Palmer Institute Starkey Seminary - Echo Yearbook (Starkey, NY)

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.2-rr' I X .4 ELI I '--4-,.- I GUI. Fourteerzilzz VVe, Paul VVarner and Charles Corwith, do relinquish our membership to the IVIerry IVhistlers , and do give our positions to Rodman Robinson and Lewis Radley. Fifteenth: I, Edith De Ryder, do affectionately bequeath to my beloved roommate, Jean Honsberger, my amazingly energetic ability for good housekeeping. Sixteenth: I, Alice Voorhees, hand down to Glenn Boyce my gift for music, with the profound hope that it will help him to get some music in his music. Sewnteentlzz I, Marietta llllould, do give my beloved roommate, Amy Bailey, this goodly advise: Now in your youth is the time to curb your great propensity for talking and behaving in a boisterous manner. Remember the perfect model I was in these respects and act accordingly. Eighteenth: I, Harold Hankey, do give to all coming generations of Starkeyites, my great sympathy for all their troubles. Had 'um once myself. Nineteenth: I, Lewis Gicker, do give this consoling thought to Lewis Radley: You won't have such a powerful and successful rival for the feminine heart, in the future. Go to it, old man! Tztwzlirtlzz I, Virginia Grifling, bequeath one of my dresses to Kathleen Carmen, with the hope that she will eventually Ht it. Tzumzty-First: I, Edith De Ryder, leave fond memories to Buddy Corwith. Tfwenty-Seconzlz We, the young women of the Senior Class, bequeath to the younger set, the consoling thought that now that our dazzling attractions are removed from the scenes of dance and battle, they will stand more chance in many ways. Tzuenly-Third: We, the young men of the Senior Class, do console the male ,sex with the satisfying thought that now that we are deceased, they will come up in the estimation of the fair sex and achieve proportions of importance unhoped for when we, their superiors, were in our hey day! Tuwziy-Fourtlz: VVe, as a class, do bequeath to our Alma lylater undying love, faithful loyalty and gratitude. Lastly: VVe hereby appoint IVIr. Charles Sutphen, who has done so much for each of us, Executor of this, our Last VVill and Testament, and direct him to see that each and every portion thereof is carried out to the fullest extent, he to serve without compensation other than our love, hereby revoking all former Wills made by us. In Witness Whereof, we have set our hands and affixed our seals, at Starkey Seminary, this twenty-seventh day of June, in the Year of Our Lord, one thousand, nine hundred and twenty-eight. THE CLASS OF 1928 Signed, sealed and delivered in the presence of Pearl R. Fuller Cameron Itlorrison W 1, tg- W Tzventy-ffve

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4 . I Q NNN ff! 0 3112151 ill tmh UPKTHIUPHT YVe, the Senior Class of Palmer Institute-Starkey Seminary, of the Village of Lakemont, in the County of Yates and State of New York, being of sound mind and memory, not acting under duress, menance, frail or undue influences, do make, publish and declare this our Last VVill and Testament in manner folflowing, that is to say: First: VVC desire that all our just debts and funeral expenses be paid. Second: VVe do hand down to the Class of '29, our superintelligence, grieving as we do so that they, in all certainty, will never reach the high standard set by the departing intelligentia. Third: We, the Senior Class, do will to the present Sophomore Class, our benedic- tion and blessing, to do with as they see fit. Fourtlzz To the Freshmen we bequeath our ideals and love for Sunday School. lyiay they reach maturity as pious as even we are. Fifth: To our dearly beloved teachers we give consolation for the loss of such lights of genius and the hope that they may meet our equals in the future, Sixth: I, Edith Graham DeRyder, do give and bequeath to Kathleen Carmen, Willard Kent and Cameron lVIorrison, my scholastic aptitude, and may they live to reap the benefits thereof. Sewnllzz I, Paul XfVHfHC1', at my decease, do bequeath to Charles Chayes and Rodman Robinson my reputation as a steady and conscientious worshiper at the alter of one true love. Eight: I, Virginia Ballentyne Griffing, do give my great knowledge of how to ac- quire male admiration to Clara Taber, and I also donate to this apt and deserv- ing pupil my dancing abilities and may she profit thereby. Ninth: I Charles Frank Corwith do hand down to Cameron Nlorrison m en avin , 1 1 n , 1 n n n y g E g personality and my ability to arouse the spirit of mirth in other mortals. Tenlh: I, Elizabeth Crissey, do bequeath my steadying influence to Lewis Radley, and may he grow to the idealistic manhood he promises now in his youth. Elefventlzz I, Harold Hankey, do give my love for athletics and religious festivities to the Rinky Dink Club of Starkey. Tzuelfth: I, lVIarietta lVIould, do relinquish my sceptical and faintly sarcastic grin in favor of Ida Diehl and Elsie Bauer, and may these two find it as effective and useful as I, the deceased, have found it. Tlzirleenih: I, Lewis Gicker, do bequeath my lordly mien and Beau Brummel air to John Potter, with the advise, See'st thou a man diligent in bettering his appearance, he shall stand before kings. Tufenty-four

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.e lgrnphrrg The poor reporter certainly has a tough time of it, running around town try- ing to obtain some vestige of news and then having to write it up so as to engage people's interest. It is a lucky day when he does not find it necessary to use all his art to do this, whenevery interview is interesting in itself. Judging by this standard, this had been my first really lucky day in 1938, and here it is October. The luck began early when I took up my pencil at that famous trial which for the last month had been absorbing all New York's interest. A glance around me disclosed no anxious faces, merely hopeful ones and resigned ones. There never had been much doubt as to the outcome of any case in which lVIarietta F. Mould, Ll.D., consented to 'take sides.' It was a real sensation, after the expected verdict had been given, to feel the friendly hand-clasp of this old school-mate, recently become so famous and influential. I descended the court house steps and hopped a buss up-town to the new memorial hospital where Lewis W. Gicker, that revoluntionary among modern surgeons, had just performed his most successful operation. Fame had not changed him, but suc- cess had developed in him a distinguished professional manner. When finally we left the field of his labors, it was together. He had explained a luncheon engagement with a mutual friend, and with a new-found generosity had asked me to go along. It was a short walk to one of the older hotels with a famous grill. We waited on the balcony--a few moments only, until a young woman of unique charm ap- proached, followed by several persistent young cubs. Clearly, it was inevitable that this much-discussed young novelist should create quite a stir wherever she went. Just one publication had been made under the name of Virginia Ballentyne Grifhng, and that is just what you would have expected-a clever, original novel, showing much thought with little effort. If Ginny never worked very hard, it was because she didn't ever have to. You're going to the game, too, of course. Of course! Then we'd better step on it. We're going to meet Chuck Corwith and go up with him. Oh, I forgot, he has to come all the way from Brooklyn. In spite of the distance, it was not long before he showed up, witty and wise as ever, looking a trifle bored, perhaps, but every inch a man who put everything into life and got a lot out. Chuck had become a great leader in the business world, as everyone always knew he would, with that head and that disposition. Then Coach Harold Hankey put in his appearance. Time had subdued neither his fiery red hair. l-lankey always did know his athletics, but there must have been more to it than that, judging from that team he turned out. No wonder all the big colleges in the country are trying to obtain his services! pi! Twen fy-six