Canastota High School - Toot Yearbook (Canastota, NY)

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THE TOOT 8 John Devine -The big man from New Boston. John Dineen Sixty miles an hour. Lattimer Lake Our Athlete. Helen Gusswiller The bright spot in the elass of ’31. Reba Phillips A good piano play- er. Sally Yarnell Did you hear the one about ???. George and Blaine Hazen Always willing to oblige. Curtiss Cronk—Days of leisure. Herbert Norton The life of any party. Thomas Spadafora A great athlete and what a grin. Florence Ackerman—A girl every- one likes. Veronica Capparelli A hard worker. Chas. VanZandt Gives advice free of charge. Joseph Chapman—A boy who loves to argue Joy TeWinkel The joy of the Sen- ior Class. Mabel Church If she doesn’t com- plain, something's wrong. Virginia Peach, Ruth Clarke, Alta Hiebert, Nancy Campbell and Helen Hough—Who think they are C H. S.’s four hundred. Lucie Tibbits-—A popular girl with a future. Grace Reed Our Little Jack Lit- tle . William Hamlin A popular fellow, good in sports. Fredric Dew A “General nuisance but popular. Raymond Caldwell A “not so stup- id” all around good fellow. Kenneth Clarke They can’t get by third when he’s on the base. Jennie D'Amico—A vain creature. Ruth Greiner An icicle. Lawrence Waldo—99 out of 100 can’t resist. Chick and Sam Tornatore Popular basketball players. Margery Cady—A man hater but a great scout (girl scout). Meredith Hough Popular with ev- eryone. Margaret Cronk -Popular for her entertaining. Howard Bemiss The teacher’s pro- blem. Dorice Olcott Another red head. CLASS PROPHECY Listen, oh ye men and women, youths and maidens to the words of wisdom from the lips of your prophet who now speaketh unto you what hath been revealed unto her even as it hath been decreed by the powers that be. For it has come to pass that the veil of the future hath been rent in twain and the Spirit of Prophecy hath descended from the spheres to envelope me as the chosen one of this great and good people the Class of 1931, to dream strange dreams and to see strange visions of the glories of the years yet to be. As I look into the land of the future I can discern moving among the dim shadows of the peoples yet to be, the familiar shapes of those fair and rad- iant beings who were once my class- mates now changed and transformed into citizens of the world outside, even as they had long hoped so to be. I can see our president, Emerson Welch as the owner of the Welch Con- fectionery Stores Inc. I see Charles VanZandt as the President of the First National Bank. I see Mabel Church a spinster, lecturing on the Redpath Chautauqua Circuit on the strong sub- ject of “Woman’s Independence of Man”. I see Charles Tornatore and Thomas Spadafora as prominent law- yers of the day. And behold, I look again and I can see moving among the society circles of that far-distant time, and among those who were most fair to look upon lone Robertson. Next I am led by the Spirit into a large cathedral. Strains of the “Wed-

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I'll E TOOT Our first social event was another enjoyable picnic at lone Robertson's camp where Mr. and Mrs. Robertson officiated in the kitchen and entertain- ed us royally. For the second time we took first place in the Inter-Class play contest and added another cup to our collect- ion. The play presented was Thurs- day Evening” and the cast included lone Robertson, Joy TeWinkel, Muriel Buhrig and Thomas Spadafora. We were asked to give it at the Presbyter- ian Bazaar which we did. In June we entertained the Seniors of 1930 with a picnic held at Owasco Lake and its success was unquestion- ed. We felt proud that our treasury af- forded us enough to buy the stained glass window with the numerals ’31 at the end of our junior year. As Seniors in September, Emerson Welch was elected president and Wil- iam Hamlin, secretary and treasurer. The Inter-Class play contest was held again for the third time and we won first place and another silver cup. The play presented was His Blue Serge Suit.” The cast included lone Robertson, Charles VanZandt, Thomas Spadafora, Howard Bellamy and Carl Dentler. We have won the cup each time it has been offered and we take great pfide in our three silver cups. Since there was no place to keep the cups we have bought and present- ed the school a large trophy case which will hold many more than our three cups and we hope will be filled in years to come. The class play the Cinderella Man a four-act comedy drama which wi, : presented in March 1931 was a com- plete success. The class advisors Miss Clines and Mrs. Jones coached the cast and the scenery and proper'y was made possible thru the kind co operation of Mr. Zapf, the dramatic instructor. During the same month the annual prize speaking contest was held and seniors took both first and second places. The senior ball which we held in April was a decided success. The dec- oiation committee changed the gym- nasium into a very picturesque scene. Among the notes of interest con cerning the Senior Class are the facts that: all appointed cheer leaders for the last four years were members of our class, three editors-in-chief of tin- high school weekly publication be longed to our class; members of out- class took either first or second place in the prize speaking contest eveiy jear since it was first held; ten of the twenty active members and all three officers of the Dramatic club belong to this class; a majority f ne charter members of the D-auiatie ciub founded by Miss Clines when wo wcie freshmen are members of our c'uss. In the line of sports, several stars of the basketball team, football and baseball teems are members of the present senior class. Gladys Baldwin WHO’S WHO IN C H. S. Emerson Welch- A school boy with that school girl complexion who think’s he's the berries. Gerald Shaffer A south-paw of re- nown. Roland Buhrig—Still fishing for a “Minnie.” Edgar Olden —A canner can’t can a can, can he. Spin Fritz- A fly catcher. John TeWinkel—Einstein’s under- study. Helen Greiner She scores like an adding machine. James Chubbuck Second to Robin Hood. Jennie Harp How she can sew. Mandalay Groms Rival of Clara Bow. Genevieve Calli Great things come m little packages. lone Robertson —Always smiling. Howard Bellamy—Shepherd of the hills.

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THE TOOT 9 ding March echo thru the auditorium and I see, walking slowly from the altar of matrimony, Katherine Greinei and Curtis Cronk— the well-known ten- nis star. And then, as I walk along the high- way that was the Seneca turnpike, a shining limousine passes. I recogniz- ed the chauffeur of this great vehicle as Blaine Hazen and realize that he has the responsible position of driving Mrs. Smith to school daily. And it came to pass that the lights from a great billboard hanging high above Broadway bear the glittering statement A second Caruso--The World’s Greatest Tenor George Haz- en.” And then, as I slowly traversed the streets of the great city of Canastota and shouts of Extra! Extra! greeted my ears. I pushed to buy a paper and in the headlines I read that there had been a great battle and that the brave general, Colton Tibbits had led the American forces to victory. Then I am borne by the Spirit to a large theatre where Carl Dentler is playing Uncle Tom in a revival of that famous play “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” And it came to pass that while I pondered these wondrous things in my heart that the door of a home swung open and I found therein a household made happy by a wife and mother, Ruth Greiner, a former basketball star. And while I watched the home lights die away I was borne on the wings of my dream to a large football stadium and there the team of C. H. S. rushed on to victory under the leadership of their coach, Herbert Norton, acclaimed by many as a second Knute Rockne. And while my mind was still dream- ing of great athletes I saw Donald Fritz playing with the Davis Cup team in the place occupied by George Lott in 1931. And a change took place in my dreams and I found myself attending the commencement exercises of a great university where Helen Guss- willer and William Hamlin who had added to that vast store of knowledge which they acquired in C. H. S. receiv- ed degrees of Doctor of Philosophy. Then I found myself within the walls of the Louvre where people thronged to see the paintings of that famous artist, Mary Newberry. And now I glimpsed the professional circles and moving to and fro therein were Joseph DeMauro and Milton Clarke, WaJl Street Brokers. And with- in the quiet of a neighboring hospital Olive Relyea and Nancy Pugliano soothe the fevered brows and other- wise live up to the names they have earned—“The Ladies of the Lamp . And lo, I find myself at a great scientific convention. I hear that fam- ous chemist Raymond Caldwell who is by this time happily married to Jen- nie D’Amico, discuss the atomic the- ory in great detail. I also hear that great physicist, Gerald Shaffer, explain the Einstein Theory in such a man- ner that Einstein himself would not recognize his own brain-child. Then I was led to the desk of the Dean of Women at Cornell Universi- ty. The woman I found at the desk was none other than Gladys Baldwin. I was then conducted to the Munici- pal Airport where I found Alice Os- trander about to take off in her now rocket plane on a flight to the moon. And then I felt a great longing to be present at an assembly in that dear old institution of learning, Can- astota High School and I dreamed that I was there again singing “Mistress Shady’’ and all the tunes of so long ago. In the place of Miss Gaudern stood Veronica Capparelli who had no trouble at all in persuading the occu- pants of the front rows to sing Love’s Old Sweet Song.” And it came to pass that while my soul was held enraptured by the har- mony which came forth from the thioats of that student body, that I was filled with the desire to tread once again the homeward path which took me across the tracks. When I reached the crossing I was stopped by the great blue bulk of John Dineen who had taken Mr. Clocks responsi- bility of seeing that all the pedestrians