Colonie Central High School - Rougetor Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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,4 Whispering Pine . . . One of the sleigh riders related the tale of Hans Waltimier, a Revolutionary Tory who led an attack on the Albany Schuyler Mansion. When this was repulsed, he fled through the Pine Bush where militia from Schenectady had established a look-out on a .hill, the Uyt Kyckg however Wal- timier eluding them, disappeared in the tractless wastes of the Pine Bush. The driver chimed in with the story of a cer- tain Page clan. Old Man Page was tall, swarthy and part Indian. His son, Levi, was short, stocky and a rough, tough brawler. To the Lansing Tav- ern they would go and there Old Man Page would taunt all the ruffians into a fight with Levi. Then, just when it appeared that Levi was about bany had a legal franchise to trade in furs but woods runners from Schenectady met the Indians in the Bush, bought their furs and then sold the pelts themselves. Albany ordered them to stop the illegal trading, but Schenectady did not listen and Albany had no force to stop them. Margaret Bradt, who lived at Margaretjesburg, gave an Al- bany sheriff a horsewhipping when he tried to arrest her for her illicit fur trading. Someone mentioned that Schenectady and Al- bany quarreled because Schenectadians charged Indians high rates for rides into Albany and refused to stop. An argument broke out among the children whether this trading was worse than the practices to lose, the father, screeching Indian war whoops, would rush into the fracas. Together, father and son would wreak havoc in grand style and, after fairly annihilating the mob, hurl them into the road. Then, their fun over, they would go back home. Another tale concerned the French hermit who had retired to the solitude of the area after wounding a man in a duel. Here he incurred the wrath of the good Dutch burghers because he was a Papist and kept an idol of the Virgin Mary in his hut. Some children remembered tales of practically a fur war between Schenectady and Albany. Al- F, of Albanians who were responsible for the Indians drinking and then stole their furs. Finally in 1723, the high courts of the area decided that Johannes Mynderse had a legal right to participate in the fur trade, and Schenectady at last enjoyed equal trading privileges with Albany. I watched this seventeenth century drama among my brother pines. How aghast I would have been if I could have foreseen that 20th cen- tury motor vehicles would whiz on modern high- ways through the area, their drivers unconscious of the intrigue that once pervaded the Bush.

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Bus Drivers A swift, yellow fleet of twenty-two buses, manned by experienced, capable drivers, travels the roads in all kinds of weather carrying about 95W of the children to and from the district schools. Our bus drivers have the confidence and respect of parents and pupils alike for their steady, dependable operations. H. Sherman CAssi.vtanl Mecbanicj, K. Tribley CHead Mecbanicj Front Row, left to right: F. Rothaupt, C. Herrington, grasso. Second Row: V. Miller, G. Hvizdak, E. Spring- E. Small CHead Bus Driverj, C. Paige, D. Hover, H. stead, K. Preston, J. McGrath, W. Garrison, R. Gabriel, Hover, S. Benedict, W. Ward, P. Sherman, M. Petro- 1 R. Salladin, R. Engel, F. O'Brien, W. Wiley, E. Rock- enstire, R. Clark. W. Osterhout, E. Rockenstire C 1 . P 1 . fDi.vtribute Hot Lunch to Grade Caf- O O O eteriasj -W its Left to right: George Mead, John Neil, Joseph 'l '? ' -rer- Sedlacek.

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