Oneonta High School - Oneonta Yearbook (Oneonta, NY)

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4-,X-sg, ,- 4-hut o CN easy-',,, Tlurtqaftve llears llhth Doctor Buqbee To chronlcle the ex ents that crowd the last thxrtv flve years for the best normal school IH the solar svstem 15 a problem of selectlon The years have been full ones To present properly all the avallable materlal would demand space and t1me alun to the extent of those two elements IH the solar system ltself To condense th1s galaxv of happenlngs lnto the space for WhlCh the thrlftv purse of an O En Ess can afford to pav the prlnter baffles the chron xc er Statxstrcs IH these davs of economlc struggle are trlte and commonplace These must be used sparmglv To capture the bpm! of Ihr 1llSf1f1,lfIOIZ and to lmprlson lt ln a cage ot svmbols extracted from the fllCIl0HHI'y IS the task that glV6S the chronlcler pause He would fam call upon the Nluse and soar She responds not He must trudge along 1n prose afoot Our epoch IH school hlstorv began ID September 1898 The supportlng ubstance spendlng monev for the year was 826 300 So wlselv was thls and ucceedlng annual lncomes used that each year of the thlrty l:1VC has seen the leglslature s conhdence ln the school s CHICISDCW manlfest 1tself by lncreased approprlatlons unt1l the malntenance budget for the year 1932 33 reached the sum of S173 130 an lncrease of over slx hundred per cent 'Ihe faculty f3I'l1llX numbered but nlneteen ln the beglnnlng of our epoch In mneteen thxrtv two there are fortv sm Expansxon of the normal school currlculum a dropplng of all h1 h school and college preparatory courses thus pl'0XlCllI'1g mcreased facnlltles for teacher tralnlng by the addltlon of the Center Qtreet un1t larger reglstratlon of normal students these have been among the forces that expressed the CHIICICDCV of the school and retlected the COI1flClCl'lCC wh1ch the school 3lltl'l0I'ltl6S throughout the state reposed ln the 1nst1tut1on s able leadershlp In the summer of 1917 the Department of Educatlon selected O N S as the seat of an experlment ln summer sesslons for normal schools thus show mg thelr respect for the alreadx establlshed character of the school and the VSlSllCl'll of nts gu1d1ng hand 80 successful was th1s exper1ment that summer sesslons have been held IU a ll12LJOI'1Iy of the normal schools for many years The number of graduates from the school ln September 1898 was 667 In September 1932 th1s number had become 6 935 an lncrease of over 960 per cent The devotlon and lovaltv of all these chlldren of O N 9 rs most vratlfvlng It has expressed ltself repeatedlv and ln numberless wlvs There ' V953 N,'X'N I twenty elght I 4 ' ' I I O V V - V V ' 1 s. 7 Y , . , . H. , 'a . . - V V ' V V V V' V V ' B ' a' 7 ' ' ,- 7 s ' '. - ' 1 N . - . x V . - c . , . . U V . D , . '. 'a ' . . . , V 1 . ,F- . 3 . v. x ' 1 l . 1- .1 l f 1 u P-- . . . , . . 1 . , . L . - . ., . - 7 .. .,. I V' , v 1- . - 1 l ww 1 v1 5 Y V , . . H . c--. . V