Waterford High School - Fordian Yearbook (Waterford, NY)

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SENIOR ACTIVITIES After three, of what seemed long years, we have finally reached our goal as seniors. Yes, seniors at last! On September 6, back in the year ’46, we held our first class meeting as seniors. To take care of the trials and tribulations that go on at a senior class meeting, Warded Schoonmaker was elected president. As your senior year is one of your most exciting, we had to have an assistant, so we elected Justine O’Connor as vice-president. We also had to have someone to keep track of all our business, so for her fourth term in office, Joan Norton was again our faithful secretary. This was all well and good, but who was going to keep the books, keep track of all receipts, payments and bills? Why none other than Treasurer Alice Bobilin. We opened our senior year by compromising with the Senate and holding a Senate-Senior Dance as a welcome for the new teachers. It was at the next meeting that we decided that the seniors should have a play. We set to work under the supervision of Tom Gainor, and on the nights of December 5 and 6 presented the eerie, thrilling, 3-act mystery, “The Thirteenth Chair.” What is your senior year without a Ball? As usual, our class had to be different and break the tradition of holding it in the Spring. Yes, we had our Senior Ball on January 31. It was a Trying to raise money for the publication of the 1947 Foroiax we had two Round and Square Dances. The Christmas dance was again the tradition, as the Class of ’47 held it on December 20, the day school closed for Christmas vacation. We had a successful food sale in March. As our senior year comes to a close, we are all waiting patiently for our Senior Banquet in June so that we may get our yearbooks. We leave all the fond memories we have had as seniors to the juniors in hopes that they may have as pleasant a senior year as we have had. gala affair, and the auditorium was decorated to represent winter. “Toby” Middlebrook furnished the soft music for dancing. I B0v£ UP

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SENIOR CLASS President . . . Vice-President Secretary . . Treasurer . .. Senators ................................................... Richard Gillespie Marjory Palmateer Dorothy Burgess Charles Christopher Adviser ............................................... Miss Helen Gainor Wardell Schoonmakcr Justine O’Connor ....... Joan Norton .......Alice Bobilin Class Motto “Let’s go hand in hand, not one before another.” —Shakespeare. Class Colors Red and White Fourteen

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Patricia Ann Benoit “Pat “An ornament of beauty.” Treasurer 2, 3; Candy Dance Committee 1; Dancing Club 1; Sophomore Soiree Committee 2; Junior Prom Committee 3; Inter-Nos Staff 2; Snowball Hop Committee 3; Food Sale Com- mittee 4; Senior Ball Committee 4; Fordian 4. Alice Bobilin “Nooky” “Happy be her day.” Treasurer 4; Senior Play 4; Orpheia Club 1; Dancing Club 1; Freshman Hop Committee 1; Junior Red Cross Club 2; Senior Choir 2. 3, 4; Canteen Committee 2, 3; Inter-Nos Staff 2; Lead- ers Club 3; Junior Prom Committee 3; Junior-Senior Banquet Committee 3; Sophomore Soiree Committee 2; “Luck Dance” Committee 2; Chairman, Advertising Board, Fordian 4; Senior Ball Committee 4. Joan M. Brierley “J. B.” “I am never merry u-hen I hear sweet music.” Senior Play Committee 4; Senior Ball Committee 4; Orpheia Club 1; Freshman Hop Committee 1; Candy Dance Committee 1; Student Senate 2, 3; Senior Choir 2, 3, 4; Sophomore Soiree Committee 2; Inter-Nos Staff 2; Chairman, Ways and Means Committee 3; Victrola Committee; Food Sale I'ommittee 3; Junior Prom Committee 3; Snowball Hop Committee 3; Busi- ness Manager, Fordian 4. Sixteen