Annual Catalog

of the

Richfield Springs High School

1926-1927

Contributed to the Otsego County NYGenWeb Site by Kathy Huxtable

 

The Faculty, 1926-1927

B.J. Youker, A.B., Principal                                                                Biology (Colgate)

Greta Gyer Hughes, A.B., Vice Principal                                               Latin (Syracuse)

Laura Germer House, A.B.                                                        Mathematics (Syracuse)

Richard Ralph, A.B.                                                               French, History (Hamilton)

Edith L. Bogart, A.B.                                                           English, Librarian (Syracuse)

Carl W. Nordgren, B.S.                                                     Science, Agriculture (Cornell)

Bethany O. Balderson                                  Music, Drawing (Eastman School of  Music)

Ruth E. Wallin                                                               Training Class (Oneonta Normal)

Gertrude Rathbun                                                           Eighth Grade (Oneonta Normal)

Esther E. Walker                                                                   Seventh Grade (none given) 

Celia L. Brady                                                                  Sixth Grade (Oneonta Normal)

Carolyn Terry                                                                   Fiifth Grade (Oneonta Normal)

Grace B. Hecox                                                               Forth Grade (Oneonta Normal)

Alice B. Freeman                                                                       Third Grade (none given)

Blanche Bailey                                                                        Second Grade (none given)

Alice Derthick                                                                             First Grade (none given)

 

Graduates

Class of 1889

Herman H. Baker, LL.B., Columbia                                                    Frederick Bronner

*Flora Frink                                                                                             Jessie F. Miller

Maude D. Seaton (Hooper)                                                                       Helen Stetson

Ella Winne

 

Class of 1890

Perry A. Wood, LL.B., Syracuse

 

Class of 1891

Margaret T. Bolton                                                                               John A. Derthick

Flora E. Goodier (Doane)                                                    Anna P. Johnson (Yeomans)

Grace L. Kellogg (McCabe)                                                   Anna M. Ketcham (Smith)

Minnie G. Olive (Kinne)                                                Emma C. Purchase (Wadsworth)

 

Class of 1892

Glennie M. Ames (Laire)                                                                     Grant S. Congdon

Jessie Davenport                                                                    Florence C. Hoke (Cooke)

*Fenimore C. Hoke, M.D., Columbia                                                          Lillian Kibby

John B. Laidlow, B.S. St. Lawrence                                                     James B. Lanning

John A. Losee                                                         Kinne C. McDonald, LL.B., Cornell

Mary A. McGarl (Nugent)                                                         Daisy Northrup (Hansel)

Ralph W. Shaul                                                               *Henry H. Tuller, C.E., Cornell

Grace L. Wikoff (Hadcock), A.B., Syracuse               Charles M. Wicoff, LL.B., Cornell

 

Class of 1893

Pearl Ackerman (Saxton)                                                                        Marvin Bennett

*Annie Bolton                                                                        *Mina Burroughs (Andino)

Grace Conklin (Doubleday)                                                  Margaret Derthick (Dunloy)

*Thomas Durkin, LL.B., New York Univ.                              Mary S. Elwood (Welden)

Catherine Gallagher                                                               Carrie J. House (Cochrane)

Emma Leonard                                                                                       Lillie McDonald

David Mills, M.D., Syracuse                                                                     Flora Purchase

Mollie Ross                                                                                                 Marian Smith

Marcia Van der Veer                                                            Lillian C. Wiley (Martindale)

Lynn Wikoff, B.S., Syracuse                                      Edwin J. Johnson, LL.B., Columbia

 

Class of 1894

Lewis Allen                                                                                               *Whiting Allen

John Black                                                                              John Brady, LL.B., Albany

Belle Bullion                                                                            Deborah Clayton (DeMett)

Emma Johnson                                                               Warren J. Kibby, A.B., Harvard

*Thomas King                                                                                         William Laidlaw

Myron D. Lipes, M.D., Baltimore Medical Coll.                James McKee, A.B., Hamilton

Maude McKellip (Biggs)                                                                          John McManus

Carrie Robinson (Terry)                                                                              Frank Seaker

Adele Seymour                                                                    Fred Smith, M.D., Columbia

Josie Robinson (Cooke)                                                                          *William Wikoff

 

Class of 1895

Thomas Dignan, LL.B., Univ. of Minnesota                                             Isabelle A. Fitch

Lucy M. Fox (Steele)                                                               Mae Hendrix (Lamberson)

Elma C. Hopkinson                                                                     Lulu A. Flewellyn (Fitch)

John McBride, LL.B., Columbia, A.B., Manhattan                          Leila P. Shaul (Lewis)

Maurice V. McDonald, LL.B., New York Univ.               Mina Stevens, Oneonta Normal

*Robert Turner

 

Class of 1896

Sadie Ames (Becker)                                                                     Fannie Ames (Holmes)

Adelia Allen (Albrecht), Syracuse                                       William Bullion, LL.B., Buffalo

Willard Bullion                                                                                            Thomas Burns

Adelaide Crim, Ph.B., Syracuse                                                         Dairy Crist (Crouse)

Maude Harter (Dibble)                                      Bessie Goodale (Tisdale) Ph.B., Syracuse

*Anna McDonald                                                   Clara M. Purchase (Wikoff), Syracuse

*Kittie Ross                                                                                                      Earl Shaul

Marie Tuller (McKee)                                                                       *Lynn Van der Veer

Earl Wikoff, Ph.B., Syracuse

 

Class of 1897

Celeste Barrus (Lane)                                                                    *May Darrow (Wetzel)

Faust DeLong, M.D.,Columbia                                                                Rose Hopkinson

Addie Peckham (Whipple)                                                          Jennie Vrooman (Palmer)

 

Class of 1898

Ina Eastwood (Zoller)                                                              Harrie Frink, M.D., Buffalo

Florence Greenman (Moore)                                                                   Katherine Harter

Howard Osterhout                                   O., Honorary Degree, Chicago Osteopathy Coll.

Grace Norris (Ashton), M.D., Women's Medical Coll., Baltimore,

                                     

 

Class of 1899

Flora M. Henry (Frink)                                                          *Reuben F. Howe, Stanford

Jessie O. McDonald                                                                              Lizzie Pett (Mohr)

Harriet H.V. Ross (Bossert)                                                       Ella Woodbury (Whitney)

Ray McDonald, LL.B., New York Univ.

 

Class of 1900

Fred Bailey                                                                                                 Grace Bennett

Allen J. Blomfield, A.B., Columbia                                                     Alice Colwell (Plant)

Leo A. Doran, LL.B., New York Univ.                                                          Grace Gano

Bertha Layten (Morgan)                                                 Garrett Robinson, LL.B., Cornell

Charles Ross                                                                                       Deda Ross (Brady)

Louis Shaul, E.E., Syracuse                                                                      Ray Shoemaker

Fred Wakerly                                                              Katherine Welden, Albany Normal

Mabel Williamson  (Slocum)

 

Class of 1901

Myra Ackerman (Berner)                                                                         Z. Barker Baird

Raymond Berry                                                                                            Mary Bolton

May Brunkhurst (Morehouse)                                                     Anna Dignan (Hagardine)

Arthur Elwood                                                                                        Opal Ely (Risley)

Louise Franklin (Cady)                                                      Anna Furmin, Oneonta Normal

Harry Hammer, C.E., Syracuse                                                         Helen Morgan (Lilly)

Carro B. Mungor (Ackerly)                                                     Genevieve Rickard (Taylor)

Maude Richardson (Pierce)                                                                           Arthur Risley

Elma Seckner

 

Class of 1902

Blanche Bailey                                                                                    Grace Baker (Wing)

Alice Bolton                                                                                          Electa Buell (Cole)

Mabel Craft                                                                                            Madeline Elwood

William Ennis                                                                                               Camma Ferris

Leonard French                                                                                              Anna Horan

Henry Keough, B.A., Syracuse                                                            Jeanette McDonald

John Meehan, LL.B., Syracuse                                                            *Katherine Meehan

Veda Murphy (Berry)                                                                               Leslie Osterhout

Ray Schooley                                                                                       Minnie Springstead

James Tefft                                                                                                Adelbert Wood

 

Class of 1903

Marguerite Bierman (Williams)                                                              Charles Brunkhurst

Loretta Burns (Hogan)                               Anna Conklin (Crowley), A.L., Albany Hospital

Bertha Goodale                                                                Benjamin Wiles, Ph.B., Syracuse

Helena Purcell                                                                            William Tuller, C.E., R.P.I.

Katherine Whitney, Oneonta Normal                                         Bessie Williamson (Brown)

 

Class of 1904

Frances Bigelow (Evans), Oneonta Normal                          *Harry Bullion, A.B., Hamilton

Homer Evans, A.B., Hamilton                                                                 Mabel Hopkinson

Alice Hopkinson                                                                                       Arley Hopkinson

Olen Hopkinson                                                              Mary Shoemaker, A.B., Syracuse

 

Class of 1905

Mary E. Hosford (Cameron), Oneonta Normal                                             Percy C. Hunt

Louis E. Johnson, Cornell                                                                            Ellen F. Lawler

Beatrice McDonald                                                           Henrietta E. Moore  (Blanchard)

Marletta S. Newell (Lechevet)                                                           Alice C. Park (Clark)

Lynn F. Perkins, A.B., Syracuse, A.M., Harvard           Maude Sheridan, Oneonta Normal

Myra A. Tefft                                                                                              Bessie L.Wiles

 

Class of 1906

Lelah Ames (Kimball)                                                        Burr Cameron, LL.B., Syracuse

Robert French, Cornell                                                                              Carlton Getchel

A.     Kendall Getman, Cornell                                                                    *Vivian E. Henry

Dorothy Martinez                                                                                     Ralph D. Perkins

Arthur G. Quinn                                                          Marguerite Rankin, Oswego Normal

Nellie A. Tunnicliff                                                           *Leslie L. Wiles, M.D., Syracuse

Edith L. Wiles, Syracuse

 

Class of 1907

Wilbur H. Caney, R.P.I.                             Rufus B. M. Crain, M.D., Albany Medical Coll.

Herbert B. Leary                                                                          John C. Leary, Syracuse

Kenneth A. Shaul, Cornell

 

Class of 1908

 

Ruby E. Bell, A.B., Syracuse                                                            Farnham Caney, R.P.I.

Greta Gyer (Hughes), A.B., Syracuse                                                             Zula H. Mack

G. Glenn Mercer, B.E., Union                           *Katherine V. Shrubshell, Oneonta Normal

Eleanor Taylor                                                                        Thomas P. Seaton, Columbia

Muriel Ward  

 

Class of 1909

Edward Baker                                                                                               Francis Brady

Harold H. Conklin, R.P.I.                                              Ella M. Donnelly, Oneonta Normal

Florence M. Duesler, A.B.,Syracuse                                             Susie E. Edwards (Fiske)

Albert D. Freeman, Cornell                                                        C. Wilbur Getman, Cornell

Marjorie Hyde, Oneonta Normal                                                                     Anna Jordan

Maude A. Pollock                                                                                                Earl Rose

 

 

Class of 1910

Flossie Bailey, Oneonta Normal                                                   Orrin Bigelow, Columbia

Ainslie Buck, Columbia                                                                  Clifford Goes, Syracuse

Silas Hewes                                                                             Lynde Hokerk, B.E., Union

Loretta Leary, Oneonta Normal                                                  Ralph Mixter, E.E., Union

Leslie V. Rose                                                                       Elmer Shaul, M.D., Syracuse

Florence Schrubshell, Oneonta Normal                                             Stanley Smith, Colgate

Louise Starr (Billington), Oneonta Normal                                                   Leon Wainman

S. Mae Wiles, Oneonta Normal

 

Class of 1911

Douglas Bell, A.B., Michigan                                     Ellen F. Bringloe (Helsell), Ann Arbor

John M. Brown, New York Univ.                                                              Hazel R. Freeley

Katherine Keough, Syracuse                                                                           Edna Mercer

Ruth E. Mixter (Burge), A.B., Syracuse                                                       Agnes Mulligan

LeRoy Palmer, St. Lawrence                                                      Winifred Roberts (Walker)

Helen Shoemaker                                                                                         *Leo Simmons

*Marguerite Teabout                                                         Maude L. Van Fleet (Waterman)

 

Class of 1912

Elizabeth M. Baulch                                     Ruth F. Caney (Peabody), Mechanics Institute

Richard E. Cary, Cornell                                             Mary T. Ellsworth, Oneonta Normal

Glenn D. Frost, M.D.,Albany Medical Coll.                                                John Paul Jones

Ruth Murphy (Backus)                                                                             Barbara A. Smith

Elizabeth A. Smith                                        Elouise G. Sternberg (Ford), Oneonta Normal                

Ernest C. Woolver, B.S., Cornell

 

Class of 1913

Ruby P. Ames (Wilcox)                                                                             Agnes M. Leary

William F. Leary, Albany Law                                                     Edith A. Parker, Syracuse

Leslie A. Pierce, Syracuse                                                                           Zada L. Truman

Frank P. Wood, R.P.I.                                                                  Leslie W. Yule, Hamilton

 

Class of 1914

Gerie J. Baulch                                                      Bernice S. Bronner, State Teacher's Coll.

Almond C. Brockway, Union                                                    Mabel E. Casler (Mumford)

Gordon A. Haggerty                                                        M. Agnes Kelly, Oneonta Normal

Dorothy A. Mason (Robinson)                                                                Charles M. Mullen

Ruth A. Rankin (Myers), Oswego Normal             Richard M. Roberts, Utica Business Coll.

*Joseph M. Simmons                                               Elizabeth M. Sullivan, Oneonta Normal

Rose McKee Tuller (Masters), Wells Coll.                      Carol T. Walker, Oneonta Normal

 

Class of 1915

Greta M. Ames, Syracuse                                                   Marian M. Armstrong (Sheldon)

Carrie L. Bigelow                                                                              Anastasia C. Branigan

Mabel Louise Brown                                                                                  J. Homer Martin

Susannah M. Parker (Topp)                                                         Daisey C. Reed, Syracuse

Ernest V. Sullivan, Cornell

 

Class of 1916

Thomas H. Boylston                                                                                     Arthur P.Leary

Grace C. McGurk                                                                      Reta H. Ostrander (Beadle)

Clara E. Quaif                                                                                           Walter R. Rankin

Jesse W. Sanderson                                                                                    Geraldine Smith

Vashti Smith                                                                                                       Ethel Wiles

 

Class of 1917

Gladys Ames, Syracuse                                                                Norman Baker, Hamilton

Edna Bennett (Bronner)                                                                             Margaret Bolton

Marie Boylston (Palmer)                                                                Laura N. Brown (Ames)

Ross Eckler, Hamilton                                                                        Marion Hynes (Reed)

Alice Johnson                                                                                 Harriett Jones (Sheldon)

Mary Jordan (Byrnes)                                                         Marie Martin, Oneonta Normal

William Potter                                             Ina Skinner (Cronkhite), Western Reserve Univ.

 

Class of 1918

Mildred Baker, Oneonta Normal                                       Clarissa A. Hukck, Albany State

L. Irene Mixter, Oneonta Normal                                              Mary E. Mumford (Naugle)

Julia M. Smith, Oneonta Normal                                               Julia E. Voorhees (Bronner)

Bessie E. Walker                                                  Ruth H. Young (Ough), Oneonta Normal

 

Class of 1919

Dorothy E. Bell, Holyoke                                                        Frederick L. Bronner, Union

Clellan D. Curtis, Univ. of Pennsylvania                                    Norman H. Eason, Cornell

Willard Johnson                                                                            Marie E. Leary, Syracuse

Madeline J. Martin (Flannagan), Ithaca Conservatory of Music

Richard Owen, Syracuse                                                                 Dorothy Reed, Syracuse

Carolyn H. Wicoff (Corson), Syracuse

 

Class of 1920

Joseph Allen, Union                                                                   Joseph Branigan, Columbia

Florence Brown                                                                                              John Calman

Marjorie Goodhines, Crane School of Music                                                Elizabeth Grant

Robert Jones                                               aphael McNamara, Utica School of Commerce

Sarah Peckham, Utica Homeopathic Hospital                          Kenneth Schneider, Syracuse

Martha Terry (Van Derwerken), Ithaca Conservatory of Music

 

Class of 1921

Beatrice Anderson (Hofnagel)                                      Adele Andino, Albany Business Coll.

Mary Branigan, Oneonta Normal               Winona Chapman (Wheelock), Beechwood Coll.

Harry Conklin, Hamilton                                                         Alta Eckler, Oneonta Normal

Edna Filburn, Oneonta Normal                                                                         Clayton Fox

Morton Johnson, Syracuse                                                                Henry Lipes, Syracuse

Cecil Matteson, Utica School of Commerce                                   Richard Ralph, Hamilton

Gladys Van Valkenburg                                                           H. Gordon Young, Hamilton         

 

Class of 1922

Earl Ames                                                             Mabel Andino, Montesorri Kindergarten

Mary Brady, Oneonta Normal                                           Alice Derthick, Oneonta Normal

Mildred Getman, Oneonta Normal                           Marguerite Famulare, Oneonta Normal

Mae Mullen, Utica School of Commerce                         Bernice Van Valkenburg (Dunckle)

Beatrice Terry (Higgins), Albany Business Coll. 

Adelaide Vrooman, Fifth Avenue Hospital              Jane Wetzel, Mellissa Mills Kindergarten

 

Class of 1923

Mabel M. Brown, Oneonta Normal                                          William C. Bullion, Syracuse

W. Eldred Cadwell                                                                       *L. Fern Caney, Syracuse

T. Louise Curtis, Cortland                                       Lee Huyck, Albany School of Pharmacy

Joseph  P. Leary, Fordham                                              Clara M. Mixter, Oneonta Normal

George R. Monahan                                                                                  George H. Purple

Lowell W. Slocum, Clarkson                                              Anna C. Terry, Oneonta Normal

Helen R. Young, Oneonta Normal

 

Class of 1924

Marie H. Cox, Morrisville                                                                           Stephen Durisck

Anthony Erosavitch, Niagara                                                                   Leon W. Eychnaur

Madeline V. Frink, Elmira                                                       Kathryn M. Horan (Atchison)

Frances R. Jacobson, Cortland                                                   Edward A. Kitts, Columbia

Lyman D. Mumford, Pratts Institute                                     Mildred Peck, Oneonta Normal

Vernie Prindle (Gilmore)                                                           Margaret E. Ralph, Cortland

Donald E. Swift, Syracuse                                                           Louise J. Wetzel, Syracuse

Elizabeth Yule, Oneonta Normal

 

Class of 1925

Helen Angier, Albany State                                                                          Margaret Brady

Robert Conklin                                                                                      John Crist, Fordham

Rowena Davies, Russell Sage                                                                    Bernard J. Dibble

Mary Filburn                                                                                       Henry Frink, Eastman

Marian Getman, Oneonta Normal                                                Kenneth Horan, Morrisville

Joyce House, Albany State                                                         Florence M. Niles (LeMay)

Roselyn C. Niles (House)                                                         Dora Peck, Oneonta Normal

Rosemary Prentice                                                                Louise Ralph, Oneonta Normal

John Sdrewski                                                                                          Andrew Schneider

 

Class of 1926

Jane E. Ackerly, Wells                                                                    Murry Ames, Morrisville

Marion Angermire, Coll. Of Good Counsel                          Anna Durisck, Oneonta Normal

William Bennett, Excelsior School of Business                                                Mildred Filkins

Mary Storrs French, Russell Sage                     Stanley Knapp, Excelsior School of Business

Mary Kraham                                                                                                    Keifer Lidell

Winthrop Moore, R.P.I.                                                                                     Hazel Purple

Margaret Taylor                                                                                Kenneth Watson, Union

 

Notes

* denotes a deceased person

married names are shown in ( )

colleges attended follow the name