New Milford High School - Schaghticoke Yearbook (New Milford, CT)

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Class of 1932 3i HI-Y CLUB The New Milford H-Y Club was established in 1924 and has figured prominently in school activity since that time. The club has sponsored several dances this year, has sent members to all the Young Men’s Conferences that have been held in this vicinity, and has held several joint meetings with other Hi-Y clubs. The New Milford Hi-Y is one of the most active in Litchfield County. The purpose of the Hi-Y is to create, maintain, and extend throughout the High School and the community high standards of Christian Character. The officers for 1931 -’32 are: C. Kiefer, President. S. Kinney, Vice-President. K. Kriksciun, Secretary. A Dolan. Treasurer. There are twenty-nine members. Their participation in extra-curricular activities is as follows: Ten are basketball players; eleven arc baseball players; six are tennis players; eleven are football players; eleven are class officers.

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New Milford High School . THE SENIOR PLAY The outstanding event of the school year, the Senior Play was a great success, socially and financially. 'I'lie play selected, “A Full House,” a comedy in three acts, was presented on April fifteenth. The entire cast went through their lines with exceptionally little prompting, and succeeded in keeping the audience genuinely interested throughout the play. With very little material from which to choose the players, Mrs. Couch finally completed the cast. Due to illness, Beatrice Bona was called upon to substitute for Bernice Turner as Mrs. Fleming. The cast was as follows: Characters Players Parkcs, an English butler......................................... Starr Kinney Susie, a maid .................................................... Mabel Johnson Otilly Howell, a bride ........................................ Winifred Wendell Miss Winnecker, the aunt ......................................... Harriet Lee Daphne Charters, Otilly's sister ............................... Barbara Warner Nicholas King, a stranger....................................... Kenneth Roberts Ned Pembroke, Jr., on only son ................................ Clifford Kiefer George Howell, a bridegroom ................................ Theodore Anderson Dougherty, a police sergeant ..................................... William Dodd Jim Mooney, a policeman .......................................... Victor Nicola Kearney, another policeman .................................... Henry Walendzik Mrs. Fleming, who oums the apartment ............................. Beatrice Bona Vera Vernon, a show girl ......................................... Anne O’Brien Mrs. Pembroke, from Boston ........................................ Ruth Wells

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32 Nr.w Milford High School Class History Barbara Warner In tiie fall o:- 1928, one of the largest classes to that date literally swarmed into the Freshman room of the old High School building on Main Street. Fear was uppermost in our hearts, hut that didn’t keep us from loudly proclaiming our entrance. We cnuld be heard as well as seen. After considerable effort. Miss Rooney, who was to guide 11s through our first year of High School, made us realize that we were there to attend school and not to see how much noise we could make. We were given instructions on how to make out our schedules, and how to find our way around the building. We were sure we would have no difficulty, but we were mistaken! An assembly was announced. We safely found our way there, but coming hack, a number of us. much to our great embarrassment, found ourselves in the Senior room instead of the Freshman room. Horrors! We hadn’t gone down enough flights of stairs, and what fun the Seniors were having with us now! Cruel beings, those Seniors. We assured ourselves that when we were Seniors we would never act like that. But no doubt we have. Although we were unused to conducting class elections, we succeeded in having a gathering which resembled one and in electing these officers: Robert Nelson, president: Walter Went, vice-president, and Clifford Kiefer, secretary and treasurer. We felt quite proud of ourselves when one of us received letters for participation in athletics. in the person of Jimmy Di Mauro, our four year letter man, receiving letters also as a Sophomore, Junior and Senior. During our Freshman year we had a chance to show how much talent our class possessed in the way of dramatics. We learned that it was the custom at Christmas to have an assembly and at this time caah class was to provide a half-hour entertainment for the other classes. After due consideration, we decided to present a short, one-act play, entitled “Mother Has Her Say.” We believe the play was quite a success, making us ratlu.r proud of ourselves. Just wait for the Senior Play, we said. We ended our Freshman year with a picnic at Lake Waramaug. We engaged a bus to convey 11s there and, needless to say, a good time was had by all. The next fall found 11s with only fifty-eight members, under the supervision of Mrs. Couch. We had heard frightening tales about her and we were terrified into being well behaved children, but only for a time. She wasn’t as bad as they had made out! We found her a good s|x rt and ever ready to enter into our fun. Of course, if we were naughty little children, she had to scold us, but, 1 daresay, wc needed it. This year Kenneth Rogers served as president, Theodore Anderson as vice-president, and Clifford Kiefer as secretary and treasurer.