Lafayette High School - Oracle Yearbook (Buffalo, NY)

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ORACLE YEARBOOK 17 CLASS CDF 1938 those who swore that she had a different wig for every day in the week. G. Kener and P. Devio asked I. Gorman and W. O'Brian if they were ill when they started counting the cups in the trophy case. I. Guarino sang in the Glee Club, while M. Freedman, I. Giovino, P. Cecala did a bit of tooting in the band. W. Denny, H. Clement, and L. Donnelly spent some of their valuable moments indulged in a fierce paper-wad battle which greatly dis- turbed F. Werman, l. Tripi, A. Petrella and A. Bellinger. Many sore fingers were the result of the friendly handshake of l. Puleo, who nonchalantly squeezes your hand until the bones crack. E. Maggio, W. Karg, and R. Weir, devoted their time to the homeroom basketball team, while A. Wooler, D. Meier, S. Walker, and R. Hinney devoted their valuable minutes to their textbooks. Exams and vacation followed. Again we come back, with browned faces and brush hair cuts, to course No. 3 known to the H. S. Stud as the term of the folly lunior. Cicero, Physics, and Int. Alg. were waiting for us to hurdle them. We had lost part of our number in the lune exams but had gained V. Ogden, M. Hebard, and D. Smith, who had decided to adopt the five-year plan. I. Patterson's soprano voice was heard when she sang Some of the boys in 1934. George Deming in the assembly. H. Fackler again won honors in the declamation contest. B. Marshall was pretty shaky when he went up on tne stage to get a check for a dollar. He wrote the lunior song. B. Karg was nominated All-High in Basketball, while C. Brooks made his major in Tennis. l. Hurst, B. Vaughan, l. Styers, K. Sher- wood, D. Reed, and M. Ricotta supported the girls' sports. C. Cherry made the All-

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16 THE LAFAYETTE HI Ann Cloak In September of the year 1934, our favorite freshmen were welcomed for the first time by Mr. Gott into his Plant. Conspicuously new, long pants, loud shirts, suit coats, bright colored make-up, and nervous thumb-twiddling children were to be seen throughout the large horseshoe-shaped assembly. M. Boland was there as was R. Spear. S. Birzon was seen passing notes to l. Davis. E. Wort- ham's, W. lardine's, and A. Clamp's STGRY OF THE COLORFUL hair was the cause of much comment. C. Lumsden, F. Ciccarelli, and A. Haley were comparing their new bill folds. M. Gram had already started worry- ing about her senior exams. After l5 minutes of dazzled searching, D. Carestio and P. Dellinger finally found Cto their dismayj, that Rm. 32 was situated in the basement. B. Cole and M. Feinsinger startled Lafayette audiences with their extraordinary talents in the school mu- sical. lune exams ended our initial year at Lafayette. ln the fall of l935, the sophisticated sophomores returned. Having stumbled through Algebra, Biology, and Latin, they were now headed for course No. 2, which contained Caesar, Geometry, and the annals of Ancient History. C. lacobs glid- ed through the halls quoting Caesar, while Cf. Allen, S. Fuller, and C. Brown were in a corner in Rm. 3 trying to prove two triangles congruent by S. A. S. Teachers were in a guandary as to what to do about A. L. Smith and A. O. Smith, F. Cleary and R. Cleary. From the school of prac- tice came M. Cfrabau, C. Cfeorgi, E. Thom and A. White. Also F. Breese, D. Beyer, C. lmpelliter, and E. Burley. W. Dahlke, M. Staley, H. lanis, and l. Battles played on the hockey team. M. R. Lavin's hair was speculated upon and there were Some of the girls in 1934.

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l8 THE LAFAYETTE CLASS HISTORY Ccontinuedj High Football Team but entered Nichols the following September. K. Hooley could be found many times in the middle of a crowd. It was his YoYo that drew the crowds. R. O'Brian resolved to find an- other place in which to carry on his leepin'. W. Zavitz and M. Getz started what is known as another enduring romance at Lafayette. Through the efforts of G. Cohen, Lafayette was the only school in Buffalo to have moving pictures of their football team. lunior exams and the warm months followed. The class of '38 had two weeks less to enjoy their Senior year because of the germ that loitered over the city during the month of Septemberf We started the old grind l4 days late but we made it our business to make up the loss by doing dou- ble work. We were now Seniors, the body that sets the examples for the lower classes. Every Senior cooperated in doing his best to keep up the standards expected of him. Rm. 3 went to town in the field of sports. A. Wooler, l. Swain, V. Beardsell, l . Puleo, W. Dahlke, D. Sherwood, B. Brown, D. Copeland, F. Saeli-, and E. Riselay made their major L in football. W. Meese was unanimously elected Editor-in-Chief of the Oracle. Z. Amdur and E. lanis jumped ahead a year to join us. On the cafeteria squad were l . Seigal, E. Callahan, P. Callahan, I. Rumizen and F. Spezio. l . Boswell, A. Haley, R. Goodman, E. Daluiso, and G. Deming were approved of as cheer leaders. N. Cohn was the Belle of Mr. Geib's 4th hour Intermediate class. Al Corry helped put the rowing team over the top, while C. Sherman talked his debating team into victory. R. Reidpath, R. Dunbar, and G. lones suggested that they adopt Rm. 8a as their homeroom. The friendships be- tween B. Heinicke and P. Bolza, P. Hengerer and V. Hutchinson, C. Barberio and l. Parrish, M. Fries and F. Crossman grew stronger in their last year. l. Serns, S. Kaminker and B. Heller agreed to break the tardiness record. H. Covert was hailed as the human back-scratcher. M. Benson, and I. Booker came from out of town and enrolled at Lafayette. l . Compo also enrolled at Lafayette and won public acclaim for her marvelous feats as Cheer Leader. l . Davis was one of the CKJ nit Wits. And now as we complete the history of the class of 1938, we wonder, as we pass through the halls, into what field each of us will venture. Both the Senior Girls and Boys enjoyed their years at Lafayette and we are sure that in years to come, they will look back to the Old Plant with a feeling that cannot be expressed. 0000