Mackenzie School - Olim Yearbook (Dobbs Ferry, NY)

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303, mal ew t of mni the Facultatis Numeratio Scene: Old Dobbs Ferry Cemetery. Time: 1958 A. D. Dmmatis Personce: Oldest Inhabitant and Ye Aged Alumnus. CLDEST INHABITANT: Look ye well, my friend, at yonder row of moss-eaten tombstones. AGED ALUMNUS: Yea, they predominate o'er all the others. OLDEST INHABITANT: 'T is well. Let us examine the first. AGED ALUMNUS: The one with the caestus crossed with a triangle? OLDEST INHABITANT: Synonymous of might and mathematics. He died misunderstood to the last, for this is Alec's. AGED ALUMNUS: Bitter thought. But the next with the statuette of the weeping lamb? OLDEST INHABITANT: 'Tis that of Van, for he loved little children, and this with the cradle is George's. But he was forced to it against his will. AGED ALUMNUS: Sublime tragedy! But here is one that brooks interest. A crate of peaches, a box of cigarettes and a book with Browning chiseled thereupon. . u OLDEST INHABITANT: Channing Craig hes be- neath. The group on his mausoleum explains his death. h d e ved his AGED ALUMNUS: I shudder, but e es r fate. Pass on. OLDEST INHAEITANT: This plain stone is that of Dr. Randall. He went to his grave after a long and useful life, honored by all. AGED ALUMNUS: 0, that the last could be said of some of the others. Ahal Fifty marble pan- cakes in a pile, with a granite discus beside them. A fitting memorial? OLDEST INHABITANT: Extremely so. His name was Dearborn. He died from overuse of the former and final abandonment of the latter. His end was a happy one. AGED ALUMNUS: Let us endeavor to turn from gruesome subjects. OLDEST INHABITANT: Pray, then, behold this stone. Notice the glass of milk deftly chiseled from granite, with a piece of bread on top. Near at hand is a Mackenzie marking pad. AGED ALUMNUS: These be terrible weapons! Their owner must have been a hero. OLDEST INHABITANT: Sampson was his name. He ruled the juvenile hordes under him by close- ness with the first and liberality with the latter. He also stood for his convictions. AGED ALUMNUS fremoving his lzatj: Stood for his convictions? Truly, it is the tomb of a great man. The time grows lateg make haste.

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Alumni Association Officers TOWNLEY LARZELERE . . . President LEONARD JONES . V 'ice-President JAMES WILDE . . Treasurer . . . Secretory JAMES FAIR ...... At the third annual dinner of the Alumni, held at Riesenweberls in New York on February 29, 1908, the following resolutions were passed: I. Resolved, That an annual football game be played at the school on election day, as well as the annual baseball game in May. II. Resolved, That the annual baseball game be played May 9, followed by an Alumni dinner in New York that night. . . . d. NOTE.-'ThE School dance will be given the evening before and the Alumni are invited to atten HI. Resolved, That a list of the members of the Alumni Association, with their addresses, and a list of the school songs, be printed and a copy sent to each member. IV. Resolved, That the annual dues shall be 32.00. i ' ' ' ' h Al ni V Resolved, That the officers elected be authorized to appoint a Committee, consisting of t ree um h fti rs of the Alumni Association, should confer and Sidney McCreery, president of the School, who, with t e o ce ' ' received by the Alumni Association from dues should best be with Dr. Mackenzie and decide how the money spent for the benefit of the school and the fellows attending it. 124 AGE 0L1 AG O1 Ac

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is 1 Z QLDEST INHABITANT: There remain a few. See ' ' h F' her the silk hat and cane grouped with t e is and Schwattls Algebra. It is the remnant of a life which was a failure. AGED ALUMNUS: And why, pray? I see the name of Mattern imprinted thereupon. OLDEST INHABITANT: He tried to be frivolous and teach mathematics at the same time, and failed in both. AGED ALUMNUS : Deluded sinner I But here is one ' ' ' ' k t d a which is like unto it. An old mus e an dented bugle crowned with a battered derby hat. Implements of peace and war? OLDEST INHABITANT: Yes. Physioc, marveled at by all. But we now come to the greatest tragedy of all. AGED ALUMNUS: I see a tombstone ornamented with a martyrls crown of thorns. NT Look closer and you can GLDEST INHABITA : ' guess the cause of this untimely end. AGED ALUMNUS: I see two names on the wreath. Ahal Kennard and Bunker! Who were these people? QLDEST INHABITANT: ey x common murderers when they took Latin. The vic Marcy. AGED ALUMNUs: I hope he has gone to his reward. QLDEST INHABITANT: The headstone yet remains. Th vere little better than tim who lies beneath was named Look! AGED ALUMNUSi I had to look too often in my youth. I must depart. I hear the train at Tarrytown. The Aged Alumnus wiped a furtive tear. 'tIt is as if it were but yesterday, he said, as he set out for the station. -gs . s ' 126 Ocr Nc