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

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fl-V-C+ J! Miss Cassidy: What does tense mean? A Junior: Cloth houses we live in. Q Q Q Miss Gill: Give me a sentence containing an indirect object. Jimmie D.: Give me a kiss. Miss Gill: Now give me another one. Jimmie D.: An indirect object or a kiss? Q Q Q Bill Hartmann Clooking at report cardD: I'm as famous as,George Washington. Mrs. Hartmann: Why? Bill: I went down in history. 'I Q Q Stanley B.: Ma, I can't see a thing! Mrs. B. Cvery frightenedD: What's the matter? Stanley: I've got my eyes closed. Q 1' Q John T.: Mother, I don't feel well. Mrs. T.: Where, sonny? John T.: In school. Q Q Q Mr. Terns: What is the tactful way for a girl's father to let her boy friend know when it is time to go home? Coach: He might casually pass through the room with a box of breakfast food. Q Q Q Miss Evans: You missed my class yesterday, didn't you? P. Howlett: Not in the least, not in the least. Q 1' Q Mrs. P.ichard: Can you tell me in which battle Lee was killed? Louis Smith: I think it was his last. i i Q N. Pashley: Hello, Stan, are you fishing? S. Briggs: No, I'm just drowning some worms. Q I' Q L. Gaff: My girl friend is temperamental. F. Guido: Yes, I know what you mean-99W tempera- ment and lik mental. Q Q Q L. Smith: See that boy over there annoying Mary Jones? G. Green: Why, he isn't even looking at her. L. Smith: That is what's annoying her. Q Q Q Miss Cassidy: What's the idea of coming to school with your hair all mussed up? J. Tinker: No comb, ma'm. Miss C.: Well, why didn't you use your dad's comb? J. Tinker: No hair, ma'm. Q Q Q Robert Smith: I just got a swell job at the bakery. F. Swan: What do you do? Bob: I'm the chief loafer. Q Q 1' Irene Howd: Last night I dreamed that I was in heaven. St. Peter was giving me chalk to write my sins on Golden Stairs. All of a sudden I saw you. Carol P.: You did! What was I doing? Irene: Coming back for more chalk. Tom O'Neil: Why are you yelling in that mail box? G. Taylor: I'm taking a correspondence school course in Cheerleading, and I want to see if I pass the test. Q Q Q Jr. Castle: What are you doing? M. Mayton: I'm writing a letter to myself. Jr.: What's in it? Martin: How should I know? I won't get it until the day after tomorrow. an aa av J. Jordon: Who gave you that black eye? J. Donahue: Nobody. I had to fight for it. Q Q Q Mae Jones: When I was born in England they shot off a cannon. B. Bullard: Too bad that they missed. if Q 1' WHAT, HIS BROW FURROWED? Farmer: I thought you said you had plowed that back quarter. ' Hired Hand: No, I said I was thinking of plowing it. Farmer: Oh, I see, you turned it over in your mind! Q Q Q SO DID HE A stout man emerged from a subway station, tripped over a street cleaner's brush, left standing near the en- trance, and fell flat. As he picked himself up and looked around hastily to see if there were any witnesses, his eyes encountered a large tooth-paste advertisement which read: Comes out of the tube and Lies Flat on the Brush. Q Q Q STRANGE DEATH A boy, taking an examination in history, handed in the following: General Braddock was killed in the Revo- lutionary War. He had three horses shot under him, and a fourth went through his clothes. Q Q Q RIDDLES Q. What holds the moon in place? A. Moonbeams. Q Q Q Q. Why is a schoolroom like a car? A. It has a crank in front and a lot of little nuts behind. Q Q Q Q. What most resembles a half of a pumpkin? A. The other half. Q Q Q Q. What is worse than a giraffe with a sore throat? A. A centipede with chillblains. Q Q Q Q. When does a sailor take up the least room on board ship? A. When he sleeps on his watch. 1' Q Q Q. Who flirts with the mermaids? A. The swells of the ocean. Q Q Q Q. After a goat is six years of age, what is he? A. Seven years of age. 1: 1- t Luke has it before, Paul has it behind. Matthew never has it, and all girls have it once, while boys never have it. Mrs. Mulligan has it twice and Dr. Lowell has it twice as bad behind as before. What is it? The letter L. page twenty five

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95553 . PI-V-C+ page twenty-four Lefl lo Righ!-Vesta Avery, Vivian Robinson, Gloria Taylor, Mary Jones, Betty Bullard. 6 IN SEPTEMBER, 1959, Miss Ruth Newton, director of the Sauquoit Valley Central Cheerleaders conducted try-outs. From a number of applicants, she se- lected the five most suitable girls and they were to serve as promoters of school spirit for the 1959-40 season. The girls selected were: Betty Bullard, captain, Gloria Taylor, Vesta Avery, Mary Jones and Vivian Robinson. These girls selected the following as their uniforms for directing cheers: Wliite pleated skirts, white shirts, black sweaters with red and black SVC mega- phones, white hats with SVC letters on them, white socks, and saddle shoes. The purpose of having cheerleaders is to promote school spirit. This is done primarily through the cheers. Cooperation and backing in the student body is essential to any athletic team. The students acquire the necessary spirit through cheering their teammates on to victory. Pep, vitality and school spirit in the leaders often helps to put this same spirit across to the students. Cheerleading, of late, has become a necessity in any form of athletics.

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55537 page twenty-six P f'V' C 4- 461141184 8f1.own'4 WMA Sicily NINE O'CLOCK IN SPRUCEVILLEf Time for the men of Spruceville to gather in Black jack's barroom. Let's look in upon the merry group. A number of villagers are at the bar. Several farmers occupy a table in one corner of the room. Empty beer glasses stand on this table. One of the farmers seems to be talking a great deal, who is he? Oh! I know. He's Hiram Perkins, probably at his usual story-telling. Let's listen to him. Hiram clears his throat and begins: Well, I guess I'll tell you boys about Pat, my bull. I betcha he can run two hundred miles an hour. He's a fast runner -that fellow is. I keep him in a pasture out by the tracks. When he hears a train coming down the tracks, he'll run down to meet that train. Then that bull will race the train, and every time he reaches the end of the pasture before the train does. He'll outrun any automobile you ever saw. Let me tell you-that bull can run. The story ended there for Hiram was called out. Let's visit his farm a day or two after this story-telling. He was doing chores when he spied two farmers coming down the road. Hiram knew that they remembered his story and were coming to see his remark- able bull. In a panic he called to his wife, Eliza, I told those farmers coming down the road a crazy story about the fast speed at which my bull can travel, and now they have come to see him. What can I do ? His wife replied, Donlt worry. You just leave the matter to me. I'll take care of it, but you hurry into the house and out of sight. Hiram, only too thankful, went inside while his wife went to the gate to meet the farmers. When they asked for Hiram, she told them that he had gone to California. They asked when he had gone and when he was coming back. She said, He went this afternoon, and he is coming back tomorrow morning. The farmers gasped and said, He can't be back that soonf, She answered, Oh, yes, he can, Hiram rode his bull. 7fze Jlunifiman WHENEVER and wherever hunters, fishermen, or other sportsmen get together, there is always told this tale of the mighty huntsman, whom, for short, we will call Weasel',. Once upon a time, Weasel went hunting-deer hunting, to be more specific. He tramped for miles and miles and miles with no luck. Suddenly he neared the edge of a woods. In the dim twilight of late autumn, he could see on the ground the unmistakable footprints of a deer! With hands that were trembling and a heart that was beating wildly, our hero approached his quarry. On the other side of the woods a huge horned animal was slowly browsing on the parched grass. Our hero advanced cautiously. He aimed! He fired! From the other side of the woods there was a terrible threshing and a low, mournful moo-moo . Alas and alack! Our hero had shot a cow! . But don't give up, Coach! We all wish you better luck next time.