Watervliet High School - Spectator Yearbook (Watervliet, NY)

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WE TOO HAVE FRONTIERS The time has come for us all to say good-bye. lt seems impossible that our high school days are almost over. Was it not only yesterday that we were bewildered freshmen? We really cannot believe that four years have gone: but as we come nearer to graduation, we know it is true. lt would be wonderful if we could all stay together, the Class of '49, forever and ever. Vvle could help each other surmount the barriers that we shall meet in later life. Like our forefathers, the forty-niners of the Gold Rush. whose centennial we celebrate this year, we have new lands to conquer and new frontiers always appearing on our road to success. We must keep pushing back these frontiers until we come upon the calm, cool water of prosperity. as our ancestors extended boundaries ever westward until they came upon the blue. placid waters of the Pacific. We have the task of making world peace and harnessing atomic energy. These are the frontiers before us, and we. the Class of 1949, must conquer them like our forefathers of 1849, who overcame the obstacles of wind, dust, forests. heat and cold on their westward journey. RUTH POOLE JUNIORS' FAREWELL TO THE SENIORS The day has come and the world you face: We. the juniors, take your place As the proud. staunch seniors of Watervliet High. To departing seniors, we bid goodbye. You'll soon be part of 'Vliet's Hall of Fame: Youve struggled for greatness since the day you came. XVe'll lack your presence in our long, bright hall: Goodbye, dear seniors, We'll miss you all. The day you've awaited has now arriv:d-- The day you've worked for, studied and strived: And now when you're leaving with many a sigh, We wish you good luck, good health and goodbye. ROBERT N. NOLAN

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Editor-in -Chief Assistant Editor Business Managers Photography Editor l.iterary Editor ,. Feature Editor Art Editor Mrs. Mae K. Grady SPECTATOR STAFF Stephen Puzier Senior Roll Call Chairman. Ruth Poole Warren Scheldg Club and Class Editor . Ruth Smith This and That Editors- A Edward Hughes Doris Yaddow and Frances McGhie George Dent George Woofjin Sports Editors Carolyncftpcgrsgg - J SYlV13 Kfloffmg Typist Chairman Eleanor Scocca . William Adams Publicity Marion Deratzian . . William Butler Armando Parente FACULTY ADVISERS Miss Anna C. Fortanier Mrs. Dorothea Hudson ASSISTANTS First Row: Left to right: Armando Parente, George Woodin. Carolyn Anderson. Ruth Poole. Sylvia Knorring. George Dent, Warren Schelde. Stephen Puzier. Edward Hughes. Eleanor Scocea. Ruth Smith. Doris Yaddow, Frances McGhie, Bill Adams. Second Row: Frances DiNuzzo, Catherine Wing, Gloria Hebert, Greta Bennett. Marianne Espo- sito, Catherine Bak. Frances Polniak, Marjorie Talay, Eleanor Catricala. Arlene Belski. Theresa Viggiani, Helen Bielawa, Alice Kapela, LaVonne Flatt. Joyce Steiner, Mary Ciepcielinski. Gloria Ford. Joan Rancourt. Third Row: Jane MacDonald. Marilyn Hopson. John Moore. Philip Trimble. Carl Olson. Walter Krage. Nelson Vandenburgh, Arthur Normandin, Bill Butler. John Keevern, Warren Page, Frank Kowalskey, Carmen Oliviere, Frances Postulka, Jane Sheehy.

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,...-f- --:zui'!1-- WATERVLIET HIGH SCHOOL is for Watervliet, your school and mine: is for all that we have learned there: is for teachers. understanding and kind: is our elation, so well did we fare. is for roadway. ours soon we must choose stands for vacate. these halls soon We must is for learning. with that who can lose? means illusions of grandeur and lust. is for evident, the success of our days: is for truth. our by-Word always. is for happy, we have all been: is for inklings of history we'll make. means that gainful our stay has been: is for honorable. the pathway we'll take. stands for school. forget it we'll never: is for the classes we're leaving behind: is for highest, that our aims ever: means obliging. we're helpful and kind. is for obedient, that also are we: stands for laughter. so gay and carefree. Yes, Waterxfliet High, deep within each heart XVill leave its imprint ere we depart. -SYLVIA J. KNORRING