Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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them we Hnd Sorrel Brown, Dynamite Chambers and Max Behr. And then, of course, there was Ike Fink. But those days rapidly passed by. We soon found ourselves, after having spent a vaca- tion, the most longed-for of our whole lives, back in Lawrenceville, but now we had gone up a notch. Qur ship had crossed the line, so to speak, and we had all been introduced to Father Neptune. Upon our assembling for the first time in Memorial Hall we found that many worthy members had been do- nated to us by 'oo. Ever shall we be thankful in our hearts for such acquisitions as Dutch Kessler, and his side partner and help-mate Biddy Coughlin, Elly Watson, Nuts Henry and others. But, alas, the last named gentleman, we in turn, though not willingly, presented to our worthy successors '02. Why, with such names added to their list as Nuts, f' Pill, Frugy Franzheim, and Spike Gil- christ, '02 ought really to make something of herself. Our Second Form year was also of minor importance to the class, even if it did see the Hnish of several of our respected members. There were, however, two events of importance. One was the resignation of Dr. Mackenzie. The other took place just at the close of the year, on the very last day of our regime as Second Formers. Instead of taking our places in Ort's stage, we left Lawrenceville in- trolley cars. lt was indeed a gala day for the old School. But, as do all of them, that vacation sped swiftly by and soon we found ourselves entered upon our Third Form year with a flying start. Upon our arrival we found the new Head Master in charge and, since it is the proper thing to say in a History, we liked him. As usual, the first event of importance was the election of officers. Bobby Forsythe was elected President and Swass Flanagan, Vice- President. Later Swass removed himself from our midst and Max Behr took his place. ln those days, not so very long ago, we had representatives in all branches of activity throughout the School. In athletics we had Butler, Davidson, Forsythe, and Myers, not excepting the golf shark, Archie Reid, and Henry Blanchard, who won the tennis championship for us. Then, among the sharks were Greaser Waring and Eddie Brooks. It was in March of this year that the would-be rush occurred. But why re- hearse the matter, since everyone knows the whole story, and since our honor as a class was vindicated beyond all question. C95 Those ignorant ones who do not know the story and are anxious to become ac- quainted with it, we refer to last year's '01 and '00 Histories. Before we knew it vacation had again come 16

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upon us. After bidding our friends of '00 a hearty farewell, we left with great and grand ideas and ideals of our rule as Fourth Formers. lt was with beating hearts that we mounted the trolley and turned our faces toward old Lawrenceville at the close of the summer vacation of 1900. On the car were several curious looking individuals who looked at us with apprehension in their eyes. They were, of course, freshmen and the freshest lot of rhinies that it had ever been our lot to see. Upon arriving at Lawrenceville we looked around eagerly to see what changes had taken place during our three months' absence. Al- though no physical changes were visible there was, however, one change that was made conspicuous by the fact that it had not occurred. We had hoped to see the gym. waiting for us. But, no, our hopes were once again doomed to disappointment. No gym. was in sight. Oh, that gym.! that gym.! What a vain thing, what a deceitful thing, what an untruthful thing is rumor, anyhow. lf we had ever doubted this opinion of her before, as soon as we came to Lawrenceville, years ago, and heard what rumor said about this gym., and then, alas, saw how little truth was upon her lips, then, gentle reader, every doubt was re- moved, every suspicion that she was truthful disappeared. Well, may we hope that Father Time will prove that we have lied. For the sake of having a gym. we would willingly be called liars Cthough of course we would not like to put Greaser out of businessj. Still, in this case, we sadly fear that even hope is dead. But we wander from our course. Our emotions have caused us to luff up into the wind C' hot air some unkind critic may sayb. To continue: As we have already remarked there were no physical changes apparent upon our arrival in Law- renceville on September 20. But what radical changes we found had been made that were not physical. ln the first place, there was the Hamill, a Fourth Form House, wherein were lodged the motley looking crowd we had seen on the trolley. Then we found, too, that little Lawrenceville had also fallen victim to the scourge of the large cities of to-day, the apartment house, Kafer Flat greeted our ears and vis- ion after a few minutes' sojourn in the land of promise, Fourth Formerdom. Nlany familiar faces were missing, both from our own number and from the faculty. Qf the former were Dago Butler, Forsythe, Ruby H Loening, and Floyd Waggaman, all of whom had taken a short cut to college and had dispensed with their Fourth Form year. Then there were also missing, Phil. Osborne, Schoonover, 17