New York, for the school. I surely was proud. Many times the school went down, once in a fire, another time by lack of money, but the people were so hungry for the art of learning they always managed to do something to keep going until the state look the school over. I have been very happy in Adams and hope to continue to live here. I sometimes wish that I could once again be rung. Maybe someday this will happen. I hope so. Thank you for listening to my story. 1 have had fun during my life. I once even lived with a skeleton, and always with students who arc most eager to learn. An engraving of my home has been put on the class rings. I hope that you liked my story and now understand more about me. I know that many people didn’t even know that I existed and maybe some people will re- member me when I rang out. for all different kinds of occasions. Maybe someday I’ll ring out for something special for you. Bye for now. [ 1 1

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YEARBOOK STAFF Frederick M. Scholtz Principal V KARHOOK ST A FF Sitting: Suzanne Williams. I vnda Park. Thomas Sargent, Kditor. Mrs. Howard. Ad- viser, Janice Compo, Camilla Hewitt. Standing: Charles Sinclair, Mona Morrow, Charles Sweetland. [ 3 ]