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

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Next the cards showed me two people, a girl and a boy, canoeing. They seemed to be on the Seneca River. As I looked I could see that it was none other than the perfect lovers”, Mabel and Rustle. As I looked at the cards again. I saw Leonard Lewis. He was speeding along in a new Ford truck loaded with girls. Then I saw Elenor Hyle. She was standing on a platform with a book in her hand. She was reading from it to a group of hard-boiled men until the expression on their faces changed from a look of fiendish animosity to one of feraphic ecstacy. Elenor hasn’t yet found a man to her liking whom she can trust. Consequently she is at present Aimee S. McPherson’s right hand reformer. 1 also saw Roland Adsit, who was all dressed up in a white uniform and leaning on a broom. Roland had previously been employed near the Riding Academy. Because of his thoroughness of execution he has been promoted to chief of the local whi‘e wings. In his day he has been in many a scrape and is ready to inform anyone that B’Ville is no longer a one horse town. Next the cards showed me Ruth Adsit out in Nebraska breaking in a most unruly broncho. Ruth stayed East just as long as she could after Joe went West. Then the cards showed me our own Arres Henderson. She was reclining on a bed in Madden Van Wies’ window, where she has a job demon- strating the Beauty Rest” mattress. What a love’y job for Arres! I saw Bob Orvis, too. He was host at a wonderful party at one of his two huge houses. He must have done well in his business because he is very wealthy now. What business is he in? You will have to ask Bob—he will tell you. Finally the cards showed me the most accomDlished boy in the class practicing his accomplishments. Jack Kcl'y was teaching the art of cussing to truck drivers, state troopers, army officers, golf p'avers and narrots. FLORENCE TYLER. TO THE CLASS OF 1930 After four years of studying, we who were Freshmen in 1926, find our- selves Seniors. At first the goal of graduation seemed far away—still every day brought it nearer. The classes before us wished us luck. Indeed we needed it. None of us who have been at B. H. S. can forget our school days. We anticipate the arrival of classes to come into our old cell, 107: It is with great pleasure that we place you under the cag’e eye of our Keeper, Wor- math. TO THE CLASS OF 1931 To the class of 1931 we pass all the luck given us. In spite of the fact that many of this class have already had honors conferred upon them, we wish them many more. To them, success. TO THE CLASS OF 1932 We hope this class will he as successful as ours. With two years ahead of them, they can accomplish much. Good luck. TO THE CLASS OF 1933 This class should be the most successful of the classes to graduate in the future. With our class to set an examole. they shou'd be as successful as ours. To them we wish the best of luck. It is this class with which I am best acquainted. NELSON LOUP.

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CLASS PROPHECY Class Prophecies of the last few years have been foretold in dreams, as were the forecasts of the prophets of old, but as our class is most modern in every respect to foretell the future of its illustrious members. I laid the cards before me the other night and this is what they showed me. First they showed me “Tap Reinhardt, our class president, standing behind the counter of his Cash and Carry store at Belle Isle, wearing a huge, white apron and trying to look business-like. Then 1 saw Sybil Adsit, dancing the “jazziest” dance of the season. She is playing in Roger Diffenderfer’s new show, “Captivating Cuties”. 1 he cards next showed me John Voorhees and Maurice House escort- ing ladies in and out of their “1 92 Fords by means of a gold plated step ladder which they had purchased just for that purpose. I saw Nelson Loup looking very pious and standing in the pulpit preach- ing to a:l the good church-goers of Bowens Corners. Nelson made such a hit in the Senior Play that he took up the ministry in a “big way . Then I saw Fritz Crego, the asmatic saxophone player, lie was leading his famous orchestra. And where do you suppose?—in Schenk's window, where they play every Saturday night, as a treat to those who don’t get to town very often. Who do you suppose I saw next? Peg Walters. And she was branding the cattle on her ranch, out where men arc men and women are glad of it. The cards showed me Marion Crandon, who was busily writing her new short story for the “Snappy Story magazine. 1 could see Dorothy Connell busily working the switch board up in Belle Isle, where she is Chief Operator. 1 wonder if she hears much news up there? The cards showed me John Adsit sitting at the wheel of a brand new bus which he runs between here and Plainville. Then 1 saw the great event of the year. Francis Seabold was being awarded the Nobel Prize for his great contributions to chemistry. What do you suppose the cards showed “Wcbbv Mathcwson doing? She was making rompers for the little “Halls”. I hope she followed Miss Mill’s advice about making the button, holes. Then I could see “Doc Cenci standing on top of the Woolworth Build- ing sebing flying fish to aviators. I saw Gerrett Smith trying to sell his new invention, the painless fly swatter for uneducated flics. Next I saw Bob Adsit all dressed up in a uniform and shouting at the top of his lungs. He was calling trains at the Grand Central Station. Then I saw something that made me gasp. Paul Bickncll and Francis Van Wic were throwing around Adessa Goodspeed. But it wasn’t cruelty. 3 ou see, they arc the most renowned troupe of Adagio dancers between Lampson and Little Uticy. The cards then showed me Margaret Connel looking intently at a book and bending this way and that and rolling over and over on the floor. It seems she is on her third lesson of the correspondence course on “How to Become Thin . Then I saw Dorothy Palmer and Elmer Clark dancing gracefullv about a meadow. There were about twenty children following them. But don’t be surprised—they were the pupils of Dorothy and Elmer, who teach aesthetic dancing now. I saw Jeanette Stryker, too. She was on the stage where she was acting very Shakesperian. She was playing the roll of Blossom in “The Broken Stem . Next I saw Kate Cassidy setting on the edge of her chair and talking for all she was worth. There was a large group of women with her. They were all listening intently to what she had to say. The group is that old and his- toric society. “The Men-ding Club , and Kate is the president. Then I received the greatest shock of all. Nellie Fulmer, the girl with the “snappy haircut, dressed in a very extreme evening gown. She was wearing much jewelry and a cigaret was dangling from her mouth. She is a hostess at George Cholet’s famous night club, “The Cuiller Carrouse (greasy spoon). 16

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GRADUATES OF 1929 Betty C. Abrams.......Post Graduate Ivan Coe Althouse..Emp. State R. R. Muriel E. Baker.....Cent. City B. S. Hilda Nellie Blanchard......At home Clarence F. Blanding....Post Graduate Edgar Cole............Post Graduate Howard M. Cook....Central City B. S. Felecia Dcmbowski.... V. U. Operator James De Serio........Dayton-Hessler Ray E. Dunham.................. Farm Joseph R. Farley....State Main. Dept. J. Wiilard Gossner....Nat. Bk., B'ville Blanche E. Hall..Morris Mach Wks. Leonore E. Hencle.....Post Graduate Lucy Mae Hicks......Cent. City B. S. Jack C. Hoffman..Syracuse University Harriet E. Howard..Cent. City B. S. Wilma Lenore Kelly...........At home Margaret Kittell..Syracuse University Carl R. Kratzcr.......Post Graduate Philip Strail Linscott....Crouse-Hinds Anna Barber McGann........Bus. School Margaret Amy Northrop..Bus. School Mary J. Ostrowski.........Teaching Albert J. Palmer...Cent. City B. S. Franklin B. Reddout....Am. Tel. Co. Mary Elizabeth Reeves...........Nurse Robert W. Rowell.............Syracuse U. Frederick R. Sears.. Gates, Undertaker Richard M. Sears..............Cornell U. C. Mildred Shea....Central City B. S. Katherine Morris Stryker......O. N. S. Joseph Francis Turkowski..Indefinite Wilson F. Van Wie ...Cook Academy Kirby A. Yosburgh.....Syracuse U. Harry A. Wagner................. Farm Mildred Catherine Ward ... reaching Marion F. Whitmore.. .Ryder College DOMINICA CENCI. PRIZE SPEAKING The annual Bigelow Prize Speaking Contest was held on May 2nd, with the following students taking part: Barbara Brown. Nellie Fulmer, Kath- erine Farkas, Marion Crandon. Walter Mercer, Robert Sullivan, Loren Mathewson, Burton Frawley and Edgar Cole. Barbara Brown was awarded first prize for the girls and Walter Mercer for the boys. Nellie Fulmer received second prize tor the girls and Robert Sullivan for the boys. In the County League Contest, both Barbara Brown and Walter Mercer won first prize. I’m sure that we may feel very proud of the students who are taking an interest in public speaking; we hope that this interesting work will be carried on. MABLE MERCER. THE ORCHESTRA When the new school building was opened seven years ago. Miss Roth called for volunteers to form an orchestra. Many responded. As a result of the enthusiastic hard work of the players and the skillful training of Miss Roth, the orchestra was finally ready for its first public appearance. Since then it has been playing at many of our local and school affairs. As a large number of inexperienced players were continually coming in, it was soon necessary to form an Evening Orchestra. This orchestra not only includes members of the High School Orchestra blit also former stu- dents and citizens of the town. 1 hen a true High School Orchestra was also formed. They have played at weekly assemblies, where they always give us good music, no matter how short their program may be. On June 10. 1929, this orchestra represented the school in the first County Orchestra Contest, held at Liverpool. The first prize was a radio, which this school won. Consequently, during this year, we. as a school, have been able to hear the educational programs given over the Columbia School of the Air. This June the High School Orchestra is to enter the Second County Contest to be held at Liverpool. The prize this year is $25.00, to be used to purchase musical instruments. Indeed, the school and everybody in it should be very grateful to Miss Roth for all the time and attention she devotes to training the orchestra, the chorus and the prize speakers and minstrel players. Whatever Miss Roth sets out to do is always well done. The cups and other prizes we have won in orchestra, chorus and girls’ prize speaking are due to her efforts.