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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A HEARTH STONE TALE OF A H S Ccontinuedl woodlands, and even fords across the Saw Mill River Mr Eli Ropes was principal of the school at that time, and it is a matter of fact, taken from the 1846 budget quotations, that Mr Ropes was paid a little in excess of 310 for his services The figure seems quite preposterous on the face of it, but even that was enor- mous in comparison with a remuneration of 241 to a cer tain miss Ann Eliza Hoard who taught for a period of time To understand how limlted were facilities and ac commodations at the time, we must reali7e that the 'little red school house', then the institution accom modat1ng D1qtTiCt Number 3, whose boundarles were the junctlon of Ashford Avenue and Albany Post Road ln Dobbs Ferry on the west, far up into Worthington on the north, Daisy Avenue and Sprain Road on the east, and Mount Hope on the south, had an enrollment of prob ably a half a hundred pup1ls ranging from kindergarten to senior high school age 'For mercy's sake'n you will ejaculate, for this revelation is more 1ncred1ble than any In 1840 the from a torn yellow record sheet appertaining to expend itures, assessments, and the various tabulatlons on real estate taxes of 1846 The asses ed valuation of Ardsley ln that bygone day was an lnfiniteslmal 3106, 975 as compared with 39,527,000 for the fiscal year 1935 Where the present school is situated the prop erty, consisting then of about fourteen acres which belonged to Mr Southern, incidentally, was assessed for 3800 and the annual tax bill aggregated 581 Mind you, this was Westchester County only eighty nine yeans ago, today a most flourishing section with lmmeasura ble potentialities What is now Woodlands, all of which Mr Samuel S Howland then owned, was the highest assessed piece of real estate in the dlstrict, being placed at 330,000 with an annual taxation of Q21 60 levied on it Clerk Lawrence's grandfather owned practically all of Chaun cey together with additional land adjoining it, and at the rate of 721 per thousand, his tax bill for 1846 amounted to about 52 45 Meadow Brook of today, owned by a Mr Francis Hildebrandt, was taxed for 511 Reverting momentarily to the little red school house', we discover that Mr John Lefurgy, who pos sessed a name familiar to us in l935,was one of a group of three who comprised the Board of Education in 1846 He was the great, great grandfather of the Le furgys who attend Ardsley High School now Also the names of Mr Charles Lester and Mr Anthony Stone are worthy of mention as the other two Board members 21 1 0 . 4 O total appropriation for tutoring was 544.77 as derived A . s O O 0 QL c D Q a l 0 Q 0 N . 9 O D I O