Warsaw High School - Blast Yearbook (Warsaw, NY)

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Julie, 1924 T H E B L A S T Page Seventeen LOUISE BRISTOL Fondly called Wee by the familyg not so long ago, they used to call her Wee-Wee -a terrible affliction. Louise used to be the terror of the neighborhood, but she tsn't any moreg she stlll raises Cain-in a quieter way, however. 'When accused of something by a teacher she can look even more blank than Buster Keaton: almost invariably someone else is sent to the office instead of Louise, O, the fallacy of circumstantial evidenceg alto- gether too many teachers convict on it! Last fall Louise was to be seen driving McBain's Buick nearly every day. Yet in all the times we saw Louise driving the car, we never once saw her father riding with herg can it be that he has not taken out life insurance yet? While on the Washington trip,Louise and Ruth Embury went down to Sweetbriar College for a couple of days to visit Lou- ise's sisterg their train didn't leave until after midnight, Seth and Clayt saw them down to the station safely. That night a scandal was started in the hotel by one of the house detectives. He learned that two boys and two girls had left the hotel about midnight, and that the boys returned half-an-hour later-alone. Imagine the girls' surprise, on their return, to learn of this! Louise was heard to utter something in French about the ignor- ance of hotel detectives. On the train going down Louise led the singing, which gave the Warsaw bunch the reputation of being the liveliest bunch on the train. They say that Louise got away from the Harrington with two bath towelsg she should have taken only one. Every other morning-or was it every morning?-while she was gone, she received a. special delivery letter from Nor. Of course, you know that she and Nor. Hain go to- gether. Perhaps you also know that Louise is quite an artist at repartee. One day Elsie said: Why doesn't Nor. take you to the movies any more? Louise replied: Well, you see, one night it rained, and we stayed in the parlor. Another time Nor said to her, May I osculate -? Louise came back with No, but you may ask me early, if you want to. 'Such is Louise's pedigree. t O U 1 I l MARGARET CALMES Noted for her talkativeness, She even talks in her sleep. She has always been a disturbing element, not only in Study Hall-but in classes, also. She could talk the ears off a cornstalk. Despite this one great fault of hers she is a pretty good sport. One time, when Marg was sick she walled a certain felloW's name con- tlnuallyg we've forgotten what it was Marg had-but it was either measles or mumps. When Marg had her ton- slls out, she was afraid that under the influence of the ether she would rave about this fellow again: so she told her mother, if she did to tell the nurse that she was rav- ing about their tom cat, Marg has quite a lineg she ropes in a good many of them. She roped in Ping on the Washington trip. For a little while, it looked serious- but everything turned out all right in the end, Ping was pretty fast for Marg, she said that she couldn't stand the pace. One night after a date with Marg, Ping con- fided to Walt Ahner, his room-mate, Gee, you should have heard the line I handed Marg tonight. She swal- lowed every bit of it. While across the areaway, Marg was confiding to her room-mate, Lucy Tuttle, Gosh, you should have heard the line Ping handed me tonight. I wonder if he expected me to swallow it.' ' Jimmie 0'Don- nell beat Ping out one night for a date with Marg. He took her to a movie. Marg felt like a nursemald when the ticket seller asked Jimmie how old he was as he put down the money for two full-price tickets. Marg went to the Senior Ball with Cal Pickle. Everyone is asking her now what kind of a Pickle Cal is-sweet or sour. She says that she doesn't know: she didn't take a bite. lllllill CHARLOTTE CAMPBELL She's small-just like her Virgil marks. 'When Lot- tle's sister Marge was graduated a couple of years ago, Lottie felt called upon to sustain the Campbell reputa- tiong she has done it admirably-having the time of her life, and yet managing to get thru safely. Time was when Lottie's young and innocent face was attractive to Batavia's youths. We remember when everything was Dick g once in awhile, she spoke of Harry, Then she began to feel a greater respect for home products. For a little while it was Ken , and then Bill -and Bill it continues to remain. They stick together like sheets of fly paper. When Lottie went on the Washing- ton trip, Monk Shapiro appointed himself her guide and protector. Lottie said he treated her like a sisterg he even went so far as to give her a slave bracelet, which set him back fifty-eight cents at Rosenbloom's Pawn Shop. Lottie and Mu-mu Rice went up to Lawrence- ville one day while away-to visit Ken: Mu-mu Went crazy over the yellow raincoats she saw there, and was put under observation in the Psychological Ward of the local hospital for the afternoon. Lottie was walking a- long a street one day in Washington when she suddenly went up to a fellow and said to him, Can you tell me where Charlotte Campbell's monument is'?' ' He looked puzzled for a moment and then said, No, I'm afraid not. I'm a stranger here myself. Lottie's favorite trick in the Harrington was dousing water on people leaning out of windows on floors below. Lottie was the leader of the Glee Club from the College of Hardnox, when they offered selections between acts of the Senior Play, She also distinguished herself in the Class Fight, making en- emies of some of her best Junior friends for the sake of the Senior flag. The other day someone asked Lot- tie if she liked Bill any better than she used to: she re- plied, I couldn't. Gee! Ain't love grand? I ll It 1 1 l MARY COLEMAN The girl of a hundred romances. Her diary is a dead

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Page Sixteen T H E B L A S T June, 1924 ' lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIlllIIllIll!IIllllIllIllllIIIIllllllllIlllllllllllllIIllIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIlllIIllllllllllllllllllllllillIlllllllllIIlllllIIIlllIlIIIllIIllIIllllllllllllIllllllllIIIIllIIllIllllllllIIllllIlllIIllIIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllli PEDIGREES inllnlllllIllnmlllmlnllmlllllllllllllIlllllllllllllllllllIllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllIlllIIIIIIIIIIIIIIllIIllllIIIIIIIIIllllllllllllllllllllllllll WALTER AHNER The sap of his family tree. When he was little, he used to call himself booful sing. He has the most in- nocent facc of any boy in schoolg he even beats Chauncey Bryant. Whenever Walt commits any crime, it's usually blamed to someone else. Walt isn't as dumb as he looksg he can see thru his glasses, even if he can't see thru a joke sometimes. He used to be pretty bashful, but since he has been going with that Andrews girl, he has changed considerably. He has geen stepping out quite a bit late- ly. His mother used to be able to keep track of him- but she can't any more. Whereas he used to read such books as The Outline of History , he is now reading such books as The Philosophy of Love. Personally he favors the cave man method of winning a womang he believes in literally carrying her off her feet. He admits that he became popular overnight by learning how to dance. We know for a fact that Walt bought Lois some cigarettes in Washingtong he says he can't see why women haven't as much right to smoke as men like him- self. Instead of taking a valise to Washington, Walt took a wardrobe trunk, he regretted it more than once, before he arrived home. 'Walt's life would be fairly hap- py if it were not for Jimmie O'Donnell. Walt certainly has shown superhuman self-control in resisting the temp- tation to murder Jimmie which he must have had more than once. One day Jimmie wrote a note to a certain girl ,asking her to go to the movies that night, and signed Walt's name to it. Walt was never more surpris- ed in his life than when he received a note from the girl expressing her regrets for not being able to go. Walt works in Balduf, Barrows, and Davidson's Shoe Store, and plays the shoe horn in spare moments. ill!!! LOIS ANDREWS Terrible religious: often stays indoors on Sunday mornings to listen in on radio sermons. Lois is some automobile driver, it is her greatest ambition to dis- prove the theory that an automobile cannot fly. Thus far, she has two warnings, three dogs, five chickens, and one cow to her credit. One night her father, waked out of a sound sleep, heard Lois exclaim: Look out Walt! You'll break my glasses! She got this way after at- tending the Gayety in Washingtong she went every night. Before the trip, Lois was such an innocent girl, that her parents wouldn't believe the rumor that she had smoked while in Washington, which was lucky for Lois. IIIllIIIllIIllIIllIIllIllllIlllllllllllllllllllll!llllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllIIlllllllllllllllllllllllllIIIIIIIllllilllllllllllllllllll IOLA BAKER Brethren, let us pray. Here is a girl so wild that when she went on the Washington trip, her sister went along, too-to chaperone her. Her sister performed her task well, keeping Iola in her room every night. Every morning Iola would appear with tear-stained cheeks: it was pretty tough not to be able to go to the Gayety or do anything like that. Iola went to hear Dr. Dow when he was hereg she is thinking seriously now of giving up dancing. Iola is crazy about candy-kisses, especially. She has a fondness for fruit, too-dates, for instance. The members of her family are doing everything in their power to calm Iola down-and seem to be succeeding. It's rather hard on the poor girl-but then-we suppose her parents know best. l ll Ill lk t JULIA BOYER Her full name is Julia Ethel Agnes Augusta Vic- toria Mason Norris Boyer. Julia is so tall that there is snow on her head. She is known as the Sheba of our school, her power over men is fatal. If she ever writes her memoirs, the book will sell better than The Sheik. She seems to have friends in every town in the Postal Guide. For the life of us we don't know which one she is favoring now, the Lyndonville one, the Le Roy one, the 'Wellsville one, or the Oakland, Cal., one. Her tactics are similar to those of Nita Naldi-crafty, etc.g can't you just see Julia tickling a man's chin with one of those great long fingers of hers? We can. On the Washing- ton trip her victims were an unknown Lyndonville fel- low, a Le Roy fellow named Panepenta, V-and a Warsaw fellow named Marchant. Marchant was the most persist- ent of the three-and apparently won out. All the girls are beseeching Julia to tell them how she wields this fatal powerg she claims she was born with that know- ledge-and does not know herself how she does it. Going into Silver Springs this sign greets the traveler: Go slow, brother-or you'll be another. It's a warn- ing about Julia-she lives there. When the girls' basket ball team went to Le Roy? Julia was one of the squad. The sight of Julia scared the Le Roy girls so, that they forgot how to play-and Warsaw won, 41 to 10. Goewey showed himself a student of phsychology that night, all right, Julia is an assidious reader of books by Elinor Glyn and Ethel M. Dell. She is forever reading them under her desk. The teachers have all they can do to keep Julia's mind on her work-she is continually look- ing out of the window and dreaming of Le Roy, or Lyn- donville, or Wellsville, or Oakland, California.

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Page Eighteen T H E B L A S T June, 1924 give-away of a hundred fellows. Mary's life has been very interesting to date-and rather picturesque. Mary says it makes her feel old to think of all the affairs she has had-all the fellows she has ever known-all the different lines she has heard. We haven't space or time to mention all of Mary's romances-but we can mention a few. Last Summer Mary went to Detroitg she' got acquainted with a fellow there-who liked her so well he wanted his parents to see herg quite an old-fashioned boy-quite an old-fashioned boy. Then there was a time when Ken Fluker used to manage to get over from Perry nearly every Sunday nightg for quite awhile Mary wore a Perry ring-and in answer to some inquiries of her mother was obliged to admit that she didn't know where her class pin was. Still more recently, Norman Cogswell-Attica's famous athlete-used to park his car in Coleman's yard every Friday night. Mary used to get letters written on monogramed stationery which were postmarked Attica, on the average of three times a week. Then, a Batavia fellow appeared on the scene, but he wearied Mary-he was so deep-minded, One evening they went for a ride and all he ever talked of was evo- lution , Mary says he exhausted the subject, all right. On the Washington trip she became acquainted with a fellow named, Carr Holden-who, like the proverbial little lamb-followed Mary everywhere. He seemed to be with her always. In Atlantic City, they went to see Three Weeks together: we don't know whether they went to the Gayety in Washington or not, but we pre- sume they did. The other day we asked Mary if she had fallen for any fellow yet. She said: No-I've just stum- bled-so far . I 1 il U I! RUTH EMBURY The girl with a complexion like an infant-and an- other of these human phenomena whose photographs al- At times she has a regular Ma- times she is wondering what she ways turn out great. donna faceg at such will be eatingvat the next meal, or else she is thinking Clayt. When Charley, known to of either Charley or local society as Shiek Zehler, went to Alfred last fall, Clayt used to be one who would ring Embury's front door-bell about seven-thirty every Sunday evening. Now Charley is back-and Clayt has overwhelming opposi- tion again: Clayt is now trying to locate some other girl whose father smokes twenty-five cent cigars. Every so often Ruth disappears for a week-end, and we learn from t.he town paper on the following Thursday that she has spent it at Hamilton College. She hied thither every little while in the last year or so to attend proms or house-parties, but has not returned with any scalps hanging from her belt-or any picture in her locket be- sides Charley's. Ruth insists on using lip-stick, althg Charley repeatedly tells her that it is awfully poor taste. Her father manufactures lanterns, which Ruth can out- Shine any old time. BELLE EVANS She is the Belle of the Evans family in more ways last fall she came to school wear- than one. One day ing a diamond ring, which made all the girls sigh with envy-To think that meek little Belle should be the first of the girls in the Senior class to win a man's heart! It was a great surprise to nearly everyoneg Belle had been having a little romance in her own quiet way-and was just as thrilled about it as any flapper or cling- ing vine would be. A certain couple sitting on the porch of a house quite near Evans' about one o'clock one Monday morning of last summer received the shock of their young lives to see a car stop in front of Evans' and to see Belle and a fellow get out and caper all over the lawn, before proceeding indoors. The hour was so late that it was naturally to be concluded that they had- n't been at prayer meeting all the evening. It was later learned that the fellow's name was Bert Baylor-and that he was a minister. Last fall and winter Bert visit- ed school on the average of once a week-until finally Prof. told him that he couldn't issue any more yellow slips to him-he had issued so many, already. Bert must have been broken-hearted-and Belle too-at this infor- mation. For whenever he visited school he always used to sit with Belle-and not in the next seat, or something like that. One morning when Bert was there, we sang, Love's Old Sweet Song, for chapel exercises. We couldn't help wondering if they were holding hands un- der the desk-for they seemed totally oblivious of all save each other. At Christmas time, the Virgil class gave Belle a flatirong she can press Bert's trousers when all is peaceful in their little love nest-and use it as a weapon in case Bert starts twitting her about her rela- tives. Belle's school days will soon be over-and with them Belle's spinisterhood. They are to be married as soon as Bert gets the parsonagel papered and paintedg in other words in the near future, iiill,l MARGARET FISHER Quiet-but oh my! You'd be. surprised! It certainly is true what Shakespeare said, 'I'here's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. Now to look at Margaret one would think of her as one of these girls who goes to bed early, gets up early, and does little ex- cept studyg in thinking that, one would be erring ser- iously. She doesn't get up so terribly early: one can't do it, after staying up late nightsg and she does a lot be- sides study. After milking the cows, and eating supper, she studies for a few minutes-and then goes up to her room, where, usually until the wee, sma' hours she reads- or writes poetry. Now you w0uldn't think that to look at Margaret, would you? Margaret's some re- lation to the Barlow'sg we don't know which of the families admitted the connection. She has been over to the Lake once or twice, With Roy Fish to dance. The