Lawrenceville School - Olla Podrida Yearbook (Lawrenceville, NJ)

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THE LAWRENCEVILLE OLLA PODRIDA TED? 651355 uf 1908 I9

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5-vHE LAWVRENCEVILLE OLLA PODRIDA h ol and its associations. And now it is my pleasant task to the Old SC 0 to record, as best I can, a few of these good times fand scrapesl, and good friends and associations that belong to the class of nineteen hundred and eight. In so doing we shall let ancient history take care of itself, and start right in with the Fifth Form year+ ,, the best and happiest of them all! PRIVATE ' U - T The Qbfficers ' lr i. ---1 We were particularly fortunate, in the first place, Rui ' in having such a gallant bunch of officers to lead . . - CK us. Johnnie Davis Cotherwise known as Waco and The Bear D was an almost unanimous choice for President, and an excellent one he has proved to be. Johnnie is a Texan by birth, by favor, and the grace of the immortal gods. Although he sometimes forgets his southern accent, he never forgets he is a Texan. 'Combined with a due sense' of southern chivalry, Johnnie has the most tantalizing pair of eyelashes that ever made a girl leave home. They raised quite a little havoc at the Winter Prom., they say. H Davie remained impassive, however, to women,s wiles until the fatal day he met Nellie, the B . . . eautiful Cloak Model. He has never been himself since. Our Vice-President is Harper, the athlete, who looks around to the names of HHarp and HCaruso. From that you might think that he is something of a musician. Quite so. Harp can run up the scale to high HC, without batting an eyelid, and is just as much at home mur- derin HD' L ' ' ' ' g ie ustige Witwe as he is slamming out a little double with the bases strung, or putting the shot, of almost anything else. Once last Winter Harp's voice cracked, and for a time he was singing duets. fThat's an old one, but it comes in handy.D I Ast Secretary-Treasurer we elected George Morse Cmore commonly Caled Gimp D. George had had some experience in handling money as Manager of the Golf T . b H - Cam, and was in every way qualified for the o . f, e made H good One, too, because he very rarely asked us to come up, G' - - Imp was also the original Raffle K E 5? -I !!T:'fq,.,,, W .. Om - if I ing, and othewise cele- 18

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ilfHE LAIPVRENCEVILLE OLLA PODRIDA b .D the Star piano player in the Upper. He comes by his musical 1 . . . bmi? Zsatlialiiy too ' there is also a story in circulation that George a ll v ' l broke up a Broadway show one night by rounding up all the ushers near y 37 and telling them that KYUY uncle Wfofe that Song' With a modest blush Suffuging our brow we will pass over the His- ' and make mention of the fact that Andrews, Devlin, Don and torian, Bunn were chosen Directors of the Upper- ' About the Hamill and their officers we shall have something to say later. III4 Eng Mppzr, ant: the glaitutines The big Pee-rade followed quickly on the heels of the elections. The 'KPee-rade always was an inspiring sight, since time immemorial. Imagine a hundred students, clad in their H nighties, making the rounds of the different Houses, accompanied by a great deal of noise and lots of red fire. Most of the Masters favored us with neat little extempore speeches fprepared days in advanced, some of which, however, would have drawn about a 4C in Elocution. On the whole, the H Pee-rade was a big success. V About this time the novelty of life in the Upper be- gan to wear off a bit, and we were able to look around g xg, 13' and see ourselves more clearly and more truly as we were, The smoking room was perhaps the biggest attraction. - A great deal of our time Calas! too much of itl was spent l i ' therein. Dinkl' Holton was the man with the best - 'XVX . claim perhaps to the title of HSmoking Room Loafer Dink, who is so thin that it hurts him to sit down, used to hold office hours there nearly all day., If not there he could generally be found closeted with his pals H Blanche W Wallin, and H Mary, engrossed in a game of bridge. H POP George fno disrespect, I mean the young 77 POIL D was another famous character whose name is s ' - - Ome OW lrfevocably linked with the Upper House Smoking Room Cuntil, of COUFSC, he .left us for the Kafer Flats, after Christmas, via the F1unker's .l 4 I. P, K.-7. ' hx ' , I x zf ' 7 , J, ' X M ff,, ff Wk , f 20