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

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SENIOR ACTIVITIES We started the year's activities by having a dance in the gymnasium on Friday, February 10, following the Solvay basketball game. The profits from the dance were such that we decided to have another in the near future. On Saturday, February 18, a food sale was held at the Corner Pharmacy. Everyone in the class responded by contributing food or money. Thus, this, too, was a success. Between bells for about two weeks, there was a scramble to possess two or three bars of the very tempting candy which was available from practically every Senior. In a very short time the sweets were disposed of, much to the regret of the students but the relief of the teachers. Our first dance, having met with hearty approval of all, we decided to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day by a dance in the gym. Colored lights and music by the “Varsity Blues”, all blended in to make St. Patrick's Day a memorable evening. Our next undertaking was a card party held in the school library on Friday. March 24. Those not wishing to play cards could exhibit their skill in putting jig-saw puzzles together. Each table was well provided with peanuts and candy, and according to everyone who attended, the evening was one of enjoyment. Here, our activities slowed up somew'hat during the Kentcn season hut after Easter the crowd came back with renewed vigor when a dance was held on April 21, in the school gym. Again the Varsity Blues” not wishing to lose any of their former reputation, provided music which brought about an enjoyable evening for all. In looking over this year’s Senior activities, we find that this class has co- operated heartily and made each venture a success. —Frances Weeks and Helena Ferguson. SENIOR PLAY The Senior Play, The Goose Hangs High”, a dramatic comedy, was written by Lewis Beach and directed by Mrs. Lower. The time in the play is the Christmas holidays when the twins, Lois and Bradley, came home from college for their vacation. As soon as they are home the twins start going out to parties ami having a high time, not appreciating the fact that father and mother have given up their own home comfort to send their children to college. The father is forced to resign his position as tax assessor in the City Hall. The children willingly give up college and rind work. Hugh, the older son, offers his financial aid but his father objects. The father finally finds work that he likes to do in a greenhouse owned by his mother-in-law, Mrs. Brad- ley, and Noel Derby. The twins refuse to go hack to college and Hugh and Dagmar are able to get married. CAST OF CHARACTERS Bernard Ingals......Paul BogdaiiolY Eunice Ingals Marian Heagle Noel Derby...........Frank Walters Leo Day................William Reid Rhoda................Mary Reddick Julia Murdock .Grace Hamlin Elliot Kimberley Mrs. Bradley.......Winifred Navin Hugh Ingals.... James Henderson Ronald Murdock Ralph Cramer Lois Ingals..Glenna Connell Bradley Ingals...Victor Milkowski Dagmar Carroll...V irginia Johnston John Harrington —Margaret Ads it. SENIOR BALL “Soft lights and sweet music” was the symbol of the annual Senior Ball held Fri- day evening, May 26, in the Academy gtmnasiuin, with the presence of 70 couples. The music was furnished throughout the evening by Don Davison and His Com- modores, one of Central New York's most popular dance bands. For the lirst time the Senior Ball was held in the school gymnasium, which proved to be a successful place both socially and financially. The decorations of crimson and white resembled a huge canopy and was blended with the rays of colored lights. The committee in charge was Robert Bernev, chairman; Grace Hamlin, Mary Jane Harrington, Virginia Johnston, James Henderson and Paul Bodganoff. Robert Bernev.

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CLASS PROPHECY The time was 1943, the place high above the clouds and I was comfortably seated in mv aeroplane. Seeking diversion, I picked up a new kind of telescope, gazed thru it, and there before my eyes began to unfold a panorama of the lives of my former classmates in the 1933 graduating class of B. H. S. Victor Milkowski, our class president, has become B’ville's political boss, handing out nickel cigars to his partisans. Vic wasn’t so generous in high school. Mary Jane Harrington has taken over Miss Forrest's position as athletic- director and is wielding the dumbells and punching bag vigorously. Mary Jane always did love exercise. Paul Bogdanoflf, having gained so much experience as class treasurer, is now opening baby’s bank. Frances Farley, Ruth Foster and Jane Wheaton, as Salvation Army lassies, are wearing bonnets tied with red ribbons under rheir chins. With such excellent guidance, many lost souls should be saved. Several of our number have entered a beauty contest and up to this point, those left after elimination are: Loretta Fauler, Henrietta Brauksicck, and Viola Hewitt. Our girls are certainly making a good showing. Marion Heagle and Francis Kinney, missionaries way oil in the wilds of Africa, are endeavoring to teach the cannibals the folly of their ways. At last, these two have found an audience that will eat up their words. Let’s hope the cannibals do not get hungry. Ralph Cramer seems to be making a high pressure sales talk to Kate Smith, selling his product, “Ladies Slender Form Corsets . Virginia McLachlen and Kate Ryan have been selected for 1944 Olympics as 200 meter hurdles. Robert Goodspced and Frances Weeks are entirely dumesti cated now, just a well matched couple. Carl Donahue has gone into the confectionery business as the younger member of the firm, “Conklin and Son”. Wilson VVormuth, having spent so much time in high school, deep in study, has just published a hook entitled, “The Love Life of a Bullfrog”. Oscar Westfall and Percy Green are matinee idols in a current hit at the local theatre. Starring opposite them are two sirens of the screen. Pearl Williams and Genevieve Pecore. William Stafford, William Reid and Jack Dunham have become permanent fixtures on the Four Corners. Even at this late date the boys still seem to get a kick out of flirting with all the girls that go past. Leila Smith, our mezzo soprano, is just a radio blues singer now accompanied by John Mowins and his orchestra, which includes: Helena Ferguson as the bass viol player, Erma Trexler making the saxophone hum, Edwin Barney making those mammoth drums thunder, and Elizabeth McQiiaid playing the piano with marvelous skill. John Harrington is driving the big, red fire engine, the pride and the joy of his life, with three able assistants: Winifred Nqvih, Frank Spencer and Edith Pickard. Margaret Adsit spends her time demonstrating the marvelous results of “Hyle and Adsit Hair Tonic. Norlyn McMullen, Nelson Huntley, and Raymond Smith are running a flourishing funeral home. Affiliated with them is Bernard hauler, the coroner. Burton Fravvley has developed the delicate touch of his fractious fingers and is now a famous sculptor. Burton always did like to chisel. James Henderson, always so artistic in high school, is now a promising florist, raising pansies, geraniums and lilies as his specialty. Grace Hamlin and Robert Berney are now incorporated in a successful wrestling team. Grace is Bob's manager. Kennit Smith. Jack Willis and Frank Walters are raising prize hogs for the State Fair. Five of our girls, Jean Miller, Dorothy La Point, Aileen Patterson, Helen McManus. Catherine Luke and Irene Doran, spend most of their time in gossiping at their club, where they enjoy themselves immensely, digging up the latest dirt. As the last scene faded from sight. I found myself dozing off into sleep. Maybe in my dreams I’ll discover more personal details about my former class- mates—Who knows ? —Virginia Johnston and Mary Reddick.

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THE MUSIC BOX REVIEW Margaret Adsit......................................“Take Me In Your Arms” Ralph Cramer....................................“Wlwt! No Mickey Mouse?” Irene Doran........................................ “The Red Headed Woman” Frances Farley.................................... “Sweet Georgia Brown” Bernard Fauler........................................... “Down On The Farm” Helena Ferguson.......................................................“Take Me Away’’ Grace Hamlin..................... “If 1 Had a Talking Picture of You-ooh!” John Harrington...........................“Somebody Loses—Somebody Wins ’ Mary Jane Harrington .................... Love. I’m Calling’ Paul Bogdanott........................... “I Played the Fiddle For the Czar” Marion Heagle........ ....................................“Fit as a Fiddle” James Henderson....................................“Sing! It’s Good for Ya’ ” Virginia Johnston.........................................“Here Lies Love” Robert Goodspeed....................................................“I’m Flying High” Francis Kinney..................................... “Stay Out of My Dreams” Dorothy La Point...................................“Where, I Wonder Where” Catherine Luke........................................................“Somebody Loves You” Norlynn McMullen........................................................“All American Girl” Victor Milkowski........................................................... “Marta” Winifred Navin............................................................“Hold Me” Genevieve Pecore.................................. “You're My Secret Passion” Mary Reddick..... You'll Never Get Up to Heaven That Way” William Reid..... ...................................................“Poor Butterfly” Catherine Ryan..............................“Some Day We'll Meet Again” Kcrmit Smith............................“Just a Guy What Takes His Time” Raymond Smith..................................“The Old Man of the Mountain” Lelia Smith................................................“As You Desire Me” Frank Spencer............................ 1 Guess It Wasn’t Meant to Be” William Stafford “She Went to Old St. Mary’s” Erma Trexler.......................................................“Ain’t She Sweet?” Wilson Wormuth..................................... “I’ll Never Be the Same” Edwin Barney...................................... “Don’t Be Afraid of Love” Robert Berney ........................................................“I’m a Dreamer” Henrietta Bruksieck...................................... “It’s Gonna Be You” Glcnna Connell...........................................“Let’s Have a Party” Jack Dunham............................................. “He’s So Unusual” Loretta Fauler..........................................................“Thrill Me” Ruth Foster........................................................“When We’re Alone” Burton Frawley.................... “I Only Found You For Somebody Else” Percy Green..................................................“I Like; Mountain Music” Harrison Harrington...................................... “How Do You Do It? Viola Hewitt..... “Tiptoe Through the Tulips With Me” Nelson Huntley.............................“Brother Can You Spare a Dime? Virginia MacLachlin...............................“Sweetest of All My Dreams” Helen McManus..............................................“Pu-lceze! Mr. Hemingway'” Elizabeth McQuaid.................................................“Russian Lullaby” Je‘™ Miller............................................................“Say It Again” John Mowins..................... .........................“Football Freddie” Aileen Patterson Wedding Bells are Breaking Up That Old Gang of Mine” Edith Pickard “When the Moon Comes Over the Mountain” Frank Walters.................................................................“Follow Through” Frances Weeks................................ “Five Foot Two—Eves of Blue” Jane Wheaton..............................................“I’ll ‘Fowler’ You” ()scar Westfall........................................ “Horses, Horses. Horses” Pearl Williams............................................“Nobody’s Baby” Jack W dl.s.......... ....................................“Here’s' Hoping” Carl Donahue. ..........................“Give Yourself a Pat on the Back” —James Henderson and Nelson Huntley.