Batavia High School - Batavian Yearbook (Batavia, NY)

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fa1110llS IlI1'0IIglI her tliseovery ol' il Wilj' io 1-ook onions and Cilllllilglf so that there is no odor. S-he told IIIO that the l'2IlllUIlS oulirlelle is slill HII earth. Hazel Dennison is l'lIh'Sll'2ll Qllireelor in :1 Y. W. ll. A. there and Margaret- Bray :ind Sihyl Collins bolh work on Il inaganziiie. I'egg.v writes The 'Latest Styles lor NYIIIIIUIIU sem-tion, while Sihlvl has l'll2Il'QIf of the Culture in the l'lOIIIl'u section. I rode l'ron1 Toledo to lillllgilllll witl1 Joseph Vincent li0lllIIOIlll, ICs11. Ile suid he inoved to Ohio llI'l'llIISl' that was the l1o111e ol' so IIIIIIIIY presidents. Ile lhought that perhaps there would be lIl0l'L' ol' il l'llillll'U l'or l1is election there. Ile lold IIII5 almouli several of Ulll' old l'lilSSlIIZll'US. Ile said l,l'ilI'l Sl'lII'2llll'l' and lAlI'I'l'l2l Howard were running il business sehool in Toledo. l,2ll'liUI'lICll after Miss Blount's, you know. Ile also showed nie il letter I1e got l!l'UIlI Art Calkins. Art is working' as il paper Imnger down i11 New OI'll'2IIlS. Ile is so tall he doesn't have to use il step-l:1dder. In I1is letter lil? wrote that Ilac Coletti was n1urrie1I lllIXVll there last week. It SUPIIIS that Ilae passed hiinselt' olt as the Count Ile lla Hu, and nun-ried :1 l'll'lI girl. But aren't we getting near li2l1'2'IYl2I?u Yes, replied lfineher, That was Breezy Heights we just passed. Cv ld'orp's latest real estate venture. I understand he nnule good money out of it, too. And here is C01-ti's baseball grounds. He owns llllt li2ll2lVl2I. tezun now and Flilllli Kelsrlienback is still his star player. There on the other side is IIettie lf'oope1 s mansion. She worked as stenogrnpher for a l'll ll old gink and he fell in love and lnarried her. He died last year and, believe ine, she's a IIIGITDV widow now. lint here is where we get out. But it was junipingr from the frying' pun into tI1e tire. For there was a whole erowd ot old lIatavian's. After having Illj' arin nearly shaken off, I managed to get Ted Robinson outside of tI1e crowd and ask il few questions. HCOIIIQ now Ted, I begged. tell nie about yourself and some of tl1e others who stayed in tI1eir old lIOI'1I0 town. 'fOh, Chaddoek and I run a law oflice here, lil? began, ttnotliing very exciting about that. llut say. Helen Ilooth just got bark liI'OIII Iflurope yesterday. You know she won lllll prize four years ago otlfered by ll New York paper for a plan that NYOlllll bring about peace in Europe. She has been in the Old ffountry for II couple years IIOW and she is to give il lecture some time this week on her experienres. Floyd Nesbitt is also going to lecture to another class of people, the l.2Il'Illl'l'S. llis topie is f'YVhat Scientific Fanning Has Ac-coinplished on My l'12lI'lll.'l But talking about lectures makes nie tl1i11k ol' Era l,add. lle has ll speech all his own. He travels froin town to town and holds meetings on the street corners to sell cult buttons. IIis good voiee eoines in Iiundy. 755

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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

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'fBut these are not people that remained in Bata. i I 'nterruptled fftell about some of them. VEL, 1 V 7 an ' ' lVell, he started in again, 'fright across the street. lives H91611 Mahaney and Kathleen Forsyth, they have given up all hopes of mare riage a.nd have settled down as old maids. It's too bad one of them canlt cat-ch Hiaroild Page. All he does is lounge around the Ba.t.a.via Cllub and spend the money his dad left him. But Teresa Maher is just the opposite from these two. Instead of settling down she is busy making money. She collects the socks, etc., which were knit. for soldiers during the Eu- ropean IVar and were never sent. She sells them and makes' a. good profit. f'IVha.t are they going to have for entertainment this week ? I asked. t'The principal thingjf answered Ted, 'tis a circus composed of one time Batavians. And our class is well represented too. Gladys Lown is the fat woman and Edmund Brown the giant from the interior of Africa. Briss Farrall acts as the wild man from Borneo, while Dave Birmingham is the leather-lunged spieler at the entrance of the side show. Gertrude Crehan, Mary Donahue and Helene O'Connor are known as f'Tl1e Trio with Trusty Teeth. They carry each other around by ropes which they ha.ng onto by their teeth and go through a. lot of fancy stunts while hanging by their teeth. It's really quite thrilling. Of course there are others in the circus but these are all from our class. But say Tedj' I asked, 'twho are the three girls .across the street? They look a little familiar. f'IVell, I should think they would you went to school with all three of them. The one on the inside is Iiathlyn Kaulfman, She is a. woman suffrage leader now. The one in the middle is Sue Thomas who is now head nurse in our hospital here. Next to her is Edna IVestacott, who is famous as a photoplay writer. HI guess l've heard from all our old friends now but two, I sighed with relief. f4They are Fat Xlfeldgen and Randall Howe. - Howe,U exclaimed Teddy, is dead. He died from exhaustion caused by chasing after every girl he saw. IVeldgen is just wha.t he was cut out to be, a big fat alderman in New York City. ffIVell, I exclaimed, 'fWe certainly are some class. Everything from Redmond, the statesman, down to Howe, the suicide, can be found on our roll. But just the same we average up pretty well a.nd Pm mightv glad that I belong to the Class of 1915 of dear old Batavia High Schoold' Lyndon Spencer, 115. - as