Morris Central High School - Morrisanian Yearbook (Morris, NY)

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Rifle Club - 1,2,3; Yearbook - 4; Chess Club - 3,4; Senior Play If I told you, you wouldn't believe me' JAMES BANKICH PETER SKOGLUND HAROLD McCALLUM Jim Baseball - 1,2; Rifle Club - 1,2, 3,4 Exchange Student from Lima, Peru Chucha Harold'

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Basketball - 1,2,4; Honor Society 2,3; Senior Play 'Thanks for showin' up' Chorus - 3 Oh, Mark. Basketball - 2; Rifle Club - 3,4; Language Club - 3; Senior Play My weimaraner had puppies. DANIEL WALLING BLANCHE MELLON PERRY TOURTELOTTE Uncle Danny Blanche

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Glass Jfistory Dear Kindergarten parents: Sept. 7, 1956 We’ve had a wonderful week! It's a special privilege to share the first smiles and tears of a new Kindergarten class. Much to my joy the tears have been few. Sept. 21. 1956 The big news this week is our new friend Billy - Susan G. 's two-week-old billy-goat spent the past two days with us. The children have really enjoyed playing with him, building a pen for him (even though he didn't stay in it) and feeding him from a bottle. Nov. 9. 1956 Our sand for the play yard arrived Monday. The children have had a wonderful time with it. I do hope most of the sand shakes off before they reach home. Dec. 14, 1956 Monday at 1:00 the senior play will be presented for students - if you wish your child to go please send 15£ (do you notice inflationary trends?) Shirley Schick Those were some of the HEADLINERS of our first year of school. Most of our senior class has attended Morris Central since Kindergarten, but we do have some late-comers in our midst: Perry Tourtellot joined us in 2nd grade Barbara Hansen and Jim Bankich - in 4th grade Jane Matthers and Bob Eklund - in 5th grade Sean Dugan and Renate Foerster - in 6th grade Jane Loeser - in 7th grade Don Walling - in 9th grade Ray Moore - in 10th grade Now we’re one big happy family with poor Mrs. Jake. After our 8th grade graduation - the last one for M.C.S. students - our whirlwind of high school days began with our entrance into the 9th grade. Mr. Zoch and Mr. Knapp learned that it took us awhile to wake up and get to our homerooms on time. Mr. Gregory gave up teaching Earth Science after he had us. Some of us French I students had our first taste of the real thing when we attended a concert of MARC ET ANDRE, French folk singers. That was the year of the Rotary's first Snow Carnival, the time we eagerly made our snow sculpture a rocket that changed into a space man that changed into a Coke bottle that changed into a 6-foot clothespin. That masterpiece rewarded us for all our efforts by melting and falling into a heap before the judges ever saw it] Slave days, movies and thousands of bake sales also kept us naive freshmen busy that year. Then our ordeal began - the 10th grade, with English 2B, biology, geometry, and all those treacherous subjects. (No, the subjects weren't bad. It was the homework that killed us!) To lessen the drudgery, some of us became cultured and took part in Mr. Burr Harrington's dancing class, which ended with a grand Cotillion; there, we had a chance to step formally on friends, and parents toes! Also, to further our education we took a field trip to the Cornell Science Day; there we learned most inter- esting things - like the sex-life of a cabbage!? We started off our 11th year by breaking the custom of having round class rings, we ordered square ones. The new Vocational School in Oneonta was attended by several members of our class. Since our college years were soon approaching, Mrs. Chase led us around on several visits to campuses - both 2 - and 4 - year schools - all sizes and shapes. Our big money-making projects were two Junior Carnivals (with everything from spook houses to fourtune-telling to penny-pitching), and dances. Mrs. Dodsen's num-num French III class field-tripped to New York to go to the United Nations Building, a French play by Moliere, and a French restaurant (remember that day Clare?) Albert demonstrated his skill in driving bus 28 by maneuvering over, under, around, and through thousands of taxi-cabs. Our fearless and faith- ful mothers displayed their culinary talents by preparing a super-duper Alumni Banquet in June.