Belmont Central School - Reflector Yearbook (Belmont, NY)

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The student council suggested that one of the students lead the student body in song and the pledge to the flag at an assembly program. Al- though this hasn't gone into effect yet, it will be done in the future. The new officers for 1953-54 were elected on May 25. President .......... Fred Warner Vice-President .... Gene Johannes Secretary-Treasurer --Harry Hale Advisor .......... Mr. Howbridge The field day was held the week of May 25-29. The high school girls participated in the following events: high jump. running broad jump, soft ball throw, clothes pin race, 25-yd. dash and a bag race. The boys' events were: horse shoe pitching, high jump, broad jump, 100--yard dash, baseball throw, base running, 440 relay, discus throw and shot put. The moving-up day picnic was held behind the American Legion. After the party there was dancing in the school auditorium. The eighth graders were the guests of the high school. Betty Jane Gleason Fred Warner Industrial Arts several projects. We started with a corner shelf. The Advanced Shop I class voted to make a gun rack for the next project. The Advanced II class decided to make plant stands. Our last class project was a televi- sion table on the Advanced I class and a parlor chair in the Advanced II class. Everyone was given a chance to work on the lathe. Many bowls and table lamps were turned out. With three weeks left in the school year we were left to make any project we could in that period. Some picked to make another corner shelf, little wheelbarrows, shadow boxes and to refinish small projects. We also had mechanical drawing this year. We had twelve plates to make. We wish to thank Mr. Daniel Car- navale for the help he has given us during the past school year. Future Farmers Of America On September 29, 1952, the Bel- mont F.F.A. chapter held a meet- ing to initiate the Greenhands in- to the organization. The new members were Harry Hale, Gene Gleason, Leonard Wat- son, Lester Veley, Eugene Whitaker, and Jim Deming. After the initation, the chapter held an election of officers. The fol- lowing were elected to office: Presi- dent, Fred Warnerg Vice-President, Thomas Lambg Secretary, Harry Hale, Treasurer, Henry Keiser: Sen- tinel, Robert Sortoreg and Reporter, Charles Bliven. County and State Meetings Every three months a county meeting of the F.F.A. is held in various chapters throughout the county. In addition to these set meetings, there may be one called for the transaction of special busi- ness. Every year there is a state and na- tional meeting. This year the state meeting was held at Wellsville. Any- one wanting to go to this meeting from our school could go. Other schools farther away elected dele- gates. The national meeting, held in Kansas City, was attended by our county delegate. John Riley from Scio was this representative. Social Activities In October, the F.H.A. and the F.F.A. had a banquet for their par- ents. Around one hundred attended this banquet. After the supper, we enjoyed a program of speeches and dancing. On December 22, the F.H.A. girls and the F.F.A. boys held a Christ- mas party together. There were dancing, games and refreshments. In March, the Belmont F.F.A. was host for the County F.F.A. Banquet. There were one hundred and fifty persons who attended this banquet. Homemaking News In Homemaking III this year the girls studied about nutrition, had suppers and served a turkey dinner. They canned and froze foods. They also had about two weeks of child care. Last part of the year they have been making skirts and dresses. Now they are working on draperies for the Home Economics Department. The seniors in Homemaking VIII have covered many different things this year which will benefit them in the future. They have studied chil- dren, their habits, discipline, atti- tudes, emotions and personality. They all enjoyed the trips to kin- dergarten to observe the children. If any of you want to be a kinder- garten teacher, you'd better have patience. The senior girls want to leave one thought with the future homemaking girls, don't be too hard on the teacher next year. This year the Homemaking I class has been studying home nursing, hobbies, etiquette, food and nutri- tion, family entertainment, spend- ing the family income, and the un- derstanding of ourselves and others. They have also learned how to apply make-up and clay packs. They've been kept quite busy this year. The Homemaking II class has been studying home planning and decorating this year. In the first se- mester kitchen planning and room arrangement were studied. This semester they cleaned the old second grade room and painted it. The color scheme which they used was chartreuse and brown. There was some opposition in each of the classes against this particular color scheme but quite a few liked it. The painting is done now and some of the girls land boysl who said they didn't like the color scheme, relin- quished their ideas. Now, they like it.-Diana Van Dyke Eighth Grade Our grade ends the year with a registration of forty pupils. During the year Joyce Spence, Gladys No- bles and Donna Burrows were with us for a short time. Allen Webster and Donald Scott, after celebrating their sixteenth birthdays, decided to leave school. Our new members dur- 14 1- u . llIllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIHIIIINIlllllllllllllIIIlllllIIIH-lllllllllll-IIIII-lllll-lllll-IIIllllllllllllllllllll-IIIHIIIIIIIIIIII-IIIIIIHIllllIIIIIIIIlIIIllllilllllIIIlllllIIllllllllllll-IIIIlimllIIllll-IIIII-IIlllllllll-Illll-IIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllI-Illllilllllllllllllll

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lllllllIHIllllIllllllllINUJIIIIHllllHlIkLHllIHIIIllUliilHlUIllllllN!IH1IWIIIHIllIllllINilIIllIIWINIIUllitltlllilIlllilllIH1IIIHIIIUHllIllIiIIiIl1llIUlINlillIUII!IIiHllllIlIIINIlllllllllWIlllkllllllllllIIlllllliililllIILllllllllliltlll!lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll 1953 REF LECTOR Q Q E Q Q Q Q Q Q Q E Q E Q E Q Q Q 5 I E Q Q E I E Q Q Q E Q E Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q Q E Q Q Q E Q L Q E Q Q E Freshman Class Ll 5-Ili! LI Back Row Kleft to rightl-Fred Robinson, James Whitwood, Marcia Frick. Ruth Far- num, Patricia Knox. Beverly Harvey, Shirley Baker, Philip Sostore, Ralph Blackman Middle Row-Kathryn Wilkens. Harry Hale, Mary Shaw. Farwell. Marilyn Lewis, Philip Walldorff, Eugene Gleason, Brooks, Beverly Bliven Front Row-Joyce Clark, Donna Dickens, Jerry Jordan, Benjamin, Roberr Rulison, Marjorie Bassett, Jack Wallace, county music festival, an out-door concert on May 23 and another one on June 13. Eight of our senior band members played in the all-county band and received awards for their participa- tion. Those who participated were Audrey Jacobs, Bernita Benjamin, Julianne Johnston, Kay Saunders. Marjorie Bassett, Robert Dickens, Carl Peterson and Donald Peterson. Audrey Jacobs, Carl Peterson and Robert Dickens were members of the all-state band at Hornell. Seven senior band members re- ceived their B awards for band. They are Audrey Jacobs, Robert Dickens, Eugene Whitaker, Terry Thomas, Carl Peterson, Janet Horn and Wesley Cline. We are sorry to have Gerald Van Dyke and William Lyon leave us this year and wish them the best of luck in their future endeavors. The junior band of twenty-eight members finally shaped up as a mu- sical organization and was quite a Mbit at the spring concert. Seven- teen of our members will be pro- moted to senior band next year. We have been doing some marching on the athletic field and there is more to making a marching unit than we thought. We hope you have enjoyed our music as much as we have enjoyed playing for you. Art Department The room at the end of the lower corridor has been really humming with activity this school year. Many contests were entered. We are proud to report that Donna Dickens re- ceived a S10 honorable mention in the Wildlife Poster Contest spon- sored by the National Wildlife Fed- eration of Washington, D. C. An entry was submitted by Shir- ley Baker to the Health Poster Con- Julianne Johnston, Judi Richard Shelley, Arihur Thomas Bi-own, Bernita Ronald Baker tests sponsored by the Woman's Auxiliary of the Medical Society. The Scholastic Art Awards spon- sored by Sibley, Lindsay and Curr Co., Rochester, N. Y., received many entries and we are pleased to an- nounce that one of our eighth grade girls was awarded a scholastic key. Because Louella Pingrey received a highest regional award, her work was forwarded to Carnegie Insti- tute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for national judging. Congratulations for representing Belmont, Louellal Back to Rochester, where David Caldwell, Maxine Clark and Bill Lyon had ceramic pieces accepted for showing. Bill Lyon and Jack Winterhalter exhibited oils, Donna Dickens, a pastel, and Kay Saun- ders, a pencil sketch. Continue the grand work everyone. Another event to come is our school exhibit at the Angelica Fair where work from grades 1 to 12 will be on display. Look for the booth. 13 -IlIIlllliIIIlllllllillllilIllllIIillllVIII!illlflllllillllllllllllil'WIlllll-I1Iil-IIllI-HlllliIHillIIlllIIIIIIIHII-HIHIl!llllHllillll,iIIIlHIININI-HIIIIHIIN-NIIMINIIH-ILIHIHIHININIIIIHH-HiNI-IH'ilIilI4-UUilNIUI-iNIIillIIIIIIIIit-lllltlWillillllliiitlllllllllllll-I

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IllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllillIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-llllllllllllllllillllllllllllllllll-Iilllllllll-lllillIHlllllllIllllllllHll-IlllllillllllIllIllllllIllIlIllIIlIlllllIll1IlllIllillllllllllIll-llllllIillllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIUIIIIlll-UIllllllhllllli-IIUIIIHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII 1953 REF LECTOR IIIIIIIIIIIHIIV'IlllllIIllIllll-IIIITIIIIII-Hill-IiIIIIlllllllllil-IllllllllIllilIIIIIIIIIIIIIII-Illll-IIIIIIIIHIIIIIIIIHlillllllllIIIII-llllllllIllllIIIlllllllllIlllllIlllllllll-IHIIIIIIIIlllIIllllllllllllIlllllllllllllW1IllUU-IIIllllllllllllll-Ulll-IIHI-WI!-HlIllINIllllllll ing the year have been Carol Wil- kins from Wellsville, and Mar- guerite Magee from Niagara Falls. The following have had perfect attendance during this year: Leo Converse, George Foote, Clayton Hanchett, Jr., Donald Perham, Marie Blackman, and Beverly Dixon. Our class officers for this year were: President, Toby Tucker, Vice- President, Beverly Dixon, Secretary, Lois Baker, Treasurer, Susan Sny- der and Class Reporter, Carol Wil- kins. ' Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving and Christmas parties were enjoyed by the class this year. In the Buffalo Evening News Spelling Bee, top honors were won by Lois Baker, who received a copy of Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Beverly Dixon who was awarded a Certificate of Merit. We are all proud of these girls. Barbara Mitchell won first prize of 55.00 for her composition on Teeth awarded by the P.T.A. Her booklet was illustrated by sketches and clippings. The following have been on the honor roll for each six weeks period this year: Lois Baker, Richard Barn- hart, Beverly Dixon and Donald Pe- terson. Ronald Hotis and Vincent Baron came next by appearing four times on the honor roll. Winners of the Stephen Pollard Spelling prizes are Lois Baker and Beverly Dixon. Lois won with a mark of 94721, while Beverly earned 92'Z: on the test. In addition to our regular courses, we certainly enjoyed our classes in shop, agriculture, and home eco- nomics. Many of us are planning to continue taking those courses in high school. This is our last appearance in the Reflector as eighth graders. We will be appearing next fall, we hope, as green little freshiesf' Seventh Grade Our class has been very busy pre- paring poem collections during the last six weeks. In social studies we have com- pleted our scrap book on New York state, which we are very proud of. We have published our last edi- tion of the Health Newspaperfl have sold it, and credited the re- ceipts to our class fund. We have been working very hard during the last few weeks, so that we all can be eighth graders next year. Sixth Grade The school year of 1952-53 has been a year of work, service and en- joyment. In their work for the year, the grade has learned how interest- ing decimals, fractions, and prob- lems can be. The boys and girls en- joyed writing book reports, com- plete sentences, their own plays and learning the parts of sentences. A trip around the world was enjoyed in social studies, also learning Span- ish words and sentences. The class has been of service by: sending 65 cards to servicemen at Christmas time, sending 50 boxes to the Junior American Red Cross, sending 13 boxes to the Salvation Army and giving to the March of Dimes. Our school year has been enjoy- able because of class parties, square dancing, Mr. Orr's teasing, and also because it's fun when people want to work and play together and try to understand fellow classmates. Six Pupils in Mrs. Tower,s Grade Have Perfect Attendance During this school year, our class has won the P.T.A. prize two times. In social studies, we studied a unit on Mexico. Mrs. Margaret Corbin brought her collections from Mexico and California to show the pupils and gave a very interesting talk about Mexico. We have made Mexi- can posters and have learned Span- ish words. We were interested to learn from the teacher from Arcade, who visited us recently, that her pupils were doing the same work we were. Our grade numbers twenty-four. We lost only one pupil this year, Gene Fanton from Wellsville, This year the following have had perfect attendance: Richard Bun- nell, Edward Canfield, Donald Hand, Clifford Foote, Earl Lamb and James Prentice. Our class is planning a picnic to end our school affairs for this year. 15 Adios From Miss HZlllllllOI'ltl,S Fifth Grade With the end of the study of the Americas, a number of the fifth pu- pils have made booklets on Mexico, Hawaii and Alaska. Edna Hand won first prize, Nancy Johannes, second and Sara Tower, third. The Pan Americans have been of great in- terest to all the fifth graders. In art, Miss Duncan has shown the fifth graders how to make peep boxes-some showing trout streams, cypress gardens and Hawaiian wa- ter sports. Scarlet Scott has moved to Mt. Morris. The class would be very in-- terested in hearing from her. Summer play and out-of-doors ntake lessons so long that the fifth graders wish to say Adios to school and Hola to vacation pals. Mrs. Cl1ne's Fourth Graders Are Fishermen With the end of the year drawing nigh the fourth grade is reading Cy- clone Goes A Viking by Eva M. Kristoffersen. This is an introduc- tory story for the last unit in social studies. This unit is about Norway. The fourth graders will end the year by learning the five F's of Norway. Many of the fourth graders have reported fishing trips far and Wide. All of Mrs. Cline's fourth grade Wish everyone a very happy and pleasant vacation. Miss Hossney's Fourth Grade The fourth grade has been busy finishing up this year's work. Groups two and three have finished their reading books and are doing supplementary reading. In social studies, Norway is being studied. The grade has been reading a story about a circus pony in story hour. The story was enjoyed so much that a circus unit was made for their room. This year they had a lot of fun at their school parties and hope to have more fun in fifth grade. Last fall they started out with twenty-four children, and they now have twenty-six, fourteen boys and twelve girls. Illlll-IIllQllllIllIlll-Illll-IH!!-llllllllllllUlllllIlllllllll-IIIIIIHIIIIIIIII-lllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIil-IlllllllHlllllllllllHlllllI-III1Illllll-Illllllllll-IlllllIIlllllllll-lllll-IilllllllllIIHIIIHIHIIlIlllNIIllIlIIiIlUillNlllll4l-llHl-HUl-Hll-llli-Wl-HUlUlIi