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

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HISTORY OF DEPOSITS SCHOOLS ln 1875 the Plne Grove and Brookslde Schools and the Depo xt Academy were centralxzed to form the Unxon Free School An addmon was bunlt on the Academy to accommodate the pupxls The average total of students each year was 446 The puplls were dluded lnto four departments academxc semor xntermedxate and prxmary Each department was then dxvlded mto three grades The following paragraph lS from the Grn cata logue xssued by the school and 15 under the headmg of General Information The vrllage of Deposxt IS pleasantly sltuated ln the beautxful valley of the Delaware about sux hours rxde from New York City ua the Ene Railway and IS noted for the healthfulness of rts chmate The mhabxtants are deeply lnterested xn the success of the school and wrll use every exertion to make the students from abroad feel at home and thexr stay leasant and prohtable Board can be obtamed ln prxvate armlles at from three to four dollars per week ,J lf PII IYI 1 I Rl I l Cannonsvnlle School Acquired By Centrallzatlon -1 NP DOROTHY DL N N School nurse graduated from Oswego Hugh Schcol and at tended Syracuse Genl Hoe pltal where she received her R N Prior to coming to De posit she was nurse at Man llus CLAYTON M AXTELL School physician graduated from Cornell Lnuerslty tak mg IIIIQIHSDID ln Belles ue Hospital He serwed as First l leutenant ln the Army nal Corps ln the World War Page Su: AN N FERRITER Dental HYQIOHISI and a grad uate of Oswego Hugh School attended Rochester Dental School and Syracuse Dental School from which she re cened her DA 9 n '1 F' 1 A A f .V 'I A, ly ff K' X ,' r A. f ' se. A .: .. W I t 'S Brin. ...I 4 .si L.- 1 A' ' ,Vg . Q 3 5 -, 2 .4 ,, I ' ' ll, Q . Q , J K. E O' y ,k , T, 4 I ' Yi ' w.. 0 C I ly ' Y I a I 1 .V K ' - ' ' ' V ,' ' ' Med- ' -

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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 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HISTORY OF DEPOSIT'S SCHOOIS A tumon was rcquxred of pupxls who hved outs de the school dxstrlct Three dollars per term fthere were three terms of fourteen weeks eachj was charged rn the pnmary department four dollars m the mtermedxate de partment srx dollars m the semor department and ezght dollars xn the acadermc department In 1914 after the razmg of the old Deposxt Umon Free School a new school was built on the same s1te at an approxxmate cost of sxxty thousand dollars The old name was retaxned but the townspeople usually referred to the school as Deposit Hxgh The buxldxng today remams much the same as rt was when first bullt On the Grst Hoor are seven class rooms with the Gymnaslum and borler room rn adjom mg sub basements The econd floor also contaxned sexen class rooms the office and the audxtorlum Fnve regular class rooms two science rooms the library the gallery teachers two general science teachers two mathematlcs teachers two commerczal teachers One teacher for each of the followm Latm French lndustnal Arts Home Makmg Agncu ture Also two physxcal educatxon teach ers two musxc supervxsors and one art supervxsor w11l com b1ne secondary work wxth elementary work Ten teachers wxll provxde for the first s1x grades ln the mann burldxng others to be added as rural schools close A nur e attendance olhcer and a supervxsmg prlncxpal wxll complete the staff The estimated pupll populatlon 15 856 of whxch 642 will attend the Deposlt School and 716 1n the present common schools The centralmzatlon slxghtly overshadowed the mtro ductlon wlthm the last five years of three new depart ments They are the Industrnal Arts Home Economlcs and Vocatxonal Agnculture Departments The Bexlby house next to the first gradc buxldmg was bought to house these of the audntorlum and the study hall compnse the thxrd Hoor FREDERICK G FOX Who wlll succeed Mr Lane as pnnclpal has for the past twelve years been the sur cessful athletic director of Deposit Central Sch0oL Mr F W Barley was the first prmcx of the n e w school and he has been followed the succeedxng ears by Messrs hompson L ol e Radley and Lane Few changes m the school system were m a d e untll 1938 when during the prmclpalshxp of posxt Hxgh School was centralized A total of twenty Hve outlylng dlst rlcts joined swelling the number of puplls from 738 to 851 xn 1941 No addxtxons were made to the bulldlng but the Baptlst Church rooms were rented for one sectxon of new departments Mr James Mrller has charge of the Vocatxonal Agncul ture Department whxch wyll have its hrs: graduates thus une Thxs course of study has proved very mterestnng e pecxally to rural students The Home Eco nomrcs Departmen supervlsed by and IS housed the front on the first floor of the hlllldlllg bought for 1ts use The rear of the buxldxng rs used by Mr Ross Tracy dlrector of the Industrial Arts Department Last summer ln h spare time Mr Tracy built an ad EVERETT M LANE Pnnclpal of Deposit Central School for the past ten years received his AB from Col gate Umverslty, and his M A from Columbia Umverslty the second grade and a room xn the Deposlt Seed Com pany bunldmg on Center Street for a section for the srxth grade Also ln 1938 the Presbytenan Church dmxng room and kxt hen were rented for a cafeterla Mrs Ralls was put m charge but has now been succeeded by Mxss Clara Andresen The follovtmg lS the applxcatzon for centralxzatlon sent ln by the Deposxt Hugh School The addnt on spoken of was vetoed by the voters The central hugh school wlth all grades xs to be located at Deposxt There wrll be no branch schools of permanent nature For the hrst year most rural schools will operate An addltxon to the present buxldmg rn De posit will then provxde for all pupxls A sux year high school staff and an Engllshlnbrarlan three socxal scxence dmon to the shop for the accommodatxon of more equxp ment More recently a new school bulldlng has been pro posed Plans were drawn up and an electron for the selectlon of a sxte was held Of the three sltes proposed one was ellmmated and a Herce dlscusslon was held over the other two s1tes Several other meetmgs have been held but no agreement has yet been reached The announcement of the reslgnatlon of Prmclpal Lane was a great surprxse but the appomtment of Fred nck Fox our athlet1c coach was met wxth smcere appro val by pupxls and parents alxke Durxng the years Mr Lane has been wxth us the school has made many gams m scholastic standards He has been popular wlth the stu dents who greatly regret hls leavmg Poge Seven . . . . . i 5 . 5 . 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