Elmira Free Academy - Torch / Sagoyawatha Yearbook (Elmira, NY)

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JOHN C. ABBOTT “What’s the use of worrying, Let’s take life easy.” Who will forget “Johnny?” We may rest assured that his ever sunny disposition will not be in the background until we have all grown ancient. He also has the faculty of leaving his troubles and lessons at home. What a charming picture he makes when with blushing cheeks he appears with a Senior notice. The fair sex are instantly enticed and there the trouble begins. Just confide in him some day and find out how they all worry him. At present he is trying to be- come an artist with the mandolin, and we know he will soon be able to produce alluring harmony such as is characteristic of his temperament. Secretary Senior Class, E. F. A. Entertainment, Senior Class Play. CAROLINE G. SANBORNE “I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience.” Determination and a conscience with these things is Caroline endowed. Skipping school is not her strong point, nor is studying her weakness. She plays the piano, makes candy,.sings a little and goes to a small town about five or six miles from here a great deal. There’s a reason! Lucky is the man who gets Caroline for a wife for she can keep house. Vice-President Senior Class, Senior Reception Cammittee. WILLIAM M. LANDE “In every rank, or great or small, The industrious support us all.’ Business—business—business—how that boy can work! Whether its Vindex editorials or collecting Senior money (that must be where “Bill” gets all his spending money he uses so freely) he is always busy. Selling jewelry is his occupation outside of school, but the ladies also take up not a small part of his time. Editor-in-Chief of Vindex, Treasurer Senior Class.

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JOSEPH H. LEWIS “Tho’ modest, on his unembarrassed brow Nature has written — Gentleman.” The grandest, gaudiest, most superlative adjectives in Webster’s Unabridged would become futile and paltry if used to convey an idea of how great a man our President really is. In four years at E. F. A. he has filled himself with knowledge and has made an abundance of friends who will sorely regret his departure from the school. To get results without visible effort, is his chief characteristic. “Joe” boasts that he has never had a date this year, but we don’t see how this happened, as his handsome features and pleasing manners make him just the kind of a fellow that girls admire. Next year he will enter Purdue University, “where ‘Dad’ went,” and that institution will get just the kind of a fellow we like to send—a man—endowed with those qualities for which our Alma Mater stands, namely: squareness, broad-mindedness. President Junior and Senior classes, Secretary Athletic Council.

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CLARA H. ADAMS “All that life can rate Worth name of life, in thee hath estimate.” To one of the sweetest girls it has ever been our good fortune to know, we send a thousand good wishes. A brilliant student, a loyal friend, and a pleasant companion, she has learned well the art of making and keeping friends, and it is with great pride that we name her one of us. KATHRYNE L. ALLINGTON “Men may come and men may go, But I go on forever.” It’s “Kat’s” tongue we mean by that. The general opinion seems to be that her tongue approaches as near per- petual motion as anything ever will. She puts her talkative- ness to good account sometimes, for she seems to be able always to make some sort of an answer in her classes when she is called upon. We don’t see how she knows so much, for never did we see her studying at school and she doesn’t take books home. Yet, she has her lessons, except perhaps American History once in a while. Kathryne ought to be a suffragette, for she certainly has the ability to get together arguments and state them in a clear, forcible manner. BERTHA S. ARTLEY “A nice girl, a bright girl, A girl with eyes so blue, A pretty girl, a charming girl, A friend both good and true.” The above quotation surely portrays Bertha as we know her. She possesses all the charms of youth and maidenhood and she has numerous admirers to attest to the fact. Her future causes us much anxiety for we fear it will bring some thrilling love adventure. Senior Party Committee.