Edwards Central School - Hornet Yearbook (Edwards, NY)

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Senior Class Trip to New York City The senior class left Edwards 5:30 a.m., March 26th in four cars bound for Carthage. The cars were driven by Mr. Leonard Fuller, Mr. Neil Brown, Mr. George Hurley, and Mr. Lyle Hughes. Class members who went on the trip were; Bruce Brown, Richard Brown, Robert Perry, Lyle Bleau, Clarence Skeldon, George Hurley, Clarence Thompson, Stanley Zaluski, Kenneth Hughes, Virginia Lutz, Beatrice Bishop, Judy Fuller, Helen Cole, Phyllis Whitmarsh, Eleanor Morrissey, Dorothy Ald- ridge and Violet Patience. Violet Patience had been to Wash- ington and thus didn’t start on the trip with her classmates. She met the group at Grand Central Station. Miss Bloomfield was the chaperon. The train was on time and left about 7:30 a.m. Each per- son had a lunch which he was going to eat on the train. Miss Bloomfield had a box of fudge which was passed around the group. Even the conductor and brakeman helped themselves to a piece of candy. The train arrived in Utica at 9:45 a.m. The train for New York wasn’t supposed to leave until 11:48 a.m. so the class de- cided to eat in the station restaurant and save their lunches for supper. For amusement nearly everyone sat in a photo

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The spaghetti supper which the class arranged for the public was an event never to be forgotten, especially with George Hurley washing dishes. In addition the class sold sun- shine cards. In September 1947, the class found themselves seniors in high school. They organized with Beatrice Bishop as presi- dent, George Hurleyas vice-president, JudithFuller as secre- tary and treasurer. Miss Bloomfield and Miss Holmes were elected class advisors. The class had $343.52 at the beginning of the senior year The class really had to work to raise enough to make $900 for the class trip. So to raise more money the class sold Christmas cards, two large orders of wrapping paper, sub- scriptions to magazines, Kadet cards and labels and several orders of stationery. On November 7, 1947 the senior class put on a three act farce “The Daffy Dills ”, along with a turkey raffle. Margaret Sullivan of Pleasant Valley won the turkey. Jeanette Todd completed her senior year in January by passing her Regents. As this goes to press, the class is planning the trip to New York City during the week of Easter, to which they have been looking forward to so long.

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machine and had his picture taken. Some of the pictures bore only a slight resemblance to the person they were supposed to represent. The train left Utica at 12:38 p.m. and arrived at New York at 5:15 p.m. Taxi cabs took them to the Hotel Plymouth on 49th Street. After eating the class went to Madison Square Garden where the boys and two girls decided to see the prize fights. The rest of the girls and Miss Bloomfield went to “Icetime of 1948“ presented by Sonja Henie and Arthur J. Wirtz. This revue had some beautiful skits and dances all done on ice skates. Saturday morning the entire group ate breakfast at Kel- loggs and then went to see the Statue of Liberty by subway and ferry. The statue is on Bedloe Island. It is made of copper, about the thickness of a silver dollar, over a hollow framework. E en in the rain it was a bright green color. The green coloris caused by the oxidation of the copper. The boat ride was rough because of the storm. That noon the class ate at an Automat where Lyle Bleau nearly got lost. The rain stopped about 1 o’clock and the class went to La Guardia field. The trip involved the use of the