Draper Central High School - Dragon Yearbook (Schenevus, NY)

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If anyone should ask me where this story, legend and tradition came from, I should answer, why from Draper High School, from four long, hard years of study, from four years of firm endeavor in athletics and the classroom Should you ask me where Draper High School gathered such a band of students for her Senior Class, I would tell you, from the green lanes of the country, from the eight grades just below us, from far off schools of learning and from far and varied places If still further you should ask me how all these students ever heard of Draper High SchgQ1,1 would further answer your inquiries straight way in such words as follows One day at the doors of Draper High School stood our noble principal, Professor Huntington Lifting his arms he sent out a message calling students to his school Soon they came from the east, the west, from the south and from the northland and gathered around the principal with all his teachers They were shy and modest and bashfully they eyed the principal and all his faculty But soon their confidence returned as there are not other teachers who have such a way with the students as ours And so off the classrooms they went a noisy bunch of students As Freshmen, they stood all the trials and troubles of getting adjusted to high school Some got along very well, while others never seemed to find the right way of getting along in their classes and with their friends In response to Professor Hunt 1ngton's call the following students entered the portals of Draper High School Norman Skellie, Larry Russell, Albert Dulkis, Clark Whitney, Harold Whiteman, Robert Edgecomb, George Bucholz, Glenn Decker, Richard Schmiedel, Nicholas Moffre, Myron Mulford, Georgia Mae, Katherine Carroza, Roberta Higgins, Ruth Sandman, Phyllis Palmer, Carolyn Ross, Alice Dubben, Lois Williams, Mary Hubbard, and Marguerite Gladstone This first year our advisor was Miss Linehart As Freshmen, we didn't have many activities The class officers were President George Bucholz, Vice President Lois Williams, Treasurer Phyllis Palmer, Secretary Alice Dubben Our class contributed Larry Russell, George Bucholz, Albert Dulkis, Harold Whiteman, Robert Edgecomb, and Norman Skellie to the Junior Varsity team We had a few dances and a game party We didn't make much money that ear y Our second year we came back to school with seven boys and eight girls We had lost six students who were Katherine Carroza, Georgia May, Myron Mulford, Nichols Moffre, Larry Russell, and Robert Edgecomb Our advisor again was Miss Linehart Again we accomplished little other than a few dances, just for the fun of it Gerald Scanlon joined our happy throng as did Joseph and Ludwig Schoeberl Shortly after Ludwig left Our class officers this year were President Lois Williams, Vice Pres ident Phyllis Palmer, Treasurer Norman Skellie, Secretary Alice Dubben teacher We became expert salesmen after our magazine subscription campaign during February and March, and as a result, netted around 8200 for our treasury Ve also had bake sales, dances and parties to swell our coffers so that we could be Washington bound in '49 We gained three new pupils tkis year They were Agnes Bond, Phyllis Downs and Delores Sugarick Our Junior Class officers were President Marguerite Gladstone, Vice President Albert Dulkis, Treasurer Lois Williams, Secretary Norman Skellie Our Senior year began with two members absent Gerald Scanlon and Glenn Decker gained Bud Delaney from Milford This year we have had a series of advisors started out with Miss Bourgiois After a Short time she left and we had a new teadher, Marshall In November, Mr Marshall left and Miss Bourgeois again taught us Now we have as our final advisor to end our careers at Draper, Mr Leland We have been selling refreshments at the home games this year We have also presented a play, entit led nBashful Bertien This was a big Success, netting us over 8100, and besides that it was a lot of fun to present We have also had a number of dances and are planning on a few bakesales to help us raise enough money to make our trip to Washington in April Our caps and gowns have been ordered and we are thinking about invitation orders now Our class officers this year are President Roberta Higgins, Vice President Lois Williams Secretary Carolyn Ross, Treasurer Phyllis Palmer We feel that we have accomplished a great deal in our high school life and we dis like the thought of leaving Draper but, even though our High School life is ending, our real life is just beginning Here at Draper we have learned many a lesson, worked out many 8 PPOW-em and DOW we 11111515 leave AS brave and gallant victors we must pass fI'OI11 Draper Central and take our places with the peoples who have already learned Life's lessons 15 ddf ' . to As Juniors we were under the watchful eye of Miss Kinney our Home economics -- . We - . me Mr. . . .

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1 'ld 211' Listen, O ve men and women, youths and maldens, and little children' Listen, all ou people in the Draper district to the words of wisdom from the lips of your prophet who now speaketh unto you what hath been revealed unto her, even as it hath been decreed by the powers that be For it has come to pass that the veil of the future hath been rent in twain, even as it was so rent in the days of the wise prophets of old, and the Spirit of Prophecy hath descended from the spheres to envelop my soul with her mystic power Aye, I say unto you men and women, youths and maidens, and little children of the Draper district, to dream strange dreams, and to see strange visions of the Now it so happened when it was decreed that be given into the hands of this, your prophet, to cried out in a loud voice of lamentatlon, saying, glories of the years yet to be the future of the Class of 1949 was to do with even as she listed, that she 'Who am I that the future of this great and mighty class should depend upon me? What am I that the fate of these most fair and beautiful of damsels, and these most sturdy and noble and manly of intellect, and so firm of purpose should rest in meow But behold' even as the cry of weakress did ascend from the long suffering soul of our prophet a voice from the heavens spake unto her, even in the words of old saying, Hear now my words' If there be a prophet among you, I will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream And straight way, from the clouds of the centuries Hone, and from the shadows already ncast before' by the 'coming eventsnof the proverb, there appeared unto her the fair and lovely'Spir1t of Prophecy, the angel Things Come, and lo' she did with her mystlc touch. roll back the curtain of the dim be yond from before my prophetic vision, and did permit me to gaze at will down the long vi st of things yet to be, that I might behold all things that now ate, transformed into all things that they shall yet become even as it was so granted to the wise men of the past And lo' as she drew back the curtain she pointed with a long, transparent finger down the avenues of a strange land, and opened her lips and spake unto me, saying 'Look and listen Prophecy unto the younp men and young women of Draper Central even these things which you herein behold For as I look into the land of the future I could discern moving among the dim sha dows were even as they had long hoped so to be of the peoples yet to be, the familiar shapes of those fair and radiant beings who once my classmates, now changed and transformed into citizens of the world outside And it came to pass that the veil before mine eyes grew yet more and more thin and behold I could see them, even as if the intervening years were not at all I could see our beloved President, Roberta Higgins,, yea even as today, I could see her in all her dignity and majestic bearing, and her words were heeded by that day and generation attended unto them, for her ambition has led her ever upward and onward until she was even the first woman governor for this, her very own native state And I looked again, and as I looked I could see amonp the society circles of that far off distant time, those most bright and and among even those who were most fair to look upon, among even dazzling to the sight and to the mind, four whom, even as I gazed, rival beauties of the Class of 1949 Ah, yes, it was Lois Williams Sugarick and Alice Dubben 1 recognized as those Carolyn Ross, Delores And it came to pass that I also looked into the professional circles and in a large office among many men of many minds say a prosperous lawyer, Norman Skellie with his private secretary, Mary Hubbard This boy who in our Hiph School days had not yet learned to lie Nay not even of the ripht side would Hover Say a word that could be un truly interpreted Thu are the mighty brought to lower planes And I also happened to fin? myself on the inside of a large cathedral where a state ly priest in his robes of dignity poured forth words of inspired instruction to his as sistant Verily, it was Richard Schmiedel himself talking to Francis Delaney And it came to pass, while I pondered these things in my h08Tt, th6 door of 8 homo swung open before my vision, and I found therein a household made happy by a wife and mo 14 if K ' U w. 92:7 , x 7 .X 1-1 . . y 1 X , I ' . ll hu - . L , Q 2

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gfdddzy Ladies and gentlemen, Board of aducation, Superintendent, Teachers and Friends Upon behalf of my client, the Class of 1949, of Draper Central School of the village of Schenevus, State of New York, U S A I have called you together upon this solemn and serious occasion, to listen to her last moments Cutting so rapidly loose from life, and finding so many things of such gigantic proportions to be attended to before the end should come upon her realizing at the same time that she had no longer any time left to spend in cultlva tion of her own virtues, she did, collectively and individually, deem it best to distribute these virtues with her own hands to those friends to whose needs seem best fitted As a result of this announcement a wild scene took place admist most frantic pleading and srrambllng among her friends for this or that so long coveted glory, but she has tried to be just, as well as generous and impartial, and distribute wisely unto those who will make the best use of such gifts as she has 1 her power to bestow, the talents that so long served her faithfully these four years These are her decision, as at last definitely arrived at through very deliberate consideration Owing to the flighty conditinn of her brain, and the unusual dis turbance in its gray matter, begs me to state for her that may quite possibly have been mistaken in her inventory, but such things as she, she hereby gives into your possession, praying that you will accept them as a sacred trust from one who who gone before Listen, then, one and all, while I read the document, as duly drawn up and sworn We the Class of 1949, in seventeen individual and distinct parts being about t pass out of this sphere of education, in full possession of a crammed mind, well trained memory, and almost superhuman understanding do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills promises by us at any time heretofore made, or mayhap, carelessly spoken, one to the other, as the thoughtless wish of an idle hour And first we do direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and well wishers, our principal and his all wise and ever competent faculty, who have been our guardians for so long, only asking, as the last injunction of thg dying, that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp that our worth our merit, our attalnments, and our positions as Seniors of 'grave and reverend m1en,W must certainly have deserved As to such estate as it has pleased that fates and our own strong hands and George Bucholz leaves his small feet to Bob Roth Joe Schoeberl leaves his shyness to Isabel Stilwell Harold Whiteman leaves his wreckless driving to Nelson 0'Br1en Dick Schmiedel leaves his manly shape to George Page We hope George makes use of it Carolyn Ross leaves her shape to Katherine O'Br1en Lois Williams leaves her self to George .del Delores Sugarick leaves her smile to Mrs VanPatten Marguerite Gladstone leaves ability to talk in study halls to John Ellis Mary Hubbard leaves her gift of gab to Wanda Barnes Roberta Higgins leaves her skill in rifle club to Walt Kalberer Alice Dubben leaves her walk to Frances Decker Agnes Bond leaves the sly ways she uses to humor Miss Swackham er to Jean Ross Albert Dulkis leaves his innocence to all lower classmen Francis Delaney leaves his insanity to Jack Nagle, as much as he hates to part with it Norman Skellie leaves his unruly hair to Mr Hoder Phyllis Palmer leaves her high marks and ambition to Dick Norton To Miss Jamison we leave better Law classes and many more interesting trips to Cooperstown with plenty of root beer The members of the Senior Class leave to Miss Swackhammer their happy disposl tions Mrs VanPatten we leave more courteous study halls Mr Chase we leave more good students like Roberta and Marguerite Mr Dennington we leave quiet and better attended ag classes Mr McCune we leave several assistants to help him supervise his Senior Eng lish Classes Tb Miss O'Brien we leave a new ruler to keep order in eighth grade English To Coach Clllberti we leave many more winning teams and also some hair dye to aid in the concealing of his slowly ggzying locks 0 n to: . o ' - or ' 1 brains to win, for us, we do dispose of the same as follows: To . . To I O To . . . To . -