Binghamton North High School 1947 Yearbook (Binghamton, NY) - Full Access

Top Finishing touches on tenth birthday coke. Stondmg : Wi lmo Chi– dester, edotor-in-ctuef; Charles Bob– cock; Dons Landers, art editor; M ss Genevieve Heffron, faculty adviser; Margaret Donnelly; George Losinger; Donald Jordon, photography edotor. Seated : Demonic DeSantis, Eleanor Thim, activities editor. Second right: Buy your Wampum now. Standmg : June Fischer, Irene Briggs, Loretto Perkosky, Elizabeth Hall, Mary Emilio, Claro Burdick. Seated : Charles Babcock, Nick Pas– cucci, Andy Perez, Norman Reynol~s Second left Is this worth a nickel? Commottee plans old picture sole. Standing Richard Every, Connne Johns, Kathleen Jones, Beverly Boyce, Nmo Perez. Seated : Charlotte Rab– inow.tz, Barbaro Road. Third left: Typ1sts and reporters. Standing : Ruth Jayne, Evelyn Thayer, Vicky Woitkovicz, Blanche Dedrick, Mollicent Tropp, Janice White. Seated : Loretto Sm1th, Daisy Derzonov1ch, Sophoo Mourt, Gerold O'Loughlon, Cecilia Steadman. Lower left : Hove you got your ad in? Standing : Dorothy Cook, Mrs. Betty Gordon I faculty adviser), Chormoone Ingraham, Betty Myette, Charlotte Rabinowitz, Archie Gage. Seated : Potrocio Dwyer, Lousio Allen. Lower right: Put your John Henry here. Weaving 'Tribal 'Tales Like the Indians who hod their wampum to corry as a reminder of their wealth, North's Indians hove hod their Wampum with its wealth in rec– ords of activities, ever since its first appearance in June, 1938. Year by year the publication has progressed from a "Trail Blazing" issue printed in the North High print shop and produced by Mr. Charles Mac– Innis and a stalwart staff entirely within the short space of the spring • term, the first term North's students met as o unit within the walls of North High. Never has the Wampum been classified below honor rank, advancing from third honors to first place rating for the lost three books. Themes hove centered about North's Indian tradition, school life, the war effort, the readjustment to peace-time life, and finally this tenth anni– versary. The 1942 book, with plans well under way before December 7, 1941, met the challenge of the hour by developing the "Four Freedoms" theme. Mr. Joseph Normile, sponsor after Mr. Macinnis' departure in 1940, left in 1942 to enter the war industry and Miss Heffron become sponsor. During the war years, despite shortages of film, paper, cover moteri:ls and problems that only the staff worried over, the Wampum continued to keep intact the recorded history of North High, particularly in its response to the war effort and the publication of the names of the boys in service. The 1945 edition carried pictures of and was dedicated to the thirty-seven North Htgh boys who hod given their lives before January 1, 1945; the 1946 issue did the some for the lost seventeen heroes. All this was mode possible by the coopero tion of p~rents and friends who expressed grott fico– tion that their Alm::J Mater hod given the boys this sm~ll recognitton. Faced with rising prices of labor and materials, but determined that this book shall be worthy of North's ten years' glorious growth, the 1947 staff has woven another treasury of North's tribal history just os the Indians wove their beautiful beaded wampum long ago. 47