Edwards Central School - Hornet Yearbook (Edwards, NY)

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subway and a bus. Airplanes land or take off with an average of about one a minute. It started raining again in the evening. The group went to the basketball games at Madison Square Garden. The first game was Phillips vs. Prospect with Phillips the victor. The Phillips center was seven feet tall. The second game was Kentucky vs. Louisville with Kentucky the victor. Tumb- ling acts were performed between the two games. Sunday morning dawned clear and cold. Virginia Lutz and Eleanor Morrissey attended church at St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Helen Cole, Phyllis Whitmarsh and Miss Bloomfield went to church at the Park Avenue Methodist Church. Most of the remaining class members slept late. That afternoon the class took a subway to visit Bronx Zoo. It was cold enough to enable anyone to see his breath. When the time for departure from the zoo came, Richard Brown, Robert Perry, Lyle Bleau, and Clarence Thompson were not at the gate. The rest of class couldn’t wait too long and as a result they went back to the hotel without the boys who were to be sent on by the Van Zile guides. The boys got back all however, for there were other school groups coming back to the same street. They got on the subway and followed a group from the Hotel Abbey home.

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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

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That night the class members were allowed to go on their own that is, at a short distance from the hotel. Some went to movies, while others walked around seeing the sights. Most of them were surprised at the prices for a movie ticket. The average was a dollar and fifty cents. Early Monday morning the class went to a radio broadcast “Honeymoon in New York”. This was supposed to be an in- promptu type broadcast to but the class noticed that it was all carefully planned. However it was very amusing to watch. A tour of the N.B.C. station followed with an explanation of radio and television. Eleanor Morrissey was televised and she looked very frightened. On the tour the class watched the Fred Waring show for a while. Then the class crossed Rockerfeller Plaza and toured St. Patrick’s Cathedral. After this, the class went over to the Empire State Build- ing. The view from the top was not as good as it could have been. It was too hazy although the sun was shining. In the afternoon the group went to a movie “I Remember Mamma’’ at Radio City Music Hall. There was a beautiful stage show and very fine dancing after the movie. Richard Brown left his camera in his seat when he left the theatre.