Edwards Central School - Hornet Yearbook (Edwards, NY)

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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.

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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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He had to see the manager in order to get inside the theatre again to get it. He snatched it out from under a lady just as she was sitting down. That evening the class attended a play “Harvey” at the Forty-eighth Street Theatre. Harvey was an invisible six foot rabbit. Jimmy Stewart, the movie actor, played the part of Mr. Dowd, the chief character. The play was a very amusing comedy and everyone enjoyed it. After the play, the class had a party with refreshments of sandwiches, candy, potato chips, and soft drinks in Miss Bloomfield’s room. Tuesday forenoon the class toured Manhattan in a bus. Some of the things they saw were Columbia University , General Ike’s future home; The Little Church Around the Corner; the Cathedral of St. John the Divine; Grants’ Tomb ; New York University on Washington Square; and Chinatown. In the afternoon, class members went shopping by them- selves. Stanley Zaluski and Kenneth Hughes left for Long Island where they were going to stay until Saturday. The rest of the class also packed and got ready for that night. One of the boys, Lyle Bleau, seemed to persist in getting lost. Clarence Skeldon bet Lyle a dollar bill that he would get