Kenmore High School - Kenitorial Yearbook (Kenmore, NY)

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Senior Officers Left to right: N. Holland, Secretary: I. Kilburn, Treasurer: B. Kraus, President: A Enright Vice-President. Class History t To be an historian one must possess a pair of sharp scissors. With calculated strokes he must cut pieces from the perpetual sheet of existence until he has assembled the frag- ments of a story. Before me at this moment is a heap of such fragments. Let us see what sort of tale they tell. On a clear, warm night in the latter part of June, 1943, four hundred seven students saw the doors close on three happy years of junior high school. The climax had been most fitting and satisfying, and we passed through those portals with the words of Dr. Butzer's address, Wings, echoing in our hearts. Before us lay the exciting promise of senior high. We were a big experiment. As the tide of war rose in 1942 and 1943 a plan was inaugu- rated to speed up the teaching of mathematics. And so some of us struggled to complete elementary algebra and one-half year of plane geometry in two semesters of intensive work. Still another trial confronted us when we entered the senior high. Somebody in Albany had been blessed with the idea that all high school students should have two years of instruc- tion in health. Accordingly, we, now the class of 1946, were given the privilege of being the first to be inoculated with concentrated doses of health over a period of two years. But this was not all. It was decided that in order to provide opportunity for the student to fail one extra subject, English III and junior American history would be crushed into one semes- ter each and laid end to end, thereby leaving a period free. It was a noble gesture, but one which immediately cursed the office with another scourge. Cie. But Mr. Freeman-I didn't know that you couldn't take English III and junior American history the same semester. j Everyone was in favor of it but the students, the faculty, and the administration. Mrs. Chit- tenden still says it's a shame that we missed out on Idylls of the King and Iulius Caesar. The building looked awfully big when we first stepped into it in September, 1943. It took us some time to become accustomed to four stories and a horse-shoe shape. C Oh-pardon me, Mr. Palmer. I thought this was the gymnasium. D Of course, the principals and the faculty tried to help, but for a While we were too awed by them to be able to make any prac- tical use of their advice. Few of us will ever forget how distinguished and imposing Mr. Freeman appeared to us when we first saw him on the stage. Three years have taught us well just how deserving of respect and admiration is our Doc . He has given us three years of the same guidance and aid which he has given others before us, and he will continue to gently shape the paths of countless students through future high school years. Many will know and respect him, but none will ever be more grateful for him than we. With an auspicious jump we entered our first year in KHS as the class elected Doug Hoff- l 16