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

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CAMERA STAFF EditorfinfChief f f f f Cornelius Brown Assistant EditorfinfChief f f Angelyn Lawrence Business Manager f f f f Warren Shaver Advertising Managers f ' Beatrice Cronk, Anne Moore joke Editor ffff f L. Wainwright Potter CLASS OFFICERS President f fffff George Harris VicefPresident f f Angelyn Lawrence Treasurer f f Anna Canfield Secretary f f f Margaret Hamilton Faculty Advisor f f Miss Gertrude Daniels out v xg 'Ygggrll to 3 THE was CAMERA

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NAOMA SIMONSON B Her cheeks are always rosy, And her eyes very brown Her blushes are wxth ease awakened But then she casts her glances down RUTH SIMONSON They say we all are catty But that s not true of one For Ruth w1ll never cr1t1c1ze Whatever s said or done LOUISE SI-IAVER unlor and Semor plays When Llttle Louise passes by The merry twmkle 1n her eye Quxte captwates us And elates us This we cant deny WARREN SHAVER Buslness Manager of Camera Iunxor and Senlor plays Prxze speakmg 27 28 f'1t1zensh1p prxze 27 Rather changed srnce we have known 1m Is Warren our physxcs wrt 28 IS proud to own h1m For he always does his bxt LYLE STEVENS Prrze speakmg 28 Baseball 26 27 28 Basketball 26 Baseballs hls game At rt he s won fame For numerals and such He rs envied very much I 4 ' - I 3 Basketball '27, '28. . h. , 1 Q v I X STAMFORD SEMINARY f 9

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C5lve HISTORY OF THE CLASS of '28 --0-il'I0,'Q325.5ll9l+ NDER the careful superv1s1on of Mrs Soears a large and ambltlous class passed from the e1ghth grade m une of 24 and became proud members of the academ1c depart ment Here we were greeted by a large number of puplls from rural schools and our class 1ncreased to forty SIX students Such a large class found lt dxfhcult to choose ofllcers Our first meetxng ended w1th M1ss McPhee as class adv1sor FFHHCIS Govern as presxdent Naoma Effner as v1ce pres1dent and Cornel1us Brown as seeretary and treasurer Among our first soclal affa1rs was the recept1on QIVCII by the class of 25 Shortly after th1S we held our hrst hot dog roast at the Country Club Wlth M1ss Mahoney and Mr Duncan as chap erones Nothmg out of the ordmary happened durmg the w1nter months except that we eelebrat ed on one cold n1ght by go1ng on a slexgh r1de to br1ghten up our sp1r1ts Among the first act1v1t1es for the purpose of earnmg money was an attempt to do what Fresh men had never done before to hold a bake sale Two bake sales prov1ded about flfty dollars Thxs sum enabled us to have a good tlme at Coopers eroned on th1S trmp by MISS McPhee A spec1al boat was hlred and we went around the lake Due to the large number of pup1ls It was found neees sary to hlre ears Because of th1s fact we were re lleved of all of our money and only the thoughts of our good tnne rema1ned for the startmg of our Sophomore year In September of 26 we began our Sophomore year The flrst dec1s1ve movement on our part was the ealhng of a elass meetlng We were sorry to see that our class had deereased unt1l only twenty SIX puplls rema1ned However, we came 11nmed1 ately to the KOPIC 1n d1SCL1SS1011 and eleeted elass ofhcers MISS Mahoney was ehosen elass adv1sor Margaret Hannlton as pres1dent John Gray as v1ce pres1dent, and Angelyn Lawrence as secretary and treasurer As Sophomores our m1nds became more settled and we began our h1gh school work 1n earnest The class aet1v1t1es were few but we managed to take first prlze 1n the 1nterclass song composmg contest Thus we added another snceess to our l1st and began to prepare for our Junlor year Tlus year we ehose MISS Coon as elass advlsor Angelyn Lawrence as pres1dent Margaret Ham1l ton as v1ce pres1dent and C0fIl6l1US Brown as see retary and trelsurer Early 111 the year a hot dog roast was held at the Country Club w1th M1ss Coon ani Mr W1lson as chaperones A few weeks later our class began plans for earmng money After due cons1derat1on lt was declded that the best money mak1ng scheme was the pre sentmg of a play Before any act1on had been tlken to forward th1S deslgn however the Semors who were St1'1V11lg to obtam sufhc1ent money for the1r Washmgton tr1p asked us not to start earn mg money unt1l they had limshed For th1s reason we d1d not put on a play unt1l about Easter tlme We selected the play A Bunch of Fun , and w1th M1ss Hubbard as dlrector we were soon able to stage 1t 1n Davenport on Aprll 8 Two weeks llter we gate the play 1n the gymnaslum and our gate rece1pts amounted to about one hundred and fifty dollars Inv1tat1ons were received from ne1ghbor mg sehools urgmg us to put on our play 111 the1r towns Owmg to the short t1me wh1eh rema1ned before Regents we were able to glve our play 111 Roxbury 1nd Hobart only In both of these towns we made cons1derable sums of money Wlth our bank aeeount 1nereased thus by the proceeds of our play, we were enabled to make our un1or Prom on May 25 a great success No ex pense was spared ln deeorat1ng the gymnasmm and havmg a good orehestra Vve were well rewarded for our labor by the large crowd wh1eh gathered at our dance and the proceeds were sueh that the aet1v1t1es of our Jun1or year eould be ended w1th over two hundred dollars 111 the bmk On the Siturday of Regents week we held our p1en1e at Sllver Like ehiperoneel by M1ss Coon The tr1p was made more Jolly by 1011111152: the Soph omores who held the1r p1Cl11L there on the same a Our Sen1or year has been by far the most fun and the one IH wh1eh many of us have worked the hardest earmng money for our Washlngton tr1p We orgamzed at onee Ll10OS1Ilg M1ss Danlels as class advlsor GLOIQC Harrxs ts 171 L,S1C.lC1'1t Angelyn I ' ' 1 . Y . I . J y A -a , ' 'B , 1 r , 1 1 ' '3'r . I . 4 . 1 L I . K , . y , . l . . H 8 , , , . . ' 1 C . L - 1 - ' ' I ' 5 3 3 W . N ' f 5 1 9 . . . f . 1 I ' - ' I 7 1 A . . ,- l LL 51 ' , N, , , . . - . . l . R s V ' 1 l ' x I D ' .1 3 'H ' sl . ' I , ' . . ' . 5 . ' S , I . 1 5 ' - ' - . , , 1 l t 1 town at the end of the school year. We were chap' r , A Q ' 5 . I Y ' , ' I -T I T T .3 . 1 w ' J ' , ' . f . V I 3 . 4 L I s 1 I V ' , - 7 , , Q 1 x .1 5 H T U T K 4 n P I T - Q N x - f ' 1 . ' ' . . , r I ', S 2 1 w N w S 5 V ' . I ' 1 , - y Q V I' '- ' V 2 N, 1 Q 1 x D . . , . , . , - , , , . . f d y. , , .Q I , 3 , l I r I . 5' ' v K ' I . . . ' ' ' , , . , . ' 1 V - N - ' ' . ' . , V . , . . , 7 L , , -K . Q , , . STAMFORD SEMINARY