Kenneth Lamb,

Kenneth graduated from Corfu Union Free High school, and remembers well that his class consisted of just twelve graduates. He continues an occasional correspondence with the living members of this class. Mr. Lamb began his college life in 1934 when he entered Syracuse University, but was forced to take a break to earn money by working on his dad�s farm. Returning to school, he was able to graduate in 1938 with a bachelor�s degree with a Latin major and minors in English, French, and Greek. A year later he received his masters degree in Education, assisted by a financial graduate program where his obligation was to teach one class daily.

Unable to secure a teaching position, Kenneth returned to Syracuse University in the fall of 1939 and took some administrative classes and completed his English major. Following this last step in his education, he obtained his first job teaching Latin, English, and French at the Rushford Central School, near Cuba, which is on the line between Pennsylvania and NYS. He remained there for two years. On 17 Aug 1940, he married his fianc�e Marian Whitney who was an Art instructor in the same school. Ken and Marian went to Oakfield in the western part of Genesee county in 1942, where he taught English, Latin, and French. He also worked part time for the United States Gypsum Company, mining gypsum rock for use in making sheetrock. Marian had at this time not returned to the teaching field as their first child, Elliott, had been born the prior year. They remained at Oakfield for four years and at the end of 1944 Ken returned to Corfu, his alma mater, to teach under the principal he'd had when he graduated high school. There again he taught all the languages, including English, and remained for five years. During the summer of 1951, Ken would tell you he had his best break.

He heard of the small Henderson Central School District that was searching for a principal. Motoring to Henderson alone he met with Laura Dunbar, Marion Stevens, Raymond Fishel, Sidney Hess and Shirley Scott, all members of the Henderson School Board of Trustees, to interview for the position. When Mr. Lamb returned home, he told Marian he felt good about his interview, and hoped he would soon hear from the Henderson School Board. He was called for a second interview and was treated to a dinner at what is now known as Verrilli�s Restaurant. On returning to the school, the Board informed him he�d hear from them soon as they still needed to meet and make their decision. He was about to head for home, when approaching his car, a window went up in the school building and a board member shouted to him that he had the job. Mr. Lamb returned to the building and signed his new contract that very evening. Of course, he was excited, but that meant a very quick move for the Lamb family, which now consisted of Elliot, age eight, Ellen four and Nelson two. Their first residence in Henderson was the stone house on Main street, where Mr. Aliasso now resides. A year later they purchased the Letcher Allen home (where Letcher had a blacksmith shop in the barn out back.) Marian returned to teaching Art, in the early 60�s, sharing her responsibilities between Henderson and Mannsville. Ken, at the same time, was teaching either Latin or French, and sometimes both along with assuming his principal duties. He enjoyed the classroom setting and the students as it took him away from the normal daily task of deciphering, decisions, and discipline. The language classes consisted of students in grades 9-12 ranged as high as 25 in Latin and 10-12 in French. Henderson had 15-18 instructors at any given time and some of them were part-time. The maximum student enrollment, Ken recalls, was 300 and the largest graduating class was fifteen. In 1963, he encouraged the faculty and student to print their first yearbook. The 1971 yearbook was dedicated to him. Ken retired twenty years after he began his work at Henderson Central School and so did Marian. At that time, because he still felt he wanted to work, he became a clerk at the Dairylea Cheese Factory in Adams. That was in 1972 and he continued until retiring the second time in 1979. All three of their children had graduated from Henderson Central School by this time. It was on 23 Sep 1997, that he lost his life long partner, Marian. Ken now began spending more time with duties for the Henderson United Methodist Church. Not only is he a trustee and financial secretary, he also participates in the choir and performs other tasks for the church. For those of you who know Ken, you know he mows the lawn for the church and community, rakes the lawns, shovels snow in the winter, pours coffee at just about any dinner served in the community building, and delivers meals on wheels (and has had up to thirteen deliveries-two times a week, on many occasions.) He also maintains his home in Henderson as well as his cottage for his children, Elliott who has retired from Eastman Kodak, Ellen who is teaching Latin and Art history in the Rochester school system, and Nelson who is a minister at the United Methodist Oswego Trinity Church. When Ken was asked, �what advice he would give a person going into education,� he said, �Go For It�, � the money is good, the fringe benefits are excellent, and there are lots of opportunities.�

Best Wishes, Kenneth� and thanks for sharing your life with us!

The UAB Board of Trustees would like to establish an educational scholarship for Kenneth and Marian Lamb. Ken was one of the last principals that Henderson Central School had before the merger with Belleville Central School District. The following article is from an interview Ken gave our committee of their lives, careers and family. We thought that those of you who knew them, or would like to know about them, would enjoy having his story. This will be a way to thank them.

Scholarship Fund For Kenneth and Marian Lamb During the summer of 1999, the UAB Board of Trustees, their families and many interested friends and families gathered on a warm summer evening to picnic and tour the Bell Tower. The occasion was an effort to raise more funds to help renovate the clock mechanism and clock faces of the Bell Tower, A sizable sum of money was donated toward the repairs and all had a lot of fun. This past summer of 2000 the Picnic in the Park was repeated. Previous to the picnic, the UAB Board of Trustees held a contest for the school children of the Belleville Henderson Central School where drawings of and prose & poetry about the Bell Tower were completed. The response was exciting, particularly producing some beautiful pencil and chalk drawing of the Tower. The winners of the art and writing contest, and their families were invited as honored guests to the picnic, along with any of the interested public. Some particular families were especially recognized for their more than generous contributions from the previous year. In addition, the Trustees of the Philomathean Free Library were there with an informative brochure about their historical building and a special post office cancellation to help raise money for the Tower. Again, the evening was very successful and enjoyable. For the third annual picnic, the trustees plan to involve the school children again in a project revolving around the renovation of the downstairs room in the Bell Tower. Tentative plans are for the room to be made into a historical one-room schoolhouse museum, ideally open on a part-time basis for tours and educational purposes. Watch your papers for this summer�s picnic date and plan to join us. Bring a dish to share and your family. See you there.

In the Memory of � Arthur �Ted� Greene & Tom Murphy A scholarship honoring Ted Greene & Tom Murphy is being established by David Kohl. The award is open to past or present graduates of UAB, BCS, HCS or BHCS who have: exhibited attributes of hard work, proper attitude and discipline (not necessarily academic); been a participant in the Agriculture or Athletic program while in school; shown motivation with potential to succeed; plans to include Agriculture or Athletics in their future studies. The award is to be made annually as determined by the UAB Scholarship committee. Suggested that the applicant write a one-page narrative as to why they deserve to receive this scholarship. Applications will be available in the BHCS Guidance Office by January 2002. If any graduate or friend of these special men care to honor Coach Murphy or Mr. Greene by contributing to the scholarship, please send a check payable to �UAB Endowment Fund� with a notation indicating this scholarship and mail it to: Phyllis Ormsby 9248 NYS Route 289 Adams, NY 13695

Mr. Greene, a graduate of Cornell University, built a prominent chapter of the Future Farmers of America. Because of his exceptional leadership, the first female to become a member of our nations� FFA came from Belleville.

Coach Murphy, a graduate of Springfield College, produced one of the nation�s top high school boy�s basketball teams, which still maintains a New York State record of most consecutive victories. Currently, this record rates as fourth in our nation�s history. Both men put Belleville on the map resulting from their expertise in agriculture, athletics, as well as their discipline, acquired during their service in the armed forces. Created by Dr. David Kohl, also a former graduate of UAB and now a professor of agricultural and applied economics at Virginia Tech, as well as a renown global speaker in his field, established this scholarship because of the impression these two men left with him. Dr. Kohl want to give back to his community what was given to him.