Human Lightning Rod
Bainbridge News & Republican, July 1, 1943
In the State of Pennsylvania, Ernest Wood, 40, Bradford County vocational agriculture adviser, qualified as a "Human lightning rod" on Monday afternoon. While he was planting potatoes on a hill-top, lightning out of a clear sky proceeding a storm struck him on the head, burning his hair, ripped his shirt, trousers and one shoe, and entered the ground. A gold watch in his pocket was melted. Wood, burned about the neck and chest, recovered consciousness at the Packer Hospital in Sayre, where it was said that his condition is not serious.
Graydon Loomis Named BCHS 1943 Valedictorian
Bainbridge News & Republican, June 17, 1943
As the school year of 1943 comes to a close, we find that Graydon Loomis has been named valedictorian and Stewart Cudworth, salutatorian. Graydon attained an average of 91.5 for his four years of high school, and Stewart, 89.48. An interesting fact concerning these two boys in that they were valedictorian and salutatorian, respectively, of the Junior High graduating class.
Graydon has been awarded a scholarship to Union College. During his four years in high school he took part in many extra curriculum activities which include playing in the band for two years, basketball team, three years; track team, three years; baseball team, one year; and boxing and wrestling. Also he was a member of the Press Club for two years. Last year he was awarded first prize for the boys in Prize Speaking. He also was a member of the cast of the senior play and president of the Freshman and Sophomore Classes.
Stewart also has been very prominent in school activities. He played football, basketball and baseball, and was a member of the glee club, wrestling team. He also played in the band, was a member of the cast of the senior play, and was president of the Junior Class and vice-president of the Senior Class.
24 Receive Diplomas at Central School
Bainbridge News & Republican, July 1, 1943
In a setting of beautiful summer blooms, 24 members of the Class of 1943 of the Bainbridge Central High School [Chenango Co., NY] were awarded diplomas at the annual commencement exercises last week Tuesday evening in the school auditorium. The auditorium was filled with relatives and friends of the gown-clad graduates. The Hon. Frank Barnes, of Norwich, Chenango County Judge, delivered the address. Extracts follow:
"....Graduation is a time to be proud and happy. I wish I could point to a world of happiness existing today. Yet we must not shrink from realism. you face a world torn apart, a world beset with blood, sweat and tears...."
"....Our first war was fought to establish freedom and every war since has been fought to maintain what we have. We are now faced with one of the greatest tests. If we succeed, it will be due largely to our appreciation of freedom, and the mental and physical condition of your people under freedom. We cannot create a free people and abandon it. We as a nation must forever be watchful to keep what we have and to better it.
"Many of you will take an active part in this war to preserve our way of life. You mental and physical alertness will repay you in war as well as in peace. To those of you who fight on the battlefield we wish you God Speed and a safe return. To those of use who are not privileged to shoot a gun or drop a bomb, we owe you the duty of every sacrifice to provide for you. Until this war has been won, we must willingly give up, even our way of life, our temporary freedom, in order to obtain the ultimate result, VICTORY. Let us all assure our boys at the front, that we are gladly suspending our right to do what we like to do; to be what we like to be; to say what we like to say; to order that our one hundred thirty million people, with the people of our Allies, and with God's help, may pull together as one man and bring to this war torn world, a new freedom, and to our enemies, their unconditional surrender."
The program follows:
Selection, "Star Spangled Banner," High School Band
Invocation, the Rev. Paul Carpenter
Salutatory, "The Romance of Radio," Stewart Cudworth
Essay, "The First Lady of China," Mary Butler
Essay, "A Land of Romance," Norma Peckham
Violin Solo, "In the Lands of the Czardas," Emily Nichols
Selection, "Through the Years," Girls' Trio
Essay, "Life of Franz Liszt" Janice Palmer
Valedictory, Five Medical Miracles, "The Sulfa Drugs," Graydon Loomis
Selection, "Will you Remember," High School Band
Award of Diplomas, Dr. J.M. Flannery, President of the Board of Education.
Address, Hon. Frank Barnes
Benediction, the Rev. Paul Carpenter
Selection, "Activity," March, High School Band
Class Roll
Mary Elizabeth Aldrich
Jean Marie Bennett
Ward Harrington Bradish
Dorothy Meade Branham
Mary Dimmick Butler
Stewart Kirby Cudworth
Phyllis Edna Ireland
Robert Edward Lee
Graydon Leroy Loomis
Alice Irene Monahan
Otto George Neidlinger
Emily Aldyth Nichols
Janice Skinner Palmer
Norma Janet Peckham
James Oliver Riley
Jens Andrew Sejersen
Frank Adelbert Silvey
Myrtle Irene Silvey
Ethelyn Violet Smith
Orville Samuel Smith
Lucius Stanton Snitchler
Janice Ann Weeks
Edwin Clifford Wilkinson
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