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

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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

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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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Seed at Hickory Hearth. Now usually the Seniors are polite enough to leave the poor Sophomores at least a crust of bread. But from three hundred sandwiches, and a dozen cakes and salads not even a crumb was left for 11s. Nevertheless, the Feed was a complete success, and marked the perfect end of our Sophomore year. It seemed as if July and August had been skipped during the summer of ’33, for September was again upon us. This time we returned with only eighty-three members. for we had lost Hazel Olson, Albert Olson, Edith Tuz, and Dorothy Taylor, and received into our midst Florence Herbst. The outstanding and unforgettable event of our Junior year was the Junior Prom. To clear the expenses of this, the Junior girls held a Food sale several weeks before the dance, and made out exceptionally well. Our first evening gown” event, proved to be the best ever given at the High School. 1 he hall was beautifully decorated under the very kind direction of Mr. Van Kleef. Music was furnished by Don Felix’s orchestra. In the odd moments that we could spare from our studies and our own class affairs, we took critical note of the Senior activities. Earning money for a class t. ip. putting on a Senior Play, publishing a Year Book—how could they do it all! If they could, we could and would, but how ? So it was that we returned to school last Fall, a class of seventy-three, delermined to do all that Seniors do in New Milford High School, somewhat abashed at the work ahead of us, sorry that this would be our last year together. We proudlv established ourselves in the Senior Room and the Library. We tried to appear nonchalant. We scorned underclassmen. We even tried to haze the Freshmen, but the Faculty intervened, and nobody minded our scorn. We were disappointed at not having Gretchen Scholze. Joan Wright, and Julia Jakubowski with 11s, but we were glad to welcome Dorothy Taylor again. A short time later we were deeply moved by the death of Theodore Docktor, an honor student of our class. About a month after we had selected our officers, we learned that our President. Loring Miller, was to move to Maine, and we gave him a grand send-off by holding a Surprise Farewell Party in his honor. Of course he knew all about it beforehand! To lose a class President is serious business; to lose a Senior President is tragedy! We solved our problem by simply shifting the Vice-President, Dorothy Strid. to Presidency, and naming a new Vice-President, Donald Warner. Although Harry Nichols tried to collect class dues the Treasury was rather low, and so we were allowed to hold one class benefit a month. In November, we gave a Senior Dance; in December a Senior Alumni Basketball Game and Dance; in January we sponsored a Bingo Party; in February a Food Sale; in March, the Senior Prom; in April the Senior Play and in May another Food sale. For our Play, our committee selected The Whole Town’s Talking.” The date set for April 12th, the cast was selected and rehearsals begun; the stage committee and cast worked right through Spring vacation. Rehearsals at 7:15” became the by-word. Then after it was over, and the whole town was talking! In class elections we chose V. Donnelly the best actress and D. Warner the best actor for their work as Mrs. Simmons and Chester Binney. Wc have always been represented in sports having among us some of the school’s finest athletes in Tennis, Baseball and Basketball. Long shall wc remember the eagle-eye of Millard Dorwin, and capable support of Wesley Lane, Donald Warner, Elmer Roscoe and Irving Tanner, who helped to make up various teams. To the girls’ Basketball team the class has Ruth Golden, Myrna Worthington, Betty-Noble and myself. Four our success on the Basketball floor, we wish to thank Miss Bousquet, Mr. Lumley, Miss Haas, and Mr. Johnson. We are proud to state that