Schuylerville Central School - Schuyler Yearbook (Schuylerville, NY)

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GYM CLASSES The bell rings and a frantic rush is made for the locker room. Who will be there first? At length we hear such remarks as, “I hope we play basketball today, don’t you?’’ “Where ’s my middie?” “Anybody got any extra sneaks?” Who’s got my gym bloomers?” Down the stairs they go to dress. After about five minutes they’re up-stairs again. As they enter they see Mr. Flood calmly shooting a few baskets. “Already now; line up.” Then lie chooses the teams and they start. This all takes place in winter months, but with the coming of Spring we go outside and play baseball. We think some day we may have star teams in both sports. These many sports are for some good purposes. First, they keep us healthy, strong and sturdy. Second, they teach us how to play together. In concluding we wish only to say that we shall miss Mr. Flood very much, and as he goes we wish him good luck. Virginia Deyoe, ’31. INTERCLASS BASKETBALL LEAGUE Interclass rivalry ran high in S. H. S. during the year 1930-31. Many argu- ments remain unsettled, but the controversy surrounding basketball abilities is definitely settled. The class of 1932, or this year’s junior class, are champions. The opening night of play found the juniors downing the seniors with the score of 40-22, while the sophomores’ rally came too late against the post gradu- ates, who emerged victorious 20-15. The P. G.’s then downed the seniors and freshmen in close, hard fought encounters. The freshmen fell once more before the upper class attack: this time the juniors were responsible, to the tune of 45-18. The crucial game, without which no league is complete, found two undefeated teams primed and ready for the test to determine the much talked about interclass championship. The P. G.’s started fast, as was their habit, but gradually came back to a cautious pace. The juniors played careful hall, taking no chances with the grade, and finally won the bunting by defeating Captain Flood’s ’30 warriors, 31-21. The tournament officials presented no trophy, so the series was played for the fun rather than the gain. Clean sportsmanship was apparent in every game. The teams who were so unfortunate as to lose knew how to take a defeat, and the victorious teams knew how to win and rest tactfully on their laurels. James Hoey, ’32. T wcnty-one

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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.

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SCHOOL PARTIES Oh, what fun this sophomore year lias been for all of us. First we had a Hallowe’en party; this was for the high school and what fun and what costumes. The prizes were awarded to James Cochrane for the most original, Janies Hoey for the funniest, and Carol Mosher for the most beautiful. We hoped to have a sleigh ride, hut our hopes were in vain. And then what excitement! rumors of a gym frolic. And sure enough we had the party. The boys wore their old suits and the girls wore their gym clothes. There were girls’ and boys’ basketball games that lasted ten minutes each, and then the winners of the boys and the winners of the girls played, but of course the boys ran away with the score. Then there was the suit case race and then the asking of questions and answering them with some foolish answers. And then the eats! We were all half starved. But afterward we had to go home and oh, how we all dreaded to leave. But every cloud has a dark side, and now we are waiting for another gym frolic. Much of the success of this party is due to Miss Shannahan and Mr. Schultz. Sue Jensen, ’33. TRIP TO ALBANY The day dawned dark and gloomy, but what was to happen ? Oh, the trip to Albany, to be made by our biology class. Although it rained, we did not mind very much, as the bus was warm and comfortable. We arrived in Albany without any mishaps and we were soon looking at the interesting relics which the Education Building contains. After spending about two hours looking at the birds, flowers, butterflies, animals, skeletons, Indians and beads, we ventured further into the rain and ran for the bus, where we ate our lunch. After that we visited the new State Building, where we were taken by an elevator to the top to view the city from a point which many of the pupils described as “up in the clouds.’’ After standing in the puddles which rapidly collected from the rain, we descended and walked through the subway to the Capitol, where we saw the Assembly and the Senate in session. From there we went to a museum that contains antiques. Inside are some pieces of furniture that were used at the time of our great-great-grandparents. In the upper part of the building are beautiful lace shawls and jewels. But what interested us most were two Egyptian mummies, which were still wrapped in the clothing which was put on them years ago. Ethel Fowler, ’34. Twenty-two