Kenmore High School - Kenitorial Yearbook (Kenmore, NY)

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POEM Maker oT heaven and earTh, GranT us The sTrengTh To endure, The power To remain pure. The desire, The will To cure, To resisT TempTaTion's lure. Help us To prove our worTh. The world we enTer is a complex, moving Thing, Urging, spurring, ever challenging us To wing Our TlighT upward beyond The close conTining bonds Of man's achievemenTs. YouTh surges forward and responds To The eTernal call oT advenTure. ConTesT Brings eager hearTs, youThTul aspiraTions To breasT The Tide oT liTe. Who will e'er heed or noTe or care. While naTions seeThe wifh war and shrill TrumpeTs blare Whefher inexperienced youTh will Tind iTs place Among The working ciTizens oT The race? l-low can we aTTain securiTy or peace When men Torsake wriTTen promises and cease To exercise courTesy? Where has virTue Tied? Where paTience? DuTy? Why rampanT vice in Their sTead? We have leTT childhood joys behind. WiTh eager, upTurned Taces we seek The lighT. Open our eyes, closed. blind ThaT we may go ouT, help The weak. We would as youTh beTore Conquer liTe's golden sTore. No hard Task diTTiculT enough, No uncharTed seas Too rough. GranT us The desire To know, T-lumble, To live and grow. Jean lvlassucci Class PoeT I Y

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lSENIOR OFFICERS Under The guidance of Mr. C. Sherwood Miller and The oTTicers, The senior class of I939 compleTed a successTul year wiTh The annual senior class banqueT and dance, and The June com- mencemenT exercises whose Theme was democracy in American secondary schools. In November a Senior Carnival was held aT which The seniors perTormed Tor The enioymenT oT Themselves and oThers. In The spring, a sprighTIy gay comedy called The Charm School was presenTed under The direcTion oT Miss Eve STrong. Leading a large casT were Warren Weller and Marion Woller. The pIoT cenTered abouT a young man who inheriTed a girls' school and concerned The Trouble This group oT girls caused him. The class was led by RoberT Maier, presidenTg David CarTer, vice president Allyn Kimball, secreTary: Julius Yakapovich, Treasurer: and Carol Gilchrist represenTaTive To The STudenT Council. SENIOR OFFICERS Firsf row: Gilchrish sIudenT council repre-senTaTiveg Yalcapovich, secre- Tary: Maier, president CarTer, vice president Kimball, Tieasurerg Mr. Miller, adviser.

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TIIISTORY When we receive, aT lasT, our diplomas and Tile slowly Trom our brighTly-lighTed audiTorium we shall realize wiTh mixed pangs oT joy and remorse ThaT we are wriTing The Tinal words in one more chapTer of ThaT Thrilling book, LiTe. IT is only righT ThaT we should review These pages, pages crammed wiTh boTh joys and sorrows, Tully recognizing ThaT They can never be relived. When we enTered senior high school as sophomores, we were removed Trom The pinnacle we enjoyed in junior high. and we were regarded by The seniors as mere neophyTes. UndaunTed, we wenT our way, paTienTly awaiTing The day when we, Too, would be seniors and would enjoy Tull privileges. NeverTheless, in This sTaTus, we were allowed Tor The TirsT Time in The school's hisTory To have regu- lar class oTTicers. SelecTed were Ward Moore, presidenTgl-lenry Farley, vice-presidenTg RoberT SpiTzer, secreTaryg Theodore Wilcox, Treasurer: and Richard Down, represenTaTive on The STudenT Council. Helping To prepare us Tor advancemenT Toward The goal, which would be ours in Two years, was Mr. George Barna, chosen by The class as iTs adviser. WiTh him as our guide and TuTor, we cavorTed Through a merry comedy called T-lospiTal l-lecTics. Who will TorgeT Bob ATTmore's anTics as he per- plexed us wiTh his complicaTed Talk abouT The elusive creaTure, The ToiThfboinder? ATTer This, we sTaged a TheaTer parTy, The roceeds going To our picnic aT EllicoTT Creek Park in June. We success- Tully spenT The proceeds on Rod, and no one could despair oT iTs loss, remembering The Tun we had wiTh our Tellow sTudenTs and amiable adviser. ATTer a joyous summer, we resumed our duTies, one sTep nearer To The coveTed posiTion enjoyed by The seniors. Leading The class This year were David CarTer, presidenT: Richard Down vice-presi- denT: RoberT SpiTzer, secreTaryg Jack Busch, Treasurer: and Joan Craig, represenTaTive. To help us, we chose our youThTul TooTball coach, Mr. Richard OTTenhamer, who aided us in sTaging our second assem- bly. This Time we appeared as passengers aboard a ship, capTained by Bud Morrison. Revealed as com- poserjluas Warren Weller whose romanTic song, Memories in My l-learT, made iTs debuT aT This assem ly. Reigning amidsT colorful decoraTions aT The Junior Prom were Queen Carol GilchrisT and King Jack Busch, Tully proclaimed as our righTTul rulers wiTh an impressive coronaTion ceremony. Our own gymnasium was converTed inTo a courT room and king and queen wiTh Their aTTendanTs were led To The Throne. There They were oTTicially crowned by lasT year's queen, Rhoda Anne DuddlesTon, and king, Bill Di perT. TlTe joy we had known was Tragically overshadowed by The sudden passing of WalTer STall, who, Though gone, will live in The memories oT sTudenTs and Teachers alike. A climax oT This chapTer was reached as we TriumphanTly reenTered Kenmore's halls as Tull- Tledged seniors. For The posT oT STudenT Council presidenT, The sTudenT body chose Ward Moore, whose former experience proved him well-TiTTed Tor This imporTanT oTlice. For class presidenT This year we elecTed RoberT Maier, assisTed by David CarTer vice-presidenT: Allyn Kimball, secreTary: Ju- lius Yakapovich, Treasurer: and Carol Gilchrist represenTaTive. JusT before Thanksgiving wiTh our cooperaTive adviser, Mr. C. Sherwood Miller, we Teverishly Toiled Toward making The TradiTional carnival The besT ever. ln our opinion, we succeeded. Shirley Sal- ing was popularly elecTed To Till The place oT queen Tor ThaT nighT. Many acTiviTies Tollowed, including The puTTing ouT oT The yearbook, our own KeniTorial, a Task assigned To Marion Arnoldi and RoberT Miller, ediTors, BerT Schillo and John l-larris, business mana- gers, and a large sTaTT oT seniors, juniors and sophomores under The waTchTul eye oT Mr. Clarence Vosburgh. This yearbook will be cherished parTicularly, since iT is paramounTly ours as seniors. To compleTe our lasT year as sTudenTs oT our beloved Alma MaTer, some oT Those dramaTically in- clined, perTormed in The senior play, direcTed by Miss Eve STrong. The lasT words of This memorable and evenTTul chapTer were wriTTen by TaTe's hand when The class day banqueT and dance were class hisTory. And now, our diplomas Tirmly cluTched in hand, we close This parT oT our liTe wiTh The hope ThaT in some way we have leTT a Tavorable imprinT Tor oThers To Tollow and To beTTer. The nexT chapTer of The book, LiTe, will separaTe This class: buT, in TuTure years, we each shall Turn back The hands oT Time and relive in pleasanT memory The days spenT in associaTion wiTh The TinesT group of sTudenTs and Teachers we shall ever know. Phyllis Koehnlein Class HisTorian I3