Gouverneur High School - Deanonian Yearbook (Gouverneur, NY)

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NEWS (7? rt {y s rsr WEATHER Foreign. (1 nt Inrrtrt Today: Hot. Domestic. vu Tomorrow: Hotter. VOL. I. GOUVERNEIUR, N. Y., JUNE 1, 1945 NO. 6. Brilliant Wedding of MIKE WRANESH Former G. H. S. Students IN HERO ROLE The wedding of Miss Barbara Bame, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Bame, formerly of Gouver- neur, but now residing at 725 Saliva Street, Syracuse, to Mr. Kenneth Morris, a boyhood sweetheart of Miss Barnes, took place in the Syra- cuse University Chapel at four o’clock yesterday afternoon. Dr. El- ton VanOrnum, President of the University, officiated. The altar of the chapel was decor- ated with burdocks, dandelions, and cowslips. Unbleached muslin was laid in the aisle and the pew ends were tied with swamp grass and poison ivy. Miss Sylvia Sterling was maid of honor, and the bridesmaids were Miss Doris Blanchard, Miss Marjorie Stevenson, Miss Roberta MacTurk, Miss Wilabel Tulley, Miss Olive Car- ter, and Miss Caroline Jones. William Pike of Fullerville was best man, and ushers were Edward Perrin, John Christian, Claude Rose, Earl Patton, Gerald Wells, and Mil- bourn McIntosh. Ruth Hockey at the organ played The Prisoner’s Song. The bride, who entered on the back of her father, was gowned in an an- cient model of imported fish net, made princess style with long, close- fitting sleeves with dainty shoulder pleating and nine hundred twenty-six buttons made of petrified fish scales. A twenty-five yard train extended from the shoulders to the police sta- tion. Her short veil of red crepe reached to her finger tips. Her bou- quet was of meadow mustard and spinach. Skv blue pink chiffon gowns, made on Richville style, were worn by the attendants. A sunburst of gun pow- der created the atmosphere for the sumptuous affair. Helen King was dressed in a mo- lasses-colored hat with pea green accessories. A reception in the wood shed of the chapel followed. Both the re- ception room and the men’s lounge were charmingly decorated with devils paint brushes and skunk cab- bage. Receiving with the bride and groom weJT Mr. and Mrs. Rlaph Storie. 1 he bride wore a traveling outfit of brown and submarine crepe, with a seaweed over-jacket. Out-of-town guests, other than members of the wedding party, in- cluded: Commander Roger .Bacon, Mr. Leo Thompson, Mr. and Mrs. John Plunkett, Mr. Burnett Ryder, Miss Carol Storie, Miss Muriel Hut- ton, Miss Dorothy Gruneisen, Miss Betty Gruneisen, Mr. Byron Sullivan, Miss Charlotte Mickens, Miss Cora Goodale, Mr. Emerson Orford, Mr. Richard Holt, Miss Helen Burge, Miss Eileen Laberdee, Miss Cather- ine Lee, Professor Francis Baker, Mr. Willard Bresee, Mr. Arnold Byrns, Mr. Eugene Byrns, Miss Ma- bel Byrns, Miss Dorothy Fortune, Dr. Ivan Weatherup, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Gaudin, Dr. Florence Woods, Mr. and Mrs. James White. All the guests were former classmates of the fortunate (?) pair. The happy couple are looking for- ward to a honeymoon trip to the scene of their first meeting; later their trip will include other places of interest, such as Natural Dam, Spragueville, York, and Fowler. After July 4, 1945, Mr. and Mrs. Morris will be at home to their friends at 1897265432 Harmony Lane, Syracuse. LESTER MILLARD BUYS FAMOUS DAPPLE GRAY The former multi-millionaire, Les- ter Millard, attended the centennial Horse Show at Barnsville, where he bought from Eugene Byrns, the fa- mous dapple grey horse “Carrie” as a reminder of his high school girl- friend. It is said that this horse holds the world record for speed. Mr. Millard expects to enter the Brown Derby held at the Balmat race course in June, and to establish the record at a mile in one and one-six- teenth seconds. NON-STOP RECORD BROKEN BY MISS LEONA MERRITT Miss Leona Merritt, flying in her airship Johnny, broke the non-stop record between Gouverneur and Spragueville and set it at three and one-quarter minutes. The reason for her rush was that she forgot that she had left the potatoes on the stove. Our Disrespectful Mayor Emulates Paul Revere and Warns Coun- tryside of Flood Many families of Gouverneur moved to Sand Hill as the Oswe- gatchie River continued to rise. At five o’clock this morning our disre- pectful mayor, Mike Wranesh, was sitting on the river bank in the cem- etery, looking for the gold golf ball he had tried to drive into a two inch hole five miles distant. Yesterday he missed his mark for the first time, lost his whole fortune, and drove his ball into the Oswegatchie River. Sad, sad! This ball was his sole pos- session. It represented the sum total of all his earthly goods; not able to eat or sleep, he sat down near the place where his wealth had disap- peared. Suddenly he was awakened from his musings—water was over his shoe tops; water was rising rapidly to his waist before he fully became conscious of his danger. Making a mighty effort, he dragged himself to a higher level. Then he realized that the whole country was in dan- ger. The people must be saved and by him! The spirit of Paul Revere was in his stalwart frame as he realized his duty. A goat was nibbling the grass. Mike, filled with noble ambitions, jumped astride the creature and gal- loped over hill and dale, shouting “The river ! The river ! If you want to save your liver flee from the river!” He kept straight on his crooked course the entire seventy-five miles of the Oswegatchie River. At the end of one half hour, Mike returned, a wiser man on a weary goat. As he approached his home, he saw a shining light upon the lawn —he approached it and discovered that the wild river had receded and left in his own door yard, his treas- ure, his golden golf ball. The inhabitants of Gouverneur are preparing to hold a special meeting tomorrow night to vote upon declar- ing an annual national holiday in honor of their hero. Miss Isabel Maloy of Oxbow is the proud author of a large volume en- titled Hoiv to Spell.

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Our mothers’ words are as a thousand eyes through which we see the earth.”—Branch. Senior Essay Contest Gouverneur High School Friday Evening, June 7, 1935 Dr. Mahlon Locke......... .................................. Barbara Bame Faith........................................................... Claude Rose England Sings................................................... Carol Storie The Last Frontier............................................Ivan Weatherup The Danger in Words.............................................Catherine Lee How Can America Preserve Neutrality?.........................Edward Perrin Dionysus, The Immortal.......................................Caroline Jones Is Our Civilization Unstable?...................................Burnett Ryder The Celestial Race........................................................Olive Carter Conserving Civilians.........................................John Christian JUDGES Mrs. Jane Dodds Rev. Donald Gallagher Rev. Harold Thomas Catherine Lee and John Christian won the first prizes of $5.00 each; the second prizes of $2.50 each went to Carol Storie and Edward Perrin. Page Twenty

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22 THE GOUVERNEUR ECHO, JUNE 1, 1945 SOCIETY NOTES W ----------——-------------------«r Miss Doris Blackburn entertained the Women’s Weekly Bridge Club of Fullerville at her home. Four tables of bridge were played, the prize be- ing a bouquet of Roses. Miss Charlotte Mickens, noted trapeze artist for the Ringling Brothers' Circus, is spending a few days with friends in Gouverneur be- fore going on a tour of the West, with her troupe. Miss Eileen “Boots” Laberdee has opened her summer estate at We- gatchie. This year Miss Laberdee plans to specialize in dogs that do not bark or Chuck-le. Mr. Robert Evans, one of the lead- ing American authors, has just fin- ished his last book entitled Betty of Somerville. Word was received yesterday that Miss Cora Goodale and Hon. Allen Gaudin, State Commissioner of Ag- riculture, were married June i, at Montreal. PURPLE ROSE PRODUCED BY CATHERINE LEE St. Petersburg—After many years of painstaking effort, Miss Catherine Lee has succeeded in cultivating a rare specimen of wild Rose, formerly grown only on the banks of the James River. STOWAWAY DISCOVERED ON WORLD FLIGHT PLANE Paris—While Harlon Seaman was making a solo flight around the world in his plane Grace, he discovered that he had a stowaway, Miss Wilabel Tulley. On reaching Paris, Pilot Seaman left Miss Tulley in the care of the American Ambassador, Arn- old Hance. NEW YORK SURGEON TO SPEAK BEFORE DOCTORS Dr. Florence Woods, surgeon of the Bellevue Hospital of New York City, will give the last lecture in the 1945 post-graduate medical course. Her topic will be Operating on the Hailesboro Bus. ROSE APPOINTED TO LABERDEE POST President Thelma Jones, the first woman President of the United States, appointed Professor Claude Rose American consul to Laberdee, Iceland. MULTI-MILLIONAIRE RANCHER VISITS NEW YORK CITY New York City—Mr. Lester Mil- lard, famous horse trainer, arrived in New York by plane, to spend a few days examining the latest crop of Ziegfield fillies. DISMISSED FROM NAVAL SERVICE Pilot Harlon Seaman Found Guilty By Naval Court Martial— Offered $500,000 Bribe WASHINGTON, May 31—Pilot Harlon Seaman, former native of Gouverneur, New York, today was found guilty by a naval court-mar- tial and sentenced to be dismissed from the Naval Service. Pilot Seaman was found guilty of offering a $500,000 bribe in connec- tion with contracts made with John Christian, well known radio lecturer. The specific allegations upon which Pilot Seaman was found guilty were the reports submitted to the Wilson International Radio Cor- poration, which stated that on July 5, 1944, Pilot Seaman called at the office of Mr. Christian in the Fadio City Building, and attempted to make a deal with him to broadcast the aeronautical feats recently al- leged to have been performed by Seaman. The reports stated that, all unwit- tingly, Mr. Christian had been de- ceiving the public in his weekly lec- tures upon the spectacular prowess of Pilot Seaman, in which he had described at lenth the hazardous trip across the uncharted jungles of Africa. This trip, in reality, was but a short trial flight from Gouverneur to Somerville. It was further revealed that the much-heraled, non-stop, around-the- world flight proved to be a non-stop flight from Hailesboro to Sprague- ville. Pilot Seaman was successful in evading authorities for nearly a year but was finally brought to justice by Mr. Christian, in order to vindicate himself. At the time of his arrest Seaman added to his misdemeanors by deny- ing the bribe. Pathos pervaded the court room as the presiding judge, who announced the vedict of guilty, proved to be Brigadier-General Kenneth Taylor, a former classmate of Seaman’s. The opinion of the board has been submitted to the Secretary of the Navy, who will give it to President Jones for the final action. DEALERS IN JUNK Used Cars Bought and Sold (Preferably old ones) Richard Farmer Phone 264-J -----------------------------m I OFF THE WIRE Cotton to Be Sold Washington—Burnett Ryder, man- ager of the 1944 Cotton Producers’ Pool, announced today that he had a new supply of “Kentfield” cotton to be sold immediately. To Marry Prince London—St. James Court was agog today over the announcement that Miss Doris Wood, formerly of Gouv- erneur, New York, will marry Prince Frank sometime in the fall. G. H. S. GRADUATE VIEWS THE NAVY Miss Carol Storie, famous pianist of the Crane School of Music, has been granted leave of absence in or- der that she may attend, as an ob- server, the June maneuvers of the U. S. Navy off the coast of Lapland. SUCCESSOR OF “DIZZY DEAN IS ANNOUNCED Walter Baker has signed a con- tract to pitch for the Brasie Corners’ Americans. He is to succeed “Diz- zy” Dean as the highest paid pro- fessional pitcher. THREE FORMER CHAMPS IN GOLF PRELIMINARIES Steve Jurkovich, Mason Mosher, and Mike Wranesh, all former win- ners in last year’s golf tournament, will travel to Canton to participate in the Canton Preliminaries. BOYS ABANDON FARM LIFE FOR ADVENTURE Leo Thompson, Emerson Orford, and Aubrey Dodds have rented their farms and will join Dr. Harry Fuller’s third expedition to Antartica. Their knowledge of wild life will be of special value to Dr. Fuller in his efforts to perfect a new species of racing snail. PROFESSORS PREPARE TO GO TO BRAZIL Dr. Ivan Weatherup and Professor Francis Baker plan to depart for the Jungles of Brazil, where they will undertake to teach music to the sav- ages. Bacon Plans To Fly To Mars At the annual aircraft banquet last evening. Commander Roger Bacon outlined the plans for his proposed flight to Mars. In training for the arduous journey, he will endure the hardship of partaking of only four meals a day. Miss Caroline Jones of Gouverneur and vicinity was arrested for speed- ing on the Santa Fe Trail. “My new super-powered VanOrnum was just loafing at 300 miles per hour,” says the care-free young speedster.