1965:

CCS "Kids" Finally Best Aging Alum Greats

Severson Bros. Defend Vietnam Presence

Pierce "Ace" Sports Reporter

The class of 1964 won the annual Alumni Basketball Tournament, defeating the great (but aging) '57 team that had won so many of the events. Off-setting the 28 points by "Duke" Nennstiel was the 24 by Tom Parsley, the 17 of Ivan Purdy and the 16 of Dick MacDougall.

Malcolm Parrish, for the 42nd year, was elected president of the Cambridge Valley National Bank.

CCS lost to Greenwich in Basketball 55-54. Then Hoosick Valley did it 79-24 on the Indian court.

The Hoosiers slowed down the new, CCS wrestlers 27-19, but they got by Greenwich 44-6. Then Stillwater laid another loss, 78-60, on the hapless basketball team.

And Salem, leading the League, did a number on the Indians 105-76.

This off-set the football loss to the Indians and evened the competition for The Old Oaken Bucket.

Salem Central School was enjoying a well-nigh unprecedented good fortune in basketball. According to the research of Donald Hanks, resident farmer, the team had won 37 consecutive games.

Don Pierce kept up the unhappy duty of chronicling the dismal CCS basketball season, writing at length of the Indians' 85-31 loss to Lake George. Then Stillwater did it 69-51.

The wrestling team won its fifth and sixth matches against four defeats over Greenwich (41-13) and Hoosac (42-8).

Doug Eighmey, 56, died in Hoosick Falls. For 33 years he had been coach and director of phys. ed. before illness forced his retirement.

Schuylervilled defeated the CCS basketball team 74-49. Then Lake George beat them 91-51.

Hoosick Falls took the county wrestling title that year, finishing 6-0.

Their basketball team added to the carnage, beating the Indians 74-48.

A near capacity crowd was attracted to a PTA Hootenanny, where some young performers were better clued in than their elders. Rich and Rob McGeoch, joined by Charlie Ackley Jr. were a hit.

Eldridge Rouse, a veteran regional musician, teamed with his talented daughter Suzanne on guitar and accordian.

Phil Sica submitted his resignation as Village Police Chief. He was to become a campus policeman at Albany State, but it was just before "all hell" broke loose on America's campuses.

Greenwich continued to pile it on the basketball team, 72-64.

The wrestling team beat Schuylerville 29-21. This gave the Indians a second place tie in the League.

Milt Tesar's Indians placed 10 wrestlers in the county tournament finals and they took five titles. But Hoosick Falls won the tourney. County winners were Stinner, Madison, Ridler and Peters and Watkins.

Salem took a second game from the CCS basketballers 76-38.

The Indian matmen finished their season at 8-4 with a 44-6 win over Hoosac School. They finished third in the class C Sectionals.

Web Madison and Lloyd Peters made it to the quarter-finals.

In the final game of a very long basketball season, Hoosic Valley defeated the Indians 106-73.

Don Pierce's steady reporting is perhaps the very best student sports reporting in the long history of the WCP.

The bright spot of the basketball season came in April when the CCS eighth graders won a tournament at Stillwater. Playing on that team were Steve Parrish, John Tully, Chuck Watkins, John Briggs, Tom Shiland, Pete Bell, Don Waite, John Raymond, Bob McDonald, John Cullinan, Tom Langer, Joe Ganser, Jay Dearstyne, Bob Brown and Ron Peters. Ralph Smith was coach.

Milt Tesar prepared to coach 25 boys through the track season.

Coaches Don Brennan and Al Bailey opened the CCS baseball season with few returning starters.

The new wing added to Miekleknox Home was dedicated May 15th.

The CCS trackmen took all firsts in their win against Stillwater. Capt. Tim White and Bob Harrington were double winners.

Also winning were Bob Woodard, Larry Bennett, Webb Madison, Bob Stinner, and Jerome Sardi. Also on that team were Steve Schnell, Dave Craig, Chris Kyer, John Russo, Brent Lerch, Steve Davis, Don Hamilton, Tom Severson, Jim Blanchfield, John McCarty and John Langer.

The baseball season opened with a win over Hoosick Falls, 4-2. Vinnie MacDonald was the winning pitcher. Then they went 5-2 over Salem.

Then Stillwater set them down 12-2 on the CCS diamond.

Saturday, May 1 they hosted Schuylerville, but lost again 8-4.

On May 3, Hoosick Falls got revenge with a 7-0 whitewash of the Indians.

The Track team downed Hoosick Valley 65-44.

After all the hoopla of his departure, Phil Sica was going back on the job effective June 1. He hadn’t liked commuting to his job at Albany State.

The big news of May was that Principal Charles Bowler had resigned. He would take over the Milne laboratory high school at Albany State for one year while its regular principal was on sabbatical. He had spent 11 years at the helm of CCS, some of the most productive in its history.

The track team continued to over-power opponents in head to head competition, this time Salem 57-52. But when they went to a big meet at Granville they could only place fifth.

Tim White cracked the school mark for the triple jump with a leap of 39' 10 1/4", but it was good for only fourth in this meet. Bob Harrington won the shot put with a toss of 47' 4".

The 1965 CCS track team appeared in a photograph on the front page of the 5/27/65 WCP. The baseball team appeared on p. two.

Schuylerville set back the CCS tracksters. Tim White's triple jump of 40' 5 5/8" was a new school record.

The Indians finished fourth in the county meet and fourth in the Class C track sectionals.

Debbie Lull was named Valedictorian of the class of 1965.

Dan and Mike Severson visited home before reporting for duty. Lt. Dan was going to the 101st Airborne's jump school. Lt. Mike, US Marine Corps, had completed helicopter training and was headed for Vietnam.

The Cambridge Flying Club came close to disaster that June, when the club plane, piloted by Danny O'Connor of Greenwich, landed directly on top of a plane just taking off. The planes were damaged, but everyone escaped unharmed.

A flagman was on duty, but apparently did not see the approach of the Club plane. The Club had 25 members who flew regularly and in 2 1/2 years of its existence, this was the first accident.

Charley Bowler received a testimonial dinner and Carson Fuller began another summer as director of the Cambridge swim and playground program.

Another record class graduated from CCS, with 64 seniors "walking the plank".

The Battenkill Predicted Log Race was advertised that year, in a picture starring Robert Raymond. Any type of craft was eligible.

July, 1965, Carson Fuller had 158 kids in the swim program. Others would join after Vacation Bible School was over.

George W. Brown Jr. was named district principal at CCS.

It was announced that month that the brick hotel, Main and Park St. had been purchased by the Sun Oil Co., and that it would be razed to make way for a gas station.

The Holy Name Society gathered to honor Maurice O'Connor, who, after nine years at CCS, had taken a job at Whitehall.

Mike Yushak of Shushan announced that he would host a tennis tournament on the court behind his store.

Another CCS footballer, Foster Goodrich, published a book, "Your Future in Direct Selling". A copy was placed in the Cambridge Library.

Editor Mahoney eulogized the giant elms, doomed by dutch elm disease and slowly dying.

John Herbert in August was appointed high school principal. Suddenly the Central School had the three full-time administrators the community had resisted for so long.

The Sept. 2 issue of the WCP announced new faculty added to CCS, one of whom was "yours truly".

Tim White defeated Jay Prediger 6-3, 6-2 to win the Tri-Community Tennis Tournament (Shushan, Salem and Cambridge). The finals were played on the new CCS court.

Dick Hatch wrote the CCS sports that fall. He reported that the Indians dropped their first football game 37-24 to Draper. Bob Harrington scored all four of CCS' touchdowns. One was a 65 yd. kick-off return.

Editor Mahoney was having trouble with the Vietnam War. He wrote "...A sizeable portion of the American public never has been convinced that Americans should be dying there.

"...It strikes us that while war is being threatened from many parts of the world, a quarter of a million Americans should not be getting shot at by guerillas in Vietnam."

If a conservative, Catholic small-town editor couldn't understand it, then how could "America"?

After abandoning plans to make a country club on Colfax Mtn., another scheme surfaced for West Cambridge. The Courtenay Wands place on Meeting House Rd. was to be incorporated as Highlands Country Club, and include an 18 hole golf course, an Olympic-sized pool, tennis courts, etc.

Farmers Home Admin. was again supposed to loan the money.

Schuylerville dropped the Indian gridders 6-0.

The Indians got their first win 13-0 over Hoosick Falls. Web Madison made both scores.

Cambridge was close in every football it played that year, but Coach Milt Tesar's charges dropped their third, to Fort Edward 18-13.

William Stearns Sr. of Eagle Bridge bowled a perfect 300 game on the Cambridge Recreation Alleys. King's Bakery gave him a cake.

The community mourned the passing of a legendary resident, Charles John Stevenson.

The Indians routed St. Peters in a night game, 25-7. Web Madison and Bob Harrington were proving very effective running backs. Of course having Beaver Watkins and Bunkie Peters up front must have helped.

The old Eagle Bridge Schoolhouse was sold to the Forrest Moses for $500. It was to become a shrine to Grandma Moses. They did it, but there was so little local support that they dealt it away to the Bennington Museum, where it is very well appreciated.

Greenwich stopped the Indians 40-7.

Judy Ellis reported on CCS girls field hockey. The "Squaws" downed Greenwich l-0 and Salem 3-0.

The Indians downed Ravena 20-0. Roger Holcomb, Bruce Bracken and John McCarty were also opening holes for the backs.

On Tuesday, Nov. 9th the brick hotel came tumbling down, and noone was there to write its obituary or to mourn its passingt.

Plans for the Highlands Country Club progressed.

The Cambridge Central School Band, under the direction of Ken Bovio, began playing and marching at all home football games. It was about 50 players strong.

The Indians seemed to take off at the end of the season, goring Stillwater 35-0. They ended the season at 4-4. A team of 23 freshmen enjoyed a 4-1 season, so Coach Tesar was optimistic about the future.

Prof. Thornton staged his first play "arena style", and the article (which again does not mention his name; subtle "dog" that he is) spent half a column explaining the technigue. Seating was limited to 300 nightly. Stars were Kerry Marsh, Bruce Squires, Steve Heron, Joe Vitello, Terry Gillis, Ron Wilwol, Janet Gray, Sandy Cramer, Grace Hallock and Mary Ackley.

Tuesday, Nov. 9th, the most massive power failure in history left 30 million people in the Northeast without electricity.

Malcolm Maxwell Parrish, president of the Cambridge Valley National Bank for the 42nd year, died at the age of 73. The Bank was 100 years old. Mr. Parish, the son of Hiram H. and Eleanor Maxwell Parrish, was elected president in 1924, the youngest bank president in the State at the time.

He was a graduate of Cambridge Union School, a star CHS athlete and a Veteran of WW I.

He was instrumental in the formation of the associated fish and game clubs of Washington County, which purchased land surrounding perpetual springs north of the village and presented the property to the State. During his presidency, a fish hatchery was built on the site.

That November the First Presbyterian and the United Presbyterian congregations voted to unite.

An open house was held at the proposed Highlands Country Club.

Mike Severson took issue with the Mahoney Vietnam editorial.

The CCS basketball team that November lost its opener to Granville. Dick Hatch forgot to include the score. Ralph Smith was coach.

Dr. Philip Brown, radiologist at Mary McClellan Hospital, was battered and bruised on his own farm in Coila by three hunters from Brooklyn. They were arrested. Charged were Salvadore Martino, Benny Giangrasso and Vincenza Azzerelli. They were fined $25. The charge was assault third degree and trespassing.

Dr. Brown had posted the farm to protect his horses. Sheriff T.T. Buckley and deputies made the arrests.

Wrote Editor Mahoney, "The fines assessed... could hardly be considered deterrents....

"When a man with a gun trespasses on another's posted land and beats him, it would seem that a fine of more than $25 is in order.

"It is cheaper to assault a man on his own land than it is to jack a deer."

The Indian wrestlers defeated Schuylerville 41-13. Then they beat Mechanicville 26-20. Then they beat Tamarac 31-19.

The basketball team lost 36-56 to Greenwich, for their third defeat in as many starts.

Dieter Kampf was the AFS exchange student at CCS. He lived with the Everett Ashworths.

Rev. Alastair C. Parr became pastor of the joined UP Congregations.

The basketball team lost its fourth 59-51 to Tamarac. Then they lost to Stillwater 62-59.

2nd Lt. Dan Severson followed brother Mike onto the editorial page with a letter from Vietnam.

Milt Tesar was proving a better wrestling coach than football coach. His grapplers defeated Saratoga 46-10. Schuylerville beat the basketball team 66-47.

1964: Fed Kills Colfax Golf Course

"Chanticleer" Ends Run. New CCS Gym

Vandals thumbed their noses at the good adults of the community and Police Chief Phil Sica that Christmas, stealing 15 wreaths from the front doors of homes in the Village, then stuffing them under the Chief's front porch.

The CCS Ski Team won its first meet of the season at Willard Mountain. CCS boys won both the slalom and the giant slalom. Ten boys teams from regional high schools and several individual female skiers competed.

The next week they were second at the Saranac Lake HS Winter Carnival.

At the annual winter alumni tournament, the class of '57 team won. It was their third straight triumph. They were led by "Duke" Nennstiel and Dave Herrington, each scoring 33 points.

The Hoop Indians lost to Hoosick Valley 76-65. Rich McDougall scored 29 for the losers.

Charles Ashton, a CHS graduate and Olympic competitor, retired as head of the sales division of the Dictaphone Corp.

Malcolm Parrish began his 41st year as president of the Board of Directors of the Cambridge Valley National Bank.

The Indians lost 79-50 to Salem, then took a 61-42 non-conference win from Burr and Burton of Manchester. In late January, CCS split another pair of games, a 103-97 loss to Williamstown and 48-46 win over Stillwater.

McDougall had 32 pts. in the loss.

The Ski Team finished second again, this time led by Joe Manhart, the foreign exchange student. Old Forge was tops of the eight competing schools.

Schuylerville downed the Indians 48-45 that February.

The Colfax Mountain Recreation project in Jackson was declared eligible for an FHA Loan of about $230,000. The project would center on a nine hole golf course and require 200 or more members at an annual fee of $100. The annual club budget was expected to be $40,000.

Hoosick Falls defeated Cambridge 67-59.

Open New Gym

CCS defeated Hoosic Valley 68-53. Greenwich then fell 99-78. Rich MacDougall had 28 points. Tom Parsley had 27.

That February CCS opened its new gym. The former locker rooms of the old gym were renovated into rooms for the music dept.

The first basketball game to be played in the gym was the last game of the season, against Stillwater. The visitors took some of the pleasure out of the new home court by downing the Indians 56-53.

The Ski Team went to Cooperstown, where it took team honors in the giant slolam and second in the cross country.

Beaver Ross was second in cross country. Three locals placed in the slalom. In the downhill Ross was again second.

Next week the Ski Team won the Burnt Hills Invitational at Willard, sweeping the first three places of the slalom. Joe Manhart was first, followed by Beaver Ross and John Romack.

Ten schools competed.

Chess Competition

Al Brigham's chess club engaged in its first interscholastic competition, defeating the Saratoga Springs team. Playing for CCS were Peter Matcovich, George Ridler, Doug Wilkie, Sue Rogers and Cheryl Lentz.

Carson Fuller and August Dering built a new worship center for the chapel of the Cambridge UP Church. The John Merrimans provided the cherry wood.

Carson Fuller had always been interested in woodworking. As he approached his retirement years, he set up a shop in his garage and gradually became expert at cabinet-making.

By 1964, Milt Tesar even coached the track team. He expected 33 boys to turn out that spring.

Don Brennan was baseball coach. In warm-up games, The Indians beat four area schools.

Capt. Gordon B. Frank of Cambridge was awarded the Silver Star for valor in Vietnam. In the same group of three being decorated was Capt. Colin L. Powell of St. Albans, NY, who received the Bronze Star for meritorious conduct. Powell would go on to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff at the time of the Gulf War.

Tesar's track team beat Hoosick Valley 75-29. Darryl Decker and Steve Morse were double winners. Decker took the 100 dash and the broad jump.

The Indians lost a track meet to Greenwich 68-36, then bounced back against Salem 59-45.

They broke two school records, but lost to Schuylerville 65-39. Tim White set a new discus mark of 133' 7". Frank Gates raised the pole vault mark to 9' 6".

Both Hoosick Falls and Schuylerville beat the Indian baseball team, 13-2 and 6-3, as they opened the season.

Naomi Marsh was the valedictorian of the class of '64.

In mid-May, CCS trackmen were fourth in a meet with eight area schools. Then they easily defeated Argyle in winning ll of 12 firsts.

Hoosick Valley gave the Indians their third consecutive baseball loss 4-3.

Colfax Golf Dies

Colfax Mountain as a resort and golf course died an ignominious death when the Farmers Home Administration refused after 18 months of negotiating, planning and high hopes, to authorize the requisite loan.

Responded Mr. Hunt, "This sudden reversal with no apparent opportunity to appeal the decision has shaken my confidence in any further negotiation.... Mrs. Hunt and I plan to develop our Christmas tree plantation.... It is doubtful that we will ever again seek government help".

And that was the end of John Hunt's dream. What an incredibly great loss to Old Cambridge!

Bucket Returns

Cambridge athletes won back the Old Oaken Bucket that spring by downing Salem 13-6 in a baseball game. Tom Severson was the winning pitcher.

Then Stillwater cooled them off 14-3, behind a 16 hit attack.

Late in May the cindermen raced over Stillwater 81-23, the Indians taking all running events. However, Greenwich took the county meet with 51 points. Cambridge and Hoosick Valley tied for third.

Darryl Decker was first in the 180 low hurdles. The entire team would be available for the sectionals at Linton on Memorial Day.

Being small for Class C competition was a disadvantage, but the Indians finished 5th in the Sectionals, out of 12 schools.

Mrs. Waldemar Roewer soloed that summer at the Cambridge Flying Club.

Daniel Severson graduated from the Univ. of Maine. He was class of '60 at CCS. At Maine he earned three varsity football letters. One of those years they were conference champs. A member of ROTC, he would go to Fort Benning, Ga. to Ranger training for service in Vietnam.

Carson Fuller would once again direct the Cambridge summer recreation and swim programs.

The best school band in the Washington County Volunteer Firemen's Convention in Granville that May was the Cambridge High School Band.

Clarence Coulter announced that he would retire from the CCS school board. He had served since 1938.

Fifty-three graduated from CCS that May.

The dought was so severe the summer of 1964 that 180 area residents raised $2,500 to hire a "rain-maker".

June 26th was designated Charles John Stevenson day at Radio Station WGY in Schenectady. He had turned 75. The WCP carried his life story. That Friday, the 26th marked the end of Stevenson's long run as the "Chanticleer" early morning broadcaster.

He began the "Chanticleer" program in 1945.

Charlie Bowler's days as school principal were numbered. Unfortunately, Charlie’s shoes could not be filled by his replacement.

The Fourth of July predicted Log Race on the Battenkill continued. This year Bernie Morache won. The race was from the Jack Hudson farm on 313 to Eagleville.

Rain making efforts in the area ceased when the money---estimated at $6,700--- ran out.

One of the warmest summers on record supplied the incentive for the largest attendance at the Cambridge recreation swim program.

Carson Fuller noted that 100-150 were attending the evening baseball program at the school grounds and the basketball program under the lights was also popular.

Folk singing was for the first time a big part of summer entertainment. Big name performers like Josh White and The Kingston Trio appeared in the region. Many locals weren't in tune with this new trend.

In mid-August, the Andrew Bells bought Hubbard's Hall and the double stores from Gen. Frank Sherman Henry.

The Vietnam War was attracting more and more National attention. Editor Mahoney noted that "It requires a lot of reading ... to form an opinion on why American fighting men are in Vietnam. And after the reading, still no broad understanding of the American role there is forthcoming....

“…We will continue the immoral practice of sending in a handful of men to sacrifice their lives for a reason which our government has never seen fit to explain.

"It is asking too much of a few American fighting men. It is that which is not in the American tradition."

There were hard, hard times ahead.

Don Record, one of its most gifted student athletes, returned to CCS as a teacher and coach.

The summer recreation program closed, with the distribution of 482 cards denoting success in the various swimming programs.

Fifty-one reported for football practice that fall. Coach Tesar set up a controlled scrimmage with Watervliet.

CCS opened Sept. 9th, with 1,200 students on board.

The Cambridge Flying Club sponsored an FAA ground school for those who would learn to fly.

The first football game of the season was with Draper High School, who won 33-0.

The drought continued into the Fall.

CCS lost the second game of the season to Hoosick Falls 13-6. Beaver Ross put the Indians ahead by scoring their lone touchdown, a 48 yard run on an interception.

A strong Fort Edward defense broke a second quarter tie and led to a 26-13 win over the visiting Indians, who were yet to get a victory.

Finally they got it, 26-0 over St. Peters. Bob Harrington scored two of the TDs.

Greenwich and Hoosick Falls were at the top of the Washington County League with 3-0 records. Cambridge was in the middle at 1-2.

The D & H received permission from the PSC to retire its freight station at Cambridge. Local deliveries would be handled through the Salem office.

Greenwich throttled Cambridge 35-0. It was their fourth consecutive victory over the Indians.

Don Pierce wrote the sports story that told of Cambridge's second victory of the football season, 21-12 over Salem.

This put them a leg up for the Old Oaken Bucket.

Meanwhile, Hoosick Falls marched to their fifth straight win.

The Nation went to the Democrats that November, Johnson and Humphrey prevailing over Goldwater and Miller.

But the big headline was reserved for the Indians, who defeated Stillwater 18-0. This brought CCS to 3-3 on the season, the last two contests being victories.

Schuylerville beat the Indians 14-6, despite the loudest efforts of the school band.

Maurice O'Connor was the star of the annual football banquet, this season attended by 155 in the school cafeteria.

Mike Severson of Cambridge was commissioned that Fall as a Navy 2nd Lt. and pilot, a Naval aviator and helicopter pilot. He graduated from CCS in 1961.

The first game of the basketball season, CCS lost to Granville 40-29.

The drought was lessened by a severe, early December ice storm. Local power was out 11 hours.

The Indians continued to lose, this time 35-33 to Granville.

The new varsity sport, wrestling, began for CCS against Hoosick Falls, where they lost. But more impressive was their 40-11 victory over Mechanicville. Milt Tesar knew wrestling.

The Indian basketball team floundered fearfully, falling 60-44 to Schuylerville and going, according to the stats of reporter Don Pierce, to 0-3 on the season.

The the wrestling team took it, pinned by the Schuylers 37-13. Then they lost a close match to Bennington.

The Hoosiers drove the spike into the Indians 72-33, as the basketball season got worse.

1963: Girls Repeat Track Champs, Strong Ski Team

Alum Linwood Strout, Regional Sports Writer

"Duke" Nennstiel's team again won the annual Alumni Torunament. Diane Dunham was queen of the Snow Ball.

The CCS ski team won the second annual Willard Mt. Invitational. They had also won the first one. Six teams competed. CCS edged Johnstown. Dick Morse was capt. of the team. John Romack won the best combined.

The CCS ski team won the Saranac Lake High School Winter Carnival Downhill Race. Led by Capt. Richard Morse, the Indians upset four North Country teams.

Beaver Ross, skiing in the B division for those under 16, took individual honors. He was first in the Downhill.

Mary Cornell became the first CCS girl to compete in interscholastic sports since the 1930s. There were 25 girls in her division.

The CCS Basketball Indians defeated Hartford 51-28. Tom Parsley led scoring. At that point in the season, Hoosick Falls was 8-0, Greenwich and Hoosic Valley were 6-1 and Cambridge was 3-4.

Then CCS reached .500 with a 70-48 win over Argyle. Richard MacDougall scored 32 points, only 5 off Kenny Stinner's school record.

Matt Meagher's expanded Town House Restaurant was booming, Matt reported that he catered 32 banquets in December.

CCS skiers were fourth at Johnstown in a field of 13 schools.

The Salem Generals took the second round of the Old Oaken Bucket as the Indians lost game no. five on the season, 75-48.

Linwood "Lindy" Strout, well-known sports writer from Cambridge, resigned as Post Star sports editor to go to work for the Times-Union. He had worked at Glens Falls since 1957.

CCS downed Schuylerville 57-47, behind the 30 points of Larry Parsley.

Then sharp-shooting Stillwater dropped them 71-53.

An American Field Service chapter formed at CCS. Mrs. Dorothy Bell was president of the executive committee.

St. Patrick's annual "smoker" drew Yankee slugger Dale Long.

The CCS ski team again won the invitational meet at Willard Mountain. Cambridge was first among nine Section II high school teams competing.

They dominated both events. In the giant slalom, they won the first three places, Dick Morse, John Romack and Beaver Ross. Ross won the regular slalom, with Romack second. Among girl racers, Betsy Cornell was third in the giant.

Among the individual boys, David Craig was second over-all.

This team received very little support from the school. They furnished most of their own equipment, paid their own fees and provided their own transportation.

Hoosic Valley downed the Indians 71-59.

Dick Record graduated from SUNY Cobleskill, with an emphasis in dairy technology.

The Tackle Box fishermen's store on the Battenkill was sold by Roy Brown. In 14 years, Brown had built the Tackle Box into an institution known from New York to Indiana. Stories had ben printed about it in the New York Times and the Albany-Times Union.

Mr. Brown left his champion trout, taken form the Dutchman's Hole in 1923, on the wall.

The CCS ski team was third among eight competing schools at the Cooperstown Invitational.

CCS defeated the Tanagers of Hartford 72-63. Next they faced sectionals-bound Salem.

Oaken Bucket

Goes North

In early March, the Salem Generals secured possession of the Old Oaken Bucket for the year by defeating the Indians 56-40. It was the first time the Bucket had to make the journey north. The Bucket symbolized over-all athletic superiority between the schools on the year.

Darryl Decker led CCS scoring with 12 points, but Steve Ludd had 29 for Salem.

The Monday night youth basketball league was feted with a banquet. Teacher Maurice OConnor ran the league, which varsity

Coach John Herbert started five years previous.

The Masons again gave the basketball team a banquet.

In the Section II championships in March, the Cambridge ski team placed second, behind Johnstown and ahead of four other high schools.

Beaver Ross captured the giant slalom to lead CCS to a team victory in that event. Johnstown was second. In the regular slalom, Johnstown won and Cambridge was second. Somehow this gave Johnstown the Section II title by a couple of points.

The Cambridge "A" team was composed of Richard Morse (capt.), Beaver Ross, John Romack, Peter Morse, Steve Morse and Dave Craig. They competed in eight sanctioned meets on the season.

In the season, CCS competed against 28 different schools and had the distinction of having defeated every one of them on at least one occasion, except for Old Forge. Old Forge (not in Section II) was not defeated by anyone in the 1962-63 season.

Only Capt. Dick Morse would be lost through graduation. The team chose his brothers, Pete and Steve, to captain the next season.

Colfax Mountain, then the possession of John and Mary Hunt, was considered by the Farmers Home Administration for development as a recreation area. If the Hunts had their way, it would feature a golf course, a swimming pool and a mountain lodge, with picnic and camping grounds. Unfortunately, the deal didn't go through.

Dr. John H. Kingsley, former principle of the Cambridge Union School, died March 20 in Tucson, Ariz. He was one of the three best administrators ever to grace the local halls of learning.

That spring, Al Baratto was operating a popcorn wagon on Cambridge streets.

The CCS Track team swamped Stillwater 78-26, taking firsts in every event. Darryl Decker took the broad and high jumps. Steve Morse took the hop-step-jump and the 440. Tim White won the 880 and the discus, and Bob Harrington the Shot.

Frank Ludwick took the mile and Jerry Coon won both the 220 and the 100. The relay team won handily.

Ivan Purdy was voted most valuable player in the Siena College basketball intramurals.

Joe Jerrard coached the baseball team that spring. The Indians lost to Schuylerville 3-2 in the opener, then defeated Salem 8-3. This they followed with a 21-1 blow-out of Hartford.

Darryl Decker was the team's leading pitcher.

A distinguished New England golf architect surveyed Mount Colfax and declared that it could make a fine golf course. According to owner John Hunt, when all plans and cost estimates were completed, the Colfax Recreation Assoc. would apply for an FHA loan.

The Cambridge Flying Club formed, with the object of buying a jointly owned plane to fly off Chapin Field. George Chapin, who gave the field, was club vice president.

Diana Yalo was Valedictorian of the class of 1963.

At Cambridge Central, the $1 million addition was going up.

Schuylerville walked off with its fifth consecutive Washington County Championship in Track that May. The best Cambridge could do was pick up some individual winners.

Darryl Decker was tops in the county in the low hurdles, Frank Ludwick won the Mile and Steve Morse won the high jump. As defending champion in the event, he cleared 5' 10".

Girls County

Track Champs

The CCS girls team won the Washington County Track Championship for the second consecutive year. Pat McLenithan had two firsts. The girls amassed 45 points to best Greenwich, second with 24.

McLenithan took the 50 and 100 yard dashes. Austin took the 75. Marilyn Hendrickson of Cambridge took the standing broad jump. Debbie Craig won the high jump. The 220 relay went to Cambridge. Running were Ruth Boeker, Pratt, Cornell and Hendrickson.

The AFS chapter at CCS announced that Joseph Manhard of Austria would be the first exchange student to enroll at the high school.

That May, Andrew and Dorothy Bell could boast of having nine children attending CCS: Virginia, Philip, Robert, James, Peter, Bruce, Ted, Sylvia and Alan, who was about to graduate.

All of them played in the band.

Fifty-one graduated from CCS.

The Cambridge Recreation program kicked off that July, under the direction of Carson Fuller, as usual.

That Fourth of July saw the first publicized inauguration of the Predicted Log Race down the Battenkill River. John McCall won, just 50 seconds off his estimated time.

The race was not publicized, but the paper found out. The race would eventually be killed by its ever-growing popularity.

Jack Murphy, 16, of Academy St. was the first member of the new Cambridge Flying Club to solo.

That summer, a golf course expert certified that Mount Colfax would be a good setting for a golf course.

For the school year 1963-64, Milt Tesar of Binghamton was hired to replace Joseph Reilly as elementary teacher and head football coach. Carson Fuller had, indeed, been replaced.

Joe Kent put into use that Fall the first modern, garbage collection vehicle in the area, called "a collectomatic packer. It was to eliminate refuse falling off the truck and papers blowing on the way to the dump.

CCS opened Sept. 9th with 1,155 enrolled.

Fifty boys reported for Milt Tesar's first football team. Beaver Ross, Bruce McLenithan, Karl Rogge, Ed Jordan, Bob Warren, Steve McLenithan, Pete Morse, Thure Johnson, Rog Holcomb, Peter Matcovich, Ed Hunt and Bill Watkins, Dick Eddy and Paul Harris were among the veterans. Darryl Decker was a likely candidate for quarterback. Paul Adams and Rob Harrington, Web Madison, Jeff Ashworth, Ted Ridler, John Hunt, Ron Dawley, Tim Squiers, Ed Rouse, Paul Virtue, John McCarty, Worth Gassett, John Cole, Mike Meagher, Don Jepson, Jim Blanchfield, Larry Ackley, Bruce Squiers, Rob Radley, Fred King, Dave Craig, Steve Schnell, Steve Davis, Joe Manhart, Charles Marsh, John Porter, Bill Hatch and Tom Moore all expected to be on the squad.

CCS scrimmaged Watervliet to a draw, in their first practice game.

Rogers Gorman, 37, was appointed editor of the Daily Record, a Rochester newspaper.

CCS defeated Fort Edward on a last ditch pass play from Darryl Decker to Richie Eddy, 13-6.

The next week, CCS used the final seconds to defeat St. Peter's, 12-7. Another Decker to Eddy pass set up the winning score. Carl Adams took it to the three and Rob Harrington punched in.

Mike Severson graduated from Naval pre-flight school, Pensacola. He would continue training to be a pilot.

Greenwich won the next football game 26-9.

But the following week, heroics by John Hunt, Darryl Decker and Mike Meagher led to a 21-7 win over Salem on the first leg of the Oaken Bucket contest.

Joe Mansart, the foreign exchange student, became the PAT kicker for the football team.

Stillwater downed the Indians 26-18.

CCS downed Schuylerville 13-6.

Hoosick Falls beat the Indians 16-0.

The Village was beset by vandalism during these years, with the smearing and desecrating of monuments and trashing of homes and yards. Control seemed beyond the adults.

John Hunt pushed forward with his plan to turn Colfax into a recreation complex. He sought to form a membership corporation based upon wide community participation. The FHA encouraged the group to proceed with plans, on the prospect of a loan from them.

The November 28th issue of the WCP mourned the assassination of another president. Wrote Nick Mahoney, the editor of the WCP at the time:

"The head of our nation..., the man who had stared down the Soviets across the island of Cuba..., the man who had fought for civil rights for all... murdered in a great city of the country he had served so well."