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

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Theodoro Vador South Side Grammar School Athletic Association; Football 1922-1923-1924-1925; Baseball 1924- 1925; Basketball 1924-25, 1925-26; Track Team 1925. “The race by vigor, not by vaunts is won. Louise Van Den burg South Side Grammar School Athletic Association; Gloe Club 2 years; Bigelow Prize Speaking Contest 1925. “I have a heart with room for every joy. Evelyn Warner South Side Grammar School Athletic Association; Glee Club 3 years. “Her mildness was her greatest charm.” Sanford Weeks North Side Grammar School Athletic Association; Athletic Council 1925-26; First Prize Bige- low Prize Speaking Contest 1924; Second Prize Onondaga County Prize Speaking Contest 1924: First Prize Bigelow Prize Speaking Contest 1926; Second Prize Onondaga County Speaking Contest 1926; American Legion Speaking Contest 192G; Toastmaster Junior-Senior Banquet 1926; Senior Editor-in-Chief of Crimson and White; President of Senior Class; Senior Play. “That when he speaks, The air, a charter'd libertine, is still. And the mute wonder lurketh in men's ears. To steal his sweet and honey'd sentences. ELMA DELYNE, '26. THE LAST WILL AND TESTAMENT OF THE CLASS OF 1926 In behalf of my classmates. I am about to read this our last will and testament and distribute these gifts which we have so generously bestowed. We, the Class of 1926, this tw'enty-second day of June, being in sound mind and body, and knowing that our last moments in B. H. S. are rapidly approaching, do hereby make, publish and declare this to be our last will and testament. First, we direct that our funeral be personally conducted by our beloved principal and those of the faculty who feel they can stand the strain of such a sad occasion. Second, we direct that all debts and funeral expenses be paid by the Board of Education, if it be possible. 10

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Dorothy Plunkett Phoenix Grammar School Athletic Association: Glee Club 2 years; Special Chorus 4 years; Glee Club Minstrels 1924-1925-1926; Decorating Committee for Seniors Dance; Senior Play. “I love its gentle gurgle; I love its fluent flow; I love to wind my tongue up; and I love to hear it go. Margaret. Smallwood North Side Grammar School Athletic Association: Athletic Council 1925-26; Glee Club 2 years; Special Chorus 4 years; Glee Club Minstrels 1924-1925-1926: First Prize Bigelow Prize Speaking Contest; First Prize, Onondaga Prize Speaking “Love has reasons that reason cannot understand.” “Love has reasons that reason cannot understand. Ethelwyn Smith North Side Grammar School Athletic Association; Glee Club 2 years; Special Chorus 4 years; Glee Club Minstrels 1924-1925; Chairman of Decorating Committee for Senior Dance; Committee Junior-Senior Banquet; Senior Play. “Dead scandals form good subjects for dissection. Floyd Southard Lysander Pligh School Athletic Association; Assistant Cheerleader 1924. “The world knows nothing of its greatest men.” Edith Spenglcr North Side Grammar School Athletic Association; Glee Club 2 years; Special Chorus 2 years. “A tender heart, a will inflexible.” Wilhma Taylor South Side Grammar School Athletic Association: Glee Club 2 years; Special Chorus 4 years; Glee Club Minstrels 1925-1926. “Silence expresses with too great a weight.” Evelyn Tltompsou North Side Grammar School Athletic Association; Glee Club 2 years; Basketball 1924-25. “Hear me, for I will speak!” Kenneth Tice Cincinnatus Grammar School Athletic Association; Baseball 1 926. “So fair, ro fresh, so youthful and so rosy, like any blushing maid or blooming posy.” 9

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Then, to these fortunate ones following, we bequeath as follosw': 1. Sanford Weeks leaves to Clifford Burton his fame as a French student and an orator. 2. Helen Brown bequeathes her ability to keep out of the back- ground to Doris Van de Veer. 3. Howard Eggleston, a true Jack Tar. sadly leaves bis blue sailor trousers and sweater to Merle Loveless. Also a dollar or two for alterations. 4. Madora Plaisted wills her sweet, demure, lady-like ways to Olive Brown. We wonder if she’ll know' what to do with them. 5. Ruth Osborn leaves her fondness for cornets and blonde basket- ball players to Marian Connell and Thelma Sturdevent, respectively. 6. Ethelyn Smith, who now tops the scales at 90 Vi pounds, leaves her reducing records and mathematical genius at counting calories to Mary Widger and Merle Loveless. 7. John Clark wills his lyric tenor voice to Maurice Cox. 8. Margaret Smallwood bequeathes her remarkable ability to re- main true to ‘'the one and only” through four long years, to the Sopho- more Vamp, “Liz” Davis. 9. Adria Gaylord leaves her “winning” smile and endearing young charms to Eudora Patchett. 10. Ella Cole leaves her love for Caesar and Room 2 to Marian Kratzer. 11. Alex Jones leaves his “Airdale” to head our funeral procession. 12. Mary Agnes Farley, who has never once skipped school, wills this amazing record to her deserving successor, William Ferris Clark. 13. Ruth Colling leaves her acute attacks of shyness to Lee Hotal- ing, w’ho, no doubt, will blush with pleasure at this unexpected gift. 14. Herbert Klein leaves his set of wise-cracks and a two years subscription to College Humor to Clarence Hebblethwfaite. 15. Luella McQuaid leaves her “school girl complexion’ to Ruth Carroll. 16. Gladys Bunyea bequeathes her boyish bob and pearl ear-rings to Gertrude Gritswood. 17. Thomas Comerford wills his glasses, fashioned strictly after those of his hero, Harold Lloyd, to Sidney Cooper. 18. Charles Hebblethwaite wills his propensity for being a chatter box to Donald Van Wie. 19. Edna Catherine Moyer leaves her gentleman friend, Red Johnson, to Louise Fuess. They should make quite a “match.” 20. Gertrude Maloney leaves her love for study to Horw’ood Jones. 21. Edith Spengler bequeathes her musical talents to Kirby Vos- burgh. 22. Lloyd Southard wills his cleverness in mixing high explosives to Frank Cassidy. 23. Stella Brausiek leaves her hilarious laugh and irresponsible actions to Marie Comerford. 24. Ted Vader wills his permanent tardy slips to Evelyn Baker. 11