Goshen Central High School - Yearbook (Goshen, NY)

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SEPTEMBER, 6 With mixed feelings, some 700 well-tanned boys and girls entered the halls of GCS on Wednesday, September 6, some for their first year, some for their last. Like the blank pages of a new diary, their months lay before them, waiting to be filled with the events that would become precious memories of their future. The picture for September on the calendar in Mr. Musgrove's room showed a young boy and girl walking to a little white schoolhouse down a country road lined with autumn trees. Looking at this picture, we couldn't help wondering what had happened to our September. The green trees, the open windows and sweltering students made us long for the crisp, cool days of the conventional fall. September was a month of settling down to a new routine, of getting accustomed to many things. Alarm clocks were set to ring earlier than last year so that students might be in their homerooms by the 8 a.m. bell, and it seemed strange to be able to leave at 2:35 instead of 3:30 if no teacher made demands on us. Besides the usual confusion of changing schedules, the crowds in Mr. Kennett's office, the P.A. announcements lasting half of first period, the struggles with new subjects, and becoming acquainted with new students and teachers, we were also faced with the inconveniences and disappointments caused by the unfinished construction of our new classrooms and cafeteria. The majority, however, waited cheerfully in line for their sack lunches and, as if it were a challenging adventure, hunted for seats in our temporary cafeteria, the boys' half of the gym. Teachers patiently tried to take attendance in our mass study hall, the gym. No one paid any attention after a while when the walls and floor began to shake. It wasn't Russia, just the work of the construction men. We all looked forward to being able to use our new buildings as we endured these little inconveniences. September whizzed by like the rockets launched at Cape Canaveral. Success of our flight to Destination June depended on each one of us fulfilling his separate goals.

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Mr. John Collins, Supervising Principal; Dr. Frank Filippone, Junior High Principal; Mr. Oscar Gustafson, High School Principal. ADMINISTRATION The purpose of the school is education of youth. The primary instrument in this goal is the teacher. In a one-room schoolhouse the teachers and pupils could accomplish this by themselves. However, with the ever-growing student population, an administrative staff is needed to enable the teachers to fulfill the school’s purpose of education without being hindered by problems of discipline or of arranging schedules. The administration staff of G.C.S. this year has made education at our school tops. Mr. John J. Collins, our Supervising Principal, received his B. A. and M. A. degrees from Boston College and has taken education courses at Harvard. His friendly smile and hello, and his attendance at athletic events shows his interest in the students. Mr. Oscar W. Gustafson is retiring as high school principal after twelve years in this capacity. He received his B.S. at Springfield and his M. A. at New York University. His cheerful, May I 8