Arkport Central High School - Arkon Yearbook (Arkport, NY)

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EWR PLAY CAST Paul Jones . . ..... Gary Haynes Jane .... . . . . Barbara Glover Mr. Jones . . . . . . Shelton Lawrence Mr. Smudgely . . ..... Richard Davis Anna....... Lilah. Mrs. Jones , , , KI---v T,---AA nanny Juno.: Jack . . . . Junior . . Prompters . . Directed By Craig H. Edgar . . . . .June Pfuntner Marjorie Polmanteer . . . Barbara Crossett farm x4...-.hu . , . . e U... ...,,.., . . . Jack McGraw . . , , Stanley Baker . . . Lorraine Maginiey and Ruth Henry

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CLASS HISTORY In September 1943 f1ve of our present members started school wtth M1ss Ewell as our f1rst grade teacher Over rn one corner stood Barbara Crossett bustly mstructmg Maryorxe Polmanteer what to do Beh1nd them stood Larry Kame eagerly eavesdroppmg Barbara Glover was happy to be startmg but Rxchard Davxs had to be pushed through the door The second grade was happxly spent w1th M1ss Lander as our teacher In our next year blonde blue eyed Gary Haynes jomed us from Elkland to be guxded along w1th the rest of us through the thud grade by Mrs Multer M1ss Mclvimn taught us durmg our fourth year and we began to feel as 1f we were learnmg somethmg even though we could not prove ll In our flfth year we proved to be qtute a handful for Mrs Frdler as stubborn but hkeable J ack McGraw Jomed us We were also happy to 1nclude a temperamental l1ttle lrlsh grrl Carol Murphy from Hornell and later ln March our boy crazy Ruth Henry also Jolned us from Hornell to add hfe to the class M1ss Henderson trled to tame us down as we entered the srxth grade but th1s was 1mposs1ble as Lorrame Magmley Jomed us from Dansv1l1e and there hasn t been a qtuet moment smce M1ss Colhns was our home room teacher durmg our seventh year to get us off on the soc1al track w1th Jumor hxgh partles Here most of us had our fxrst experlence wxth square danc1ng and we found what a lot of fun II was In the e1ghth grade w1th Mr Barnard to keep us in lme we were joxned by Shelton Lawrence who added the perfect touch to our class wlth h1s mdlspensable sense of humor The next year we found ourselves freshmen at the bottom of the heap agam Larry Brown Jomed us from Sc1o and had most of the glrls crazy about hrm for a short t1me We elected M1ss Torrey for our adv1sor to gu1de us safely through mmanon Mr Wolford was our adv1sor durxng our sophomore year and helped us get our revenge on the next group of freshmen In our 1un1or year Mr Sherry was our adv1sor who helped us sponsor a dance and take care of our candy sales Durlng our senlor year we agam elected Mr Sherry as he had shown hlmself to be a capable and hkeable adv1sor He helped us to put on a very prosperous dance rn October We had a successful seruor play Almost Summer and a very profztable magazme campa1gn And now as we go to press, we are all lookmg forward to an excltmg trtp to New York C1ty Ill May and tn J une our btg moment graduatlon

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'4 PROPHECY If was September 17 1975 and the door of Arkport Central sdlool flew open as June Pfunter breezed 1n one of the last to arrtve as usual at the reunion of the 1955 graduatmg class She let J ack McGraw the school custodxan hang up her mmk coat and went to Jom the others who had congregated m the gym Barbara Glover waved hello to her and turned to show off her new Jacket whlch had Mobxlgas wrxtten all over tt Sheexplatned that she was now the owner of a whole strmg of Mobtlgas stattons As she turned she nearly knocked Margle Polmanteer over as Margte had come up so qutetly she had not heard her Margle wore a pamt smeared apron and sketched qu1et1y on her easel durtng the whole reumon Ruth Carol and Lorralne who had not seen each other smce the day they graduated were talklng a mtle a mmute 1l'l a secluded corner Ruth now owned a half partnershlp tn the skatmg rmk and was marrted to Freddy Carol had a httle busmess of her own a General Car Repatr SCFVICB Lorratne kept herself occupled w1th chaslng her httle famtly of 6 or 8 cluldren and hstemng to Ruth and Carol Suddenly D1ck Dav1s appeared dnppmg hundreds of dollar bxlls as he came m The men all clustered around htm and he told them that he had made h1s money by bexng a motorcycle hell drtver Gary Haynes drlbbled h1s basketball around them and made a neat hook shot 1nto the basket He had a marvelous physlque, brought about by bexng the coach at Harvard Suddenly there was a screechmg of brakes and a smell of burnlng rubber and Larry Kame was rushed 1n bandaged from head to toe pushed 1n a wheelchatr by h1s faxthful nurse Barbara Crossett She expla1ned that h1s 1975 Cad1l1ac Hot rod had turned over on the prev1ous mght Larry Brown and Punk Lawrence then entered from the cafeter1a deep ln dtscusson of O11 wells Punk wore a 10 gallon hat and smoked a dollar ctgar whtch was a foot long He was ob v1ous1y a mu1t1 rrulhonazre Larry otmed all the o11 wells 1n Texas where he and Punk kept a da1ry bar open n1ght and day The whole class had just got comfortable on the floor and were talkmg over old ttmes when the gym door smmg open and Mr Sherry staggered tn The class rose ID a body and Punk caught h1m just as he lurched and fell agatnst htm obv1ous1y overcome. W1th emotton After the class had talked a good deal they all went to the cafeterta for a dehczous lunch of scorched baked hma beans and hot dogs Later they all drove off m thelr vartous Cadlllacs BU1CkS and Oldsmoblles after planmng another reumon 1n 1995 and that he was still suffering from shock. 'fd ui N j I 7, 1 at Q- a I :-