Conway Hall Preparatory School - Log Yearbook (Carlisle, PA)

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Gabboon Lord Pete de Mail Pouch. Sir Red Scrap Ryan. Yeck of the Navy. Squire of Gabboons “ Uncle Charley” Bowman KNAVES AND TRAITORS OF THE CAUSE Sir ‘‘Tom Thumb” Whiteman. Sir Loco Thomas. Sir Galahad Robinson. Sir Stumpy de Davis. La Pucelle Purcell. Call of Distress — Choo Choo Chew? Knights of the Dingy OLD HEROES Sir Groomibus Peachy. Sir Deardorff von Piper Heidsick. Lord Ric de Kismet. 100

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Trusting to Senior ingenuity, the besieged still con- tinued to hold the fort and ere long as the sun was say- ing a reluctant goodnight over the mountain’s rim the trolley gong again announced the coming of another car. While Mount Holly’s ninety-seven inhabitants and two yellow dogs looked on, the Juniors Co., surged over the platform and while they were surging, Jockey Joe Hertz- ler dropped off the bumper and made a dash for the Inn. Immediately a hue and cry went up from the outwitted hunters and one away from the others rushed before the speeding Joseph. A right arm shot out of the gathering dusk, three bricks broke in the solid sidewalk, and step- ping over a groaning form the wiry Jockey” was re- ceived into the arijis of his brethren. In the meantime the two Graces of the class. Miss Wilson and Miss Delavan, stepped off the front platform and with their chins tip- tilted marched through the aisle of vanquished knights to the stronghold beyond. Shortly afterward while the army without was taking its reckoning, a bent old lady with a market basket on her arm elbowed her way through the midst and as they looked after her she raised her veil and displayed the glowing face of “Tom” Thomas, who, as he smiled his thanks, disappeared inside the door of the stronghold as had the others before him. Then with all but the missing pair among them the members of the Class of 1909 sat down to their feast. A word of regret was spoken for the captured two but hardly had its sadness dissolved into space when a clanking of chains resounded through the corridor and wet and bedraggled the two missing members entered the room in triumph. Their story was called for and between bites they told of their incarceration in a hayloft on the other side of the stream that separted the Inn from the bank beyond. Here they lay, manacled and guarded by Junior sentinels. But in the darkness an angel of mercy came unto them and silently bursting asunder the links that bound them, whis- pered the way to an open window in the rear of the loft. Creeping to the window the two dropped from the dizzy height and landing unhurt (which goes the further to prove that a miracle had happened) they stole unmo- lested through the darkness to the raging waters beyond and silently slipping in they breasted the torrent and safely made the other shore. There in the same mys- terious fashion a subterranean door opened out of the darkness, and entering they found their way up into the light and the company of their fellows. To dwell further on the occasion would be but idle as its success was completed by the appearance of the two who were counted as lost. Yet it all goes to prove that a Conwayan of the Class of 1909 has turned the grindstone of education with enough vim to sharpen his wits to a degree where he will cut through the Gordian knot of difficulty, no matter who tied the knot.

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The Hammer Club Motto: Knock! knock! knock! — Shakespeare. Chant: “Knocking, knocking, Who is there?” Exalted Anvil Conway Hall. Exalted Sledge Hammer Rose. Steam Hammer Feller. Mallet, O ' Brien. Hatchet Cardon. Tack Hammers. ‘‘Babe’’ Tabler and “Willie WAod. ANVIL CHORUS Certain members of the Facility, .... on the Student Body. A chosen few, on the Grub. Hutchie, on Behavior in Chapel, Cutting. The Devils, Classes, etc., ad infinitum. “Alex.” Bowman, on The Boys. Everybody, on Prof. Ohl and the Rules. The Conway Boarding House Meals Served Occasionally Electric Light, Steam Heat and some other modern improvements. Whitie, No cats or cigarettes allowed. Boarders do as they please. W. A. HUTCHISON. Prop. SOME OLD FIXTURES Incurable Ward Aleck. Tennant, Jacobs, Soubrette Row Groom, Ricca, Durovick. Wood, Fresh Air and Shower Bath Patients Moyer, Tabler and the Chief Loafer, Dearie. Office Boy W. A. J. Zboyosky. 101