Ravena Coeymans Selkirk High School - Memoirs Yearbook (Ravena, NY)

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CLASS WILL We, THE CLASS OF 1941, village of Ravena, town of Coeymans, county of Albany, and state of New York, in 45 distinct parts, being about to pass out of this sphere of education, in full possession of a crammed mind, well-trained memory, and an almost superhuman misunderstand- ing do make and publish this, our last will and testament, in the following order: I tem: We hereby bequeath to our own little darling, Audrey Fiescher, the fond and melodious memories of the senior class, and, Aud, may the melody linger on. Item: We leave to Donny Pape, Eleanor Hummer's devoted love of Caesar. I tem: We bequeath Sam Diacetes' recipe for getting the girls in Washington to his brother, Peanuts. Item: To Miss Gilbert we leave the helpfulness of Dot Greene and Isabele Shaw. Item: We leave Marcy Tinkle's oratorical ability to joy Kincaid. Item: We bequeath to Marie Hannibal all the notes we seniors collected from the corre- spondence carried on by her and Wanda Travis. The topics discussed were more than interesting at times. Item.' To future athletes we leave Miss Elston's bed socks to be used as sweat socks. Item: We will to Billy Yager, Sanford Biechman's pep. Item: We hereby will and bequeath the ability of those five senior girls to future hitch hikers. It seems as though the girls always get where they want to go when they want to go. I tem: We leave Shirley Jarvis' poise to Dot Stankevicus. Item: We bequeath the quietness of Jim Weidman and Steve Wally to Tom O'Sul'livan and jimmy Dalton. V I tem: We leave to Reid Cary, Edna Rossi and Mabel Miller wrapped in cellophane, but each with a separate string, as not to come in contact with one another. The Rabbits and Rummies are buying Mabel a wig, so we hear. Item: We will Harold Rowe's noisy presence to Art Russell. I tem: We leave to Lavergne Makely the ability of his sister to be his father's secretary and get out of a half days' school. Item: To Angie Amedio we leave her sister's quietness. My, but Anne is quiet when doing chemistry experiments. ' I tem: We bequeath to Roberta Jobson, jo Ventura's habit of gum snapping. Item: To future sports writers we leave Kenny Klenk's place on the bench and may you guys write as good a column as Ken did. Item: To George Marcella we leave Don Kniffen's melodious voice. Perhaps we will see you in the opera house. Item: To Gordon Albright we leave Leland Osterhout's floor plans of Washington. I tem: To Conrad Hyatt we leave Ralph Well's leadership in Debate Club. Item: We hereby bequeath Olive Kirby, Helen Pebler, and joan Carnibucci's place in Mr. Whitels detention hall to future History C students. Page Iwcnly

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CLASS PRGPHECY Twelve years have come and gone since the September morning in 1929 when the present senior class marched into the first grade and met Miss Van Alystyne, their first teacher. Thus started their twelve years of readin', writin', and 'rithmeticf' In these dozen years they have studied-maybe not hard, but they have studied-to prepare themselves for the time when they would be thrown at the mercy of the wide, wide world. Now as they arrive at the threshold and prepare to pass from these hallowed halls of Ravena High, one wonders what shall become of them in the future and whether all their preparation has gone for naught. Perhaps you would like to come with me aboard my magic carpet. Climb aboard and let us see what has happened to my classmates. Our carpet whisks up and away and we arrive at our first destination, New Baltimore. Here in the Methodist Church we find Donald Kniffen, the pastor, delivering the Sunday morning message. Next our carpet pulls up at the Ravena station. There we find Donald Richter, busily engaged in running the West Shore Railroad. Ric has risen from the lowly call-boy job to the position of station master in a short space of years. Let's stop for a minute at the City Hall. Here in the judiciary chambers we find somber-faced Ralph Wells-pardon me, His Honor Mr. Wells-presiding over a case in which Florence Benn, woman-lawyer, is council for the defendent and Harold Rowe is the courtroom cop. The carpet takes 05 again and lands at a track meet. We see a tall, middle aged man dash the hundred in eight flat and we recognize Dewitt Simons, better known as Flash Simons, super dash man. The countryside flashes by beneath our flying carpet and we glide gently to rest in the Senate Chambers in the Capitol. One senator jumps up and shouts Now! don't you wish we had elected Wilkie in '40? I knew Leland Osterhout would make a good politician. As we pull up alongside a speeding locomotive, we see in the dimly lighted cab Smoke Scharoun bringing the Limited through on time. Up, up and away our carpet goes. Suddenly we are flying around a great oflice building and through the windows many familiar faces can be seen hard at work in the busy business world. There's Katherine Vincent busy on a stenciling machine, and there are Shirley Jarvis and Marian Stalker, private secretaries. There are Jim Weidman, Jack Gombel and Leonard Richardson, all business men of the future. Irene Irwin and Josephine Ventura we also notice as we flash by and there are Joan Carnibucci and Floyd Tompkins, both pouring over business records. We flash quickly on and our next stop is in a theater. On the bill as Stellitch and Diaitch, we recognize as Russell Steltz and Sam Diacetis, who are making good in the comical theater. Again we whiz high and far and away to the rollin' western plains. Here we see Marcy Tinkle, bad hombre and cattle rustler deluxe riding a bucking bronc and shooting six guns. Our magic carpet whisks us across the Atlantic to far off Switzerland where we find Mabel Miller, vacationing school teacher, yodeling atop a snow capped peak. On our way back again we stop in Ravena at the Buckley Grocery. Jerome Buckley, once a clerk, has risen to the ownership of a grocery chain. We also find Dorothy Greene, sketching scenery for her next mural painting. Another old classmate, Edna Rossi, has become a Nobel Prize Chemist. ' On the next stop we find ourselves in a broadcasting station. Here Bernadette O'Sullivan, another Heda Hopper in Hollywood, is confiding to her radio public-'K Have you heard P In the oflice of Miss Eleanor Hummer, dean of Howell College, we find Bill Gallagher, college professor. We flash across country again and we find ourselves at the weekly meeting of The Patrons of Husbandry, Local 864. Sanford Beichman, Harold Collins, Mryon Boice, Arnold Rarick, Joe Krzykowski, and Steven Wally, are well known agriculturists and prominent in Local 864. When we stop at a great medical center, we find Iris Bliss, a female saw bones, and Olive Kirby, a child nurse. Alice Craw, Eleanor White, Bernice Wells, Wanda Travis, Isabele Shaw, Helen Pebler, Elvera Makely and Anne Amedio are all full-fledged Girls in White. Our carpet comes gently to rest and our trip is finished. No matter how this prophecy paints the future of the Class of '41, you can expect much of these graduates. Here's hoping they all attain their goal and become as much in life as they deem it necessary to become. Kenny Klink Page nlnohon

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Item: To Mr. Miller we leave Mike Boice's helpfulness. Item: To Lucy Karrk we leave the many cherished notes of Leonard Richardson that they wrote during Monday activity periods. Item: To Mr. Clinton we leave the memory of our athletes Qwe realize he will need more than a memoryj, when he gets in a tight spot, and needs them to pull him out. Item: Item: charge of Item: Item: Item: Item: I tem.' To Roy Wilsey we leave Bernice Well's ability to be seen but not heard. We hereby bequeath Katherine Vincent's helpfulness to future teachers who have the program committee. We leave to Dooley Shader the ability of Arnold Rarick on the baseball diamond. We leave Iris Bliss and Florence Benn's ways with the Cairo boys to the Powell sisters. We leave the library ability of Irene Irwin to Miss Tyler. To Sophie Kalla we leave Dewitt Simon's speed. To Emma O'Brien we leave Alice Craw's ability to get the gang in the personal column as many times as she did. Item: To Connie Rittenhouse we leave Eleanor White's musical ability, also her ability as a forward on the basketball court. We hear Connie has a pretty Cgoodj eye but not for basketball. Item: To Shirley Fiescher we leave Marian Stalker's poise and quiet. Marian was said always to be seen but never heard. Item: To Louis Montelone we leave Floyd Tompkins' residing seat in the Student Council. So we have heardg Louie has had much practice. Iterri' To Miss Gliottone we leave the financial genius of Bill Gallagher and his cohorts Cremember circulation balancinglj Item: To Don Juan Neil Hallenbeck we leave Don Richter's position as right half back on the football squad, also his way with the ladies. Hmm-we hear Ric has such a lovely, melodious voiceg perhaps, you'd like that too. Neil. Item: I tem: Item: I tem: To Jackie Jackson we leave Russell Steltz's ability to be always in hot water. To John Bailey we leave Joe Krzykowski's managership of the teams. To David Wade we leave Jack Gombel's political strategy. The good nature and light-heartedness of Jerome Buckly we leave to Bud Parker, along with Buck's ambition to fly. Item: We leave Bill Scharoun's cooperativeness to Cliff Trosclair. It was always said that Bill would lend a helping hand. Item: We leave the recklessness and good humor of Bucky Collins to Allan Pinny. Item: The Senior Class leaves to the class advisors its many peaceful activity periods that they may accomplish all their work. Signed: Class of '41 Per Bernadette O'Su1livan Page lwsnly-one