Duanesburg High School - Dusquanox Yearbook (Delanson, NY)

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL TO THE SENIORS OF 1954 Dear Senrors A commumty the srze of the Town of Duanesburg 1s but a dot on the map of the Umted States Often adot mdrcates the end almost as often rt rndrcates the begrnnmg and there are trmes when a dot could mean the conunuatton of a story For many years the Town of Duanesburg was an agrrcultural area and IIS people were a hardworkrng God fea.r1ng people always ready to help a nerghbor As the Town grew new tdeas call them pro gressrve rf you lrke brought about a change of thought These rdeas developed so raprdly at trmes that revolutronary changes rn our lrves were noted almost overnrght some of them good others not so good However there rs one rdea from the past rooted so deep mour mrnds that xt would now appear that we can never shake rt off Some would refer to rt rn a tradrtronal sense but I prefer to thrnk of rt as rnsprratronal Irefer to the rdea of Servxce servrce to your frtend your nerghbor or perhaps the fellow on the other srde of town place rn the progress of the Town you wrll follow the pattern set by others before you a healthy condrtion wrll contmue to exrst Answer the call for assrstance from your fellow townsman be ready to serve at any trme u ngr u d gr n gl y unselfxshly Show by your deeds and words that much farth can be placed rn you Take an actrve part rn communrty projects Jorn the Grange the Frre Company the P T A , and work not for the good of yourself or your group but for the good of all It rs only by shar rng our lrves that the Servrce performed by others before us can be perpetuated thus servrng to act as an rnsprratron to another generatron rn order that the Town may contrnue to progress and marntarn ILS r ep u ta tron as a Nelghborly Town What w1ll you derrve from th1s9 Maybe sausfactron prrde or the knowledge of havmg parucrpated rn a thrng worthwhrle You have c ontr rb uted so that others may benefrt and so carrred on the work of those who many years ago had farth rn our Town Srncerely, Robert B Shafer If. as you grow in mental and physical health and take your

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One of the foreslghts of James Duane founder of the Town of Duanesburg was ed ucation. To a great extent tnrough hls work and aid we have derived our present system of free education ln New York State As early as 1764 Duane designated land in the Town of Duanesburg for a school a church and a Town Hall Christ Church shown on the oppostte page was to be the center of this town plot Prtor to the Revolutionary War there was no system of educauon excepttng the Engltsh Public Schools open only to the wealthy In approxtmately 1787 prompted by the work of James Duane and Governor Chntou the New York State legtslature passed a law providing for appomtment of Regents tn the state A few years later the Regents recommended common schools and on March 26 1849 the legislature allowed free schools to be established This was closely followed by the approval of Union Free Schools It was only four years ago that the school we are now attending was in reality the Delanson Union Free School The schools of Quaker Street Thousand Acres and Delanson united to form the area but wtth the formation of Ihb-UD.10Il Free School they tended to consohdate The present school was built tn 1925 to accommodate the larger enrollment. There is one more tmportant step in our story of education Between 1937 and 1947 there was a general trend towards centrahzanon Earlter people had begun to talk of a central school in Delanson. Tlus idea seemed very remote at first but as enthusiasm throughout the state grew so grew the mterest in our area For approximately twenty years the pro and con tssues of centralization were dis cussed time and time again by the voters of the Delanson area Finally ln July 1951 area school districts united to form the Duanesburg Central School As a result of this centraltzation our present high school is bemg enlarged and modermzed and a new elementary school is under construction Christ Church was bullt during Duane s lifetime and his remams are buried there Although he did not live to see the public education he advocated become a reality it has become a reality in our trme especially with the organization of the Duanesburg Central School I Union Free School in 1923. Previous to this, there had been many small schools in the