Bolivar Central School - Gusher Yearbook (Bolivar, NY)

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KZfc3GH THE GUSHER Sffl Buffalo; Myrtle Severson is . married to Robert Lee and lives in New York; Mary Sackett Fox resides in Bolivar and Genevieve Swarthout Ingalls in Kossuth. The Class of 1921 had only three seniors: Beatrice Hoffman, Iona Miller and Lureta Stillman. Beatrice Hoffman Wilson lives in Olean, Lureta Stillman MacMillan lives in Bolivar, and Iona Miller Rigby in Mead Hollow. The Class of 1922 had an increase of four to the previous year's members. These were Clara Lain Walters and Margaret Moore who live in Bolivar; Leland Hulett is in Battle Creek, Mich.; Raymond Root is at Milton College, Wis.; Sadie McDivitt is now Mrs. Richards; Phyllis Cadv is Mrs. Homer Cooley and lives in Richburg and Edith Wertman in Alfred. This account is told in the words of a member of the Class of 1923: “The year of 1923 stands out in the minds of numerous men and women today as the year of their graduation from B. H. S. Many good times were enjoyed in the four years of high school, with the Junior-Senior Banquet and the Senior Play predominating. The one lasting remembrance will be the trip to Washington, made under the supervision of our Principal, Ray C. Witter, in April, 1923-The educational advantages and the wonder of being able to make the trip on a sum of money earned by hard work and much enjoyment of the class members will never be forgotten. Our class motto, “tonight we launch, where shall we anchor? is very fitting when we look at the class roll and see what each has done with his life since that memorable graduation night. Those that were graduated that night were Evelyn Clair Jordan, Elwyn Swarthout, Arline Smvthe, Marjorie Cranston, Regina Dunn, Onolee Wilber, and Marie Shaner. Leap Year, 1924, saw a large class of seniors graduating who succeeded in making their way in the world in some such manner as this: Leland Burdick is married and teaches in East Aurora; Teresa Dunning is married and lives in Boston; Thelma Casey is manager of the local Larkin Store; Helen Clarke teaches history in Whitesvillc; Arlouine Hall teaches history in Clean High School; George Bliss attends Columbia University; Pauline Smith works in the State Bank of Bolivar; Florence Smvthe lives at home;Edward Bullock is married and lives in Buffalo; Walter Woodin is at home in Genesee; James Dougherty returned home a short time ago from Texas where he was employed in the Texas Oil Company, and Fav Thompson is at Rennsrelaer College in Troy, N. Y. Quite a variety of occupations have been developed by the training of Old Bolivar High School, don't you think? Although there were thirteen members of the Class of 1925, each one seemed to have been fortunate in finding a happy way to spend his or her time: Florence Shaner is married to Leon MacGowan and lives in Binghamton; Mary Cummings is employed in the telephone office in Bolivar,Josephine and Malcolm McDivittlive at home in Richburg, Malcolm returned from Germany a short time ago; Fern Wilson Foster lives in Little Genesee, and Aline Lain Cox in New Jersey; Florence Murphy Ryan lives in Bolivar; Marguerite White Root lives in Genesee; Edwina Smith and Henry Sackett arc attending Alfred University; Genevieve Williams is employed at the Bolivar Garage; Robert Wightman is married and lives in town, and Margaret Wainman of Little Genesee works in Buffalo. As the years rolled by, the classes continued to increase in size. The Class of 1926 was the largest one yet graduated from the school—there were seventeen members. Lawrence Shaner 11

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K S THE GUSHER KSfcs® The Class of 1917 had nine members who were: Louis Dunn, Violet Hoffman, Flora Amsden, Beatrice Seibert, Susie Shaner, Burton Bliss, Samuel Shaner, Baldwin Hitchcock and Douglas Repp. Burton Bliss lives in Albuquerque, N. Mex.; Flora Amsden Shaner, Douglas Repp, Louis Dunn, Baldwin Hitchcock all reside in Bolivar; Violet Hoffman, a former teacher of the third grade in the Bolivar High School, is now Mrs. R. C. Witter and resides in Little Valley; Susie Lewis Shaner lives in Bolivar and Beatrice Seibert lives in Buffalo. Samuel Shaner, one of the well-known men in Bolivar, passed away February 26, 1929. The Class of 1918 was composed of eight graduates: Ethel Hayward, Alta Allen, Marjorie McDivitt, Gladys Root, Cyril Shaner, Glen Dickerson, Orval Perry, and Fred Shaner. The Class of 18 chose as their colors, red, white and blue, since this was during the World War. The colors were very appropriate at that time. They presented the play At the End of the Rainbow. The proceeds were given to the Red Cross to aid them in taking care of the wounded in the war. This class also gave up their pleasure trip to Washington because of the war. They were so faithful to their country that we will look to see what has happened to them: Ethel Hayward entered Alfred University, where she later was graduated, and is now teaching school in Butler, N. J.; Alta Allen attended Normal School in Geneseo and taught a few years before being married and settling down in Bolivar; Marjorie McDivitt was graduated from Buffalo Normal and taught school in Bolivar and Portvillc where she became acquainted with and was married to Gerald Griffith of Olean. They now live at Springfield, Mass.; Gladys Root took a business course at Westbrook's Commercial Academy in Olean and after a brief business career was married to William Nichols and resides in Bolivar; Cyril Shaner was graduated from the Rochester Business Institute and accepted a position with the Firestone Trust and Savings Bank at Akron, Ohio, where he has been promoted to the Loan Department. Here he met and married Miss Bertha Ziefel; Orval Perry was graduated from Alfred University and then received an M.A. degree from Cornell. He is now located at Watkins Glen, where he is history instructor in the high school. This year he conducted the senior trip to Washington; Fred Shaner was graduated from Rochester Business Institute and returned to Bolivar to engage in the oil business. He is now married to Miss Susie Lewis; Glen Dickerson married Bernice Johnson of Shinglehouse, Pa., soon after graduating from Bolivar High School and is now living in Mt. Morris, N. Y., where he is the owner of a Chevrolet garage. The Class of 1919 had fourteen members. These were Harold Davie, Faye Allen, now Mrs. Caldwell of Olean, Doris Root and Theodore Crandall, deceased, Ella McDivitt, Genevieve Casey, now Mrs. Earl Jennings of Richburg, Helen Buckhout Gray, Margaret Holder Roberts and Eleanor Harry. Daisy McDivitt lives at her home in Richburg; Margaret Crowlev teaches in Gowanda, and Alva Wilber is in Bolivar; Leola Crooks Ferrington lives in West Clarksville; Margaret Dunn Towers is a former teacher of biology and history, and now lives in Bolivar; Harold Davie lives in Hornell, Eleanor Harry Hooker in Hamburg and Margaret Holder Roberts in Rochester. The Class of 1920 had nine seniors: Among them were Howard Withey, Marjorie Davie, Janice Davie, Bentley Fairbanks, Myrtle Severson, Mary Sackett, Blanche Kilmer, Gladys Hulett and Genevieve Swarthout. We were able to locate a few of these members; these are Marjorie Davie, teaching in Buffalo, and Janice Davie, now Mrs. Clarke Ralph, lives in 10

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SH2! THE GUSHER KUfcSGH is at Alfred University, and Howard VanCuren at The University of Buffalo; Gladys Orcutt is now Mrs. DeHollander; Keith Perry resides in Obi; Fred Newton is at college in Pittsburgh; Dorothy White attends Geneseo Normal, and Marccdes Turner is private secretary for a lawyer in Belmont; Paul Husak is working in Illinois; Roberta Lain and Gladys Fanton are living in Bolivar; Stella Ward is a stenographer to W. T. Common; Hazel Baldwin is now Mrs. Carl Failing and lives in Shinglehouse; Helen Dougherty teaches in Belmont; Bernice Bliss is at home in Little Genesee; Elouise Peters is employed at Dr. Claflin's dentist office; Ruth Wight-man teaches school in Herkimer, N. Y.; Howard Root is at Milton College, Wis., and Myrtle Cady Newton lives in Kossuth. In 1927 there were eight seniors who were: Ruth Potter who attends Alfred University; James Gilligan who attends Cornell University; Maxine Nelson who is in Buffalo; Richard Sherwood is employed in the local post office; Gladys Wood is now Mrs. Barnes and resides in Wellsville; Lloyd Foster is studying at Houghton College; Harrison DeGroff lives in Little Genesee, and Thelma Guild attends Westbrook's Academy. The Class of 1928 had thirteen seniors. Three of this class are married: Ruth Root Foster, Marguerite Nelson Barnes and, last but not least, is Nevah Jones, our typist for The Sentinel, to Victor McBride; The other ten are: Marion Hoffman at Westbrook's Academy, Curtis Jordan employed at W. A. Dunn's drug store; Charry Woodard, attending Syracuse University; Burdette Thompson and Scaland Appleby at Westbrook’s Academy; Geraldine Ryan living in Bolivar; Richard Miller at his home in Miller Hollow; Frank Henderson employed at the local First National Bank; Anna McQueen in training for a nurse at the Sisters Hospital in Buffalo; Josephine Wright left a short time after graduation to reside in Olean. Class of 1929 was the next to the last to graduate from the Old School. Miss Growney was the class adviser and also the director of the play, The Charm School,” which was very successful. This class will never forget the faithful work of Miss Growney. Among these seniors were Basil Hibbard who is a bookkeeper in Oswego; Margaret Green, Velma Smith, Anita Perkins and George White who are attending Westbrook's Academy; Albert Cartwright and Edna Ward taking postgraduate courses; Herbert Rhoades works at the Bolivar Larkin Store; Evelyn Sherwood attends Meeker's Business School in Elmira; Irene Casey is stenographer and bookkeeper at The Bolivar Breeze office, Frank Cossaboon was taking a postgraduate course the first of the year, but is now working, and Alois Husak is at his home in Mead Hollow. 1930 marks the passing of the Old Bolivar High School and the opening of a new B. H. S.; in an age of progress this is as it should be. However, as the Old B. H. S. fades in perspective, a line in memoriam will not be amiss. No inanimate thing should be the direct object of man's emotions or sentiment, for this would be pagan idolatry, but it can, through association either directly or indirectly,mold the course of his thoughts. What, then, is more natural than that we should look back upon the scenes of our carefree high school days with some feeling of sentiment? To the alumni, the Old School House is the symbol of those days and all they call to memory. 12