Owego Free Academy - Tom Tom Yearbook (Owego, NY)

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Albert H. Hubbardf'-.laek of all trades and master of many is a fitting deseription of our industrial arts teaeher. His is the unseen hand which makes a sueeess of so many of our sehool activities. Curtains, lights. scenery, and a hundred other things are left to his able supervision, Phil Hubbard--Our eoaeh certainly deserves a seat in the g'Hall of Fame . As a result of his splendid work, our football team was undefeated this season. lVIr. Hubbard was eleeted Southern Tier eoaeh of the year: a great honor, we think. Nlrs. Lida Johnson- 'God seems to have Created some of us with an unusual amount of patienee and en- duranee. It has always been amystery to us just how Xlrs. johnson manages to instill so much history into our minds. She certainly does it and furthermore makes us like it. lN1rs. Ethel E. Nlalloryv W'ho is that teaeher with the friendly smile? Why, that is Xirs. Nlallory. our librarian, of Course. Her school day is filled with requests for all kinds of information on every imaginable subjeet, Now that the Tom Tom has gone to press, she can catch up on her Hower garden aetivities. Stanley R. Morey'-lt's niee to find one teaeher who still has a birthday and doesn't mind having the world know about it. We still enjoy giving birthday cards and cakes on sueh rare oeeasions. N111 Nlorey works patiently and long to enrich our minds with enough math to sueeessfully wrestle with the regents exams, I2

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an 'Ni . . f2 t .. . e i ' Z e Robert YV. Ellis-Flash! Hash! flash! Our art teacher is pretty snappy these days in his new gray CheVy',. Mr. Ellis does much to make our Tom Tom a success. Look at the layout and art work and see what you think. Miss Roberta Fitzgerald'-If you are one of those people who loves to take unexpected trips, you would get along fine with our eighth grade math teacher. Bliss Fitzgerald has a pleasant smile for everyone and works early and late in an effort to do the most for her boys and girls. Wlilfred Goodrich-Here is one faculty member that we,re sure to see plenty of during our summer vaca- tion. YN'henever a dapper little man drives into the yard with his number plates upside down, we know it is hir. Goodrich coming to sell us a new ear. lVIiss Jennie Hamiltonh-The head of our commercial department is always ready and willing to aid us. XVho helps us write letters of application, and to whom do we go when welre in a jam and need some extra typing done for our Tom Tom? Miss Hamilton is the one, of course. Lyster BI. Hetherington-How could we ever tire of this willing eager friend? Daily he introduces to us some new mysterious wonder from the realm of science. His evenings and week-ends are unselfishly given up to Scouting. 11

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- Mrs. Elsie A. NicholsfOur Latin teacher is a friend and favorite of every boy and girl at the O. F. A. During the winter months Mrs. Nichols is an ardent Bingo player, and IS SHE LUCKY! Llewellyn O. Peabody-NL. O. , as he is known by all his 'iAg', boys, likes to Strip the light fantasticn during his leisure hours. Wihenever we drop in at the Goodrich Settlement grange on Friday nights, we are quite sure to find him among the crowd of dancers. 1 Miss Helen Pfistner-Our English HI instructor is a whiz. She has a number of hobbies which make her a well known and interesting friend. She eolleets stamps and antiques, knits for the Red Cross, attends the movies regularly and advises the Journalism Club. lWiss Henrietta PluschflNe're learning so many new things in homemaking this year, that we,re changing our minds about housework being drudgery. Thanks to Miss Pluseh we are finding out that it is really an art, yes. a fine art. when well done. Kenneth XY. Reed-lYho is it that would rather fish than eat? None other than our chemistry prof.. K. YY. Reed. On Saturdays you are sure to see him casting for 'big onesl' along the river bank. lt is rumored that he is attempting to rid the Susquehanna of carp. 15311 ,. 13 4