Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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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

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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.

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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.