Stamford Union Free School - Camera Yearbook (Stamford, NY)

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Since Easter vacation we have worked getting material ready for the Camera. Class colors-Green and white. Class flower-For-get-me-not. Class motto-Non scholae, sed vitae discimus. ,fWe learn not for school, but for lifej. . GEORGE WILLARD STEVENS GEORGE Stamford, New York Peg of my heart--we will never part Vice-President 3-4 George entered Stamford Seminary in his Freshman year, and was chosen as Vice-President of our class both in our Junior and Senior years. He has had a successful four years and we hope it will continue in the future. George had not been particularly popular among the opposite sex untill this year, when cupid Pierced', his heart. KATHERINE BEATRICE HASTINGS c'KArHER1NE South Jefferson, New York Katherine is now in S. T. C. Studying Arithmetic and Geography Katherine joined us four years ago in our Freshman year. In January of the Senior year, she' entered Training Class. She has always helped faithfully in raising money for our Washington trip. We wish her the best of success with the position as teacher of a rural school. BESSIE MAE CANFIELD CCBESSH 4 Stamford, New York He is a fool who thinks by price or skill To turn the current of a woman's will Editor-in-Chief Camera. Basketball '25, '26, '27, Secretary and Treas- urer '25, ,26, ,27. Athletic Association '26. Bess,7 needs no introduction, for she has been with us all of our four

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supervision it was made a grand occasion. We took in one hundred and twenty-four dollars, clearing about forty. Thus we closed our Junior year with a neat sum in the treasury for our trip to Washington. After school was closed we enjoyed our annual picnic at Pine Lake. Mrs. Griffin was our chaperon. When school opened again in ,26 we felt somewhat better acquainted with Stamford Seminary than when we were Freshmen. We very soon or- ganized our Senior class, choosing Irwin Dent as President, George Stevens as Vice-President, and Bessie Canfield as Secretary and Treasurer. Sep- tember twenty-first we held our reception for the incoming Freshmen. We ordered ninety-six dollars worth of candy and sold this during the next few weeks. We also had a bake sale to start the year. The last of October we had a Hallowe'en social in the Churchill Memo- rial Building and cleared forty dollars. Harpersfield also put on a play, Down East, about this time and we received one-half the receipts, our share amounting to eighteen dollars. In December we solicited advertisements for a calendar. In this way we raised twenty-five dollars and had two hundred and fifty attractive class calendars to distribute. December twentieth the Senior talent gave a play, uAt the End of the Rainbow, which brought in one hundred and thirty-seven dollars. Janu- ary fourth we took the play to Grand Gorge and made forty-four dollars. January twenty-ninth we held a bake sale at Tooley 8: lVlcAlpine's store. This was the third in the series of five bake sales which we held to raise money for our expected trip. On February fourteenth we held a Valentines Card Party. We still lacked a considerable sum from the amount we desired, so we arranged with the Senior class of Hobart to give their play in the Churchill Memorial Building. In this way we raised fifty dollars more. We sold arm bands and skull caps of the school colors and two hundred and eighty-eight dol- lars worth of candy during the year. On April fifth we gave a movie at the Churchill Gymnasium which closed our money raising campaign with a total of six hundred and forty- five dollars in the treasury. April fifteenth we started on a ten day trip to the national capitol and New York City. We went by way of Harrisburg and Gettysburg and came back through Philadelphia and New York. We all enjoyed a wonderful time and concluded a most educational trip.

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years. She has acted as class Secretary and Treasurer for our Sophomore, Junior and Senior years, and has certainly carried out the responsibilities of that office. Her courage and Huency in speaking has proved to us that she has plenty of class spirit and a resource of ideas. She also has played a great part in athletics, especially in basket ball. LESLIE CON IFF WILCOX GSI-IES!! Stamford, New York '4Work! How I abhor it Baseball ,27. Athletic Association ,27. Stamford has always been the home of Les and his career with the class of '27 dates back to primary days. He has always been more or less a mystery to us and we have concluded that he must be a genius. He has been rather forgetful, so much so that we are afraid that he has forgotten to give any time to the weaker sex. Athletics have not played an important part in his life, but in spite of this fact he has earned the much desired Sl, in baseball this year. The reason for this success is, no doubt, due to the unique way in which he holds the bat. As regards the future, Les', is undecided as to whether or not he will join the ranks of the Drug Store Cowboys. GERTRUDE DECKER CERT Stamford, New York Very studious is Gert, But also she can flirt Basketball '25, '26, '27. Secretary and Treasurer class '24. Vice- President '25. President '26, Athletic Association '27, Salutatorian. Bus- iness Manager Camera. Gert,' has been a member of our class through our four years in Stam- ford Seminary, and very advantageously at that, for isn,t she the Saluta- torian of our class this year? Gert,', besides being studious is interested in certain types of trucks, especially the Mack flVIacD. Geri, is undecided about continuing her education further, but we wish her success in whatever she undertakes.