Ilion High School - Class of 1905

Herkimer Evening Telegram - June 24, 1955

Ilion Alumni Slate Banquet

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Ilion Alumni Elect Slate of Officers

ILION - Members of the venerable class of 1905 and the quarter century-old class of 1930 will be singled out for special tributes at the annual banquet of the Ilion High School Alumni Association July 2 at the Elks clubhouse.

ILION - Ronald Farrington was elected president of the Ilion Alumni Association at the annual banquet held at the Elks Club Saturday night. Other officers named were Mrs. Alice Farrington, first vice president; Harold McGrath, second vice president; Jeanne Comstock, secretary; William Meehan, treasurer.

Fred Plunkett, president, said Robert Kerr, class of '30 will be toastmaster.

The affair long has been held on the Wednesday following the Tuesday night graduation, but officers of the association decided to find out if alumni living some distance from Ilion will be better able to attend on a weekend date.

On the arrangements committee are Louise Younglove, Kasson Winsor, Harold Walrath and Richard Powers. The class of 1905 graduated from the old Morgan Street School and include:

William Marriott,
George Nunn,
Ethel Robinson,
Edward Carney,
Nettie Gantt,
Edna McGowan,
Rome Worden,
Elizabeth Jockmus,
Mrs. Sam Buff,
Dr. Homer Bremer
and
Leo Powers.

Also occupying a place of honor at the banquet will be these members of the Class of 1930, Harvey Watson, president; Mary Wasmer, vice-president; Edward Bowers, treasurer; Eleanor Tucker, secretary.

Also,
Ralph Andrews,
Joseph Ashley,
Beulah Banes,
Martin Barnes,
Mary Bazinet,
Clark Bergin,
Roger Berry,
John Best,
Ruth Bishton,
Donald Brothers,
Robert Bunting,
Marjorie Button,
Seth Capes,
John Carney,
Beatrice Carroll,
Austin Casey,
Edward Christiana,
Layrence [Lawrence] Clayton

Also,
Margaret Collyer,
Hazel Colburn,
Gertrude Congdon,
Edward Costello,
Helen Costello,
Harriet Davenport,
Eleanor Dewhurst,
Donald Dekin,
Calistabelle Eckler,
Ruth Drennan,
Geraldine Fenner,
George Friis,
Dorothy Garber,
Fayette Getman,
Gladys Gleason,
John Gleason,
Vivian Goldthwaithe.

Also,
Henry Goller,
Oliver Haskell,
Cornelius Heafy,
Fred Hoofman [Hoffman],
Charles Hemenway,
Florence Hoke,
Francis Hopkins,
George Jackson,
Leona Jones,
Emma Jensen,
Robert B. Kerr,
Marian Lindsay,
Shirley Lowe,
Vincent Mack,
Francis Mackin,
Donald Martin,
Helen Maury,
Leslie McDonough,
John McGrath,
Isabel McMahon.

Also,
Winifred Mills,
William Milstead,
Jack Moore,
Harold Morrison,
Catherine Mulvey,
William Murphy,
Florence Murray,
Beatrice Myers,
Alice O'Neil,
Bruce Petrie,
Charles Plunkett,
Fred Plunkett,
Edward Reiman,
Dorothy Richberg,
Thomas Ringwood.

Also,
Alonzo Rivers,
Louise Rivers,
Janet Roberts,
Marian Rockwell,
Dorothy Russell,
Richard Seiler,
Anna Shaehan [Shahan],
Lillian Singer,
Pearl Singer,
Bertha Smith,
Edward Stewart,
Mary Tuttle,
Stanley Urtz.

Also,
William Wagner,
Leona Whiter,
Everett Wilbert,
Donald V. O. Wiedeman [Weideman],
Dorothy Wilkins,
Sidney Wilson,
Kasson Winsor,
Margaret Wood.