Charles H Milby High School - Buffalo Yearbook (Houston, TX)

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 r r «''ntTfT Mimmi trttntttnt»} Hal Hamilton Blair Captain Baseball Team ’20 Football ’20 Blanche Eves Denny i. l. s. Edna Cates Glee Club ’20 Second President 1. L. S. ’20 Thomas Alpheus Kent Editor-in-Chiet Buffalo ’20 Football ’20 President Class T9

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Rose Evangel Tynes Vice-President Class ’20 Editorial Staff Buffalo ’20 Glee Club '20 First President I. L. S. ’20 Lyle Lynn Westover Baseball ’20 Business Manager Buffalo ’20 Orrison Hazel Rowland Glee Club ’20 Track ’20 Football ’20 Mary Agnes Schulze Glee Club ’20 I

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Class Colors: RED AND WHITE Class Flower: RED AND WHITE CARNATIONS Motto: “VISIONS NOT DREAMS” Yell Ready, steady, get in line, Nineteen Twenty, ain’t we fine? Are we it? Well, I guess, Seniors, Seniors—Yes, yes, yes. Officers President—Frank Stout Vice-President—Evangel Tynes Secretary and Treasurer—Clarence Bradley Guardian Angel—Edna Cates Historian—Mary Agnes Schulze Giftorian—Jessie Barnett Prophet—Blanche Denny. CLASS HISTORY One morning in the fall of 1916 a crowd of sixty boys and girls, Dealia Wagner, Stephen Le Peyre, Mary Agnes Schulze, Jessie Barnett, Lyle Westover, Clarence Bradley, Frank Stout, Amy Hag- berg, Orrison Rowland and others, started to climb a long, steep hill. They rolled along with them a large round Stone, which seemed to have the gift of speaking and directing a good many of their actions. There were little booths along the way where they might receive mental nourishment in Science, Latin and Algebra. These were not always as inviting as possible, but they had no choice; although one girl could not refrain from leaving a rotten lemon in the Latin booth, they continued to journey on. They stopped sometimes to picnic in sylvan parks and play grounds, but each day found them farther on, all through the winter until spring. Passersby called them “FRESH MEN” on account of their very noticeable ignorance and innocence. Next, we see them a smaller crowd. Some have dropped out, but Alpheus Kent, Velma Parker, Blanche Denny and Russel Fones have joined them and they are climbing into a rickety old wagon. They leave the Stone behind them, but are directed by Mr. Benjamin, who drives the old gray mule pulling the wagon. The road is not so rough now as at first. Through another winter these people drift and insist, on account of the amount of knowledge they have amassed they must be called “Sophomores.” Springtime passes and summer, though fall ajain, finds them but how changed. Few indeed in number now, and so tall and distinguished. Again they have changed guides, and this time a woman leads their way. They address her as “Miss Tod” as she sits at the wheel of a large car into which they are piling. The “Juniors,” they now proclaim themselves, have some more new members, Bennie Sue Boxley, Leroy Whittredge and Evangel Tynes. They ride in cushioned ease, and the road, almost level and growing smoother all the time, would make the trip almost perfect if it were not for the fumes of the chemicals that rise from the sides, and the ghastly figures that seem ready to engulf them as they gaze upon the “Geometrical Landscape.” This year they indulge in picnics and frolics again. A picnic, a swim, a banquet, and others. At last they abandon the car. After their winter and spring it is in rather a dilapidated condition, so they now choose for their mode of travel, “flying.” Into a roomy aeroplane they step, making room for the newcomers, who are Percy McKean, Vava Bayer, Hal Blair and Edna Cates. But why these sober looks and severe mien? Let us ask Mrs. Davis, she is “Pilot” and will be able to give information about anything from cube root to the process of mak- ing an annual. The answer, though short, explains it all. They are S-e-n-i-o-r-s. Exactly twenty are in the crowd. The trip through the air is lovely but they come to air pockets, sometimes called Ether, Word Signs, Magnetism, Themes and such. There is a general desire to move about and gaze down upon the earth, but they are prohibited, by a flock of birds, whic’h, although not much noticed before, have been hovering over them all through the trip. Mrs. Davis assures them that this is only the “Faculty.” One day these birds disappeared and the crowd in a gay mood suddenly dropped to earth and took a glad holiday on a convenient Sylvan Beach. They had a few parties, and exercised their dramatic talent for the benefit of people who walked below. Toward the end of the year they grow a little tense with subdued excitement. This is “Commence- ment.” In the distance they see a mountain and thiy know, for others who have gone before tell them) that on this mountain grows a pla-'t that bears a fruit called Diplomas.” One of these grows for each Senior, so each goes in search of his or her “Diploma.” Then they all assemble and after seme very formal and imposing addresses by wise and learned men, they say goodbye a d each goes his own way, for their journey is ended, and life’s is bsgu 1.