Schuylerville Central School - Schuyler Yearbook (Schuylerville, NY)

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18 Malcolm Herman Lindahl Louise Dorothy Thompson

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CLASS HISTORY We'll never forget our Freshman year. Huh, Kids! That was the year we first entered high school, fifty-five strong, and were given a chance at last to work for a goal and toil together as a class under the leadership of Mr. Boivin and Miss Van Vranken. During our reign as the Class of '51 we held the usual food sales and many dances throughout this very profitable year of our existence. The biggest event of the year was our Freshman Frolic with music by Johnny Bodner's orchestra. It didn't seem appropriate to end the year dead on its feet so, what did we do? We had a wham, bang picnic at Kaydeross Park. Sophomores! Now we're really getting up in the world and we are perhaps a little older and wiser than we were in our last year. With us still was Mr. Boivin but we lost Teach to a very nice person, and were given Miss Varden to help the cause. Most of the first part of the year was spent resting up from last year's exertions. However, after this rest, we turned all efforts and eyes on our Sophomore Hop and after much discussion we decided that the music was to be furnished by Tommy Rhodes and his orchestra. We held our biggest class picnic at White's Beach, with our own food, furnished with the help of Mr. Young's Bakery. As we entered our Junior year we suddenly realized that we were reaching our goal but faster than we thought and we started working with much endeavor to value the little things. To help us in our evaluations and successfulness we had Miss Moon and Mr. Stevens as our advisors. We held a very profitable food sale in November at the local theater and our class account began to grow. Johnny Bodner's orchestra provided the music for a traditional Thanksgiving Dance, also held in November. Being as it was that many college groups were home on vacation we made a considerable profit. It was after this we started thinking of having a spaghetti supper. After the many problems were abolished we decided to hold the supper at O'Brien's Hotel. It went over with a bang' and made us $75 to the good. After this we started plans for our biggest event of the year — the Junior Prom. Our greatest job then was to decide on the theme for this great occurrence. Suddenly we fell on the idea of using Heaven. It was a great day for us when we saw our wisps of angel hair, blue streamers and gold and silver paper transformed into angels sitting on pink-tipped clouds, amidst a heavenly array of blue sky and thousands of stars. Bill Nevins and Ellen Mezera were crowned king and queen by last year's royal majestic, Dick Corsetti and Anne Young. Our orchestra was Don Burt and his Collegians from Albany. Then we began worrying about whether we were to become Seniors or not. As Seniors we started striving for the money to go on a trip to Washington during our Easter vacation. Under the new governing student body called the Student Council we made much progress and reached there. Christmas cards were sold by the entire student body during October under the guidance of the Senior Class. Mr. Ray and Miss Moon were our class advisors for this last year of ours. At the beginning of our last fling we administered the Senior Play under the direction of Miss Elizabeth Myers. The name of it was New Shoes, and it turned out to be a very successful event. The Senior Ball was held with much gaiety and beauty on January 26. We now leave our happy times and friends behind us and express every hope that they will have just as happy and successful four years that we have had during our stay at Schuylerville Central School for we shall never forget their cooperation, faithfulness and understanding that was given to us by them. 17

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