Virgil Central High School - Virgilian Yearbook (Virgil, NY)

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I: Ia! Sn' III-S' 'OR ' One bright sunny September day in 1943, Mrs. Cary welcomed Barbara Hauck, Phyllis Hauck, Helen Holler, Elywn Kentch, Alison Munson, Constance Munson, Richard Osbeck, Delphene Pond, Marian Rorapaugh, and Phyllis Vincent to first grade. Mrs. Gingrich, Mrs. Blayda, and Mrs. Vincent taught us the fundamentals we needed to learn. Sixth grade brought us two new arrivals to our class, Robert Carpenter and Robert Pierce. In the seventh grade Harry Stewart joined us from Cortland High School, That year we visited Cooperstown and started to raise money for our Albany trip. Eighth grade found us with four different math and science teachers during the year. The event of the year was our trip to Albany where we toured the Capitol buildings, state office buildings, and Howes Caverns. June found us participating in our own graduation on Class Night. Helen Mary Seager was our valedictorian and Alison Munson our salutatorian. Ne started off our freshman year by electing Miss McBride as our advisor and Richard Osbeck as president. That year we had a cafeteria supper, a movie, and we also sold gold and maroon school pennants. During our freshman and sophomore years the boys' and girls' homerooms were separated, During our sophomore year we had a cafeteria supper, a movie, and we rented the skating rink. We enjoyed a happy year with Miss Walters as our advisor and Harry Stewart as president. cont. on next page

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Our junior year started off with the arrival of our class rings on the Y t third day of school. This year we helped raise the amount in our treasur by holding a spaghetti supper and a movie, nH1t the Hayu but the big even of the year was the Junior Prom, nEvening In Parisn, complete with a side- walk cafe. Robert Carpenter and Helen Holler were crowned king and queen by the previous years' king and queen, Julian Elliott and Hilda Hutchings. Phyllis Vincent and Alison Munson, runners-up, led everyone in the Grand March. In June we had a junior-senior picnic at Chenango State Park and a class picnic at Otisco Lake and Suburban Park. Our senior year brought us Rosemary Reeve from Cortland High School and Bruce Hollenbeck. The fall of this year found us selling magazines and presenting a play. The three-act play, nShoot The Worksn, directed by Mrs. Fowler was a success. These two activities helped our treasury total as well as gave everyone much fun. A supper was also given. During the year we prospered well under Miss Druckenbrod as advisor, and Robert Carpenter as president. As the morning of Good Friday dawned, it found eight girls and six boys getting ready to spend four wonderful days of fun and adventure on their senior trip in Washington D.C. All too soong however, the year had sped away leaving behind twelve years of fun, and now it is almost time for us to graduate and seek our way in the world. As we turned to say, nGood-byn, our memories drifted back with thanks to the parents, teachers, and friends who had helped us prepare during twelve years for this final night of graduation, Glass Colors: Maroon and White Class Motto: nNot on the Heights, but climbingn Class Flowers: Maroon and White Roses