Newfield Central School - Memoria Yearbook (Newfield, NY)

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Class History The Senior Class of 1950 has had many wonderful and thoroughly enjoyable years together. We began our freshman year with Mary Baylor as president. This year we had our first square dance and made our first tidy bit of money. Richard Knight became president in our Sophomore year and guided the class right on to our Senior year. Ah, Seniors! A great day. Our rings arrived in September. We had our senior play, Me and My Shadoww in November. We are having a hard-covered annual again this year and we are keeping the name lVIemoria.,' This year the girls are wearing white formals for graduation. We are having our first semi-formal dance on graduation night after the commencement exercises. Prophecy 1955 A. C. We will look ahead into the future to the year of 1955. As soon as I can hail a flying saucer we shall start our journey. Ah, here comes one! I believe we shall start at old N.C.S. Janet Seely couldn't stand to leave Newfield so after grad- uating from Rochester Business Institute she is secretary to good old N.C.S. By the way, Janet won the R.B.I. Loving Cup Award. Here comes another of our Seniors. Yes, itis Benny Minteer zooming down past the school at 80 mph. Guess he doesnlt like to be reminded of his school days by looking at it. There's a motorcycle cop following him, his long hair blowing in the wind. Wait a minute, thatis a she! Why, itls Violet Hendrix. Sheis stopped him, but what's she apologizing for? Oh, oh, Violet, you made a mistake trying to arrest Chief of Police, Minteer. Here comes another car. It's stopping! That blond at the wheel looks familiar. That's Shirley Lawrence, pardon, it's Landstrom now. But there must be at least ten children there. Therels a sign on the door, Landstrom,s Nursery for children from 2 to 5.7' You sure had us worried for a minute, Shir- ley. Thatis all for Newfield, so letls be on our way to Ithaca. Here's a cute little farm. It says, Armstrongis Kid Farm .IH We always knew Lester and his fav- orite blond were going to settle down on a little farm and raise kids, but we didn't know they meant goats. Let's go right down main street here in Ithaca. Thereis Pottefs Photographic Studio. I'll park the saucer and go in. Why herels Mary Baylor, wife, Secretary, and model to the most prominent photog- rapher in Ithaca. They look very busy so let's hurry on. Here,s something different, Ollila's Beauty Salon for Men. That sounds like one of our Seniors. Sure enough, itls Irene, and this man she's giving a permanent wave to looks familiar. So, this is how Ray gets curly hair. This looks like a new store! Malkovshyk Farm Implement Store. Betty Wheaton must be around here-Bob says sheis home doing the plowing. Some of that Home Economics might come in handy yet. There doesn't seem to be anyone else around, so letls look around the U.S. a little. This is an odd looking place. No wonder-itls Texas. Will you look at that big mansion! And the oil wells! Who is that cute red-head in the nurses, uniform? Itis Eleanor Arnold, and who is that sheis pushing around in the wheel chair? VI7hy, itls Don faokson, the oil tycoon. Poor Don is just recovering from a nervous break-down he had from over work. As long as these two look so happy letls hurry on, because there is another Senior in Texas we have to find. Therels his place. It's fenneyjs Dufle Ranch, catering especially to female dudes. That's our How- ard, all right. Ever since Van Johnson got married, Hollywood has been looking for someone to replace him, but I'll bet they never guessed he'd be from Newfield. Darwood Teeter sure is a good actor, and to think he refused to be in the Senior Play. Here is a movie marquee, what does it say? Durwood Teeter starring in '6Woman Haterw with Lana Turner. It must be his latest smash hit. Look at that Cadillac convertible across the street and that handsome man behind the wheel! He even has a police escort to protect him from all of those women. We always knew Charlie Mikalec would get to Hollywood, but we never thought, he'd replace Clark Gable. From here, letls go out over the Pacific. There's a big yacht below us! Letls see whols on it. Well, look at that! There is Geraldine Smith sunning herself. I'll bet I know where she is going. lVIust be she got tired of waiting for her boyfriend to return from Japan so she is going over to meet him. fill

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On to Francel We knew Bessie McGuire would make use of the French she took in school. She is teaching English in France. She graduated from Buffalo State Teachers College last year. Let's go find Corinne Cooper. I hear she is in South Africa hunting big game. There,s the jungle below. Let's land and see if we can find her. There she is with a big gun hunting gorillas. Hey! That's a strange gorilla. It has red hair, or is that her hunting companion? I can see Corinne is a suc- cessful big game hunter, so letis start for home. Seems to me we've forgotten a couple of our Seniors. Here comes something flying toward me. Is it it another flying saucer? No! It's Dick Superman,' Knight. He just saved Jane Lois Lane Free- man from a tiger in Africa. One senior is still missing, but I know where to find him. On to Poughkeepsie, New York. Here's Vassar College for Women. What are all those girls swooning about? Oh, I seel Roger Burggraf is the history professor. That's the Prophecy of the Seniors of 1950 so now as Superman races me to Newfield, I'l1 say Class Will We, the Seniors of the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and fifty, do hereby be- queath our material and personal possesssions to the Junior Class, in the year of our Lord, one thous- and and Hfty-one. Lester Armstrong wishes to leave a little of his shyness to GUESS WHO? Gus Eberhardt, of course! -1- Good-bye for now. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Our little lover ,Janet Seely, wills her ability to fall in love with a different guy at the average of one a week to Donna Jean Avery. To Philip Chafee, the law breaker, we leave Mary Bayloris ability to pass her driving test the first time. To Alice Greene, a recent bride in the Junior Class, Shirley Lawrence would like to leave her ability to hold a guy until she gets out of school. Don Jackson feels that everyone should be a gentleman at all times so he gives this ability to Frefl Lamb. The Romeo of the Senior Class, Dick Knight, wishes to leave his way with the girls to Henry Pesu. Not that we think you,re fat, Bev, but Howard would like to leave you some of his slenderness and height. Eleanor Arnold would like to bestow her cheerleading ability on Ruth Cassavant. To Lois, Irene leaves her ability for keeping her hair in place. Our Muscles Man, Charles Mikulec, says he would like to leave a portion of his muscles to Keith Williams. Benny wishes to leave his Ford to Dick Classen because he thinks it must be a tiresome walk up to Teeters and back. Not that we don't like you the way you are loan, but Violet would like to leave you some of her weight, say ten to fifteen pounds. To Norman Hojman, who is never quiet, we would like to leave Bessie's ability to keep quiet. To Tom McGuire, Durwood would like to leave his ability to get a girl. Roger Burggraf would like to leave his ability to fall asleep in class to .lean Beach. In order that there will be one big guy in the Junior Class, Corinne would like to leave all her height to George Dorn. Betty Wheaton would like to leave her ability to chew gum to Mary Louise. Violet thought it over and thought maybe it would be better to be minus a few more pounds and says she will glady give some to Catherine Horton. Irene would like to bestow her ability to tell jokes to Sonya Cornish. Gerry Smith would like to leave a hand full of her boys to Helen Shultz. To Dora Teeter, Roger would like to leave some of his studious ways. To Mrs. Lansflowne, the Class of 50 would like to leave all the erasers she has been looking for all year and our brains and good marks to pass on to her next class. E91