Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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through the years September of 1944 is an outstanding month in the memory of most of us. Wihy? ln that month we, the class of 1950, entered Charlotte High School. Yes, the long awaited day had arrived when we were to step up from grammar school big shotsi' to inexpe- rienced high schoolers. As we sat in the auditorium listening to Mr. Eddy's welcoming speech, we were awed by the immensity of the building. Our first few days we spent getting ourselves lost in the dark 'idungeonsw of the basement looking for the locker- rooms, climbing fabulous stairways that led nowhere, and traveling endless halls. We were put up on the shelf from where we viewed the assembly programs and peppered our enemies below with spit balls and rubber erasers. We were disciplined for trying to sneak down the stair- way bearing the aggravating up only sign. At the end of our first year we had earned for ourselves rat- ings from the worst to the best of seventh grade classes to enter C.H.S. We were placed in permanent homerooms for the remainder of our days at Charlotte and instantly a feud between 110 and 108 arose. New teachers dotted the scene: Mr. Allen, Miss Deane, Mr. Halbleib and Miss Quinn, while the friendly smile of Mr. Clarence Allen of the Janitorial Staff was missing. Although the boys in the sewing classes threatened to go on strike, they managed to squeeze through the series of eight-week exploratory courses in hort, wood working, commercial, languages and home economics. John Marshall furnished us with a new vice-prin- cipal, Dr. Wishart, who immediately won the friend- ship of young and old. As we passed from the eighth grade and prepared to start the last four years of school, our principal and friend, George Emerson Eddy, retired after serving the Rochester Public Schools successfully for many years. We started the freshman year under the direction of our former vice-principal, now our principal, Mr. Glenn M. Dennison. Our class was enlarged by new arrivals from Holy Cross and Seneca Schools. Dick Wialton and Bob Myers were elected to the office of Junior High School President for fall and spring terms respectively, and little by little other class- mates were making their debuts into the various organizations that were open to us now that we were 9th graders. Gene Kintz returned to Charlotte to tutor the basketball team, and the athletes in our class made an initial appearance in Reserve Basket- ball. In June we went on the first of our two class trips to Cobourg with Mrs. Dale and Mrs. Collins chaperoning us, and we came back colder than an Eskimo's nose. Our second year of high school started off with a bang. The ever-popular Mr. Reifstack left Charlotte to go to Brighton, and he was replaced by the ener- getic Mr. Quenan, who was imported from Edison Tech. Our first day we were stopped dead with the task of writing the first of our annual friendly letters to Mrs. Morrison. We found our way to room 108 where some of us were to spend the next three years struggling across the Rhine, devouring the phony tales of the Gallic Wars, and trying to find out where Cicero hid his verbs. However, Norma Curtin, Joan Sprague, Bar- bara Windt, Joanne Butterfield, Barbara Cooper, Joan Meyers, Evelyn Wingate, Bill Friday, Bruce Gauch, Bill Howard, Ila Tuttle., and Nathan Yost, were rewarded at the 3-year end by receiving a Cum Laude. Evy Wingate and her egotistic friends of the opposite sex started a slanderous war of words that carried on until graduation. We were entertained in Plane Geometry by the fabulous lectures of Archimedes'i Barwald. In World History we learned from Mr. Miller that Mummy was a song made popular by Al Jolson. And, of course, now we attended the thrilling senior assemblies. On our second trip to Cobourg we sailed balloons from the rear of the boat, turned our staterooms inside out, engaged in a soaking squirt gun war and Ray Grosshans taught Margie Weller and Joyce Graham the techniques of dice handling. Everyone had a rare time. Our Junior year was very successful in that we accomplished a great deal. We elected Pat Parshall our class president, and sold popcorn fritters and programs at the basketball games, originated Club 15, and collected a dollar for class dues from every- one, thus, we were able to start the expensive senior year with a firm financial foundation. In November of that year we were stunned and saddened by the death of Richard Newman, one of our classmates. The quiet lad, friend of us all, will always remain with us in memory. We witnessed one of the most heated campaigns for Student Association President in many years, as Ted Collins passed out bubble gum and Bill Howard paraded in front of school with a billy goat and a brass band. Our school band became the best uniformed in the city when they received new cadet-style uniforms. The evening of May 27, 1949, was spent dancing to Continued on page 66 E231

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