Groton High School - Retrospect Yearbook (Groton, NY)

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SING! SING! SING! Lalala- Teaching French in the music room? Certainly not! lt's the G.C.S. chorus tuning up. The Festival at Lansing and the chorus dance rounded out its traditional schedule including the Christmas con- cert, the operetta, and the Spring Concert. Under the skillful guidance of Mr. Wright, the chorus promotes the atmosphere of warmth through- out the school. Altos, Back Row: R. Sovocool, Mudge, Hopkins, Frink, Rood, Tompkins, Healy. Front Row: B. Bell, Head, Accampanist Harris, Mr. Wright, Mattoon, S. Bell. Baritones: Kirk, Halladay, Gamel, Christofferson, Raymond, Vorhis, Bacon, and Accompanist Scheftler. Sopranos, Standing: Hall, Harris, Barrows, Cooper, Stevans, Hathaway, Green, Petrovich, Ross, Christofferson, French, Hart, Schooley, Miller, Ferrell, Gavras. Seated: Spafford, Beers, Moore, Mott, and Papish. 70

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Like, it's been an hour, man, and that flashbulb is bugging us! Eager to get back to rehearsing are Cool Clefs Harris, Scheffler, Harrington, Ross, Rounseville, Curley, Ferrell, Sovocool, Buggs, Day, Seligman and Brown. Absent are: McCrary, Pai, Stamm and Rood. Music! From the football field o the concert stage, music rings out e spirit of G.C.S. Early in the orning, senior band members trudge school for rehearsals, and after the un goes down, the swinging dance and returns for a workout with the lues. All this hard work does not o unappreciated, for we all love to sten, and music is the language of veryone. Head majorette Anna Frink leads colorful baton twirlers Brockway, Bancroft, Samson, Beers, Fiesinger, Lynch Dreams of belonging to a future Symphonic Wind Ensemble dance in the eager heads of Junior Band members Forshee, Seligman, Cham- berlain, B. Bell, Rockwell, Steinberg, Houston, Hathaway, S. Bell, Hart, Van BenSchoten, Greene, Reese.

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AT YOUR SERVICE Left to Right: Meeker, Mudge, Dann, McMasters, Spafford, Hora, Adams, Rawson, Mr. Cleary, Lillie, Cleary, Dassance, Seligman, Senecal. There will be an FHA coffee hour in the Home Ec room tonight is often heard over the P.A. system after students have left school for the day. Our faculty welcomes these words, for now they have a chance to relax from their labors, The Groton FHA chapter consists of 32 girls The projection club, member of the Pro- jectionists Club of America, is the group of students which runs the audio-visual teach- ing aids for the faculty and operates the stage lights. The equipment they use is ex- pensive, and in order to help the school pur- chase some of it, these fellows sponsor dances and skating parties. Last year they invested in two filmstrip previewers, this year they bought rewinds and a splicer and they have plans to buy more. Just for fun, the Club members make an annual trip to Syracuse to view new film- making processes such as Cinerama or Tech- norama 70, and to eat dinner together. This year they also visited the WSYR TV. studio. Left to Right: Haynes, Wagner, Jones, Schmidt, McFall, Petrovich. with their advisor Mrs. Stringham, Throughout the year they have many money-making projects in ad- dition to their coffee hour, including bake sales, a dance, and a mother and daughter banquet. They put on dinners and have parties on special holidays. They have an evening meeting once a month where the girls can use their cooking skills. These girls are learning to be better citizens, homemakers, and mothers. Standing: Sococool, Hora, Shaw, Christofferson, Westfall, Nalley. Seated: Myers, Mar- shall, Karn, Secretary Decker, Eldred, Vice-President Conger, Treasurer Pearsall, President Scheffler, Bancroft, Roberts, Moore, Halliday, Mrs. Stringham, Murphy, Schooley. 71