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

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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

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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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'-1-1-2. sais f : ::.i v:i,f 22-Q 5 Q- 9 ,sl .1 gf,--'43 f-1 4 f -A rr at era -S Q Z' f --A 1 ' ali H E ff' fa f L-2: SS my. : K n Z5 f'i f ,.f G -H any Sky Y W -5 i , 'Elf J' Q I '-Q V. , 5 -5' ,V',' A ,, i e up 'L 5' 3 SHOP GROUP Troll Vocafional was slarled in +he basemenl ol Twenly-lourrh Slreel School in l908. ln 'rhal year Mr. Gregory came lo Niagara Falls and became one of lhe lirsl inslruclors of vocalional work. ln l928 Troll Vocalional School was buill. Various courses in vocalional lrades were offered and Mr. Gregory became principal. During 'rhe lirsl year 'rhere were ver few pupils bul as lhe new school became beller known lhe classes grew rapidly and many sludenis came from +he Junior High Schools 'ro receive a commercial or vocalional lraining. ln I933 Troll enjoyed 'rhe grealesf enrollmenf so far. Now in I936 'rhe shops are crowded 'ro capacily. Every boy enlering one ol lhese courses realizes and appreciales lhe opporlunily offered him. Si+ua+ed in lhe lell wing of Trolnl are +he Millwrighl and Eleclrical Shops and in 'rhe righr wing of lhe building are lhe Machine, Aulo, Welding, and Sheer Melal Shops. Every leacher is chosen because of his parlicular abili+y 'fo leach one parlicular phase of 'rhe many frades. Compleiing ol a lwo-year course is necessary for gradua- lion, alier which s+uden+s are well qualilied fo procure and many ol The boys acquire posi+ions lhrough 'lhe help of lhe 'reachers in +he school. These boys go oul among lhe workers in various laclories and 'rhereby help 'lo spread 'rhe value of +his Vocalional School. Pls OTHER SENIORS IN THE SHOP GROUP Ducine Barber Millwrighl' 2B Joseph Bielec Millwrighl 2A Arnold Da ndrea USES.. Dralling Reginald Ealon Speed Aufo ll Charles Gerg Chuck Millwrighl' James Green ..Dap.. Aulo Shop Arnold Hewifl' Machine ll Roberl Hughey l-lughie Aulo Shop Mahhew Kwapisz Sinker Eleclric ll John Miklifch Mickie Eleclric Shop Charles Monin Chuck Elecfric ll Angelo Perno Killer Millwrighl' IIA Waller Polka Blondie Millwrighf 2A ini Henry Raicxak Hank Millwrighl' Fred Shank Meal Machine ll Sfanley Wilkowski Willie Millwrighl ll Julian Woicik Shadow Machine Shop William Rychel ..Pop.. Machine Shop John Zykas nzyk.. Auio ll