Odessa Montour Central High School - Odessanean Yearbook (Odessa, NY)

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OLD JOKES Listen torthis one. Would you believe it possible? Mrs.' Shelton - Walter, if you don't behave I shall pond a note to your father. Walter - You'de letter not. Ma’s as lealous as a caw. Mi dnight The jahifers coy, a negro, was called midnight. He didn't mind this by his white friends. But one day when a buy of his own color said, 1 nelj.©, Midnight , Midnight remarked, Shut up! fou're just about a cu order to twelve yourself. One day Prof, stopped at the side of a field where Stanley Buck (Seeley's baby Erothcr) was hoeing corn. Prof, said, Your sern looks kind of yellow . Buck - Yes sir, that's the kind we planted . Frof. - It doesn't look as if you would get rr.ore than half of a crop . Buck - rdon't expect to. The landlord gets the other half. Prof. - There isn't much difference b t”-ncn you and a fool . Buck - Only a fence . What would happen if - Jay Hino rew a double chin? k Wayne Fitch re mired a bachelor? All committees appointed functioned? Ralph Sydney developed an affinity fo women? Bob Bale .irri-te: that he didn't know everything? Art Jack so:, should remain unheard one whole minute. V e had beautiful weather for the Senior Trip-

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The Red Gross It was on a hot sultry afternoon in June 1859 lust after the battle of -.1 ferine that Henri Dunant, a young Swiss n..opc:.eu to oe travelling across the battlef.u;id- tis neart was by “he agonizing crie s of the wounded end he ciiuld no o bear to go away and leave toe.' on their sui.ej-ng without at least trying to do something ior -hem. He went to a neighboring Ita i enviiiage and persuade, a number of women to go baoK to the battlefield d help him care for the men there, they cared foi friend and foe alike, bathinf and dressing their wounds, Xrrying water for those 0 «« thirsty and cheerrng the downhearted. .. All of this left a great impression on his mind. So he wrote a pharaplef which desorobed one horrors of this battlefield and at the tame time made a plea for an organization to protect and care .or wounded souSrsrS the time of for. fie and an international conference -.fas held m 1 do4 at Geneva. At this conference treaty called “'The Red Cross rctiuy • 9 -® organization of the first Red Gross Society. To Clara Barton belongs the story of the birth of the Red Cress in America and re must remember t xa she succeeded where two able atatesmsn had failed. The United States minister to pwitzerland had the United States to join the Geneva Trea-y during Civil War as early as 1634. Then after I860, Dr. Hen.y W. Bellows', who was at the time 9n?.P£2Sial . . -the Sanitary Commission of the Civil War oried f-years to secure the recognition ana auopti n c a treaty in the United dates. But even he could not overcome the national indifference of the t.e-tnen of this subject . ,a, .a 4 +n t v-, In the fall of 1869, Clara Barton decided to ta e trio abroad for her healtr., and it was during hor stay in Switzerland that she came in tcuchwith some of the International Committee 0, the Gross. From them she learned about the organization and « of the Rs(d Cross in that country, which impressed her very much. Inspired and. enccurag-c. by -- • . that committee and their wora, she , ''V “ '» + return home end organize an American Red Gjoss. At first her efforts were very unsuccessful but she kept up her courage and perseverence and finally 0 March 1, 1388 President Arthur signed the treaty - and the United States became a member of the Int„ national Red Cross.