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

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CLASS WILL We, the Senior class of Painted Post High School of the year of our Lord, nineteen hundred and forty-seven, being of sound mind, hereby make our last will and testament. To our teachers we make the following bequests: To Mr. Clowe we leave a bottle of air-wick to clear the smoke from his car. To Miss Crants and Miss Olney we leave a carton of aspirin and our thanks for our pleasant homerooms. To Mr. Sanford we leave the lab in a mess and a 1947 Buick. To Miss Herrington we promise to leave at least half of the typewriters in workable condition. To Mr. Kershner we leave a book on how to change from Navy slang to the English language. To Mr. Phelps we leave a million dollars to compensate the years we have taken from his life. To those lowly juniors we make the following individual bequests: In keeping with the custom of passing from Senior to junior CChub to Elmerl, Elmer Potter leaves Dot to his brother Don. Earl Pearsall leaves his bowling scores to Bob Conover and his cleaver to Lefty Lagerbom. Tom Kennedy wills his athletic letters to Sala Halm, and he leaves a few fond memories to Pudgy. Charmaine Claxton wills her fickleness to Marilyn McGowan. Boland Baird wills those Monterey gals to lim Ohls. Shirley Keach graciously consents to leave her height to Louise Champlain. Our jerks fsodal, Pat House, Red Andrews, Helen Durkin, Elo Cross, Grandma Knapp, Marg Cook and Yoo-hoo Durkin all will their positions to some lucky juniors. How do you do boys Hogue wills his laugh to Dewey Craig. Phyllis Lake leaves her ability to roar at the teachers to lune Wilcox. Charles Tucker and Howard Blencowe bequeath that little black book to Herk Earl and Bill Sowersby. Eathel Harris wills his muscles to lerome Cheney. Barbara Gaiss leaves her hallucinations to Velma Thomas. Charles Phelps and Cedric Stewart leave the diaries of their secret lives to Ioe Erick and Bill McClurg. George Robinson parts with his arguments with the teachers in behalf of Lee Robinson . Shirley Flanders bequeaths her hatchet to Ruth Clark. Ruth Breen and Owen Wilkinson leave their after school sessions in the study hall to Corky and Norma Lou. Willard Morse says he will be hanged if he has to leave Betty to any- one. CBoys, put that rope downl. Wilma Smith wills her list of broken hearts to Arlene Sweeney. Audrey Crumn leaves her boots and saddles to lean McAllister. Georgia Cross wills her athletic equipment to Ierry Cook.

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THE SENIOR CLASS HISTORY One of the most memorable events in the saga of Painted Post High School was in the year of l944 when 62 Wild lndians entered through its portals to take on the role of Freshmen. ' Mrs. Mitchell, under the guise of Class Advisor, tried to keep us under control with the cooperation of Tom Kennedy as president, Cherry Claxton as vice-president, Shirley Flanders as secretary, and Ed Griffin as treasurer. Our first social experience as a class began with a skating party followed by a more romantic Valentine party which formed many sentimental attachments. Thus, ended our first year in high school. To insure a successful year as Sophomores we chose Howard Klock as president with Betty Cutler as vice-president and Hollis Law as Secretary- Treasurer. To guide us through our troubled waters we elected Miss Hogue as Class Advisor. Our parties were limited to a skating party at the Spinning Wheel and a hike followed by a weiner roast. During our Sophomore year, four of our boys left school to serve in the armed forces. ' ' Our lunior year started out with a bang ! When the smoke cleared away we found as president Elmer Potter with Willard Morse seated in the vice-president's chair and Ruth Tillman seated in the secretary-treasurer's position. Mr. Phelps found himself a counselor during this crucial period, when our most important aim was to raise money to finance our Washington trip. The selling of Christmas cards and the publishing of the Poster helped us to realize this aim. ln order to outshine our predecessors in publishing the best Poster yet! we elected the able lohn l..eValley as editor and lack Smith as man- aging editor. To break the monotony of all this hard work, we had a square dance and another skating party. To lead our class through the final and most important year of school, we elected as president, lohn l..eValleyg vice-president, Bud Bonbrakeg secre- tary, Shirley Keachy and treasurer, Cherry Claxton. As Mr. Phelps survived the Iunior year and appeared none the Worse for the experience, he was unanimously chosen to supervise affairs for our class. As class activities we enjoyed two dances at which refreshments were served. Every month representatives were sent to the Woman's Club and Rotary. One of our final accomplishments for the year was the Senior Play, The Daffy Dills which was presented March 31 and April l. With a superb cast, we had a very successful accomplishment. As We near the end of our high school daze fdaysl, we all look for- ward to our trip to Washington. Shirley Keach

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Bud Bonbrake and john LeValley leave their escapades in Northside to Mert Merithew and Bob Morse. Pat Hassenplug leaves her giggles to Ellen Began. Alice Potter leaves her bowling ability to Lois Brooks. Ted Wittig leaves a few more memories to Ioyce Poitras. Sally Reed consents to give her booming voice to Marjorie Wheaton. Fred Casterline bequeaths his shop work to john Hostrander. Ruth Tillman leaves her liking for short boys to Pat Stewart. jack Smith wills his fondness of chemistry to Bock Schiller. Lois johnson leaves her experiences with them Gang Mills fellows to Vivian Cassidy. Lloyd Cisco bequeaths his quiet life to Claude de Lorraine. Betty Cutler leaves those long rides to Beartown to Roland Bentley. Dick Conover leaves a long list of broken hearts Cespecially some freshman onesl to George King. Velma Cole bequeaths her positions in the cafeteria to Ianice Letts. Charles Blank wills his ding-how personality to Bob Roland. Bev Abbot leaves her place at Dann's to Helen Lewis. Bill Thompson bequeaths his Patrick Henry style to Dick Reed. Phillip Wilson leaves his height as something for john Bice to try for. Rosalind Carey leaves a slightly used trombone to George King. SENIOR CLASS PBOPI-IECY Wow! Alarm clocks are the most disgusting things aren't they, waking a person out of a sound sleep like that. A wonderful dream of my school- mates was just being re-enacted. Well, I'll just defy that alarm clock and go back to dream of that wonderful Senior Class of l947. Ah, here I am walking down main street of the town called Senior Class, '47 . Say, look at the sign on that big building, Le Valley Chemical lndus- tries, Ltd. Must be those rumors we heard were true-john must have bought out Mr. How of How Chemical. Yes, john, your discovery of that new wonder chemical sulfadium bisulfite-nitrate solution certainly put you on top of the world. We won't tell that it was an accident that took place one Friday morning, third period, in the Chemistry lab. I can see that Elmer Potter did well on his high school friendships. Nevill's meat market was taken over by Elmer after a three-year apprentice- ship course in the store. It is now advertised in brilliant vari-colored lights Elmer's and Dottie's . And notice the new addition in the meat market division-Earl Little Butcher Pearsall. He grew rich after the patenting of a plastic which is impervious to the cutlery of the butcher's trade. Butchers all over the nation have bought his plastic gloves, and that has brought him a fortune. His butchering is now just a sideline to keep him busy. Inci- dentally, he has installed a bowling alley in his mansion where he con- sistently bowls 200 games, each time he keeps score. Say, look at that Major General coming down the street. He's General Charles, Charlie Blank. I knew the lure of the Marine Corps would call him back. He is in charge of training and the rumors that come floating back say that training is really tough. Take for example, pushups -instead