Charles W Baker High School - Lyre Yearbook (Baldwinsville, NY)

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(Elu' Srttutr ICyre BALDWINSVILLE, N. Y., JUNE 1916 Published by the Senior Class of the Baldwinsville Academy. Price for single copies fifteen cents. EDITORIAL BOARD Editor-in-chief— Emvard Oiddixgs Associate Editors—Ester Harrington., Doris Garrett Donald Kane ----------------- Business Manager Olin Haydon Assistant Manager Alphonsus Sinnktt Ever since the organization of our class we seniors have had a dream of a class paper. Now that that dream has materialized and we have all had a share in its formation we are justly proud of it. There are many things which if we were to do over we would do differently or not at all, and many things we have not done which we ought to have done. But we have profited by these mistakes and hope that the future classes may also profit by them. We also hope that The Senior Lyre may continue to be published not by the Senior Class alone but by the whole school, semi-annually or oftener- This wish shows that we still have a dream, may it materialize as our first dream has.

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Headquarters for School Books on § Watermans F ountain Pens Gardner Davis, Baldwinsville, N. Y. Drugs c o w OS Ward’s and on Bunker Hill Medicines CV1 Linen Stationery “LARKIN’S ON THE CORNER” Magazines, Cigars, Candy, Etc. Schenck’s for Hardware Phone 70-J We Have It. Klein Seabold Practical Plumbing, Heating, Steel Ceilings, Tinning, General Jobbing Syracuse, Street Baldwinaville. N. Y. Telephone 71 Graduation Hints— A Kodak A Fountain Pen A Box of Bell Meade Sweets A. T. Smith, Druggist

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4 THE SENIOR LYRE CLASS HISTORY In the 65th year of the incorporation of our village, twenty- eight very dignified members of the North and South Side Grammar Schools of Baldwinsville, who had been carefully and skillfully reared under the teachings of Professors Rindge and Aten, were graduated from their respective schools on the eve of June 26. 1912, at the Howard Opera House, with all the honor and pomp due to such an occasion. The summer vacation of these exceedingly proud and gray- haired members, for we really thought we had become gray-haired from spending such an eternity in those Grammar Schools, was spent in questioning every known student of that institution, about, “What do you do first?” “Can you sit any place you desire—me for the hack seat if you can.” “How can you tell to which room to go?” How weary those Juniors and Seniors must have become of being met at every corner with these questions! No wonder they told us we should be seen and not heard, and advised us, “Keep your ears open and your eyes peeled.” “Do just as you are told.” t In September during the second year of the reign of Principal Stanley Ross Miller, whom the South Siders boasted of having had for nearly three years, we entered High School. As we sat any place we wished, we thought all was quite fine. At nine when the queerest little bell sounded, everything, even the clock, almost, was silent. Our hearts were in our mouths, where they should not have been, because we surely could not talk with anything in our mouths, as some very well know who have tried that sad experiment and been commanded: “Throw what you have in your mouth into the basket.” The teachers passed some large sheets of paper, called registra- tion blanks, and told us to answer the questions on the paper. To decide our future all in one second, without any warning, was a tremendous task ; but we had to perform it all by ourselves without even asking our parents’ advice. Finally, after filling out our blanks and handing them in, we were told to report again in the afternoon when we were dismissed. For two days there was no school, because the schedule, which was very hard to prepare, had not been completed. But on the third day we began our school work, Andjhen came the time when we were to become confused in finding where our classes met. Then we who had felt so big and proud at leaving our “Alma Mater,” began to realize what tiny,