Willsboro Central High School - Gilliland Yearbook (Willsboro, NY)

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CLASS POEM Many a happy hour we've spent And carefree one as well. In Willsboro High where first we met. Where now we bid farewell-To childhood games and fancies. To childhood cares and joys; For we are men and women now No longer girls and boys. The span of years has broadened Since that day in '41, When we, as gallant Freshman brave. Our highschool days begun. And then as Sophs and Juniors, With our dances, play and prom. The years sped by until at last-We were Seniors, everyone. For twelve long years we've studied. Striving wisdom's way to seek. That knowledge that we sought is ours. We swept aside defeat.------- It was a long hard climb--that hill. We stumbled on the way. But then were up and on again— We've reached the top, today MaryLou Keeler

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Honululu, Hawaii June, 1955 Dear Ginny, ’.Vo:re here at last in Honululu. Re-enter how you used to laugh at our wild dream? After receiving my doctor s degree, Ihave been put in oharge of the now hospital here end Dorothy Peck is now superintendent of nurses, Ovr trip hero urns quite interesting and we saw many of our old class-r-v:j »3 Harold Curran saw us off at the Willsboro airport. Ho is a ground c.' '’■! '••hanio there now. Our pilot, Frod Van Oman, tipped tho wings of tho . -i: as v.o flow over John Carver s large dairy farm in eastorn New York, He wv ' d to us from bolow, where ho was doing his spring plowing with his helie optor, TJhon wo changod pianos in Chicago, wo saw Mario Doyle who is now head of tho ontertainmont oontor at tho airport, Sho doesn’t soon to chongo a bit, Mary Hutchins was entertaining servicemen with her Brooklyn Cowgirls , Romombor when wo were in high school, Vernon Hoskins was always talking about his own farm? Well, ho has a boautiful horse ranch in Coder Rapids, Iowa, Ho and Jimmie Bowen woro always togothor but Vernon told us Jim was now piloting the steamer that would tako us to Hawaii from San Francisco, Our next stop was Cheyorno, fyoning, and there in one of the grade ' schools was Thetis Toro teaching first grade, Sho never did like high school but sho says she gets along nicoly with somoono she can moke mind and bat around once in a while. She told us she recently received a lotter from Mary ’Thito and that she is now Mrs. Carlos Folt and owns a boautiful home in Jacksonville, Florida, Our next end lest stop wrs Oakland, California, where we saw Joyce Young. Joyce had finally received her wings and is now stewardess from Oakland to Dallas, Texas. Lorraine Mar in, now ’!rs. Hoctor Chri3tison, invitod us to dinnor at her beautiful ho e on the outskirts of town. She said MaryLou Koelor was still doing reconstruction work in China but that she oxpocted her ho’-'o soon. TVe Monoged to board the stoanor thnt Jim ie was piloting and, after a tiresome but marvelous trip, wo dockod in Hawaii. The first person we saw there on a remote Hawaian beach was Bucky Bonodict, a fornor classmate of ours. Ho suro looked stunning in his new Lifo Guard outfit. By tho way, Dorothy tells no you are temporarily stationed in the Philippines and hopo to bo transferred soon. Let’s hope your noxt stop will be Honululu; wo could use noro nursos hero. I will closo for now but will bo looking forward to hearing from you soon. Love, Theresa Cushing