Scotia High School

This is a postcard of what was my 7th grade building, but before that was Scotia’s first high school, on First Street in the village. Gone now, a parking lot for St. Joseph’s Church; the church hadn’t yet been built at the time of this photo. The building was unchanged through the years, and looked pretty much exactly like this when I went there in 1972. The church and houses had crept in around it, and there was no athletic field – we had to walk up the street to the 8th grade building (which was also a former high school) for outside gym. The note reads, “My Dear Mrs. Streeter. There arrived in this home on Jan. 26 at 8 A.M. Another dear little baby boy, his name is Eugene and grows like a weed. Mother is doing nicely. I hope this will find you and yours all well and happy. Yours Lovingly Lettie B. Reynolds. Feb. 15, 1907.” You might take from the tone that Lettie had little to do with this birth, but in fact she was Eugene’s mother. His father was Nelson. Both parents were fairly old for the time, in their 40s. Nelson was a caretaker in the village park, so perhaps knew something about things that grew like weeds. Little Eugene grew up to be an estimator for the power company, in 1930.