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