Canastota High School - Toot Yearbook (Canastota, NY)

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THE TOOT The freshman class held their first meeting in Miss Cline’s loom in the old building, Wednesday, October ID, 1927 with Miss Conkling and Miss Clines as advisors. At this meeting of- ficers were elected. Charles Van Zandt was elected president, Raymon 1 Caldwell, secretary and Muriel Buh- rig .treasurer. It was decided to havo dues, amounting to ten cents a monin. At the following meeting a party was talked of. This party was to be held in the school during the weeK before Christmas. This event ho» ever, was not held due to the fact that there was no free night at that time. Although our plans for our party were greatly upset it did not stop us from decorating a tree for the school. This tree was the first ever had in the school and was very beautifully ornamented. After the regents in January it was necessarry for us to re-elect offi- cers. As a result of this election, lone Robertson became resident, Joy Te- Winkel, secretary and Frederick Buii rig, treasurer. Our class Is to have a picnic be- for the end of the school year. This picnic is certainly going to be our largest gathering before we become the learned sophomores of dear C. H. S. The freshman class of 1927-28 has in the neighborhood of sixty mem berg. Since our first meeting a few '? them have advanced enough to be- come sophomores. We hope next year to form a sfrou foijce of sophomores but our freshmen year will always remain in our mem ones. J. TeWinkei. Class Poem—1928 School days are quickly passing. This June we say goodbye, And keep memories everlasting Of dear Canastota High. We have striven to gather knowledge, We treasure each lesson taught. We know it will guide us forward To the goal for which we sought. Four years have quickly passed Since we first entered here. Those we have met in classes Are now our friends most dear. To the teachers and friends we are leaving, Ever true, loyal and kind, We extend our thanks sincerely, And will bear their instruction in mind. As school closes its doors to the balmy air, We wish happiness to every one. The best way we can express cur thoughts Is by the song we oft have sung. “Those days of yore Will come no more, But through the many years The thoughts of you, So good, so true. Will fill our eyes with tears.” And Conditioned In Salads Wife (at breakfast): “Our new girl is a cooking school graduate.” Hub: “She must have flunked bad- ly in biscuits.”—Boston Transcript.

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THE TOOT 9 This class seems to have been a failure although we have tried to pick ourselves up in the past year. We iiac quite a successful year when we came in as freshmen under the guardian- ship of Miss Vera Gray, who is now Mrs. Smith. We had parties and fun for everybody except the boys who were too bashful to come. The first exciting thing of our soph- omore year was a Hot dog roast at Chittenango Falls under the supervis- ion of the class advisors, Miss Mack- ey and Miss Kelsey. There were oth- er outings bat the initiation of t'-c Freshmen was the real event of the year. As freshmen usually resent tin, sophomores not altogether unkind In- tention or attentidn, we had rathe; a fight on our hands. During this Junior year, the moviug into the new school took much of our time until the Commencement stared us in the face, at which time we have to make an unusual good im- pression upon the Seniors by taking care of the details of graduation. Hav- ing lost Mrs. Milmoe, Jr. as an ad -,isor and getting meetings in at Miss Goettel’s convenience, we seemed for a time, a little dormant. Howevei, we are now busily supplying candy for our fellow schoolmates. Thereby helping to make up the deficit due Lo the difficulty of extracting the requir- ed dues from all the class members. We will soon be Seniors and with deen appreciation shall accept the ministrations which we are now plan ning to render the departing Seniors. We, Sophomores, that is most of u '■ame up in January 1926 and we certainly have been active. We have had many social gatherings at whicn we have become better acquainted and exchanged ideas, thereby accom- plishing more. From January to June 1926 we had about three parties with Lydia Rommel as president and Mis- Clines and Miss Anderson as advis- ors. The next fall we had corn roar is and parties. During the winter of 1927-28 we ha ' frequent meetings with Mandalay Grems as president and after the nev‘; election in January, Charles VanZan it We had a party on December 22, which everyone enjoyed, another a bout the middle of February. In gen- eral, there has been laudable class spirit and proportionate attendance at meetings. Our advisors at present are Mrs. Milmoe and Miss Powers. The enjoyment of our good times will always remain fresh in our mem- ories. E. Ponticello

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THE TOOT 11 CLASS PROPHECY FIFTEEN YEARS LATER I had a very interesting talk today, with an old classmate of mine that I had not seen for many years. I was waiting at the Grand Central Station in New' York for a train which was to take me home for my summer vaca- tion from teaching school in one of the New York schools, when in stroll- ed Max Freeman. He didn’t recognize me at first but he soon remembered. 1 asked him what he was doing anu he replied he was conductor of the Pennsylvania orchestra. It told him what I was doing and we talked of all the other classmates. We remembered that Bertha Don- nelly had married right after gradua- ion and was the proud owner of a beautiful home in the West. Bessie Hertel was to soon follow Bertha’s footsteps, which is also a success. She has a wonderful farm on the Sen- eca turnpike, near where Naomi H’y- den used to live before she became the owner of the great dress making shop in Boston. I had heard that Vera Auselio h id returned to New Haven, Conn, and was becoming a well known business woman. Violet Bull seemed to have progressed in the same line and was secretary to the Secretary of War. Max told me how' Harold Armstrong, Eugene Burke and Harold Williams had risen to League baseball and were doing wonderfully. Glen Cowan, a sun- ny good-natured fellow, left one day with his bus and was not heard of un til five years later, when he wrote a friend telling what good luck he was having in Chicago running a con- fectionery store. Lucina Fisher and Lillian Shay, al- though their parents still live where they alw'ays have, seemed to have flown the coop and made a name for themselves in Syracuse. They were partners in running a large cafeteria, which is becoming more and more prosperous. I told Max about the time I had visited Paris about two years ago how I came across Gurtha Talley. She has a wonderful studio and was becoming noted for her wonderful work. Two Perryville girls seemed to be doing well also. Erma Carey had be- come a successful history teacher and was teacning at Perryville. Helen Weisbrod had taken to training and was the doctors assistant at Crouse- Irving Hospital in Syracuse, while our dear Helen Dougherty wras doing won derful work with her teaching in Cort- land Normal. Helen’s close friend and our dear classmate, Evelyn Smith is the second best flute player at Roch- ester. She has a large school situated near Eastman and Evelyn’s attend- ance greatly exceeds that of the East- man school. We remembered that there was an- other member of our class interested in music. Elsie Williams is in charge of the Williams Music shop at St. Louis. Charles Capparelli was begin ning a new job managing Max’s or- chestra on a world tour. He took this o; portunity to find a girl whom he cared for more than he did Mary Si- cilia, who, by the way was running a. Spanish night-club on Broadway with Mary McCullough as the stellar feat- ure rendering violin solos. Jessie Molt turned over a new leaf and studied in college and now she is storming big words on the heads of weary Seniors. She is very capable of taking the place of Miss Clines who left school lo sell the new 1943 model Dodge