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

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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.

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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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24 New Milford High School During our Freshman year our new school was being built on East Street. We loved to go through the new building and compare it with the old and were very glad to see the auditorium in which we would hold our basketball games and dances. June canie almost too quickly, and as our life in the old building ended we spent the last few days carrying our books and other |x)ssessions over to the new school. This was a pleasant way to end the year. acation flew more rapidly than school days and soon September was here again. I his year we were not so embarrassed by the upper-classmen but did a little Freshman surveying ourselves. Our room was up-stairs and our class was divided into two parts, some under the supervision of Miss Campbell and others under Miss Millane. Our class had diminished since last year, but we welcomed Granville Burton, Dorothy Russell and Elliott Kuhne as new members. Granville proved a very capable president and he was very active in school sports. Dorothy played in the school orchestra and was also an honor student. Baseball and basketball teams would have been quite lost without Elliott’s speedy playing. With the election of class officers and basketball and baseball practice, our Sophomore year seemed to go as pleasantly as our Freshman year. One of the customs of the school is for the Sophomores to observe Bow-day. No one knows its origin or purpose, unless it is to remind us that our childhood days are not long past. 1 he girls wear big b. ight ribbons on their hair and the boys wear bow neckties. For us bow-day came in the spring. We felt very foolish with big bows on our heads when we thought we were grown up. All the other pupils stared at us and consequently, near the end of the school day most of the bows had disappeared. Another important school custom is for the Sophomores to entertain the Seniors at an outdoor dinner some day toward the end of the year. This is properly called the Senior Feed. 1 remember how hard we struggled to get together enough food for those hungry Seniors. It happened that the day we chose was rainy, the only rainy day ever selected for a Senior Feed, so instead of holding the event outdoors we had to adjourn to the school auditorium. When we saw how vigorously the Seniors put away the food, we were very much afraid that there would not be any left for ourselves so we hid a small amount. But as hungry as those Seniors were, we finally filled them up and devoured the food that was left. The Senior Feed was the last important event of our Sophomore year. As Juniors we were more dignified than we were as Sophomores. Our Junior year was taken up with basketball, baseball and the election of class officers. The big event of the year was the annual Junior Prom. It was a very busy time for us because the hall had to be decorated and plans for the evening had to be made. How-