Rome Free Academy - De O Wain Sta Yearbook (Rome, NY)

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THE SENIOR Dr. .Angennette Parry is working among the people of the East Side, New York City, under the direction of Dr. Parkhurst’s Church. Miss Emily Halsted has returned from two years of travel and study abroad, and will spend the summer at at 109 W. Thomas street. —Miss Olive Scudder who holds a the pany of Philadelphia, will spend the position with Corbin Lock Com- month of August in Rome. —Mrs. Hattie Hunt Watt is living at 510 N. Washington street. Miss Ethel Watt teachers’ training school of Rome this month. graduated from the Miss Anne Comstock has charge of the vocal department in. Miss Ben- nett’s school, Irvington-on-the-Hudson. She also sings in the Reformed Church on 33d street, New York city. ANNUAL, 5 Miss Lillian Kilbourne of St. Louis, Miss Alida Mitchell of New York, and Miss Belle Williams of spend a part of the summer in Rome. Denver will During the year sons have arrived at the homes of Messrs. James Barnard, Allen H. Wright, Marshall Morris and Dr. Sumner Kingsley; and daughters at the homes of Messrs. Will McAdam, William White and Dr. Fred Honsinger. —Among the alumni of R.F.A. grad- uating from colleges this month are Miss Giehl from Vassar, Miss Garlick from Neff College of Oratory, Philadelphia, Miss Huff, Miss Ellis and Miss Ada Frink from Syracuse, Miss Mary Kent from Albany Normal College, Mr. Park- er Scripture, Mr. Arthur Armstrong and Mr. Harold Stevens from Cornell, Mr. Robert Nisbet and Mr. Wayne Nis- bet from Yale. The Class Row. One day last winter the freshman class, they of the nursing bottle, held a meeting, elected a president and the other figureheads of organization and in utter disregard of the time honored customs of alma mater, voted to buy class caps. On account of their extreme youth they had been treated with great leniency by the upper classes until this time, although they had become notorious for their flagrant violations of the ordinances of | this peaceful community, but this last was too much. They must be curbed. Accordingly the great upperclassmen | arose in all their majesty and issued an

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4 THE SENIOR ANNUAL. witches, sorcerers, prognosticators and necromancers, will be sorely vexed.” Woe is me if we are caught. “Of a truth,” answered Shipor, a son of there will be much haranguing of the The high will Ishmael, multitude on the morrow. priest, called Tyrannus, raise a mighty shout like unto the bellow of the bull of Bashan; his face wili grow red and purple, yea, even unto the color of the turkey’s neck, but it will avail him nothing. Brethren, our work is done; let us depart for our evening devotions.” SOPHERETH. R. F. A. Alumni R. H. S. —Miss Joyce three months abroad. —Mr. Theodore Visscher, architect, has an office in New York city. Miss Ida Revely enters Syracuse Bissell is spending University next September. —Miss Bianca Holley is doing con- cert york in New York city. —Dr. Eleanor Parry is resident phy- sician of Mt. Holyoke College. Mr. Fred Groff is assistant super- intendent of mines at Windber, Pa. Miss Edith Walker is the leading contralto in the Royal Opera, Vienna. —Miss Helen Virginia at Newport News, Va., will teach again next year. Mr. Francis Bellamy is with Silver, Burdett Co., publishers, New York City. - Miss Alice Tremain has graduated from the Kindergarten Training Class of Utica. —Miss Fanny McHarg holds a posi- tion as soloist in a church in City, Mo. —Mr. John R. Searles is superinten- dent of the Pressed Steel Car Works at Joliet, Ill. Kansas | month —Miss Fanny Ellis has passed the examination fora position in the city library of Utica. Miss Ellen Hunt who is spending two years abroad will spend the sum- mer in Switzerland. —Mr. John Morgan, is course in the Hahnemann College of Philadelphia. taking a Medical —Mr. Arthur Knight will take a po- sition as assistant state chemist at New Haven August the’first. —Miss Mabel Jones, teacher in the Institute for the Deaf of Philadelphia, will spend her vacation in Rome. —Mr. Wm. McCarthy, architect, who graduated from Lehigh in 1900 has opened an office in New York City. —Lieut.Osborne Scudder, topograph- er of Engineer corps, U.S. A., is mak- ing a map of Culion Island, Philippine Islands. —Dr. George Reid graduated from the Baltimore Medical College last and has located at North Western, N. Y. —Dr. E. Helen Hannahs, professor in Albany Normal College, will spend the summer at and Denver, Col. Mr. Edward Bright has graduated Mr. Alfred Both will Chicago University and Ethridge from Hotchkiss. enter Yale next fall. —Miss Hattie Virginia has finished a course in stenography and bookkeeping from Lawrenceville ; and will enter the Rome Hospital to be- come a trained nurse. —Dean George Hodges of Cam- bridge, Mass., will spend the summer at Holderness, Mass. A sketch of Miles Standish, from whom he is a descend- ant in direct line, appeared from his in a recent number of the New England Magazine. pen

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6 THE SENIOR ANNUAL. edict forbidding so great a calamity be- falling the school as to have the ‘ fresh- ies’’ appear with caps bearing 1905 con- spicuously on the fore. No use, they would wear the caps. On one of the balmy (?) days of March, just before the bell rung for the after- noon session, a great cloud of dust, verily like that described by Scott in his was seen approaching from ‘ Marmion,’ the vicinity of the police station. A passing hurricane wafted the cloud aside and behold, there were the freshies with set faces and 1905 caps, bearing down upon the stupefied crowd that blocked the sidewalk infront of the school. The sight of the caps to the upperclass was as a red rag to a bull and the seniors, those tried men and true, shouting at the top of their voices their rallying slogan, ‘‘Heyrube’’ formed in battle array. Words can not describe the shock that was experienced as the two masses came together. Some aver to this day that plaster was shaken from the walls of our school building but the general belief is that this happened before and was due mortar in construction. the Board has had steel ceilings placed in all of the rooms. Speaking of the shock caused by the combatants coming together, it was as to defective Since the row nothing compared to the shock which was felt by the d sturbers stalwart, brawny, bluecoated men, other- when those wise known as the Rome police, appeared upon the scene. There was a scattering and when the schoul was assembled, all was as quiet as the proverbial spring lamb, except now and then a suppressed ‘‘Ouch,’’ or the covering up ot the place which a coat button bad once occupied Occasionally a little snuffing might be heard and jesently a thing that appeared like an anarchist flag would come from the pocket of some one of the verdant Freshmen. Thus passed the class row. Notes and Comments. Those students who attended the reading classes regularly, found them to be of great interest and profit. Those who have been fortunate enough to hear the lectures on Califor- nia by Rev.J.H.Egar, D.D., have found them te be very pleasing and instruct- ive. The new urns add very much to the If the students would exercise more care and appearance of the front lawns. would keep on the sidewalks the grass would have an opportunity to grow. Each year the D. A.R. offer a prize for the best oration and for the best certain This year more stu- essay written upon assigned historical subjects. dents competed than ever before. This increasing interest must be very grati- fying to the ladies. We stage will be erected in the assembly hall. The large enough for one to stand upon, all hope that next year a new one we now have is not without being in danger of falling off. We ought to have one three times as large as the present one. The one thing necessary to make the assembly room perfect, is a new refer- Those who have to use the that it is both crowded books ence table. old one, find Reference and inconvenient. need care. Students look upon them as common property, to use as they see fit. If large, well ordered tables were provided, and the books were replaced in position after being used, the real value of the reference table would be more apparent to the students.