Watkins Glen High School - Senecan Oracle Yearbook (Watkins Glen, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 40 of the 1937 volume:

The 1937 ORACLE STAFF Editor-in-Chief - Barbara Forbes Associate Editor ... Frances Spaulding Ass’t Associate Editor Edwin Barkman Senior Reporter ... - Eleanor Gregory Junior Reporter ... Warda White Sophomore Reporter Rhoda Smith Freshman Reporter ... Peggy Leffingwell Art Editor .... Owen Cassidy Business Manager ... Ross Summerson Ass’t Business Manager - - Harry Fordham Faculty Adviser ... - Mr. Timms Published by SENIOR CLASS Watkins Qlen High School APPRECIATION One page of this book is not enough to express our feelings for one who for four years has given his time, energy, and devotion to the members of our class; however. though our words be limited, we sincerely hope that our actions give evidence of the love and appreciation which we have for our Class Adviser, MR. C. J. TIMMS. DEDICATION In honor of a long and faithful member of the Board of Education of Watkins Glen High School, who served as President of the Board from Jan. 1935 to Jan. 1937, we, the Class of 1937. hereby dedicate this volume of the Oracle” to MR. JOHN M. WALSH. Our Councilors of War FIRST ROW: Mr. Walsh. Miss Sgrccci. Miss Fordham. Miss Walsh. Miss Haughcy. Miss Pasck. Miss Francois. Mr. Davis. SF.COND ROW: Miss Turner. Mrs. Flunt. Miss Maloney. Mrs. Kiermaier. Mrs. Maxwell. Miss Stamp. Miss Morrin. Mrs. Allen. Miss Parker. THIRD ROW: Prof. Beers. Mr. DcPcw. Mr. Blake. Mr. Harkness. Mr. Timms. Mr. Munson. Miss Scobey. Miss Maley. Mr. Jolls, Mr. Perry. EDITORIAL By the resignation of Gordon F. Depew, this school loses not only an efficient teacher, but a sincere friend and ardent supporter of all high school activities. He did not restrict himself to school life alone, but took an active part in the life of the community and. in so doing, won the love and respect of the whole village. Eleven years have passed since he was first admitted to the faculty of Watkins Glen High School, each year making him more and more indispensable to the welfare of the school and the success of its students: however. Watkins Glen's loss is Dundee's gain. We are sure he will succeed in his new capacity, and rejoice in the knowledge that he has been awarded the merit which he so richly deserves. 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 NELLIE BEARD “Her wit invites you by her looks to come.'' LOUISE BROADBENT Homemaking Club 1. 2. 3. ' Intelligence and courtesy in her are combined.’’ RUTH CALLAHAN Homemaking Club 1. Her eyes are large and full of light.” GRACE CARPENTER Poster Club 4. “It may be said that her wit shines at the expense of her memory.” MARIAN CARPENTER Emersonian Literary Soc. 1. 2, 3. (Starkey): Tri-Science 4: Glee Club I. 2. 3. 4. Fair as a flower.” CHARLES BENJAMIN Work is for the worker!” FREDERICKA BROWN Orchestra 1. 2. 4: Glee Club 1. 2. 3, 4: Operetta 3. She has two eyes, so soft and brown — take care!” GEORGE CAMPBELL That smile, like sunshine dart into many a sunless heart.” MADGE CARPENTER Glee Club 3. I 'spect I growed. Don’t think nobody never made me.” MARJORIE CARPENTER Emersonian Literary Soc. (Star-key) : Glee Culb 1, 2, 3. 4: Tri-Science 4: Band 4; Orchestra 4. ”A flower as fair.” 6 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 ELAINE CARRIGAN “It’s safer being meek than fierce. TERESA COMPESE Homemaking Club 4. Her fair exterior is a silent recommendation. CHRISTINE DAVENPORT Glee Club 1. 2. 3. “Peace, peace is what I seek! JANET EVERTS Homemaking Club 2. 3, 4: Student Council 3; Senior Play. Her laugh's the undrown's music, of the maddest meadow-brook. JAMES FAZZARY Baseball 3, 4. “He's just been anticipatin' of the glad vacation time. MURIEL CHASE Hiking Club 1 ; Glee Club 1 ; Parent Teachers Play 1 : Tri-Science 4. “Of my merit — on thet pint you yourself may judge. ELLA CONKLIN Poster Club 3. “She has hair of golden hue.” EVELYN DAVIS “She is a form of life and light EDITH FAULKNER “The little lady’s dainty as the picture in this book. ROBERT FITCH Baseball 3, 4; Stamp Club 4; Operetta 3. “What does he wonder and what does he know? 7 19 3 7 1937 THEORACLE BARBARA FORBES Orchestra 2. 3. 4; Band 4: Sen. ior Play; Com. Soph. Hop: Student Council 4; Class Sec. 1. 3; Salutatorian. Board Cup 2; Ed.-in-Chief Year Book; Yr. Bk. Staff 3. “You'd scarce expect one of my age. to speak in public on the stage.” STELLA ERABONI Homemaking Club 3. “I need no assurances — I am a girl who is preoccupied of her own soul.” MARGARET GRACE Her smile is sweetened by her gravity. STEPHEN HART Senior Play. Who is this gentleman haughty in glance?” HELEN HILL Glee Club 3. 4; Basketball 4: Junior Play (Odessa). I laugh, for hope hath happy place with me. HARRY FORDHAM Ass t Football Mgr. 1.2: Football Mgr. 3; Class Ass t Bus. Mgr. 3, 4; Ass’t Bus. Mgr. Year Bk.: Head Monitor 4; Track 1. All manhood, excellence, and self-respect.” HILDA GRACE Homemaking Club 3. What self-possession looks out of her eyes! ELEANOR GREGORY Year Book Staff 4: Basketball 4: Thirteenth Grad. Honor. She is charged with untold and untenable wisdom.” GERALDINE HAVENS Glee Club 2. 3. 4; Student Council 2. Her brow makes light look sallow. WANDA HOLMES Glee Club 1. 2. 3. 4: Operetta 1. 2. 4: Tri-Science 3. 4: Sen ior Play; Monitor 3. 4; School Paper Staff: Softball 4. ’Tis hard to educate a frivolous girl.” 8 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 GEORGE HUEY Glee Club 2. 3. 4: Orchestra 2. 3. 4: Softball 2: Student Council 1. Look, here upon the picture and give the world assurance of a man. ROBERT READY Adclphian Lit. Soc. (Starkey) ; Baseball 4. Words are women, deeds arc men ' WILLIAM KNAPP Eootball 3; Pres. Student Council 4: Orchestra 1, 2 ; Third Grad. Honor. Divine hookas, glorious in a pipe.” JUSTINE LOVE Eootball 1, 2. 3. (Capt.) 4; Student Council 1 : Class Treas. 1 : Class Pres. 3. 4; Senior Play. Jimminy Whiskers! I begin to smell a rat!” HELEN MAINE Homcmaking Club 2: Glee Club 1. Lo there, with intellectual eye. In contemplation deep — JULIA JAYNES Glee Club 1.2: Poster Club 3 : Monitor 4: Senior Play. It is I. you women — I make my way. HELEN KNAPP Her step is firm, her eye is bright: Her accents clear and strong.” MARY KNOWLES Glee Club 1.2. She wears the rose of youth upon her. BETTY LYON Class Pres. 1 : Class Vice-Pres. 2: Glee Club 2: Eleventh Grad. Honor. I celebrate myself: I am satisfied—I see. dance, laugh, sing. JAMES MARAFIOTI Football 1. 2. 3: Baseball 1.2. 3: Student Council 3. He is the very pine-apple of politeness. 9 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 AGNES MARSHALL American Legion Dinner; Senior Play: Glee Club 4: Class Sec. 4: Student Council 4: Tri-Science Club 3. “The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.” WINIFRED MILLER “Being good is an awful lonesome job! LYNDON MOON “What I most prize in woman, is her affections, not her intellect!“ BERNICE NIEMIC “I have distanced what is behind me for good reasons.” CAROLYN NYE “I think whoever sees her must be happy, and whoever beholds her shall like her.” mildred McConnell Tri-Science 4; Student Council 2. 3. 4: Head Monitor 4; Ed-in-Chief School Paper: Softball 4: Fourth Grad. Honor. I have never seen a greater monster or miracle in the world than myself.” MARY MILLS “I exist as I am. that is enough; I sit content.” ROBERT NICHOLS Student Council 3: Senior Play: Sgt.-at-Arms 3; Glee Club 2. 3. 4; Band 4; Orchestra 3. 4: Class Trcas. 2. 3. 4: Valedictorian: Weller Medal 2. “There’s a boy with a three-decker brain.” TERESA NITCHE Basketball 3. 4: Homemaking Club 4; Softball 2. “She is calm, clear, and well-possessed of herself.” CLAYTON PORTER Tri-Siccncc 3; Cafeteria Monitor. “To perpetuate his great renown — There was a street named after him in town.” 10 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 MARY QUIRK Class Vice-Pres. 2. 3, 4; Chair-Junior Prom: Student Council 2: Treas. 3 and Vice-Pres. 4; Chairman Sophomore Hop: Tri Science 4: Election Day Dinner; Glee Club 4 ; Year Book Staff 2 : Sixth Grad. Honor. 'Earth’s noblest thing — a woman perfected.’’ I.UCILLE RARRICK Glee Club 1. 2. 3: Tri-Science. “Healthy, free, the world lies before her. THOMAS ROBINSON Stage Mgr. Senior Play. Affection is a coal that must be cooled.” JULIA RONDINARO Glee Club 1. 2. 3: Operetta 3: Seventh Grad. Honor. There is that in me — I do not know what it is. but I know it is in me.” HELEN SADLER Homemaking Club 1 : Student Council 2: Glee Club 2: Chairman Senior Hop. Who knows but I am enjoying this? — ” JACQUELINE RARRICK Basketball 2. 3: Softball 2: Student Council 1. The ripened joy of womenhood.” MAXINE RHYHART Basketball 2. 3, 4: Homemaking Club 1. 2. 3. 4: Softball 4. I ask hot good-fortune — I myself am good-fortune.” ELSIE ROE Homemaking Club 3. “A simple, compact, well-joined scheme — myself!” UBALDO SABATINO Baseball 1. 2. 3; Football 1. 2, 3. 4: Student Council 3; Monitor. It is enough for me. not to be doing, but to be.” PATSY SCHIMIZZI Football 3. 4; School Paper; Senior Play. Since I cannot prove a lover. I am determined to prove a villian.” 11 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 CLARA SCOTT ‘ Her hair is like the summer tresses of the trees. EMMA SEDAM Chairman Junior Prom: Glee Club 1. 2. 3. all at Starkey. “Women’s words are never bolder than their deeds. PAULINE SHERRER As lovely as a jewel of fire and dewdrop blent. ISABELLE SMITH Glee Club 1. 2. 3. I discover myself on the verge of a usual misrake — sleep. MARTHA SPEARS Little said is soon mended.” MARY SEARS Poster Club Trcs. 4: Orchestra 3; Senior Play: Chairman of Father Son Banquet 3. “I have immortal longings in me.” JUNE SHANNON Glee Club 4: Operetta 4; Senior Play: Fourteenth Grad. Honor. I do not doubt I am limitless— in vain 1 try to think how limitless. JAY SLATER Student Council 3: Ninth Grad. Honor. I never thrust my nose into other men’s porridge. FRANCES SPAULDING Glee Club 1. 2. 3. 4: Operetta 2. 3. 4: Year Book Staff 3. 4; Poster Club 4: Fifteenth Grad. Honor. The land of song within her lies. HERBERT STEFFEN Student Council 3; Glee Club 1. 2. 3: Senior Play: Young Farmer s Club 1. 2, 3. 4: Business Mgr. 3; Head Fire Drill Monitor 4. I'm growing old — I’m sixteen years. 12 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 MARCIA STOUT Basketball 2. 3. 4; Senior Play. “I sway. I bend, retreat, advance And evermore. I dance! I dance EVELYN TERWILLIGER 'I am but a giddy girl.'' JOHN THORP Young Farmer s Club 1. 2, 3. 4; Tenth Grad. Honor. Ho. pretty page with the dimpled chin, that never has known the barber's shear. ORIN USHER Young Farmer’s Club 1. 2. 3. 4 Sturdy as the heart of an oak. CARLTON WAGNER Tri-Sciencc Club 3. The great end of life is not knowledge, but action! ” ROSS SUMMERSON Delphian Literary Society 2. 3. (Starkey). A horse! a horse! My Kingdom for a horse! NAOMI THOMPSON Glee Club 2: Homemaking Club 4. A pure, extravagant, yearning, questioning artist's face. JOHN TOWNSEND Tri-Science Club 3. Not to know me is to neglect your education.” JAMES VICjLIONE Baseball 3. 4: Football 3. 4: Senior Play: Band 1: Class President 2. Sentimentally i am disposed to harmony, but organically I am incapable of a tune. CLARA WALTON Glee Club 1. 2. 3: Class Sec.: Sec. Adelphian Soc. (Starkey). As to me. 1 know of nothing else but miracles.” 13 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 DOROTHY WHITE Chairman Decorations Senior Ball; Sec. Homemaking Club 2. Vice-Pres. 3 and President 4: School Paper Staff; Fifth Grad. Honor. “A wise woman never loses anything, if she has herself.” HARRY WITTMAN I cannot move the world, but I will move the earth.” JEANNE WIXSON “Here’s to the maiden of bashful fifteen.” WALTER WHITEHEAD Young Farmer's Club 3. 4. ”1 say unto you that all my troubles have come from women!” JAMES WITTMAN Glee Club 2. 3: Young Farmer’s Club 2. 3. 4 (Pres. 4) ; Senior Play: Science Club 3. 4: Operetta 2: Twelfth Grad. Honor. “What appetite you have!” KENNETH WYGANT Student Council 4; Tri-science 4: Gen. Mgr. Senior Play; Eighth Grad. Honor. “My only books, were women's looks.” Dear “Doodler:” One bright, sunshiny day when the rain came down in torrents. I sat in deep contcmpltion (there is a dictionary on the window sill) . . . what to do with this space! Suddenly, what do you know! — (well, keep it under your hat. wise guy) — the fog in my brain gathered into a brain-storm ... I had it!4 (no. not lice) — I would make my contribution to society by giving the poor sucker, who can t read, a chance to get his money’s worth out of this book — SO-O-O-O. I hereby dedicate this bit of nothingness below, to the “Doodler ’ Yours for better ‘“Doodling,” THE EDITOR. P. S. Professional “Doodlers” have been declared ineligible by The Society for Prevention of Cruelty to “Doodlers.” 14 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 Junior Class FIRST ROW: E. Taylor, E. Perry. E. Thomas, F. Ellison. R. Rurolph. D. Desbrow, M. Houston, P. Brimmer. M. Denson, E. Fillipetti, D. Perry, M. Hathaway. C. Houck. J. Cassidy, H. Parks. J. Walsh. V. Brown. B. Fordham. M. Curry. P. Watkins. SECOND ROW: Mr. Perry. N. Blades. M. Green. M. Carmen. E. Waugh. R. Rappleye, L. Roberts. L. Simpson. M. Dunbar. H. Cornish, M. Stephno. P. Cherock, W. White. J. Hommel. M. I ichenor. V. VanWormer. THIRD ROW: B. Arcangeli, C. Smith. M. Usher. I. Voorhees. I,. Knowles, M. Evans. M. Hurlbut. Q. Moscon. M. Schimizzi. H. Wright. V. Inscho. M. Spears. A. Barber, D. Webber. J. Stevens. FOURTH ROW: O. Baker. J. Boorom. R. Brewer. M. Titus. D. Wilbur. M. Teed. H. Webster, W. Chadwick. D. Angelo. L. Freese. F. Gavin. S. Rundle. J. Withiam. J. Richardson. J. Ganung. D. Waite. F. Frost. E. Barkman. FIFTH ROW: J. Waite. B. Upson. R. Pierce. W. McCawley, R. Blanhcard. L. Soule. R. Ganung. A. Ely. R. Teemley. F. Skinner. R. Teed. T. Donnells. R. Slingerland. I.. Turner. M. Hoagland. D. Graham. E. Marshall. F. Townley. G. Andrews. E. Ready. J. Creighton. W. James. L. Dencenburg. C. Nichols. N. Beard. W. Tillman. At the beginning of the year the Junior Class was organized and the following officers elected: President — James Waite Vice-President — Leslie Turner Secretary — Marjorie Dunbar Treasurer — William Tillman Business Manager — William Bell Class Adviser — Mr. Perry Three of our class members were elected as officers to the Student Council: Janet Cassidy. Secretary: William Tillman. Sergeant-at-Arms: and Polly Watkins. Treasurer. We were successful in selling Christmas wreaths and pencils, and the Junior Prom was a social as well as a financial success. Our class has also been well represented in Basketball, Football and Baseball. We want to express our appreciation to Mr. Perry, our Class Advsier. who has greatly helped to make this class the success that it is. 15 19 3 7 THE ORACLE FRONT Row: E. Pollen. H. Vergona. S. VanVleet. P. Jackson. R. Slocum. F. Fassett. M. Beardsley. K. Speary. V. Smith. D. Best. C. Wagner. F. Mcllroy. K. Odell. I. Castle. L. Upson. SECOND ROW: C. Pierce. V. Barile. A. White. B. Draper. M. Hughey. P. Bianco. B. Hatfield. B. Lyon. D. Dickson. M. Haley. A. Considine. A. Cornish. E. Brimmer. G. Pulver. A. I emplar. M. Tillman. THIRD ROW: E. Green. E. Shepherd. E. Lizalek. J. Erway. D. Lovell. C. Richtmyer. H. Weiser. C. Brimmer. E. Celveland. R. Smith. K. Davis. J. Adams. J. Thurston. M. Robinson. L.. Crego. R. Husted. P. Knowles. N. Skellinger. E. Mathews. F. Scholtiseck. A. Beckwith. FOURTH ROW: R. Murphy. F. Robbins. M. Pierpolini. C. Neese. P. Fennell. R Huston. C. Erway. L. Richtmyer. J. Allen. A. Platt. O. Cassidy. J. Love. R. Smith. B. Wixson. FIFTH ROW: C. Marsh. E. Rice. G. Pierce. M. Donnells. M. Magura. S. Miller. R. Spencer. F. Palmer. M. Adesso. S. Timpani. N. LaPree. SIXTH ROW: R Kessler, J. Fanton. F. I.uppino, J. Peters. F. Biagetti, O. Woodward. E. Robinson. F. Sayles. M. Thomas. H. Nelson. D. Knapp. D. Spader. P. King. A. Personius. H. Yost. J. Sweet. The Sophomore Class of ’37 selected as their class officers the following: President — John Allen Vice-President — Charlena Richtmyer Secretary — Lauren Richtmyer Treasurer — Andrew Chicone Business Manager — Jack Love Ass’t Business Mgr. — Ann Considine Class Adviser — Miss Mary Walsh Sophomores have this year been outstanding in the field of sports, taking part in football, basketball and baseball. The Sophomore Hop. although an experiment, was held on the evening of November 13th by special permission and through the cooperation of fellow classmates and the support of the school as a whole, proved a financial success to the class. The members of our class have made an effort, as students of Watkins Glen High School, to uphold its standards and to set a high example for future Sophomores. 16 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 FIRST ROW: J. Eisenhart. A. Watkins, V. Morse. M .Berry. P. Lcndrum. R. Petrosilla. R. Schimizzi, A. Mariafioti, J. Teed. A. Buck. G. Filipetti. M. Bush, R. Richtmyer. G. Bailey. B. Wright. B. White. J. Stevens. SECOND ROW: A. Owens. A. Thompson. M. I.effingwell. R. Pastore. M. Havens. F. Millspaugh. E. Gilbert. M. Brooks. R. Hall. D. Bartone. V. Brown. G. Perry. 1. Green. J. Fillman. D. Austen. M. Knapp. N. Hommel. A. Sammick. K. Kotsones, Miss Sgrecci. 'T HIRD Row: R. Woodward. S. Werman. M Bell. W. Palmer. J. Barrett. E. Elder. Cunningham. R. Terryberry. M. Clawson. R. Woodcock. O. Decenburg. C. Green. J. Hathaway. D. Stevens. G. Bell. N. Moon. J. Teemley. R. White. FOURTH ROW: G. Pike. M. Burrell. FI. Osterhoudt. M. Miller. M. Quirk. M. Tobey. G. Hinson. I . Radka. R. Roberts. F. Rhynhart. D. Green. D. VanVleet. H. Carpenter. A. Bixby. A. Berardine. J. Pangallo. G. Rose. R. Brate. C. Baker. FIFTH. ROW: D. Kcrno, E. Wolvcrton. D. Smith. J. Draus. J. VanWormer. G. Sherrer. Ci. Conklin. H. Waite. J. Stenberg. W. Vaughn. W. Rice. R. James. J. Meyers. D. Beard. M. Bond. H. Eggersdorf. M. Speary. F. Fazzary. E. Porter. SIXTH ROW: E. Kerno. G. Allen. S. Johnson. Ci. Scaptura. E. Patterson. J. Herrick. H. Cassidy. L. VanCisc. C. Jackson. R. Hinson. D. Merrick. J. Waite. W. Kelly. D. Hughey. R. Malony. H. Murray, J. Smith. H. Soule. D. Baldoni. H. Cross. C. Inscho. D. Drake. E. Knowles. The Freshman Class of 1937 was very late in organizing. Finally, however. in the latter part of October the class, under the supervision of Mr. Beers, elected the following officers: President — John Waite Vice-President — Andy Watkins Secretary — Robert James Treasurer — Helen Carpenter Business Manager — John Stenberg Class Adviser — Miss Sgrecci It was decided that we would have no dues, since each individual member should save through their school bank account. Some of the members of the class made and sold candy at one of the card parties held in the cafeteria. 17 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 EIGHTH GRADE FIRST ROW: I.anphear. Belligotti. T. Smith. Muratori. Tounley. B. Nitchc. Owens. Kicr- maier. Howell. Fordham. Fanton. SECOND ROW :S. Nitche. Millen. Sebring. Odell. Bell. McCawley. Palmer. Wagner. VanAmburg. Freudenheim. Bianco. W. Carey. THIRD ROW: Shulman. Weed. Jennings. Arcangeli. Timms, A. Carey. Haughey. Valeant. DcDominick. Wager. Harry. Baird. Jackson. Tillman. FOURTH ROW: Simiele. Biogetti. Patterson. Pulos. Lunger. Giles. Spena. Holmes. L. Smith. P. Smith. Peters. Andrews. Pierpoline. FIFTH ROW: Barile. Clawson. Richardson. Stout. Marcellino. Lawton. J. DeDominick. Woodward. Butterazzi. Wigsten. W. Smith. Tomassi. Coolican. DelRosso. SEVENTH GRADE FIRST ROW: Murphy. Robinson. Hougland. Merrick. Fraboni. Fordham. Augustine. Drake. Teemley, Vergona. Roberts. SECOND ROW: P. Schimizzi. Haramis. Barile. Shires. Magar. Fazzary. Stephno. Bartone. Hovey. Gardner. Baker. Walsh. THIRD ROW: Dunbar. Pepe. Doyle. Grant. Butterazzi. Eisenhart. Quirk. Tobey. Frank. Macri. Wigsten. F. Chicone. S. Chicone. Harris. Bahner. Mcllroy. Heach. DelRosso. Switzer. Kent. R. Smith. Rondinaro. Carey. FOURTH ROW: Ciccone. D. Schimizzi. Chase. Vincent. S. Schimizzi. J. Beardsley. B. Beardsley. Lendrum. Andrews. Scaptura. 18 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 Girls’ Basketball FIRST ROW: M. Schimizzi. Parks. T. Nit.he. Rhynhart, Stout. Haley. Jackson. SECOND ROW: Barrone. Petrosilla. Gregory. R. Schimizzi. Barile, Tillman. Curry. Walsh. Boys’ Basketball FIRST ROW: Adesso. K. Smith, Montjoy. Carpenter. Kessler. Tillman. SECOND ROW: Coach Blake. Turner. Knapp. Beard. Walsh. Angelo. Chiconc. 20 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 GIRLS- BASKETBALL The girls who like basketball immediately answered the summons for practice which came in early December. Many girls appeared and enthusiastically rounded up a good big squad. In spite of all the hard luck and tough breaks they received, the team played two very interesting and exciting games: one with Cook on the home court, and the other with the Ithaca College Freshmen at Ithaca. All through the Cook game, there was a tie which just seemed to grow higher as the game went on and remained a tie when the final whistle blew. Three over-time periods were played before the fatal basket was made by Cook, making the score 33-31. When the girls went to Ithaca, it was their final game, so they had a banquet after the game. During that game, our girls held their own until the very end,when the score was 36-33. in Ithaca’s favor. Josephine Walsh was elected manager, and Maxine Rhynhart, Captain, both of whom came to practice loyally and carried out their tasks with cheerful eagerness. Girls who will receive letters are: Forwards — Maxine Rhynhart. 3 yrs.: Hebe Parks, 1 yr.: Margaret Haley. 1 yr. Guards — Teresa Nitche. 2 yrs.: Minnie Schimizzi, 2 yrs.; Pauline Jackson lyr. Manager — Josephine Walsh. BOYS- BASKETBALL The boys' basketball team, with John Carpenter as Captain, and Andrew (Chick) Chicone as Manager, enjoyed a successful and exciting season, the games being well attended and heartily supported. SCHEDULE: WGHS Opponents Cook Academy (here) 22 15 Elmira Business Institute (here) 20 28 Alumni (here) 20 18 Montour Falls (there) 19 27 Elmira Business Institute (there) 18 24 Owego (here) 11 33 Elmira Heights (there) 12 14 Horseheads (here) 19 24 Cook (there) 24 33 Newark Valley (there) 41 12 Montour Falls (here) 30 12 Owego (there) 26 28 Elmira Heights (here) 28 18 Newark Valley (here) 25 22 Horseheads (there) 23 15 Moravia (there) 30 31 21 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 Football IN FRONT: P. Wigsten (mascot'). FIRST ROW: Viglione. Chicone. Paradiso. Justin Love, Carpenter. Angelo. Jack love. SECOND ROW: Coach Blake. Knapp. Walsh. LaPree. Sabatino. R. Smith. Donnells, Fordham. THIRD ROW: Weed. Wait. Scaptura, Spencer, Bell. Turner. Student Council FIRST ROW: Barile. Agnes Marshall. Forbes. J. Cassidy. Kotsones. Adair Marshall. Paradiso. SECOND ROW: Pulos. Murphy. P. Watkins. McConnell. Quirk. A. Watkins. Brimmer, Green. Dunbar. Harris. THIRD ROW: Ganung. H. Cassidy. Kessler. Titus. Knapp. Wygant, Tillman, Richtmyer, VonReyn. O. Cassidy. 22 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 FOOTBALL The Watkins Glen High School's football squad this year numbered about 25 prospects. The team got off to a good start, but then lost three tough games in a row and was swamped for the remainder of the season. SCHEDULE: WGHS Opponents Spencer 6 0 Penn Yan 19 0 Ovid 0 13 Elmira Heights 0 7 Horseheads 6 7 Painted Post 0 40 Cornell (150 lb.) 0 33 Owego 0 33 STUDENT COUNCIL Since the inauguration of the Student Council in 1929. it has steadily increased in its efficiency and in its cooperation with the students of this school. This student governing body is composed of one representative from each room of the Junior and Senior High School, with three representatives from the Senior study hall. The following very competent officers were elected for this year: President — William Knapp Vice-President — Mary Quirk Secretary — Janet Cassidy Treasurer — Polly Watkins Sergeant-at-Arms — William Tillman The Council works in connection with especially appointed Monitors, who keep order in the halls, cases of violation being brought before the Council and given fair trial. The usual penalty for conviction of a misdemeanor is three demerits, and should a student receive a total of ten demerits, he is suspended from school for one week. Under the new system of awarding service points to students participating in extra curricular activities, service pins are awarded annually to Seniors earning a certain number of service points, and the Student Council buys these pins. This year a series of very interesting Assembly programs was presented to cover this cost, thus proving delightfully beneficial to the whole school as well as to the Seniors who will receive the Service Pins. 23 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 FIRST ROW: Rondinaro. Jackson. R. Smith. Doyle. Schimizzi. Patterson. Whiting. Quirk. Dunbar. DelRosso. SECOND ROW: Fennell. Palmer. Houston. Miller. Mr. Schucllcr, Allen. Spader. P. Smith. J. Forbes. Lawton. THIRD ROW: Herrick. Cassidy. Nichols. R. James. Lunger. Woodward. B. Forbes. White. Carpenter. Orr. C. Ritchmyer. FOURTH ROW: L. Ritchmyer. W. James. Bosley, King. Huey. Slingerland. Edkin. Murphy. Turner. Egan. L. Smith. Robinson. W. G. H. S. Orchestra FIRS I ROW: Carpenter. W. White, Hall. Dunbar. Miss Coon. Forbes. R. White. Walsh. Brown. SECOND ROW: R. James. Edkin. Richtmyer. Slingerland. Huey. Nichols. Egan. W. James. Schimizzi. L. Smith. 24 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 1 9 3,7 Homemaking Club FIRST ROW: Bush. Vorhees, Perry. Rhynhart. Everts. White. Tervvilliger. SECOND ROW: Rappleye. Monroe. Barile. Chcrock, Fraboni, Brooks, Taylor. Cornish. Thompson. Hughey. THIRD ROW: Miss Turner, Green. Stephno, Gilbert. Hurlbut. Cleveland. Terryberry. Miller. Simpson. Elder. Young Farmer’s Club FIRST ROW: R. Ganung. Skinner, Tounley, Templar. Fennell. Mr. Harkncss. Wilbur. Rhynhart. H. Wittman. A. Hggersdorf. Phelps, Draus. SECOND ROW: F. Eggersdorf, R. Huston. Whitehead. Usher. J. Ganung. R. Feed. Dencenburg. D. Huston. Platt. VanWormer. Allen. Hess. THIRD ROW: Fulkerson. Thorp. M. Teed. Soule. Boorom. Palmer, Creighton. Steffen. J. Wittman. Webster. Myers. 25 1937 THEORACLE 1937 Glee Club FIRST ROW: Shannon. Thurston. Brown. Spaulding. Best. Holmes. Miss Coon (director). Davis, R. Smith. Wagner. Havens. Johnson. SECOND ROW: VanWormer. Dunbar. Fassett. Parks. Quirk. P. Knowles. I.. Knowles. Beardsley. Carpenter. Mcllroy. Skellinger. Pollen. Houston. THIRD ROW: Cross. Skinner. Nichols. H. Smith. Woodward. Richtmyer, Slingerland. Titus. Huey, Wait. Barkman. Patterson. Malony. Oracle Staff FIRST ROW: Warda White. Frances Spaulding. Barbara Forbes. Rhoda Smith. SECOND ROW: Owen Cassidy. Edwin Barkman. Ross Summerson. Harry Fordham. (Eleanor Gregory and Peggy Feffingwell were absent when this picture was taken.) 26 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 Senior Play FIRST ROW: Forbes. Holmes. Marshall, Jaynes. Shannon. Quirk. Sears. SECOND ROW: Nichols. Love. Hart, White. Mr. Timms. Everts. Steffen. Schmizzi, Wittman. “Life Begins at Sixteen The cast of characters, you probably know, But if you do not, then here we go: Bob Nichols was George, in love with Marjorie, Whom Mary Quirk played with plenty of energy : In spite of Bud Love, her kid brother, Paul. Who “jimminy whiskered” and lectured them all; With the possible exception of Frankie, his twin, Who. being Agnes Marshall, never allowed him to win. Barbara Forbes as Snookie. was youngest of clan. Who liked to pretend she was “Dangerous Dan:” But, to her mother. June Shannon, and her father. Steve Hart. And the villainous Crandal. Pat Schimizzi's part, Down to Hilda, the maid. Marcia Stout played that — She was merely a very spoiled, nine-year-old brat. The famed “Secret Seven” of which Paul was the head. And of whom the other six members were fed. Consisted of Theo, Herb Steffen, and Pigdie. M. Sears. With James Wittman as Fattie. always stuffed to the ears: Wanda Holmes as Boots, and J. Jaynes as Daisie. Together with Frannie. were the members — all crazy. Janet Everts was dramatic as Elsie Taggart. Though to Crandal she merely upset the applecart. That our play was successful, we know to be true, But if we give credit where credit is due. Then Miss Fordham will surely be first in our praise, So to her. ever faithful, may our voices we raise: (Of course we don’t mean to slight Mr. Timms. So to him. we will sing most reverent hymns.) Good-bye to our friends, we hope you've all seen. That good Senior Play, “Life Begins at Sixteen.” 27 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 Honorable Mention Last year came the inauguration of a system of Service Committees consisting of high school students who receive service points for their various activities, and included in this new system are service pins awarded annually to those students earning a certain number of points. The pins are usually awarded to Seniors, but if an underclassman is able to earn the required number of points before his senior year, he receives his pin. The following have earned Service Pins this year: Julia Jaynes Frances Spaulding Marian Carpenter Marjorie Carpenter Helen Sadler Mary Quirk Herbert Steffen Ross Summerson Robert Nichols Mildred McConnell Barbara Forbes Justin Love Wanda Holmes Agnes Marshall Kenneth Wygant Those who will receive Regents Diplomas at graduation exercises this June are as follows: (The first five in the list will receive College Entrance Diplomas.) Lillian Bailey Dorothy Baker Elmo Fordham Linwood Millcn Neal Stamp Adelbert Beard Blanche Brown Frank Henderson Dorothy James Elizabeth Lawton Glen Mason Eunice Mills Lena Rondinaro Cornelia Sackett Ruth Slater Delores Smith Hollen Smith Laura Smith Carolyn Steffen William Teed 28 A HUMOR 19 3 7 THE ORACLE 19 3 7 Senior Prognostications 50c Please Beard — To take life as it’s dished out. Benjamin — Build asylums for English teachers. Broadbent — Abolish Oral Topics. Brown — Grow taller. Callahan — Attend night school all day. Campbell — To be smiling. Carpenter. G. — To be an Art teacher. Carpenter, Madge — Take life easy. Carpenter. Marian — Make a return trip to Washington. Carpenter. Marjorie — Accompany Muriel Chase. Carrigan — Play diddle-dc-winks with man-hole covers. Chase — Make tracks for Newark, N. Y. Compese — Run a trolley line to Montour Falls. Conklin — Be a stenographer. Davenport — To Chase’’ rainbows. Davis — To be a fat woman in a circus. Everts — Find my lost heart (Hart). Faulkner — To get that silver cup. Fazzary — Second Bennie Goodman. Fitch — Be a Beer-Baron. Forbes — Learn to stand on my head. Fordham — To practice what I preach. Fraboni — Private Secretary to Robert Taylor. Grace. Hilda — To fly. Grace. Margaret — To be kind to dumb animals. Gregory — Be a dietician. Hart — A real papa. Havens -— Play a duet with Paderewski. Holmes — Be an airplane hostess. Huey — To be President. Hill To be a second Wally Simpson. Jaynes — To be a man-hater. Keady — Manufacture paint-remover. Knapp. Helen — Be a Radio Announcer. Knapp. Bill — To be a Billionaire. Knowles — I o get a man before Wixson does. Love — To take over Patsy Schimizzi’s Scandal Column for one edition. Lyon — To dance with Fred Astaire. Maine — To be Ass’t Engineer on the Northland. Marafioti — Be a Barker at a flea-circus. Marshall — To reduce. McConnell — To find a way to make Nelson Eddy stop bothering me. Miller — Be a dog-catcher. Mills — Get my walking papers. Moon — To get a date with A. M. Nichols — To be THE Doctor. Nitche — To have Cheese every day. Nye — Learn to ride a motorcycle. Porter — Sec more of the Great White Way. Quirk — To marry a doctor. Rarrick. J. — To be a sextuplet. Rarrick, L. — To marry a millionaire. Rhynhart — To be a missionary. Robinson — To stop blushing. Roe — Be a typist. Rondinaro — To sing on the NBC network. Sabatino — To be the power behind the throne. Sadler — To be a home-loving wife. Schimizzi — To roll the ends up on my spaghetti. Scott — To be understudy for Mickey Mouse. Sears — To be a sailor. Sedam — To win an argument with Walt Whitehead. Shannon — To be son kissed. Sherrer — Direct a girl’s dance band. Slater — Be a bird. Smith — To go to France. Spaulding — Anything but a school teacher. Spears — To be a nurse. Steffen — Be a buidling contractor. Stout — To dance with Bill Robinson. Summerson — Raise horses for Quirk. Terwilliger — Be a city-slicker. 1 hompson — To be a pedagogue. Thorp — To be a rancher. Townsend — Draw road maps. Usher — To raise cane (cain). Viglione — To have a June wedding. Wagner — Go after greens.” Walton — Pave private streets for night-walkers. White — Play opposite James Stewart. Whitehead — Won’t commit myself. Wittman. J. — Get enough to eat. Wixson — Be a bachelor - girl. Wygant — Summerson’s assistant. 32