Trott Vocational High School - Trottarian Yearbook (Niagara Falls, NY)

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LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, The Seniors of TroTT VocaTional School, ciTy of Niagara Falls, sTaTe of New York, being allegedly of sound mind and memory, publish and declare This our lasT will and Tesfamenf, in manner and form as follows: FirsT: We direcf ThaT all excuses. noTes. leTTers, and oTher evidence found. be desTroyed as soon afTer our deparfure as convenienTly as can be done. Second: We give and bequeafh To The Freshmen all our vasT knowledge. To use and dispose of in The manner considered mosT profifable. Third: To The shop boys we give permission To use, and To disTribuTe To Their saTisfacTion, all The Tools in The basemenT lproviding The Teachers don'T caTch youl. FourTh: We give and bequeafh, lasTly, all The good virTues we have To The Freshmen of TroTT. lThey need Them so badly.l To Philip Doanessa, we hereby give undispufable righT To occupy Two seaTs in The assembly program. To James Furey, we leave Snooky Jack Meier's giff of gab. To Edward Chrisfman and Melvin Furerch we leave The winning ways of Joe Sadlo and Eddie Marfino. To Mark Pirolli we leave The naTural curly hair of Ross Jircifano. To Miss Haroney, ThaT young personaliTy Teacher, we leave The responsibilify of Trying To curb The humor we have helped To develop in The Freshman sTudenTs. To Mary Ellen Conroy, we leave wiTh supreme pleasure The worrying, responsibilify, and gray hairs acquired by Hilda Croisdale while Taking charge of The Yearbook and Newspaper. To Ralph Gardner, The freckles of Harold Waddell. To Red Heafh, The red hair of Jessie Waddell. To Gordon Duncan, The baby smile of Americo Del Zoppo. To Raymond Liddle The handsome feaTures of Edward Henry. We leave To Joseph Fefzer, wiThouT any malice. The weighT of Lloyd Bridgeman. The sweeT blue eyes of Cooky Mokhiber we leave To Donald Burford. The dimples of Nellie Barsocchi we leave To BeTTy Bryden. lMay she learn To make good use of Them., The vacanT berTh lefT open by Arnold Dandrea in The varsiTy baskeTball squad we leave To Johnny Gimelli. The quief ways of Clara WhiTe To EsTher Sinclair. The loyalTy of T. MarTino, O. Garcia, T. Asforino, we leave To L. Voelker, Dorofhy Lass, Marjorie Fink. The girl friends of Joe Sadlo we dedicaTe To handsome blue-eyed Bill STewarT. To David Kennedy The quarTerback posiTion lefT empTy by M. Cenfofanfi. To Bill STewarT The violin of Blanche Marmel. To Edward Augisfiniak we leave The TiTle of Professor lmay iT always holdl. To Josephine Alex we leave The high scholarship marks of CynThia Jones. To John Serina The pleasing smile of John Bankowski. To Helen Murphy The TalkaTive ways of Ulda ToseTTa. To Sfella Kreiger we leave The sweeT quieT ways of Gay Mickiewicz. To David Brown we leave Three cans of painT lTo painT Mr. PanTon's kiTchenl. To ElTon Abie we leave The sTrengTh of Joe Bielic. ll-le needs iT.l To The sweeT liTTle Tubinis Twins we leave one red bow so ThaT The Teachers can Tell Them aparT. To Harry Brown we leave The conscienTious ways of Edward Hoyle. To Kennefh Hardy we leave The Temper of Diek Dormim. The High School deparTmenT leaves To The incoming high school group all The wads of gum now deposiTed on The under side of The desks: Elmer DrinkwaTer's kniTTingg WalTer Webl's paper dolls: Joe Pielli's wanderlusTg Danny SchulTz's knack of geTTing inTo Trouble for helping oTher people ouT of Their own: Dorofhy Gornam's invisible gum. ln wiTness whereof, we hereunfo subscribe our names as wiTnesses of The above menfioned. WiTnesses: Julia Moskal. Roberf Ankenbauer. TESSIE ASTORINO, Class TesTaTor i Iv 1

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CLASS HISTORY, '36 From The various schools in The ciTy. we sTudenTs have come To TroTT for a purpose. Some of us came To play: some ouT of curiosiTy: oThers To obTain a definiTe vocaTion To guide Them in The fuTure.i LeT us recall The fond memories of our TirsT year in TroTT. Do you remember how we all looked for Room 34 and how we Tried To locaTe our assigned seaTs and home-room Teachers in our firsT assembly? T-low wiTh eager. smiling faces and dressed in our Sunda besT, we all wenT To The firsf school dance? Remember how we ouT-cheered The Seniors aT The fooTball, games? Then we were promoTed. We were Seniors! AT The beginning of The second year we fulfilled our duTy To elecT The new officers for The STudenT Council. The work of These ofhcers in our school acTiviTies. boTh scholasTic and aThleTic, will remain as a model for The fuTure officers of The STudenT Council. Suddenly sorrow sTruck deep amid The io and laughferg we losT one of our finesT friends. our principal. Mr. Harmon L. Gregory, who died! November 2. l935. Mr. Gregory so puT his energy. enfhusiasm, and hearT inTo This insTiTuTion, ThaT every room. every hall has memories of him. These inspired us To carry on gallanTly wiTh The greaf work upon which he had launched us. under The com- peTenT direcTion of his friend and ours, Mr. Sharp, who so undersfandingly guided us during Mr. Gregory's illness. Then while The shop sTudenTs lamenTed The loss of Their insTrucTor in ChemisTry. The STudenT Body rejoiced in Their acquisiTion of Mr. Bacon as vice-principal. Our foofball season o ened under The splendid leadership of Coach Cripe. On SepTember 27. The opening game was pljayed aT Dunkirk underneaTh The arTificial lighTs. ln spiTe of The facT ThaT we losT The TirsT game. TroTT's spiriT was undaunfed, for our vicfories were double our losses, The ToTal regisTering 6 and 3. ' This fighTing spiriT and sporfsmanship carried over inTo The baskeTball season wiTh ll vicTories. The memory of which filled our hearTs wiTh pride despiTe The facT ThaT Mr. Sharp losT The high silk haT. The gay social season began wiTh greaT enThusiasm under The capable guidance of The Social Com- miTTee. We all enjoyed The AuTumn, ChrisTmas. and Spring Proms which were held in The evenings, and our afTernoon dances shared equal success. On January lb. The TroTT Music DeparTmenT presenTed a MinsTrel Show which was one of The year's main acTiviTies. IT was a presenTaTion of negro songs and dialogue. Besides being a splendid per- formance. iT proved also To be a financial success. Days flew by and before we realized iT. we were asTonished To find ThaT The Time had come To make plans for our graduaTion. Mr. Small was elecTed as our faculTy advisor. and George Brinda PresidenT Jack Meierer Vice-PresidenT Fred Moore Secrefary Clara WhiTe Treasurer Took up Their respecfive offices. Our sad ThoughTs of deparTure were cheered somewhaT by elaboraTe plans or our Senior parTy and dance of May l5. And so-Teachers, classmaTes. and acTiviTies have all now become Treasured memories of Alma MaTer and we courageously seT forTh To fill The fields of life, secure in The knowledge . . . l OuT in The highways, wherever we go. Seed we musT gaTher and seed we musT sow: Even The TiniesT seed has a power, Be iT a ThisTle. or be iT a flower. ThaT which we gaTher is ThaT which we sow Seed-Time and harvesT alTernaTely flow: When we have finished wiTh Time 'Twill be known l-low we have gaThered. and how we have sown! GABRIELLA MICKIEWICZ, Class Hasiorasn, '36 I 161

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I i . . . . .... .,,- ,. ,,.,- COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT The Commercial DeparTmenT was organized in The Fall oT l928. And ours is The only public school in New Yorlc STaTe which can boasT of a Two-year vocaTional com- mercial course where emphasis is placed on general clerical posiTions as well as Type- wriTing, calculaTing machine operaTion, Tiling, bookkeeping and salesmanship. ln The beginning, Mr. Lang was The only Teacher and The regisTraTion numbered 30 sTudenTs. BUT during The TirsT Term This increased so rapidly ThaT Two addiTional Teachers were employed, Miss SmiTh and Miss Traver. AT The presenT Time, close To 200 sTudenTs are enrolled and Three oTher Teachers, Miss Kamm, Miss l-laroney. and Mr. Jaclc, have been added To This deparTmenT. Since The operaTing of The calculaTing machine develops boTh speed and accuracy in This course. all sTudenTs who compleTe iT are in a very Tavorable posiTion Tor employmenT. ' GraduaTes of The Commercial DeparTmenT are To be Tound in mosT of The planTs oT This ciTy, and The very Tine repuTaTion They have builT up is OT ma+eriaI assisTance To Those now aTTending TroTT. Pk OTHER SENIORS IN THE COMMERCIAL DEPARTMENT Tony Bax Ross JirciTano Marian Lila Prinfup Commerciai Raw Commercial Commercial James Richards LUCY Giroux CynThia Jones Tolds . .. .. .. .. Commercial Frenchy PaT Commercial Commercial MHY Shuley U Commercial , Julia Moslxal , Florence Gu ' Oscar Signmund Skiba Commercial Commercial Course Commercial im