Edwards Central School - Hornet Yearbook (Edwards, NY)

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Just by chance they saw Mr. and Mrs. William Clark. It was strange to meet someone familiar in the great city. Melvin Hovey was called home Tuesday evening by the death of his grandmother. Frank Harmon and Paul Whitmarsh went with him. Wednesday morning the class was to visit the Statue of Liberty but because of rain the tour was canceled. Betty Baldick, Lois Finley, Charles Wood- ard and Mary Hall went to the American Museum of Natural History where they spent most of the day. The rest went shopping, including Miss McGill and Mrs. Smith who were near exhaustion when they returned to the hotel. The group left New York at 10:45 Wednesday evening for home. Everything went well except for a frightening moment or two concerning the train tickets. The trip was a wonderful experience and a never to be forgotten one

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ice skaters. The co stumes and scenery were beautiful. Monday morning the group toured upper and lower New York, which included Chinatown, the Bowery, the financial district, Greenwich Village and Harlem, by chartered bus. Some of the things they also saw on this tour was the Cathederal of St. John, the Divine, the Little Church around the Corner and many other famous places. This was the most interesting tour. In the afternoon they went to La Guardia airport. They a great many pictures there. That evening they attend- ed the play 0 Mistress Mine a comedy in three acts staring Lynn Fontaine and Alfred Lunt. Everyone enjoy- ed it very much. Tuesday morning the group really traveled. They saw how the N.B.C. studio was built so that the sub- ways would not affect it. They saw how television is made. They watched Fred Waring's broadcast and then they went to the top of the Empire State Building. That evening, the class went to Radio City Music Hall where they saw the movie The Late George Apley . The stage show was beautiful. The Rockettes put on a show of garden scenes by means of ballet dancing.

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A CLASS PROPHECY As some of you are aware (for the past few years) I have been employed as an investigator for the United Nations Atomic Controll Commission. The atomic bomb was outlawed by the United Nations some years ago and a clos check is being kept of all activities in all parts of the world to prevent them from ever being constructed again. Once I was ordered to China to investigate a report that a group of scientists were endeavoring to do Just then. As my plane was flying over the wilds which lie between Indo-Chlna and the vast desert wastes which lie to the North, we were forced down by a terrific storm. Our pilot had managed to keep the ship aloft until we had reached an area which was supposed to be inhabited by civilized people. After several days of hardship, traveling over arid, rocky country we were discovered by a tribe of half wild Mongolians. They took charge of us and by sign language signified that we were to follow them. They led us deeper and deeper into the mountains until finally we emerged into a deep valley with an emormous monastary perched on the very top of the farther cliff. Unable to understand a word that was tonductors , we wondered lust what was to