Whitney Point High School - Maroon and Gold Yearbook (Whitney Point, NY)

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Retirees Evelyn Storrs lg Helen Wlghf G90I'ge Wilcox Bernice Wilcox Four fine people who have been familiar faces at Whitney Point Central School bowed out during the past year. Mr. George Wilcox retired in June 1967 after 26 years as Vocational Agriculture teacher at WPCS, with prior experience of 8 years at Greene and 3 at South Ot- selic. Mr. Wilcox taught 2 classes of Junior High Shop last year to fill in during the emergency, until a full time shop teacher was hired. Mrs. Bernice Wilcox completed 33 years as fifth grade WPCS teacher in June 1968 Before centralization she had taught one year at Canestota, four in district schools and three in the old Whitney Point Academy. Mrs. Evelyn Storrs left in November 1968, after serving as secretary to the Supervising Principal or Guidance secre- tary since 1952. Mrs. Helen Wight was librarian at Whit- ney Point Central School from 1956 to 1968. A 5

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Mr. Leslie Strong President W 1 Mr. Francis Kennedy Mr. Charles Pratt Donald Edmister Clerk Board of' Education gf' Francis Mullins Supervising Prin. The school year 1968-69 saw the cost of education rise to a new high as the pub- lic's enthusiasm to pay reached a new low. For many administrators it became a year to forget rather than a year to remember as they dealt with priority and evaluation, racial imbalance, negotia- tions and teacher militancy, world-wide student activism, relocation caused by urban renewal, consolidation, identifi- cation of the gifted disadvantaged, talk of a longer school year and the formal education of three and four year olds. In review, we count among our blessings our School Board, teachers, pupils and a concerned public, as we realize many of the controversial problems have not yet become our own. The first duty of government still re- mains the encouragement of education and the duty of financing is a must for the federal, state and local governments. The basic commitment should be to accept the challenge with an all out team ef- fort. We have watched the Class of 1969 pro- gress toward emotional stability and ma- turity during some trying years. For them, their senior year should be a year to remember with much happiness and much thankfulness . We all join in wishing them every suc- cess in their continuing education. Francis Mullins Supervising Principal 1 4 Mr. Hiram Goodrich BOARD OF EDUCATION District Superintendent 4 Mr. Fred J.R. Croft Mr. Gordon Glezen James Williams Clerk Marie Bird Central District Treasurer Meeting on the second Monday of the month, board members decide policy, dis- cuss the problems and business of pro- viding education for the WPCS district.

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OSMER J. BROOKS 1968-69 was a HYear to Rememberu to me because it was the completion of 35 ' years of a good life, C33 at Whitney Point Centralb in the teaching profes- sion. During that time I have made many friends, and also a few enemies, but the pleasure of working with young people . has been rewarding and if I were able to Osmer Brooks choose a future at this time I am sure ViC9 PFinCiPa1 that I would make the same choice of a ' profession. School 14' Ruth Moyer Iva Colgan Virginia Hill Betty Driscoll BUS DRIVERS-1969 TOP ROW: Kenneth McGrath, James Williams, Frank Ingraham, Gordon Hoag, Elwyn Eaton, Sr., Ivan Moscrip, Rebecca Tate, Gladys Bailey, Walter Bailey, Earl J. Stout, Dymitr Czebiniak, Asst. Mechanic, Gordon Oliver, Oscar R. Farr, Bus Superintendent, Robert Theleman, Marvin Aylesworth, Richard Slater. SECOND ROW: Francis Kloda, Leslie Smith, Irving Coleman, Les- ter Ketchum, Carl Short,James Knowlden, Edward Driscoll, Neil Franklin, Ivan Franklin, Al- bert Ticknor, Grover Keibel, Fred Harris, Clarence Harris. NOT IN PICTURE! Vern Sturde- vant, Kenneth C. Knowlden. 6