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Alumni Scholarship Fund Drive Month
It’s March 1st, the CCS winter sports programs are over, Daylight Savings
Time goes into effect next weekend, and that can mean only 2 things … a
winter storm watch is in effect and the CCS Alumni Scholarship Fund Drive
has officially begun. If you’d like to contribute to the scholarship fund,
please send a check to CCS Alumni Scholarship to
CCS Alumni Association
24 South park Street
Cambridge, NY 12816
Clubs and Organizations
My dad has local historian for 25 years. Last week I found a list he
compiled in the late 1960’s of clubs and organizations around Cambridge.
The list goes back to 1866 when the Village of Cambridge was incorporated,
but it’s lacking any school organizations. Plus it’s almost 50 years old.
So I’m asking for your help in creating a 2009 list.
Please send me any clubs and organizations past or present that you
participated in. They don’t have to be CCS clubs but I sure hope I get
some of those. Send me the name of the club or organization, dates when
you were involved, leaders and participants. Den leaders, Cambridge Saddle
Club, chess club, square dance group, church groups, any and all. I want
to see if I can create a list that exceeds my Dad’s.
Here are some examples:
Club: Model Airplane
Leader: Ken Wilbur
Members: Tom Wilbur? , ??, ??
Date: 1965 ?
Where were meetings held: CCS athletic fields
Stories: Any competitions? Local? State?
Organization: DeMolay
Leader: John Briggs
Members: ??, ??
Date: 196?-??
Where were meetings held: Masonic hall above Frank Higgins hardware store
Stories:
Two of Cambridge’s Older Organizations
Two of the organizations on my Dad’s list that I had heard little about
were the Modern Woodmen of America (MWA) and Grand Army of the Republic
(GAR).
1. The first photo shows the Free & Accepted Masons in front of the Pierce
Building, which was located on the south side of East Main Street just
east of Park Street. The Masons used the left (east) side of the second
floor for their meeting hall and the MWA used the right (west) side. After
the Pierce building burned, it was replaced by the Fuller Block. When that
too was destroyed by fire, it was replaced by Hastings East End Market
which today is The Bog.
2. The second photo shows the GAR outside the red brick hotel. The Grand
Army of the Republic (GAR) was a fraternal organization composed of
veterans of the Union Army who had served in the American Civil War. In
1868, the GAR called for May 30 to be designated as a day of memorial for
Union veterans; originally called "Decoration Day," it later evolved into
the U.S. national Memorial Day holiday.
I’ve also attached a third photo of the Red Brick hotel as it looked in
the late 1800’s with its wrap-around porches. The hotel was torn down in
1962 (?) to make room for “progress”. Web Madison, class of ’67, and his
dad salvaged a large section of the bar and relocated it to their camp in
Ash Grove.
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