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

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- Senior Class Officers Front row, left to riqht: Agnes Kinney, Kenneth Hall. Gordon Aulis, Carleton O’Connor. Bock row: Gerald Fournier. Tony Sacco and David Logan 14

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Preside?! fs Address I consider the honor bestowed upon me when elected to the presidency of the Senior Class one of the greatest of a lifetime. When elected. I realized the responsibility of such an office and set about to exert my energies toward the goal of fulfilling my position to the best of my ability. Mistakes were made, but on the whole, through the united cooperation of my classmates and the great advice and assistance of Mr. Holland, our sponsors, and the faculty we have turned out to lie a pretty gtxxl class. Now we are entering a new era. As is true of all who venture into new modes of life, we are a little wary of the future. For most of us boys, the future is all mapped out for us and comes under the heading of “the armed forces.” 1'here will not, however, always be a war and when peace does come, we shall have to be ready to aid our country then, as well as now, in a time of emergency. We will separate on our day of graduation and will continue to drift further and further apart but we shall ever be bound together with the bond of memory the memory of four glorious years that can never be taken away from us. No matter what may come in future years, I am sure that as long as America can produce boys and girls of the type that I have lieen so proud to serve, we will be on top and nothing and nobody shall ever dominate the spirit of freedom that is our heritage. GORDON A. AULIS 13

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Class History KIGHTH GRADE The term of 1938-1939 marked many changes and new ideas in Hartford High School. “Something new had been added” in the form of the Junior High. This consisted of the seventh and eighth grades in the four upstairs rooms of the new wing. The class of ’43 is the first class ever to be graduated from this high school that has been here for five years. I mean the whole class! The members of this first eighth grade hailed from all over the town of H.irtford—White River Junction, Wilder, Hartford, and West Hartford. It was a new experience for all of us, as we all had to make new friends and adjust oursel»es to a senior high class schedule. Later on in the fall we organized as a class and elected officers which were as follows: President, Mary Mock; vice-president, Christine Regione; secre- tary, Anne Davis; and treasurer, Catherine O’Connor. Assemblies were new to us too, and we had many of them during the year. There was a variety of them one put on by the music department for Christmas, a first aid assembly by the General Science classes, and another by the English Department in the form of prize speaking. Grade eight was well represented-Priscilla Boivin. who won first prize for girls, Kay Rogers, Marjorie Gauthier, Donovan Beede, Stella Powers, and Albert Carlisle who won first prize for the boys. The Junior High boys organized their own basketball team and were coached by Mr. Farnham of the Grammar School. They did very well, for it was considered one of the best Junior Varsities around. Still later in the year, “something new” again was added. This time it was Home Room programs. At first they were more or less a period of general discussion, then they evolved into periods with a business meeting and a planned program. The Junior High boys took the initiative again, and in the spring organized baseball leagues. There were three or four of them all over the town; the “Point” league would play the South End. and so on till everyone had played everyone else. They were coached by Mr. Peterson. In May the Annual East Central District held its Festival in W hite River under the direction of Alan Carter of Vermont Symphony fame. It was quite a feat. because none of the singers were of high school age. Some members who left during the year were Jane Hunt, Georgia W arne, Dan Hughes. Avis Harrington, and Bartlett Sargent. At the awards assembly some of us received State Reading C ertificates for completed and extra reading. Roderick Stinehour won the American Legion Auxiliary National Defense Essay Contest locally, and also the State Contest. Kathleen Rogers was presented her award for the Good ( itizenship Student also. We left the eighth grade complete with class pins and all, a trip to Lake Morey at the end of the term, and something to look forward to our entrance into Senior High as Freshmen. 15