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90 YEARS AGO: Guidance, or helping each pupil make satisfactory adjustments to his present environment and plan definitely for a happy and successful future, has come to be an important high school function. And, extensive work along this line is now carried out at Oneonta Junior high school which recently received its charter from the New York State Education Department.

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