Canastota High School - Toot Yearbook (Canastota, NY)

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J . I . SCT001 B DARD) Albert 2. Cambell, President Norman L. Stafford Dr. David M. Hoyt Charles H. Hoffman Mrs. Mae Chapman Phillips. Glen F. Bogardus, Clerk 1926 i ■ . • The Board of Education of the Canastota 'Schools has alvays possesed that' re’al spirit that ha,s been the making of what our schools, are today. Mr. Hoffman has served the longest of any of the present members, since 1921 Mr. Stafford and Mr. Campbell, have been faithful members since 19 5. Two years later ur. Hoyt took his position and ’mrk. Phillips has. held her place • s’ince 1929.

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HISTORY OF C.K.S. In 1810 the land on which Canastota now stands wa5 called Canastota Reservation. Here dwelt Indians in what was then a swampy forest. A little further south between the Canastota Reservation and Seneca Avenue were scattered a few white settlers. On July 27, 1810 a patent was executed by the State to Captain Reuben Perkins whereby the legal title passed to him. An Indian, called White Daniel, lived where the residence of Donald Dew now stands and it was of him that Captain Perkins bought 329 and 2 10 acres of land at .£1.00 an acre. For many years the only schools in the vicinity were log huts. A log house where the Lee Furniture Factory used to be was the first school house. The first frame school-house was at the corner of Stroud Stre.t and Seneca Avenue, just west of the home of Hrs. 'Margaret Milmoe. In 1821 the Commission of Common Schools located a site for a school along the Canastota Creek. On this site a school was modeled after the one at Quality Hill at the expense of £149. But misfortune overcame this school and it was burned in 1822. A new school was buiJt on Center Street across from Preston's store for £270. This 3chool was 24x30 fe .t. When a change in state laws took place the school system became so bad that private schools were begun in Canastota. A suitable site in Chapel Street of 2| acres was chosen and a school 34x50 feet was built. This school was divided into two departments. In this building more that 150 children learned their lessons. Owing to the great number of pupils entering each year, the schoo-1 had to be enlarged and a new one built for senior grades on the same site. • In 1877 the Union School was built. This building was 66x77 fe«-t and three stories high. This school was enlarged 107 feet in length by x908, and is still standing now housing Canastota Junior High School. In 1925-26 the taxpayers decided that a new high school must be had and in 1927 the present high school was built. If the enrollment of our school system continues to expand as it has expanded the last few years, we shall have to have an addition to this building.

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FACULTY Superintendent of Schocls--Glen F. Pogardus— To him poes the giaior credit ''or our fine educational opportunties . St» Lawrence University, B. S.; Cornell Summer School, five years- Columbia University Summer School, one year; teaching experience, seventeen years. Principal of Canastota High School--D. R. McLean-- The measure of a man is the depth of his convictions, the height of his ideals, and the breadth of his human interest and sympathies. Syracuse University, A. B.; Syracuse University Summer School four years; Cornell University Summer School, one year; Teaching experience at Canastota High School, eight years; subject, Mathematics. Miss Anna B. Clines--Vice Principal— True worth is in being, in doing, some little good each day College of St. Elizabeth A. B.; twelve hours on M. A.; Cornell University Summer School, five years; Buffalo Normal, one year; European study and travel one summer; Teaching experience at Canastota High School nine years; subject, English two, three and four. Mrs. Margaret Milmoe-- The worth she has been to us cannot be valued—it has been so great. Cornell-University, B.S.; Cornell University Summer School, three years: Board of Education nine years; Teaching experience at Canastota High School, twenty years; subject, Mathematics, Adviser. Miss Louis H. Powers--Preseptress— You had a genius’s art to turn our troubles into smiles; to joke with us between the whiles New York State College for Teachers, A. B.; Summer School, three years: European travel, one summer; Teaching experience in China, four years; teaching experience at Canastota High School, seven years, subject, Latin. Miss Gertrude E. Daniels— She was never too busy to help and assist New York State College for Teachers, A. B.; Teaching experience at Canastota High School, five years; subjects. Mathematics and Science. Mrs. Vera Gray Smith-- She is small, but worth her wireight in gold Syracuse University, A. B.; Summer School; Teaching experience at Canastota High School, eight years; subject, Science.