Nottingham High School - Bulldog Yearbook (Syracuse, NY)

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FO R YEARS BEHI THE DESK A Biography of the Class of 1 951 BOOK I In the beginning . . September, 1947. The tread of tiny feet heralded Nottingham's first Freshman class in many years. Everyone gaped in amazement, for, being a Hrst child, the youngster set many new precedents and broke a few old ones. Despite being a bit confused by three different feeding times and often an unsettled daily formula, the new addition to the Nottingham family grew quite normally. Little Class of '5l sat quietly dur- ing those first assemblies as it listened to the soothing voice of Papa Kane, but when he took it to football games the poor young thing screamed violently. Doctor Manor said that this screaming was due only to disappointment and irritation and that some new trophies to play with would make it happy. Baby's first constructive toy was a set of shiny new school books. One story was all about photosynthesis and the basic seven, which Miss MacFarlane read to it every day. Another book was filled with colorful Mercator projections and graphs with funny crooked lines showing the decline in the price of Pablum. Algebra was fed in large doses to the youngster along with that alcoholic sounding lesson which began, I-lic, haec, hoc . . . Correct grammar soon re- placed the gibberish first heard in September. How- ever, even before the youngster had learned to pro- nounce the names of the teachers, jerry Sackett took it in hand and taught it to drool at different pitches. Yes, Class of '5l took big strides during its first year. Its own members appeared on the stage in How to Propose and Nothing but the Truth. It saw the inauguration of the public address system and the Associated Activities, and by the time it first heard Mr. Condon tell his Little Willy stories, the toddler was prepared for the big step into the Sophomore year. BOOK II Gaining momentum . . . Class of '5l grew enormously as it entered the second year, since it was nourished by tender grad- uates from Lincoln, Charles Andrews, and other schools. The absence sheet for the year read some- thing like this: Allied Youth World Federalists came and left came and left After-school movies came and left came and left came and stayed Yo-Yos The Sophomores During the Fall, when a movie poll was taken by the Citizen, boys and girls in the Class of '5l voted for more double features in the class movies. Oh, we were proud of the class that year, especially when we led the rest of the school on the honor roll. This same year the office started taking an extremely active interest in us socially and educationally, and many were the soirees held behind the closed doors of Mr. Condon's oflice. Ah, yes, those were the good old daysl Believe it or not, Tom Dewey won the presiden- tial election in a Nottingham poll that year, while another proved that while we get enough sleep at night, we don't brush our teeth. VVhile Dewey was running on the Republican team, Neale Bogardus

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AVIS YAFFEE There's a doctor living in our town. Citizen. Honor Roll. MARILYN YOUNG Meng Sweet friendship. Student Guide, Girls' League, 'l'y-Tri-Y-Parllam. LEO ZENNH! sqm Sam's song. Football, Baseball, Student Guide. FRED CAMPBELL The Campbells are coming. Football, Track, A Cappella, Band. ROBERT CULLEN There'll be a hot time in the old town tonight. MARTIN GUSSOW Marty si Q Q? Electronics' DITGSZS I help it it I like to talk? Q QQ., CR 'X Rudy Graf Most Popular Sandra King Iack Pratt Most Likely to Succeed Helen Thompson Sidney Dana Best Sense of Humor Bette Lou Comrie Richard Dirks Most Intelligent Rima Kleiman David Lanzendorf Best Looking Phyllis Sorkin William McGrath Best Dressed Renee Greenhouse Peter Horstman Best Athlete lane Early -X-X- VALEDICTORIAN ....... ............. ......... R o bert Flavin SALUTATORIAN ......... ......... R ichard Dirks As we, the Seniors of 1951, graduate from Nottingham, we enter an unpredictable world. We bequeath our names and pictures to the roll of loyal Nottingham alumni: but we cannot prophesy, nor even guess at the future. We can only pray for a world unified and at peace. Now let us leaf further through our book of memories, and reminisce upon . . . 1

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