Averill Park High School - Threshold Yearbook (Averill Park, NY)

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ducang sulfur daoxade lake mad lTs a wonder The fumes dadn T asphyxaaTe The enTare sTudenT body As The year progressed we became occupaed waTh plan nang The Junaor Prom Sprung Love We ThoughT ourselves To be very wase by geTTang To work on aT early WaTh The help of our advasors Mrs Cooley and Mr Tallman we Traed To geT The work done early However aT as amusang To remember how we recruaTed old sheeTs and parachuTes To cover The gym on The day before The prom ATTer seeang whaT a novel color scheme we had creaTed we decaded To redecoraTe The naghT before The prom You canT amagane The radacal change ThaT Took place afTer we fanashed deco rafano The naghT before The dance we spenT our energy pushang brooms scrubbang floors makang flowers and pannang parachufes To The cealang The nexT naghT we were Transformed anTo sophasTacaTecl aunaors The sun rose on our senaor year We had been resTang so To speak for more Than Ten weeks an a sTaTe of sweeT oblavaon from all scholasTac worraes and Tound aT very daffaculT aT The begannang of The year To Throw off our false sense of securaTy and lack of responsabalaTy AfTer geTTang used To our new sur roundangs however we found ourselves more unaTed an a sangular cause Than ever before We were geTTang closer To our desTanaTaon ex peraencang maxed feelangs We were solemn aT The realazaTaon ThaT we were fanally senaors Solemn aT The responsabalaTy ThaT was placed an our hands aT The ThoughT of our havang To leave And beang an a new unfamalaar bualdang dad noT lessen Thas solemnaTy as we Thoughf aT maghT buT ansTead ancreased aT There was so much more Than we would have To leave now And now we come To The end of our aourney To The parfang of The ways when we musT go an our separaTe darecTaons To face new horazons As we be come aware Thai' nexT years senaors wall survave as we dad our amporTance seems To fade as mysTeraously as aT came For some of us Thas wall be The summaT of our educafaon To oThers only a mere begannang IT as raTher bewalderang To realaze ThaT affer we gradu aTe our relaTaonshap as a class wall be ended And we fand ourselves Thankang of everyThang we dad and Thangs we could have done BuT we have already ended an era of our laves whach can never be re enacfed AfTer graduaTaon we assemble for The lasT Tame To say good bye The good byes wall be of a dafferenT naTure Thas year for To some of us aT may be good bye forever Tod Ormsby 81 Bobbae Salberg l-lasToraans . . . . . . a . . Q . - - aa - aa , . . , . . , . a a . , . . - a a a , . a a a n a I . a a , . n a . . . a - a . , . , . a I .

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Clcuss Hustory Lookung back over The years we have been aT Averull Park uTusr1 T easy To remember all The munuTe happenungs ThaT seemed so umporTanT To us aT The Tume We TursT meT un SepTember I953 as sevenTh graders Even we wull admuT we were a raTher moTley group We were greeTed wuTh a somewhaT sTern wel come from Mr Funegan our uunuor hugh pruncupal We were all very pleased wuTh The +houghT ThaT we would Tunally be uncluded un some oT The socual evenTs of good old APHS Our TursT Tea dance was one mosT of us wull remember Tor a long Tume as we can sTull see The boys sTandung on one sude as The gurls sTood on The oTher In eughTh grade we began To become a luTTle more conTudenT un ourselves as our Teachers wull agree The Tea dances seemed luke old sTuTT To us veTerans Then We had greaT Tun aT The ChrusTmas Tree Dance pullung The Tunsel oTT The Tree By Thus Tume boys were occasuonally askung gurls To dance The resT of The year was spenT un sTudy Tor our T1rsT regenTs exams and un preparaTuon Tor our dress up dance The BesT Bub n Tucker The class oT l959 began uTs advenTure as Treshmen un SepTember I955 under The leadershup oT MarTy Ormsby We were IO5 sTrong and even The upper classmen couldnT dampen our spuruT by callung us luTTle green Treshmen WuTh The help of Mrs exTraordunary by beung a success As Treshmen we sTruggled over LaTun and algebra Thunkung Thungs couldn T be any worse l-low nauve we were' MarTy was un The puloTs seaT agaun un our sopho more year and were we glad To Take oTT as upper classmen' We were raTher pleased wuTh our new re sponsubuluTues and delughTed un remundung The Trosh of our umporTance For Those oT us Takung LaTun ll we became more and more convunced oT The pos subuluTy ThaT we MIGHT be blobs oT proToplasm By The end of The year we were cerTaun oT Thus as Ormsby and Sulberg Tauled The exam We conTunued To have good luck un our dances and our Treasury began To grow and grow and grow We selecTed our class rungs un The sprung In buology class Muss Reud helped us To become used To The smell oT Torm aldehyde IT us doubTTul ThaT we wull ever TorgeT our experuences un dussecTung We can sTull hear The shrueks as Muss Reud passed ouT Trogs and worms Tor us To dussecT As we sTarTed our uunuor year uT was hard To be lueve Thaf we were half way Through hugh school We elecTed a new presudenT ThaT year Duck Dodson There we were un chemusTry lab wuTh Muss Reud pro Page 98 . . ' I I . I , . - . . . . . , ' BeaTTie as our advisor, our Treshmen dance proved - . . . . ' Y . . . I .

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