Eldred Central High School - El Dorado Yearbook (Eldred, NY)

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Our one and only big event of the year was the nSpook Frolicn, whlch took place the Fr1day before Halloween Thls was the flrst dance our class had ever sponsored, and for be1ng inexperlenced we had a very large crowd, and it was profltable Sophomore Year September l9h9 brought seventeenhappy to be back to school Soph omores into Room 8 Our class adv1sor was Mlss Moberg Under the leadershlp of Oren Spangenburg, presldent, Roy Decker, vice presldent, Isabel Getz, secretary, and Joan Rupp, treasurer, carrled out the followlng functlon The Ra1Hb0W Sl1de whlch was an other blg success We can easlly term it as somethlng we shall never forget, largely because of the added attraction we lncluded and the difflculty lnvolved 1n putting up a large rainbow as a decoratlon Junlor Year September 1950, found slxteen Junlors Cwhlch made up 3h7 of the high school! back 1n school but eager for Chrlstmas vaca lon to come We really were thrllled to be Junlors, though, because it marked the arrlval of our class r1ngs Class r1ngs seem to stand for a lot both before and after graduatlon The off1cers of our Junior class were Oren Spangenburg, pres1 dent, Joan Melritz, Vice presldent, Isabel Getz, secretary and Joan Our movle, B1rd of Paradlse, Which was our flPSt b1g event f the year, was a tremendous success The second event 1n our Junior Year was our partnersh1p 1n the Senlor play, Com1n' Round the Mounta1n The participation of each member of our ilass was needed The third event was our annual dance, WThe Poor Taste Dance' People were supposed to come dressed ln poor taste, but very few did Everyone has to admlt we have had good 1d6aS even if they d1dn't al ways work out The fourth and flnal event of our Junlor Year was the Junior Prom Thanks to Mrs Herman Kalin, it was the most beautiful prom ever put on at E C S The small tables against the walls, the picket fence separatlng a sectlon for the Wd1st1nguished' Junlors and Sen 1ors, the colorful streamers and the moon sh1ning through several green boughs are the thlngs which will llnger most in our memorles Senior Year Here we are, Seniors We finally made it' W lost two members of our class, however, at the start of the year Carol W1lSOn and Sally Abbey For several weeks we were lost 11: took awhile to real lize that we had to fill the gap left by last years' Seniors 1 Q WV O ' . O - ' ' ' we . . u. . 0 . . . Rupp, treasurer. Miss Bacher was our class advisor. Q o a I ' O O e. at 0 O I O I O O . . . 0 o e xv -J 1. 3 i' Lo' 1 Q..

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Zvttdflegdfddf IAQ'- First Row L Miller, J Heiritz P hacIntyre, J Rupp, J H111 Second Rov I Hooker, J Hensel, E Wolff, Uiss Dacher Back Row R Decker, O Span enbur , A Roberts, W hells Qfwtofzq FL SHTLILN YLAR On September 8, 1948, a group of eibhteen exclted breenhorns, strangers to the upstairs of the Bldred Central School, rushed noi sily into Room 5 This vas the Freshman tlass, 1n which there ve1e two new members, Robert Wlckus from Florlda and Eubene Wilson from Pond Eddy We lost Joyce lurner who was one of our l1V6WlP6S This was a sad parting. The inhabitants of the Frosh White House during '48 were: Oren Spangenburg, president, Peggy Maclntyre, vice-presidentg Alfred Roberts, secretary and Eileen Wolff, treasurer. Our class advisor was Miss Gale. . , L- 1,m1,:j,,,l I I 1-f . A 'M g ,, f f ., if 6 ' ,f.,,', 1 cr 5 1 x I ' A 35, V w, .V W3 v 2 o ' 0 .s , o o . Q' N o . . u J V 9 0 0 I -u --. . ' 'T : 0 o 6 5 0 Q ' 0 JT I 'K ' 4:1 u ' A w jr ' 'v V - f Y ' v 1 Q v u . f . . T 1- . , 1 ' V ' O ,

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We started off w1th a b1ng instead of a bang We suddenly real lzed that we had to put on a class play before Chrlstmas Th1s meant work and hard work at that, Gad' It was a 3 act comedy myster Nowhere Fast by Van Wallen Each member of our class took part 1n presentlng the play 1n one way or another The cast conslsted of Rlta Adams Leona Mlller Al1ce Arnold Joan MelP1tZ T P Jones Paul Th1ele Deborah Arnold Joan Rupp Frank Roblns Wayne Wells Harvy Lawrence J1m Roberts The Woman of Mystery Elleen Wolff Thanks to the COOpePat1OH of Paul Th1ele, Who took the part of T P Jones 1n an emergency, the play was a success The next important event dur1ng our last year of h1gh school was our Leap Year Egg Due to the fact that our orchestra, The Seven Notes, performed w1thout charge, our dance was really successful We, the Senlor class, have done our best to take an actlve part ln as many outslde actlvitles as possible lncludlng sports, muslc and others Our class members are a l1vely group, not only ln all school act1v1t1es, but ln classes as well as any teacher w1ll readlly admit, we're sure QYXUGRXQ SENIOR WASHlNGTON TRIP At 8 30 Tuesday mornlng Apr1l 15, 1952 slxteen anx1ous Seniors were waltlng for the traln to come 1n Slnce everyone was dressed ln the1r WSunday bestn a sunshlny day would have made lt a perfect start but no, lt had to ra1n we ooarded the traln and settleu down for the long Journeyahead. After an hour of good behavlor, we started actlng l1ke ourselvesroam lng through all the cars of the traln When we landed at Baltlmore, we were happy to leave the traln and stretch our legs Here we met our bus drlver, Bill, who was respons1ble for maklng our tr1p humorous as well as lnterestlng The steps from the traln to the bus were enough exerclse for us, and again we were satlsfled to relax 1n our seats for anotker Jaunt thls time to Annapolls The loss of Gary durlng our flrst tour Knot enough room 1n the bus? created a problem also Upon reachlng Annap olis we met him agaln lstlll 100k1Hg for that blonde 1n the blue suitl Here we v1s1ted the chapel and the museum wh1ch were both a great lnterest to all of us The sun still had not favored us w1th any attentlon much to our dlsappointment We got back on the bus and contlnued on our way to Washlnton We arrlved at the hotel an hour and a half later and struggled to the desk to get our keys This was tougher than you thlnk' Flnally we entered our 'spacious apartments' and relaxed for f1ve mlnutes then to dlnner and our f1rst tour whlch started 8 OO that n1ght Th1s - ' ' ya Bradford Smythe -I ------- :-::::-- Oren Spangenburg