Hamburg High School - Echoes Yearbook (Hamburg, NY)

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ROBERT ALTON UEBLACKER BOB 31 PINE STREET Robert Uelslacker, otherwise known as Boll There are a number of adjectives that suit this Senior -S'f'rinstanee, bashful, stuclious, and musical. He is especially noted for his wise cracks, heard by those who had dinner at the bachelors' table in the George Washington Inn, one certain night. Get off the ice, Bob, you're making funny cracks. BERNICE NELDA WAKELEE BERNIE 62 DUDLEY7 AVENUE 'iBernie,,' another of our hohbed-hair brunettes, who is fond of fooling people on April Fool's Day and almost getting? a present of her ticket. She is going to be a nurse-if she doesn't fool us. You know, still water runs deep! Once more we hear that HBernie has a new crush. ARLINE MARGUERITE WISHING PEG 230 BUFFALO STREET We are glad to have the primadonna in our Class. To her is due fnuch of the Success of our play. ln her entertaining the audiences between scenes as well as in her acting, she has shown much talent. : 4 'SEESEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE 4

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JOSEPH JAMES SPRISSLER JOE 6I MAPLE AVENUE All is quiet in the study hall,-that is, there is no undue excitement. The doors are about to be closed when suddenly a tall figure enters and strides down the outside aisle, pulling hair, pick- ing up pencils, and leaving disaster in his Wake. Need I mention his name? lt's joe Sprissler, of course. joe is our tallest boy and one of our best athletes. l-le has helped us put through many of our big propositions so that We might go to Washiiigton. On the Way clown to Washington joe kept many of us from boredom and sleep by his traveling orchestraf' joe says he enjoys ink baths very much. He is so religious that he locked himself in church Sunday when in Washing- ton. But look out girls, joe is flirtatious. ELEANOR TAYLOR RED ARMOR, NEW YORK Red hair! Freckles! Without a doubt But just the same, she's a very good scoutg Sheis just the kind one likes aboutg For she never indulges in a pout. lndeecl it is true, Eleanor is as sweet as a daisy by the Wayside and We hope she will always remain EVELYN WEBSTER TAYLOR BOBS 26 CENTRAL AVENUE Bobs, the Sheikess, is our esteemed candy clerk and joke editor. She has a great variety of correspondence, both mail and male. She intends to be a secretary. We hope she will write other peoples letters as well as she does her own. -24- 1

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Cgrvvn :mil Svilurr Eliairg flair ++ Qi? -was NCE. upon a time, in the fair town of Hamburg, there lived a wise k ' king, Mr. Ford R. Park, ruler over the castle of learning, known N in those parts as the Hamburg l-hgh School. Now, among the finest people of his court was a company of youths and maidens, ' SL bearing the name of The Class of '23. And of them and their adventurous journey to Graduation shall my story be. It was a lovely morn in early September when first the Class of '23 set out. There were dark prophesies' that the trail would hold more evils and difhculties for these young people than any had experienced since the long- vanished days of l9l3. As Freshmen, they should be almost unaware of the presence of evil, but their realization of it should be accentuated with the years until as Seniors they should be almost overwhelmed with ominous difli- culties. And upon what was such a prophecy based? It was founded on the knowledge that Twenty-three was to be their fairy guide and Twenty-three was reputed to be wicked. When the fairy guide was introduced to the 'iClass of '23,,' she uttered these words: Wlqreat me right and l will return the compliment. Immedi- ately she disappeared and thereafter was with them in spirit only. As Freshmen, the Class of '23,' met with no further misfortune than to be dubbed green. As Sophomores they became more sophisticated. How- ever, as Juniors their troubles apparently began. Not far from Graduation loomed the beautiful city of wonders, Wash- ington, and there the boys and girls planned to stop during their Senior year. But to do so required money which must be earned. Being therefore ambi- tious, they began to execute plans to gain money. A dance was given which was indeed successful with the exception of one incident. A cut-glass punch bowl was broken. What luck! At the very first attempt to earn money! However, after paying for the bowl, they still had a nice profit left. Then the Senior rings were ordered, the symbol of the fourth year of travel. Alas! When the rings arrived it was discovered that the design was not the exact reproduction ofl the model ordered and the Juniors were dis- appointed. When the Juniors became Seniors, they secured the alteration of the design to comply with their desires. This incident proved to them that courtesy was both good to give and receive. If Twenty-three meddled with the Junior' play, The Neighbors, it was only to aid it, for not a disaster befell the evening's performance. It was a perfect success. r flnez will verify this statement., The candy sales at the end of the year were also satisfactory, showing no sign of Twenty-three's prophesied evils. The Junior Prom was the crowning event of the year, with the exception only of success in regents which success ushered in the fourth year of travels o'er the path of knowledge. As Seniors, the Class of '23, still led by their fairy guide, experienced various emotions. They strayed now and then from the intellectual path to taste of other joys and to earn money so that they might behold the' marvels of Washington. lVlartha's Mourning, a one-act play given to swell the Washington fund, fulfilled the purpose for which it was presented. And then, lo! Twenty-three waved her wand and the class sold Forget- me-nots for the soldiers. The reputed bad luck of Twenty-three was ap- -25-