Deposit Central High School - Acorns Yearbook (Deposit, NY)

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BOARD OF EDUCATION JOHN M BRIGGS-Preszdent LELAND BOYD FAY YVHITE FLOYD BROWN Clerk DEWEY DECKER NiRS KENNETH SMITH DR. C. M. AXTELL-Health Ojzcer JAY SMITH-Collector HOWARD JOHNSON-District Superinlmzdent MABEL TUCKER-Treasurer Page Four

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-XCORNS 1942 PRISCILLA AYTELL-Edztor zn chze ROBERT BLTCHER Photo Edztor ENIILY BRIGGS-Senzor Edztor MARY HATHAYVAY-Sophomore Edztor RICHARD STORRER junzor Edztor JANIES JOHNSON Freshman Edztor NIARTHA XX ARD Busmess Manager WILLIAM ANDERSON Adazser TABLE OF CONTENTS fCOL6T by Raymond Burrozwj PAGE F orew ord Dedxcatxon Board of Educatlon H1 tory of Deposxt s Schools hx Marx Niarshman and Jane Hcbler Faculty Student Counc1l ASK BuKaws' The Glory ofD C S Class Hlstory bx ane Marshman School Calendar hx ane 'Warshrnan Inferlors Xhse Guxs Pettw Cash Informals Cxrls Athlctxc Counc1l Archon Y arsxtv D Footb xll B cbxll Chrcrlcxders and Frlends Chc ss Nioclcl Club Photo Club Prfss Club md X c xrboolx St xfl Prmters Club Llllflm Club S4 mor cmd umor Dr 1m mc C lubs 'Nrcdlccr aft C lub Ixmttmq C lub Snr ncc C lub Frcnch 'md Lxtm Clubs Cllu Club Band and Orchestra Future Farmers of Amerlca Charm C lub Elqhth Grades Sex enth Grades Xlumm Dtrectorw by Xiartha XX ard and Rxchard Storrer 43 Page Three . 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HISTORY OF DEPOSITS SCHOOLS As un most puoneer communutues the first schools of Deposut were rude structures whose educatuonal offerungs were of a very elemental type 'Ihe first real school of the comnuunuty was an acad cmy about whuch luttle us known except that ut was buult un 1830 and destroyed by fire un 1835 ln 1851 the pru vate school called The Laurel Bank Semunary was erected The unutual move to buuld a semunary un the ullage of Deposut was unaugurated on November 23 1852 Its promoters met for the purpose of establushung an unstutu tuon lun pursuance of the laws of New York State and especually of an act to uncorporate acadcmuc and hugh schools un thus state passed july 11 1851 I for luterary and scuentufic unstructuon and educatuon and to procure and confirm the uncorporatuon thereof un conformuty wuth saud laws lhey called the assocuatuon The Deposut Semunary The caputal mock of the school was ten thousand dol lars duvxded unto Eve hundred shares of twenty dollars each lhere was a total of suxty luve stockholders Provusuons were made for the Laurel Bank Semunary to be located ln the Vullage of Deposut un the bounty of Delaware upon a lot on the east of the ruver on the resudence of Albert C Weed provuded that saud lot could be procured for Eve hundred dollars The Weed lot was 264 feet wude un front and rear and 825 feet deep contaunuuug five acres or land The hrst meetung of trustees of Deposut School was held at the office of Nelson K Wheeler january 8 1853 assocuatuon and pruncupal of the Semunary Hus salary was Eve hundred dollars per annum wuth board of self and wufe and furthermore uf the duvudends exceeded four teeuu per cent one hundred dollars was to be added At the meetung of the board of trustees held October 17 1853 the members voted to change the name of the school to Laurel Bank Semunary The flnushed school buuldung was ll6x40 feet wuth four stones and a stone basement The upper structure was of wood wuth stone flllungs The school opened on December 14 1853 wuth two hundred pupuls un attendance Laurel Bank Semunary con tunued as a successful enterpruse for several years but flnancual duicultues led Reverend Allen and hus brother to purchase the property The corporatuon was then dus solved and the school was contunued as a pruvate enter pnse ln March of 1857 Reverend Allen dued and the school was closed However ut was re opened un 1859 by a John Wxlde who was succeeded by H A Manboot un 1861 After several years the school was closed agaun and was vacant untul a young adventurer callung humself Colonel II Lewellyn Young opened ut as a school for the orphans of war veterans The school was then sold to Mrs john C Frcemont and contunued as a successful enterpruse untul ut was de stroyed by fire un 1867 Several small schools were un exustence at the tume of the Semunary but there were none of much sugnuficancc untul about the year 1864 when a new schoolhouse for Dustruct number three was erected and called Pune Grove School lt was located on the very edge of the vullage on what us now Fourth Street near Court Street and replaced a school whuch had been on the south sude of Church Street Front and Second Streets Page F1-ve ln 1875 when the jount Unuon Free School came unto beung a graded school system was organuzed A prumary department was provuded at Pune Grove School and there was also a prumary school on Marvln Street but all pupuls upon reachung the fourth grade had to attend Pune Grove School Professor james Iahonnet was the first pruncupal of the Deposut Ilount Unuon Free School and Muss jennue French teacher of the first three grades Muss Nellue Comstock the fourth grade teacher and Muss Sheuk the teacher of the fifth and suxth grades were all mem bers of the Pune Grove staH The last classes held un the Pune Grove School were un 1884 and sunce then the buxldung has been used as a sled uactory and later as a dwellung Also exustung dunng thus penod were Brooksude and the Deposut Academy Of the former luttle us known but records guve us some knowledge of the latter The Deposut Academy was erected on the sute of the present school buuldung un 1866 67 The followung unformatuon was taken from one of the first catalogues of the Academy Deposut Academy us located un the Vullage of De posut Broome County New York Thus vullage us pleas antly sutuated on the Delaware Ruver and us one of the pnncupal statuons for the New York and Erue Raulway Several stage routes centerung here connect ut wuth the surroundung vullages Hugh hulls appear on every sude whuch afford the admirer of nature a varuety of beautuful the vullage us good ut us healthful pleasant and well adapted to the quuet and successful pursuut of scuence Four courses of study were offered to anyone enroll ung un the Academy Prumary Preparatory Scuentuflc Llassucal These courses uncluded such studues as map drawung rhetoruc natural phulosophy astronomy muner ology evudence of Chrustuanuty Greek etc The followung rules of Conduct were structly en forced and punushment unllucted upon anyone who dusre garded them 1 Students are requured to observe the Sabbath and to attend Church They must also attend Chapel at eught thurty every mornung 2 No profanuty ummoral conduct or gamblung are to be undulged un by the students 3 Students must not be bousterous un conduct or loud un conversatuon 4 Students are forbudden to deface property other than theur own 5 No tobacco or luquor us allowed the students and they must not frequent places where thus us used 6 Students are requured to attend luterary exer cuses and to take part un these programs 7 No firearms or other dangerous weapons may be carrued by nudents 8 Students may be expelled for musbehavuor The obuect of the Academy was to secure the proper untcllectual and moral development of those un the school The expense for one term lfourteen weeksl un the prumary department was about five dollars plus the cost or boardung ln the hugh school department the cost was about eught dollars More was charged for advanced traunung 9 Y I , , . . ' , - - ' ' I . , I .I I . . , r . . 7 , r . w ' , y I . ' ' ' D V - ' ' a D 3 . . . . .. ' . , ' : ' ' 9 I 1 ' I I ' - . I - I I at . . . . ' lf . - , , 5 . . , . . I ' I I I I ' . , ' , . The Reverend A. P. Allen was elected presudent of thc landscape scenery. The moral and religious character of - . . - .. . . , . . ' 1 3 ' v I , . I . . , 7 tn - 11 I ! I A I I I I I Y I . I . . . . 1 1 I U ' . , D . 1 3 ! 7 . . I l ' -T I 1 I 1 l I I . ' - l . I , I . . ff ' . .i 4 l , I I I . . , I 'i I ' . L , . ' ' QI . V 1 7 . l 11 , ' O