Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Cherrup! First Prize OPEN season lias arrived for autumn hikes, tinted leaves, chilly evenings, scampering squirrels, harvest muons and—crickets. Tc he quite frank, the cricket season is open all year 'round, but now is the time when all good little crickets, who do not wish to en- counter any had. bad snowstorms, seek the nice warm shelter of somebody’s home. If you were unacquainted with the cricket problem, you would sav. “Mv goodness! W hy raise all this fuss over a |x or little insect who is too big to 1H' a bodily stowaway and too petite t« bring tracks in on the kitchen Hour?” h! but you know only too well that the cricket docs not offend in the visual sense, hut rather, it is an auditory disturbance that he (or she. as the case may be) causes. In mv study of etymology, I have found that the members of the order of orllt tptcra of the class insectu under which the cricket is classified) have four wings; two with which to fly and two as ornaments or protections, lik covers on spare tires. Efficiency is the crick- et’s main theme of life. But here he is with a pair of wings subtracting from his payload and no apparent use for them. The cricket, thinking in line with civiliza- tion. has learned to control his emotions some- what; at the same time life has many trials and tribulations for the orthopter-ians as well as for humans. Drat it all! A cricket must have some outlet for his emotions. The cricket (the following may he shocking but this text is written to show the true and uiKcnsored facts alxwt the cricket problem) puts his hind feet on the lower ridges of those extra flip| er and rubbing them lxick awl forth produces a high pitched sound. Some people believe this sound to he ] eaceftil and consoling while others believe it to lx' a “confounded nuisance. It was found that this difficulty could not be remedied by the segregation of humans according to their likes and dislikes of the sound, because most humans who can tolerate each other’s company cannot tolerate each other's views on the cricket's creak. Therefore it was pointed out that action must not be taken on the human side of the argu- ment. but it was the cricket which would have to he worked on. My only experiment was a failure, but per haps someone in reading this may correct the flaw, thereby saving mankind from many nerv- ous breakdowns. Working on the idea that (Turn to Page Thirty-nine) TWKitrY-nvB

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ROLL CALL Nam Wi Cam Tiikm Hobiiy Ambition’ Put Exi'hhsmux R. Aldrich Boh Rozzie Head of U. S. N. Cant Fool Me! W. Allien Willi» Travel Engineer of 20th Century “Quins Secretary Hey! You know what? M Aims Marge Baseball l Bart hel man Barky Skating Champion Knitter Y ou know it! S. Barton Sag Ginger Being alone Always having math done Skip it! . Ib-mbon Souveniers Old maid with or- phanage After all! C Brewer 1.Villi Souvenicrs Be a I.vnn Fontaine I'm choking with glee B. Bud long Barb New York Sing Sextet fr m Lucia alone O. K. Dearie G. Clarke Gcnrgie Porgie Chemistry L. D. Oh gee! T. Coleman Kansas Tennis To be seen and not heard Ain t it so, Gussic? B Costain Bets Skating Be an opera singer )h, gosh! R Corev Neb Wisecracks Be a Venus DeMilo Anywhoo A. Danesi Me Movie photos Travel For crying out loud F. DeVinney Toots Souvenirs from hoys Be ideal secretary Hello. Darling! G. Foehner Gcorgie Hunting Fly in the clouds Listen! 1 . Gordon Florrie Collecting pennies Be able to sing G. Graham Graham Airplanes Transport pilot Oh. yeah! I) Graham Dot Knitting To join Ethiopian Array D. Gilkeson Dave Photography To usurp Kov Andri w Most of an absurd cer taintv R. Gnldtlmrpe Bca Roller Skating Ambassador to Denmark Aw-Xuts! A Halbleih Andy Being polite Solve a perfect crime Hcv! Miss Doehler K Henderson Kell Radio Editor of Bugle Oh. vcali! P Hauser Hugo Swimming Ladv Killer )h. you! V. Harding Vi n lazz Orchestra Live on a desert island Nuts! K Ivanson Ivic Ice Hockey Soap Box Speaker Down with Capitalism! A. Justice A lie Collecting photos Be a bachelor's wife 1 only grit ‘ 5 V’ Krech Vi Sp rts Make the boys’ team Gee whiz! A Ken von Scoop Embalming Hon A Koeih Kootie Dancing To be a James Cagney That's what 1 want t« know I Kochhm-icr Irmi» Knitting Be an old maid Eek! I). Kinnc} luinmei Photography Manager of Red Wings For goodness sake?! li Luffinan Hoppy Music Sing in Metropolitan You know it! A. Lee Midge Collecting Safety P n Happv Marriage Got the Jitters! R LaFave Boh Tropical Fish Speak German Those Guys B. URoy Bcrnic Reading l.ov • Story Magazines Be a school mam A McKnight Aggie Architecture Get to school «in time ( li 1 sav! E Mitchell Sally Telling jokes Loyal to the only one Nllts to vou' A. Miller Sardines Photography Take bigger and bet- ter pictures 1 was taking pictures A. Nathan Peanuts riting 'To do her job No!!! S O’Brien Ste c Sleeping Be Rip Van Winkle You dope! K. Poland Fluffy M usic Bigger and better bluffer Fluff! M Paulson Mary Tennis Be a public speaker Oh Chec! K. Ross Kva Girl Scouts Scout Leader ez vou! 1. Reardon Lilacs Smoking cigarettes Gigolo Donovan, vou'rt nut»! 1«. Rivcsl Kill M usic Piano teacher And how! II. Ragan Bets Talking on telephone Go to Porto Ric • You know ? M Schlenker Peggy Knitting Be a blues singer And so-o-o V. Schlenker Pete Skating Cowgirl Travel 11 Smith Herb Drumming 1 don't know 11 Scliantz Schant .ic Books Read a book Oh say! J. Stone Stonie Airplanes Be on the Ethiopian Front 1 can’t see il M Siinmuls Si Raising China pigs Head of Orphanage Well gee H. Shaffer M«»e Girls Marrv a Rich Girl 1 don’t know M. Thomas Tommv Drawing Illustrate I’ll tell you tom irrnw! K. True»dale Trm sev Animals To raise monkcv. My Sweet That's what y u think G. Thorpe Glad 1 )ancing Get a man R. Turk Turkey Collecting poetrv Have a pet monkey It gets me down R VanVa’kcnburg Bobbie Spook Parties Be an ideal wife lust like Harold P. Wvin.in Dope Radio Sleep continually Wwsali M. Wills Maine Piano playing t| -■ l.iillin oGa--—‘u‘ I'll bite! K Weeks Woda Vie Professional model It’s the smartest idea M Wagner Betty The Navy Have fun That’s what you get M. Watt Marg Sports Big league baseball plaver ! You're not kidding W. West Bill Sailing, sailing Not ta lie picked on R. Wilson Bust Boating To Ik a heart-breaker Iv eitliii K-z Collecting blank verse To swim Lake Ontario Got any gum? S. Fislrr Susa bella j Scrapbooks dancing 1 Giggling To lx: n heart breaker i Huh?? F.. Jeffers YWKSTY HH U Betty To marry young I wouldn’t know

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His Grand Day First Price II.Bl'K PRIK'IVAI. SMITH.known in In's partners in mischief as Burr, turned his head to the left and in- formed his impatient mother that lie was dressed, washed, and would he clown to breakfast immediately. After five more min- utes he climl cd out of bed. At the same time that Burr had decided to reach for his first stocking, a juvenile whistle was heard in the front yard, directly txmeath his window. To think was to act with the Smiths. In five min- utes Burr was dressed, had washed his left ear. the tip of his nose, and three fingers of his right hand, the ones that held the wash cloth. W ith a clumsy bound he rushed out of the bathroom, leaving three towels and a tooth brush on the floor. He expertly dodged the dog as he skidded down the hall, hit every fifth step of the stairs and finally catapulted at full speed into the dining room table. His mother, in the kitchen, heard the uproar with an en- during and significant smile. As Wilhur Per- cival sauntered nonchalantly into bis mother's presence, the cellar door opened and his father entered the room. Pa?” pleaded Burr. Now don’t start that again, first thing in the morning.” said his father fiercely. “Is that all you think of?” “Mother, can’teha tell ’im that all the ln ys got knickers?” “Listen, son. his father started. “I think that Standard il Stock is—1 mean you're not old enough to wear jxints. Oh hah! What arc you standing there for? Eat your break fasti It’s almost nine o’clock.’’ No! I'm not going to school unless I kin have knickers like the rest of the fellows.” 1 say you are. Who's lx ss around here? That's what I want to know, bellowed Mr Smith belligerently. Now, father, please. said Mrs. Smith. Thai’s how all you women are, always in- terfering an’ trying to make your boy grow up a sissy. Don’teba think I know how to handle boys?” “Of course, 1—” “And furthermore, now that we’ve started. Why did you tell the storekeeper I'd pay him on Monday ' You always commit me to my business acquaintances. You're always nag- gin' and demandin' money. Do you think I'm made of money?” But by this time M’ort Flyn, Burr’s friend, and Burr were on their way to school. They were trotting along in a grotesque fashion, one moment their legs stiff, the next moment they were wrapjied rhnmmily around the neckties, at the sum time administering a severe jolt to the chin. Burr was riding his favorite steed. Lightning, and Mori bestrode his equal!) favorite charger, Mike. Just as Mort had run his lance through the villain and Burr had deftly loaded his deadly six gun. they pranced into a Ik v. resembling, somewhat, Mort's vil- lain. Oh. 1 see. You're tryin’ to put somethin over on me. hey? the villain remarked sar- castically. Mort decided to do a little quick transform ing. and liecame Mort again. Burr also de- cided to drop the cuwlioy act. They cringed hack against the side of a building and turned dazzling, if somewhat toothless smiles on Jack Garner, the villain. Jack was big. |xxir, and a rather diffident bully. He was fourteen and had seen two lioats and a soldier at the Fair- jx rt County Fair, lie was. therefore, an ad- mired and awing individual. Today Jack wore a commonplace, undistinguished shirt, a pair of shoes with a past, and a pair of bulgy, dirty, but gallant knickers. His uneducated eye. very shiftless, fell on Burr’s shorts, a pair of invigorating pants, with French seams and a blue and yellow check. Gimme dem pants, kid. or i'll take 'em. Ik. said, coming closer and poking a suggestive fist into Perci vaPs face. Burr started to refuse, and fight like a cow- hoy. six guns roaring, when suddenly he had an inspiration. Say. Jack! If I give ya these, will ya gimme them ] ants of yours?” he said with an ingratiating smile. Well—()kay. kid. it's a go. Jack imme- diately step| ed behind an ash can and began to peel off his clothes. Although Jack was anxious and excited at receiving a new pair of pants, our friend Burr (Turn to Page Thirty-nine) nron' six