Belleville Central High School - Tower Yearbook (Belleville, NY)

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Senior Officers In 1947, twenty-eight, frisky, fresnman bounded into the lab, where lira. Chapman was awaiting us. Learning to settle down was quite hard for seat of us who had trouble deciding what subjects to take. Uaida Hedger left us the first of December to go to Morris- wille. We gained Maida back also Richard Woodall in our Sophomore year but lost Doris Cunnings, Phyllis Clark, and Michael Zehr. Mr. Barnard was our home room teacher and at our class party we met his fiancee. Proa the Junior room we lost Doris Parker, Sylvia Garbutt, Glenna D inmock, and Duane Oms by, but gained Edward Niebuhr and Doris Cummings. We were Jolly Juniors but Mr. Bellinger settled us down. Our first exciting event was in November when we had a terrible time deciding on a ring. While we were planning our special event of the year, our May Dance, our rings came. This fall we cams to Mrs. Eastman s Senior room. Here we gained Stuart MacDuffie but lost Richard Woodall, who Joined the Air Porce. Some of the ways that we are earning money are: dances, selling refreshments at our home basketball games, and the Senior play, Aunt Tillie Goes to Sea. Lately, we have been working on the Yearbook, but we are looking forward to Commencement in June. 7

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Then hail to thee. Old Union, Though we be far or near, Our hearts will cry Thou art our Mother yeti How very aptly do these words express the true sentiments of their writer, Phila Butler Bowman Smith, throughout her own life. The fourth daughter of a family of nine girls and one boy, Phila Butler came from Chestnut Ridge by horse and buggy, in 1887 to study at Old Union, then a private hoarding school. Her genial disposition and intense interest In the Sibylline Society of which she was the second president won her many lifelong friends. After graduating with the famous class of 1892, she never failed to return for class reunions at Commencement time and for the Decennial Reunion in 1902 she wrote the following lines honoring her Alma Mater: Oh tender Mother, once again, in thy beloved walls Our footsteps Joy to wander, while our laughter thrills thy halls, So dear to us, so kind to us, in days that now are past. We come to speak of loving thoughts that will forever last. When, in 1905, she returned to make her home at Union Academy as the wife of the Principal, Robert W. Bowman, her hospitality and ever graciour personality endeared her to the entire student body. In later yeers when her interests became many and varied. Her affection for Old Union remained constant. At the time of the burn- ing of Union Academy, Phila Butler Bowman again took up her pen in the following tribute to the Bell-Tower, the last vestige of the old school. I stand the sentinel, my feet today Amid the ashes yesterday my pride. I stand and call with every passing hour Flame cannot wholly wreck--Love must abide. I am the Tower. The flames have left me here To speak for thee each hour in trumpet-tone She is thy Mother, and she is not dead I Rebuild her temple I Rear again her throne I I am the sentinel. The village sleeps. The old church spires their shadows fling afar. The wind is hushed. Soft snows heal all thy wounds. And through the broken portal, Lo, a starl Later, In 19 2, w en her clans celebrated their Fiftieth Reunion they paid homage to her memor y, for she lives in the hearts of her many classmates and loving friends. And the Class of 1951 wish to express the'r sincere trubute to Phila Butler Bowmen Smith by making The Alma Mater the theme of their Senior Annuel, The Tower of 1951 6

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Seniors Barbara J. Brown BARB” ’’ .here there is a will there is a way” Glee Club 1,3 1 . Cheerleading 3 Trumpeteer 2,3 1 - Majorette 1,2,3 •14- Bowling 1 . Senior Play Crew 1 . Student Patrol 3 1 - Basketball 1,2,3 Richard M. Corron cornie” ’’Just once more” Basketball 1,2,3 ) . 3aseball 1,2,3 5- Football 2,3 1 . P.P.A. 1,2,1,1 (Treasurer I .) Prunpeteer 3 Broadcasting 3 Senior Play Crew li Chef Club 1 jV y Doris ?!. Cummings ”DORIE” ”Sertous, but full of fan and good hearted a s the y c omeI” onior Play Crow 14. ”u-' r hs' i Prances R. Esbtman ”PHANCIE” Where hearts aro true few words will do” Jr. Band 2 3r • Band 2,3 1 . Glee Club 1,2,3 ! - Trumpeteer 1,2,3,1 . Basketball 1,2,3 Bowling 1 . Melody Maidens 1 . Student Patrol 3,1 . Senior Play Crew 1 . Rosamond A. Ebdon ROSIE A good reputation is more valuable than money” Student Council 1,1 . Year Book Staff 3,|| Blue Team Captain 3 School Captain I . Senior Plav Crew 1 . Is Joyce A. Plagg JO” Gum is the necessitv of life Cheerleading 1,2,3 1 - Glee Club 1,2 Band 2,3,! Student Patrol 3 1 - Senior Play Cast I . Year Book Staff 3 1 - Trumoeteer 3 Class Secretary 1 Class Reporter 1 . Broadcasting 3