Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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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

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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

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“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