Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

Text from Pages 1 - 36 of the 1919 volume:

r� CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL X ALMA MATER Air: Maryland. My Maryland Above the Lake, Ontario Lake, Stands the High School of Charlotte, Where the winds reverberate Where the muses counterplot. Amid the tall embowering trees With branches swaying in the breeze, Here upon this favored spot, Stands the High School of Charlotte. Year by year thy children turn, Alma Mater, to thy halls, Life’s precious lessons here they learn, Treasure find within thy walls. Days at school soon pass away, Ties of friendship last for aye; Happy we whose anchor lay In the harbor of Charlotte. On festive days we gather round, And our fealties renew ; Joy and gladness now abound, Intercourse both fond and true. Honor we ascribe to thee, Alma Mater, fair to see; May the richest blessings be On our High School of Charlotte. — Ida J. C. Place IN TOKEN OF OUR DEEP GRATITUDE FOR HIS CO OPERATION AND UNTIRING EFFORTS IN OUR INTERESTS AND BEHALF, WE DEDICATE THIS BOOK TO OUR PRINCIPAL ROY L. BUTTERFIELD. MU. BUTTERFIELD CLASS OFFICFRS JUNE. 1919 MARION IRA WILDER President BEULAII PUFFER Vice-Pi esident ARTHUR WICNALL Secretary DONALD WHELEIIAN Treasurer OFFICERS For Freshman Year President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer For Sophomore Year President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer For Junior Year President Vice-President Secretary Treasurer John Richards Beulah Puffer Marcella Spindler Baldwin Martin Lilies Hempel Earle Maynard Clyde Warren Joseph McShea Arthur Wignall Ira Wilder Earle Maynard Lloyd Patch in JOHN W. LEE Class Adviser CHARLES W. HAMILTON Athletic Director THE FACULTY THE SENIOR CLASS BOOK BOARD 1IENHY REDMAN BUTCHER Editor NEWELL ALLEN FERRIS Business Manager CLASS POEM “On the Hoad to Knowledge” As we stand and look behind us, Down the long but broadening line, , We can see where we have trodden Up the long, difficult incline. It is the road to knowledge Which we so plainly see Wending its way through trials and Troubles on to victory. Years have passed since first we entered, Classmates have fallen by the way. Rut we held fast the road to knowledge Ever struggling day by day. Many times we felt discouraged, But the next day brought us light; And at last we arrive successful To our graduating night. As we look on toward the future Past dear old Charlotte High, We may see the road to knowledge Leading on to standards high. And thus though our paths may vary And in different directions lie. Our thoughts will ever tarry With the dear old Charlotte High. HELEN LOUISE REGENSBURG Class Poet CLASS MOTTO BE GOOD. DO GOOD. MAKE GOOD. CLASS COLORS GOLD AND WHITE CLASS PROPHECY June twenty-six, nineteen twenty-nine. It was just ten years since I had been graduated from old Charlotte High School. I sat in an easy chair at my office after many calls on my patients, and wondered how my old class mates had turned out. I finally decided to attend a motion picture show and forget my thoughts. I was fortunate to arrive just in time to see the Inter- national News film. You can imagine my surprise when on the screen I read the words “Miss Jones and her Russian ballet are making a great hit in Paris this year.” When the picture flashed on the screen I saw besides Miss Jones in the cast only two other faces familiar to me Carolyn Butts and Gertrude DeYoung. The next thing flashed on the screen was news of the United States. It showed the Capitol at Washington and the Attorney General, who was none other than J. Donald Whelehan who came down the steps after winning a great case for Senator Albert Whalen, who was about to be impeached for wanting to put track practice in the schedule for Congress. Mr. Whelehan stepped into his auto and was driven off at a rapid rate by his chauffeur, Earle Maynard. The next were views of our Army and Navy, which showed a great naval review before Rear-Admiral Dutcher and the review of the Army before Brigadier-General Slater. The next picture was of a Teachers’ Convention at Buffalo where Dr. B. F. Martin, D. D. S., was the chief speaker, his topic being “The Value of Preparatory Latin to Dental Students.” Among the other speakers of the day were Helen Regensburger, Ph. D., of Vassal College, Prof. Lilies Hempel of Wellesley Semin- ary, and Miss Dorothy Seyfried, director of kindergartens in St. Louis, Mo. The next picture showed a Convention of the National Agricul- tural Association in which Joseph McShea, the great cattle king from Montana, and Erwin Coy, the horse-radish prince, were the principal speakers. The next was a picture of the great evangelist’s tabernacle at New York City of Dr. Ferris, who had been converting sinners by the thousands. Then came pictures of the sports of the country. The first showed a bout between “Scoop” Cross and the lightweight cham- pion of the world in which “Scoop” knocked out his opponent in the first round. Then came the basketball teams of Harvard and Yale Universities under stiff practices for their annual game, coached by Trapp for Yale and Wilder for Harvard. After this entertainment I was still ill at ease so I entered Convention Hall to hear the music. I was greatly astonished to hear Miss Puffer, now a famous opera singer and Mr. Wignall, who has taken Elman’s place as a peerless violinist, giving a great concert. As I wended my way home that night I was vastly pleased with the accomplishments of my old class of June 1919 of Charlotte High School. Ah, yes, I forget to add, Mildred Pike is now private secretary to George Eastman. LLOYD PATCH IN Class Prophet CLASS HISTORY It was four years ago that our illustrious and well-to-be- remembered class entered Charlotte High School as the Freshman Class of September, 1915. Our class seemed to be marked, for as soon as we entered the portals of the good old C. H. S., we were hailed as “Freshies,” “Farmers” and “Mamma's Pets,” but why shouldn’t we be? The boys were dolled up in their best Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes and their faces were shining from the use of soap and water, while the girls, who were also dressed up in their best bib and tucker, wore small aprons so that “mamma’s darlings” wouldn’t get all dirty. So do you wonder that we were marked? For awhile we were very shy, but after the Upper Classmen had given us our Hallowe’en Party and we had been “initiated,” we decided to get even. Then came the excitement of our first meeting. At this meeting it was decided to give the Upper Classmen a return party which we carried off with colors flying, considering the size of us, but in this case “quantity and not quality” counted, and believe me we were there with the quantity. Thus ended our initial year in high school life. When we returned our second year we were quite a changed class, bent on the pursuit of knowledge, and for the first part of the term had very few activities, but we came to our senses the last part of the term and the girls went into the Glee Club and I don't see how the Glee Club could have been anything of a success without the marvelous singers, Helen Jones, Florence Barnes, Beulah Puffer and Carolyn Butts. This year the operetta “Feast of the Red Corn” was given very successfully by the Glee Club with the aid of some of the boys. This had such participants as Helen Jones, Carolyn Butts, Florence Barnes, Lilies Hem pel and Beulah Puffer, while they were aided by such boys as Patchin, Wilder, Whelehan, Coy and Maynard, all members of our class. Then the boys, not to be outdone, went in for athletics, and among our successful athletes were “Ira” Wilder, “Joe” McShea, “Bub” Martin, “Hank” Dutcher and “Pat” Patchin. This term was brought to a close by the upper classmen giving the Freshmen their initiation. Our third year of high school life was nothing like the first for we were no longer shy and innocent. This year we nearly all were in the Glee Clubs and very successfully gave a patriotic concert, the leading parts of which went to the Senior Class. This year McShea, Wilder and Patchin gained laurels for themselves in basketball and baseball. Soccer was started for the first time during our Junior Year. During the latter part of the year our class entertained the graduating class at a lawn party given at the home of Arthur Wignall. Thus ended our third year. But the last and never-to-be-forgotten year was the year from September, 1918, to June, 1919. It was the happiest, yet most anxious year of all. We started out by giving the Annual Party to the Freshmen for their initiation. This year it was the most successful event in some years. This year our class was augmented by such members as “Dick” Slater, the only human baby elephant. Edwin Cross, a featherweight pugilist, Newell Ferris, the doctor and giraffe of the class, and the famous “Hank” Dutcher, the athlete and editor of the Senior Class Book. The class also contained such members as “Joe” McShea, the farmer, the only man able to pitch hay with the speed of lightning, Lloyd Patchin, the modern Slim Jim, Clyde Warren, the man of muscle. Bob McCrae, the wild man of Borneo, Ira Wilder and Don Whelehan, the Latin sharks, Arthur Wignall, the modern Ole Bull, Erwin Coy, horse radish king, “Bub” Martin, the grind, and Leo Trapp, the industrious. The girls consisted of Helen Jones, singer and amateur actress, Beulah Puffer, the girl who is never alone, Helen Regensburger, Carolyn Butts, the quietest girl of the class, Florence Baines, the class bluffer in studies, Gertrude De Young, the flaxen-haired beauty, Helen Finnegan, the class cut-up, Lilies Hempel, Dorothy Seyfried and Mildred Pike. Our activities started off this year with the Soccer Team headed for the City Championship when we had our “Flu” vacation. Next came the Glee Clubs’ celebration of Washington’s Birthday at Convention Hall. Now Basketball teams in which the boys of the Senior Class made good records. Then came the Senior Ball which was a crowned success due to the efforts of the girls of the class. Note must also be made of the operetta “Sylvia,” which was given by the Glee Clubs, the title role being taken by Beulah Puffer, with Helen Jones as the Fanner’s daughter. The leading masculine roles were taken by Marion Wilder, Merritt Vaughan and James Twamley. The rest of the principal parts were taken mostly by members of our class. But here we must not forget to mention the 1919 Baseball team on which there were nearly all the boys from the Senior Class. Next on the program of activities came the Senior Play, “A Strenuous Life,” which was very successful. Then the Senior Class Day and the Boys’ Banquet, both memorable events. And so on up to our graduating day, our last day of high school life. Such was the course of events of the class of Nineteen, the largest and most illustrious class which ever entered the portals of C. H. S., the members of which made a record which never can be erased from the annals of time. May this history help the members of the Class of Nineteen Nineteen and others to keep in memory the happy days which the Class of Nineteen Nineteen spent in dear old Charlotte High. EARLE MAYNARD Class Historian “Ye'll try the world soon, my lad; And, Andrew dear, believe me, Ye'll find mankind an unco squad, And muckle they may grieve ye. For care and trouble set your thought, Ev'n when your end's attained; And a' your views may come to naught. Where ev'ry nerve is strained. — Robert Burns SENIORS JUNE 1919 CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOOL RARNES, FLORENCE E. Barnard, N. Y. Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the earth. Prepared Greece No. 9. Trained Nurse Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4. BUTTS, CAROLYN Ridge Road, Greece, N. Y. She's little, but Oh my I Prepared Greece No. 11. Music Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4. Chairman Announce- ment Committee 4. COY. ERWIN STANTON Irondequoit, N. Y. I am not in the rttll of common turn. Prepared Irondequoit No. 4. Undecided Jr. Baseball 3, Basketball Reserve 4, Glee Club 3. 4. CROSS. EDWIN 383 Beach Avenue i mwr t rls crabbed, sulky or “Cross Prepared Holy Cross. U. of R. Rochester Catholic II. S. 1.2. 3. Baseball 4, Glee Club 4. DEYOUNG. GERTRUDE W. 235 Lewiston Avenue A rose with few thorns. Prepared Kodak Grammar School Business Glee Club 4. DUTCHER, IIENRY REDMAN 115 Electric Avenue 7 here are two classes in the world: Those who say 41J can’t and those who say “I can” Henry is one of the second. • Prepared No. 7. U. S. Naval Academy West High School 1, 2. Captain Soccer 8, 4, Cheer Leader 8, 4, Captain Baseball 4, Editor Senior Class Book, Tennis Champion 3, 4, Captain Tennis 3, 4, Banquet Committee 4, Track 4. FERRIS, NEWELL ALLEN 168 Birr Street If you want a thing done right and quickly, go to the busy man. Prepared No. 7. U. of R. West High School 1, 2, 3. Soccer 4, Track 4, Baseball 4, Business Manager Senior Class Book, Pin Com- mittee, Banquet Committee 4, Glee Club 4, Farm Service 3. FINNEGAN, HELEN ELIZABETH Iloneoye Falls, N. Y. Silence is golden. Prepared Iloneoye Falls. U. of R. Iloneoye Falls High School 1, 2, 3. Glee Club 4. U. of R. HEMPEL, LILLES ELLA St. Paul Boulevard am here but few knoti it. Prepared No. 8. Business JONES, HELEN FRANCES 273 River Street failure is not the worst thing in the world. The very worst is not to try. Prepared No. 38. Undecided Girls' Basketball 2, Glee Club 1 ,2, 3, 4, Girls' Cheer Leader 4, Executive Council 4. Chairman Senior Ball, Chairman Senior Play. MARTIN, BALDWIN F. 3840 Lake Avenue And a jolly good fellow was he. Prepared Holy Cross. Univ. of Buffalo Rochester Catholic H. S. 2. Soccer 3, 4, Basketball 3, 4, Baseball 4, President Students' Association 4, Class Treasurer 1. Glee Club 3, 4, Farm Cadets 3. McCRAE, A. ROBERT 3943 Lake Avenue SI oil1 but sure. Prepared No. 38. U. of R. McSHEA, JOSEPH MAURICE Greece, N. Y. Slow to wrath but right there at Basketball. Prepared Holy Cross. U. of R. Soccer 3, 4, Basketball 2, 4, Baseball 4, Track 4, Glee Club 4, Farm Cadets 3. MAYNARD, EARLE ELWOOD Lewiston Avenue, Rochester Don't hope for the best hut hot for tt. Prepared Greece No. 11. U. of R. Glee Club 2, 3, 4, Secretary of Class 3, Commencement Committee, Track 4, Vice- President 2, 3, Senior Ball Committee. PATCIIIN, LLOYD COOPER Irondequoit, N. Y. Good results always foil me persistent effort. Prepared Irondequoit No. 4. U. of R. Soccer 4, Basketball 4, Baseball 4, Manager of Tennis 4, Glee Club 3, 4, Commencement Committee. Treasurer Students’ Assocication 4. PIKE. MILDRED ELIZABETH Prepared No. 38. Business PUFFER. BEULAII CHAMBERLAIN Irondequoit, N. Y. There are stnii's that make us happy. Prepared Irondequoit No. 4. Undecided Vice-President Class 1, 4. Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4, Hallowe’en Committee 3, 4, Secretary Students’ Association 4, Prom Committee 4. REGENSBURGER, HELEN L. Irondequoit, N. Y. Still water runs deep. Prepared No. 8. U. of R. Glee Club 4, Class Poet 4. SEYFR1ED, DOROTHY A. 446 Clay Avenue Fair and quiet. Prepared No. 7. City Normal West High School 1, 2, 3. Glee Club 4. SLATER, TIIOMAS FRANKLYN 4305 Lake Avenue The finer the teeth, the of tener and udder the i rin Prepared Holy Cross. Georgetown Univ. Rochester Catholic H. S. 1, 2, 3. Basketball Reserve 4, Glee Club 4. TRAPP, LEO F. 682 Emerson Street A knowledge of f ow tn moke a fir ing is better than diplomas in four dead languages. Prepared No. 43. Mechanics Institute Glee Club 3, 4, Committee Senior Play, Commencement Committee, Senior Prom. Committee, Reserve Basketball 3, 4. WARREN. A. CLYDE Barnard, N. Y. ll'e never know the real worth or hidden part of a man or melon until they are tapped. Prepared Kodak Grammar School. Univ. of Syracuse Glee Club 3, 4, Basketball Reserve 3. WHALEN, ALBERT 3654 Lake Avenue Prepared Holy Cross. U. of R. Rochester Catholic H. S. 1 2, 3. Captain Track 4, Glee Club 4. WHELEHAN, JOHN DONAI D Charlotte, N. Y. I’crst'vercnee trill move mountains. Prepared Greece No. 5. U. of R. Class Treasurer 4, Glee Club 2, 3, 4, Stu- dent Council 4, Chairman Banquet Com- mittee 4. WIGNALL, ARTHUR B. Barnard, N. Y. '7'is not so mil'll how murh you can say; ’tis how you say what yon say. Prepared Greece No. 11. U. of R. Class President 3, Class Secretary 4, Orchestra 1, 2, 3, 4, Glee Club 1, 2, 3, 4. WILDER, MARION IRA 263 River Street A jood pilot is rather to he chosen than a (treat ijuantity of life preservers. Prepared No. 38. U. of R. Class President 4, Basketball 3, 4, Baseball 4, Soccer 3, 4, Manager Basketball 4, Glee Club 3, 4, Tennis 4. SCHOOL ACTIVITIES 1918- 1919 INSIGNIA SOCCER Chamberlain Martin Wilder Kane Decker T warn ley Warder Ferris Vaughan Patchin Tozier Tarrant Dutcher Patchin McShea T warn ley BASKETBALL Vaughan Martin Wilder Kane Ferris Vaughan Kane Wilder Twamley Martin BASEBALL Rickman McShea Warder Cross Patchin Tozier Dutcher Fatchin Tozier Martin McShea Ferris Kane Warder Dutcher Wilder Twamley Vaughan Decker Charlotte started Soccer with a rush last fall and kept rushing until the influenza epidemic broke out. The Soccer team in the beginning of the season was the best in this section of the country, and it proved this assertion by defeating West High and holding East High to a tie. During the entire season the team worked entirely without friction. The Soccer team wish to thank the people of Charlotte and others who helped them through the season by encouragement and support. NEWELL A. FERRIS HENRY R. DUTCHER Captain Captain JOHN A. TOZIER Manager Patchin Mr. Hamilton McShea Decker Warder Wilder Twamley Kane Vaughan Martin The Basketball team represented the school well this season. They defeated several well-known teams in this vicinity. Our star forwards worked together with machine-like precision, while the center and guard positions were held by capable and experienced men. We wish to thank all who have given their support to us. The real worth of the team was shown at the end of the season when Newark bowed to the Green and White and we tripled the score on Nazareth Hall, contenders for the city championship. AUSTIN KANE Captain MARION WILDER Manager Decker Cross Kane Tozier McShea Ferris Twamlcy Hamilton Warder Martin Rickman Wilder Patchin Dutcher Vaughan Charlotte High School Baseball team has again organized after two years of idleness on account of the war. Some of the team were slow to get on their feet because of the enforced lay-off. We were represented in the Central-Western N. Y. League, being stacked up against the best scholastic teams in this vicinity. HENRY R. DUTCHER Captain JOHN TOZIER Manager MM DRAMATICS CAST OF CHARACTERS Sir Bertram de Lacey, the Court Poet.... Prince Tobbytum, a Man of Consequence... William, an Ilonest Farmer.............. Robin, a Country Lad.................... Sylvia, Bethrothed to de Lacey.......... Betty, Bethrothed to William............ Ladies in Waiting at the Court .. .M. Ira Wilder .James Twamley Merritt Vaughan .. .Lloyd Patch in .. .Beulah Puffer ---- Helen Jones Bertha Tapper Helen Ward FARM LASSIES Aria Van Houten Mabel Osier Carolyn Butts Emma Hale Florence Barnes Ethel Justice Marian Holly Dorothy Holly CHORUS Dorothy Allen Alma Bastian Doris Barnes Alma Billings Viva Blackburn Mildred Coger Emma Denise Alma Fuhrman Helen Finnegan Beatrice Hackett Helen Hartman FARM LAOS Edward Vick John Tozier Elliot Ursprung Howard Chamberlain Erwin Coy Donald Whelehan Earl Maynard Baldwin Martin F HAYMAKERS Eunice Lauster Hildegarde Mentley Bernice Milner Lucy McCrae Helen Regensburger Hazel Stowell Marjorie Sidam Madeline Vollick Helen Watson Esther Van Aalst Bertha Tapper AUTOGRAPHS ' .