Mont Pleasant High School - Montaneer Yearbook (Schenectady, NY)

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President - NVi1liau1 Boehm Vice-President Richard Hallahan Secretary - Ruth Kerley Treasurer - Jack Miklowitz

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i 1 CLASS HISTORY The second freshman class to graduate from Mont Pleasant High School first entered its Alma Mater one cold, icy February day in 1932. We tramped down the long, long corridors to the auditorium, the size of which made us open our eyes in amazement, and entered to hear Mr. Spaine Welcome us with You are not to be spoken of as 'Freshmenl here, but as 'Sophomoresf You have al- ready passed your freshman year in junior high school. Apparently, as we later found out, our principal was the only one who thought of us as Sopho- mores . To everyone else, we were mere Freshies . Following lVIr. Spaine's advice to walk around the building a few times and find our home rooms, we started out. The bigness amazed us more than anything else. lVe peeked through locked classroom doors and saw the new walls and the new desks with scarcely an initial carved on them. To our dis- appointment, we were unable to see the gym, famous as being one of the best in the state and, incidentally, as having one of the largest and best floors for dancing. VVe had no Freshman Rally to help us become acquainted, but llflr. Spaine accomplished this purpose in another way. He assigned two or three from each junior high school to the same home room. VVe did become ac- cuainted very quickly, but for the first few days we were very downcast at the thought of not even seeing our former classmates in home room. Then we very quickly assumed the well-known Freshman appearances and habits that had been joyfully cast off by the now sophisticated 2A's. A Freshman never realizes how anyone else can tell that he is a Fresh- man. If only we could have seen ourselves looking at the shiny numbers on tops of doors and wearing a rather bewildered look on our countenances, we would have known. Our home work was done faithfully, even to the point of missing a movie. Our main purpose was to be in class before the bell rang, and we stayed awake worrying about report cards. To be nonchalant like the Juniors was our secret ambition, for we dared not hope to have that appear- ance that only Seniors can have. VVC had been Freshmen, 2A's and then, quite painlessly, excepting for a few Regents, we passed into the position of Juniors. The first term was quite uneventful, but we were aware that we were slowly approaching the envied rank of a Senior, During our 3A term, we finally organized and elected as president, VVilliam Dietz, as vice-president, Frances Chamberlain, as secretary, Sixteen