Freeport High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Freeport, NY)

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19 2 7 THE YEAR BOOK 19 2 7 ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY OF FREEPORT HIGH SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION ADMINISTRATION Mr. G. Burchard Smith, President Mr. George E. Williamson, Vice-President Mr. D. Frank Seaman Mrs. M. Christine Edwards Dr. George C. Colyer Mr. John W. Dodd, Superintendent Miss Adele Miller, Secretary Dr. Julien Dean, Medical Inspector Miss Gladys Derrick, School Nurse Mr. Walter Hawkins, Building Superintendent FACULTY James E. Haifleigh, Principal Ruth E. Cochran, Vice-Principal Helen G. Anthony Howard Knapp Drawing Harold A. Lints Science English Maud E. Lockerby Geography Emelyn Lovclass ... English Charlotte M. Benedict Ethel Boardman Cora L. Bockoven — History Gladys MacArthur ... Latin Elizabeth Mansfield ... ... Sewing English Drawing Adella E. Mattson ... Commercial .. .. Supervisor of Music Helen D. McGeoch Algebra Louise H. Burden Arthur B. Myers Manual Training Harriet A. Church Cooking Melssa C. Quinlan Supervisor of Drawing Florence M. Clark .... Spanish English History Howard R. Rundell .. Sheet Metal Work Latin Physical Training Mabel Q. Skinner Spanish Florence M. Smith Arithmetic Paul S. Gilbert - Biology Mary L. Smith French Adelaide L. Goodman History Mathematics Mathematics Florence C. Stockwell Commercial Olive M. Swan Librarian History Dorothy E. Tower ... Bertha Triess Sewing Arithmetic Lily M. Waller Drawing Etta M. Johnson Supervisor of Writing Jessica W. Walters Physical Train. i)r. Vivian Wells Cooking OUR FACULTY We who are leaving Freeport High look back on four years of fun and work. Those remaining anticipate the years still to come. Why is it that we like school so well? It s because of the self-application that we are forced to exert and because of the good times we have. There is no teacher who has not been responsible for one or more of these good times. There have been contests, games, plays, dances, cake sales, assembly programs that all called for supervision. Thus we have built up our bodies and our friendships. Nevertheless do not think brawn and social status the sole output of a school. Consider the records of scholarship and of character that remain as each class goes out. The untiring administration of the faculty in their teaching and their examples of industry are responsible for these. The building of character is a school’s first objective and the faculty are the master builders. As artisans, our faculty have wrought well! OUR BOARD OF EDUCATION We also wish to express our sincere appreciation of the real interest which Mr. Dodd and Mr. Smith and other members of the Board of Education always take in all our school activities. Their spirit of friendliness and cooperation has been our constant inspiration to bigger and better achievement to the glory and honor of F. H. S. RALPH PLUMP. President of the G. O.

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19 2 7 THE YEAR BOOK 19 2 7 Appreciation of Miss Atkinson To Caroline G. Atkinson, teacher, devoted friend and frank adviser of undergraduates in the Freeport schools for more than two score years, in recognition of her unswerving loyalty to Freeport High School, her untiring efforts to make ours a better school and as a modest token of the esteem in which she is held by the Class of '27. this volume is respectfully and affectionately dedicated. Miss Atkinson graduated from the Albany Normal School in June. 188}. and in the Fall of the same year was enrolled as a member of the faculty of the Freeport Schools. The wisdom and judgment of the Board of Education of that time in selecting Miss Atkinson from among the numerous other applicants. has received abundant endorsement in that successive Boards from that date to the present time have ever deemed it essential, and of paramount importance to the school system, to re-engage Miss Atkinson as a faculty member. It is difficult to state in exact terms the number of undergraduates, now citizens of the world, who have been privileged to pass through Miss Atkinson's classes, and it is impossible to draw an adequate and satisfactory word picture of the important part she has played in moulding the character of each of these. Another essayist has written of her—“She has been indelibly delineated in Memory’s Hall of Fame by her many scholars, to each of whom she has presented the chisel—Ability, and the mallet—Opportunity to carve out of the marble—Time blow by blow, a thought, a word, a deed, a habit, a character, a destiny, until at last all the world shall behold in each—an upright spirit, a cultured mind.” In surveying the attributes which seem to have played a most important part in Miss Atknson's complete success as a teacher, we find—unlimited faith and loyalty to the school system of which she is a part, and conscientious performance of every school task, combined with unostentatious but extremely high moral qualities. Miss Atkinson enjoys the unique distinction of having absolutely no enemies; her acquaintances are staunch friends. A short time ago several hundred of her friends and former pupils assembled in the High School Gymnasium to tender a testimonial dinner—former Freeporters assembled from near and far to honor their one time teacher. Each speaker paid glowing tribute to her sterling worth as a teacher and a friend. It can be truthfully said that what might be classed as a glowing compliment to others becomes relegated to the mere commonplace when applied to Miss Atkinson. Possessed of unusual literary talent, a keen sense of humor, facile wit and unselfish spirit in marked degree. Miss Atknson has ever been a delightful companion; an inspiration and a help to those who have served with her. The Class of 1927 and the entire Freeport High School family count it a priceless privilege to have known and to have studied with Miss Atkinson. Her legion of friends give sincere tribute and extend every good wish for continued success and abundant happiness to one whom to know is a liberal education.

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19 2 7 THE YEAR BOOK 19 2 7 JAMES E. HAIFLEIGH RUTH E. COCHRAN L. to R. (front row) Goodman, Lockerby, Mattson, Atkinson, Bockoven, Hafleigh, Cochran, Burden, Griswold, Ranquist. Mansfield, Hack, Lints. (center row) Hawkins, Knapp, Grubel, Sherwood, Waller, Hook, McGeoch, Tower, F. M. Smith, Clowes, M. L. Smith, Benedict, Lovelass, Johnson, Boardman, Meyers, Confer. (back row) Gilbert, Wells, MacArthur, M. Clark, Swan, Skinner, Huebsch, Anthony, Robbins, German, Triess, F. Clark, Stockwell, Derrick, Bruner, Fish.