Oswego High School - Paradox Yearbook (Oswego, NY)

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Z , .1-1 , .Y vm tfil, ' 1 -1,6 rmonox' 'fry-s '22 Ulass jjrop lzecy BOYS Alfred Allen-Doctor of Divinity Tom Hennessey-Selling gin on the Gin, Walter Babcock-Toe dancer Gin, Ginny Shore Francis Barnes-Politician Joseph Hourigan-Football star Richard Bell-Telephone operator Benjamin Lipson-lVlerchant Russell Benz-Musical comedy star George McCulloch-Compiling encycloped- Richard Benz-Chauffer and valet to Russell ia fully explaining all known and Ull- Harry Bland-Barker at a circus known subjects John Carmody-Poet jack Miller-Operate gum factory Eugene Clark-Boilermaker Paul Morris-Famous artist Arthur Cockle-Seafaring man Albert Phillips-Amusement park and dance James Cunningham--Dealer in little pigs hall at 9 Mile-Creek Allan Davis-Chauffer to nervous old lady Donald Pool-Vamp Houghton Dickinson-Movie villian Edward Roden-Traffic cop Francis Dunn-Editor of country's greatest Philip Roden-Trapeze performer paper Charles Rowe--Chief Justice John Flaherty-Humorous orator David Russell-Minister Charles Flick-Professor of politeness Franklin Sinclair-Veterinarian Albert Godden-Banker Floyd Smith-Orchestra Kenneth Foot-Shoe merchant Gerald Smith-Doctor William Grant-President of the Western Emerson Tupper-Essayist Union Millard Wadsworth-Scientific farmer Richard Haresign-Manager of the Oswego going to Cornell to learn how to milk a Times cow. Stanley Hendricks-Teacher of manual Charles Wiley-Running a home for training in a girls' high school disabled nurses Kirke White-Attorney-general -A-MARGARET COOK, Prophetess for Boys 19 X-ff oxs cf-f-- 'zz S

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flfo 'Faspioi Er - 'BEE Having suffered some casualties in Regents we arrived at our Junior year. Now we had a new principal, and l guess he didn't tell us how dead we were! He had some pep and, with all our activities started by him, the school began to be a real high school. He was a pal and was with us in our troubles and our joys. Will you ever forget Marion Hunt and Louise Cays playing Mary Pickford with their curls? By this time our boys had insisted upon long trousers, commonly called iilong jeans , and the girls came to school with hairpins in their pockets which they used in putting their hair up after they reached school. But, do you remember how they always took it down before they went home? The girls were now finding powder puffs a necessity and boys essential as a topic for conversation. The boys, down in the basement smoking on the sly, were discussing where they were going to get the price to take their latest crush to the coming dance. Meanwhile, more worthwhile things were happening on the second floor. Everyone remembers poor Happy Houlihan who was always being put out of school. But never mind, Happy started our school paper. We all gave it our support and, with the staff, made it a success. About this time Joe Hourigan began to distinguish himself as an athlete. Will you ever forget those football games over at the Fort and our exciting basketball games at St. lVlary's? Then Mr. Riley decided that we were going to have a school play in which many of our juniors participated. After this came the prize speaking contest in which two of our members distinguished themselves. Then we reached the highest stage of our school careers. We became Seniors! We spent most of the year in hard study. just before our Easter recess we noticed that our class treasury was lacking in necessary funds for our year book. An.d then didn't we hustle with our candy sales and minstrelsl Remember Tom Hennessey and all his pretty flowers and his box of sardines? Remember i'Say It With Liquoru? lwonder how jack knew so much about it. Next came the school play in which many of our fellow classmen took part. And then our second prize speaking contest in which some more of our class distin- guished themselves. Our class, in addition to other activities has produced the first year book of the O. H. S. This has been the product of much faithful work on the part of the staff and we believe that the results obtained are worthy of our effort. We've been entertained most royally by our faculty and by the honorable juniors. Now that we are graduates we look back upon our years in High School as the most pleasant years of our lives and realize that the training and knowledge which we acquired there will be a great benefit to us in the future. ALICE WRIGHT, Class Historian. 315 oxs cf-fe - 'azg

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1 an T5 nguoi 3:---3. '22 GIRLS li happened that in I945, generally spoken of as 45 A. V., as our sport plane made a landing in the near vicinity of the Empire State Airways Terminal where Dorothy Wads- worth was calling off the limited and local flyers to Minetto and other points of the far West, we entered Hennessey's Cream Parlors to be waited upon by Alice Wright. Behind the soda fountain was a lady we addressed as Miss Kathryn johnson. She was highly indignant and made us understand that she was now known as Mrs. Tom Hennessey. Oswego has changed since the class of '22 graduated from the old O. H. S. However most of that aggregation is still residing in this pleasant little community by the lake which Margaret Cook speaks of so often in her poems. Upon entering the radio office we were greeted by two hello girls who made themselves known to us as lna Legg and Mildred Mahnke. While talking with them we learned the whereabouts of several of the other members of our old class. i Miss Helen Heagerty is business manager of a newspaper and Mary C. Kelly and Mary Minnehan are operating trigonometric calculating machines and the latest models of type writers which type their thoughts without expending any energy upon the keyboard. That evening's l3th edition of the paper carried an article of the class of '22. The Misses lsabel and Lillian Allen are conducting a private finishing school. Mildred Baxter is teach- ing shorthand in the 3rd grade while Louise Cays has a class in Virgil in the 5th grade. It is Marion Hunt's first term as successor to Miss Leroy in the O. H. S. and Marion Galvin has proved herself a very efficient mechanical drawing teacher. Marion Gadbaw is now the proprietress of the Oswego Airplane Wet Wash and Dry Cleaning establishment. The evening we arrived we went to the Richardson Theater and much to our surprise found that lna Wallace and Dorothy Wells have the stellar roles in the celebrated play The Merry Widows . ln the cast also are Marion Crlasford, Mary E.. Kelly and Eleanor Putnam, who are well supported by a large chorus in which Margaret Mylot, Marie O'Conner and Helen Sayer are to be found. Of course we had to eat and we happened to drop into a very neat boarding house run by Mildred Allen. The meal was slightly better than those one generally gets in such a place, but no wonder!-Mary Stoke is the cook there. Miss Allen has quite a number of regular boarders, among whom Ethel Askew seems to be her star boarder, the reason being that Miss Allen now has need for a wig and Miss Askew is a hair dresser and beauty specialist. Then there is a vodvil team. They have an acrobatic act. They are none other than Virginia McDonald and Clara France. The one who seems to cause the most sleepless nights at this boarding house is Pearl Smith, now a vocal teacher who teaches only those with bass or baritone voices. Rose Bell and Alma Congdon, of the same address, went into part- nership a few years ago, starting a dancing academy. This crowd is well taken care of for Ena 319 ous cf 'azg