Bemus Point High School - Pointer Yearbook (Bemus Point, NY)

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, .......... l FACULTY VVHEN the time arrived this year to dedicate this year book, we found a difficult task awaiting us. Although we necessarily had to choose one teacher, we felt that the entire faculty deserved the honor. The time has passed when one teacher taught all the pupils. Today we feel that basically useful subjects are not enough. The Three Rs' are not sufficient training now, and that is where our teachers enter. First of all comes Mr. Rhodes, who earns our confidence and helps us with problems of life as well as Trig',. Then comes Mr. Gerber, who presents classical studies for the sake of a well-rounded personality, and Miss Thomas and Miss Challis, who enable us to understand and enjoy the literature of the ages and to express ourselves clearly and easily. Now enter Miss Graham, teaching the girls to be successful homemakers, and Mr. Dorman and Mr. Oaks, enlightening the boys in the mysteries of the plane and saw , and the technicalities of agriculture. Mr. Green, whose philosophy sandwiched in between physics experiments develops our intellectual curiositiesu, strives toward character building. Mr. l-Iarvey teaches us to enjoy that universal art, music, by participation. Miss Comstock prepares her students to meet Big Business . Now, last but far from least, Mr. Scofield, who teaches cooperation and fair-play through the element of physical education. Now, perhaps, you understand why we wish to express our sincere appreciation to the entire faculty, who have taken us up from the rut of the 3 Rs' and prepared us to enjoy life to its fullest extent. 4 I-l. W. P.

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F,0PiEWORD FIVE members of this class of 1940 are about to explore their memories of Bemus Point High School. As Leah Mary Dolan, Viola Marie Shepardson, Richard Lamphear, Rexford Ward, and Roger Ward, together with others who have since departed from the class, start first grade in 1928, they discover that Mr. W. W. Pingrey, the principal, assisted by two other teachers, one of whom is the new- comer, Mr. Rhodes, is conducting the studies of the forty pupils of the high school. ln june the first graduating class is put forth. Gradually the school grows in the number of pupils and in the number of instructors. ln 1930 Mr. Rhodes becomes principal after the death of Mr. Pingreyg Mr. Gerber and Mr. Dorman are added to the faculty, and homemaking and shop courses are made available to students. Mr. Harvey, Mrs. Stevens, Mrs. Stowell and Miss Wallace Cwho later becomes Mrs. Rhodesb appear one year later, as well as the students of three district schools CMap1e Springs, West Ellery, and Quail Trapj who have contracted to send their grade pupils to the high school. The first year book is published. ln 1935 the com- mercial department is added to the subjects offered and is followed the next year by instruction in physical education. Bemus Point High School becomes centralized in 1937, and includes the dis- tricts of Denton's, Waterman's, Ellery Center, Maple Grove, Oak Hill, Lennox, Chapin, Fluvanna, Belleview, Maple Springs, West Ellery, Quail Trap and Bemus Point. Mr. Scofield comes in 1936, Miss Thomas in 1937, Mr. Green, Miss Comstock, Miss Challis, Miss Blom CMrs. Swansonj and Miss Graham in 1938, and in 1939 Mr. Oaks adds a course in agriculture to the subject matter. Bemus Point built the first portion of the present school Cnow known as the grade partuj in 1924. ln 1930 the gymnasium and some classrooms Cuthe middle sectionuj were added, and six years later the new part was constructed. The school has grown until in 1940 it consists of one hundred sixty three high school pupils with twelve instructors. And now as these five students confront graduation in 1940, they regret that the forty other members of their class, who have joined it at various times, have not been fortunate enough to have had all of these twelve happy, memorable years at Bemus Point High School.

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