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

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22 New Milford High School BOYS’ ATHLETICS I he New Milford High School Basketball team had a fairly successful season, winning ten out of the seventeen games played. The team was seriously handi-cacapped at the beginning of the season due to the sickness of Thomas Leahey and Donald Warner, through appendicitis. These two hoys came hack after the Christmas holidays and added strength to the team. The changing of “Hal” Straub to guard and Millard Dorwin to center also strengthened the team. The players on the team are. Straub, Kuhne, Leahey, Dorwin, Roscoe. Warner, Kibbe, Peagler, Kwasniewski, Tanner, and Lane. Through graduation we lose, Lea hey, Straub and Kuhne, therefore the boys should have a strong team next year. The entire school is sorry to hear that Mr. Lumley will not coach next year’s Basketball team. I he Basketball team as well as the students have appreciated the work he has done in developing basketball and baseball teams of such high caliber. The Faculty and the Student Body join in wishing him success in his new undertaking. While the hockey team, under Mr. Knox’s coaching, was not highly successful, the sport was enjoyed by the students. Games were scheduled with Gunnery, Canterbury and Wooster. Those who participated were: Maxwell, van Kleef, Onorato, Kroph. Addis, Flynn, Castle, and Pomeroy. The players on the Tennis team of 1934 were Raymond Brown. Reginald Taylor. Edwin Pomeroy, Robert Kroph. Ralph Camp, and Truman Castle. The manager, Edwin Pomeroy, arranged matches with several schools, namely: Canterbury, Wooster, Gunnery, Danbury Trade, South Kdnt. Litchfield, Romford and Torrington. Due Due to the able coaching of Mr. Knox, the team was quite successful.

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Class of 1934 21 THE GIRLS’ BASKETBALL TEAM The New Milford High School Girls Basketball team lias completed the 33 and 34 season, losing two of the fourteen games played. They were defeated by Salisbury on March 2, at the Newtown I own Hall, the score being 33-36, giving the latter the championship. The players were the following: forwards: Jessie Dolan, Sophie Smyrski. Marion Brutz, and Shirley Sussman; centers: Hattie Straub, and Mary odjenski; guards: Barbara Stevens. Ruth Golden, Myrna Worthington, Genevieve Halpinc and Betty Grant; Katharine Castle (Manager). We sincerely appreciate Miss Maas’s kind efforts in training our team this year, and we hope that she will go far in the field of training. The team loses three experienced players plus a sub guard by graduation, namely: Barbara Stevens, Sophie Smyrski, Hattie Straub, and Genevieve Halpine. There are several veteran players left and we wish them luck for another successful season.

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Class of 1934 23 Class History Sophie Smyrski During the summer following our promotion from the eighth grade, for the first time in our school career, we looked forward to the opening of school in the fall when we were, to enter the high school. On a bright September morning, as the clang of the nine o'clock bell shrilled through the air, a group of about eighty timid Freshmen filed into the building on Main street. Before we entered the doors we had felt superior to the seventh and eighth grades of which we were a part the year before; but now we felt suddenly changed, for the Seniors and upper classmen stood around and stared at us, making us feel like a group ot lost dogs, very nervous, bashful, and cjnite unsure of ourselves. We became more and more confused until tbe final bell rang. Our room teacher was Miss Bousquet. She finally managed to get most of us seated and to tell us about our subjects, but our class was so large that some of us had to be seated in the Sophomore room. Of course we all wanted to be the ones to go. for we thought then the other pupils would mistake us for Sophomores. We went up to the top floor for the assembly and once again were reviewed by the upper class students. Here we were informed about the rules of the school and told how to get along with the least possible trouble. After this assembly in the morning we returned to our home room and tried to get our classes straightened out. During the next few days we became acquainted with our classmates and our classes became routine. In fact it was not long before we felt we knew each other well enough to elect our class officers. Then the mid-year examinations were ui on us. I do not believe that any other class ever took this ordeal as seriously as we did. To us it seemed as though our lives depended upon passing, and so days of hard studying preceded the exams. But we survived, and life again resumed its even way. In the meantime the basketball season was going on which furnished excitement among our classmates.