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

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Dr. Kratzer’s dental office, to work as assistant. I believe he would prefer the one in the dental office from all that I can remember of his high school days. Ellen McDermott, it says, is teaching French in the Baldwinsville Academy. Vance Gates has taken up a new profession. He is studying to be a rector. (Good luck to him!) Good gracious! Mae Hencle and Mary Connor are partners in a shop —a millinery shop. Mae, who is very artistic, is most successful in tying bows, especially the new tea bows (Tebo). In this work she is ably as- sisted by Mary, who is also very fond of the tea bow (Tebo). John Reid has gone into the aeroplane business; but he doesn’t have to loop the loop any more, as he already has one loop (Loope) in his possession. Ardus Kratzer is physical training instructor in one of the Syracuse high schools. (To be a physical training instructor was Ardus’ one ambi- tion when she was in school.) William French, the noted lawyer, tries to have all his verdicts right. (No reason why they shouldn’t be, as you know Wright is in the family.) Here is an advertisement from Lena Belle Loope, the noted statistician! Indeed, sho is well fitted for such work because she always did love to read (Reid). Roy Delaney, a member of the Assembly, has finally succeeded in hav- ing a new road put through between Baldwinsville and Cross Lake. (Of course, we all know why Roy wished that new road put through.) Vera Gates is a stenographer for the firm of Gifford and Son. (As we are well aware, it isn’t the Gifford part that attracts Vera’s attention; it must be the Son.) Esther Hahn, the most expert stenographer in New York City, never has to have her dictation repeated for her as she gets everything to the line (DeLyne). Alice McDonald—a well-known leader in politics. (She ought to be fitted for this position as she always was a good talker.) WTinifred Hart, who is the new speaker of the Assembly, has the honor of being the first woman that has ever been chosen as speaker. (Surely, Winifred will get along all right, as talking was always her strong point.) Dorothy Virginia, the very popular actress, is leading a life of gaiety (Gayeity!) Lulu Gaylord, I see, has gone abroad to study design. Bernice Reeves is teaching in the Lysander High School. Oh, yes, I remember having heard that. Evidently she is very strict as I heard she is always tapping (Tappan) the bell. Muriel Maxon, now a fashionable modiste, delights in sewing on any kind of material that has a rustle (Russell) to it. Ethel Sochia is catalogue clerk in the new library in San Francisco. Donella Farrell is now living alone near Memphis, where she is de- voting her time to the raising of Angora cats. (It seems to me Donella was always singing, “I ain’t nobody’s darlin' ” when she was in high school.) MARION FRAWLEY. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Senior Class of 1922, of the Baldwinsville Academy of Bald- winsville, in the County of Onondaga and State of New York, being of sound mind and memory, do make, publish and declare this our last Will and Testament, in manner following that is to say: 17

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CLASS POEM Soon, ah, all too soon will come The end of our happy school days— Those “dear, old, golden school days,” And the thought of it makes us glum. In a way, we will be very glad Of “no more pencils, no more books, No more teacher’s sassy looks;’’ And yet, we feel so blue and sad. When we think of those long, tedious hours. With their multitudinous worries and cares, Helping only to accumulate gray hairs— What fate can keep us from green, mossy bowers? But after all is said and done, But oft will we recall those fleeting minutes of fun. Those seconds, blissful and serene— Even though few and far between— WThich sometimes occured before our work was done. It is then that we long to abide forever ’Neath the old “Crimson and the White,’’ To help her, you know, to keep aright— But serve her we must, and forever. Joys wili forever come and go, And with sorrows blend; But to you we can send This lesson—you will reap what you sow. But after all is said and done, Who will forget dear Alma Mater, She the clay, we the potter? None, I believe, no not one! So, dear Alma Mater, adieu! Beloved in our memory shalt thou be. We will hear you admonishing o’er every lea And to you, we will try to be true. NORMA H. WRIGHT. CLASS PROPHECY At last I have found a paper that gives an account of what the mem- bers of our old Senior Class of 192 2 are doing. I have been looking for such a paper for a long, long time. Well, according to this paper— Clifford Tappan, the President of the Senior Class of 1922, now agent for the Durant automobiles, is always being pressed on (Preston) to higher ideals. Norma, W’right, who, immediately after her graduation from B. H. S., took a course in Domestic Silence—Domestic Science—found that she did not like to teach the subject after all. Now she is trying her luck teaching the subject of French to a class of one. (Well, Norma was always inter- ested in the subject of French.) Hum-m—Walter must be out of a position now. I see by the paper that he has applied for two positions, one in Cold Spring and the other in 16

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First: We direct that this Will be executed by that worthy body of our elders, but not our superiors, the Faculty. Second: We direct that all our just debts and funeral expenses be paid by this year’s Junior Class, in return for the great benefits they will receive from us when they fill our places next year. Norma Wright bequeathes her overwhelming love for French to another equally enthusiastic lover of the subject, Robert Turner. Her wonderful record of never having been absent or tardy during her whole school career, she wills to Frances McCarthy. Mae Hencle and Mary Connor leave all their beaux, Tebeaux included, to Kathryn Snyder, because they say, “She needs them more than we do.” Lulu Gaylord wills her noiseless, demure manner to Kenneth Mawhinney. Ardus Kratzer leaves all interest in a certain Walter to Bertha Patchett, who just now seems to be specializing in that particular brand called “Walters.” Donella Farrell, who for some reason has always felt herself far above the rest of us, wills that her means of looking down upon people be divided between Irene Jensing and Charles Young. Ethel Sochia wills her great ability to remember the smallest details of her lessons (even if she does get them in the wrong place) to John Miller. Vance Gates, “our celebrated debater,” wills his great ability to argue, no matter where he is or what the point at issue, to one who seriously lacks this accomplishment, James Fuess. Dorothy Virgina, who is the only one of us to have a worthy title, wills this title, “Ma Petite,” to Dorothy Kratzer, that the school may still have “Ma Petite Dorothy”—little Dorothy. Roy Delaney wills his model conduct, which he keeps wrapped up in cotton wool and preserved with moth balls, to Arthur Fellows. Esther Hahn leaves her factory where A-lines, C-lines, DeLines are made, to Roswell Horner that he will have a good line (of talk) when he becomes an “auto” salesman. Winifred Hart wills her budding genius as an editorial writer, and her book on “How to Attract the Opposite Sex,” to Doris Barney. Ellen McDermott wills her wonderful power of concentration, even when such an alluring thing as a boy is around, to Alma Weeks. Alice McDonald wills her power to make one and two make five and her amazing preference for study, to William Lewis Clark. Muriel Maxon, the girl with the “rustle,” wills her beloved type- writer, that “No. 8 Noiseless Smith,” to Florence Baker. Bernice Reeves bequeaths her novel theories of dispicpline, which she expects to use in the near future, either in teaching school or in managing somebody, to the teachers of the High School. Clifford Tappan wills his business efficiency and ability to get noise out of anything, even out of the organ in Room Six, to quiet Jack Eggleston. Lena and John, the two musicians of the Senior Class, will their great ability to “play together” to Ilda Rice and Homer Abbott. Marion Frawley bequeaths her power of persuasion to Robert Church, because she feels that he may need it in a few years. In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our name the 27th day of June, in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-two. SENIOR CLASS OF 1922. VERA GATES. 18