Allendale Columbia High School - Clavus Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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CREDENTIALS Football--3. 4 Reserve Basketball-2, 3 Basketball-4 Baseball-2, 3 DOUGLAS BIRDSEYE WHITNEY ll-Doug-.Pi LIMA COLLEGE Blessed with a cheerful smile and relatively few worries, Doug came to Allendale in the middle of his Sophomore year. He knew he was good in football and had ambitions to excel in the other sports. As a student he had a few weak spots but again ambition to improve came to his rescue. What happened? He captained the 1947 football team, played two years on the baseball team and won his letter in basketball. We think he started tennis too late in life or else the Sodus lady desires a worthy opponent through those long weekends. Doug's marks have made noticeable improvement. Even his cars get better at each successive trade. His disposition could not be improved. 26

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CREDENTIALS Fender Bender-2, 3, 4 Deer Hunter--2, 4 flegsj Alcoholics Unanimous-2, 3, 4 Mendon Ponds Attendant-3, 4 ' WEBBER If-Daddy!! WINCHESTER SCHOOL FOR HOT SHOTS Come vacation time, Lee invariably retreats to his hidden haunts to hunt pheasant, partridge, and an occasional deer. Naturally his success along these lines has prompted him to try other kinds of game, and rumor has it that he has chased all varieties. Weekends will find him in hor pursuit of more fascinating prey, and as our huntsman once philosophically remarked after a trying encounter with a frolicksome doe, the female of the species is more dangerous than the male. Being the eldest member of the class, he obligingly offers his fellow cohorts fatherly advice, drawn from his wide and varied experience. Mr. Webber explains his tactics in this simple language. First you lay the snare, and then you close in for the kill. Lee has modestly refrained from disclosing, however, just what kind of bait he uses, and just how close he gets for the kill. 25

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I CREDENTIALS Columbia Supporter-4 Shadow-5 foiclockl Bull Shooter's Paradise-4 Sodus Correspondent-3, 4 i l A WHITNEY Dougie SODUS CORRESPONDENT SCHOOL If weekend motorists have winced at the sight of a reckless youth behind the wheel of a rumbling blue Fordmobile, careening Sodus-ward at the rate of 53 m.p.h., it was only Doug paying a weekly visit to a dear friend. With four acid-eaten tires, a crumbling chassis, a four squirrel-power motor, a cigarette and his love to keep him going, our devoted classmate has com- pleted a total of 996 missions to the Sodus shrine during a period of one year. Power of a woman! Recently, however, this courtly display of chivalry was rewarded when Birdseye became the proud pilot of a new Plymouth. Now this may take half the fun from his weekly pilgrimage, but Mr. Whitney re- ports he is more than satisfied with this latest acquirement. We sometimes wonder though, just who is in the driver's seat. 21