Schuylerville Central School - Schuyler Yearbook (Schuylerville, NY)

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“THE OLD SARATOGA POST” Once a month, the students and townspeople turn eagerly to the last page of “The Schuylerville Standard.” It is there that the “Old Saratoga Post” lives, telling one and all of the latest activities of the school. This paper usually pays us eight very interesting visits during the school year. The senior class was responsible for the first visit and will be responsible for the last one. The junior, sophomore and freshman English classes have all had their share of the responsibility and they have helped to make it a great success. This paper made its entrance into our school life in 1929 and for the last two years has been very popular. It has attempted to give the townspeople news of the school and to get them interested in our activities. We hope it has accomplished its purpose. The students may express their thoughts and opinions in this paper. Everyone has a chance to contribute articles and everyone is encouraged to do so. The “Old Saratoga Post” has been very interesting to us and we hope it may continue to be so in the future. As the new classes come and the old ones go. we heartily wish that they will keep up the visits of the “Old Saratoga Post” and make it better and better as the school years go by. Nellie Wilcox, '31. OUR LIBRARY What a wonderful thing it is to have a library in the school. I have been in schools where they did not have a library and it seemed like a good friend missing. There are many things that books can do. They can teach us lessons: they tell us of things and customs of other countries; they raise the hair on our heads, and sometimes make us jump with excitement when we read pirate, detective and adventure stories. Sometimes we get clammy and sweaty and little chills chase each other up and down our backbones when we read ghost stories. We have to laugh when we read about guinea pigs riding in a toy motor truck. We also receive lessons in patriotism when we read the thrilling tales of the exploits of war which our country has done. All these things books can do for us. They are all to be found in our library. Sometimes as I read books they bring to my mind, beautiful and many, the pleasant memories of home, and they comfort me when I think that I have been and am now three thousand miles away from home. Here is my latest comforter and I am happy once more because of a library book. And now as we sum up we find just a few things a library can do, cheer us up. make us laugh, make us feel clammy and excited, and teach us lessons. There are many more but they will have to be hunted up some other time. Fred Campion, '34. Nineteen

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MY IDEAL SCHOOL Tt is located in the city of Fun. in the land of Fantasy. Not long ago I visited it in a dream. 1 entered the school through a door of white. Inside was a reception room with pretty ferns and plants in the many windows, and overstuffed chairs and davenports. In this room I learned that 1 might await my guests, if 1 should have any, without fear of a spying eye. Farther on I found the office. It was as neat as any one could wish, with nice wicker chairs to sit in while waiting. The classrooms reminded me of living rooms. In all the rooms I found the feathered songsters of the air. There were also radios for use whenever desired. Candy, carbonated water, and small cakes were in evidence. The rooms always had a cool refreshing feeling, never too hot nor too cold. Amidst this luxury how much would we learn ? Without teachers, with much fun. All our lessons would be won. Never a care, never a fear. Always happy, throughout the year. With comfy chairs and tables round. Blue and rose, for a background. Lessons learned, well and fine, What fun, if these were only mine. I'd have a nice big armchair, And work through all the days so far, Sunshine ever, sadness never, Don’t you wish we all were clever? If these were ours What would we do? I don’t know, So I ask you. Sylvia Barker, '32. Kighteen

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GLEE CLUB Every Monday afternoon at precisely 3:15 o’clock a great tumbling noise is heard to resound through the massive halls of dear old S. H. S. It certainly is plain enough that today the glee club meets. Pellmell, down the stairs we run, down to the gym, where we find Mrs. Whitenack waiting for us. The roll is called by the secretary, after which we try our best to settle down, and center our attention on our director, who is patiently waiting with her baton raised to begin. We have been trying as hard as possible to set our minds upon two very appropriate songs to be sung at the Baccalaureate service. Practice makes perfect and therefore we should be able to sing well enough so that the people might know what it ’s all about. Mrs. Whitenack becomes terribly disgusted with us at times, and she is hardly to be blamed, because often we do sound hopeless. But workers reap their reward, so let us hope that our cloud will have a silver lining. Rose DeJuan. THRIFT CLUB Every Wednesday the grade children bring their pennies, nickels, and dimes, for Wednesday is Thrift Day at Schuylerville. The Thrift Club was organized in 1927 and had a good response for two years. Then High School students did not take to the project so keenly and were dropped from competition this year. Miss Lasher and commercial students collect the money, two students being assigned to a grade. To add to the interest in competition, two banners are awarded each wek. A large red banner is awarded to the grade having the highest percentage of students depositing savings. The first and eighth grades have each won this banner seven times this year. A green banner is awarded to the grade having deposited the largest amount. The seventh grade has won this banner eighteen times. Grade seven has contributed the most money, having deposited about seventy-five dollars. The Thrift Club teaches the pupils to save their money, and gives them a bank account which will help them later on. Toward the end of the school year, the commercial students who act as collectors have a picnic at Lake Sunnyside or Round Lake, to reward them for their services. George Ellis, ’31. ONE WAY TO STUDY GEOGRAPHY Our seventh grade received a letter from the seventh grade in Delano, Minne- sota. sometime in March. They wanted an exhibit from every State in the United States. In a letter which we sent them, we told them we wondered why they wrote to Schuylerville instead of one of the larger places in New York State. They replied, saying they wanted to send to villages having a population of about one thousand so they selected Schuylerville. They sent us an exhibit consisting of a small sample package of wheat, a piece of granite, some pussy willows and a pine cone. We plan to send them an exhibit on pulp paper, a smaller exhibit on apples and a map of our county show- ing the location of Schuylerville. Our exhibit for them is not ready yet, but we hope it will soon be ready to mail. T wenty Catherine Turcotte, Seventh Grade.