SUNY at Cobleskill - Voice Yearbook (Cobleskill, NY)

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TIIK PROPHETS Si;I Do you l elieve in prophecy? Well here is a hil of il that will o| en your eyes. We, a small group of the Senior (‘.lass of 1936, wish to prophesy a hil. 'Pen years from now this is what we see the members of our class doing. We lake out the rosier and look up the addresses of our classmates of 36. doing down to Bengali we find Charlie Ahlf running a very profitable business in poultry with Mrs. Helen Murlinee hlf doing the chores about the house. Of course from I he nursery we hear a few yells that sound like some of I he old Slate School cheers. Our next slop is in the town of our Alma Mater to find that Raymond Burlier is now a very prominent memlier of I he Dairymen’s League. Near at hand we visit Marion Benington who is running a private Nursery School in her home town of Morris. The children are very well behaved due lo Marion's winning ways with children. Then up lo Whallonsburg where Mrs. Bigelow tells us era is now one of I he old maids at the country home in charge of the welfare unit there. Remembering Sue Bowie’s theme song “(live me a house, a little white house; and give me a husband too ” we went down to New Jersey and found this lillle white house and on the mailbox was Mr. and Mrs. F. II. Schmid. Walking up the wee drive we see. a group of children playing a form of basketball. Of course il was easy Lo pick out Sue's and Smitty’s offspring by their spindliness and their big feel. Coing west again we inquire as lo the whereabouts of our petite Belly Bryant. Mrs. Bryant sends us out lo the suburbs of Syracuse where we find Belly and her electrician husband leaching junior how lo wire a playhouse for his little sister. Traveling east we come lo Calskill and discover Bill Burdick showing Alice the technique of painting the side of a barn on which is inscribed Burdick’s Dairy Farm. 'flic next name on our roster is that of George Campbell. We see that his address is Oak 11 ill and sure enough he's I here in his cottage standing at the sink doing |x ls and pans with Olive standing nearby coaching him. Down in Schoharie we hil upon a Iraclor repair shop the sign says “Breakem and Mcndem 'Praetor Surgeons Canfield, Hargraves, and C. Van Horn, Proprietors. We inquired of these boys as lo the whereabouts of Fred Cary and learned he was on the home farm in Ft. Fdward as quiet as ever. They also said he was still a lax collector as he was in ’36. Kdna Chase then entered our thoughts. We didn’t know w here to look for her so we went lo the War Department in Albany to find sin1, is dietician in a Military Camp. We looked her up and discovered she and Chris leaching some small boys how to chop down Irees. Journeying up to Bound Lake we find a large Auto Inn with Socony gas pumps in front and along side of them stood Charlie Cleveland conversing with Helen. He seems perplexed and upon questioning he said that he didn’t know what do Sonny was such a problem. Then we traveled out to Schenectady to inquire about Arno Bcbcrnilz to find he was living out on a farm just outside of Scotia and editing a Poultry Journal with the able assistance or Jessie. There in Schenectady in front of a theater stands Frank Mu .ikar with his flame from Rochester whom he had finally captured. Righl behind him stands Arthur Kricson with a blonde. I guess he is still gigoloing. Jumping down lo Millbrook we find that Cordon Harris, better known in Stale School as Buckv has found an idee how to make Yermonl Maid Syrup and is up there making il with Dol lo help. n

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CLASS MOTTO We shire lint ire may surreal. CLASS SOiNC Tune: Old Southern ('us lorn. It's an old Senior Custom When the month of April comes round To present traditional class day And to make it quite renowned. It’s an old Senior Custom To look hack al IVeshman year When we thought class day quite distant Lut we’ve found it was quite, near. When a Senior meets a Freshman, As we were met three years ago. Then the Senior feels a sentiment. That makes the teal's begin to How. It’s an old Senior Custom When the day to leave is nigh, To begin to learn quite sadly, Thill it’s hard to say goodbye. Sixth How: Towscnd. Lawrence. Hnri rtirrs. O' krrfr. Hoiec. Harris. Hat; is. I truth. Fifth How: Todd. Iln tfel, Altuikar. Strut tin, Mezyer, Tinning. Thurliny. Fourth How: Van I Itiru. Jones, .1. Eduards. (ianzowski. H. Sexton, hratissc. hi. Sexton. Hnrdick. ThinI How: Haynes. Mac I lot cel I. Hronl. liryant. Haync. Williams. Mdf, Chase. Second How: Stroll, Can field. lieninylon. Ilrhernil:. Hattie, Eric son. Howe. First How: Cary, Hiyelow, lledeti. Cook.

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TIIK EltOPIIETS SEE Then wc travel up l Pawling to discover Richard Haynes running a second liand car store. Of course not skipping anyone we looked up Warren llcatli who is manager of a Duke Ice Cream Plant in Saratoga. (dancing at I he headlines we see lliul down in New York City one of our former classmates is making a l»ig hit in the political world. 11 is none oilier than our own Arnold lleden lietter known as “Stretch,” (he lady killer. Turning again to I he northern regions we go to South (ileus halls where wc easily find the former Althea Howe running a very scientific home for Pol. Driving down to Hillsdale we notice a roadside cabin with these words painted on it. “Drink only the best— Drink llupfel's Hard Cider. Made famous by Richard llupfol.” So that is what our Dick is doing? When we. arrive in Hillsdale who should be there to greet us but our former “Jonscy” known to his townspeople as I). Pindar Jones. He is the man responsible for the idea of Holstein Overhead Irrigation. In the same locality we were surprised to find John Thurling and Peter Red .is running a jackrabbil farm. Did wc ever have a eourc in that State School, Pete? Dashing back to the sand plains of Albany we sec our former Beth Sexton ringing the dinner bell to call Kdwurd Krausse better known as Tarzan, in from his work in the garden to play with the smaller children so mama Belli can finish preparing dinner. Then we arrived in Schaghlieoke to lind Albert Lawrence married at last to bis one and only. Also, in Schenectady, whom should we lind heading a vaudeville troii| e of hill billies but our own herd Mcz.ger. I lis harmonica playing and jigging are the main features. Near Middletown wc find a Poultry and Dairy Karin run by Proul and Sons with woman attendant . The woman wc thought was Sophie and sure enough it was. doing further west to I tiea, wc see that Francis Slaughter is a prominent beauty expert who has re-formed many a despondent girl. Dashing way out to Batavia wc ran into Krnie Piegel on the street. I pon questioning. he told us that he and Kvelyn Stroll had been married for quite a time and were carrying on a very successful greenhouse business. Coming back to (iloversville. we are surprised to see Kenneth Swann our own little duckling with a male and raising little ducklings. I n the town of Westport wc go to the little red school house and see ()lwen M illiams drilling the second graders in their multiplication tables. 'Phc three “'P’s” we find cooperating in a bachelors farm called “Model Karin of Schoharie County” running Stale School a good second. Of course who could these lioys be but Jack Townsend, Jr., Kenyon Todd, and Wilbur Pinning. We looked up Benjmain (Jansowski and found him at the old farm running it as he was taught in Stale School. We happened upon a book in the library the other day it was entitled “My Hobby” by Alden Payne. It told of his ambitions of being a model herdsman and how he succeeded. We also found Krances Miller dashing all over the countryside doing nothing. We next go to Schenectady and find the sign “The Scientific Nursery.” Who should lie the managers but Jean and Agnes. Their cook, Barbara Sexton, has won the reputation of the best cook in Schenectady. And so our prophecy becomes rculily.