SUNY at Cobleskill - Voice Yearbook (Cobleskill, NY)

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Class Prophecy (Seated in the spacious living room, two alumni of N. Y. S. S. A., class of 1931, an discussing the various programs to In broadcast over the radio. One reads from the Cohlcskiil Index for April 2l», 1911 I. Announcement: “. tation iN. Y. S. S. A. will broadcast at 7:00 o’clock, the present location of the members of the class of 1931. (The two alumni immediately tune in and hear the following program) : Lawrence Dean and Ellen Sperbcck have become one and are now living at Dean’s Oak Hill I'.stale near the Calskill Valley Flour Mills. Inc. Gilbert Jones and Olga Dovlian arc both teaching in the same school. They are seriously considering incorporating and starting a school under the name of Jones and family. Fdgar Kukuk and the former Florence Gregory, who always were eager to reform the Stale School Rules and Regulations will soon have their chance to do so, for they have been appointed Dean of Men and Dean of Women for the year of 1912. (iuy Myers is still single, and as we all know, during his latter days at State School he was Failing noticeably. We hope that he will soon recover for we would hale to lose him. Austin C. AI le has taken over his uncle’s Mohican Bus Line and now has a thriving business, carrying gangsters between the Diamond and the Capone estates. Melva Collilon has carried out her threat which she made at Stale School and has Dunn it. We hope that she will be very happy. Charles ScralTord is still undecided as to whether he jxrcfers to become a Gardner, as is the custom now, or a Baldwin. Katherine I1. Teale is running a thriving beauty parlor in Central Bridge, ( hosier Moore is one of her best paying customers. Donald Lowe has finally decided that fanning is more profitable than teaching. This is his present occupation. He has as his helpmate the former Olga Yannchuk. Klsie Spiegel berg is the Matron in an orphanage situated near her home in Buck- dale. Hilda Schooumaker, now Mrs. Waller Parks, is a very prominent figure in Cox-sack ic society. John Morris, now city engineer of Troy, and his wife, known to us at State School as Dorothy Carroll, sailed for Europe a week ago on their second honeymoon. They have been married for eight years. John Mudge has finally gained his Hart’s desire. He has also discovered a medicine which will make short people become tall in a few days. Helen K. Ilodgdon has recently been given her license to broadcast five minutes each day from stations located at Wallkiil, N. Y. Her talks will be of great interest to those who knew her at Slate School. Leo Van Dusen has become a teacher of dramatics at Gilhcrtsvillc High School. He got his start at Stale School in the play ‘’Cyclone Sally.” Ralph Schoenherr and his wife, Fva FI I is, have recently inherited $5,000,(MX) Twenty.four

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I.KO C. VAN DUSKN “Dusey”—S| . Dairying (Jilberlsvillc High (rillit-n viII ', N. Y. Tlicta (lamina. Class Play, Orange. “The nume of life is short, fitly it well. CORA W. WARD “Lovebird “Corky —Teacher Training Rural Hills High Rural Hills, N. Y. Rask. llnillliall, Class Basketball. (lire Cluli. Cora is tall anil rather lean. That iloesn't phase Cihsnn, He’ll prohahly elect her potato i ueen. KARI. K. WRIOHT K«st y Teacher Training Coxsiickio High Coxsaekie, New York Tlirla Gamma, Orchestra, Art Kd. Voice. 1st Prize Chamber of Commerce Award. One great joy in life he sees. ITs tickling the ivories. OI.GA YARMCIIUK Teacher Training Middhburgh High Rerne. New York Olga eame from it ear old llerne She went with Marion II. lint whom she lores 01 why she tines. Is more than ire could see.’ JOHN ORUETKR Cruet —Short Course Catskill, New York Johnnie says, says he to me, 'll here you gain' without askin' me.' Twenty-three

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from his grandfather. They are now planning to retire as farmers and become speculators in the slock market. Alice Clapper is now leaching at State School. She succeeded Miss flodgdon. who resigned her position to accept another one nearer her home. Robert Brundigr has changed his occupation from farming to grave digging. Farming seemed too dull for Robert, so he married Ruth Barber and they are now happily r siding near the airport at Albany where Bob's old pal seems to bring him quite a lot of business, lie uses the well known foolproof planes. Carl Butler and tin former Anna Kggers are now residing on Carl's new farm at Summit. They seem very happy in their new home. It’s surprising what basketball games will start. Marion Bryant lias become a missionary to Africa. We hear that she is doing well in her work there. Mrs. Vanderwerker has settled down and become a typical homemaker. Occasionally she may Im seen with her two small daughters at State School. Edith Tompkins has become a well known authority on “Modern Aids to Beauty.” At present she may be found at Athens. Wallace Jones has recently been graduated from the theological school at Boston. Who would ever have thought the ministry would have a stronger appeal to him than teaching? Laurence Gibson and bis wife, known to us as Cora Ward, have decided that two can live as cheaply as one. They are now living at South Hartford. Katherine Ostrander lias become a famous poetess. Her most recent volume of poems is entitled “To Orson. ' As for Mabel Buycc, her fate was settled before she came to State School. She lias been happily married for the past nine years. She is the mother of a son, Raymond, and two daughters, Helen and F.dna. Raymond Colburn soon decided after lie left Stall School that it was lonesome living alone, so he married a blonde girl from near his home. He is now a very successful poultry and livestock man. lie is bringing his wife and three daughters, Katherine, Mabel and Mary, with him to the alumni gathering ibis year. Mrs. Calhoun lias finally accomplished her heart’s desire. She will begin a new school in Australia in 1912, as the private instriirJress of the many sheep ranchers. We wish her all sorts of good luck. Mr. and Mrs. James l cggett arc now residing on Grant 1 jggctfs Fruit Farm. James lias made a great success in the fruit business, due to his manager, George Kricksen. George gave lip his Coldcskill coal business and lias become the ambitious, enterprising manager of this flourishing estate. Mrs. Leggett, the former Betty Moot, is taking tou'ists to make up the deficiency caused by her husband's easy method of spending money, lie acquired this habit while still on the Hill. Madeline Bellinger is engaged at present in perfecting a car which will run into telephone poles and not damage tin ear or hurl the occupants. The last we heard from Bulb Failing, she said she was all Wright now. even in name. She became Mrs. Karl Wright on June 31. 1931, shortly after she had completed her course in Home F.conomics and Karl had finished liis work in Teachers Training. As for Karl, lie is now a professor of psychology at Stall School. Scott ('.halfant still owns the Brewery and still is feeding liis cows on brewery grains. He lias now developed a successful llolstein-Persian purebred herd and bis T uenty-five