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

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Pilgrim Play. “With a Senior singularity, serious and sedate ' Dorothy Kratzer North Side Grammar School Glee Club; Special Chorus; Decorating Committee of Athletic Ban- quet 1923; Senior Play; Christmas Play 1921; Decorating Committee of the Junior-Senior Banquet 1922; Class Roll. “I just can’t make my eyes behave.” Laura Loveless North Side Grammar School Final Poem; Alphabetical Sonatina; Senior Play; Glee Club; Special Chorus; Snow White; Trial by Jury; Track Meet 1921; Oswego Cantata. “Silence may be golden, but it has no charms for me.” Mamietta Minnoe North Side Grammar School Glee Club; Junior Play; Track Meet 1921. “A genial disposition in everything in life.” Virginia Oppleton South Side Grammar School Glee Club; Track Meet 1921. “A cheerful companion is worth gold.” Ethel Preston South Side Grammar School Class Poem; Alphabetical Sonatina; Glee Club; Decorating Committee of the Junior-Senior Banquet 1922; Senior Play; Decorating Committee Athletic Banquet 1923. “She speaks, believes, acts just as she wants to.” -------- . ! ■ i Ilda Rice North Side Grammar School Glee Club; Treasurer of the Glee Club 1922-1923; Gymnastic Team; Christmas Play 1921. “Her modest looks a cottage might adorn.” Lloyd Schultz South Side Grammar School Decorating Committee of the Junior-Senior Banquet 1922; Pilgrim Pageant; Violin orchestra; Decorating Committee of the Senior Dance; Christmas Play 1919; Senior Play. “He has not a moment without some duty.” Dorothy Smith VanBuren, District No. 1 Salutatorian; Associate Editor of the “Lyre;” Special Chorus; Jewel Maiden; Glee Club; Toastmaster of the Special Chorus Banquet 1922; Christmas Play 1921; Speaker of the Junior-Senior Banquet 1922; Decor- ating Committee of the Athletic Banquet 1923; Secretary of the Athletic Council 1923; Senior Play; President of the Glee Club 1922-1923. “Don’t do today what you can bluff through tomorrow.” Russell Smith Kaukauna Grammar School, Kaukauna, Wisconsin Business Manager of the “Lyre;” Senior Play. “A mild, good-natured, sweet tempered, easy-going fellow.” 7

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Beatrice My er? South Side Grammar School Secretary of the Senior Class; Glee Club; Special Chorus; Snow White; Trial by Jury; Jewel Maiden; Secretary of the Athletic Council 1922; Christmas Play 1919; Senior Play; Oswego Cantata; Track Meet 1921. “How doth the little busy Bee improve each shining hour?” Curtiss Butler Lysander, District No. 11 A Treasurer of the Senior Class; Senior Play; Editor-in-chief of the “Lyre;” Manager of Baseball 1923; Assistant Manager of Baseball 1922; Senior Dance Committee; Gymnastic Team 1919-20; Baseball letters 1922- 1923; Football letters 1921, 1922. “The secret of his success was his constancy of purpose.” Doris Blanding South Side Grammar School Senior Play; Glee Club; Junior Play; Kyne Scholarship 1923. “A vision of conscientious thoroughness.” Frances Burus North Side Grammar School. Valedictorian; Class Will; Glee Club; Kyne Scholarship, 1921. “Mistress of herself, tho’ China falls.” Morris Decker North Side Grammar School Athletic Council 1920-21. “Because you are big, it is no sign you are great.” Dorothy Eggleston South Side Grammar School Special Chorus; Trial by Jury; Snow White; Jewel Maiden; Glee Club; Athletic Council 1921-1922; Senior Dance Committee; Vice-Presi- dent of the Glee Club 1921-1922. “A winning way, a pleasing smile, a kindly word for all.” James Fuess North Side Grammar School Class History; Senior Play; Gymnastic team 1919-1920; Interclass Championship Basketball Team 1920-1921; Second Prize Onondaga Coun- ty Prize Speaking Contest 1923; Speaker Decoration Day 1921-22-23; Speaker Junior-Senior Banquet 1922; Speaker Athletic Banquet 1923; Senior Dance Committee; Baseball letters 19 21-22-23; Captain Baseball 1923; Football letters 1920-21-22; Cheerleaders 1920-1921. “One whom the world could not withstand in argument.” Beatrice Guernsey Fulton Grammar School Glee Club. “Silence has many advantages.” Albert Johnson South Side Grammar School Athletic Council 1923; Captain Winning Basketball Team 1919-20; Baseball letters 1922-1923. “A man may laugh, but he can’t always grow fat on it.” Ardus Kratzer North Side Grammar School Secretary of the Athletic Council 1922; Special Chorus; Trial by Jury; Jewel Maiden; Glee Club; Vice-President of the Glee Club 1922-23; 6

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Mary Louise Socia North Side Grammar School Glee Club; Track Meet 1921. “The winner of the standing broad smile.” Lois 'Warner Van Buren, District No. 1 Glee Club; Special Chorus; Snow White; Junior Play. “She was ever noticeably bright.” Alma Weeks North Side Grammar School Glee Club; Kyne Scholarship 1922; Special Chorus; Snow White; Oswego Cantata. “It is not necessary to have a deep understanding of things to speak confidently of them.” DOROTHY KRATZBR. LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT We, the Class of twenty-three, being about to leave this sphere, in full possession of a sound mind, memory, and understanding, do make and publish this, our last will and testament, hereby revoking and making void all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. FIRST—We direct that our funeral services shall be conducted by our friends and well-wishers, the Faculty, merely enjoining that the funeral be carried on with all the dignity and pomp our position has merited. SECOND—We direct that our just debts and funeral expenses be paid by our Principal, in return for the knowledge and the startling informa- tion we have given him from time to time, during the past four years. Curtiss Butler leaves his engaging personality and caveman tactics to Harry Vorhees. Laura Loveless bequeaths her carnations, which she has laid away in lavender and tied with blue ribbon, to Gladys Gaylord. Dorothy Kratzer, our little ray of sunshine, bequeaths her flapper walk and coquettish smile to Louise Van Den burg. Albert Johnson bestows his grasshopper tendencies and surplus height upon James Belknap. Lois Warner wills her Senior dignity and Senior ethics to Arthur Blanding. Alma Weeks and Mary Louise Socia give and bequeath to the Faculty restful nights and peaceful dreams. Beatrice Myers, our cheery country lass, wills her great propensity for study to Arthur Fellows. Virginia Oppleton leaves all her boudoir caps to Leona Bronson and Florence Ioset. Russell Smith, the Beau Brummel of our class, wills his bottle of “Slikum” and his looking glass to Shirley Wormuth. Bertha Patchett leaves her new book in “Modern Sight Boyology” to Doris Gilmore. Ethel Preston wills her wonderful powers of concentration and her marvelous perceptive faculties to William Giddings. James Fuess bequeaths his great powers of elocution to be divided equally between Helen Brown and Ella Cole. Dorothy Smith wills all her interest in orchestras, including Clark’s “Novelty Five,” to Gladys Kraft and Olive Garrett. 8