Keuka College - Kiondaga Yearbook (Keuka Park, NY)

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41 , VV AAAAAAAAAAA7 r President . Ruth Youngs Vice-President . .. Bertha Wilsey Secretary . Mary Underwood Treasurer ... . Winifred DeLaVergne President . .. Lois g !RD Vice-President .Winifred Morrison Secretary .... Amala Brookins Treasurer . . Eugenia Galusha In the vale of Lake Keuka, By the bright and gleaming waters, In the moonlight and the starlight, In the checkered shade and sunshine, Stood the lodge of four tribes gathered; With the Senecas the oldest, Next to them the Onondagas, And the third, the tribe of Mohawks. But of all, the youngest, newest, Was the tribe of Tuscaroras. Tribes they were who made tradition; Made it in their years at Keuka. Then the Senecas had left us. Lonely was our lodge without them. But then later when the Autumn Changed the long green leaves to yellow, The new Senecas were welcomed. Tuscaroras sought them, taught them To be Keuka’s own true daughters. As they grew to be the wiser, Our Big Sisters, Onondagas, Passed from out our lodgehouse walls; Left us sadly, grieving ever; Left their Sisters standing lonely At the doorway of their wigwam. Twenty-three