Corcoran High School - Glen Echo Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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John Donegan Donna Drake Jeff Drew Becky Durham Cathy Ecker Gregory Edge Andy Eicholzer Kathy Ellinger Sue Emm Joanne Esce Sara Evertz Nancy Falso Neal Felder Tom Feyerabend Anne Files Margaret Fitzpatrick Vickie Floyd David Ford Leroy Fowler Julie Fox Dave Freund Cheryl Furze Karen Galvin Matt Gannon Alison Garvin Chuckie Garzone Youlanda Gatcwood Kevin Gauthier Coleen Gleason Curt Goldacker A typical scene during a chemistry lab, flare-ups like this are the reason that the life expectancy of the average chemistry teacher is lower than the national average Conly joking, Mr. Swiatlowskij 2

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Peggy Collins Evelyn Colomb Robyn Condon Maureen Connelly Eddie Cook Susan Cooper Tom Corbett Sharon Corcoran Dave Cortese Kelley Cramer Alvin Crawley Mike Dahlin Donna Darling Michael David Darius Davis Cara Delaney Dorine Delee Kathy DeRosa Roger Derwoyed Linda Dio Debra Dixon Lillie Dixon Cindy Donalson Darlene Donath Test Tube Trauma Chemistry, the much dreaded class, gen- erally taken by Juniors, is a hinderance to many of us at Corcoran. For those of us who have taken it, we have many fond UD memories. Who can forget watching dedicated students diligently trying to light their bunson burners, the tools used most often throughout the year. The looks of anticipation as the young chemists excitedly wait for the result sometimes are more comical than expected. Many a student will red- facedly connect his burner to the gas after 8 or 10 futile attempts at lighting the cursed thing. The hopeless chemists will be long- remembered, as each lab period C2 days a weekj they unknowingly turn the lab fand the school, for that matter!J into a tire hazard by adding the wrong chem icals to the wrong test tubes, or letting the flame of their bunson burners dwin- dle to nothing, yet leave the gas turned on. Eventually the gas leak is discov- ered, as the other students, and of course the teacher, begin to smell the familiar odor. And we'll never forget the periodic table, which is a guide to the basics of Chemistry, but always seems to be a puzzle, with quite a few pieces missing. To sum up, Chemistry is . . . well, it's sort of. . . well, it's rather . . . it's kind of an . . . experience.

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A serene view of one of the Corcoran bridges settles one's nerves during a hectic school day Schools, Businesses, and highways were shut down. Airports were closed or operated with reduced flights. Power outages were reported, Trains ran late. Some newspapers shortened publications. A city-county command center was set up in the Public Safety Building. Su- permarket shelves were stripped of all essen- tial items. These were just some of the pre- cautions and efforts taken against the storm that wasn't. All this occurred on Thursday, January 26, 1978. Syracuse City School Superintendent, Sidney L. Johnson admitted that weather did not be- come as treacherous as forecasted, but he said the winds, which brought the tempera- ture to 40 degrees below zero, caused him to close schools. Johnson noted that the wind- chill factor caused concern because more than 12,000 district students must walk to school. All indicators showed that Syracuse was in the path of a killer storm that had left 40 people dead, thousands stranded, and several states declared official disaster areas. The Na- tional Weather Service in Ohio reported that blizzard conditions, with winds up to 70 mph was the strongest to pass over the state in 100 years. When you have something that has totally devastated three states and is coming your way, you can't just ignore that, said Richard Neave, Hancock Airport Me- teorologist. Fortunately for Syracusians, the storm chang- ed course before reaching our area. Yet, there were those who criticised the Police, the Su- perintendents' of schools and even the me- teorologists who took the necessary precau- tions to assure our protection. We of the Glen Echo Staff support all those who made an effort to warn us of the possi- ble hazzards. We are grateful to Mr. Neave and concur with his statement, K'I'd rather miss the storm this way than to miss it the other way and have the deaths and the agony that come with it on my mind. Upper Onondaga Park is the setting for this quiet bridge situated near Hiawatha Lake. Q0 Q gg if 5 kk ' gg , , of - .J y ia f Aw E399 Q53 D. WHEN f' VM ,, ,z ffnlurz-' aff it K, Y, if-eg, For 1' ,- G