Odessa Montour Central High School - Odessanean Yearbook (Odessa, NY)

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Dedication TO MR. EDWARD DOLAN Teacher, Adviser, Sports Leader We have the opportunity, a most pleasant one, and the desire of our classmates, a most happy one, to dedicate our 1963 yearbook to you, Mr. Dolan. We, who have studied mathematics under you, know you as an inspiring teacher with very high standards; now, following some research into your career, we have found other things for which we want to compliment you. Our reporter advises us that you are a graduate of Odessa High School, of Houghton College with the B.S. Degree, and of Cornell University with the Master's Degree. After two years of teaching history and chemistry and of coaching touch-football basketball, and baseball at Pike, New York, you joined the faculty of Odessa High in 1936. Here, in addition to your distinguished career of teaching all courses in mathematics from algebra through calculus, you have coached basketball, served as timekeeper at basketball games, lineman at football games, and official at track meets; also you have directed many of the Junior and Senior Class plays through the years, and have been a MOST FRIENDLY AND DEVOTED ADVISER TO EIGHTEEN CONSECUTIVE SENIOR CLASSES—the last being one of the most thoughtful extra-curricular duties a faculty member can undertake, and one for which our entire class wants to give you heartiest acknowledgement and most sincere thanks. We have further high regard, Mr. Dolan, for your three-year service in the United States Air Force (1942-1945) as a radio operator on a B-17 and as a teacher of mathematics to the cadets . . . also for your work as past president of the Odessa Central School Faculty and of the Schuyler County Teachers' Association, and as an active member of the American Legion and of the Odessa Firemen’s Association. Like many other former baseball and basketball players, you keep active in bowling and trout-fishing. We hope, as you enjoy these fine sports, that you can recall the names and faces of the hundreds of young-fry and teen-agers you've coached and taught, just as we shall always remember you. We salute you, Mr. Dolan, as a fine teacher, adviser, and sports leader. Gratefully yours, THE CLASS OF 1963

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SEATED: Left to Right, Ward Searles, John T. Barton, Irving D. Goodrich, Superintendent of Schools; Howard A. Hanlon, President; Delmar Bleiler, Vice-President. STANDING: Kenneth Gilbert, Stanley Rundle, Dr. James J. Norton. ABSENT when picture was taken, George Hoffman. To The 1963 Senior Class On behalf of the Board of Education of the Odessa-Montour Central School, I want to extend our most hearty congratulations to you, the 1963 graduating class of the Odessa-Montour Central School. Your teachers are high in their praise of your many accomplishments and they consider you an outstanding class in many ways. I am sure you will agree that they are the best authorities from whom we, the Board of Education, can get information as to your abilities. You have been an outstanding money-raising class. Some of your members have potentials of being outstanding in the sales field. The scholarships that you have earned are of an exceptionally high average. Your presentation of the first newspaper for the Odessa-Montour Central School is something that will long be remembered. The rocket launching by some of your group was a notable accomplishment and shows the extreme interest of some of your class in science which is all important in this day and age. We of the Board of Education are exceedingly proud of our school in general. Even though we are in a rural area and in a small town, our school exceeds in abilities and accomplishments in educational standards in many ways of that of many city schools. We rank very high in the averages of the State and the Nation. We are proud of that. While we are a relatively poor district from a financial standpoint, yet we have been able to maintain these high standards and we intend to do just that in the future. For that reason we figure you can always look back with pride on your school alma mater. Good luck to you, one and all. Yours truly, H. A. Hanlon, President ODESSA-MONTOUR CENTRAL SCHOOL BOARD OF EDUCATION 5

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