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

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It hardly seems possible that graduation will soon be something behind us. “Pomp and Circumstance sounds terrifying at this point, and although we are overwhelmed at the prospect of graduation, we’re just a little frightened too. This feeling is different from the scared feeling we experienced on September 3, 1947, when we first entered New Milford High School as Freshmen. After a few weeks during which we practically made games out of finding the right rooms and of going around the right cops in the halls, we held our first class meeting. How well we remember that first class meeting--when the boys took over the class. Since there was dissension in the ranks of the girls, the boys managed to hold all of the offices. Mike Burdick ran the show, Jim Wells helped him, Ed Keeler was Secretary, and Jim White, Treasurer. Mr. Malonis took the task of advising our class and rumor has it that we wore him out, for he left N.M.H.S. at the end of that year. In April we, the little shots of the school, did our small part to put on a social for the Senior High. An almost unheard of thing occurred at this social -—we, the Freshmen, made money! Coming back to school in September 1948 as Sophomores, we felt much more at ease and quite tempted to look down on the young Freshmen. At our first class meeting we elected the same people, but we shifted some of them around. Jim White became President, Mike Burdick became Veep, Ed Keeler remained as Secretary, and Jim Wells became Treasurer. When Jim left in January, Nancy Lathrope took over the job of collecting money. We elected Mr. Went as class advisor, a job which he has retained for three years. By the time we came back in September 1949, we really felt as if we knew our way around. Upper classmen—wow!!! 28