Massena Central High School - Tatler Yearbook (Massena, NY)

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T H E T A TLEJL - urer, Elenita Prairie. Vie were more active as a class during our junior year and began to look forward to being seniors and even to graduation. ln November of our Junior year the old Main Street School burned, and, to accommodate a great number of grade pupils, it- was necessary to change the high school to a half day schedule. This made our hours 8 a. m. to 12:45 p. m., and gave the school building over for the use of the grades in the afternoon. This schedule has been continued during our senior year and will be continued until the new ,grade schools are finished. At the beginning of our senior year we found that our class num- bered thirty-one. Since then one of our number has left school and is now-what do you .suppose--married! XVe were very sorry to lose her and wish she were among us now. Also we found two new members of our class coming from out of town schools, one of whom has had the honor of being editor-i11-chief of our first year-book. VVilliam Yolton came from Jackson High School, Jackson, Michigan, and Grant Dodds from Canton High School. Vile have found our senior year a very busy and very happy one. Our officers for the year are: President, Beulah Hess, vice-president, Elenita Prairie, secretary and treasurer, Norma Quenelle. VVe are proud to be the class to introduce the first year-book into M. H. S. and hope that the custom will be kept up-although one member of our class has remarked that it was with much danger to the camera that the pictures in the year-book were made possible! Also members of our class, both boys and girls, have been promi- nent in athletics this year and through all our four years of high school. VVe certainly don't know what the school is going to do without us next year as far as athletics are concerned, or anything else for that matter! Members of our class had parts in the high school play this year and in the operetta. 'We were also represented in the Girls' Glee Club and Boys' Chorus. We even boast of brilliant orators, as Lenora Dutton won first prize for the girls in the annual prize speaking contest this year, and we are sending a representative to both the Beard and Dezell contests at Canton, with confidence that they are going to be worthy of our school. One of the most interesting and profitable activities of the senior class this year, was the trip to the Remington Art Memorial at Ogdens- burg. We spent what seemed a too short afternoon at the Memorial Twenty-six

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Tgza TATLER 0112155 lliztnrg A stupendous history I--that of the class of 1928, whose members range in height from four feet, to six feet six inches, our shortest being the Crydermans and our tallest Charles Guyett. Let us look into the diary of our fairy-Godmother, who dwells in a beautiful northern star and who was given charge of us ill September 1924. Vile numbered tl1e11 about fifty and did not fully realize what a brillia11t group we would prove to be-tespecially to the poor facultyl -during our four years in this hall of learning. But, to return to tl1e diary-I am afraid our fairy-Godmother was too busy protecting us from those ogres, called upper elassmen, to make much record of our proceedings, and surely we needed someone's protection. In any case, we remember our freshmen sensations very well without the help of written records. One thing we remember is that Mr. Martin took up his duties as Principal in September, 1924, and he has been our best helper Zilltl adviser during our four years of high school. He is leaving M. H. S. with us, and we wish him tl1e best of success. We must have been an encouraging outlook for him, when he first viewed us in study hall or somewhere ill tl1e corridor, looking and feel- ing as fresh as freshmen can feel! For a while we fairly glowed with superiority, especially to the seventh and eighth grades, but this soon ended! We were very devoted to the juniors and seniors, but for the sophomores we had no special affection-for tl1e simple reason that too often they made the fact evident to us and to the very observing world 3l'01111Cl us that we were freshmen. In our sophomore year we became organized as a class. Our offi- cers were: President, Ruth Green, vice-president, Lorne Pruner, secre- tary and treasurer, Geraldine Gooshaw. XVe also managed two or three parties that the juniors and seniors, and even the sophomores, deigned to attend. In that year we found our class enrollment smaller and in our junior year even smaller, and we knew that three of our original members had been married! Many people had moved into other towns and other schools or had found it necessary to leave high school. The class officers of our junior year were: President, Beulah Hessg vice-president, Flvelyn Blanchetteg secretary, Lenora Dutton, a11d treas- Twenty-five

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g THE TATLER g gg Mgggggg and a most interesting description of all its contents was given us by Miss Raymond who is in charge there. Then we visited the Ogdens- burg Public Library and after a most interesting visit there we ended up a perfect day with lunch at the Gift Shop. lVe are very grateful to Miss Hackett for this enjoyable trip. Another of the events of the year was the annual senior prom, which took place during Christmas vacation at the town hall and was very well attended by high school students and alumni. There were also the annual football banquet and the Hall0we'en dance, which were well supported by tl1e seniors. The class l1as found many ways to earn money and has bee11 quite a11 industrious group. During our four years in high school we have had some changes in faculty, losing among others, Miss Donihee, after her three years with us. Most of our teachers have been able to penetrate our seemingly kilowledge-proof skulls with a little learning and we know that, al- though we have seemed terribly dumb, we have accumulated a little knowledge. 1Ve really feel that as a class we are rather a good looking, good natured and learned group of individuals-Cjust see our pictures if you don't think solj-and we certainly hope that we have accomplished something of credit for our Alma Mater to show our gratitude for oppor- tunities offered to us. Thus endeth the humble history of the Class of 1928. lin fllllemnriam i., DUANE DOXV, a member of our class, accidentally killed in the summer of 1925. Vflrol Loan '28 H. ali East mill emit Zilestament lQ,. wontinued from page twenty-fourb Glenne Munson doesn't believe in making two wills. He made one last year. ln Vtlitness Vtvhereof, we have hereunto set our hand and seal, this 3rd day of May, A. D. nineteen hundred and twenty-eight f1928j. Signed, yours truly, CLASS OF 1928. ELENITA l'raAmrE NORMA QUENELLE BEULAH Hass T Ensm SHEETS T'wc'nty-seven