Haverling Central High School - Haverlinguist Yearbook (Bath, NY)

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22 THE HAVERLINGUIST lass il! Smith White XYe. the Class of 1926, being in a normal state of mind, do hereby. on this twenty-first day of June, -Nineteen l-lundred and Twenty-six, make our last XVill and Testament. To Superintendent XY. H. Vanderhoef we leave the Glee Club of Haverling, hoping that by next year he will bring it to perfection. To the juniors we leave the Presbyterian church in which to hold meetings. Q To Harold XX-'atson we bequeath ten cents so that he won't have to lie to get into the show at the Soldiers' Home. To Kenneth Murphy we leave the old tennis courts to be used as a flying tield only. To .lim Anderson and Frank DiCanclia we leave Hazel Sims and Frances Corbett on con- dition that they pick a less spectacular seat at track meets hereafter. To .I ack Smith and Bus Faucett we leave a dozen brooms so that they may continue their work on the janitor force next year. To Miss Ingalls we bequeath twenty dollars QS20j with which to purchase an encyclopedia after john Brownley graduates. To Gertrude Cobb we leave Gabriel Castrilli to deliver her notes around the study hall and run her other errands. To Miss Petrossi we leave a set of false teeth so that she won't have to spend so much time with the dentist. To Mr. Krouse we leave the right to read the literature that Harriett Faucett writes in Chemistry class. To C litf Stinson we leave a pair of rubber boots to go with the raincoat which the late Class of 1925 left him, knowing that next year will continue to be damp. To Loper Keyes we leave a sure-tire alarm clock to be installed in his room hoping that it will help him to be at school at eight forty-hve. To the Board of Education we leave the old clapper of the bell. . Lastly, we appoint judge Brown. now residing in the town of Cohocton, sole executor of our last XX'ill and Testament, knowing that his interest in Haverling High School will not let him neglect his duty in this matter. C CSignedj THE CLASS OF NINETEEN TVVENTY-SIX .Iota SLINEY, Captain Basketball Team, l'IOWARD CHASE, Captain Baseball Team, jot: D1C,xxD1A, Captain Track Team, Witnesses.

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THE I-IAVERLINGUIST 21 Valedictory Marjorie Harris CLASSMATES, 'TEACHERS AND FRIENDS or 1926: As we gather here this afternoon our feelings are not wholly of joy nor of regret, for are we not about to put into practice those precepts which we have assimilated during our sojourn at Haverling? Q Classmates, let the key-word of our lives be service. To some of us Haverling is but a step- ping-stone to a higher education, while others of us will immediately engage in our life work. XV e may play only the smallest part in the world's work, our task may seein trivial as compared to the great things that have been done, but all work can be ennobled by being well done. All great work is dependent upon those deeds which are seemingly of small importance. In every walk of life there is an opportunity of brightening the lives of our fellow men. Let us, there- fore, apply ourselves thoroughly to that place in life which the future holds in store for us. TEACHERS : - If we have seemed in the past years thoughtless and inconsiderate it was but due to the care- lessness of youth. VVe owe to you a debt of gratitude. for you are giving your lives, that we, the young and inexperienced, might have the advantage of your mature experience and wisdom. You have been patient with us and have brought home to us the ideals of Haverling. Wlierever we may be in the years to come, we will never forget your lives of service. Most of the best things of life are not fully appreciated until we are about to lose them. So it is with us as we are about to say bood-bye to Haverling, where we have spent four of the most important years of our lives. As we grow older and feel more keenly the responsibilities of life we shall look hack upon these years and realize to the full just what Haverling has meant to us. It is with regret that we now say farewell to the teachers. to our classmates and to our Haverling. b

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THE HAVERLINGUIST 23 lass rophecy K. Ehle I have a letter here. dated 1936. from an old school friend. Wfilma LeGro. Being the last of the firm, Brown and LeGro and still single. she has reaped a fortune from the business, which she spends in traveling around and visiting her old schoolmates. The letter is about them. She says :e XVhile traveling around in Arizona last summer whom should I run across but Libby Fairchild. She was so tanned I hardly knew her, and was riding a mammoth black horse quite as skillfully as Buck jones himself. Libby ought to be a good rider, she got so much practice in basketball games. As we stood there talking a cloud of dust appeared on the horizon. and soon John Brownley came riding up on an undersized horse. I soon learned that he is Libby's lesser half. Then I stopped off in Chicago and went to a theatre where vaudeville was running, fea- turing 'The Tuneful Trio.' who turned out to be none other than lVarren Miller, John Van Dusen and Smith Xvhite. On my way out of the theatre I ran into Anna Pindjak hanging on Derwood Dudley's arm. NVho would have thought that bashful Derwood was so courageous? Bob Hand and Tommy Hitchcock are on the stage as Mr. and Mrs. Charley Charleston. still dancing. I ran across Charley Reynolds in Florida. He is a real estate agent and was trying his best to sell some land to poor Mildred Allen. who didn't know whether she was getting an island or a lake. In Buffalo I was so surprised to see lVillis Oldfield playing in the Statler Hotel. His orchestra consisted of Kenneth Smith. playing the saxophone: Clair Easterbrook. the violing Delos NVilcox. the harmonica. and other notorious artists whom I can't recall. Ethel Perry and Elzina Holden have opened a vanity shop there. and are busy remodeling faces. Lena De- Grotf is the wife of a Baptist minister. She always had a leaning toward the little Brown church. In Reno. Nevada. I met Viola Jenkins, who said she was getting a divorce from her husband, George Longwell. so that she could marry Harlo Foster, a wealthy New York banker. I hear Fanelia Smith has taken Miss Sedgwick's post as a teacher of History in Haverling: while Marjorie Harris is the first woman principal of Haverling. I'll bet the fellows behave themselves now.. Josephine McCall and Barney Meade were on the same train with me, going to Niagara Falls on their lI0l1eyll1O0l1. I attended the most exciting boxing match while in New York. and the winner of the lightweight championship was 'Bulldog Bullardf Bath cer- tainly has cause to be proud of Alanson, now. Ellen Lee and her husband, Adair Stannarius. are leaders in the social activities of Avoca. I met ,Ellen at Palm Beach. where she is resting from the strain of social life. Libby Tate is a most efficient librarian at the Davenport Li- brary: and they say Carlton Nipher goes over there nearly every night just to read and read CFQ I met Vernelia Tharp at a baseball game in Pittsburgh, and she informed ITIC tha-t she is now Mrs. Babe Ruth. Somehow I always thought she liked baseball. I see Dorothy Ness is in the movies playing opposite Rudy Valentino. XVhen I arrived back home in Bath I met the last of my school mates, Rosalie Glowczyk and Beatrice Van Keuren, who, in partnership, arg 1-mming the Salubria dance pavilionf,