Penn Yann Academy - Key Yearbook (Penn Yan, NY)

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GENERAL QUESTION. 'WI'D'S BEEN MJRDERED, ANYHONT' BEFORE ANYOIE HAD HAD THE TINE TO ANSWER, BETTY CCMSTOGC, NATIONAL I'EAD OF THE RED CROSS IURSES, RJSHED ACROSS TI-E ROW. HER PROFESSIONAL EYE HAD NOTICED SIGNS WHICH THE OTHERS HAD FAILED TO SEE--BLOOD ON THE PRESlIINT'S SHOULDER, FOR INSTANCE. 'SrE'S NOT BREATHINGV, SHE SAID. TIEN, AS TI-E WOWD WAITED BREATHLESS, FOR PER JUDQAENT, SHE SAID, IS TI-ERE A DOCTOR IN TI-E HOUSEII' EVERYOIE MADE WAY FOR OR. RICHARD LORD, KNOWN AS IEW YORKIS BEST HEART SPECIALIST. 'I AGREE , HE SAID. 'SHE IS DEAD . CHAPTER I I RAIN WAS FALLING AS THE PROCESSION LEFT TI-E WHITE HOUSE. NEWSPAPERMEN WERE INTERVIEWING THE DISTRICT OF CC- LUMBIA CORONER, MARIAN LAMPHERE, WHO ANNOUNCED THAT HER AUTOPSY HAD PROVED GINCLUSIVELY THAT THE PRESIINT WAS DEAD. MISS LPMPHERE, KNOWN AS ONE OF OUR BEST 'QJT-UPS , THEN FLUFFED OUT HER HAIR AND POSED FOR THE PRESS PFDTOGRAPHERS, WILLIAM WALL AND AMY ALEXANDER. MEANWHILE THE NATIONIS MOST SUCCESSFUL PRIVATE DETECTIVE, 'SHERLOG4' MCGRAW, HAD STARTED AN INTENSIVE HUNT FOR TI-E NURDERER. AIDED BY HIS ASSISTANTS, JEAN 'WATSON' WASHBURN AND GENEVIEVE J. EDGAR' JAMES, HE WAS INTERVIEWING WITNESSES AT THE FUNERAL ITSELF. ABOVE THE VOICE OF TIE REVERAND EDNALD STAPE INTONING THE PRAYERS, SHONGIRL YVONNE FREY, WHO WON NATIONAL FAME WITH PER BEAT NEWARK SNAKE DANCER, WAS HEARD PROTESTING, I KNOW NOTHING ABOUT IT . TAKING BUBBLES' FREY'S WORD FOR IT, THE INVESTIGATOR PROCEEDED TO THE NEXT WITNESS TO THE SHOOTING, BETTY FRIED, VOCALIST FOR 'YOUR HIT PARADE . 'WHEN DID YOU FIRST NOTICE TI-E DECEASED WAS DECEASED? , HE ASKED. 'WI-EN THE FUNERAL STARTEDU, CAME THE LOGICAL REPLY. SUDDENLY TI-E VOICE OF MARY JAIE MILLER, THE ORIGINAL 'AUNT MARY OF RADIO, BROKE IN, SOBBING. IMNEDIATELY TI-E PEAD OF THE COLLINS' LITTLE LLMBAGO PILLS CORP., ELLEN COLLINS, RUSHED OIER OFFERING MARY A PILL. MARGUERITE D: WATERS, ENERGETIC VICE-PRESIDENT OF THE SANE CORPORATION, WAS HASTENING TO THE SCENE WHEN DETECTIVE WASHBURN STEPPED IN. 'WHAT DO YW KNOW ABOUT TI-E HISINESS? , SHE ASKED THE UNFORTUNATE MISS MILLER, WHO BURST INTO A FRESH SOB, AC- CEPTING THE HANUKERCHIEF SILENTLY HELD OUT TO PER BY SENATOR WILMA DENNISTON. SUMNIONING TWO NEARBY POLICEIVEN, ALBERT AND ALVIN FREDERIKSEN, THE DETECTIVES RUSHED MISS MILLER TO TI-E COURTHOJSE FOR A QUIZ. THROUGH IT ALL MARGARET MORSE KEPT PLAYING THE FUNERAL NUSIC, WHICH WAS ONE OF THOSE WEST TUNES OF ALL' WHICH HAD JUST MADE SUCH A HIT AT MISS MORSEIS CARNEGIE HALL RECITAL. IT WAS, IN FACT, TI-E 'CAMP CORY CONCERTOU, BY IERMIA MATTESON AND CAROL WINEGARD. TI-E FUNERAL WAS A GREAT SUCGSS, REPORTED ELLEN BARRUS AND ELOI SE JAYNE, WHO HAD TI'E HOT DOG CONCESSION. CHAPTER I I I IT WAS NIGHT AT THE COURT HOUSE. THE POLICE HAD JUST FINISHED QUIZZING TFE LAST WITNESS, MARGUERITE INGRAHAM, FAMED AS THE FIRST WOMAN TO SWIM THE ATLANTIC DEAN. GLENN COUTT, THE FINGERPRINT EXPERT, HAD JUST TURNED IN HIS REPORT. THE DETECTIVES, BAFFLED, INSISTED THAT THE ENTIRE PARTY RETURN TO THE WHITE FDUSE FOR A REENACTMENT OF TIE CRIIIE. LED 'BY THE SECRETARY OF STATE, JAMES WOODARD, AND HIS UNDERSECRETARI-ES, MAE SISSON AND NORMA NEWBY, THEY TROOPED BACK UP PENNSYLVANIA. AVENUE. AS JUNE ANDERSON, I-EAD OF THE NAVYIS SUBMARINE CONMAND, REMARKED TO HARRIET BROWN, HEAD OF THE WEPT's KWOMENIS EXTRA PARATROOPERSJ, 'ITIS A TERRIBLE WASTE OF TINE. ARRIVING AT TI-E WHITE HOUSE, THEY DISWVERED GENERAL ELECTRICIS STAR SCIENTISTS, WINIFRED JOHNSON AND JANE BUCK- LEY, WHO HAD BEEN SO ENGROSSED IN THEIR DISCJSSION OF MAE FINNUVORE'S NEW THEORY OF RELATIVITY THAT TI-EY HADNIT EVEN NOTIED THE NURDER OR THE PASSING OF TINE. LET'S BEGIN AT THE BEGINNINGW, SUGGESTED JOAN FLYNN, FOUNIR OF THE FLYNN DATE BUREAU, USING SCME OF TI-E UN- SI-IAKABLE LOGIC SHE HAD ACQUIRED IN MR. CHALLISIS CI.ASSES. ATTORNEY-GENERAL WILBUR, WHO WSIS TAKING OVER TI-E CASE PERSONALLY, GLARED STERNLY AT BARBARA WOOD AND DOROTHY ALLEN, STARS OF THE PICTURE 'DOUBLE STRAWBERRY B.OND , WHO WERE WHISPERING IN A WRNER. AS HE STARTED TO SPEAK. I-E WAS AGAIN INTERRUPTED, THIS TIIVE BY A WOLVERINE HONL. SEEING THAT IT WAS ON.Y JUNE CRANE, THE FAMOUS ANIMAL IMITAP TOR, HE CONTIMJED HIS SPEECH. 'SOME OF YOU HAVE PROFITED BY THIS MURDER. FOR INSTANOE, THE ARTIST, ESTHER OLSEN, IS ALREADY PLANNING A MJRAL ON 'THE DEATH OF A PRESIDENTN. THIS NURDER WILL ADD TO HER FAIVE. EVERYONE KNOWS THAT MARY NORTHRUP IS ALREADY RE- CEIVING MONEY FOR PER STORY IN IIATH MAGAZINE, CALLED 'I SAW CLEO FALL . LEWIS BRAMEN AND CHARLES DECKER HAVE WRIT- TEN TI-E TOP HIT TUIE OF TODAY, MURDER , AND IT ONES ITS SUCCESS TO THIS CRIME. DID YOU DO ITT , HE SHOUTED, SUDDENLY OONFRONTING SUPRBIE COURT CHIEF JUSTICE, DON FINGAR, WHO HAD JUST EN- TERED THE ROOM, ACMWPANIED BY ASSOCIATE JUSTICES DICK HYLAND, MARGARET STRATTON, VIRGINIA FLYNN AND ORLIIE CARL. NO , SNAPPED BACK JUSTICE FINGAR, COURAGEOUSLY. 'DID YOUT' JUST TI-EN DORIS AND FLORENCE ELLING, THOSE TWO QUEENS OF TI-E RADIO, ANNOUNCED THEIR OWN IDEA FOR SOLVI NG THE NURER MYSTERY. TIEY STARTED SINGING THEIR THENE SONG, ERWIN ROBINSONIS WHILEMINA, THE WELDERII, AND SAID TMT TI-EY WOULDN'T STOP SINGING UNTIL SOMEONE OONFESSED. IT WAS SHIRLEY CAMPBELL, CPEF OF THE RITZ IN NEW YORK, WHO BROUGHT THEM FOOD AS THE HOURS DRAGGED ON WITHOUT A CONFESSION. IT WAS LLOYD INGRAM, PRESIDENT OF THE INGRAM 'IYOU MAKEHD4' FURNITURE COMPANY, WHO BROUGHT THE TIRED SINGERS CHAIRS AS THEY SANG FAR INTO THE MORNING. EVERYONE KNEW IT COULDNIT GO ON MUCH LONGER. SUDDENLY A PEAL OF MAD LAUGHT ER SOUNDED FROM TI-E END OF THE ROCWI. GERALD MAoBETH BARDEN, TORTURED TO TIE BREAKING POINT BY HIS CXJNSCIENE, LEAPED TO HIS FEET. l DID IT , HE SHOUTED. TI-E IITECTIVES NODDED. TI'IEY SHOULD HAVE KNOWN IT WOULD BE THE 'GREAT WOMAN HATER' WHO WQJLD DO TI-E WED- 21+

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P R OPMIZI ECY WITHIN THE BRILLIANTLY LIGHTED WHITE HOUSE MISS MARVA VANHISEN, THE HOUSEKEEPER, REFLECTIVELY TORE A PAGE FRN THE CALENDAR WHICH I-UNG IN THE BUTLERIS PANT RY. TOIYDRRCIW WOULD BE THE FIRST DAY OF I910, AND TONIGHT THE NEWLY- ELEOTED PRESIDENT WAS HOLDING A NEW YEARIS PARTY FOR A GROUP OF OLD FRIENDS. MARVA HJRRIED TO SEE TO ETAILS, FOR ALREADY TIE COW BELL WHICH I'lJNG AT THE FRONT DOOR HAD SOUNDED. , TIE BUTLER, BOB VOAK, RESPLENINT IN WHITE TIE AND TAILS, OPEIED THE DOOR TO,A GROUP OF OISTINGUISIED GUESTS. 'MI-IS. GERALD KNAPTON AND NRS. ROGER KNAPTON', IE ANIDUNOED. THESE TWO MATRONS, NEE AUDREY ANIRSON AND MARY ORSLEY, HAD LEFT TIEIR I-ICMES IN LONG ISI.AND TO ATTEND TIE PRESIDENTIS REEPTION. TIEY HAD SCARELY ENTERED WHEN THEY WERE SWEPT ASIDE BY PETERSON AND ALLEN, WHOSE OOLLMN, 'TIE WASHIIGTON FERRIS-WIEEL', WOULD NEXT DAY REPORT TIE PARTY. WHILE ETTY PETERSON VENT TO PER INTO THE PANTRY, LEWIS ALLEN STARTED INTERVIEWING TIE NEXT ARRIVALS, TIE VICE- PRESIDENT, DONALD DAGGETT, AND WANTED TO BE---A VERY PERSONAL SUDDENLY ALLEN LEFT TI-IEW, AS TI-IE MAN WHO PUT PENN VAN ON MOVED ON TO TIE NEXT ARRIVALS, HIS SECRETARY, RUTH FETTERMAN. SAID MISS FETTERMAN, 'AT LAST--WHAT IIVE ALWAYS SECRETARY'. FOR THROUGH THE DOOR HAD JUST CWE TI-IE EMINENT CARTOGRAPHER, DICK DALE, BETTER KNOWN THE MAP'. AS MR. DALE REFUSED TO DISCLOSE TIE SJBJECT OF HIS LATEST MAP, ALLEN OONGRESSWGJIEN JEAN DAVIS AND MARJORIE RJGG, M-IO AUWITTED THAT THEY WERE PLANNING TO BRING INTO THE IEXT SESSION OF CONGRESS A BILL ADVOCATING A FIFTY-THOUSAND WLLAR APPROPRIATION FOR A SCHOOL CALLED PENN YAN ACADEMY. 'IT HAS LONG BEEN A PET PROJECT OF WRS', TIEY DISCLOSED. A MAN LOUNGING IN A CORNER LOOKED UP AND MAE A NOTE OF THEIR WORDS IN HIS LITTLE BLACK MJTEBOOK. IT WAS CHARLES OAVAGNARO, A PLAIN'lOTI-ES MAN, SENT BY TIE IEAD OF TIE F. B. I., ROBERT SWANN, TO GUARD TIE GUESTS. HIS WRITING, HOWEVER, WAS INTERRUPTED BY TIE ENTRANCE OF GEYERAL EORGE SPENCER AND JEANIE EWLAND SPENCER, TIE EDITOR OF TIE 'LADIES' HONE,JOURNAL'. GENEML SPENCER SOON FELL INTO WNVERSATION WITH OONMANDER NANCY KINNE OF TIE WAACIS, WHILE JEANIE VENT TO SPEAK WITH TI-IE GLEBRATED CARTOONIST, ORSINO, WHO DID MOST OF THE DRAWIMIS IN TIE 'JOURNAL ' . LED BY PRESIDENT GORDON BORST OF KEUKA MLLEGE, TIE FAGJLTY OF KEUKA ENT ERED. LOVELY FLORENCE DART, TIE ONLY RED-HAIRED MATH TEACHER IN CAPTIVITY, WAS ESCORTED BY DAVID OGDEN, WHO, SAID PRESIDENT BORST, HAD JUST BEEN ADDED TO THE FAOJLTY TO GIVE TIE GIRLS SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT. ELEANOR ADAMS, WHO OFTEN SAID SIE OWED I-ER SUCGSS AS IEAD OF KEUKAIS CCNMERCIAL DEPARTMENT TO THE WON! SIE HAD ONCE DONE FOR THE 'YANKEE', WAS WITH JOHN SIERIDAN, JANITOR OF KEUKA. RICHARD HABBERFIELD, FMWOUS AS THE MAN WHO, SINGLEHANIID, C-IANGED KEUKA INTO A W-EIIJCATIONAL SG-IOOL, CAME WITH MARIE SEREFI NE, 'MISS AMERICA OF l95ol. suooENLv EVERYONE SNAPPED TO ATTENTION. Rose MARIE MoI.AUGILIN, ws-nom TIE PRESIDENT mo Jusr APPOINTEO AMBASSAQ non TO Moscow BECAUSE or HER KIDWLEDGE or Russnm. WHISPERED TO THE SECRETARY OF uneon, olcx EARLE, ll ALwAvs KNEW WEID HAVE A womm PRESIDENT'. FOR AT THAT MCNENT, AS SECRETARY OF TIE NAVY JEANNE MILLS SHOUTED, SHALL WE ALL SALUTE THE FLAG'I', THE PRESI- DENT ENTERED, BOWIN3 AND SAILING--G.EO SWITHOOVER. FOR A WHILE THE BRILLIANT GATHERING WAS ENGAGED IN GENERAL CXJNVERSATION, 'INTERRLPTED ONLY BY THE ARRIVAL OF MORE GUESTS. NOTABI.E AMONG THESE WERE SUSAN HENRICKS, MOTHER OF TIE FAMED SDKTUPLETS, WHOSE HJSBAND, G-IIEF LEAPING LIIZARD, WAS 'UNABLE TO ATTEND, AND JEAN GILLMOR, GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK STATE. SJDDENLY THE OJESTS RUSIED TO THE WIN- DOWS TO SEE SONE OF TIE NEW PRIVATE IELIOOPTERS, DEVELOPED BY TIE INVENTOR,DAVID OJRTISS, DROP TO TIE LAWN. THEY WERE TIE FAMOUS PYA I-II9'l. AS THEY LANOED,THE TALENTED WATSON FAMILY GOT OUT--LORRAINE NORICH WATSON, LIEUTENANT WATSON, AND THE SEVEN LITTLE WATSONS. HEADING STRAIGHT FOR THE GRAND PIANOS, TIEY STARTED PLAYING, 'OFF WE GO, INTO THE WILD BLUE YONDER', WHILE COLOIIEL CAHAEN JOI-NSON TRIED TO DROWN THEM OUT BY PLAYING, 'YOUIRE IN TIE ARMY NOW' W HIS FRENCH HORN, ASSISTED BY MAJOR RICHARD BROWN, WHO PIOKED UP A TRJMPET WHICH WAS IMNDY. THIS NUSICAL MAYIEM WAS TOO MUCH FOR Tl-E PRESIENT, WHO QJIQQLY MOTIONED TO ELSIE HOPKINS TO BRING IN TIE EN- TERTAIIERS WHO HAD GJNSENTED TO PLAY THAT EVENING. MISS HOPKINS, ONE OF THE BEST KNOWN TIEATRICAL AGENTS, HAD OB- TAI PED FOR THE EVENING TIE NOTED SQUARE DANCE BAND, CI NSI STI NG OF ELSIE MoFETRIDGE AND MARILYN MATTESON ON TIE FLEUGELHORNS, LOIS MARTIN ON TIE CLAVICHORD, GRANT CHRISTENSEN ON THE FLUTE, AND GERALD LYNN ON TI-E MOUTH ORGAN. THEIR VOCALISTS WERE WRIS FULLAGAR, WHO MADE FAMOUS TIE 'BRANCHPORT BLUES', AND EVELYN GRAY, THE 'SONGBIRD OF CRYSTAL VALLEY'. AS TIEY PREPARED TO PERFORM, A STIR WAS CREATED BY THE ENTRANCE OF THE SEWNO GRETA GARBO, DORIS BAILEY, ACGMPANIED BY PRODUCER LAWRENE VAUGHN, AND JIIMY SWANSON, LEADING MAN IN THE PICTURE, 'A DAY IN WAI.L STREET', OR 'OHI FOR THE LIFE OF A HILTON', BASED, OF CXJURSE, ON TIE CAREER OF TIE DWINENT FINANCIER, ARLEIGH HILTON IT WAS WHILE TIE MUSIC WAS GOING ON THAT THE NOTED GLAMOUR GIRL, DOROTHY SIITH, FIRST NOTICED TIE PRESIENTIS STRANGE BIPRESSION. SPEAKING TO JEAN RISSELL, THE DRESS DESIGNER WHOSE FIFTH AVENUE STORE IS KNOWN FAR AND WII AS 'CHEZ JEANNE', SHE GASPED, 'DOESNIT CI.EO LOOK A BIT STRANGE TO YWI' YES', INTERRIPTED 'GENTLBAAN BILL' CHALLIS, MIDDLEWEIGHT CI-IAIPI ON OF TIE WORLD. AT HIS WORDS, 'CWPER' CAVAGNARO SPRANG INTO ACTION. MOTIWIIG TO HIS ASSISTANT, 'FLATFIXJT' FITZWATER, WHO HAD BEN HIDMN NEAR TIE DOORWAY, IE SHOUTED, 'EVERYONE STAY WHERE IE IS. TIEREIS BEEN A MJRER CX!vMITTED'. TIE GUESTS WERE THROWN INTO GJNSTERNATION. IT WAS LGRETTA WAMR, SECRETARY OF AGRIOJLTURE, WHO VOICED TIE GENERAL QUESTION. 'WHOIS BEEN MURDERED, ANVIDW1' 23

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GRUDGING TO WOMANKIND THIS HIGIEST POSITION IN THE LAND. SAl1Y, SLOWLY, SOLEMNLY, THEY LED 'BACHELOR' BARIN UJT. IT WAS AT THIS MGENT THAT THE GOVERNOR OF IDRTH CAROLINA, KATHERINE RIBBLE, ASKED THE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH CARO- LINA, MARY JANE RUSSELL, 'ALL OUR SOHOG. MATES SEEM TO BE HERE BUT EDITH HANDLEMAN. WHATEVER HAPPENED T0 HERI' OH, DIDN'T YOU KNOWN, ANSWERED THE OTIER. 'TI-EY TOOK HER AWAY TWENTY-SEVEN YEARS AGO......JUST AFTER SHE FINISHED OUR CI.ASS PROPIEGYH HISTORY AS WE, THE CLASS OF 'I-lj, LEAVE PENN YAN ACAEMY FOR TIE LAST TIME, WE ARE EEPLY MOVED BY TIE THOUGHT OF PART- ING FROM UJR TEACI-ERS AND CLASSIIATES. BECAUSE OF TIE GREAT HISTORY THAT TIE IBABERS OF THIS NOTED CLASS HAVE MAE WE IPART WITH THE FOLLOWING RECORD OF ILLUSTRIOUS IEEDS. IN TI-E FALL OF I9I-IO, WE STARTED ON OUR ACAEIY CAREER WITH I58 IDABERS. AS OFFICERS WE ELECTED TO GJIE US IN THAT YEAR JOIN SI-ERIDAN, PRESIENT3 JOAN FLYNN, VI E-PRESIDENTg JAIE BJGCLEY, SECRETARYg AND DONALD DAGGETT, TREASURER. IN OCTOBER OF THAT YEAR, WE HELD OUR SOPHGJIORE IK? WHICH WAS THE FIRST OIE IN SONE YEARS THAT CXJULD BE CALLED A I-DP INSTEAD OF A FLOP. IN TI-E SPRING OF IQIII, WE GAVE OUR SOPHGJIORE PLAY, 'I-ER FIRST PARTY mESS', WHICH PROVED TO BE A GREAT SJCESS. TIE NEXT YEAR, WE PROCEEDED UPSTAI RS AND ELECTED JOIN SHERIDAN, PRESIENT3 JANE BJCKLEY, VI G-PRESIENTg BAR- BARA WOOD, SECRETARYg APD JOAN FLYNN, TREASURER. IN THE EARLY SPRING OF I91I2, TIE G.ASS PRESENTED TI-E JUNIW PLAYS. 'GLORIA NUNDI , 'ANTIC SPRING', AND 'HIS FIRST SHAVE' WERE HIGHLY ACCAAILED BY TIE APPRECIATIVE AUDIENCE. LATER, WE WERE SORELY OVERGIME BY THE SENIORS AT TIE ANNUAL PLAY-DAY. AFTER THEIR GRAWATION, WE GAVE TI-E JUNIOR PROJ IN HONOR OF TI-E CLASS OF 'I-I2. DIE HJNDRED AND TWO OF US, AWED AT THE THOUGHT OF ENTERING II-I9v IAT LASTIII ELECTED ARLEIGH HILTON, PRESIENTg ALBERT FREERIKSEN, VI E-PRESIDENTg ROSE MARIE MQLAUGILIN, SECRETARY, AND MARIAN LANPI-ERE, TREASJRER. WE WERE UNEER THE SUPERVISION OF MR. G4ALLIS TO WHGII WE ARE ALL GRATEFUL FOR HIS GUIDANE. IN TIE FALL, TIE G.ASS PRE- SENTED THE SENIOR PLAY, 'TIE STREET OF DREAMS', WHICH PROVED TO BE A SAASH-HIT. UJR ABLE CI.ASS ADVISORS DURING Tt-E YEAR WERE MR. OHALLIS, MISS STOWE, MISS STREETER, AND MRS. AMES. RAPIDLY SUCH EVENTS AS THE SENIOR BALL, SENIOR BANQJET, PLAY-DAY, AND REGENTS CAME ALONG, AND, AT LAST, TIE FITTING OLIMAX--BAOCALAUREATE AND GJNNENEENT. WE DO NDT FEEL THAT WE CAN END THIS RECXJRD OF THE CLASS OF 'II3 WITHWT IENTIONING THOSE IBIBERS OF OUR CLASS WHO, LNDAUNTED AND READY, HAVE LEFT TO FIGHT FOR OUR FREEDGA AND SAFETY. TIESE BOYS ARE GEORGE SPENCER, CAHEN JO!-NSON, LEWIS BRMAAN, LEWIS ALLEN AND RICHARD BROWN. TIEY HAVE PROVED THAT THEY ARE WILLING TO TRAIN AND TO FIGHT TO PRESERVE EAOCRACY IN Tl-E WORLD' THJS ENDS THE HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF '33, WHO LEAVES PENN YAN ACADBJIY WITH GLAD AND HAPPY LEMORI ES OF TIE PAST AND I-DPEFUL WTLOOKS FOR THE FUTURE. MARGARET mass 25