Bayley Ellard High School - Mitre Yearbook (Madison, NJ)

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--'W-ff'm'+t'M'm'f' C: WWW 1928 f1'He 'BAYLSY .ANNUAL 1928 QI IW them the great ambition to attain our exalted standard in scholarship and athletics. To them alone we bequeath the enviable right to invade our sacred room and to succeed us as Seniors of Bayley High School, but this only on condition that they conduct themselves in a manner to win so great a privilege. The following requests are made individually: FIRST! To Charlotte Klinger, Margaret N erney leaves her jolly disposition and her watch to keep the boys informed as to the time. To NVinifred Mulcahy she bequeaths her love for Spanish traditions and her attraction for handsome movie actors. SECOND: To George Blaine, George Mott's particular way of translating Latin. THIRD: To John McKenzie, Vincent Hurley's chivalrous task of emptying the scrap basket every Friday afternoon. . ' FOURTH: To Henry Dempsey, Vincent Lake bequeaths his vast amount of knowledge and a detective story which he has for months safely concealed behind the radiator. FIFTH: To John Giordano, Francis Conner's violent attraction for science but with the warning not to get his brain mixed up with Hydrochloric Acid. SIXTH: To Anne Conners a book of verses by Edward Gogerty, as she is the only one in sympathy with his heart and sentiments. SEVENTH: To John Cattano, the rattle and drum which always amused LeRoy Ely. EIGHTH: To Paul Pagano, love and attraction for the New York Giants and the right of defending them in all baseball arguments in the school. NINTH: To Eleanor Prendergast, Francis McDermott bequeaths all the trials and tribulations of the Editor of the Bayley Annual. He also leaves a book on Diplomacy. QPeruse it carefully, Eleanor, for you must be forearmed when ambitious authors indignantly ask why you didn't publish their last story.j TENTH: To Roger Flanagan, Francis Geary's spirit of industry. ELEVENTH: To David McCarthy, Mary Callahan's ability in Spanish. TWELFTH: To Mary Clare Collins, one stick of peppermint candy, to be kept until next fall when it is to be unwrapped and broken into as many portions as there are Freshmen and distributed among them. THIRTEENTH: To Mary Byrnes, Catherine Camisa's hilarious laughter. May it diffuse gladness ever and anon. Fifty-nine

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1928 THE 73AY.C6Y QANNUAL 1928 VN- -.- W... W 7, may ff-X Q 1 LAST WILL 0 TESHMENT e rf Q 4 Rli.iX'l,' anxiety and chaos has prevailed through out the High School during the last few weeks. Current report has informed the pupils that i g, the life of the Senior Class is fast declining. Many specialists have been summoned but they can apply no remedy. In fact they have stated that the Class of twenty-eight can not possibly live longer than the end of june. They have diagnosed the case as the result of advanced age. XYhen the Seniors were notified that their scholastic life must end, they received the news rather placidly and drew up their last will and testament. Though it is not usual to read the will till the funeral services are over, the Seniors, desirous of having their various bequests settled are deviating somewhat from the traditions and persist in having the will made public now. We the Class of Ninteen 'l'wenty-eight of liayley High School in the town of Morris, Xew tlersey, being of exceptionally sound mind, memory and under- standing do make and declare our last will and testament in the manner and form following: ,li'IRs'1': To Rev. Father lillard, our beloved pastor and father, we leave and bequeath our love and fidelity and in return we only beg that he bless us on our way and pray that we may successfully attain God's holy will. SECONIJZ 'l'o our teachers, the Sisters, we bequeath our love and gratitude for their guidance and for the patience with which they have endured our errors and imperfections. 'l'HIRn: To the jolly juniors we leave our dignity and superiority. VVe place upon their weak and inexperienced shoulders the mantle of leadership. Let us hope it will fortify them and with us as their exemplars command the respect and marvelous approbation of the entire school-world. NVe bequeath to liiffy-figlzf

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1928 THe BAYLSY .ANNUAL 1928 VW IN FOURTEENTH: To Joseph Brown, Vincent Hurley's efficiency as a door- keeper. FIFTEENTH: To Jack McCarthy, James Costanzo abandons his tremendous ability in research work and as librarian of the elements. SIXTEENTH: To Mary Leary, joe Dugan's ability in chemistry. SEVENTEENTH: To Bernard Goldere, Edward Gogerty's well deserved front seat. EIGHTEENTH: To Eugene Kenny the oflice of President so energetically filled by Frank McDermott f'I'ry to be optimistic, Gene, and reveal bits of wit when the opportunity comes-it helpsj. NINETEENTH: To Nicholas Costanza and joseph Daly, John Maher's ability to wake up between the various 'periods and to arouse themselves from the effects of their deep concentration. TWENTIETH: To Marie'Monahan, Enola Ball's clever way of getting out of trouble once she is into it. TWENTY-FIRST: To Edward Powers and Jack Hourihan, the art of know- ing how to say the right thing at the right time. TWENTY-SECOND: To Agnes Morrison, Florence Hegarty's mysterious manner. TWENTY-THIRD: To Hubert Graham, a trip through the maze of chemistry. T WENTY-FOURTH! To Walter NVhelan, the rapture of study periods with the warning. Don't leave too much work for them. TWENTY-FIFTH: To Pauline Kelly the-use of Tom Murray's text books which he pored over so indefatigably. TWENTY-s1X'rH: To John Keefe the inklings of Roman mythology which accompany Virgil. I TWENTY-SEVENTH : To Mary Mulvaney, Helen Vanderhoff's giddy tempera- ment and her two remarkable dimples. TWENTY-EIGHTH: To Helen of Troy McGarry, Mary Alverson's hair-clasp to keep all unruly strands under control after each shampoo. TWENTY-NINTH: To Catherine Wilson we leave Josephine Beckerls ability to use the Bulletin Board glass as a Boudoir Mirror. IN VVITNESS NVHEREOF, we have hereunto set our hands and seal this fourteenth Clay of June, 1928 A. D. Class of 1928. Faculty. Sixty