Wayland Central School - Hi Lites Yearbook (Wayland, NY)

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TALES FROM THE DEEP September l943 found us enterung the school doors for the fnrst tume Many a tear was shed that day as mother left us wuth our teacher and slowly walked away The tears soon turned to smules and before we were aware of ut school was the most umportant part of our lufe The grade years slupped swuftly by Ieavung only dum memorues of new experuences and happy tumes Seventh grade laud the foundatuon for our class as the students of the Wayland school were jouned by the students from the Sprungwater and Atlanta schools For the furst tume we moved from class to class some of us of course got lost un the shuffle Other new experuences lto face usl un cluded classes un art musuc and physucal educa tuon freedom of a fully equupped lubrary and the opportunuty to partucupate un extra currucular ac tuvutues By the tume we reached eughth grade we were fully adjusted and prepared to make lufe muserable for the seventh graders as they faced our old problems before us After a great amount of anxuety we passed that hurdle graders Our class was completed as the freshman year began when we were jouned by students from both St Josephs and Sacred Heart schools Our furst class offucers were Don Lee Hober Presudent Helen Klune Vuce Presudent and Rose Ann Tonk Regent examunatuons loomed and at last we were nunth the year was that December mornung just pruor to Chrustmas vacatuon when we packed up our books and papers left the old school buuldung and entered our beautuful new buuldung for the furst tume Our unutual money rausung project was the sellung of beanues wuth profuts set asude for that senuor trup stull so far away We wull always remember strugglung over our furst two major composutuons an autobuography and a career study Even now we accepted responsubulutues Jean Tweddell helped Muss Muller by takung charge of the grade school lubrary whule others assusted un the hall patrol system The sophomore year saw us feelung very um portant as we emerged from the junuor hugh level only to become the lowest and most unsugnufucant of the hugh school students A revoltung development we thought' Hober and Tonkery were re elected as presudent and treasurer and we chose Jane Drum as vuce presudent and John Landuno as sec retary Our chouces of studues untroduced us to geometry Latun buology or busuness and kept u more than occupued Januce Clayson took ou u the grade school lubrary un place of Jean and the boys began to make theur mark un sports although stull over shadowed by the upperclassmen The electuon of offucers un the junuor year saw both Hober and Tonkery elected for the thurd con secutuve year Lawrence Perkuns and Jane Drum completed the slate as our vuce presudent and sec retary respectuvely lt was undeed a busy year Tom Grubb eduted our school paper The Vouce of the Eagle whuch appeared monthly After mud year we took over the school book store plac ung John Loveland Don Mattoon and Gary Struck un charge Sale of uce cream un the cafeterua was under the durectuon of Januce Clayson The Junuor Prom saw Tom Grubb as our chaurman and the theme developed was Over the Raunbow The zealous crowd danced to Len Hawley s musuc and wutnessed the crownung of Joyce Belanger and Lawrence Perkuns as the kung and queen The staff for the 56 Hu Lutes was chosen wuth Joyce as edutor un chuef and Francus Johnston un charge of the art work At the closung of the year our class was honored by the electuon of Beverly Stannaruus Joyce Belanger and Thomas Grubb to the Natuonal Honor Socuety Throughout thus year sports featured junuor boys as Lawrence Perkuns set a scorung record un the soccer season Jerry Kuel led the scores un basketball and Kuel and Jack Reugel sperger toed the mound for the baseball nune The enture class was saddened by the sudden and un tumely loss of Velma Mack Her spurut and cheer fulness wull long luve un our memorues The enture staff of offucers was re elected for the senuor year Thus Don Lee Hober and Rose Ann Tonkery had a rare dustunctuon of beung of fucers for the class the enture four years We set a goal of S3200 for our magazune druve and Joyce Belanger Beverly Stannaruus and Helen Klune led us to an all tume hugh sales of S3400 The Chrust mas Ball wuth Faye Gowen as general chaurman and Fran Johnston agaun un charge of decoratuons was another bug success Helen Klune and Barry Fusher were elected as kung and queen by the class Lawrence Perkuns and Tom Oas were co captauns of our champuon soccer squad and Tom also was named co captaun of the basketball team Other awards to class members uncluded the D A R Good Cutuzenshup award presented to Joyce Be langer and selectuon of Tom Grubb as accompanust to the All State chour Tom further represented the class un the county oratorucal contest,wunnung thurd place At the end of January the book store and uce cream sales were turned over to the junuor class Now we devote all our attentuon to our studues un preparung for the regents and graduatuon St ll ahead of us are the annual class day and the senuor trup to New York However as we thunk over the bygone years we say and wull contunue to say for years to come Those were the happy years I I - . 1 l ' 1 I I ' , . . 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B' if MARGUERITE VON HAGEN ALMA JEAN WALKER CAROL WEIN HART SUZANNE KEENAN Q, 2 1-' f f al The rectitude ond patience ofthe cliffg The good will of the rain thot loves oil leovesg The courage of the bird who dcres the seog These ore the gifts I wish for thee.

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