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

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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

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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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tour took us to the Llncoln Memorlal and the Congressional Llbrary to see the Const1tut1on of the United States, the Declaratlon of Independence, and the Gutenberg Bible After th1s tour we returned to the hotel Then to bed for some, to the movies for others and to the hospltal for a few The latter was due to an unfortunate acc1dent wh1ch occurred after the movles through no fault of the class Slx Senlors toured a corporatlon counc1ler's off1ce the follow 1ng morning wlth our chaperone whlle the others agaln went on touring This t1me the tour took us to the Bureau of Pr1nt1ng and Engravlng where we saw paper money, postage and Government documents prlnted and engraved, then to the Pan Amerlcan Bu1ld1ng, one of the most bea utlful in the United States, where our escort polnted out rubber, vanllla, banana, coffee, and many other South American trees and shrubs, all grow1ng ln the patio Then we started up COnSt1tUtlOH Avenue, passlng the Department of Commerce, Post Offlce, Department of Justice and the National Archives buildlng to the Capitol, and then the group plcture was taken mlnus s1x members of the class Then we vlsited the House f Representatlves and Senate Next we vislted the Supreme Court Bulld lng, then to the Folger Shakespear1an Memorial Library, a shrlne to the great Engllsh poet, and back to the hotel and dlnner Picklng up the rest of the crew we started our afternoon tour This took us through the resldentlal sectlon of Washlngton, passlng homes of the late Presldents Wllson and Taft, Admlral Dewey and other famous men, forelgn 8mb8SS19S, and then to the zoo 1n Rock Creek Park to see mommoth 6Xh1bltS of w1ld anlmals and b1rds Then enroute to Mt Vernon we saw Georgetown University and the Pentagon Buildlng We also stopped to vlsit the Tomb of the Unkown Soldler and Amphitheatre in Arl1ngton Cemetery Here we were lucky to see the changlng of the guard At Mt Vernon we saw the home and flower garden w1th a box hedge We returned to Washlnvton by way of the Nat1onal Highway, along the bank of the Potomac Rlver, v1a the Jefferson and Llncoln Memcuial and Washlngton Alrport, and around the Tldal Basin to see the cherry blossoms That n1ght we all declded to see a stage show featurlng Johnny Johnston Durlng our stay in Washington we all sampled Chlnese food Thursday mornlng we toured flrst the Smlthsonlan Inst1tute, where we saw the orlginal gowns worn by each Pres1dent's wife at h1s 1naugurat1on, collections of colns, postage stamps, boats from early t1mes, all k1nds of wagons and automoblles, L1ndbergh's WSpir1t f ot hOUlSn, and other a1rcr ft, unlforms worn by our armed forces, and thousands of other or1g1nal and 1nterest1ng exh1b1ts Then we had our class plcture taken again KTh1s t1me w1th the whole class presentl After th1s llttle eplsode, we spent a short time at the Freer Ar5 Gallery, where a splendid collect1on of pa1nt ings and etchlngs, lncluding orlginals by Whistler, were seen Flnally we arrlved at the Washington Monument where no 1nd1v1du als were amb1t1ous enough Cat this time anyway to cl1mb the 898 steps to the top The elevator was a hopeless case a LO m1nute wait at that By thls time the sun acknowledged our presence, and the weather was exceptlonally nice By this t1me we were also hungry and anxious to return to the hotel At l 30 P M we started on our flnal tour wh1ch took us to the . . . . O tomb of Washington, the slave quarters the kitchen, and the formal . . . . . O . . - . . a .