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The Greenville Free Academy baseball team of 1930-1931 poses: top, left to right: Charles Raddick, Bill Vaughn, Lefty (Reinhold) Schermer, Chuck Burgess, Charles Winans, Don Blenis, Maynard Makely, Scott Ellis; front: Elmer Carlson, Arnold Nicholsen, Lee Cunningham, Roland Young, Joe Slater, Ken Lawyer; Sitting: Russ Baumann, John Zivelli.

Fifty years ago, the Class of 1968 posed for their graduation photo which would accompany the other graduation photos in the main hallway of Greenville Central School (today’s elementary building), continuing a tradition that had started in 1930 with the creation of the school district. The Class of 1968 would be the last class to graduate from this building. The Class of 1969 started their senior year in the “old” building, becoming the first to graduate from the new High School-Middle School, and the tradition of hallway graduation photos was not continued. The Class of 1968 – First Row, Left to Right: Robert M. Tallman, John A. Bensen, Craig W. Jennings, Katherine J. Ormsbee, Mae B. Baitsholts, Jacqueline Cameron, Linda L. Staunch, Christiane Elsbree, Christopher DeGiovine, Darcy Lynn Griffin, Raymonde P. Hinsberger, Patricia Ann Bear, Carol Ann Soldner, Doris Elizabeth Reidel, Renate Dreher, Ross J. Andersen, George T. Vroman, Michael E. Kuhar; Second Row: Douglas C. Story, Nelson E. Selmer, Henry F. Werker, Florence E. Low, Ralene Lenore Knott, Deborah A. Fallarino, Jeannette Patton, Karen Gale Steeber, Norma Lee Pettit, Dorothy J. Fishlinger, Jean A. Stock, Rosemarie Kuhar, Sandra Ann Olmsted, Cynthia Ann Fox, Linda L. Tanner, David L. Steele, William F. McCafferty; Third Row: Kenneth P. Andresen, Charles R. Williams, Terry L. Williams, Beverly A. Hempstead, Susan Haverly, Jolanda Csontos, Nancy Ann Sabolik, Christine B. Jennings, Rise Jean Van Iderstine, Dorothy A. Augstein, Linda F. Berk, Gloria Jean Waldron, Martha A. Rivenburgh, Craig A. Kummer, Robert W. Werner: Fourth Row: John Boyle, Craig L. Matthews, Barry M. Chase, Arthur C. Bender, Kenneth Wayne Turon, Philip Michael Winegard, Thomas M. Vadney, Robert A. Furko, Kenneth Bruce Zarcone, Steven B. Johannesen, William H. Hoare; Fifth Row: William F. Oravsky, Paul L. Alix, Thomas J. Johannesen, Donald Wetmore, Grant G. Hahne, Thomas A. Elliott, Thomas G.M. Mirabelli, Michael G. Knowles, Kenneth G. Layman.

The Greenville Central School Class of 1950 poses for this classic pose of their Senior Trip to Washington, D.C., a destination de rigueur for most senior classes into the 1970s. (married names in parenthesis) Front: Herb Ford, Zan Bryant, Merton Tripp, Carl Carsen, Jimmy Moore, Francis Turpin, Robert Knutelsky, Robert May, Charles Eufemia, Robert Elliott, Ernest Millet, David Kent, Richard Elpel, Louis Eldridge. Back: Lorete Leicht (Sanders), Marian Finch (Schwebler), Carol Thompson (Bryant), Virginia Hale (Turpin), Miss Josephine Maggio, Ruth Cowhey (White), Miss Muriel Harding, Shirley Von Linden, Berle Horton (Carley), Ruth Zimmerman (Chebuske), June Tallman (Lounsbury), Mildred Vanatta (Pitts), Marlene Hesse (Tiedermann), Gladys Lamb (Gridley), Marilyn Parker, Doris Haukam, Audrey Gifford (Horn), Shirley Rugg (Koope), Shirley Vincent (Winnie), and Barbara Teator (Hallock).

The 1932-1933 faculty, the first of the new Greenville Central School building include: FRONT: Leta Arnold, Marjorie DeHeus, Scott Ellis, Ruth Rundell Grenci, Virginia Stevens; MIDDLE: Ethel Ray, Emily Duntz, Goldie White, Don Mabee, Elizabeth Meyer, Leonard Palmer, Mildred Stone Vaughn, Muriel Wooster, Leona Thompson Lewis; Elizabeth Bentley, Eva Button Bott, Mary Mabie, Gladys Beylegaard, Ruth Slater Palmer, Dorothy Mitler Price.

Based on input from the Greenville Local History Group and from Greenville Central High School Friends (Facebook), the 2020 calendar recognizes influential GCS teachers on the May, September, and inside back cover pages. This page recognizes the Four Icons—those receiving the most votes. Teacher photos are accompanied by name of teacher, years of service at Greenville, student name, graduating year, and comment.

More teacher recognitions. June’s page featured four teachers; this page shows the next nine

The remaining eight teachers of the 23 recognized of GCS 90 years.

GCS students pose for a strings group photo, possibly as early as 1936, in the gymnasium/auditorium. According to an identification on the photo back, seated: Merle Powell (Class of 1933), Geraldine Wood (1937), Dorothy Huested (1940), Muriel Stotesbury, Muriel Burdick; standing: Janet Lacy (1936), King Hall (1936), Leta Arnold (teacher). Powell’s date of graduation suggests that he might have been on hand to accompany.