Painted Post High School - Poster Yearbook (Painted Post, NY)

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CLASS HISTORY To a later generation, l942 will be remembered as a year of confusion. of strife, and of sacrifice. Lost on a chessboard of more important issues, someone may push aside the pieces and find a minor episode. lt won't be tire rationing, or the threat of inflation, or price fixing, or a war slogan. lt will concern the efforts of 60 odd high school students to maintain a precedent set by most graduating classes of their school. It will catalogue money earn- ing efforts over a two year period to attain one goal. The details, now that the achievement is out of the question, are important. The Poster, the Junior Prom, the school movies, the Christmas Card Sale-they are in the record but they mean as little as a newly varnished hat rack in a bombed out home. For you see, l942 was a war year. It was not a year for a high school class in some little hamlet called Painted Post to insist that it should uphold a grand tradition. Rather it was a time when people were thinking more of others than themselves and if some Mr. Big clown in Washington said that tires were more important on an Army truck than on a sight seeing bus to the capital city, then Mr. Big and not tradition was right. No, don't say, Well, now don't they think they are too, too noble. The Class of I942 feels the rap. But the Class of 1942 is trying to under- stand the year of its creation, and should it contribute in a small measure of sacrifice that will make Washington trips possible in the future years for succeeding classes, then the Class of i942 has but one answer, We prefer that our younger brothers and sisters take a Washington trip rather than a bund excursion. ln any case, our four years in high school have been most enjoyable both socially and educationally. Starting with a hike and a square dance in our Freshman year, the social events continued with a Lakeside picnic and a roller skating party in our Sophomore year. George Britt and Kenneth Clicquennoi combined efforts to guide us through the final two years of our term in high school. Morehouse, Anna Truesdall, James SUPPOSIN' : Phyllis Brooks . . . . Phyllis Streams James Wurth . . . . . James Value Alvena Cook ....., ....... A lvena Bake Janice Cunningham . . . . Jancie l-lomelybacon Elaine Miles ...... ....... E. laine Yards Jeanne Shoemaker . A - . . . Jeanne Shoemaker Mary Copp ....., .,.. M ary Robber Jerry Lamb .... . ...... Jerry Sheep Virginia Barrett . , . . Virginia Clothedrat Clarice Gamble . . . . . . Clarice Spendwell Miss l l0gue . , . ...... Miss Piglle Miss Eiclle . . . . Miss Blwybee Frank Miller ,..... ..... F rank Moth Mary Jane Norman . . , . Mary Jane SaXOn Robert Reep .,,.. . . . Robert Harvest Francis Brown , . . . Francis Green Virginia Ford . . . . Virginia Buick Lois King ,.... .... L ois Queen Beverly Fryer , . . . , Beverly Baker Junior C-rover . . , . . . Junior Orchard Donald Boylan , ..... . . Donald Cnirlan 27

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General Jonathan Wainwright, who, as you probably recall, recaptured the philippines for the United States. Marjorie said she had a good time at Cor- regidor. Fred Jenks, Billy Letts, and Amon Titus are known as the Three Mus- keteers. A few years after school was out, they marched off to fight some new beetle with their great-great-grandfather's powder muskets slung Over their shoulders. Then muskets were filled with a new fly spray invented by Doris Mourhess. Herb Wheaton's uncle down in British Equador, left him a huge gold mine. Herb went down to investigate and found the gold was only in the hair of the famous all-girl swing band conducted by Miss Annette Pushcart fpushcart was at one time German for Schubmell - remember?l She soon ran Glenn Miller out of business. CHerb's uncle was her managerj Marian Griffin, the famous contralto, does the vocals, and Bertha Van Dusen, Corne- lia Winnie, and Bessie Wixon add the novelty song and dance numbers. You've probably heard of what happened to Polly Wilcox. She became nationally famous for her square dancing and bought the 'itown hall. Every Friday night the magnificent Municipal Hall, as she now calls it, sees hundreds of boys and girls being taught the intricate calls of Marching Through Georgia by their famous Aunt Pollief' Soon after leaving school Dick Berleue went to live with his uncle, Doug MacArthur, in Australia. l'le's getting along fine. l'le's an officer of some kind. l believe he mentioned kitchen-police or something to that effect. Do you remember the indoor circuses we used to have here at school? Well, Katy Hamilton and Al Hanshaw joined and became the world's fa- mous tumbling lstumblingl team. Ed Winfield became boxing champ after knocking out the pink bomb- er in the .05 round at Madison Circle Field last year. His manager, Dick Watkins, is very pleased and is making plans to have his champ retire early Cl-le usually goes to bed about twelve o'clock.l Thelma, E.d's sister, gave up a movie career to be his secretary. She says he's wonderful! fWhen he's asleep.J You've heard from Beve Hawks haven't you? Did she tell you how she divorced Dick to marry the great fire-eater, Les Batley? They're quite the ideal couple. Their dearest friends have dubbed them Mutt and Jeff. H You remember your old pal, Velie, don't you? Well, for a time he and Alderman had the only car in circulation around here. f l'lardly Able - remember her?l Now they are'so very famous that they're touring Europe to show it off. lt's still the same old Durant, but probably the nicest looking car on the continent. Willy Griffiths disappeared for a few weeks after school was out. Cne night a farmer in lowa heard a horse-laugh coming from his barn. l-le ran out to see what it was and found Willy tickling the horse under the chin with a piece of straw. - Well, Patsy dear, l do believe that's all the news of our good old gradu- ating Class of '42. We sure had a swell class. l don't believe l'll ever forget our great trip to Hornby Pond. By the way, Mr. Clicquennoi still suffers from the fish-hook he sat on in our leaky old class-boat. Toujour toi Dail P. S. Almost forgot, Chatfield works in a cigar store! M. A. D. 26

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