Ilion High School - Class of 1929

Class 0f '29 Boasts Variety of Talent

The Ilion Sentinel - June 10, 1954

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Class 0f '29 Boasts Variety of Talent

Many Expected Back for Reunion June 30

When the Class of 1929, Ilion High School, is honored later this month at the annual banquet of the Alumni Association and the roll is called, a variety of professions, trades and occupations will be discovered among class members.

Scattered to all parts of the world, members of the class have made names for themselves in many fields of endeavor since their graduation 25 years ago.

Several of the class are still bring in and around Ilion and efforts are being made to have as many as possible return for the reunion and banquet on Wednesday, June 30th at the high school.

Members of the Class of 1904 - fifty years ago - will also be honored but only one or two of that class is expected to attend the affair.

Readers will recognize many local residents in the following roster of the Class of 1929:

Dr. Robert Ainslie (medical missionary to China and the Philippines and now in Cleveland, Ohio):
Dorothy Bleau,
Lillian Brothers,
George Angell,
George Bennett,
Helen Brady (now the wife of George Monaghan, former police commissioner of New York City and now an official of the state),
Frederick Burkhart.

Francis Castle,
Jane Caswell,
Richard Clayton,
Edward Cosman,
Ruth Darling,
Richard DeForest (now principal of a central school in the Catskills.)

Howard Dodge,
Jean Douglas,
Eleanor Forristel,
Otto Fredin,
Gladys Fuller,
Marie Graham,
Margaret Grainger,
Dorothy Grimshaw,
Elizabeth Halliwell,
Irwin Hawks.

Harold Hollister,
Alice Hughes,
Helen Jordan,
Arthur Kerr (president of the Alumni Association),
Evelyn King,
Edna Laun,
Donald Loefler,
Beatrice Lucy.

Frederick Ludden,
Kathleen Lynch,
James Maddock,
Thomas Maury,
Annette McDonough,
Clara Moore,
Kenneth Myers,
Florence Neale,
Carl Pederson,
Robert Pierce.

Lillian Plunkett,
Emma Predmore,
Earle Pudney, (executive of WGY in Schenectady),
Lillian Rasmussen,
Kenneth Rauscher,
Muriel Russell,
Birdella Safford,
Elizabeth Scott,
Grace Scott.

William Scott,
Mildred Seckner,
Catherine Seiler,
Folsom Selwood,
Laura Shoemaker,
Gladys Short,
Jennie Strong,
Lynn Stroup,
Margaret Swanson,
Mary Tetlock,
Gerhard Tjeerdsma,
Edward Van Alstine,
Harold Walrath,
Mary White,
LeRoy Whiter,
Everett Wilbert,
Howard Williams,
Meryl Woertendyke,
Walter Wood,
Marion Banker,
Olive Hoyt and
Mary Mulvey.