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

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orchestra to have, just how to use our Class Colors, blue and white, to best advantage for decorating, and last but not least, what to wear. It was a gala affair, and the high spot of Junior year. Another school custom is for each class to put on an assembly program each year planned and performed by the talented members. Our contribution in our Junior year was an amateur show which provoked many laughs, and was fun to do. Our Senior assembly program was at Christmas time, a broadcast from Santa Claus’s Studio. I played Mrs. Santa Claus and it was my duty to sit at a table and at intervols stand and ring the bell. At the end of the program when I sat down the chair broke and so did the laughter in the audience. We do not like to boast but we feel that we have always been well represented in dramatics. Both as Juniors and Seniors we took part in the annual Dramatic Club plays. We look back with pride on Nick Addis playing the part of Don Cutter, a dashing young playwright, and Eddi Orzech as Danny Stiletto “wanted for murder,” in “One Mad Night.” Claude Decker as the captain with dignity, gold braid, and an accent; Jean Bostwick as “sweet little Buttercup;” Dorothy Bray as the “winsome daughter” of the captain; all did exceptionally well in the operetta “Pinafore.” Another school custom, in which it was our honor to take part, was the inaugurating of the school social. They are held once a month and are sponsored by the classes in rotation. A program including movies, relay races, games, dancing and refreshments is offered for the nominal entrance fee of ten cents. During this year we have been attempting to raise our bank balance to allow for a class trip after graduation. In October we sold Christmas cards and paper. In November we gave a food sale. Our prom came in February. The next big event was to be the Senior play, “The Irresistible Marmaduke” to be given in March. Unfortunately most of the class were far from irresistible with mumps during March, so the play was postponed until April. In sports all through the four years we have made a good showing. Emblems are awarded each year to the best all-around students in each class. Our emblem students have been Dorothy Bray, Joseph Yarachowicz, Cecelia Zaloski, Helen Michalek, John Wilson, Jerry Griffin, Angeline Pruchnik, and Priscilla Northrop. We are sorry to say that we have lost some members of our class. Some are attending private schools, and others have moved away. But we have had the pleasure of welcoming new members as: Ruth Parcells, in our Sophomore year; Louis Nemec and Ailyn Perkins in our Junior year; and Virginia Morin and Helen Schooner in our Senior year. We were deeply moved by the death of a classmate, Nancy Washkevis, on May 20, 1935. Thus, as we come to the end of our high school career, we look back upon four years of success in scholarship and in athletics, and of comradeship and fun in our social life. We wish to thank the townspeople, teachers, and fellow students who have made this possible. With sorrow we leave New Milford High, but we feel that we have well prepared for the next stage of our journv through life.

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John Morgan Cornwell “The great secret of happiness is to be at ease with yourself.” Junior Prom Committee. Senior Prom Committee. Senior Plav Committee. Class Basketball 4. Frances Dombroski “I live my life in my own, quiet way.” Senior Play Committee. Senior Dance Committee Louis Robert Smyrski “Some day he’ll be a foreman.” Senior Play Committee. Senior Dance Committee. Graduation Committee. Year Book Committee. Ruth Evelyn Johnson “At peace with the world.” Treasurer Home Economics Club. Junior Prom Committee. Senior Play Committee. Assembly Program 4. Ann Dolores Thompson “A loyal steadfast friend; what more could one ask ?” Dramatic Club 4. Dramatic Club Play 4. Dramatic Club Committee 4. Senior Play Committee. Assembly Program 4. Irving Shapiro A laugh is worth a hundred groans in any market.” Junior Prom Committee. Senior Dance Committee. Senior Play Committee. Dramatic Club Play 4. Assembly Program 4. Class Baseball 2-8. Francis PeaglEr “She who is good is happy.” Home Economics Club, Secretary 2. Senior Plav Committee. Junior Prom Committee. Home Economics Club 1-2 Joseph John Plock “For he’s a jolly good fellow, but don’t pick an argument.” Class Baseball 2-3. Class Basketball 2-3-4. Social Committee 2-8-4. Senior Dance Committee. Senior Play Committee. Assembly Program 3. Class Night Committee. Year Book Committee 4. MarJorie O’Neil “Nothing is impossible to industr}'.” Committee for Social 1. Senior Dance Committee. Senior Play Committee. Junior Prom Committee.