Charlotte High School - Witan Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Y T' ex 3,5 un.-L -an TH CHARLOTTE HIGH SCHOCDI. Strong and firm hast thou stood Through the years that are gone Holdmg fast to ldeals hlgh and true All thy sons and thy daughters Where e er they may be Are lnsplred Alma Mater by you Down thy tlme hallowed halls In the years that have passed Countless children of thme made thexr wa And of frlendshlps then formed And of lessons then learned Sacred mem r1es through llfe wlth them sta Rtfam Charlotte Htgh, we hall thee' Charlotte Hlgh we love thee' May the Green and the Whlte Ever gleam m the llght Of the r1ght, as thy sons flght for thee On the fields or 1n the class room, Or on l1fe's Wlde spreadmg sea, Wtth real courage bold, We w1ll always uphold Thme honor and worth, Charlotte Hlgh.

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IN MEMORIAM In the old school and the new, Mr. Allen served the teachers and pupils of Charlotte faithfully, cheerfully, and loyally for twenty-five years. His interest in his work was excelled only by the sincere interest in the people with whom it brought him in contact. Monitors, team members, council and committee members, seniors and seventh graders were all his friends. After his retirement in 1946 he was often a welcome visitor in the building The community was shocked and grieved by his untimely death on April 23 1948 Mr Clarence Allen Richard Newman 3 February 3 1932 November 27 1948 The student body and teachers of Charlotte Hugh School were shocked and saddened over the death of Richard Newman a member of the class of 1950 To the people who knew Duck best there will remain always the memory of a quiet lad who was a good citizen a boy who enloyed life a pupil who had a host of friends 3 B We shall all miss his friendly smile his quiet sense of humor and his willingness to do his share 9 I A , . n 11' l l l I 4.:g,xw-fails. . ' I V6 m-MW W I - ' 1 l' Q . la . A -s . .4 x K , 5 X., f nv I ' ' if-5 . .- I F' ,.. an 1 ie ' ' - 't!'1'EVY I 5' -I L ' . ' . I I . I I . 1 M l l l ' V. h is .5

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5, ur, of ,ff i-3,18 W1 lllqillf wi M ex V l 6 F IA' lf if U Qllll X lsr: Q-ff? THE VILLAGE OF Cl-IARLCDTTE There us but luttle doubt that many of the pupuls attendung Charlotte Hugh School often refer to theur communuty homes as stull beung un the Vullage of Char lotte Thus us not correct as the name Charlotte was legally duscontunued un the year 1916 when the cuty of Rochester acquured tutle to the vullage and the dus truct became the 23rd Ward It us dufhcult to forget the name of our home terrutory that bore the name Char lotte Vullage for nearly a century and a half In the early hustory of the Genesee Country the luttle hamlet located on Lake Ontaruo at the mouth of the Genesee Ruver was of outstandung umportance long before the settlement to the southward whuch later became Flour Cuty of our natuon and Rochester In the year 1788 Phelps and Gorham acquured tutle to certaun Seneca lnduan lands un western New York now generally known as the Phelps and Gorham pur chase A part of thus purchase west of the Genesee Ruver was known as The Mull Lot and here later Phelps and Gorham located the Vullage of Charlotte Thus Vullage was laud out by Phelps and Gorhams agent Robert Troup As the Vullage was orugunally de sugned ut consusted of thurty nune large lots Nuneteen of these lots were on the west of a maun hughway, then called Broadway, and twenty lots on the eastern sude of the hughway, each lot extendung to the marsh along the Genesee Ruver The Vullage was named by Robert Troup after hus daughter Charlotte Troup About a year or so before the layung out of Charlotte Vullage the terrutory adlacent to ut was desugnated by an act of the Unuted States Congress as the Dustruct of Gene see Samuel Latta was appounted Collector of the Port on November 2 1805 by Presudent Thomas Jefferson In the begunnung the Port of Genesee was un the orugunal town of Northampton one of the Cuvuc Du vusuons of Ontaruo County whuch uncluded all of the northern area lyung between the Genesee and the Nuagora Ruvers In 1812 the name Northampton was duscontunued and the name Gates applued to a part of ut In the meantume Ontaruo County was duvuded and Genesee County establushed ln the year 1821 our present County of Monroe was organuzed I 1822 the old town was duvuded and the northerly part of ut was named Greece of whuch the Vullage of Char lotte was stull a part In 1867 8 Charlotte Vullage was uncorporated and un 1874 a Vullage Charter was obtauned Thereafter a Vullage Presudent was elected by the people In the year 1916 the cuty of Rochester extended uts Munucupal boundarues and the old and colorful Vullage of Char lotte became the 23rd Ward of the Cuty of Rochester The name survuves, however, un our school, our lubrary, our telephone exchange and un the names of varuous local busuness f1rms MORLEY B TURPIN, SR I f' 1 1 X :X V!! X J, X ,fy A y f ,lf pil f If R11 y l I Q A : ii 7 ' X I ,X ' 3 f f f a 1 fs ! , as Wy' 8 14 T A A 'l lp- ,f lf? f f'-Tl 7 A-T MN' x, Tk 'yy bf 17 M si D A T A 1 V i ff X V 'I - f l L f- I ' 'f4f f ' ll V. ' 1 ' ,Vs-l , 2 v 1 - tu - X FJ lm Q 9 ll U 1 r 1 1 , s s no at J ' , H791 ll TT' - A- ll A l Ac sl ff s J ' 4 Q T' V as XX -J R, 1 c if 7 f Eze X 1.1- T51