Albany Academy - Cue Yearbook (Albany, NY)

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I25TH ANNIVERSARY ISSUE 0 0 0 0 CLASS WILL We, the Class of l938, having come to the end of our days in this, our Alma Mater, do hereby bequeath our entire supply of worldly goods to our beneficiaries as follows: CLAUSE l: To Dr. l. F. McCormick an option on the Acme Lockorial Insurance .Agency and a copy of How to Win Friends, Gold Star Mothers, and Lower School Prospects. CLAUSE ll: To Mr. l-larold T. Stetson, the copyright on his lunch- room call Quiet, please! so that he will no longer be forced to tolerate the insubordinate imitation of the lower three forms. CLAUSE lll: To Mr. Earl Sharpe, a trip to Canton with the fervent hope that the japanese will understand his French better than we did. CLAUSE lV: To lVir. Evan A. Nason, a personal appearance tour in the better theatres of the United States to display that famous act of magic, The Hand is Quicker than the Eye. CLAUSE V: To lVlr. Lawrence Pike, a publisher who will accept his book and a public who will read it. CLAUSE Vl: To lVlr. joseph B. Lindsey, a class of fifty who wonit do it my way , two new fists to rest his chin on, and a bright red toupee. CLAUSE Vll: To Mr. Lyman B. Owen, a monocle, a checked scarf, a contract for directing super-colossal epics for the Acme Theatrical Syndi- cate, an introduction to Carole Lombard and a bottle of Aspirin. CLAUSE Vlll: To Miss Georgia Shute, a bouquet of orchids. CLAUSE lX: To Mr. Herbert l-lahn, the blonde in the red dress, a short beer, and a bookcase full of trash. CLAUSE X: To Mr. Rankin Boone, a Super-Shell roadmap to Kentucky and a commission to lead the next bonus march on Washington. CLAUSE Xl: To Mr. David A. lvlidgley a job as press agent for Nor- man Thomas and a leather-bound copy of the Times Union's American Weekly. Page thirty-one

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0 0 Q 0 THE COMMENCEMENT CUE STEPHENS-l'Tiger will be remembered by those famous words uttered to his mother as the chauffeur shut the door of the Packard- Nuts, all we have is chickeng l won't eat any more of the stuff !ia VANLOON- Winks must be more than l8: his hair couldn't get that messed in l8 years . VANAERNAM-jake tried Duke as a last resort-he'd tried all the other resorts land l do mean resortll VAN KEUREN-No one ever used the Academy uniform more practically than Vang he found it a much cheaper way to get to New Haven than the train. Van is remembered chiefly for his sister's picture. WEND-jerry is very careful about his dress. For instance, the day he rode to school to Parade, he was very careful to roll his white ducks to the knee so they wouldn't get mussed. WERE-Theo is an idea man. l-le wants to buy Indian Ladder and modern- ize it by installing an escalator. lndian Escalator-nice, what? WOOD-Charlie's great double-cross, Why Pacifism is Impossible ranks with the Great Ping-Pong and Tit-Tat-Toe Scandals of other years. Providence Street will miss its Noel Coward, Dr, Bellario lthe fiendl had everything Emperor jones did, Page thirty

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0 o 0 o THE COMMENCEMENT CUE CLAUSE XII: To Mr. Eliot Adams, an autographed copy of Cone With the Wind. CLAUSE XIII: To Mr. William Ritter, a concrete road across the Academy front lawn, so he can drive his car across it with greater con- venience. CLAUSE XIV: To Mr. Stephen Webber, a new Chippendale chair with built-in ash trays, a blow torch and an escalator to the dark room. CLAUSE XV: To IVlr. james Colton, a song that will satisfy everybody, a fur baton and a new kind of brown songbook that positively will not get lost. CLAUSE XVI: To Mr. William Crawford, one of I-lume's old night- shirts, his first cigar and a copy of Love Confessionsfi CLAUSE XVII: To Mr. Walter IVIcCill, a wife, who will raise a whole passel of brats that will never grow up, to remind him of his lst and 2nd formers for the rest of his days. CLAUSE XVIII: To IVlr. William Morris, a team of Cum Laude boys who will stand 6 ft. 2 in. in their stockings, weigh I9O pounds and be smart enough to figure out his A. A. accounts on the side. CLAUSE XIX: To Colonel Willard Donner, a new wallpaper design made up of two color Sergeants and their guards doing to-the reari' any place at all on a field of blue, and a music-box playing Ti-Pi Ti-Pi Tin and The Star Spangled Bannerfl CLAUSE XX: To Mr. Benjamin Newport, a shiny velocipede, top-hat, white tie, and tails. CLAUSE XXI: To Captain Reynolds King Townsend, a nice new war so he can get Purdy, Rooney and Wood. CLAUSE XXII: To Althea I-Iawley, an Exchange Manager who will not use her as a buffer for all the irate parents who want to have their sons' bills explained. Page tlnirty-two