Penn Yann Academy - Key Yearbook (Penn Yan, NY)

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GRUDGING TO WOMANKIND THIS HIGIEST POSITION IN THE LAND. SAl1Y, SLOWLY, SOLEMNLY, THEY LED 'BACHELOR' BARIN UJT. IT WAS AT THIS MGENT THAT THE GOVERNOR OF IDRTH CAROLINA, KATHERINE RIBBLE, ASKED THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CARO- LINA, MARY JANE RUSSELL, 'ALL OUR SOHOG. MATES SEEM TO BE HERE BUT EDITH HANDLEMAN. WHATEVER HAPPENED T0 HERI' OH, DIDN'T YOU KNOWN, ANSWERED THE OTIER. 'TI-EY TOOK HER AWAY TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO......JUST AFTER SHE FINISHED OUR CI.ASS PROPIEGYH HISTORY AS WE, THE CLASS OF 'I-lj, LEAVE PENN YAN ACAEMY FOR TIE LAST TIME, WE ARE EEPLY MOVED BY TIE THOUGHT OF PART- ING FROM UJR TEACI-ERS AND CLASSIIATES. BECAUSE OF TIE GREAT HISTORY THAT TIE IBABERS OF THIS NOTED CLASS HAVE MAE WE IPART WITH THE FOLLOWING RECORD OF ILLUSTRIOUS IEEDS. IN TI-E FALL OF I9I-IO, WE STARTED ON OUR ACAEIY CAREER WITH I58 IDABERS. AS OFFICERS WE ELECTED TO GJIE US IN THAT YEAR JOIN SI-ERIDAN, PRESIENT3 JOAN FLYNN, VI E-PRESIDENTg JAIE BJGCLEY, SECRETARYg AND DONALD DAGGETT, TREASURER. IN OCTOBER OF THAT YEAR, WE HELD OUR SOPHGJIORE IK? WHICH WAS THE FIRST OIE IN SONE YEARS THAT CXJULD BE CALLED A I-DP INSTEAD OF A FLOP. IN TI-E SPRING OF IQIII, WE GAVE OUR SOPHGJIORE PLAY, 'I-ER FIRST PARTY mESS', WHICH PROVED TO BE A GREAT SJCESS. TIE NEXT YEAR, WE PROCEEDED UPSTAI RS AND ELECTED JOIN SHERIDAN, PRESIENT3 JANE BJCKLEY, VI G-PRESIENTg BAR- BARA WOOD, SECRETARYg APD JOAN FLYNN, TREASURER. IN THE EARLY SPRING OF I91I2, TIE G.ASS PRESENTED TI-E JUNIW PLAYS. 'GLORIA NUNDI , 'ANTIC SPRING', AND 'HIS FIRST SHAVE' WERE HIGHLY ACCAAILED BY TIE APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE. LATER, WE WERE SORELY OVERGIME BY THE SENIORS AT TIE ANNUAL PLAY-DAY. AFTER THEIR GRAWATION, WE GAVE TI-E JUNIOR PROJ IN HONOR OF TI-E CLASS OF 'I-I2. DIE HJNDRED AND TWO OF US, AWED AT THE THOUGHT OF ENTERING II-I9v IAT LASTIII ELECTED ARLEIGH HILTON, PRESIENTg ALBERT FREERIKSEN, VI E-PRESIDENTg ROSE MARIE MQLAUGILIN, SECRETARY, AND MARIAN LANPI-ERE, TREASJRER. WE WERE UNEER THE SUPERVISION OF MR. G4ALLIS TO WHGII WE ARE ALL GRATEFUL FOR HIS GUIDANE. IN TIE FALL, TIE G.ASS PRE- SENTED THE SENIOR PLAY, 'TIE STREET OF DREAMS', WHICH PROVED TO BE A SAASH-HIT. UJR ABLE CI.ASS ADVISORS DURING Tt-E YEAR WERE MR. OHALLIS, MISS STOWE, MISS STREETER, AND MRS. AMES. RAPIDLY SUCH EVENTS AS THE SENIOR BALL, SENIOR BANQJET, PLAY-DAY, AND REGENTS CAME ALONG, AND, AT LAST, TIE FITTING OLIMAX--BAOCALAUREATE AND GJNNENEENT. WE DO NDT FEEL THAT WE CAN END THIS RECXJRD OF THE CLASS OF 'II3 WITHWT IENTIONING THOSE IBIBERS OF OUR CLASS WHO, LNDAUNTED AND READY, HAVE LEFT TO FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDGA AND SAFETY. TIESE BOYS ARE GEORGE SPENCER, CAHEN JO!-NSON, LEWIS BRMAAN, LEWIS ALLEN AND RICHARD BROWN. TIEY HAVE PROVED THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO TRAIN AND TO FIGHT TO PRESERVE EAOCRACY IN Tl-E WORLD' THJS ENDS THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF '33, WHO LEAVES PENN YAN ACADBJIY WITH GLAD AND HAPPY LEMORI ES OF TIE PAST AND I-DPEFUL WTLOOKS FOR THE FUTURE. MARGARET mass 25

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CLASS OF I944 ROW: II Row 5 ROW U: Row 3: ROW 2.2 ROW I LLovo EMERSON, PRESIDENT PHYLLISOFOLTS, vlcs PRESIDENT ELSIE CARLSON. SECRETARY DONALD GILLETTE, TREASURER . NIELSON, H. SEAGER, R. SISSON, T. WETIVORE, WILSON, G. LARNEY, H. JORGENSEN, G. MUBLI, . SMITHOOVER, B. PAYNE, R. REILLY, E. LERCH, . REILLY. R. OATMAN. K. OWEN, D. RHODES, R. VOAK, L. VAUGHN, R. NIELSON, D. PUTNEY, C. TRAVIS, L. REINERS, H. MORICH, E. WORLD. J. RECTOR, H. L. SWANSON, B. RACE, P. RECTOR, LEE, L. WAGAR, V. MONNIN, B. TRENOHARD, STRONG, J. MASHEWSKE, B. C. RIBBLE, M. ROE. G G. J J T. B. MGDURFEE, , J. SMITH, J. SIMONSEN, S. OGDEN. J. WENTWORTH, J. ROESE, J. WI-EELER, W. MORAVED. C. JORGENSEN, L. TUBBS, B. MORTENSEN, R. TUT- TLE, P. WHITAKER, M. BASSAGE, M. STRATTON, B. WETMORE, M. SHORT, A. HOOSE. g. ,vI. , ?' 540, f yfwh ii., W, Q.. i IN THE FALL OF I942, WE BEGAN TO WALK UP TIE STAIRS TO OUR HOME ROOMS. WE WERE JUNIORS. OUR FIRST PROBLEM WAS THE ORGANIZATION OF OUR CLASS WHICH lNCI.UDED ELECTION OF CLASS OFFIERS WE POPULARLY ELECTED LLOYD EMERSON, PRESlENTg PHYLLIS FOLTS, VICE PRESIDENTg ELSIE CARLSON, SECRETARYg DONALD GILLETTE, TREASURER. TIE CLASS OF 'I-II-I PRODUCED THEIR JUNIOR PLAY, PLAIE CRAZYI' BY DOROTHY ROOD STEWART, ON MARCH I9. WITH THE ABLE DIRECTION OF MRS. MELDRJM, STUDENT DIRECTORS, PHYLLIS RECTOR, ROSENIARY TUTTLE, AND LUCILLE WAGAR, AND Tl'E CAREHJL PLANNING AND FAITHFUL COOPERATION OF THE CXJMMITTEES,THE PLAY WAS A CWPLETE SUCGSS. THEN, NATURALLY, OUR THOUGHTS TURNED TOWARD THE JUNIOR PROM TO HONOR THE SENIORS. ! . ?? !?YY' Y' 26