Central Park School - Scrip Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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9A MILESTONES One cold, snowy morning in January, I933, a band of 7B youngsters was ushered into the magnificent audi- torium of C. P. I. S. for the first time. This was the graduating class of January, I936. In a short time we were assigned to our home rooms where we received our schedules. After wandering around the building for a while and being pulled in by numerous traffic officers, we finally reached our classes. With the pass- ing of a few weeks the newness of C. P. I. S. gradually wore off, and we began to feel more homey. Finally we received our third report cards. We entered 7A where we experienced a new icy. We were allowed to ioin a club. Betty Mannes and George Biittner won the tennis tournament for the girls and boys respectively during this year. 8B quickly followed, and in 8A Shirley Jennings received the Lincoln School Parent Teachers award for ability. Dur- in this year, Betty Mannes again won the eighth grade tennis tournament forthe girls, and George Biittner for the boys. Finally we received our last report card in BA, and found ourselves in 9B, laden with homework. Towards the end of 9B we breathlessly elected, with the help of the rest of the school, our Student Council officers. Robert McPadden won the coveted position of president. John Hanrahan became vice-president, Audrey Keele, secretary, William Wilkin, treasurer. Then we reached the top. We became 9A's and with this came dances and all sorts of committees. Very soon after our arrival into 9A, we met to elect our class officers. Peter Weber was chosen president, Frank Reyes, vice- president, Shirley Jennings, secretary, William Kruk, treasurer. All too soon our 9A term came to a close, and with it, examinations. Now, although we are waiting expectantly to enter high school, it is with regret and sadness that we leave all the fine teachers we have had, our dean, Miss La Bell, who has been a great help to us throughout our 9A term, and last, but not least, dear old C. P. l. S. to the on-coming students who, we hope, may have as happy a time as we have had here. HADASSAH SAHR INTERESTING INFORMATION ABOUT 9A'S CHARLES CULVER'S father was chauffeur for Charles P. Steinmetz just after the war. Unbelievable-AUDREY KEEFE, our little girl, received for the first land last we hopel time a D on her report card. JOHN KELKER, the little boy with the great mind, was born in China. GLORIA CAMMAROTA'S baby picture was in the paper as Schenectody's Prettiest. MARTHA JANE HOFFMAN accomplished, for the first time in her Central Park School days, a report card which showed all A's and B's. VE MILLER, was in the midst of a cyclone in Nashville, Tennessee when she was but 3 years old. ROBERT PARSONS won a ski race at North Creek last winter. Believe me, it's true. ROSE CACCHILLO, always a smart girl, went to Italy for her summer vacation when she was in the 4th grade. HOWARD HICKIN, the Rubinoff of 9A, visited his native country, England, when a younger lad. WALTER WICKS, always the unheard, once lived on a sheep farm in South America. BARBARA HUBBARD must eat Wheatena. She climbed Mt. Marcy, 5,344 feet, when but 6 years old. Quite a thrill. ELSIE VESPERMAN, one of few words, was born in Germany. GLADYS PALMER, a very thrifty girl, knitted a presentable sweater with very few errors. SYLVIA LEVITT, while an infant in the hospital was mixed up with another baby and almost wasn't Sylvia. ELLA DWYER was blind when a tiny tot but grew out of it. BOB SMITH has been to Europe but very likely Bob can remember very little about it. BARBARA TANIS-Calvin Coolidge, a former president, was Barbara's third cousin on her mother's side.

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BY-PRQDUCTS A certain Lord Chamberlain once said: Take care ol the j k minutes and the hours will take care ol themselves. Just another epigram to most people, but let us consider just bs' f what this pithy phrase should mean to us of the younger T . generation. If , l ln this age of high-pressure and supercharged activity, ' we all tail to take advantage of much of the time at our 9 disposal. Forgetting, entirely, that it is the little things that count, we consider only the HOURS and overlook the MINUTES. There was a time when industry also overlooked the little things . . . for example, the meat packing business. The scraps and waste, once thrown away by the meat packers, are now turned into BY-PRODUCTS earning additional profits for the packers. Pigtails have become a table delicacy and the hair is used in the manufac- ture of fine ropes. And these BY-PRODUCTS, remember, have been produced from what was once considered waste. There is an important lesson to be learned from a study ol how our industry has turned waste into valuable by-products. Each day we are wasting TIME . . . throwing away valuable minutes that we should be turning into BY-PRODUCTS to our own profit. We all have certain duties to perform day in and day out. . . most of these are of minor importance and should be reduced to a rigorous and efficient routine. For instance, why take five minutes to comb your hair? Do this iob in two minutes and you will have three minutes left in which to produce a BY-PRODUCT that may pay big dividends in the future. The trouble lies in the fact that very lew of us realize that we have these ODD MOMENTS to spend in the development of something worthwhile.Too many ol us are lorever bemoaning the tact that we haven't time to do this or that, yet we are wasting many a spare minute every day in the year .... minutes that could be utilized for good reading, study or the pursuit of some hobby. We would do well to consider what many others have accomplished through the utilization of their odd moments and the valuable by-products that have been given to the world as a result. The story of Edison's life is one which proves the value of utilizing every spare minute . . . while Edison was working as a telegrapher, he was using his spare time to work on an idea that gave the world the duplex system of telegraphy. And this is true ol all successful men and women . . .in most every instance, the things for which they are most famous have been the BY-PRODUCTS of their ' ODD MOMENTS. lt is time, we ol the younger generation, started making practical use of our spare time . . .there are good books to be read, hobbies we can engage in, or studying for further advancement in the fields in which we are interested. We will do well to follow the example of others by putting to use thot spark of individuality, with which each ol us is endowed in creating some way of turning our now wasted ODD MOMENTS into BY- PRODUCTS of practical use.