Monticello High School - Monti Yearbook (Monticello, NY)

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Sylvan Alcabes Science Photography Club F A C Caroline M. Allen Nurse I Lucinda C. Aubertine Seventh and Eighth Grade Elizabeth H. Beam Librarian Milton K. Berlye Industrial Arts

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Kenneth L. Rutherford Supervising Principal TO THE CLASS OF 1951 As I write this message you are approaching the beginning of your last term in high school. Some of you are looking forward to graduation day as a liberation from twelve years of concentration camp. Until you were sixteen, you had no choice as to how you would spend your time; since your sixteenth birthday, you may feel that your parents have denied you the right of choice and you have been forced to continue your studies toward graduation. Others of you approach the end of your high school career with different emotions. Some of you have told me you are already sad when you think of the coming separation from classmates and teachers, even from the halls and rooms where you have had many happy experiences. And you wonder what is ahead for your further education, an opportunity for participation in the religious, social and recreational life of your com- munity; or war, destruction, devastation, suffering. As I write, our men are retreating, suffering and dying in Korea. They are fighting for a free world. Those of your parents' generation have made a sorry mess of this old globe. It is up to you to do a better job. This is no time to become discouraged but you may be required to do some real thinking, to perform many unpleasant tasks, and to make serious sacrifices before you can feel that the world is becoming the sort of place we want it to be. Whatever the pattern of your life may be in the coming years, you will always cherish the memories of your high school days. Keep this book and other mementoes; some day they will be very precious to you. Maintain your interest in and your contacts with your Alma Mater. Wherever your home may be, take an interest in the school. If you are within the area served by this school, you will have a double interest; if you are situated elsewhere, come back to visit your old school. For many years you are likely to find some teachers you remem- ber. Walk through the halls, look at the pictures of your teams, and relive for a few minutes your high school days. It is my hope that you will leave high school with a definite, worth-while goal and that you may achieve it. May peace and happiness, success and contentment be yours! Your principal KENNETH L. RUTHERFORD seven

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V. Minard Branninc Driver Education Physical Education Athletic Coach Burton Bremenstuhl Science Visual Aids Director Projection Club Senior Science Club Clyde Cook Social Studies Radio Club Harriet J. Cone Music Senior Girls' Glee Club Junior Girls' Glee Club Mixed Chorus nine Eleanor Delaney Secretary