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

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Class of 1935 27 HI-Y The Hi-Y has spent a very successful year. The officers arc Kenneth Maxwell, President; James Hulton, Vice-President; Douglas Leahey, Secretary and Treasurer; and Elliot Pepper, Leader. There were many matters brought before the pupils which were of benefit to the entire student body such as Clean Speech” and “Clean Scholarship campaigns. These were definitely expressed. The old active members are Donald Warner, Kenneth Maxwell, Elmer Roscoe, Robert Peagler, John Bray, James Hulton. Emerson Woodford, and Dervillc Benz. The new members are Douglas Leahey. John Wilson, Jack Benny. Daniel Weaver. and Joseph Kwasniewski. TRI-Y The Tri-Y Club of New Milford was organized on November 22. 1934. It is an organization limited to thirty-five members ranging from the Sophomore year to the Senior year. These members are admitted into the club first by being nominated before the club, and next by their majority election by the members. The purpose of the club is to create, maintain and extend throughout the school and communiy high standards of Christian conduct. The slogan is “Clean living, noble thought and a reverent spirit.” The committee for the organization of the I ri-Y was chosen as follows: Josephine Barton. Chairman; Martina Hoag. Susan Treutle, Jean Clalmers. Jessie Dolan, Louise Hatch. • 1 The officers of the club were elected as follows: Alice Houlberg, President; Betty Noble. Vice-President; Rita Houlberg. Secretary: Josephine Barton, Treasurer; Ethel Prince, Scribe. , , . We donated four baskets of food to needy families ot the town at Christmas l,nU We wish to thank our advisor, Mrs. Gilbert Williams, for her advice and hearty co-operation.

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26 Nknv Milford High School GIRLS’ ATHLETICS The New Milford High School girls’ basketball team completed a very successful season, losing five out of sixteen games played and winning .the Housatonic Valley League Championship from Salisbury High School at the Kent Community House, March 16, 1935, by a score of 41-35. The team was composed of the following players: Forwards: Jessie Dolan. Shirley Sussman, Molly Onorato, Rita Houlberg and Catherine Hosford. Guards: Ruth Golden, Myrna Worthington. Alice Houlberg, Anna Bilski, Priscilla Northrope and Anna Espitce. Centers: Mary Wodjenski, Jean Chalmers. Manager: Eileen Merritt. The team loses two valuable players by graduation: Myrna Worthington and Ruth Golden. The girls’ Tennis Team was quite successful this year. Those participatng were: R. Golden. B. Noble, A. Houlberg, R. Houlberg, S. Sussman and D. Bray.

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28 Ni:w Milford High School Class History I iiK Class of 1935 was enthused about High School long before we became Freshmen. In the Spring of 1930 there was a great deal of talk about the need of a new school building, but there was only the faintest glimmer of hope. Our youthful spirits were at a high pitch. Of course we wanted a new school! To prove it, we had a parade. Down through the town we all marched, little tots from the lower grades, superior eighth graders, and we seventh graders, all of us waving flags and carrying our home-made banners. Soon after that the town meeting was held and our faint hope became a certainty. We were to have a new school. During our eighth grade we watched the new building going up only a few feet away from our class rooms. At recess we no longer were interested in hop-scotch, jump-rope, or punch ball, but we watched with wide-open eyes as brick and wood and all the other building materials went into the new High School. No wonder for once during our school days we looked forward quite eagerly to going back to school after summer vacation. We were to be the first Freshman Class in the new building and the first class to complete four years in this school. Oui Freshman class was a large one. Ninety shy and confused young persons from Sherman, Gaylordsville, Northville, Bridgewater, Warren, and other nearby places filed timidly into the two rooms assigned to Freshmen. Miss Bousquet and Mr. Knox were our room teachers. This was quite all right, but we were shocked to learn that we were to have three or four other teachers also. We had to bear, of course, with plenty of razzing from the upper classmates, but we received some consolation when we found seniors getting lost in our freshman domain. After we had become acquainted we were told to elect our class officers. That was the climax to our new experiences. Our first class meeting began like a miniature riot, but under the guidance of Miss Bosquet we calmed down, and gave our earnest attention to electing John Garrity our very first Class President and Marinas van Kleef our first Secretary and Treasurer. Arranging our schedules and studying took up most of our first term. As we had been the largest Freshmen Class, we also became the largest Sophomore Class in the history of New Milford High School. Although we lost three members: Sophie Pokrywka, Ami Giddings, and Ethel Jennings, we gained four new- ones: Goring Miller, Ruth Blantin, Willard Hutchinson, and Gillian Winters. That made our number eighty-eight. On May 24, 1932, the most exciting and popular event Bow Day was observed under the motto ‘the bigger and brighter, the better! 1 think the only reason why Bow Day was started was to out-flutter the Freshmen and to amuse the Seniors. Gater, on the second of June, the Sophomore-Senior Feed was held. In the press and anxiety of being the perfect host our President, Donald Warner, became slightly mixed-up and announced the Fenior