Edmeston Central High School - Edmestonian Yearbook (Edmeston, NY)

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SENIOR ANNUAL NINETEEN FORTY-TWQ are organized for a purpose, and this common purpose teaches cooperation. Friendship means a great deal today because modern transportation has brought all the world to us as our neighbors. It is a necessary problem that we get along and cooperate with them. Today our world is in a state of war because of the lack of cooperation, but we are looking forward to peace in which cooperation will be more important than ever. Students are always being told the advantages that they are receiving by the educational program, but one does not realize it until he is about to graduate and then he does, -Hannah Muller. PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS As one looks back on the time when the present senior class was graduating from the eighth grade, he remembers how awkward, rather carelessly dressed, and bashful they appeared to be. They were undeveloped not only in body but in mind. After four short years these one tirme freshmen are now going on the stage as seniors. Now they are taller, less awkward, more at ease, and better groomed. Not only have they changed in appearance, and developed in body but their minds have been developed by the influence of their teachers, friends and parents. This shows how four years of high school develops people. Of course, as one has undergone this change he doesn't realize it until he looks over some pic- tures taken when he was a freshman Then he begins to realize this change. One hopes that as they go either to college or to work for four more years that they can see another change as great as that one during high school. -Helen Agnes Anderson.

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SENIOR ANNUAL NINETEEN FORTY-TWO VALEDICTORY As I am about to graduate from high school this year, 1942, I have three per- spectives to view: the past, the present, the future. Formerly I have had all the pleasures and opportunities that could come to a child or young person in America. I have been educated in a beautiful school building, part of a central school system, and prepared to meet whatever may come after graduation. Now, as a graduate, I have all the opportunities that this great country can afford me. And, best of all, I have the right to make my own choice of what my next step will be because I live in America where all are free and equal. Immediately my mind flashes to the future. This will lay heavily upon the minds of graduates this year as the world we are going out into is engaged in the greatest conflict in its history. A short while ago I heard the throb of an airplane motor, and I went out to see if I could see its lights moving in the night sky. After I returned inside, it sud- denly dawned upon me what a fear this same sound must put into the hearts of thousands of young people my age in other parts of the world, this same sound that only aroused in me a mild curiosity. The graduates of 1942 must take a firm hold in the future and choose wisely their next steps. It is up to us, along with those before and those to come after us, to erase this fear from the hearts of many and in its place establish the peace and love of freedom we American young people have in America, the land of the free. -Margery Hull. SALUTATORY As the Graduation of 1942 is nearing, it is interesting to think of some of the advantages of modern education. Book learning is not the only form of education. A student mingles with the others, learning new ways of life, new pastimes and how to get along with other people. From the beginning of school and up through the grades, a person makes many friendships. Besides the academic subjects, the schools offer exta curricular activities in- cluding music, athletics, journalism, dramatics, photography, etc. There are bet- ter opportunities to make friends and to keep them through clubs. These clubs

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SENIOR ANNUAL NINETEEN FORTY-TWO SENIOR CLASS HISTORY Through the years of grade school new pupils kept joining the original sev- en of the present senior class, but the class approximated its present form in the eighth grade where its history really began. During that year the class became socially minded and had parties, truck and sleigh rides as the high school did. The only class to have a formal graduation, the exercises were in the form of a play, written by the late Clarence Quackenbush. Several members joined when they came to Edmeston Central after the cen- tralization of Edmeston High and several district schools. The pupils all thought they lived on easy street having to take only four subjects after having seven or eight subjects for the previous years. Their social functions ran in the same groove as usual with parties, truck and sleigh rides, The first two weeks of the sophomore year was a novel two weeks, the stu- dents thought, as it was spent in church while the new building had some finishing touches. After moving into the new building, the Sophomores decided to christen it with a very successful party. The only other social event was a weinie roast near the end of the school year. The junior year, making them upper classmen, seemed perfect. They were more socially minded than ever and had quite a few parties including a novel ice skating party on the rink that Mr. DuM0nt flooded out back of the school build- ing. More money minded, they had several tea dances after school and several bake sales on Saturdays. The really big event of the junior year was of course the Junior Prom for which Ernie Russ furnished the music. The auditorium was gayly decorated with streamers of red, white and blue. Miss Louise Palmer was crowned queen by Mr. George H. Purple.. The Prom was quite a success. The senior year was full of social events, starting off' with a party the first thing, The several parties held since have all been successful. The Senior Play The Tin Hero was also successful. Several square dances made quite a bit of money and the one bake sale was also profitable. This history emphasizes the social aspects of the class, yet all the members feel that the ties of friendship formed by these social functions will last through- out their lives.