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

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In the annual Bigelow Prize Speaking Contest the girls of the other classes had to how to a girl from our class, for Ellen Wilkinson carried off the laurels and as representative of our school in the West Section League likewise took first place. After the beloved June tests, the follow- ing year proclaimed us Juniors. A few of our number were left behind and we in turn welcomed some new members who preferred our class to the one ahead At this time we realized that half of our high school career had passed. We were a little more prominent in school activities and were granted a few more privileges. We were now permitted to have two representatives on the Athletic Council. With the opening of the season for football several members of our class made the team which won for our school with the county champion- ship. By this time Miss Roth realized the talent which existed among the hoys of the school and organized a mixed chorus ut once, which proved to be very successful. While speaking of music it might be worth while to mention the fact that we had an orchestra of unusual merit During the winter months the basket hall teams were ver successful. The girls’ team won the county championship. Three out of live of the members on the hoys’ team were from our class. In the Lincoln essay contest the prize was captured hv a member of our class. In the spring came baseball and prize speaking. Several of our boys secured plans on the team. Betty Miller from our class, proved her talent by taking the county speaking prize. Now. as Juniors, we were invited to join that august body known as Seniors for the purpose of participating in a social function to he held in the auditorium where both the classes were highly complimented. Ellen Wilkinson was champion “slam slinger” from our group. We then assembled in the library and gymnasium where games and dancing were enjoyed by all present. I ike every other year since the time of Socrates of old. we concluded our Junior academic aspirations by participating in annual regents delights. We were ail anxious to succeed, so that we might return as seniors. Most of ns did succeed. So we entered 107 under the careful dis- cipline of Mrs McNicce, who immediately advised us of the traditions of the former class and attempted to teach us the customs we must now follow. Now we found that as Seniors we were granted the maximum of privileges. The membership of the Senior Class in the Athletic Association was 100%. In the Athletic Council both the president and the vice-president were 28's and in the second term the president and the secretary were from our class. In football the manager and cuptain were both chosen from our class as well as the managers for basket ball and baseball. Again we proved to be the best essayists as Malcolm Reed won first prize in the Lincoln Essay Contest for 192 8. The Glee Club was certainly prominent this year. In the course of events we migrated to distant parts: among other famous centers we visited Syracuse, not of Sicily, but of New York, from which metropolis we broadcasted from the Clark Music studio through WSYR. Tempus fugit, the year rolled around and our last tests would tell the Me. D-r lass w »s then organized: S'dney Cooper was honored with the presidency. We had many tasks facing us, such as selecting our rings. f lnK,s »■ otir and flower. These tasks were undertaken most joyfully. Then too. like other classes, we felt the need of financial aid. so we ar- ranged lor a movie benefit. At the athletic banquet Betty Miller represented our class as well as the student body. According to custom, we asked the Juniors to join with us for a ban- quet. which was held at the Parish House. At the feast jokes and slams were given by Ruth Carroll. Kirby Vosburg and Marian Connell. Speeches were made b students and teachers. After a very appetizing dinner, we 8

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Kuised form through all life in the guise of rules, prescriptions, definitions, models, and many other standards. Before the Rennaissance, education, or these formulas, was so limited that it was possible for a single bruin to know every formula then in existence. When the scientists, the authors, the great artists, came—the division and the repeated subdivision in the field of knowledge became so great that no one person could hope to mas- ter the entire body of facts. Even now the scientists, the literary critic, the sociologist, each is provided with his own peculiar dialect, unintel- ligible to all others. Accordingly our conversation has become rather restricted to the limited field of weather, politics, athletics, or some other comparatively commonplace subject. Based on these facts, the conclusion is threefold: first that education is necessary to lit us for successful practice in our various callings; second, that education is necessary to provide our lives with more intelligent and varied avocations; and third that educa- tion is necessary to make us more helpful in our relations to the commun- ity at large. EOITOR-IN-CHIEF. 1H2K CLASS HISTOKV In this hour the Class of 1928 experiences a feeling of both joy and •sorrow. A jo ous feeling because, as we gaze backward through the four jcars. which are now history, we realize, that we have gained much. We have been instu ted by faithful and loyal teachers, to whom we owe more than we may be able to express in mere words. We experience sorrow because we realize that with the close of high school days many friendships must be terminated and new' responsibilities assumed. We do not propose that this shall be the end, rather it must be the beginning. For four years we have been striving to reach this goal. It was on a rainy day in the month of September. 1924. that we entered the large corridors of Bald wins ville High School as Freshmen. A few' of ns who had never walked the halls before wandered up and down the corridors of each floor, endeavoring to locate a room by the number 206. We had been told that here we were to experience our first year of high school with Miss Rindge as our academic leader. Finally we found our room and there we drafted om first and now historic schedules. Of course we endeavored to appear in the proper classroom at the appointed time. The first day we made many errors, but soon we had profited by experience and had become accustomed to the methods of high school. Many of us joined the Athletic Association and we were allowed to elect Olive Brown as our representative on the Athletic Council. Next we were tested in song by Miss Roth. Then after a unique and auspicious initiation, several of the girls were permitted to join the Glee Club. Soon the orchestra was formed and several of our class were chosen to become members of this. As the boys very soon became interested in football, one member of cur class played on the team. With the arrival of winter came basket ball for both boys and girls. Then in the spring baseball was the real sport Our 1)0.'s had the honor ot rolling the diamond. This rolling, according to tradition, was their privilege. But there were other activities besides athletics. Some of our num- bers were in the annual minstrel show which is the principal event of the school, and the Bigelow Prize Speaking Contest, which is held every year One of o r girls, talented Ruth Weeks captured second prize. Thus our Freshmen year came to an end. The first summer vacation is long to be remembered; but we were happy to be back, for now' we were Sophomores and the largest class of the high school. . , . , , ... We again joined the Athletic Association and had the honor of having the cheer leader. Olive Brown, and the manager of the baseball team. Harwood Jones selected trom our group. We cannot pass over this year without noting that our baseball team was the champion of the county. Ot course, we believe that the championship was due to the exceptionally good work of our boys. 7

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assembled in the library and in the gymnasium, where we participated in games and dancing. Everyone enjoyed himself. The Senior ball directed by a capable committee, was held at the Town Hall This was the best evening of the year. The Senior (.’lass has enjoyed many other pleasant social gatherings during this memorable month of June. JEANETTK CLUTE. CLASS PROPHECY This is the year 1940. I have become the president oT a famous air- craft corporation and am cruising about the world in my plane with Rich- ard Blann as my pilot. I decided to look up my classmates in the Class of ’2 8 at Baldwinsville Academy. This is what I found. John and Walter Bellows have converted their father’s farm into a used car establishment. Several hundred of the relics are piled around the place. While looking around at the cars, I found Walter tinkering with the “Star' of his high school days, still trying to find out what makes the wheels go around. Jane Matson and Brewster Paine have cast their lot together and are now misisonaries in the tropocial islands, attempting to convert the natives. William Crago, a great athlete, is now succeeding Ty Cobb as one of the best, fly catchers in the American League. George Youngs has become a well-known comic strip artist and has succeeded the famous “Briggs” in writing “Old Gold Advertisements.” Jake sincerely believes that there is “not a cough in a carload.” Thelma Surbrook is accompanying Merle Loveless to Rochester every week to take vocal lessons. In a short time she expects to tour Europe and give the folks over there the treat we enjoyed during our high school days. Lyman Abbot was reluctant to leave old B. H. S. and lias returned as an assistant to Mrs. Griffith He may be found any day up in 208 follow- ing her around the room and assisting in the instruction us he used to do in his undergraduate days. Louise Eggleston has become a nurse and at the present time is caring for Donald Van Wle. who has developed pneumonia from failure to get under cover when it rained. Louise Fuess. the noisest student of the class of ’28. is now a famous radio announcer. Her most famous work was the broadcasting of the Army-Navy football game. Sydney Cooper and Joseph Turkowski. partners In high school days, are now running a chain of billiard academies. Ruth Weeks now holds a position as grocery clerk in Oriskany Falls. Olive Brown and Marian Connell, the mainstays of Miss Roth's orches- tra, are trumpeters in the Redpath Chautauqua. Malcolm Reed, the Senior class deacon, is now preaching the gospel to the natives of Lysander and vicinity. Inez Wagner has been happily married to one of the class of ’28, Frank Younk, the gaugling collegian. Clifford Sadelmyer, a second Edgar Guest, writes poems for the great dailies of the country. His especial theme is The Girls of the Present Day.” Esther Clark is the manager and star guard or a girls' basket ball team that bids fair to win the National Championship. Esther still aver- ages three fouls a game. Benjamin O’dell who has taken up agriculture, is now the pilot of his father's farm. Jeannette Chile has become bead of a large correspondence school. She received a large amount of her training and experience during study per- iods in B. H. S. , Coe Althouse by means of using his enormous powers of suddenly coming to life, and always being where least expected, is the present ■“Sherlock Holmes” of America. 9