Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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SENIOR On December 13th and 14th the Senior Class presented their annual play; this year it was a comedy entitled False Alarm, by Esther Faust. Except for one Sophomore, the entire cast of this dramatic hit was made up of the most talented Seniors. False Alarm was a cheerful farce about a young inventor, played by Ken Schoon-maker, who faced and overcame many obstacles on his climb to success. Former class member Earl Rampe, one of Ken’s obstacles, did a marvelous job as the barking, pessimistic father of Fh vllis Rosenberg, Ken’s sweetheart and heroine of our play. Stanley Dudek added his bit of humor as the egotistical dude, who was Ken’s rival for the affections of Phyllis. Ada Andersen gave the drama the necessary touch of maternal love and understanding as Phyllis’ mother, although Ada was at first taken in by Stanley’s fancy clothes and line—which turned out to be as substantial as a clothesline. To give the comedy the exact dash of sophistication, we had Marv Kit Wallace act the part of Phyllis’ aunt, a famous actress. She gave Ken reason to change his personality, or at least she thought she had hypnotized him as a Na- VARIETY On November 18th, 1949, the Seniors willingly agreed anything could happen! Our Variety Show went across quite well, but it really took a good shove to do it. The biggest show was going on backstage. One amusing incident happened when our crooner, Harry Smith, was knocked out by his six-shooter. Our chorus line knew how the track team feels—the lack of music made it necessary for them to sing and dance at the same time. Catherine Smith was never so surprised as when she sang into the mike only to find someone had pulled the plug. We don’t believe anyone disagreed with our interpretation of love . . . Stanley Dudek never before thought he could sing soprano, and Kathleen Frev was dressed to fit the declined age of seven. Kennv Schoonmaker and I,eota Makuen looked like the natural teenage couple—madly in love!—but to top off the scene of blissful marriage, Edward Bernaski, imitating a husband reasoning with his wife to let him in, really ended our love matches. Our own “Hartman’s Team,” Dolores Ci-priano and Robert Sawyer, really showed their talent even though they had to over- PLAY poleon of science. Barbara Bradley and Gilbert Ifeitz supplied more humor to an already side-splitting bit of nonsense in their respective roles of maid and detective. Sophomore Jeannie Hawkins was the loquacious brat of the play, and Kathy Frev her inquisitive mother. Who will ever forget the marvelous performances which took place on the stage? . . . or backstage? . . . When Mary Kit collided with a door and caused her head to bleed during the afternoon performance . . . Or Alphonse Bonauto ringing doorbells—at the wrong time . . . Clifford Kelsey breaking windows (er, glass for sound effects, that is) ... Or when Ken and Ada forgot their cues and left poor Mary Kit and Phyllis the awfid job of ad libbing . . . Our thanks to all the people who helped to make the Senior Play the memorable hit it was. Our thanks to Mr. Haves, our hardworking director; the industrious stage crew of Peter Earle, John Rasczewski, William Bolev, and their director, Mr. Innocent; Mr. Whitebread, who selected the play; our prompters, Charlotte Mongo and Gloria Hernandez; and to the entire cast. SHOW look the difficulty the stage crew had keeping the music turned on. Lee Geiger disguised as “Elsie the Cow” put another bright spot in the show, and, to top it off. he showed how insanity could wear a person out until he went crazy and had to be dragged out. Our last act really made the audience sit up and take notice. Because of some difficulty the Ink Spots couldn t make the show, so we presented our own White Spots. Edward Bernaski, our bass, proved he could sing and sweep the floor at the same time. Stanley Dudek proved that a person can be left gracefully holding the bucket, while Kenneth Schoonmaker was up to his old tricks, much to the audience’s surprise, when he shook one of the janitor’s mops. After thinking over the situation we felt the trio should have sung “Dust” instead of “Lucky Ole Sun. Robert Osbum made bis first public appearance disguised as “Claude Rains dressed in his raincoat and carrying his umbrella. Altogether the show went smoothly and we had to admit that if the audience didn’t enjoy themselves, the cast behind the curtain certainly did!

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In our third performance, Harold Sumter led the second grade band, accompanied by Miss Wilson, in an interlude, after which we had much excitement when our noses told us that our favorite pet, the skunk, had decided to get and give out. We added two new per sonalities to our troupe—Phyllis Rosenberg and Clifford Kelsey. Business was slow that season, but we moved to a new training ground on Main Street, where we were greeted by Marguerite Christensen, Stanley Dudek, and Dotty Pearsall. This year, 1941, we were saddened bv the loss of many of our fans, namely our relatives, because they were called to the line of duty. We all wanted to do our share so we enlisted the aid of Janet Hanley, Lucille Christensen, Kathy Frev, Frank Ileter, Bob Davis, Edward Bernaski, Ginnv Parks, Walt Jensen, and Paul Traverse to help us collect license plates for the scrap drive (legally, of course). Sam Herbert and Barbara Bradley joined us as we moved to a new, larger arena on Lincoln Avenue in the 6th year of our tour. We formed a Good Citizen’s Club to make our duties seem more like fun. The 6th grade found us trying a “feat of magic.” We put Phyllis in one of the lockers to see if thev could be opened from the inside; to our great disappointment, and Phyllis’ horror, we found they couldn t. Ray Dzierzek and Charlotte Mongo came to her rescue. In the 7th grade, the circus troupe was in a turmoil because of the change in routine. Lee Geiger, Stanley Lane, and Dolores Cipri-ano added their talents to our “Flashy Flute Frolic,” which was a big success with all our patrons, and we all enjoyed the work with music. We all acquired a new talent too —DANCING—which prepared us for our Grand Finale. Bob Davis took a two year leave-of-absence to observe another circus troupe at work. Only one new personality joined us— Tom Lynch. That year the troupe took to the act of studying, for we learned that we had to take the State Regents to see if we had the requirements to enter the larger ring— High School. Bettv Zawilin, Helene Zawaski, Bob McBride, and Joe Guarino found us in our 10th year of training. (Incidentally, we passed the requirements to enter the larger ring,— now approaching the final act of our circus.) Our new motto, as given by Mr. Sprague, was, “Work or Flunk!” Of course, we all decided right then and there to work terribly hard. Finally we reached the stage of making money and we only added one personality to aid us in the task and that was Bill Stanton. Bill was verv talented in playing the zither. We never knew that Barbara Bradley and Ada Andersen could run so fast as they could in Farley’s Orchard - - - the only reason was because Walt Jensen was chasing them with a snake. And how Mary Kit practiced her trapeze act from the limbs of the old apple trees! We made money by selling food at a place in the town where our circus was performing—the Pantre. We also had quite a few dances and one operetta and a prom which helped us financially. The head of our troupe was Gilbert Heitz who did a good job preparing us for our Senior year and the Grand Finale of our class circus performance. Here we are to our Grand Finale and seeing we needed a few more acts, we hired Carol Semke, Marilyn Credidio, Frank Pan-aro, Gloria Hernandez, and Rose Scesa to add their talents to our performance. This year found us full of pep and energy with Clifford Kelsev leading our troupe. We really put on some good performances which drew very good audiences. Some of these were: The Senior Play, The Senior Prom, the Square Dances, with the Kentucky Moonshiners, a Variety Show and many successful basketball games and food sales. After all this, we put the show on the road ... a short trip to Boston. All and all our circus proved to be the longest in history and one of the most successful. We hope that our faithful audience, the ones who stuck by us and were patient with us those 13 years of performances, were satisfied with our show. Our June Grand Finale was held to smash all attendance records as we bowed out gracefully. page eleven

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SENIOR PROM Our first big project of the year was the Senior Prom on November 25. After working industriously for many days, advertising and making plans, some good and some—well we won’t say—the eventful day arrived. Just about any Senior who had the slightest hit of ambition decided to put it to work. Before we realized it, the ceiling was decorated in many different colors. I suppose you’re wondering how we got way up there. Well, Mr. Stewart. Cliff Kelsey and Ken Schoonmaker would know more about it, hut we can give you an idea. They used an apparatus to climb upon in order to string wires, then strips of crepe paper were throw n on the wires, making an arch effect. Much time was spent fixing the tables with bright colored paper. Inspired by the original thinking of Gil Heitz, the Seniors conscientiously (?) made graduation caps and diplomas to place on the tables. The main attraction, according to all those who constructed it, was a graduate dummy sitting and looking at a globe. The future was written on top of it. At the Prom, the couples danced to the smooth-flowing music of Dick Bruyn’s Orchestra. Everyone was fascinated by the beautiful decorations, which displayed the graduation theme. Some people even seemed to be in a trance although it’s debatable whether or not to blame it on the decorations. CLASS ELECTIONS Most likely to succeed Gilbert Heitz Charlotte Mongo Most Popular Boh McBride Marv Kit Wallace Best Dressed Joe Guarino Phyllis Rosenberg Best Natured Thomas Lynch Rosamond Scesa Best Athlete Gilbert Price Constance I folcomh Done most for the class -- Ken Schoonmaker Mary Kit Wallace Most Talkative Kathleen Frey Most Reserved Dorothy Pearsall Class Caveman Clifford Kelsey- Class Clown Lee Geiger Class Don Juan Bob Osburn Class Wit Bob Davis Class Grind Gloria Hernandez Class Devil Stanley Dudek Laziest Louis Peavy Most Energetic Betty Zawilin Most Modest Carol Semke Favorite Classroom Room 211 (English) Favorite Teacher Mr. C. R. Hayes Favorite Expression - - And what have you? 50's greatest need MONEY!!!!!! page thirteen