Sherburne Central High School - Monarch / Opus Yearbook (Sherburne, NY)

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Claw fihkioffy N September 1, 1939, Adolf Hitler sent his armies 'across the border into Poland. A week later the Class of 1952, thirty-two strong, marched into the kin- dergarten of Sherburne Central School. This was the start of our long march across the field of education. Our first years in Sherburne Central were quiet years as we learned the rudiments of education and became acquainted with our fellow students and teachers, as well as with the school and the school system. During our final years in grade school, we began to show our talents on the stage. We presented an assembly program, called Old and New Schools , in which we contrasted the way our school was run with the way schools were managed in our parents' day. Gloria Gaines and Mary Wheeler took the part of teachers, while the rest of the class played the role of pupils. The next year, realizing that some of our members possessed dramatic ability, we staged the play, Polly Pop , in the evening so that our parents and friends could enjoy it. Under the direction of Mrs. Hartman and with Dick Crosby taking the main role as Polly Pop, the play was a huge success. While we were enjoying our elementary school days in Sherburne, our friends in Smyrna spent a wandering year in first grade since they moved to three different schools during that year, but they finally ended up in their beautiful new school. After passing uneventful first years, in fifth grade they pre- sented a group of native and European folk dances at a Grade Day assembly. Dramatic presentations for their sixth grade included a Christmas assembly and the Grade Day assembly, which featured a flower fan- tasy. In 1946, the year the Class of 1952 entered the seventh grade, price controls in the United States ended. As we spent our first days in seventh grade, it seemed to us that controls over us had ended also. No longer did one teacher stand over us all day to make sure that our work was done. This was the year we moved from class to class. Our friends from Smyrna joined us in the halls of Sherburne Central this year. Our seventh and eighth grade years passed quickly, and we were ready for the big jump into high school. I 4 4 .lu M bf I HAPPV ' A , H. .. 'K.k,,M4W,,.-f ' The year 1948 was the year that the Berlin Airlift began. This also was the year that we became fresh- men. We must have thought that we were big wheels around school as we started our own paper airlift in study hall. However, we soon learned this was an unwise practice, and with a little help from the teachers, we soon ended it. As freshmen, we numbered sixty-eight with Mrs. Whitney and Miss Bryan as our advisors. With the arrival of our sophomore year, many of our members were getting well established in athle- tics, band, and chorus. This, too, was the year when many of us would be taking regents' examinations for the first time. Our Sadie Hawkins' dance was the main event of this year. Although we were rather amateurish at this sort of work, we did very well. At the annual field day in June, we lost by one point to those hated seniors. FIELD A f N xxlfy X 1 18