Chenango Forks High School - Gateway Yearbook (Chenango Forks, NY)

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PROPHECY S I walked down the dusty street I saw a general store an' SIHCG I needed a plug of tobacce I took myself ln I stepped up to the counter a.nd sakes alive' There was FRAN WHITMARSH Well, howdy gal' I excla1med What you do1n' way out here? I runs thls here sto e she says come on an' set a spell, hain t seen you s1nce '52 that s mgh on to 10 years Wa a l, we set around the cracker barrell and started a talk1n about our old class mates I had Just come up from the bxg c1ty an' I d seed MARY TURNA down there She s a rumun' one of those hlghfalutm' fach1on magazmes GORDIE OUTMAN, you recolllkt h1m he s a workln' as her plcture snapp1n' ed1teer LEONARD PETERS he fmally got off that h1ll IS a model of men s clothes the dressy kmd I put up at the Arlmton Hotel an' guess who tote my bags! DICK FOX I shook hands w1th h1m fer about ten tlmes an' st1ll he kept puttln' h1s hand out That night they was a plannln' on havin' a banquet for some E J' b1g shots I heerd .TIM FENDICK was gonna' be there, ya see he fmally got ta be Charlle s ' r1ghthand man I dec1ded to really do the town that mght so I went to one of those places you have to pay to g1t mter I thmks they calls 'em mghtclubs There wa1t1n' at the door to set me down was BOB HATFIELD the head food brmger He tole me that they had a new bunch of smgm' men a quartet called the Pamdrops When the quartet came out there was .TOHN CROONER HUNSINGER, 'LOVER BOY DARWIN BURNETT, ' VELVET FOG AL SCHMIDT, and ' DEEP TONE LARRY SHERWOOD On the way up here I passed a reform school on the s1gn out front It read CATHIE ROMAIN Head matron I pulled mto a gas stat1on alongs1de a statlon wagon full of brushes, settm' in the front seat was PATSY SCOTT, the f1rst Fuller brush g1r1 1n Amerlca As I set thar a gabbm' I took note of two b1llboards On one was a plcture of BOB ROGERS 1n an ad for Groblg Cereal The other one was DEIJORES SLUGGER WILCOX advert1s1n' Curve X Baseballs They shore went fer Say, d1d you know that BARBARA CHASE has a b1g plant around here, she bullds test tubes SY LVIA WILLIAMS IS workin' as her secre tary ln her spare time she 'cycles up to Greene You remember EVIE GIRAUD, wa she fmally up an' Joined the WAFS She s one of those Lootenents out ln Texas Oh! an' lxssen to th1s, DON YANKOSKY he s one of those daredevil drlvers, was speed1n' through town the other day doin' about 40 an' .TACK STEPHENS he s out town con stable had to go out an' p1ck h1m up Hum m Just about txme fer the mall to come through here DONNA TREADWELL started a drlvm the truck after our other driver ROG MILLER left to Jo1n the Navy I heerd from h1m the other day he s f1rst Lootenent in charge of scrapin' barnacles Say, you remember our twins, .T EAN and JOAN HAMILTON well Jean IS on the rad1o ln that program, 'My Frlend Irma Joa.n1e, poor Joanie, she Just hain t herself any more That song L1ttle White Cloud That Cried went to her head, she s a runnm around wlth t1ssues Just lookm' fer that cloud 'Land a goshen' It s nxgh onto four 0 clok reckon I Just gotter get home to Ju1ce the Jerseys 27 a . . rc H ' K6 ' H . . . ' 73 KI Y ' r 1 y - r - n ' . . . . , . . , . . . . . . . . , - . . - . . J ' J . . . , --W . , . . . . . . , . . , 4 . . . . ' r - D , - 44 H . 4 - H 1 - n 4 - n ' - - J a 1 - . . . cr 77 ' ' ,- . u ' ' . ....... . - , . -a-l . . , . . . . . , . . r , .- r r v - ' n . , . H - . . . . . . , . . ' 1 . , . , . 1 1 . K . ,, . . . , - . ' - n J - ' 1 - 1 1 . K . , . , . . . 1 .

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HISTURY EPTEMBER, ln the year 1939, was a great event 1n the l1ves of five of our semors Catherme Ro mam Patsy Scott, Lawrence Sherwood Sylv1a Wxlhams, and Robert Rogers Th1s was their f1rst year of school, wlth Mrs Hurlbut as thelr teacher Thls partlcular year went qulte slow but as we progressed through the years, they seemed to fly by From these early years llttle IS remembered except those who came and went In the second grade Donna Treadwell Joined our clan Mrs Palmer s third grade was our next step toward high school John Hunsxnger, Roger Mxller James Fendlck, Jean and Joan Hamxlton and Frances Whltmarsh came that year but Fran left later that same year Mary Turna Jack Stephens, and Gordon Outman Joined 1n throwmg paper wads in Mrs Sparks fourth grade We went back to Mrs Palmer s care ln flfth grade These first f1ve years were rather peaceful but when we reached Mrs Pr1esler's slxth grade we really knew what was what fwe thoughtl Robert Hatfleld and James Bromley helped even more to lwen up that year Sylvia W1lliams moved but must have mlssed the old tlmes as she came back a couple of years later By the tlme we reached seventh grade, we were spllt unto two rooms, some ln Mrs Hollenbeck's and the rest ln Mrs Nelson's The new comer, Darwm Burnett was gladly welcomed Th1s was what you mlght call the movmg year Fran Whltmarsh returned Bob Hatfield moved but came back in the elghth grade and Patsy Scott left ln January and returned in May The long hard grmd fmally brought us to our flrst goal Elghth grade Two people joined the class that year They were, Donald Yankosky and Leonard Peters At last Htgh school here we were Boy, dxdn t lt feel grand to be a full fledged freshman M Walsh and Mrs Munson fthen Miss Parkerl were our falthful advisors Barbara Chase Jolned our class that year It felt wonderful to be ln hlgh school even lf upper classmen dldIl't seem to notlce us Before we knew 1t,we were Sophomoreswxth Mr Grow and Mrs Wells as our advxsors Delores Wllcox, Albert Schmldt and Evelyn Glraud became part of the happy gang that year That was the year thlngs started poppm Our bxggest campalgn was sellmg sweat shirts and proud we were when our campalgn proved successful We really would have been lost 1f it hadn t been for our advlsors who worked Just as hard as we did perhaps harder at tlmes As Jumors wlth Rlchard Fox as a new classmate, we went right to town, starting our card selling campalgn It may have been hard work but after all look at the profits However, our really b1g affalr was the Jumor Prom Everyone worked especlally hard for thxs Flnally the b1g mght came The theme was Blue Heaven, and Larry LaViola supplied the muslc Everything was lovely especlally our Queen Barbara Chase and the king Larry Sherwood Compllments were glven left and rlght about dec oratlons gowns and the Prom as a whole We d never have made lt lf xt hadn't been for Mrs Munson and Mr Grow once agam our advlsors Fmally, 1n 1952 we reached our goal we were semors We can now look back and see that the dreams of our Freshman year have been fulfllled Jlm Bromley left our class leavlng twenty four seniors to don caps and gowns ln June Mr Bocko our patlent adv1sor, deserves a medal for guiding us through our fmal fling at hlgh school We sponsored several dances and our Semor Movles every Wednesday helped feed our treasury whxch was suffermg from malnutrlclan at the begmning of the year Our maga z1ne sale was a great success and fmally our yearbook After weeks of worry and work the dummy was completed under Mr Crounses fme supervlslon We are now lookmg forward to our New York trlp and that welcome mght when twenty four semors w1ll become men and women of the world 26 . , . i , . . . g . . ' ' ' f KC 77 7 0 ' ll 77 ' , . . - a 1 1 . , 7 7 y . . . . ' , , . . . . l . n u . , . , . . J u - I , c ' ' KK ' 77 ' n . u , , . , , . . . U . 0 s . , 0 I ' I ' ' ' - . r. . . l . . 1 , i . u - . . . We convlnced ourselves wlth, Just wait, we'll be ln thelr place ln three years. f - - 0 . xc U I , . . ,, . ,, . . . . . , . n . , . . - n . a 0 n , s , n 1 . u v cc no ' - . ' . s I n n , , 1 y ' ' . , . . . , , u . . . . , . 1 ' - . ' . , . . . rr ' 77 - - - 1 . - n o , . 7 ' ' ' ' lt 77 - r . . I . . . I

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NAME Darwm Burnett Barbara Chase James Fendlck Rlchard Fox Evelyn Glraud Jean Ham1lton Joan Hamxlton Robert Hatf1eld John Huns1nger Roger M1ller Gordon Outman Leonard Peters Cather1ne Roma1n Albert Schm1dt Patsy Scott Lawrence Sherwood Jack Stephens Donna Treadwell Mary Turna Frances Wh1tmarsh Delores Wllcox Sylvla W1111ams Donald Yankosky AMBWION Navy Just settle down Ambltion 'P ? To bu1ld a better H bomb To be happy President of the U S S80 week Job A1r Force A car that runs Stay smgle Press photographer Chem1st Get married Two kids Successful secretary To wm a basketball game A swell wlfe 4 k1ds and a St Bernard A draftsman Twms Secretary G0 to Greene Electr1t1on 28 FAVORITE SAYING Bandxt ' Jeepers You re good but I m better Try It thxs way Not mel ' Just a b1t I made a boo boo 'Let s see Bully I tell you Not th1s kid Watcha do1n? Oh oh I ll clue ya Fish' Why sure To heck w1th 1 I knew I d snort Goople So ? Georg Baloney Only ' CK ' H I J! ' ' cc 1 J ' ' ll ' ' 77 ' CK J ' . .A. ff ' ' CK - H ' ' 4 1 sa ' cc n ' ' ' li u KC - n ' fl ' n Robert Rogers Retire Ba10neyI ' ' cr - n ' rc a 21 rc .37 ' rr an ' cc ' 'tln ' . rc 1 U If ' !D ' ' cc 1: ' cf elm ' ' ' rc an rr ---J