Arcade Central High School - Edacra Yearbook (Arcade, NY)

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CLASS PROPHECY fcont P I watched for a few more mlnutes wh1le my tlme mach1ne re vealed what the rest of my classmates would be dolng I learned that Jack Gu1ld had taken over the Jackle Gleason Show and was mak1ng a smash h1t Sh1rley Wood, w1th her asslstant Kay Carr, 1S on the Pla1n and Fancy Cook1n' Show Sh1rley and Kay's famous reclpe, the 'Get Your Man' salad dresslng had reached the top ten rec1pes' Sharon Arnold had always wanted to JOIH the Waves soon found that she had achleved her goal and more She 1S now head of the U S Wave Corps Another advert1sement appeared 1n whlch the Greenall Nursery school, operated by Rose Green and V1V1aD Allen, was commerc1al 1z1ng the1r motto 'We w1ll take care of your ch1ldren wh1le you take care of yourself H Testlmonlals were glven 1n appreclatlon for the Servlces of the Greenall Nursery by Charlene Bates and Barbara Davldson Ctop fllght secretarlesl and Rhoda Steward They are all marr1ed now and sometlmes take thelr chlldren to Rose's and V1v1an's nursery I turned to another channel and was 1n tlme for the late late late mov1e Thls movle, based on an adaptatlon of a novel by Sally Nolan, starred Dorothy Hurlburt who portrayed a spy worklng for the Federated Un1on of School Teachers The settlng was a Latln school 1n M1sh1wask1, Arkansas Th1s school was run by a teacher portrayed by Joyce Potter The plot of the mov1e concerned the attempt, on the part of the Un1on, to ferret out the unfalr pract1ces of the teacher, M1ss Potter She never on a date and she forbade the Home Economlcs teacher, played by Kay Van Slyke, to buy potatoes for the class work She had to P3156 them herself J After Act I, Karen Woolley, a Prlma Ballerlna, danced for the advertlsement of L1ndsley's Green Cheese Wthe latest snack before bedtlme Rowena, by the way, has made m1ll1ons on th1s sensat1ona1 new two tone green, del1c1ous cheese Followlng the show, 1nformat1on was g1ven that sets had been deslgned by Joanne Rosenthal, Hollywood deslgner, and make up by Marva Shearman who had manufactured the new l1ve movle l1pst1ck called nWh1sper 3 the favor1 e d1sc Jockey f all bobby soxers, R1chard Day, began h1s program w1th some soothlng Jazz muslc so soothlng 1n fact, that I fell asleep for my wonderful t1me machlne had answered my questlon as to what my A C S classmates would be dolng 1n the future Good 'ole Arcade Central had grad uated prosperlty and well be1ng for the whole natlon Perhaps the success of the Senlor Class was due 1n part to the efforts of the Senlor Class advlsors, Mrs We1tz and Mr N1chols,who retlred from teachlng after the publlcatlon of thelr book ln the summer of 1956 The book was entltled NHow to Make Money and Influence Senlors W . , , I , ' . . . I . . . ---, . . . allowed one of her teachers, played by Sonja Shepard, to go out u . 4 n . 1-1 1 n s n n ni n 1 . ' At a.m., 't ' -' o -

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CLASS PROPHECY fcont J NDale Shaw, President of the Chrysler Motors Corporation, wishes the announcement made that the famous one wheel get Plymouth car will be on display two weeks from today The Grand Showing will take place at Gail Williams' huge Chrysler garage at 14 0'C10Ck fBy the way, Joyce Bateman 1S working there as a HOU Pald meChaH1C J Da1e's secretary, Linda Noel will unveil H119 Strlklngly beautiful car and Richard White will demonstrate its breathtaking speed and the balance The Saturday Evening Post claims that this car is so low and stream lined that you don't get into it, you put it on Eloise Benstead, who has taken over Norman Rockwell's position, has done n excellent Job in lllustfatlng this car for the cover f the Saturday Evening Post which will be on sale on the day of the unveiling Raymond Buncy, draftsman who d ew up the plans for the U S Atlantic Pacific six lane highway, is proud to announce that his coast to coast super highway will b opened for use tomorrow at 7 p m Carl Blackhall told our reporter today that the engineering and con struc ing of the future bridge from San Francisco to Hawaii w1l1 take place next month Carl has been working on this project for two years ' Darrell Domes closed the News Around the Universe and the weather report was issued for the day Theresa Stachowski was at proach toward western New York fThe city of Arcade was gravely in danger D Theresa contacted Gerald Burton, who was at the North Pole He was trying to break the world's record by sitting on the Pole for the lvngest duration of time He had been sit ting on the top for 78 straight hours now and was still there when Theresa synchronized with Alton Gillette who was competing with Gerald at the South Pole Others who were contacted were Arnold Stone, who was in Moscow for the Peace Talks and Thomas Dutton who was on the Island of Pogo Pogo trying desperately f rec1v1l1ze the natives from pogo sticks to stilts CBoy that weather girl sure can make her program 1nterest1ng'D A commercial appeared next in which Carol Benzel was model ing her beautiful school girl complexion for the NSh1n Deep Beau ty Creamn I wasn't surprised, for she always did have such a lovely complexion What did surprise me was that Frank Lavery was announcing the Grande Ole Opry to appear in 30 seconds Philip Mahoney was calling the square dances and doing a marvel ous Job Carol Minkel was the yodelin' belle of the Opry while Mildred Tyler and Kathleen Sm1th,under the name of the Kamil sis ters, did a beautiful duet together while playing their guitars Suddenly Lloyd Luther appeared on my screen and was doing what I thought to be the craziest thing I ever say He bounded on a mat tress 15 feet into the air about 20 times in succession I soon found out that he was only demonstrating the indestructability of Margery Bleyle's nSleep Fine Mattresses ' fcontinued on next pagel . up , . 0 l ' , o n i D . . a , , q O ' r I . . - . . 1 . . e I Q I the weather board announcing hurricane Pluto's rapidly moving ap- - ' o - 1

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lass Hlstor We, the Senior Class of 1956, as we stand on the threshold of our commencement and our emergence into the adult world, look back a few short years ago to September 1943, when we stepped for the first time through the portals of Arcade Central School Since that day, our education has progressed steadily onward to the goal which we now face By the time we finished kindergarten, we felt ourselves well on the way to becoming students, and we greatly anticipated the arrival of September 5, 1944, when we would enter elementary school After struggling through six years of hard labor we finally won the victory and entered Junior High, at which time several new students from outside schools entered our class In our Freshman year in high school, our class numbered 113 Our class officers were President, Joseph King, Vice President Alan Jackson, Secretary, Sandra Coloross, Treasurer,Sh1rley Wood, and our class advisors were Hrs Harrison and Mr Tullar were initiated into h1gh school social affairs by be1ng guests of the Sophomores at the Freshman Sophomore party We began collect ing class dues as the first step toward the Washington trip In our Sophomore year, our class officers were President, Robert Drennan, Vice President, L D 0'Dell, Secretary, Joanne Rosenthal, Treasurer, Joyce Potter, and our class advisors were Mrs Prentice and Mr Garlapo We continued to collect class dues and in our turn, as Sophomores, entertained the Freshman class Our Junior class officers were President, Peter Schn1tzler, Vice Pres1dent,Ga1l Willlams, Secretary, Carol Benzel, Treasurer, Vicki Kenyon, and our class advisors were Mrs Weitz and Mr stationery We held a Halloween dance and a skating party June the blggest social event of the year,our Jun1or Senior Prom, was held We were as surprised as everybody else to discover how grown up we were from that fateful day back in 1943 when we f1fSt began our educational endeavors In our Jun1or year we selected green and silver as our class colors Our class was represented at the Syracuse Citizenship Convention by Joanne Rosenthal and Robert Drennan At the beginning of our Senior year,we selected as our final class officers President, Peter Schn1tzler, Vlce President, Robert Drennan, Secretary,Joanne Rosenthal, Treasurer, Dale Shaw, and our class advisors were again Mrs Weitz and Mr N1chols Our magazine campaign netted a profit of 31,550 Our first skat ing party at Silver Lake was a financlal and social success December 2 some of us exhibited our dramatic talent 1 the pre sentation of the play, 'The Inner Willy On December 21 we held a spectacular Christmas Ball with a Winter Wonderlandn theme On April 23 we left for Washington on our Senior trip We feel that, after twelve years of formal education, we are ready to face the problems of the world and to take our places successfully in our complex American society W have learned skills and subgect matter that will enable us to perform our vo cations to greater advantage We have developed talents which will allow us to live fuller and richer lives The cultural training which we have received will permlt a greater participa tion 1n the society 1n which we live and move 0 ' . ' . . We Nichols. Our first big money-making venture was the selling of ' . ' . In o I Q n ' 0 . . . . .n - ' I ' . ll . . H . . . . . U e