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

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50 THE LIFE OF A CHEERLEADEF The choosing of the cheerleaders is one of the main events at the beginning of the school year. We practice for weeks and fin- ally the day is set. One group of girls does a cheer and then another until the judges decide who will be the lucky ones. Then comes the big question of what to wear. For football we decided to wear skirts and sweaters. But another question--what color? At last we appear with white sweaters and gray skirts. We have to cheer in rain and snow and very often it is muddy under foot. Then before you know it basketball games are about to begin. Again we wonder what we shall wear. At last we decide to wear white blouses and last year's blue ju pers. But here was the next problem: How much material and where can we find it? After a long strug- gle we get white satin and have our blouses made. Incidently, they are very pretty. Soon it is time for an out of town game. All the cheerleaders look forward to this. We all pile in the bus about six o'clock. On the way we sing and have a wonderful time. After what seems like hours we reach the school where we are to play. The boys make a mad dash for the locker rooms and we head for the gym. First the J.V.'s play and their cheerleaders take advantage of every 'time out' to cheer for the boys. Soon their game is over and the Varsity players come our and warm up. First we give a Yell for the Boys.' Then we do a few nPepn yells until the game begins. Between quarters we take turns with the opposing squad doing cheers. Usually in the half the other school's cheerleaders come over and get acquainted. If the game is very close we do fighting yells. If we are ahead we let the opposing group of cheerleaders have the floor. At the end of the game we run out on the floor and cheer with the boys and congratulate them. On the way home the boys talk over the game and the girls sympathize, believe mel often we stop somewhere and get some- Very thing to eat, then merrily on home to camh a few winks of sleep before sunrise. J7'A12M ? COMPARISON Did you ever stand in a patch of hard- woods and feel lonely, without protection, open to the cold wind? Nothing stirs, save an itinerant chlckadee, who appears to be making noise just to keep himself company. And have you ever felt oppressed by the cold dark evergreens, so thick, shutting out the sun? The wind moves mysteriously in the tops, not stirring the cold layers of air at their bases. But how much more interesting and alive hardwoods and evergreens together are, supp- lementing each others colors, providing shel- ter and comfort for small animals and birds. Such a piece of woods is always nicer to be in. So it is with our world and the people therein. QW M3 THE JOB PRESS The composing room is in dead silence. The form has been locked in. After the im- pression and make-up the job is ready to run. First there is a short, loud click of the electric switch. The motor whirrs, there isa flopping of the belt, the clutch is slowly let in. The motor labors for a few seconds but is going in full speed. As the operator feeds the papers and releases the lever, the form and Wbedn meet The rollers skip over the with a deep nughn. type making a noise like a seamstress ripping a piece of material in two. After each im- pression there is a clankety-clank of the dig of the revolving disk. When the rollers c0m6 in contact with the disk of ink it sounds as through a huge piece of adhesive tape was being ripped off a person's back. The rollers keep journeying from the disk with ink for the type until all copies are fed. With the motor turned off the composing room is in silence againQ5y7QHJ6L!VC2Ag1LbLZzb! THE OAKES The buzzing of the power saw, cutting away the life of a huge real oak, burns my ears and makes a sickening sensation in my stomach. This giant statue, one of the na- tion's most beautiful pieces of art, towers above the surrounding hemlocks, swaying back and forth in the cold, north wind. The sway- ing and rocking motion is its farewell to the young and strong dark green hemlocks and to its friends of the same specie who, too, will soon be cut by this ravenous machine. The tiny saplings will loose the protection which has hovered over them, protecting them from the fierce winds and harsh rains. They may even be crushed by its death plunge or re- ceive a jagged scar which shall mark them forever, There will be no more acorn! to clutter the ground for the gray squirrels or leaves to make a rich bed of humus for the young saplings to bed their roots in. The oak goes twisting and crashing to the ground. It has lived to serve nature and mankind but mankind has lived to destroy man- kind and nature. gg Z qAj3gQ BAND PRACTICE The noise you hear over in the music house is not the roof falling in but the C.C.S. band warming up for a regular practice session. That brassy noise is the trumpets sounding high E. The squeaky, shrill note is the clarinets, tuning on concert B. Those low mellow notes that slide out, come from the bells of the trombones. That clash and clat- ter is the cymbols falling on the floor, as the drummers look for drumsticks number two. All of a sudden, the noisy clatter and squeak stopsg the last tuning before they begin to play. Then, on the last down beat they start, but the attack is fuzzy, so they begin again. The attack was better this time, so they keep playing, and to use an oldtimerd nMiracles never ceasen. The nMarilyn Waltz sounds a little like a waltz and the nCourier Marchn seems to possess the march rhythm. So the band plays on, and what is heard is pleasing, regardless of the.groans emitted during a practice session.g,MnicM fgdgloqa

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Q BAND AND ORCHESTRA BAND - left to right - lst raw: B. Anderson, C. Win- E'6kTH. Barrows, B. larming, D. Fessendan, D. Manning, G. Roberts, H. lanning 2nd row: A. Banning, R. Seah , '15:'lii.ng, Miss Day, J. Blinn, B. man, c. allure, s. xaldm 5rd rvla W. Manner, P. lard, R. Kellogg, P. F. Estelle, Vergeson, D. Barrows, C. Tal- arski, I. Vergaaon. C. C. S. HOST FOR COUNTY MUSIC FESTIVAL, MAY 2 High point of the year for the music de- partment was the annual county festival, to which Candor played host. Several hundred student muslcains attended the event, which featured massed band, orchestra and choir un- der the distinguished leadership of Harold Henderson of Auburng who is director of high school music there. The churches and the Grange served sup- per to the visitors. Their cooperation was an important factor in the festival'a success. All of the county's seven schools were represented by bands, orchestras and choruses Four hundred students participated in the festival. Growing interest has been shown by stud- ents and the community in the C.C.S. band, which attained twenty-five members this year. The band played at basketball games, assem- blies, and at a special band concert in March ORCHESTRA - Left to right - lst rows L. Wlnnick, 'B. Bar- ?5i.T c. mum-, c. 'Paler- gki, D. Manning, D. Barrows, N,Sulq 2nd row. Miss Day, G. Roberts, ng, B, An..-t, c. all- bert, S. Kaidon, M. Barrows, B. lumnng,A. Naming 5rd row, P. Vorgason, R. Kol- 1'5'fgT7'. Estelle, P. wa.-a. W- lanzer, linlfrod lanzor. to raise money for uniforms. At this concert Virginia Scott and Winifred Manzer were feat- ured in a two-piano excerpt from the Carnival of the Animals', accompanied by the orche- stra. Band officers for the year were: Bar- bara Ahart, presidentg Agnes Manning, secre- taryg and Polly Vergason, treasurer. Music is an increasingly important part of the life of Candor Central School. Studs ents receive their first musical training in the grades, where note reading, rhythmical development and appreciation are stressed. Here they play musical games and put the skills to use in a way which is interesting and enjoyable to elementary school children. Miss Berry, the second grade teacher, has been teaching first and second grade music this year. The children are learning to-match tones and being introduced to the beginning technicalities.