Ilion High School - Class of 1944

The Ilion Sentinel - June 17, 1954

Ilion High 1944 Graduates To Hold Tenth Anniversary Party

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ILION - The Class of 1944 of Ilion High School will reunite at the Palmer House, Saturday, for a 6 p.m. dinner and 10th anniversary celebration.

The group was one of the war time classes with several members in the service who deferred getting their diplomas until the war was over.

Dr. Everett V. Mack, then class faculty adviser and science instructor, will be guest of honor and principal speaker. After acquiring a teacher's certificate, Dr. Mack decided to become a doctor and later graduated from Syracuse University. He practiced in Ilion for two years and this year completes extended education at Syracuse University and will return to practice here.

Allan Murray, class president, later a graduate of Utica College, now assistant purchasing agent at Griffiss Air Force Base, will be master of ceremonies. It is expected 80 of the 96 graduates in the class will attend.

Much of the work in bringing the class together again has been done by Miss June Murray, class vice president, now secretary of Central Adirondack Association, Old Forge; Miss Eleanor Tracy, Ilion, and nine assistants.

Those sending regrets include the Rev. William Anderson, St. Anne's Church, Washington, D.C.; Brother Stephen Waldruff, POR, Catholic University, Washington, D.C.; Mrs. Joyce Chismore Lewin, valedictorian, who after graduation obtained her bachelor of science degree at Cornell, her master's degree at Yale and her PhD also at Yale. At banquet time she will be on her way to Paris to the International Congress to present a paper on scientific research.

The class prophecy foretold that Joyce Carroll, by 1954, would be Mrs. Douglas Bullis and the mother of three children. In attendance will be Douglas Bullis and Mrs. Joyce Carroll Bullis, the parents of two children.

Another graduate, Thomas Hanley, is pictured in the year book wearing the uniform of an Army private. Today he is a lieutenant stationed at Indian Head, Md., following time-out to get a bachelor of arts degree at the University of Miami and starting work on his master's degree at George Washington-University.

Members of the class were:

Marjorie Anderson,
Lockhart Armstrong,
Virginia Ashley,
Nancy Babcock,
Marion Backman,
Catherine Bailey,
Shirley Bird,
Barbara Bowdish,
William Burger,
Eleanora Cahill,
Joyce Carroll,
Florence Cashman.

Also,
Irene Cashman,
Joyce Chismore,
Howard Cook,
Shirley Cramer,
Nancy Daily,
Anne Damon,
Mary Dayton,
Rose DeSano,
Emily DuFort,
Sally Edgett,
Eileen Edick,
Roy Edick,
Lillian Faley,
Dorothy Fay.

Also,
Shirley Griffith,
Lois Hall,
Thomas Hanley,
Jean Harter,
Lois Hayes,
Mary Helmer,
Jean Hilliard,
Carolyn Hoeschele,
Paul Hoffman,
Jean Hungerford,
Roger Hunt,
Audrey Jarvis,
Beverly Johnson,
Raymond Johnson,
Elisabeth Jones,
Catherine Kasper,
Alyce Kennah,
June Knapp.

Also,
Annabelle Knewasser,
Joanne Lindstrom,
Jean Lyon,
Bette McCarthy,
Joseph MacIntyre,
Edward McKenna,
Theresa Mackin,
Marlon Markley,
Frank Marley,
Theodore Melnick,
Elizabeth Mesick,
Jean Milas,
Juno Miles,
Ella Momberger,
Gerald Morgan,
Margaret Mullen,
Betty Nason,
Ruth Norton,
Eleanor Neuse,
Garnet Perrigo,
Margaret Pickett.

Also,
Charles Pooler,
Thelma Preston,
Kenneth Rasch,
Frederick Reynolds,
Theodore Ronsvalle,
Carmella Salvaggio,
John Scott,
Bruce Scouten,
Doris Seymour,
William Slocum,
John Smallwood,
Michael Smith,
William Smith,
Bette Stephenson,
Theresa Stress,
Ethel Taylor.

Also,
Eleanor Tracy,
Margaret Vayo,
Charles Warburton,
Nancy Waters,
June Wedemeyer,
Dorothy Wheeler,
While White,
Edward Williams,
Ernest Woover,
Alice Young,
Mary Zipko.

[Allan] Murray was class president: Miss [June Ellen] Murray, vice president, Donna Smith, secretary; Nancy Rudd, Treasurer.