Ardsley High School - Ardsleyan Yearbook (Ardsley, NY)

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feshmoxx messewcev Our Freshman Class this year comprises twenty seven members Of these, two are new this year, name ly, Eugene Downey and Fred Baker Of that number six teen are taking a business course and eleven are tak ing the academic The first semester's work tremely interesting, but it was considerably than our last year in grammar school Our activities during the past semester of considerably wide scope These consisted was ex harder have been of a Freshman play, movie show, and food sale principally Our moving picture show was given early in February We made approximately ten dollars on an advance ticket sale, which showed cooperation and the willingness to work on the part of the class Our movie was a suc cess We netted a 'tidy sum' for our 'Washington Trip Fund' In appreciation of the assistance given us in making it such a success, the Freshman Class presented to Charles Benedict a Boy Scout canteen CWe want to take this opportunity to thank all who helped make this great success J Our first money making enterprise was a food sale given in November at the American Legion Build ing Taking into consideration that this was our first money making enterprise, this was a success We made no meager profits on it At the beginning of the year the Freshman Class worked hard to put on a one act comedy called 'In an Aeroplane Passenger Station' to be presented at our high school assembly It went over so well that it was chosen to go to DODUS Ferry High School as an ex change program It made an immense 'hit' The members of the Freshman Class gave their full cooperation to the Seniors toward making a success of their subscription campaign In inter class sports our success has not been so pronounced At the present standing the girls stand in second place in hot pursuit of the pace set ting Juniors Our girls lost but one game and the Juniors have gone undefeated to data The boys stand in third place, but are far from giving up In the first semester two students were admitted into the Honor Society, making our percentage in the society forty Nearly all the students won their Freshman honor awards Wallace Perrin was our president, Gloria Bogle, Vice president, David Geraghty, treasurer, Eleanor Maihofer, secretary, all of whom discharged their duties well lallace Perrin 19 - , - , - - , - v . O 0 - 9 0 . - o 0 o 0 1 A - O I . ' L 0 1 0 - o o 0 I 0 - Q I o D O 0 - Q 0 O o

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S ,uhhh S S 0 L P H 0 M E 0 R R E anding Kenneth Fitch, Paul Storm, Lewis Travis, Vincent Agnano, Paul Seitz, George Youmans, Wm Connors Wm Fountain tting Rosina Paolucci, Marion Seitz, Gladys Slamm, Laura Brown, Gertrude Koenig, Helen Tiefenback, Mil dred Koenig, Catherine Mac Kenzie First Row Wallace Perrin, Donald Zeliff, Paul Lingg, Anthony Filomena, Nicholas Staffierio Second Row Alice Beckwith, Eleanor Geraghty, Lillian f urgy, Aleta Reid, Florence Quick, Dominica Gagliar di, Gloria Bogle Third Row Anthony Hoccia, Josephine Allen, Eleanor French, Helen Lindauer, Eleanor Maihofer, Phyllis Ol son, Mr Mann Fourth Row Thomas Mack, Eugene Downey, Fred Baker rIo Hannucoia, David Geraghty, Gordon Schultz, George Nilsson, Frank Gierczynski, Jack Aazmus B St : si' : Q fi' M E 2 S s H E M N A G N E R ef . - ca ' ' 18 S l E D c

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