Batavia High School - Batavian Yearbook (Batavia, NY)

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Class Jropllecy ATAVI.-YS hohe for an 'tlild lflome Week had al: last heen realized. It was through the efforts of 'three ol' our old friends: Iglerhie Booth, now a hauk president, t'huck t'ai-sou, secretary of the Y. M. C. A. and Mahel Ross, snpcrintendent. ol' the Ross Seminary for G'i1'lS. that this had been hronght ahout. ln response to an invitation from the conunittee, I had left my work and was on my way to the old town. Two old pals, lloh Carson and Kelley, had capitalized the old Iluf- falo and Williamsville street car line and it now ran hetween these two places. It was one of their cars that I entered at llnffalo. Not having had time to buy a paper, I picked up one left by some one else and read the title: The Daily News, Ilatavia, Y., Silvernail and Melfahon, Editors. This was indeed luck, as I had not seen one in some time. It was about two days old as the date was June 16, 1925. As usual the front page was mostly foreign news and so I only glanced at the titles. One little item, however, drew my attention. It was: London, England-The opera Lucello created a decided hit here in its opening performance last evening. Francis Finnegan of the United States, in the leading role held the audience spellhound hy the beauty and strength of his Voice. t'XYell, I ejaenlated to myself, To think of Finnegan singing be- fore English Dukes and Lords. Then, like a. Chinaman, I turned to the hack page of the paper, hut of curiosity I looked at the names of the firms whose ads appeared here. t'XVliy, I exclaimed to myself, 'fnearly everyone of these people were members of the class of 1915? There are, t'Shihley and Saftord, Hair- dressers and Manicurists, ttlliss Marian tfrissy, Lessons on the Accord- ion and 3Ielodion. But at this point the paper was knocked from my hands and some- one hegan to pump lllj' arm up and down, saying, Well, well, if it isn't. old Spindlesft I looked up and there was the brick top of .John Schwartz smiling down at me. My, but I'm glad to see you, I returned, shaking his hand heartily, Sit down and give an account of yourself. What are you doing anyway ? t'OlJ, 17111 a traftie ofiieer in Buffalo. I work on the night gang and when I want the people to stop I simply take off my hat. They see my red hair and know that is a signal to stop. That's all there is to my work. But, say, Joe Ryan has got some job.. He's trying to pound some fresh 21:

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5 M 72' 74573313-.f'ff 'YII!!!-L .1932 -MALE ' 111. fy... -:' 'f An- M . may 5. Lf, Q 5 Jw f. '21 2 it iff M ff I Z- ' jf, ., A it I 4 f.f5 A o, ,v 4 K? l I i. I N, Senior Class--Contifnued 5:65 '9 ff if 1: 'Tiff ' QA ANNIE ISIIIIELIIA BIARIE SPINK, 24 Tracy AxIe.5 Attica., N. Y., Apt-11 27, 1895 5 Latin-English cou15se5 TG2lCh6l15 Buffalo Normal. 12 SUSAN GRACE THOMAS5 472 Ellicott Streetg Batavia, August 95 18955 English course 5 Member' of A. A. 1235 Class Q1-355 Press- Association Q1-2-3-41 5 LiteI'a.1'y Society MJ. GRAGE ELIZABETII TUTTLE, 134 Ross Streetg Byron, N. Y., 18975 English courseg Class Q1-3-lj 5 Literary Society Q3-45. f EDNA BI..-XNCHE YVESTACOTT5 26 Tracy Avenue5 Portlaiid, Me., March 4, 181975 Classical coui-se5 Member of A. A. M55 Class Q-155 Press Association Q3-455 Literary Society Q3-45. 5 ANNA IQATHLEEN GEORGIA VVYNN, 28 South ' Main StI'eet5 born, Bat.avia,.N. Y.5 Latin- English cou1'se5 Literary Society Q3-45. J S 2 TZ

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young mutts into good athletes for the Ilniversity ,of Buffalo and he iS so busy he can't even come up for Old Home Wieck. . . - - av ' ' 1 , ffAnd are there any more of our famous class in Buffalo. I inqunfd Oh,yes, I saw Grace Tuttle the other day and she said that she and mer old friend Mildred Blodgett were working as stenographers in an o. ci there. She told me where they lived and invited me up. You can Jus bet I'm going some day, too. UI donit blame you either, but say wasn't that Stafford we just went through?,' f'Yes. That's where Harold Heywood has his factory for the manu- facture of cork legs. That factory is all that keeps the old place O11 the map. Heywood married May Butler, you know, but they separated a couple years ago and she is living on alimony now. ffAre any more of our classmates married that you know about? I questioned. 4'Sure thing Koester and Marie Knoll finally got tied up and live in Philadelphia now. Koester is cartoonist on the Philadelphia. Ledger. Then Florence Colby married a traveling salesman and-YVhy, Myron Fincher, you old beanpole, how the dickens are you? I wondered who was getting on when the car stopped? 'fOh, Ilni a.ll right, Coniber and I are running a little farm up the road a short waysf' f'And do any more of the class live around here?', interrupted Schwartz. 'fYes, Ailice Russell runs a chicken farm a. couple miles from our place, while Russell Annabel owns a grocery store on tl1e four corners up here. Kathleen XVynn teaches the school in our district, too. But say, talking about teaching, did you hear how Mlle. Spink was giving siirfiiio- lessons to a class of deaf mates in New York? an-wx ' HYes, answered John, Hand Dorthea Durfee has a. class of Jews in Buffalo that she is teaching to talk with their mouths instead Of their hands. She says so much motion is a waste of time in this fast age? XVell,W I interrupted, 'CI guess it's about time I told you about some of the 1915 people I know about. As I was entering the station a.t San Francisco, on my way here, I was almost bowled over by Frank Mammama. He said he didn't have time to talk since he had been called way from Salt Lake City to perform a. difficult operation. He has be- come a very famous surgeon now. Wlhile in Chicago I met Lucile Dun- ham, She is a teacher of Ilonxestic Science now and has become quitg 2 -i