Batavia High School - Batavian Yearbook (Batavia, NY)

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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

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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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. Class Ilistory OUR- short years ago, we were ushered into ll. ll. S. bewildered, frightened treslnnen. lYe had no idea. ot' school spirit or loyalty. Our only ailn was to arrange our prog'rainine so that we wouldn't have more than two Algebra and three Latin classes a day. This ditiieulty was straightened out hy the S'YlllllZIlllt'l'lt' hand ol' the teachers. who have worked so interestedly and t'aithl'nlly with us during' our high school course. Then caine organization. lYe we turned out sixty strong, as the Class of 1915. could old ll. ll. S. help hut he proud? We were full of enthusiasm and entered, heart and soul, into all the activities of the school life. lYe iirst gave a dance, which unlike inost dances, turned good money into the. treasury. The next step was to buy pins. Our ehoiee was a pretty, gold shield with ll, H. S. and our numerals. The last activity of the F1-eslnnan year, was a joint picnic, which everyone said was the best yet, with the Sophoinores. Then we ourselves were Soplioinores. Although the nuniher of the class was somewhat smaller than the registry of the first year, we still had the saute enthusiasin. The class gave a dance that was right, and which was considered one of the niost important functions of the year. Later we had a sleighride twe went in carryallsl to Lelloy. About forty inade the excursion and ereryoiie enjoyed it iininensely teven the chap and two or three others who were accidently left hehind and rescued laterl. Our enthusiasm hlossoined during the track season, and in the interscholastic track ineet we offered an individual cup to the winner of the 220-yarcl dash. XYhen we hecaine Juniors we thought that we needed hetter pins, and Consequently chose our new, original one. lYe gave two dances, one at Cl11'iSl1l1ZlS and the 'tProin in June, hoth of which were greatly enjoyed. In debating, the Juniors took the lead and won the honors from the Seniors. Although we ar-coiuplished much during our three past years, we feel that this, our Senior Year, has heen and will end, the most success- ful. YVe have energetically t'hoosted the Literary Society, tllee Clubs, Orchestra and most of all, athletics. The Batavia boys, aided hy the faithful efforts of the Seniors, have won renown on the gridiron, the Court, the track and the diamond. On Ai-hor Day we fultilled school traditions and planted the class tree. Tile have not only fulfilled tradition, hut also estahlished precedent in similar ways. A Shakespearian Play, will he presented by the Vlass 27