Hoosac School - Owl Yearbook (Hoosick, NY)

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(Lite (Olui Unari It is apparent that this year the Owl Board has accomplished more work than any other board previous to 1955. The con- tribution of this Board lies in the leather nound edition you hold in your hands. In • rder to have this binding the board, es- pecially the business department, had to vork hard. The business managers did an excellent job and the school wishes to thank them for their efforts. The main figure on our staff is of course me editor-in-chief. This is a very trying ob to undertake, but Phil Nason has come Through in all our issues with a fine OWLET as the school’s paper is called. The recently elected editor-in-chief for next year is Bill Hannum. Bill has been on the board for two years, and has showed him- self to be a very capable person for the job. The advertising has been exceptionally good this year. The Board is greatly in- debted to the business manager, Gerry Guild and his assistants, David Goodrich T.nd Tink Elliot for this year’s edition of the OWL. These three boys made it pos- sible for the leather bound edition. It took many days and long hours of strenuous work, but it was well worth it. Working as a team. Tom Immermann and lm Keenan covered all the special events iere at the school. There were weekly speakers, banquets, festivals, especially the Yule Log and the Bleeze. that had to be written up. Both boys did well in inform- ing the public of the special events at Hoosac. Tom not only wrote on events, but ne also was one of the contributing artists of the drawings in the OWL. The school dances and parties have been covered by Dave Moss and Bill Watkinson. These boys were the Social Editors, with me responsibility of writing up the dances with St. Agnes and Albany Academy. Both these boys contributed a lot by giving the school the news of the social side of things. To keep up with all the news and rumors of the school was Harrv Wiard and his well known “Harry’s by-lines”. Harry was the one who wrote the little things while you weren’t looking and published them. It was a good column and added humor to the OWLET. The cutstanding writer on the Board t his year was John Highland. John was the busiest member on the board because he took on special assignments to make the OWLET more interesting. He encour- aged many boys in their various activities in sports through his reporting of the games we played. He put the extra punch into his articles which made the difference between a good and a bad article. His SPORTS CHAT was a summary and esti- mate of the season just past. Perhaps the most interesting of all his work was the column in which he ventured into the deep dark woods to return and report on his observations on the wild life of the area. Being the typical woodsman he was very capable for this assignment. Geoffrey Ball kept the exchanges in good order. This is a small task, but an import- ant one since if the schools we exchange papers with are not kept straight we will never know what is happening in these schools. The Board is deeply grateful to Mr. Arthur L. Howard, faculty adviser to the Board, for the very wonderful job which he has done. There is no person who can say Mr. Howard has not worked devotedly and hard on the OWL and OWLET. The School wishes to thank Mr. Howard and the Board for publishing such a wonderful yearbook.

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(Thr (flail ll-iarh Hark row left to right- Mr. Howard, Ball, Immermann, Keenan, Wiard, Mills, Moss Front row left to right Goodrich Highland Guild Nason, Hannum Watkinson

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Social (Committee—Back row left to r‘8ht—Mrs. Franklin, Moss, McConnell, Mr. Howard. Front row left to right—Nason, Elliot, Hannum.