Colton Pierrepont High School - Coltonian Yearbook (Colton, NY)

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MARY VERONICA HAYES Friendly Glee Club 1 Student Council 2 Racquetteer Staff 1 Saluta torian ESTHER MARY JOHNSON Cheerful Chorus 1 Press Club 3 Secretary-Treasurer 4 Student Council 2, 3 Sophomore Play Senior Play Coltonian Staff 4 DAVID RICHARD SEVEY Mouse Baseball 2, 3. 4 Basketball 2, 3 Press Club 4 Senior Play Student Council 4 Coltonian Staff 4

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WILLIAM EDWARD THOMPSON Genius Secretary 2, 3 President 4 Sophomore Play Racquetteer 2, 3, 4 Basketball 2 Manager 3, 4 Editor in Chief of '49 Coltonian- Valedictorian FRANCES MARIE VANDERBURG Perservering Band 1, 2, 3, 4 Chorus 1, 2, 3 Dancing Club 1 Senior Play Coltonian Staff 4 BARBARA LOUISE FISHER Chorus 1, 2, 3 Band 1, 2, 3, Sophomore Play Senior Play Press Club 3 Dancing Club 1 Student Council 1, 4 Secretary 1 Treasurer 3 Coltonian Staff 4

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History of the Class of ’49 We, the members of the class of 1949, have nearly reached the end of our High School days, and that being so, we feel that now is the time for us to makes a record of what we have done in our four years in High School. Later, as the poet says: Forsan et haec olim meminissee juvabit! First of all, our class entered Colton High School in 1945, with a small, well-behaved group of twelve members, all uncon- scious of the future, and all anxious to know what lay ahead. At the first class meeting, Lloyd Daniels was elected president; Katherine Vanderburg, vice-president; Barbara Fisher, secretary; Harold Perkins, treasurer; and Mrs. Hawley, class advisor. As Freshmen, we sang in the Glee Club, played basketball, joined in the band, and tried hard! At exam time, lo! everyone passed!! In the fall of '46 we returned to school, but now we were thirteen, for, though John Austin and Larry Sullivan had left us In the summer, we gained Mary Hayes, Edward Thompson, and Kenny Wadleigh. As Sophomores, we re-elected Lloyd Daniels president, and Harold Perkins, vice-president; Edward Thompson was chosen secretary; Billy Selleck became treasurer, and Mrs. Roland Saucier was chosen class advisor. We set a record that year, for we staged two activities, the first being the Annual Sophomore party at Hallowe'en, and the second, the presentation of a one-act play, Deferential Kind- ness. But our Junior year we were a smali class indeed, for illness took Mary Hayes out for a year, Betty Shea married, and Billy Selleck had left school. At the end of the Junior year we had also lost Hilda Newton to matrimony, and Kenny Wadleigh to the Navy. And the very last day of summer vacation, Lloyd Daniels went into the Army! But Junior year saw us starting another new money raising activity, the sale of Christmas cards; our Junior Rings were ordered, and at the end of the year we gave our Stardust Junior Prom. Our officers that year were the same as those of our Soph year, but we'd had to change our advisors, Mr. O. F. Freeman consenting that year to guide us. And then, our Senior Year! What we did to raise money for our Yearbook, and our hopes for a trip, and our gift to the school, are all so well known we don't have to recite them: paper collections, food sale. Bingo, advertising sales, and our Senior play GAY ! My! How we worked, and there were only eight of us, for Rita LeBlanc had joined our class in her Junior year, and Frances Vanderburg, too. Senior year we had our own home room, and our class advisor, Mrs. Saucier, in charge of it and of us. Edward Thompson was president; Harold Perkins, vice- president, and Esther Johnson became secretary-treasurer. There it is, all written down here, and now that it's June 1949, it's all a matter of the past. Thus always with history!