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

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BOARD OF EDUCATION To The Class of 1964: Recent scientific discoveries and inventions have brought about revolutionary changes in agriculture, commerce, and industry. So rapid have been the developments in mechanized farming, high-speed transportation, and automation in factories that our country needs more scientifically trained people in every field. To meet this need our schools are inaugurating a changed educational program aimed not at pouring knowledge into the child but at drawing out of him the means of solving problems and reaching decisions. Our courses in science are presented to equip the student to operate his farm or business . . . English to develop self-confidence in expression . . . languages to fit him for efficient communication in our shrinking world . . . mathematics to train him for a life amid computers and statistics. Odessa-Montour Central School has made many forward steps in its educational program, its administrative organization, and in its school buildings. We have not yet reached our objectives, but as .long as we have the desire to make education more effective for our young people, we will continue to improve facilities and develop teaching methods. Our school through its administrators and faculty has prepared you for advanced education. Advanced education can be obtained by many methods --by going to college, business schools, technical schools or by home study and experience. We hope each of the Class of 1964 will use the basic education you have received here at Odessa Montour Central School as a spring board towards a broad advanced education to enable you to enjoy a successful life in the years to come. Odessa-Montour Board of Education Howard A. Hanlon, President Howard A. Hanlon, George Hoffman, John T. Barton, Dr. James J. Norton, Irving D. Goodrich --Superintendent Ward Searles, Mrs. Lou Sands, Delmar Bleiler 5

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Mr . Henry B . Heslop Supervising Principal Odessa-Montour Central School TO THE CLASS OF 1964: It is a very real privilege for me to join with the Board of Education and the Faculties of our Junior and Senior High Schools in extending sincere congratulations to each of you. Your yearbook, die ODESSANEAN, is in many ways like your four years in high school. It pictures your faculty, your senior classmates, your activities, and the underclassmen. It is in fact a record book of those four years which now seem to mark the closing of a career. However, we who remain at Odessa-Montour Central School prefer to think your career is not closed but, like this ODESSANEAN, will be opened again and again when you return to visit us. We invite you to come and see your alma mater and especially to come and tell us of your activities and ambitions. In this way we can look forward to the happiness of seeing you, just as you can refresh your memories of OMCS every time you turn the pages of this book. Sincerely yours, Henry B. Heslop 4

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WE SALUTE OUR TWO MUSICAL DIRECTORS TO MR. BROWN Odessa-Montour Central School would just not be the same without the high level of music you have developed in our 90 piece orchestra and our 67 member band. Your personal instrumental skill and your teaching ability have made.our annual Christmas concerts a high point in the community. Your bringing the band up to ratings of A-3, A-4, A-5 and B-6 in the past four years is a matter of great pride to the entire school. We all are thrilled when the OMCS band in its bright uniforms strikes up at the football games, at the New York State Exposition, at Cornell Band Day and elsewhere. Most of all, we want to congratulate you on bringing your distinguished professional skill with clarinet and saxophone and your experience as Air Force bandsman, symphonic clarinetist, and saxophone recording to enthuse our instrumentalists and lead them to attain high degree of excellence. TO MR. BRUST We deeply appreciate the skillful direction you have given to the choir which has grown from forty to sixty-eight voices with the notable increase in male voices from eight to twenty-one. You have helped the choir develop to the point of singing music in Grades 5 and 6, and to receiving a high 4A rating in the NYSSMA competition festival. In addition to your work with the senior choir, the junior choir and male chorus, you have inspired our classmates and indeed the entire community with your own vibrant voice. Space does not permit our listing your many, many appearances as singer and soloist in churches, concerts, radio and television; instead we want to tell you how much we enjoyed your recent singing at the New York State Teachers' Association meeting and how we look forward eagerly to hearing you at every future opportunity. 6