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

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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

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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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Miss Finkle Rosenberg-Little, prim, and preciseg Bliss Rosenberg keeps her mind keen and active by playing bridge. Every card counts in her game, and woe unto the opponent who tries to put one over on her. It can,t be done. ln school she listens incessantly to our poor French pronunciation and wonders if welll ever learn. Miss Elinor L. Ryan- 'NIamma!' Ryan to some students who have their injured feeling soothed by her sympathetic understanding of youth. Under her supervision the boys and girls who participate in noon hour dancing are becoming quite expert, This social studies teacher is never too busy to lend a helping hand. Miss Barbara SandfordfYYe understand that one of Nliss Sandfordls accomplishments is riding horse- back. ls it true that her secret passion is to hitch hike across the continent? Any person with these in- terests at heart is bound to be an interesting English II teacher. Miss Marian S. Skeels-AMost of us are well acquainted with this master of the uMuzzey', text. Miss Skeels Halways gets her man through history and that is a big item in our young lives. Chief among her hobbies are cats, flowers, and the Town Hall of the Air. Xliss Ruth Smith fhlrs. Claude Woodlfln April, Nliss Smith, tired of living alone, launched forth upon the sea of matrimonyn. She is now the proud and happy wife of Claude lVood. After finishing this year of teaching she will reside in Plattsburg. Cood luck and please come back to visit us, We,re going to miss you greatly. rv, sw' H