Ilion High School - Class of 1946

The Ilion Sentinel - June 27, 1946

Grads Urged to "Put a Heart" Into Today's Scientific Knowledge

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Grads Urged to "Put a Heart" Into Today's Scientific Knowledge

"The world today has been made by a head - put a heart in it", was Dr. Orva Lee Ice's advice and appeal to the Ilion High School Graduating class at the commencement exercises at the Capitol Theatre Tuesday evening. Speaking on the subject, "Knowledge Is Not Enough," Dr. Ice stressed the frightening gap between the scientific knowledge possessed today and the moral and spiritual techniques needed to make use of that knowledge.

An interesting departure form the custom of recent years was the use of two members of the graduating class direct musical numbers. William Irwin directed the processional march by the orchestra and Dorothy Fear directed the 1946 members of the choir in singing the Alma Mater.

In addition to the 79 members of the class, (the smallest since 1929) 18 returned service personnel, including one girl, earned diplomas after attending special classes under George Finnegan, himself a returned veteran.

The program opened with a selection by the orchestra, "The Graduate," under the direction of Robert Hubbell. Milton Haughton, gave the salutatory, "Unity or Disaster," and Fern Chismore's valedictory was "Equality and World Peace."

Dr. Ice's address followed two numbers by the choir and was in turn followed by an orchestra selection. The Rev. John B. Harmon, gave the invocation and the benediction. Principal J. Guy Prindle awarded the prizes and Grover W. Radley, president of the board of education, and Superintendent Earl P. Watkin, presented the diplomas.

English - Fern Chismore; Richard Heaps. Math - Robert Johnson, Martin Haughton.

The Cornelia Nagel Social Studies prize - Louise Pelton, Jane Das, Agatha Rudd, Louise Mogenson.
Modern language - Milton Haughton, Fern Chismore.

Science and the Bausch & Lomb medal - Lawrence Neuse, Milton Haughton.
Commercial & Becker College pin - Mary Putch.
Shorthand and transcription, Mary Putch.

Office practice and typing - Betty Folmsbee.
Industrial arts - Gordon Newton.
Mechanical drawing - Bernard Brown.
Music - William Irwin.
Art - Fern Chismore, Robert Van Steinburg.
Home economics - Shirley Geesler.
Speech arts and the Robert Kent Memorial plaque Richard Heaps.

The RPI medal was awarded to Lawrence Neuse while Allyn West was presented the Lt. William Momberger Memorial prize. The Peter's prize, in memory of Madeline Buley Peters, was awarded to Shirley Geusler and Milton Haughton and the Lever Cup went to Donald Davis.

Shirley Geesler won the D A R Good Citizenship pin and these winners in the VFW Auxiliary essay contest were presented awards: Fern Chismore, Milton Haughton, Bernard Brown.

The following donors contributed toward prizes - $10 - Ilion National Bank and Trust Co., Manufacturers National Bank, Ilion Savings & Loan Association, Remington Arms Co., Mrs. E. V. Mack. Sr.

$5 - Ilion Odd Fellows, Ilion Masonic Lodge, Ilion Elks, Knights of Columbus, Mrs. Abram Zoller, Beta Chi, Delta Chapter, Philia Club.

$5 - Ilion Odd Fellows, Ilion Masonic Lodge, Ilion Elks, Knights of Columbus, Mrs. Abram Zoller, Beta Chi, Delta Chapter, Philia Club.

$2.50 - Travelers Club, Historical Club, Business and Professional Women of Herkimer County, American Legion Auxiliary and DAR.

The following were graduated:

Academic

Angeline Acquaviva,
Christiana (Mary) Anonaros,
Theodore Armstrong,
Gloria Backus,
Lillian Barger,
Christian James Bartleson,
Dawn BuIlion,
Shirley Burns,
Edward Champagne,
Raymond Cashman,
Avis Conover,
Donald Davis,
William Davis,
Robert Eddy,
Joseph Ferguson,
Elizabeth Folmsbee,
Robert Gage,
Shirley Geesler,
Enaus Geloso,
Marion Joan Geloso,
Gerald Gilmartin.

James Gorman,
Donald Hall,
Annamarie Hansel,
Irving (Russell) Harter,
Robert Hilliard,
Nancy Hoffman,
Mary Ingro,
Orlyn Irving,
William Irwin,
Leona Jarvis,
Robert Johnson,
David Jones,
Joseph Kenefick,
Shirley LeFever,
Marcia Lockyer,
Philip Lyman,
Carol McCumber,
Julianne McKeon,
David McLean,
John Monohan,
Joyce Morrisette,
Betty Myers,
Richard Owens.

Thomas Padgham,
Elizabeth Pettengill,
William Pirnie,
Robert Prentice,
Mary Putch,
Helen Reese,
Herbert Roosters,
Marjorie Seelback,
Mary Smallwood,
Helen (Joanne) Smith,
Louise Smith,
Meryl Smith,
Betty Steenbergh,
Leo Sweeney,
Robert Van Steinburg,
Martha Van Wiggeren,
Allyn West,
Margaret West,
Edward Williams,
Carolyn Wood,
Robert Young,
John Zipko.

College entrance -

James Allston,
Marion Babcock,
M. Bernard Brown,
Gertrude Bump,
Fern Chismore,
Dorothy Damon,
Jane Daz,
Lawrence Doty,
Margaret Durkin,
Dorothy Fear,
Sumner Hakes,
Mary (Joan) Hammond,
Russell Harter,
Milton Haughton,
Richard Heaps,
Eiluned Jones,
Kenneth Lowe,
Joseph McShalley.

Louise Mogensen,
Gordon Newton,
Lawrence Neuse,
Louise Pelton,
Marion Pett,
Lloyd Phillips,
Agatha Rudd,
Jane Russell,
David White,
William White,
Edward Wilson,
Doris Wood,
Patricia Wright.

* Note - Graduates that were not listed in class yearbook: Christian James Bartleson, Robert Eddy, Annamarie Hansel, Joseph Kenefick, Enaus Geloso, James Gorman, Philip Lyman, David McLean, John Monohan (was member of Class of 1944), William Pirnie, Herbert Roosters, Betty Steenbergh, Leo Sweeney, Allyn West, Edward Williams, Robert Young