Wednesday, October 29, 2014

Interviews with BHS Teachers Mr. Elmore & Mr. Vicary - 1946

 Bainbridge High School Teachers
Mr. Kenneth Elmore & Mr. Vicary
"Blue & White" School Newspaper Items
Bainbridge News & Republican, February 14, 1946
 
Mr. Kenneth Elmore:  Mr. Elmore, our new mathematics teacher, was born and lived in South Fallsburg, N.Y. [Sullivan Co.].  He comes from a family of eight boys and two girls, of whom four now teach school.  Mr. Elmore attended New York State College for teachers at Albany where he did his major work in mathematics and his minor work in science.  Before accepting his position in Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY], he taught in South Kortright and South Fallsburg.  He has recently been discharged from the Army Air Corps where he was an armorer on B-24's and B-29's.  If it's bowling, Mr. Elmore is an active participant, but with other sports, he prefers to be an enthusiastic spectator.  Mentioning food to him was a mistake--we could not stop him talking. Chocolate pie and 500 other foods are his favorites.  To find his dislikes was much more difficult but he finally admitted that shouting pupils and beer were all wrong in his opinion.  Take heed--erring B.C.H.S.--noise makers, for here is a man with whom it will pay to be popular.

Mr. Vicary:  He went skiing on Mt Blanc.  That is a long way from the Rock Cut ski tow-- but Mr. Vicary made it.  As a lieutenant in the Anti-aircraft, he was in Africa and Naples, Italy.  During the invasion of Southern France, he was an air courier with the 7th Army. After the war Mr. Vicary traveled through many parts of Europe in the luxurious accommodations of a jeep.  Among the places he visited was Hitler's refuge in the Bavarian Alps.  He played varsity hockey at Hamilton and his tennis is tops on any court.  the deer population is due to diminish--for Mr. Vicary is back to get the one he missed in 1940.  He also finds time for swimming, horseback riding, and as we mentioned--skiing--in many places.  Upon replying to the question of dislikes he said that since he was discharged from the Army he had no reason to have any.

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