Randolph Union High School - Galloping Ghost Yearbook (Randolph, VT)

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GALLOPING GHOST Our class ofiicers were: President, Dean Flint, Vice-president, James Lamb, Secretary, Allen Fullam, Treasurer, Diane DuCharme, Student Council, Joan Barrett and Robert Rattee. Our freshman Carnival Play was The Ghostly Passenger. At the beginning of our sophomore year we found that we had lost Ruey Brown, Melvin Flint, Kenneth Faint, Ann Gregory, Janet Voudrin, Robert Packard, Lester Delisle, Herbert Flint, Joyce Dukette, while gain- ing Jeannine Larocque and Carole Mead. Our class officers were: President, James Lamb, Vice-president, Avis Tallman, Secretary, Allen Fullam, Treasurer, Dorothy Perry, Student Council, Joan Barrett and Peter Catlin. For our sophomore Carnival Play we presented Advertising For a Husband, but with no success in producing a cup winner. We had some weird times with our advisors, Mr. Cheney and Mr. Roberti, when on our two picnics. P At last we found ourselves upperclassmen! Our numbers decreased to fifty-two as we lost Lois Sager, Edwin Brown, Evelyn Locke, Phyllis Davis, Janice Tyler, Robert Rattee, Sandra Richards, Virginia L. Flint, Marilyn Packard, John Howard, and Leslie Thresher and gained Marji Haseltine and Peggy Martell. We were gifted with new advisors, Mrs. Perry and Miss Johnson. Our class officers were: President, Dean Flint, Vice-president, Gene Campbell, Secretary, Allen Fullam, Treasurer, Dorothy Perry, Student Council, Janet Cady and Leo Barcomb. We conducted dancing school and also put on a very successful New Year's Dance. Dorothy Perry and Janet Cady were the representatives to Girls' State. Sheldon Newman and Peter Catlin went to Boys' State. Our Carnival Play, H18 Washington Square, South, was just what the doctor ordered, and the class of '53 walked away with their first cup. So, finally September, and we found ourselves Silly Seniors with only forty-eight of our large class left. We lost Peggy Martell, Marji Has- eltine, Helen Barrett, Bernard Roberts, and Preston Milo. Our advisors were Miss Johnson and Mrs. Perry. We elected as our oificers: President, Dean Flint, Vice-president, Chester Manning, Secretary, Allen Fullam, Treasurer, Dorothy Perry, Student Council, Katherine Holman and Leo Barcomb. Chester Manning was elected president of the Student Council. Our senior play, One Foot In Heaven, was a great success. A drama, Fog On the Valley, was our Carnival play and again it came through a cup winner. We thank Miss Johnson for two Carnival cups and our Sen- ior Play. As our twelve years of fun and studies come to an end, we know we'll miss being back at R. H. S. These years have been the most important years of our lives and with this in mind, we bring this, our history, to a close.

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GALLOPING GHOST Class History by KATHERINE HOLMAN and LEO BARcoMB One rainy morning in September, 1940, thirty-tive happy-go-lucky kids were accompanied by their mothers to the red building on Main Street, better known as school, to begin the life of a scholar. Miss Davis, our first-grade teacher, was faced with the task of teaching us the formalities of school. Of the thirty-five, only eleven are graduating this year. We entered the second grade with Miss Kinville as our teacher. We gained eight new students but found that we had lost Robert Payette, Mar- garet Boudro, Paul Belair, Pat Cheney, Robert Huard, Kenneth Stone, Myrtie Seymour, Robert Arbuckle, and M. Garing. Our class was no exception in the third grade as far as broken rulers and trips to the coat room go. Mrs. Stokes gladly lent her services and a brush to keep several of the boys' necks clean. We gained six and lost Rob- ert Bacon, Raymond Shonio, Duncan McLauren, William Jamieson, Diane DuCharme, Barbara North, and Merle Eddy. In the fall of 1943, we entered the fourth grade with a class of twenty- eight and Miss Walbridge as our teacher. This year, we lost eight and gained Jacqueline Burrington and Virginia Louise Flint. The arrival of Virginia caused a little confusion because we already had one Virginia Flint in the class. But Miss Walbridge settled this by referring to them as Virginia L and Virginia M. We passed through the fourth grade with flying colors. In the fifth grade, under the direction of Mrs. Menard, the class presented a play to the visiting mothers, in which Allen Fullam was the beau who came to- call and was entertained by the young sister and brother' while waiting for his girl-friend. They fed him fudge fthoroughly doctored with red pepperlj and settled him in a chair in the seat of which quite a few pins were em- bedded. The play was enjoyed by the mothers and the pupils who took part. This was our first attempt at dramatics, and even then our class showed its ability to cooperate and the will to make everything we try a success. We gained seven and lost Jackie Burrington. In the sixth grade, after gaining six and losing six, our class num- bered thirty-two. Our teacher that year was Miss Marshall, who spent a good deal of time intercepting the continuous flow of notes. During the iifth and sixth grades, our class gained two of R. H. Sis best basketball players, Frank Patch and Allen Fullam. We entered the seventh grade with thirty-two pupils. We lost Eugene Bingham and Shirley Osha, and gained Larraine Farnham, Sandra Richards, and Marilyn Packard. Outstanding in all our minds are our trip to Fort Ticonderoga and the time Sandy Richards broke the Window by slamming the door on her way out. Our teacher was Mr. Brock. In the eighth grade our teacher was Mrs. Gray. This year we lost Lester Delisle and Ray Dufrain, and gained Harold McGee, Virginia Payette, and Rita Martell, making the class number thirty-three. Sandra Richards invited us to the Gulf House for our class picnic. So, in September, 1950, sixty-nine Hbashful boys and silly girlsb stumbled up to face their first day of high school. Our advisors, Mr. Murray and Mr. Cheney, started us off on the road to financial success as we put on two food sales and a social.

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GALLOPING GHOST Class Poem by SHIRLEY BIRD and PHYLLIS PRIOR We left the days of childhood, The days of fun and frolicg And as We reached the grades ahead, We learned things more symbolic. At last we entered R. H. S., As proud as we could be. Now We've completed our four yearsg It's time for us to leave. Remembering fun and classes, The times we cheered at games, What happiness and sadness Were ours in strife for fame. Our teachers gratefully We thank For wisdom We obtained. We'1l always treasure memories Of standards they maintained. Our high school days are over, We'Ve come to bid good-bye And thank our folks for sending us Through all our years at Randolph High