East High School - Orient Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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I h r SENIOR ANNUAL BOARD

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EDITORIAL STAFF Editor-in-Chief Clement Lanni Associate Editor Cordelia Lockwood Assistant Editors IIenry Childs Margery Calkins Russell Lipscomb Athletic Editor Gus Haskins Staff Artists Barton Murray William Frank BUSIN-ESS STAFF Business Manager Ira Levi Assistant Business Managers Fred Wolters Joshua Bernhardt - Advertising Manager Harold Levi Assistant Advertising Managers Louis Gottlieb Samuel Guggenheim

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CLASS PROPHECY B V RUSSELL LIPSCOMB Class Prophet I ground out industriously, though sleepily over Virgil Book IV, endeavoring to follow the devout Aeneas into the cave of the Cumaean Sibyl. As the hero entered the cave, the wind scattered the leaves of prophecy which Sibyl had compiled; my own thoughts scattered at the same time, and directly, in some dreamy way, 1 took the hero's place in the cave and became intensely interested in the leaves which lay at my feet. It happened that those relating to the good old East High class of June, 1911, had been blown down by the gust. Examining the nearest, 1 found that it was written in Latin verse. Perusing it with my poor Latin ability, 1 translated with difficulty the name of Porter Surgenor. As nearly as I could make out, Pete's farming instincts had led him into the manu- facturing of scarecrows, which were warranted to keep all crows out of ray corn- field. A second which II found related to Dwyer. Johnnie, according to the state- ment, was prophesied to manage the Maltops of the Rochester City League, for the season of 1940. I picked up one after another in expectant haste, eagerly reading the prophecy regarding each. Ernest Clark, I found, would spend his life running one of Mike Miller’s lunch cars. One leaf showed that Mme. Zccveld fould fill an engage- ment at the Temple Theater in 1938, appearing as the star attraction in a high diving act. While in midair, she would accomplish her featuring stunt, the whistling of tile- dying scene from II Trovaiore, in her well-known guttural br-r-r-r. Fred Bloom had retired as a pitcher of the world’s champions in 1936 and was now cleaning street lamps in Rochester (awful comedown!). He was the most valuable man on the squad for the reason that he could perform his task without the use of a ladder. The next leaf pertained to our good friend Vernon Adkin. He was destined to devote his life to running the old ferryboat at Charlotte. Harold Shantz was put down to succeed Mr. Clark in running yearly European tours. Henry Childs was prophesied to become a rich man. His wealth will come as the result of his invention of an “unloseablc collar-button. Allan Hughes, so I found, was to be national golf cham- pion in 1921. The Sibyl further related that Miss Amelia Tanck was to be professor of Arch- eology at Yale in 1930, having been given that chair with the degree of R. F. D. in reward for services to the scientific world in discovering upon Mt. Arrarat the remains of the ark. I found that Cordelia Lockwood and Helen Lawrence were to run a Seeing Rochester” automobile, the former as mechanic, the latter as the barker behind the megaphone I recalled so well. The next prophecy related that Charles Chidsev had turned his talent to the spotlight. He would appear regularlv at the Colonial in 1923 in a star bucking-broncho and knife-sticking act. With him, Porter Van Zandt would appear as vocalist. A footnote, however, added that his career was destined to be cut short, as fate decreed that he would puncture a lung trying to reach hid, in the matinee of April 23, 1924. Knickerbocker will be the originator of a system for learning French in five lessons results guaranteed, (cither way). Alice S’l berg and Grace Eisenbrey are to appear as premieres danseuses in a Parisian corned which is to be the hit of the 1927 season. Guggenheim, the next prophecy show destined to become an athlete of world renown. He will be capable of setting v d record for the 440-yard dash at ten minutes flat. Brennan's future fame is to ' his masterpiece, When I think of Thee,” a poem destined to appear in the I H Home Visitor for May. 1931. Bernhardt and Haskins arc to become world-f as the revivers of the ancient Aztec civilization under the Roman system. Josliu™0. be dictator and Haskins, consul. Victor Roberts, it was prophesied, will be the s e k of the House in 1925. A footnote added that a high-chair from the baby's furnish’ department of a Washington furniture store would replace the old seat, in order th 8 “Vic” might be seen over the speaker’s desk. at