Sauquoit Valley Central High School - Saghdaquadah Yearbook (Sauquoit, NY)

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EDUCATIDNAL UDDDIQTUNITIES The continued cooperation of the taxpayers of this district for the past school year has made possible the expansion of the course of study and of the activity program of the students in the Junior-Senior High School to de- velop and recognize individual differences and interests and to take the students to places where their experiences would be broadened and physical defects corrected. Education is preparation for life and we learn by doing. These two facts have determined our program in courses of studies and activities. Your Board of Education and principal have attempted to show the parents and taxpayers of the district what is being done along these lines with four special programs during the school year, namely: The Agricul- ture Fair, Christmas Program, Physical Education Demonstration, and The School Exhibit and Musicale program. The splendid response of the par- ents and friends has been most encouraging. The State Education Department accepted the Sauquoit Valley Central High School as a six year high school and issued a charter to that effect on November 14, 1935. The new organization has eliminated the eighth grade promotion and we have replaced this program with a sixth grade promotion to be held during Regents week in the auditorium of the Junior-Senior High School. Your Board of Education has been able to increase their public money each year until your district will soon be drawing their public money on the amount earned by attendance instead of the amount spent. This will permit your administration to effect further improvements in the building and ath- letic field and to broaden the course of study by adding new subjects and equipment. Your principal feels that each student should have an oppor- tunity for equal education according to his or her ability to learn and inter- est in so far as the Board of Education is able to finance such a program. No student should be judged entirely on his ability to pass certain sub- jects or secure an exceptionally high mark on Regents examinations. 'He or she should be judged on his or her accomplishments according to his ability to achieve. Some students deserve much credit for being able to complete their high school course over difficulties in health, financial conditions, and lack of encouragement and individual ability. A poem by Edgar A. Guest entitled, Effort,,, seems to carry a splendid lesson in this respect. EFFORT He brought me his report card from the teacher, and he said He wasn't very proud of it, and sadly bowed his head. He was excellent in reading, but arithmetic was fair, And I noticed there were several uunsatisfactorysi' there, But one little bit of credit which was given brought me joy- He was Nexcellent in effortf and I fairly hugged the boy. 'cOh, it doesnat make much difference what is written on your card,'7 I told that little fellow, wif you're only trying hard. The fvery goods' and 'excellents' are fine, I must agree, But the effort you are making means a whole lot more to meg And the thing that's most important when this card is put aside Is to know, in spite of failure, that to do your best you've tried. 97 Hlust keep fexcellent in effort'-all the rest will come to youg There isn't any problem but some day youill learn to do. And at last, when you grow older, you will come to understand That by hard and patient toiling men have risen to command, And some day you will discover when a greater' goal's at stake, That better far than brilliance is the effort you will makef, Edgar A. Guest.

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row: Naomi Kingsle . Mar' Kogzut, Alice Lasher, ,lean Loughlin, Beatrice Y 1 'ul ary 111-nlnow, Doris Dickinson, Kathryn Roberts. Betty Bullorl, lsahelle Szlaehta, lulyn ihunp X1 l A ly S4 l nw llc Kuhlr Pl ll l l 1 , its a ve' . .'-com ra : iris re 2, ry is Smit 1. Lois Woof. ld 4 ni l. Marjorie lhtltlllllbllflll., Evelyn famlmn, Marjorie Smith, llelen Lalus, Stella e num llrlly Ifurhin, lr:-nc llillcnlwck. Anna Gaffney. 'lihird row: Mary Walling, fllllllllf llavidsuu, Marion lloxzone, Doris Larson, llowarrl Smouleey, Nlarjorie llenkle, 1 Sullivan, Nancy Toiupkins. Vivian Smith. Fourth row: Terrence Weigel, Reg- lllllll love, John Evans. 114 lm rl Light, Edwin Watlles, Kenneth Thomas, Eugene Brest, ull Catlin. William Slamm, Mr. Claude Peiubelton lclass aflviserl, Carroll Perkins, ny illhrith. Frank Ferguson. Frank iluslavson, Frances Smith, Lyle illllfllllklfi, Frank lfflil lfiftli row: Frtinla flier-lak, Milo Jones, Earl Boland, llemile Yarpsz, Walter an-son rving Loomis, Jack Nleflurlx, Roh'-rl Green. llugh Stephenson, Norman I u ,lack jeues, William Parlxcr, Norman Pashley. John lieasman, Stanley Baron, omas Miller, Harold Smith. FIQEIHMAN CLAII HIITDIQY The freshman class opened a meeting on February 5, 1936, to elect new officers and discuss plans for the rest of the year. The following members were elected as class officers: President, Edward Swan, vice president, Doris Dlckisong secretary, Kathryn Robertsg treasurer, Mary Louise Benbow. It was decided to have an entertainment committee. We planned a Val- entine party for February' 11, 1936. It was held at Sauquoit Valley Central High School. Forty-five freshmen were present. They played games and danced and refreshments were served. A meeting was held February 14, 1936, and it was decided to have a bake sale on February 22, 1936. A meeting was opened by President Edward Swan on February 27, 1936. The treasurer read the report from the bake sale held on February 22, and we have 5519.56 from the sale. Meeting was called to order by President Edward Swan on April 13. lt was decided to have another bake sale on April 17, 1936. This is only the beginning of our social functions, as well as some attempts at money-making 4-ontrivances. With Mr. Pembleton as our adviser we hope to have the largest graduating class the school has ever known. We now have seventy-one students in the freshman class.

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IN DUITIQIAL ADT! Known by a wide variety of titles such as Sloyd, Manual Training and Manual Arts, the lndustrial Arts courses as offered in the public schools of today are the direct outcome of intensive and extensive work by a large group of educators of national and international fame. First conceived in the United States from the Russian exhibits on display at the Philadelphia Cen- tennial of 1876, the manual training movement spread quickly. Overcoming the many obstacles in the path of new educational ideas, our present form of Industrial Arts is nationally accepted as part of the public school curric- ulum. From the 9th grade through high school is an elective subject carry- ing one regents, credit. The General Shop course at S. V. C. S. is compulsory to all 7th and Sth grade students as an introductory shop and includes woodworking, electricity and metal-working. During the past year 17 were enrolled includ- ing two girls who enjoyed the course very much. As the student shows progress and initiative he progresses to more advanced and dilficult projects where a wider variety of tools and processes are used. The aims of shop work are many, general education being perhaps the leading one. Via this course, prevocational training and vocational guidance are included as an intrinsic function of education. Handyman ability and consumer values should and do form an integral part of general education through shop courses. The subject matter is designed to con- tribute skills, experiences, appreciation and information that may be used in any line of occupational endeavor. It is general, not specific. It is part of general education and not vocational education. The course is not in- tended to produce cabinet makers, electricians and metal workers but it does go a long way in determining whether a boy is mechanically inclined enough to follow such a trade. With an enrollment of over l50 students in Industrial Arts and drawing, our first year is nearing its end, An exhibit ofthe work done in these courses by both Junior and Senior High School students was held May I44, at the Sauquoit Valley Central School. Much interest has been shown in the model airplane club. A study of aviation terminology as well as the history of flight, pictures and descriptions of all types and kinds of planes and a scrap book of aviation news make this an educational as well as an intensely interesting and popular club. An amateur photography club is being planned for next year and it is hoped that this club will be accepted with as much enthusiasm as the model club has been. A freshman stood on a burning deck . But as far as he could learn He stood in perfect safety, For he was too green to burn. Brutus: g'How many doughnuts did you eat, Caesarfp' Caesar: 4'Et tu, Brutef,