Freeport High School - Voyageur Yearbook (Freeport, NY)

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RETIRED MISS ADELLA MATTSON ft TISS ADELLA MATTSON retired during the summer months after more than thirty years at Freeport High School where she had been our typing teacher and Chairman of the Business Department. Upon her arrival at Freeport in 1919, Miss Mattson took over many duties in addition to her regular teaching schedule. She was faculty treasurer of the G. 0. from 1924 until 1945, adviser to the senior class for fourteen years, and adviser to the junior class from 1947 to 1951, directing their many successful Proms and supervising the selection of their class jewelry. Her friendly smile, quick sympathy, and understanding heart make her a person to he long remembered. Above all. Miss Mattson has been a true friend to teachers and students. Vi e of the Voyageur staff, speaking for all who know her, wish her good health, much happiness, and many years of pleasant retirement. Page six

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 Cumberland The Hill Our former principal lias been active in the New York Association of Secondary School Principals as chairman of the planning board for three years, secretary for two years, and vice-president for two years. Last year he was co-chairman of the National Secondary School Principals’ Association Conference which was held at the Hotel Commodore in New York City. He was made a member of the Scholarship Board of the National Honor Society which passes on the worthiness of students for scholarships in all Honor Societies in this country and four foreign countries, lie has been President of the Freeport Exchange Club, the organizing president of the Sons of the American Revolution. Long Island Chapter. and was a member of the Executive Committee of the Empire State Society Sons of the American Revolution. Instead of a detailed list of his accomplishments in Freeport High School, let tin-following pages of the '52 Voyageur be a reminder of the friendly interest and kindly influence Mr. Mansperger has had on our clubs, our sports, our hand, our choruses, and our faculty and student body.

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in Hit murium MISS DORIS GROESBECK FOR eight years Miss Doris Groesbeck, teacher of English and faculty adviser to the Assembly Committee, contributed her charm and understanding to Freeport High School. Her sense of humor, her optimism, and her sympathetic teaching through those difficult passages of “Ivanhoe-’ and Shakespeare will never he forgotten. Her absence will be felt keenly and deeply by all. Page seven