Hartford High School - Hartford Key Yearbook (White River Junction, VT)

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Yearbook Board YEARBOOK BOARD First Tew left to right: Leon Farnham. Caroline Cameron. Robert Stoekwell. Seeotid row left to right: Harold Rising. Helen Perdelwitz. Dorothy Moore. Lucille Wood. Philip Rolx-rts. Third row left to right: Henry I cwis. Susan Wright. James Donahue.

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The Staff of the Year Book of the Class of 1939 Leon Farnham Robert Stockwell Caroline Cameron Philip Roberts Henry Lewis Susan Wright Virginia ('lose Norma Parrott Cornelia Cushing Lucille Wood Susan Wright Philip Roberts James Donahue Philip Roberts Louis Melisi Virginia Close Harold Rising Herbert Stanley Leon Farnham Caroline Cameron Harold Rising Harold Rising Henry Lewis Ma rgaret Quinlan Ira Coutermarsh Helen Perdelwitz Virginia Close Dorothy Moore Patric ia Mock Margaret Quinlan Editor-in Chief Business Manager Personnel Editor Organization Editor Music Club Bug Club Outing Club Pat rat ores News pa per Student Council Photography Club Debate Club Dramatic Club Athletic Editor Football Boys' Basketball Girls' Basketball Baseball A rt Editor Advertising Manager

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Class History The year was 1935 The day, September 9; The place was Hartford High School Where met those frosh of '39. Well do I remember that day of all days when I walked up the driveway to Hartford High School for the very first time. What freshman doesn’t! There were the seventy-seven of us that rainy afternoon when we filed with the veterans of the building to the spacious auditorium which only the spring before had been completed. There we sat—enchanted. Mr. Whitney Parker, the principal, explained impressively to us, the ways which we were to follow. Then he introduced to us the teachers of the school and explained the intricate maze of corridors. At the end it seemed to us that he dismissed us with a very casual wave of his hand and a thoughtful, perhaps doubting glance. 'Ere long we learned that Miss Young and Mr. Smith were to be our special advisors for the year and it was under them that in June we found that we had successfully pulled through our first year in this new life. The other members of the faculty were Miss Oakes, instructor in three years of English; Mr. Smith, English 1 and Latin; Miss Young, Algebra 1, Girls' General Science, and French 2 and 3; Mr. Allen, French 1, 0. S. History, and music; Miss Kingsbury and Miss Jensen, who later was replaced by Miss Kelleher, commercial studies; Mr. Osgood, mathematics; Miss Ainsboro, Home Economics and Biology; Mr. Saunders, Manual training and Mechanical drawing; and Mr. Holland, Boys' General Science and History and coach of football, girls’ basketball, and baseball. After a few weeks had passed, we learned that it was customary for each class to have officers who were obligated to lead us dutifully and nobly on into further activities. For the president we all eagerly elected Harold Rising; for vice-president, Howard Miller; secretary, Caroline Cameron; and treasurer, Geraldine Churchill. Very shortly after this the seniors informed us that they were going to give us a reception. This, we felt, was their way of showing their appreciation of our presence in the building. Surely our good deeds had not passed unnoticed. The night came and we were, carefully ushered to our reserved seats down next to the stage in the old assembly-hall Our time had come! Ve were really the object of everyone’s attention. Mr. Charles Perry, then a senior, was the speaker of the evening. He told us the importance of our years to come and the importance of our friendly relationships throughout the class. We listened, thoroughly resolved to put away childish things and to be grown up. This talk was followed by dancing and refreshments for us. We now really felt a part of the school—in fact, the biggest part, until the following Monday when it seemed to us that all the other classes had completely forgotten us. In October “Stunt Night” came, that night when each class vies with the others in more or less skillful stunts. We freshmen jumped for joy. girls hugged each other, and boys went around chests and chins up, when the judges presented