Candor Central High School - Candorama Yearbook (Candor, NY)

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M ,xxv X 1 K i CENTRAL SCHOOLS The section of the Education Law that oertains to the forming of central schools was added ln 191U. After its amendment in 1965 central school districts began to be formed until at the oresent time there are P69 central school districts in the state of New York. There is before the present session of the legislature a bill to lay out into central districts the remaining un- centrallzed areas of the state. On Oct. 61, 1968, the Commissioner of Education laid out the Candor Central School District. This district as laid out con- tained the village Union Free School Dis- trict and seventeen common school districts. On Nov. 16, 1965 the voters of the district voted to form a central school district by a vote of APO to 96. On July l, 1959, the Hevly elected Board of Education of the cen- tral district will take over the administra- tion of all the schools of the central dist- rict. The puroose of the central school law is to orovide equal educational oooortunity for boys and girls of the rural areas of New York State. By means of additional state aid to central schools, the law attempts to eouallze the tax burden. The theory behind the olan of state aid is to tax the wealth wherever lt is found to educate the children wherever they may be. Thus, the rural dist- ricts with large ouoil populations and com- parably low assessed valuations will receive more state aid than the districts with high assessed valuations. This makes it oossible for the former districts to orovlde eoual educational ooportunltles. By eoualizing the tax rate over the district and taking advantage of the increased state aid that centralization orovides, a central school district is able with a reasonable tax rate to orovlde for its boys and girls the ed- ucation needed for the Wbetter llfe.N BOARD OF EDUCATION FRONT BQ! Cleft to right! Glenn Logue Celected for three years! Oswald J. Ward CPresident of the board! H.D. VanScoy Celected for four years! Hiram M. Nickerson Cdlstrlct suberlntendent of schools! BACK BQ! C.B. McCune QPr1nc1oal! Charles Brewer Qelected for one year! Hobert Manning Celected for five years! ----..0....--- Some of the alms of education es stated in the Regent's Inoulry Reoort include the following ideas: New York State wants to give every boy and girl an oooortunlty to attend good schools so that they may acouire the fundamental knowledge, skills and habits necessary to begin individual life and work. Besides these, we want the rising generation to be honest, courageous, friendly and con- siderate, to believe ln and have the habit of working hard, and to be accurate and res- oonsihle. We also want youth to believe in democracy and not only to know how but also to have a desire to do his oart as a citizen of that democracy. We also want youth eduipped with inner protections against the sway of prejudice and the thrust of oropa- ganda. Above all, we want education to whet the chi1d's appetite for learning and to start each youth on a whole lifetime of inner growth and enrichment. I believe that a central school orovides the best oooortunltles available to achieve the objectives set up ln the foregoing oar- agrabh. The state leaves a large Dart of the control of the schools to Uhome rulen and ln the flnal'analys1s, we can have the kind of a school the community wants. WWW

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R FRONT ROMQI. to r.l-Fessenden,Strong, McCune,Edwards, Gibbons. BACK ROW-Estelle, Burdick, Haag, Ward. BROADCASTER Four Broadcasters have been issued this year. As planned at first we were to have a shorter caper and issue it mor often. Upon starting, however,there was so much to write about that our paper became dulte lengthy. In November the Students Association sent a delegation to the Empire State Press Con- fertnce at Syracuse. Our paper was awarded a superior rating for mlmeographed papers. Our Exchange manager and production mana- ger have been busy sending an issue each time tn different schools and in return ra- celving one of their copies to comoare with ours. We have also tried to remember as many alumni students as possible who we think are interested in good old C.H.S. FRONT ROW fl. to r.Q-TbCune,Fovey,Strong,Butterfie1d, Blinn, Fessenden. BACK ROW-Bostwick, Haag,Meservoy, Nichols, Pattinson, Ward . 1 C W K I STUDENTS' ASSOCIATION At the start of each schowl year the stu- dents :re asked to join the Students' Assoc- iation. The membershio fee ls 95d and for this members enjoy many privileges. Members become eligible to elect officers of the Student Council to serve as officers. Members are free to make use of the ping- oong sets and the Nickelodeon. They can take part in meetings and association func- tions. This year for the first time, athletics are not sponsored by the Association but by the Board of Education. Instead, the Assoc- iation is striving to present better assem- bly programs. A schedule of programs and speakers was made out at the start of the year.These are more instructive and more be- neficial to the students than those pre- sented previously. The Association has a governing body called the Student Council. It is comoosed of four officers, three lay-members and two faculty advisors. Marian Edwards was sel- ected as lay member to fill the vacancy left by Ernest Nichols. The individual members of the Association are resoonsible for what- ever success the Association enjoys. Q . 4 5.

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FRONT BQH Kleft to right! Lucy Gooding--seventh and eighth grades Kathryn Pollock--homemaking Clara Strong--English, library Charles B. McCune--Princioal, science Eleanor Badger--first and second grades Mary E. Parker--history, drawing Lillian Prentice--second and third grades. BACK BQQ John T. Pnttlnson--commercial Frederick Brown--fourth and fifth grades Albert MacCoy--physical education Ross Ames--agriculture, shoo Ronald Ives--sixth and seventh grades Elizabeth E. Ives--music Absent: Helen Van Luven--Latin, French, Math. YOUTH AND TODAY It has often been said that while our western frontlers have oassed, the frontiers in many other olaces art entirely new. Many of our high school and college graduates are seemingly finding it difficult to obtain satisfactory emoloyment. The oooortunlty still exists for those who are prepared by training, natural ability and temperament to do the things that remain undone. It is a well known fact that the economic conditions of the world are out of order. Specifically, here in the United States as well as in other countries, there are some definite conditions which must be met if prosperity and emoloyment are to return. I hear business leaders saying that latest statistics show a tremendous under-consumo- tion of goods, making more unemoloyment and relief necessary. This lack of consumotion couoled with swollen costs of government and armaments is leading to financial and eco- nomic chaos. Where will youth fit in this situation? There is an army of youth trained, energetic and waiting. The time is not too far distant when this youth group will take their olaces in the new olan and I none with 11tt1e disturbance no our social order. Aff It seems economically sound to assume in planning for the new prosoerity that before it can become a reality, business must be allowed to oroduce goods at a orofit, for it is only from orofits that taxes, reserves, capital outlay, and other exoenses can be oaid. Lacking orofit, business must meet its obligations from caoital which will de- crease lts ooerating latitude and in a short time dry uo the source of revenue and oro- duce economic stagnation. There have been youth movements of vari- ous sorts in this and foreign countries. Many of these are valuable, others ouestlon- able. The rise of dictators in the world has been due to the fact that as the result of economic unrest these dictators have ap- Dealed to youth by furnishing an outlet for their cent uo energies. Yet we today rea- llze that these dictators, while aooenling to youth, are leading them in a very ouest- ionable direction, but they are meeting youth's immediate needs of action. Here in the United States we find an out- standing magazine conducting forums for youth. As a result of one of the forums, thousands of these choice youths expressed their ideas. To bring America back to her own, we as a nation, both old and young, must return to the humble virtues, truth, honesty, loyalty and reverence of things America cherishes and holds dear, and reli- gion of the oast. You will note these things can be done without financial outlay. when truth and honesty oermeate our deal- ings o'e with another, and loyalty to orin- clples of the founders of this nation mani- fests itself in places of trust, then says youth, WAmer1ca will come back to its own.N Youth, may I imolore of you individually and collectively to oreoare yourself in school, church, and home for this great re- soonsibility which you must and will assume to the everlasting benefit of yourselves and posterity? t,Q2AAgxx