Mynderse Academy - Myndersian Yearbook (Seneca Falls, NY)

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-HM? On the sa1ne wessel Gladys Tho111as was a passenger She was Salllllg fOI Parls to pu1chase gow ns for a large store 111 NIQIIIDIIIS Ten11essee Thls was the tl11rd t1n1e that she had gone OYGI he1 good taste be1ng the reason for her r1se to the pos1t1o11 ot buy er In Alabama we x1s1ted the cotto11 plantat1on belongmt, to Helen Clark She had thousands of worke1s 1n her e111ployment fo1 the cotton was both glOWH and made 1nto ClOthllIg Oll her lallfl I11 Tampa Iflorlda we pulchased la11d from Nlagerx Noble a real estate opera tor Her persuasne way 111ade he1 busmess p1ohtable For example she could h ue bullt a 11111181011 011 the money sl1e 1llOl'J3.blN 111ade from us In one of the resort hotels lll Pal111 Beach we chanted to COIIIG upon Harr1ett Babcock a11d DOl1SlI'l2Uld who we1e spenllng tl1e w111ter there They had both hanged thell nan1es that IS they had had the111 cha11 ed Har11ett had wedded a famous phws1c1a11 of the North wh1le she was pI'dCtlClI1g nursmz., Dorls husband w as a 1111119 opelator 1n the coal nnnes of Pennsylxama Hel knowledge of bllS1 ness as well as other quallhcatlons had made her mxaluable to h1111 Wh1le we w e1e spendmg SOIIIG t1n1e 111 Washmgton D C we went to see Eddle Medde11 Sec1etary of State lll the Pres1de11t s cabmet Just as l1e had beell the lIIOSt popular boy 1n h1gh school he was popul tr 1n the l13,UOIl a11d had recelved tl1lS great hono1 We WSIB overjoyed that our count1y appreclated Edd1es character as 111uch as d1d we h1s classmates I11 llbtelllllg to C0l1gl6SS 1n SESSION we were p1esent to hear Edn1u11d Wo1den had lIOt been hea1d SIIICS the days of Clav and Webstel In New Yo1k C1ty wh1le we were walkmg on Wall Street ou1 attent1o11 was 4ll3.Wl1 to Kltty So11han e11ter111g a lll1IOLlSll16 She was sl1e told 11s a Wall Street broke1 O11 account of llel shrewdness she had amassed a fortu11e W WQIP happy to see her so successful O11 our wav to Seneca Falls we stopped at the General Electrlc Company lll Schenectady fo1 we knew that How a1d War11er was employ ed there Howard was a NNlZ3ld Ill electrlclty second Ollly to the late St9lllll19tZ He was wo1 kmg on a pl IH to attach a I'3.Cll0 set to the elect11c1ty 1n the halr Th1s set would 1ese111ble ear pl1o11es 1n that lt would fit on the ear If h1s plan worked he would be the r1chest lllall 111 the wo1ld Next we took off for Seneca Falls O11 Fall St1eet a11 llllfalllllldf slgn greeted the exe Iredale the Photoglapher Lpon ellteflllg we fo1111d that lt was Rowland Iredale He was s11ccessful 111 hls occupat1o11 hls o11ly tl Ollble hem., that he laugh ed so lllllCl1 that Illally of l11s customers thought they were the cause of all h1s llllrlh Wh1le we we1e talklng w1th Rowland B1lly Byrne came lll He sa1d that he w as a ca11dy salesman He consmned a gleat many samples but 111s COlIJlll9llC9 show ed that the ca11dy was good for It agreed w1th h1111 -Xs a fittln end1ng of ou1 Journey w e gazed upon o11r dear Mynde1 se -Xcademv and wondered lf the students then 1n lt would be as fortunate as the class of 1928 had bee11 G 'Page 27 'B f - f- -- - ----- V Y,,W , V V - S Wir' f, , 4 .,,,, up l , . . ' . l f - - v 0' ' A v - . Y 1 - v n, u nv ' '- ' 1 A , . . U . 1 . . ' 1 , , ' ' ' .I . U' -v , ' ,.' - 1 sl ,QI Y V ' nl' bas' . . , w 2 - ' L ,.' uv L. - tr ' A y vy r S . n 0' ' ' ' l ' 1 ' x K CJ D-' V s 1 -1 :-1 - An ' !! , ' ,' I, D ' , , . L , ', or , , , ' ,Y ' IK ' ! 9, . 7 . K 1 ' senator from New York State, address the se11ate in such strai11s of oratory as I - 1' uv L 1 w. y, ' . , . V . on , , I . L , . . . f , '. ' s ' .' , : g , . e L . S I I. . Y. I . ' . i I - 1 1 . . ' . . 1 . , I ' , I h . 1 . as ,, rr. v - I ' , . U , c . . 1 I X t ' . . . ' . U . U - ' . v ' . oi V. v ' . . V x . . I 1 . I 1 v - - . v 1- ' . I ' . ' ' 1 . ' 0- ' - ' , .s 4 ' H 1 A ' A . 1 ' D - . C. F. ., '28. p L 'lt are in what is me ease as - H as H - e ea -H H H H as le, J

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in After an enjoyable Vlblt we flew OXCI darkest Afrlca Slblltlllt, a small IIIISSIOII settlement we landed We found the ll1lbSlOIlall9S to be two of our XBIY qulet fI'l6l1dS Irene Burrell and Gracle Thomas They wele engaged 1n teachmg the AxfI'1CaI1S to know God They had converted many and wele losed by all to whom they had brought the Ilght Then we flew on to Hong Kong Chma At the palace of the empel or we met Adelalde Maglll the royal mterpretel On account of he1 fondness for fO18lgII languages she had studled the Orlental language 111 college and as a result of her p1 owess had seculed the hlgh DOSIUOII To some passers by she cony ersed freely ln Chmese I don t know how colrect lt was but lt celtamly sounded l1ke a Chmese puzzle As we crossed the PHCIHC Ocean on our retuln to Amex 1Ca we stopped on the Phlllpp ne Islands Here we VlSlt6d the Goy ernor our classmate Lenn Haley We wele not at all astomshed that he had attamed such an 0ff1C8 because hxs legal carnage had always shown that he was made fo1 greatness We left h1m proud that the Umted States was represented there by our f11end On the Haw a11an Islands undel the beautlful palm tlees we met Falthle Moran Slttlllg at her easel sketclnng the landscape Her DalIlUIlgS sold for fabulous sums As we exammed her masterpleces we lecalled the marvelous draw mgs that she had made m hl h school and thought how much they had foletold he1 future or had they? As we neared the coast of AIIIQIICH an an plane contmually sendmg out an S ever 1nqu1s1t1ve Joe Zone He had flown to Mars to find out whether or not lt was lllhablted It was mhablted by enolmous beasts wallowmg m endless swamps Terufied Joe had returned to San Franclsco m one th11d of the tune that he had gone there In an enjoyable v1s1t he told us of the many experlments he had made Ill av1at1on ln the S6I'V1C8 of the natlonal government He had already wrltten several books on h1s dlscoverles Whlle llbtelllllg to a radlo 1n a Los Angeles hotel we heald Ithaca New York The speaker was Professor Bllly Fuess Instluctor m Latm Cornell UI11X6I'S1ty I hlS speech the t1tle of Wh1Ch was The Value of Latln he pamted the language 1n gorgeous colols told of the benefits to be derlved and urged that a law be passed makmg It compulsory fo1 ey ery hxgh school student to study the subject dulmg the whole four years We were exceedingly happy to hear h1s blllllallt talk and legretted the 1111118 when hlS statlon slgned off In Nevada we spent the mght at the Flsh Ranch Thls was not a new venture but a cattle farm The owner we found to be Maljorle Flsh Led on by love of adyenture and of outdoor l1fe she had purchased the lanch We 1ode on horseback around he1 property and saw how w ell she was gettmg along wlth lt We 1net Margaret Haley 1n Salt Lake Clty As she had always enjoyed playmg wlth clayfish 1n blO10gy class she had taken up the study of natural hlstory She was the autholess of many books on b11 ds and beasts and was then at the Great Salt Lake to study the ammals that llVGd about lt Her wolks were used for reference ln all the schools of the Fngllsh speakmg world In St Louls we met Mary Newman and Leoxa Hullbutt Thev told us that they owned several beauty shoppes scattered around the Unlted States As a result of thelr clewerness they had become very well known and wlth thls popu lauty came rlches Tlred of flymg we boalded a steamer on the MISSISSIPPI Rlver At the door of the commanders cabm we found Jack O BI'l6'11 We learned from 111111 that he had studled at Annapolls frather he had spent some tlme therej and had been glven command of the governments shlps that dally plled up and down the rn er Page 26 W- I-, , 3... , ,mu ,,... W., ,Y W, W , . ,4, Y ,rig Y - f ---- -- ' r ' .' , ' , . 1 - ' 'of ' o' K' , . ! ' ' v y I . . . i- Y L Y - , . . . li 1 . . I 7 Q cs as ,I -' 0- .- - 0- ' I 5 ' r N 1 I y .. , . , ,, . . ,, 7 3 J 1 ' .A 1 . - ' , . . . . O. S. call, passed us. We followed and landed close by lt. The occupant was the . . . . ,, ,, l q . . , . - . 7 ' 3 7 n . . . ,, . ,, . ! . I i ! D ' , KK ' !7 ' 7 ' s ' 1 , . K Z 1 I . . - ' .1 . . J . - . , i . V 7 - . . .h - ' . 3 4 D . . , , .... . 1 , . , . . , . , . 1 ! . , . . . , 1, as A .e - c c T 4

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