Westfield High School - Prospectus Yearbook (Westfield, NY)

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CLASS OF In September of the year 1943 a large group of Freshmen made their debut in Westfield’s Senior High School. Naturally this first appearance held all of the thrdls and suppressed excitement usually felt by the new class. It seemed like a major triumph for each of us and we could not help feeling important as we turned our backs on Junior High School and looked ahead toward new and bigger things. The first few days passed by in a wild confusion of program arrangements, new books, fees for this and that, and the various other exciting preparations for the school year. Gradually however, we settled down to the general routine and were slowly absorbed into the various activities offered by our school. Our days were full and our programs varied. In November we elected officers by ballot. For president we chose Vincent Trlppy to lead us through our first year in high school. William Kincaid was elected Vice-President. Lyman Watson found himself in charge of our funds and Martha Spencer was given the task of recording the history of our Freshman year. With the help of our advisors, Mrs. MacCutcheon and Mr. Eaton, our class was organized and became a working example of co-operation and class loyalty. The musical organizations of our school provided anopportunlty for extra-curricular activities and many classmates not already band or orchestra members soon found places in those organizations. The Freshman class also contributed a generous group to the Boys’ and Girls’ choruses and to the mixed chorus. As the school sports program developed some of our boys and girls joined basketball teams. The boys have already established a good record on the school teams and the Freshman Girls’Team is working to improve its standing. A large group of Freshman girls have also joined a bowling team. Several of our classmates may also be found assisting in the school library. Their work, while it helps the school, also gives them access to the library’s facilities. Three of our classmates serve the school in the capacity of cheerleaders. Besides school and class loyalty we regularly practice loyalty to our country by the purchase of War Stamps and Bonds. Mrs. MacCutcheon’s room has had 100% stamp sales several times and we hope to continue that record. During this school year a large sum of money has been turned in from these purchases and we are proud of our patriotic enterprise. One of our first activities was our Freshman Assembly Program. The English I classes, with the co-operation of other departments in the school, presented an assembly program for the Junior and Senior High School. The program began with devotions. Then it took the form of a radio program. A “Woman’s Hour of Inspiration,” consisting of a most entertaining monologue and poems about Lincoln and Washington, was broadcast over Westfield’s own Station WHS, operating on 1947 kilocycles. A radio play, “The State Versus Joe Miller,” was then presented. The appropriate sound effects and well-read parts made it an exciting presentation. After the radio program Abraham Lincoln walked through the darkened auditorium in search of his little friend, Grace Bedell. A flute solo, “Serenade,” by Eranz Shubert, was next on the program. Last but certainly not least was the adapted version of a Thornton Wilder play. The Frosh Playhouse did a fine job and our imaginations went to work as we followed the Kirby family from Westfield’s “west side” to Dunkirk. Our vote of thanks goes to Mrs. Trump who spent a great deal of time and effort on the program. The class spent a busy week-end, for o n Monday evening after the assembly program, the class sponsored a Leap Year Dance. We were delighted with the success of our party. A large crowd gathered for round and square dancing. The room was gay with crepe paper decorations. Being a Leap Year party the girls were on the job and there wasn’t a dull moment. Again the class members co-operated to make a good time for everyone. The Freshman Class looks forward to three years of study and recreation. We hope to live up to the good example set by the classes before us so that when we graduate in 1947 our school may be proud of us. 30

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FORTY-SIX Eleanor Decker, Robert JFatson, Patricia Jaynes, James Eggert, Judith Pentz, Richard MeEvoy, Marianne Bixby, Marc IVaite, Phyllis LaPorte, Robert Brown, Grace Beck. Lorraine DuChaine, James Ilage, Eleanor Kurgan, Jean Allen, Ruth Schuette, Ralph Myers, Charles Grim, Margaret Jackson, Robert Neill, Roberta Gundlach. Mrs. Trump, Advisor Clarence Saxton, Dale Bowen, Theodore Barlowe, James Gervaise, Richard Dalrymple, Arthur Kester, John Clement, James La Porte, Peter Baideme, George Orlando, Anthony Marsala, Ileyiry Canale. Eugene Breads, Carmela LoPreste, Edna Farnham, Arthur Nusom, Alice Bush, John Ossman, Doris Bird, Leo iard Balsano, Alice Miller, John Bowen, Betty Killbury, Herbert Dedrick. Norman IVheeler, Caroline Syracuse, Edith IVilcox, Margaret Krash, Eleanor Karash, Marcella Fickle, Mariette Engelhardt, Sarah Light, Lynette Milligen, Duane Sherman. Mr. Brooker, Advisor 29

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FORTY-SEVEN Richard Mathews, Thomas Hopson, Richard Morgenstern, Melvin Perdue, Donald Oakes, Joseph Guido, Louis Loveless, Richard Simpson, If ' illiam I’ere, Slandley Kaiser. Mary Salamone, Betty Jackson, Dorothy Nash, Ethel Rexford, Elsie Johnston, Nancy Bentley, Dorothy .Inn Rexford, Sylvia Holbrook, Shirley McGarrell, Jane Reynolds, Ruth Pinter, Betty Jane Holcomb. Patricia Minton, Pauline Bennett, Jo .Inn Anderson, IKilliam Kincaid, I ' incent Trippy, Lyman IFatson, Martha Spencer, Anne Rosel, Barbara Tucker. Mrs. MacCutchF ' On, .Idvisor Richard Meyers, Henry Rohman, Max Haskins, Donald JValker, Joseph Cogliano, IKilliam Ireland, Bernard JKinch, James Hall, IKilliam McMahon, James Monroe. Charlotte DuChaine, Mildred Nusom, Gloria Syracuse, Frances Balsano, Philip Edson, IKayne Schimel, Robert Cornell, Alfred JKalker, Florence Noble, Joan Granzanti, Frances LaPorte, Frances Riscili. Mary Dawley, Dorothy Keopka, Gladys Bird, Olga Baran, Marion Crist, Marilyn Smith, .Inn Cunningham, .Ilice Nichols, Louise Rasey, Gloria Eggert. Mr. Eaton, .Idvisor 31