Eden Central School - Embers Yearbook (Eden, NY)

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IGHT CHO0L DIRECTOR-Mr. Foroscij SEWING CLASS CHE Adult Education Program of the Eden Central School completed its seventh year under the direction of Mr. Leo I. Foroscij. This year the program was expanded to include a course in Trade Mathematics under the Trade Apprenticeship Program of the New York State Education Department. Auto driving was also included after a lapse of three years. Other courses offered were Arts and Drafts, Business Practices, Homemaking, Chorus, General Shop Physical Education for men and for women, Welding, Knitting, Americanization, Photography and Badminton. Classes were conducted on a four nights a week schedule in cooperation with the Lighted Schoolhouse movement in New York State. Registration figures this year were rather high in comparison with other years with aver- age attendance. 5 . . S . 1 -3 H. ,,e:.. , . . '-wld ln. iy , ! i I .atm BASKETBALL CERAMICS 16

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CLASS HI TORY N 1940, we, pioneers in Eden Central, began our journey in our covered wagons to the newly opened gates. Those members of our class who began and will complete the journey here are these: Ella Iean Bugenhagen, Lucy Cataldo, Edgar Cheney, Nelson Cheney, Joel Cotten, Mary Lynn Gumtow, Harley Hickling, Mary Lou Kern, Florence Mietlinski, Shirley Miller, Betty Nellis, Patricia Rebman, James Ridge, Samuel Sammarco, David Schumer, and Marlene Winter. As we traveled through the grades, we picked up new passengers and let off old ones who had made plans to travel another road. We encountered numerous difficulties and different opinions, entered childish squabbles and puppy loves, and were made to stand in the corner by our wagon masters, the grade school teachers. Yet we thank them for making the road a little smoother and the hills a little easier to ascend and for teaching us the value of cooperation and our A, B, C' s and multiplication tables. After we had conquered the first hill which brought us from the grades into junior high school, we had our first experience in making our own rules of the road in student government. Here we learned what we must remember. In order to preserve democracy and our rights and liberties, we must accept our duties and responsibilities and take an active part in our government. Upon entering ninth grade, we, with the aid of our teachers and guidance counselor, mapped out the course we desired to follow. The reasoning was instilled in us that if we continued to drive, to keep our eyes ahead, and to keep steady hands on the reins, nothing could stop us from reaching our goal and the summit of any hill we desired to climb. Unforgettable scenes along the way were the presentations of Little Black Sambo in second grade, Hansel and Gretel in fifth grade, and our dances: The Hayseed Hop, as sophomores, the Starlite Serenade, with Ann Crowe, a member of our class who graduated last year, as queen when we were juniors, and last but not least, our Senior Ball. We also profitted by those detours off the regular road, to the City Hall and Science Museum in Buffalo, Fort Niagara, and the Canadian Hydro-Electric Plant. These educational and pleasurable trips made while passing through the eighth grade have made a lasting impression upon us. We have now, with the assistance of our energetic and always helpful senior advisor Mrs. Pierce, reached the summit of the highest hill we had hoped to climb. We view our goal. Onward! Oh leaders of our wagon train! The horses shall not be spared until we have enjoyed to the utmost the fruits of our labors. We have sold magazines, held fish dinners, published an annual, and spon- sored dances and other activities that we might enjoy our trip to Washington. What a thrill to see the memorials to the men who made our country great and the place Where they worked! Dear God, please make us Worthy of this great gift, the democratic country in which we live. QClass Historian - Marlene Wintery 'wal .W 18