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

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1946 By Uunufn Gmces and Etc!-:NH LEWIS Looking back ox er our four sears of high we realuze that despite all our gnpes and grlex ances we realls had a lot of fun Our four wears of l1l0'll sehool are chuck full of memories for the most part happs ones although we haxe had some sad moments Xmone our clearest memorlcs IS our first big das as Treshmcn at New N111 ford High We entered as a elass of 112 and most of us were searc cl still' Bs the end of thc wcck howcxer we were oxer our ease of knee knoekmg., and were able to find our w u around Xfter allowm ourselxes amplc tlme m w huh to get aequamtc cl we settled down to the task of clectmg, our class offieers It took us a week or more to aecomphsh thls feat but wc hnalls selected ltut Qurtiss, II'LS1llLIIt led Schultz Yiee Presx dent Bob Iathrop, Seeretarw and Ired Roberts lreasurer lhe fob of adusmg our class w as gn en to Ur Wrlhamson lhe first marking period was at last at an encl and all of us Ireshmen stood shaking at the offiee door lhe upperclassmen had painted us all manner of grue some pletures of what would happen when we walked through that door But we mauafred to sursne the Supreme Irial, and we were well on the road to re cox ers when it came time to plan for our gala freshman 501131 We thought lt w as the blggc st and best social ex ent of the year lhe mam attraetlon was a drama tuatron of the song I Nlet Her on 'Nlonday by NI Carlson, IJ Healcl and S Car but It was all to no axail 15 the lights stay ed on through the es emn Nlanx lrcshmcn went out for sports mostls for basketball Xlthou h no w xr sltw positions were seeurecl, we found promxsmcr material for the future Well we were throuvh the first gear wlthout am noticeable sears so we thought we were praetleallg xeterans when it came to the first dax s routme of the second Rear, but we were wery mueh mistaken We still got our elasses muted up, w ere 1n the was of the Seniors and, alas, we were still Just lowlx underelassmen We settled down after a fashion and had our elass eleetxons Rutledge Curtlss was again President with led Sehultz helping hlm as I ree PI'CS1ClE,lllL Sunnx Lewls was elected Seeretarg and Ired Roberts lreasurer fred left 1n the mldclle of the wear, and Germ uammne was eleetecl 1n his plaee Nllss Castle was gnen the headache of adxxsmg, our class this time With all the elections out of the w ag the class ofiieers appointed Nlllhe Griggs as General Chairman of the Sophomore 500181, after whleh work on the social w is xmmedxatelx started lhe alialr eame oil as seheduled and was a highlight of thc Near I dont thmk any one will forget the darmg hula danee Xhce Duda did lt was what made the attaxr, rf sou ll pardon the pun, a howling success about tlus time of the wear the -Krmw, 'Nan and Nlarmes w ere ealhng for more men, so some of our boys answered that call lhe first to lease were Norman Sur dam Bob Lathrop and Dlck Heald Ewerjone w as a httle downhearted after tlus but then there were brighter moments It was tlus xear that most of the girls were taken into the ln 1, and on the day of lI'lltl8tl0Il I pause to shudder as I recall, all sorts of weird sights were in . . I ' 9' 'Q X . . A ,- , A I ' .lv - ' - 1 x- I -I - A ' - ' . ' , , , . . 6 . . . , , . ' , , I I Y I I -V' v 2 v , ' I ' x v 5 n 5' I ' x I ' I '. r ' x I I 1 'I I I I I 4 'l ff ' I ' I ' x i I - ' l n f I 1 A I v I ' I ' , F . , , . . f 1 I' P I I I . r s l jr' u ,'. P A' ' ' p h -K' ' V .1 V . ' 1 v 1. . I . ' ' -. I I -' I . ' l I 1 . f Y' I - I -'- s ' I I I n v 4 1' I ' V ' hr 1 ' I I I '. 'l ' , 4 L . , I a Q I , ' I' fi ' 4 . Y. I . , 5, I . A , . - x ' Y ' I . s I I I Al ,y 1 ' 1 ll I x ' ' V . v I Y 1 . , ,,.,,A. . ,. K. ,, ' . . - son. li. Richrnond tried to help a few romantic souls by short-eireuiting the lights, ' . t. v ' il- I ' - f I I - s ' g. A . i- 4' .V . - I AI tv: H 'V , V. I - A .Z - lv D' I- ' 1 mx K4 x u I ' x r D 1 I A. 7 ., . 6 , v Y, ... , ... Q: V ., v , v v 1 v v I I - . ' - I r 1 wxv .A . . , . , K . .A - - A- . 3 L if c ,, . 1 V v H Q . h A . .I . .Wul- A ' , ' V . A . -' , . A ' . , '

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