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

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This year brought another round of athletic victories; for, by this time, Mr. Getnmn realized that it took Juniors to make a team. So, you may be sure there were many Juniors on his different teams. As Juniors we were allowed two council representatives, James De Scrio and Margaret Kittell. Margaret was made council secretary. In January, Margaret Kittell and Clarence Blanding were elected to the council. Clarence was elected Vice President. Richard Sears won the Bigelow Prize Speaking Contest; also the County Contest. Lucy Hicks received second prize in the Kyne Spelling Contest. Mar- garet Kittell submitted the prize winning poster in the County Poster Contest and received honorable mention in the State Contest. Merle Loveless was chos on as one of the four high school students to represent all the High Schools of New York State in the First National High School Chorus held at Chicago. Last September we elected Richard Sears and Blanche Hall to the Council, Blanche being chosen Council Secretary. Our Senior Class was organized im- mediately following the January examinations. Clarence Blanding was elected President; Robert Rowell, Vice Presidnct; Anne McGann, Secretary, and Mar- garet Kittell, Treasurer. After many stormy sessions we decided upon our rings, class flower, motto and colors. Then came our first social function as Seniors—the Senior Ball. It was a great success. The Athletic Banquet soon followed. Many Seniors received their block letters. Wilson Van Wie and Joseph Turkowski, both Seniors, were the only ones who had secured three letters by playing on all three teams.. Marjorie Thompson, another Senior, had the honor of receiving a gold basket- ball for four years of work on the basketball team. She was Captain of our champion basketball team. In January, Carl Ivrayzer and Margaret Kittell were the Senior Council members. Margaret was made Vico President of the Council. Then too, our class shows its versality by the fact that Wilson Van Wie won the Bigelow Prize Speaking Contest and represented Baldwinsville in the County Contest. Our members held offices in the Glee Club and were also mem- bers of the newly organized checker and chess teams. Now that our last year draws to a close, we begin to realize that our Sen- ior year, so bright with the joys of the present and its hopes for the years to come, is at an end. ‘Time and Tide wait for no man’ is well exemplified in High School. Only a little while ago we were bashful, bewildered, and retiring Freshmen; today we are staid and dignified Seniors. Experiences that will be recalled with pleasure by those who took part in them and that will also live in our memories as belonging to the good old days in High School, are only a pleasent bit of what we arc taking away. Somehow, our hearts are regretful; yet, aftcrall. it is but one step towards our goal, for wo are bound ‘Out. of the Harbor into the Sea.' Marion Whitmore

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CLASS HISTORY In the year 1923 a Junior high school was organized in connection with the High School and ours was the first class to be enrolled in it. The summer va- cation of these exceedingly proud and important members, for we really thought that we were very important, was spent in asking every high school student what we should do and when we should do it. At last the long dreaded, yet much longed for, day came. On the seven- teenth of September we entered the new building and were sent to our rooms on the top floor. The second floor was reserved for Senior high school; if we happened to wander onto their floor or into their rooms, they none too politely told us to ‘get out.’ We were assigned to our home rooms and given our schedules. Now came the real test—we had been told what to do, where to go, and when-but-whethcr we could remember all we had been told was a question of considerable doubt, and, not without reason, for we always seemed to ap- pear cither in the wrong place or else at the wrong time. By this time ve wore beginning to realize what little insignificcnt ooings we were compaiul with ti.e ‘Mighty Seniors.' Soon however, we became accustomed to the methods of high school life. Three of our talented memoers, Margaret Northrop, Ivathryn Stryker, and Jay Gossner, were allowed to join the newly organized orchestra. No sooner had we settled down to work than the teachers began to tell us about Regents. We had never taken any Regents, so you can imagine, pen nap. , with what awe and quakings we appeared on that eventful day. The success- fully met, summer vacation seemed a glorious relief; but all too soon September came and we were back again, this time as Eighth Graders. In January we tried our Regents, but it was in June that the big test came. If we passed, we would have the honor of being the first class to complete the Junior High School course. But of course we passed; so, the following September we pre- sented ourselves as Freshmen. At this time, many new students, coming from the district schools, increased our ranks. Now we were allowed to join the Athletic Association and were given the privilege of electing one representative to the Athletic Council. We choose Ruth Carroll for this position. A number of girls were permitted to join the Glee Club. But first, they had to submit to the ordeal of iniation, which, you may be sure, was not without its thrills. In January, we chose Sydney Hall to represent us on the Athletic Council. This same year Ruth Carroll was nom- inated cheerleader. All too soon, came the June Regents—these always seemed to shadow us everywhere and at all times. In the fall of 1926, we began our high school year with but little depleat in our ranks. We were now Sophmores and once again we joined the Athletic As- sociation, choosing Clarence Blanding as our representative. It was this year that the Glee Club was enlarged and boys were permitted to join. In this, our class came to the front and contributed some of the best material in the club. In athletics, too, we were well represented, for Mr. Getman was beginning to find that there were some real athletes in our class; consequently, wc had a few members on the football, baseball and basketball teams. In January we elected Helen Perkins as our Council member. The year drifted on, no history making events taking place; but in June, examinations forced us to drop some of the members from the list, much as we hated to do it. Then as Juniors we settled down to a lot of study, the general characterist- ic feeling of the third year. Now the Athletic Banquet was forced to share honors with the Junior - Senior Banquet as the social event of the year. Ruth Carrol, our Junior representative at the banquet, ‘slammed' the Seniors very efficcntly. 6

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BETTY ABRAMS South Side Grammar School Post Graduate. Athletic Association; Athletic Council, 1928-20; Sec- retary, .1929; Decorating Committee for Athletic Ban- quet, 1929; Basketball 1926-27, 27-28, 28-29; “Crim- son and White” Joke Editor, 1927-28; Assistant News Editor, 1928-29. “Silence may he golden, but it has no charms for me.” ROLAND ADSIT “Moon” Plans Indefinite North Side Grammar School Athletic Association “Not very noisy, but far from glum.” IVAN COE ALTHOUSE Plans Indefinite Minetto Union School Athletic Association. “I can, if I have to.” CLARENCE BLANDING “Red” College South Side Grammar School Athletic Association; Athletic Council, 1926-28; As- sistant Manager of Football. 1927; Manager of Foot- ball, 1928; Basketball, 1927-28; 1828-29; “Crimson and White” Sport Editor, 1926-27; High School Min- strels, 1927; President of Senior Class; Senior Play. “You can tell the kind of wheels he has in his head By the spokes that come out his mouth.” MURIEL BAKER Plans Indefinite South Side Grammar School Athletic Association; Senior Ball Committee; Busi- ness Manager of “Lyre.” “Smooth action with great durability”. HILDA BLANCHARD “Blanchie” Plans Indefinite Hortontown District No. 3 Athletic Association; “Crimson and White” Editor, 1926-27; Glee Club (2 years) “A maiden appearing demure and shy, But there's a twinkle in her eye.” RUTH CRAMER “Woof” Plans Indefinite. South Side Grammar School Athletic Association; 'Crimson and White”, Assis- tant Editor, 1924; Glee Club (4 years); Minstrel Cir- cle, 1927-28; First Pastry Prize, 1924. “Flitting here, flitting there, Her giggle is heard everywhere.” 8