Hudson Falls High School - Hermes Yearbook (Hudson Falls, NY)

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 Miss Mae M. Dolan ot edi Lea tion ln gratitude to our capable yearbook advisor and understanding English teacher, MissMaeM. Dolan, we, the Class of 1953, dedicate our HERMES. FROM FRESH- MAN DINK TO CAP AND GOWN, we ghosts haunted her patience daily. Whenwe leave these halls, her ghosts willgo with us—for, you see we garrulous students ARE her ghosts. More important though, remembranceof her friendly way and parliamentary procedure will go with us. • 3

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Awesome little Frosh we were in '49, when we first entered senior high. Joined by the junior high Kids in '50, we came to realize our own strength. Social functions captured the limelight in the junior year. But, in our last year, as we tried to straighten out the confusion of becoming educated, we DID remember to do a bit of studying. During these four years From Freshman Dink to Cap and Gown, each class we attended, every book we read, each activity in which we participated, and - most important of all-every teacher we knew, helped to make us better individuals. All these have we recorded in the following pages of our ‘53 HERMES as never-to-be- forgotten moments in our advancement from adolescents to adults. 3 orevuor j

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Our •Superintendent Superintendent Dana M. King summarizes centrali- zation as follows: The formation of a Central School District, long an ambition of the Hudson Falls Board of Education and school administrators, was voted by a 5 to 1 ratio on November 14, 1952. This wasaccomplished by the whole-hearted cooperation of the members of the Board of Education, the faculty, the clergy, civic, fraternal, and industrial leaders of the com- munity, and the many interested friends of the Hudson Falls schools. With centralization will come an improved edu- cational program for the boys and girls of this area. Centralization will make possible: (1) greater ef- ficiency, due to a larger unit of administration; (2) long-term planning for a definite area; (3) coordi- nated transportation; (4) increased state aid for operation of the school program; (5) additional state aid in the form of a building quota to help finance a building program. The new Central School Board, elected on December 5, 1952, will formally take over the operation of the schools on July 1, 1953. During the interim period the new board is devoting its major efforts to the planning of a building program for the new district. Our Superintendent of Schools, Mr. Dana M. King, and his secretary, Mrs. Dorothy Valley, confer over an important centralization message. We thank you sincerely, Mr. King, for your ceaseless efforts in bringing our distant dreams to a reality. SITTING, LEFT TO RIGHT: Ezra R. Dickinson, Vice-President; L. Ray Lewis, President; Dana M. King, Superintendent of Schools; Robert J. Dempsey; Bertram J. Dube, Clerk. STANDING: Sylvester S. Sul- livan, Carl R. Smith, J. Walter Juckett, Dr. Henry E. O'Neil, Raymond E. Heil.