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

Text from Pages 1 - 80 of the 1918 volume:

E 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL 5 STAFF UAL N OR ANN SE 1 1. THE SENIOR ANNUAL ROME N Y CLASS DAY JUNE 73 1918 Nflfff? 00 f0.0f4Y N03 WHAT V011 CAN PU 7' Off wvm. rom 09420 LV BRIQF Z1 Mm 1 HARRY F RILE EdlfOI'lI1Q,111Lf STAFF HARRILT KDAMS Nl XRQARLT WALLIS MABEL CARROLL HAROLD R XTHBOWE BEATRICE TOW 'WSEND XX ILLI XM TlE'I ZE DOROTHY WALDO W ARD TY LER MADONNA KNOXVLFS Cartoonlst MERRITT D BRADT Business Mana er MAURICE. LEVIYE ASS1Stant Business Manager 7 If J A., ' L f O -X -W I Y v - , - - A .. 1 1. , I I , X ! I r I .1 w Y N w . lV,f X Pi -1 iff , 1- v Y ,4- wf E ,, Y -- - H, 1 N . . X . A f f 3 . . , .1. ..-- - V- I x - v. 5 1 .- ' .1 T V, x I - 1 v . 4 Y . . , g X . . 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' THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Photos by McClusky Harriett Eugene Adams ln soclety or learmnv she excels Lxttle ln stature but oh my' Harrlett IS sure some worker especlally a a member of the Staff ln her school work she goes over the top and then some However this does not keep her from belng ln the mldst of fun Good sport l ll say Member of Staff Elsie May Cas Baker For she was yes the qulet kind Whose natures never vary l..1ke streams that keep a summer mlnd Snowhld ln enowary lqlsle besldes attendlng to her lessons has time fo wrxte many letters especlally the slxth period I wonder lf they are ever Red Elsxe do you reallze what excitement you caused thls year by your many phone calls3 Oh' lsn t love wonderfull Carroll McCloskey Bates All vlrtues deserve a crown but modesty over shadoweth them all nshhooks you may know that Bates IS m the V1 c1n1ty Behold hlm fellow countrymen thls IS the fellow who ran away with the Slmgerland Second Pnze Never mmd old man you deserved xt 'Vlany tlmes has he swayed the mmds of the Senior Class with flawless loglc and translucent speech He IS e pecnally noted for bemg a member of that first perlod Vlfgll class Second PYIZC Boys Slmgerland Glrls Prophet Merritt DeL1nton Bradt Bradhen The wlld and wooly West has no terrors for me ust scan your eyes over thls undeveloped piece of protoplasm As busmess manager of The An nual Memtt sure IS some worker Among his re markable remarks are l hooked hum for an d but he threw me over However he deserves much credlt as a busmess man and has done much to make The Annual a success Busmess Manager of Annual Treasurer f Class 10 'l s H ' ' ' ' , ' s If you should by chance hear ye gods and little 1 . . . . . 1- ,, . s Q , ' . A 1 : u . aa 'I JK ' - 0 THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Catherlne Brodock Bllly Then she wlll talk Ye Gods how she wlll talk Bllly has recently moved to the blg Clty of Rome so we can see more of her We hear she IS a falry on skates' lVlethlnks thls falr damsel has many lovers Cutef Well ya bettcha llfe' A ml hty good llttle classmate IS she 'md we are glad she he lon s to Class I8 Hllda Margaret Burkard Burkle None but herself can be her parallel No Hllda couldn t flunk an exam lf she trled Lessons however do not take all her tlme for her frlends would not have lt o Look out boys Burkle IS stlll looklng for a perfect man and well she deserves one Mabel Dorothy Carroll May Stlll water runs deep She sure does llke to take long walks but very partlcular who wlth Oh Bettyl Not heard very often but can t be stopped when she gets started Some artlst' Can draw a crowd ln a few mlnutes Mabel IS never at a loss for words ln classroom Says It ISD t necessary to know somethlng ln order to talk about It Nlabel IS some glrl l ll sayl lVlen are the least of her troubles Member of Staff Allce Conley The sllence that IS ln the starry sky Alas poor glrl methlnks you ve lost your tongue but never mlnd some day lt may come roamlng back to thee Frlends lf you wlsh to learn of the future Play Ground ln West Rome just mentlon the subject to AIICC and l dare say you wlll not need to lnqulre further She certamly has the wel fare of the clty at heart 11 Photos by 'vlcClusky Y Y ' H ' H v.. 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Y . 1 A THE 1918 SENIIOR ANNUAL Photos by McC1usky Helen Evans Dutch Good thlngs dont always come ln llttle packages Ah here we have another welghty Semor Good fun too Levlne thanks so doesnt he Helen3 Dutch halls from the North around Western you know What would we do wlthout her g1ggle3 It cheers up the most solemn Ruth J Evans Toots ' Better late than never Ruth who IS that black haired boy who tralls around after you like a dog3 We must confess R th lS a magnet among men One of her latest hobbies rs to collect Sap Toots IS one of our bramy classmates and mlght have been valechctorlan lf there hadnt been another Ruth Cheer p Toots you ll wln fame somewhere Wllllam Harold Evans Deak Now ladles and gentlemen we demand your at tentlon ID presentmg this long legged toothpick Deak sure IS the most bashful boy 3 ID our class O my' how he can blush Nevertheless he IS qulte a mathematlc shark ln slxth penod Trng class he reached the zemth of hls fame Deak IS also an mventor l-le has lnvented a new carburetor or hrs Burck whlch he clalms will run wlth skunk oxl thereby savmg gasolme for war purposes Gladys Mary Gxfford When the mind IS free the body IS dehcate Possessed of a cute face and one of the cutest blts of mtellect m R F A Note the word blts The other slde of the Study l-lall has no attractlon whatever for Gladys 12 1 Q cc so l VI - 1 , . , , . 3 1 , fi' v .ljlifglik f so 1 Q , 1 1 .. .- I . - . . 5 , i. , I Y YL, ' I 1 ,, I . . .. H . in ' W, . . . . , ,, h U e . - u , l I I , . ' ' ' u sr I . . , - ' g 1 1 0 v - a ll li . c D 0 I 1 . , . . , I I ' Q li II I. . - 9 I f . 1 ' ' . .. . . . . .1 sr 1 . . . .. . n 1 QM THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Adelalde Gertrude Hyde Gert1e Tho conquered she could argue stlll Lo and behold do you all reallze what we have ln thls two legged DICCC of protoplasm3 Gertle ls one of our shlnlng llghts You know you can t beat the Dutch l-lalll Hall' For Ye Campflrel Gladys Athalle Ingalls Her knowledge hld from publlc gaze She does not brlng to vlew Nor make a pursult after pralse As many people do Gladys IS a good falthful member of Class I8 Though not talkatlve she IS popular and well llked by all Perhaps he s ln France who knows? Adelalde Mara Jones Com She walks the water llke thlng of llfe And seems to dare the elements to Stflfe Ah ha the coy amourous darllng TIS well that she has come for what would we be wlthout her laugh and her smlle3 Demure and gentle as she IS wont to appear ln photograph she IS a raglng volcano when she IS aroused to anger Beware boys glrls and others she IS qulte a creature when she IS on the warpath l-lowever Adelalde as a composlte whole IS a llkeable and charmlng ass Her strlng of vlctlms would make an lndlan war rlor blush ln envy What ho the llfe boats long Corn Rut Seymour Klngsley ' Ruthie They are never alone that are accompanled wlth noble thoughts Here IS one of the brllllant students of the class Please do not mlstake my meanlng shes not a grlnd but enjoys frlvollty as much as anyone. Late- ly she has had more than the usual amount of in- terest in the other side of the study hall. l wonder who he is? Don t worry Ruthie we ll never tell. Valedictorian. Recitation l-lonor. Vice Presi- dent of Class. 13 41251112 Photos by Vlcfslusky THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL 'Yr' Photos by McC1usky Mane Loulse Haas Mary Some are born great some achreve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon em Another one ln our class from the Vvorld of Bralns It must seem wonderful to have so much l-tnowledffe all at once lVlar1e has been a falthful member of the class and has always done her part ID all our undertakmgs Great thmvs are ln store for you yet Mane Thxrd Academlc Honor Blanche Mellssa Hawkins Do you want to know the latest war news3 Ask Blanche she follows It closely for you know glrls she IS mterested This glrl IS a shark ln most every thlng Great thmgs may be expected from our poet Class Poet Loulse Margaret Hertle Sllence rs golden An angellc llttle thing She was a shrewd phllospher And had read every text and glossover What e er the crabbed st author salth She understood b lmpllclt falth Whatever skeptlc could mqulre for For every why she had a wherefore Fourth Academlc Honor Lula Bell House Belreve me lf glgglmg had anythmg to do wlth It Lula would be a wonder She IS endowed wxth that PTCCIOUS grft o gal: and can swmg a good bluff oo She can t sxt stall or go without a wad of gum l deed what a rare comblnatlonl 14 , , ' 4 ' ' 66 77 L ' I ti! 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Tl-IE 1918 SENIOR ANINLAL Madonna Knowles Donna Happy am l from care l m free Why ar n t they all contented like me3 Donna sure has had her troubles but still retains her good humor Why should she bother shell get algebra some day Donna not only wields the racket well but is clever with the brush and pen Class Historian Cartoomst Senior Annual Staff Hazel Mlllward Lambert Hee Hee Then IS there mirth ln heaven Cupid has taken her heart and given it to a certaln young sailor so it is rumored The r1ng5 Oh yes Hazel is quite sure of never being an old maid any way Lucky girl' Frank Lederfiend Leder Hail to the wrestler' Frank is our all around athlete and take it from us what Leder lacks in his studies he sure does make up on the wrestling mat Woe to the man who tackles Leder Frank 18 a left over but nevertheless we are proud to have him among us and we congratulate him on his wise choice to graduate with the class of l9I8 The Best Class Yet' Maurice Levine All things have a small begmning ln this mere speck of human existence the gods have wrought great things Thats why he is a member of the staff He was captured in some obscure place and brought to R F A a little over a year ago believe me we were lucky He IS some tickler of the typewriter and a good student too but if yah want ta live don t mention mathlmatics Assistant Business Manager 15 Photos by N4cClusky -TH 1, 1 . . - T P . . 2 3 te i ' in n I . . . 1 Originator of the simile 'flute-like laughter, . . . . 1 :C 7, : ' , ' .1 . . . , THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Photos by Mcisluslty Bemlce Dletrlch Martin Silence IS a great vlrtue among women Bernice IS one of our brightest SCHIOIS one of those who have made our dear class I8 what It IS She showed what he was made of when she captured one of the academxc honors We thunk everybody will agree that she deserved lt too A far as IS known Bernice has nothxrg whatever to do wlth the male but who can tell she may sud denly change and then oh boys' Flfth Academic Honor Mrldred Morgan The mlldest of manners and the gentlest of hearts The Class of I8 has an advantage over all other classes m R F A It has Mnldrecl as one of its members She IS so qulet that you wouldn t know she was near but when It comes to lessons watch out or she will put one over on you As far as we know she IS not lnterested to the sllghtest degree ln the western dlVlSl0D of the Study Hall Phyllis Rose Mnttenmaler Phyl She has spoken wlse saymgs that might have Issued from the mouth of an oracle Here ns Phyllis but lt s too bad Lllllan xsn t here too You know they are quite chums Say but she can talk She holds the record for havmg her name taken the most tlmes durmg study periods ust the same we hate to loose her She IS a good student a Jolly good fnend and an excellent fellow classmate She IS justly deservlng of the tltle R F A Class 18 Member of Wlggler and Grggler ASSOCl3tlOH Rose Louise Peters Posy She rs so tall that a httle goes a long ways Rose seldom glances at the opposite slde of the room but perhaps there are attractions elsewhere l Ohio perhaps How about xt Rose'-1 She always has her lessons and can always reclte 16 i . n 1 nl - V1 - I i . i . Q 1 ' ' . s Q , . s I 4 il I1 1 S' v -Q - 1 V ' n 1 - ' A i 1 ,Rf . rf-1 ' Q V n 1 l 1 IA 1 jj A Y 1 . i . . . . . . y , ..- .. . .. , . g ' . . . l 4 s ! f . . . . ,, W ' ' ' ' if 99 , , n ' 7 y . , ' ll If l . n I , . v ' . . 1 , , THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Wlllard Racha What manner of man IS thls3 When It comes to blushlng Vvlllard has the art down to perfectlon He IS always at lt Never mlnd thls IS the mlghty man from Westernvllle It has been Sald that he can lnduce a weed to glve up all worldly struggles by pure force of argument l-le IS an undaunted explorer lnto the dlm dark recesses of knowledge and has the malclngs of a p0lltlClaI'l l-lls motto IS better late than never Evelyn Welllngton Randolph Evelyn has not been wlth us very much thls year but we are mlghty lad she IS graduatlng along wlth She s blg ln stature and blg ID heart She can drlve a Dodge too Harold Arthur Rathbone ln the lexlcon of youth whlch fate reserves for a brlght manhood there IS no such word as fall ness appears opposlte IS our Presldent We must not wax frlvolous when deallng wlth hls blography He IS a fiend at studylng and lt IS a common and regular slght to see hlm wendlng hls lntelllgent way home laden wlth a whole llbrary for an evenlng s SCSSIOD Member Eclltorlal Staff Presldent of the Class f l9l8 Oratorlcal Honor Slxth Academlc l-lonor Harry Franklln Rlce Pud To be a well favored man IS a glft of fortune ln thls exhlblt we offer for your lnspectlon and perhaps your approval the graceful edltor of thls book BCSldCS hls rare ll'lgCnlOUS ablllty ln yournallsm he IS a prlze wlnner and a publlc orator and hls uncanny manner of boldly faclng any and all lclnds of audlences and faces IS somethlng to be hold l-le IS a motorlst of a tenaclous nature and drlves an anclent Allen excluslvely l-le frequently lnvades forelgn terrltory for new femlnlne hearts to capture So you see l-larry Franlclln IS some boy even lf he IS our edltor and soclety man Edltor ln Chlef of Senlor Annual Wlnner flrst prlze Slmgerland PTIZC Contest 11 Photos by McClusky , Q A . i A F425 ' i UEVH us, . .5 . . . . . I ' . - H If I , Hush! The stern, prim youth, whose exact like- V k . 1 u O L l 0 - . . . . Q ' ' it ll 77 K W .. . . .. . . - i . ' , 1 Q y . . ' I . . . . ' K I . -. - . . . - 41 1. l 1 A THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Photos by McClusky Helena Roth And when once the young heart of a malden IS stolen The malden herself wlll steal after It soon Here IS one of the patrlotlc members of our class who condescended to leave our soclety thls sprlng ln order to do her blt on the farm Now we may all be sure of not starvlng next wlnter Dld you ever see Helena wlthout lVlyrlck3 No you never Clld for It slmply could not be Earl Scothon Scothle Here IS the pralse that comes to but few Ever ln earnest and all true blue Anyone here want to play chess3 Yes chess IS Scothle s most favorlate game and take lt from us he IS some shark at It And when It comes to translatlng Vlrgll well we must all take a back seat He has been a typlcal student who has never a tlme to fool wlth the gentle sex yet we hear that Scothle llkes hls Plano Mover we wonder who she may be l-lls motto IS Work before play an he has llved up to thls slnce we have known lm G Alexander Slmon Count Well well look who s here ust cast your or bltS closer at thls PICCC of humanlty and mark those blue eyes and curly halr and they are real curls at that Alexs hobby IS to contradlct the marks whlch the teachers glV6 hlm but cheer up Alex the days are comlng when those brutal teachers wlll no longer torment you Alex IS steerlng for the automoblle buslness and we understand that he IS golng to sell steam automoblles Well here s wlsh lng Alex the best of luck wllllalll Albert Ernest Tletze l lll reach my goal or dle ln the attempt Thls IS the honorable Major Bowlegged lVllke who gave us such an excellent talk about hls expen ences ln the war Some say Blll IS engaged to a sweet llttle glrl ln town but no thlS IS lmposslble He doesn t llke the females at alll l l ln addltlon to hls long llst of accompllshments we mlght add the fact that he has worked hard gettlng snapshots and other photos for The Annual When he grows up Blll lntends to be a dentlst so save your teeth and let hlm pull em Member of Staff 18 . 3 .. , ' 1 - . . -f A I 1 3 . 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H 2 lg' u a, . y 1 1 - . , , . . y . . , THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Beatnce Louise Townsend Beaty She was a burning and shmmg light Let the upper lights be burning Here is one of our brightest Seniors The glrl s clever you can t beat It Beaty has lately de veloped a fondness for Welsh mortorcycles they run so smoothly Beaty claims It ISD t good for one to study too hard and practices her theory but she gets there just the same Member of Edltorlal Staff H Ward Tyler Red And he had the strength of a young calf and the wisdom of Soloman No matter how dark the nlght Vvard s headlight IS never dimmed Indeed he IS the shlnmg light of our dear old Class I8 He IS that patient pro found passive pleasmg personality that one can t help but admire He is a valuable member of the staff of the class and of our dear old R F A Member of the Staff Bemlce Kathanne Van Arnam Dlt' Our thoughts and our conduct are our own She has never given anyone much trouble but that IS not saym she never will for you all know how it sparkles Bernice IS keen on walking why not One has to get home somehow Dorothy Elenor Waldo Dot When good looks and a good personality walk hand in hand Yes here she is gentle reader the most noble Grecian of them all She has the record of throw mg over more men and getting them back again than any girl on the face of the globe Anyway Dot IS a good sport and is llked by everyone. Well here s to a happy future Dot. Winner second prize girls Slingerland. Mem- ber Editorial Staff. 19 Photos by McClusky THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Photos by McClusky Margaret Luella Wallis Peg St George that swm ed the dragon and e er SIHCC Slts on his horse back at mlne hostess door Who wrll Peg be out wrth next3 That IS a ques tnon with no answer although lately she has cen tered her attentlon on one fortunate male and l dont Blamer Peg seems to have better luck wlth the OppOSltC sex than she does with geometry But never mmd there IS always some bad rn the best of us Wmner of 2nd PTIZC ln Shngerland ln l 7 Mem ber of Staff Dorothy Karleen Walter Dot And the words that lssued from her mouth were brllllant 3 like the stars and as sharp as a knlfe Durmg our four years stay ln R F A Dorothy has graced the Class of 1918 by her presence She IS surely a valuable member of that remarkable or wlth lt pretty smoothly As far as we can see there rsnt a fellow m R F A that wlll sult her Lrllran Adelaide Wood 1 Farr klnd and true have often llved alone which three tlll now never kept seat ln one A sllght romance has affected this fair damsel lately Who would have thought that Cupid would have touched thee3 However Lllllan showed that she was made of the rlght kmd of stuff when she ran away wlth the grrls first Slmgerland prlze She IS a member of the Wlggler and Glggler As soclatron Slmgerland PYIZC Honorable mentlon Mohawk Valley Speakmg Contest In Memonam Michael MacMahon When the hand of death swept from our mldst our beloved frlend and Presldent lVl1chael lVlaclVlahon the Class of l9l8 suf fered a loss whrch can never be replaced l-le was promrnent ln every phase of school lrfe Whether nn the class room upon the athletlc field or rn socrety he played hrs role well Now that he IS gone from us forever we shall always have a warm spot rn our hearts for the memory of our own dear fnend and Presldent 20 . , ...H , 1 H U .. . 0 , , . 7 D 1 ' ' ' I IP 4 ' ' , - I , ' . i Cl ,Y ganization. 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THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL SENIOR CLASS HISTORY In the year I9 I 4 my companions and I a group of 'xdventuresome boys and glrls havlng safely escaped the horrlble sea monster Regents boarded the good shxp Qpportunxty and set saxl for the lsland of R I7 A The voyage was a pleasant one wlthout squalls or gales the future loomed up before us wxth wonderous brllllance All durlng the voyage we eagerly clnscussed this new land where we mlght exercxse what knowledge we had already gained After a voyage of about two months one of my companlons dlscovered way off ln the dlstance the dum outlme of a rugged coast A we drew near we saw that we had at last reached our destmatlon We dlsem barl-:ed from the shlp amld the tremendous cheers of the mhabltants who even 'wt that early date recognlzed our superror ablllty Xve were escorted to the palace wlth great ceremony by the natlves and then came the most dreaded ordeal of all the mtervxew wvth the ruler After thus mtervrew whatever feelmg of superlorxty we had possessed was subdued I-lere we dlscovered that we must become subjects to a natrve government governed by a tyranl cal kmg untll we galned sufhclent knowledge to govern ourselves Soon we were glven our place on the rsland and drscovered to our amazement that our group had been gxven a name Freshmen by these stmnge people Ot. arly history might be compared to the perlod of the darls ages We surely Nere rn the darlt when It came to understanding the natlves They all had a peculrar craving for SlI'12lI12 and dancmg and tools. great pleasure ln teachmg us to become Slxllled m these arts Ive stood nn great awe of the ruler but ln more fear of those assoclated with the government These were men and women of varled character whose one dellght consisted ln telllng us how very llttle we knew From what I have told you of our hlstory you must I-.now that we were sub ject to great humlllatlons As rt was natural we resented thls and we were determmed to show these haughty people that we were Freshmen of more spmt and courage than had ever before landed on the lsland Our first vlc tory was the wmnmg of the Indoor Track Prize Thus was qurclxly followed by many others The next perlod ln our hlstory was the period of Rebellion We had bade farewell to that unpleasant name Freshmen and received the more honored one of Sophomores As Sophomores we were truly prodlgles Wnth the same spmt that moved our forefathers to rebell we held a meeting and decrded that hereafter we should be consulted on all affalrs relating to R I: N After this perlod there was a final settlmg up of all dlfECl.lltlCS and peace and joy rergned supreme As a part of the gox ernment of the Island we underwent a dxstmct change From frlvllous Sophomores we developed mto grave and scholarly UHIOTS 'Vlany of my fellow classmates full of the restlessness of youth left R F A to take thelr place IH the outslde World But what we had lost ln numbers we amply made up for ln Splflt We gradually became merged mto one great brotherhood all strnlng for one goal Success' ZI , c . . . -. H e ' o . 1 . tt . H . . 1 A v ' o . . . , gk . . S y 1 . v -- . . , . A , . - , ' , a rs ' , 5 c . tt -- . :a Y H K . ' .g Q. ' ' . . 1 T T . t c S . r . , g . , 5 . . 5 . , A . . I H 5 - ' 1 y . c . . ' . c 2 - t .J . . r . r . b ' D I - I - , , . , . ' a rs ' y' l ' O cz ' THE 1918 SENlQR ANNUAL We were also prominent in the social life of the island. And during our unior year we gave a Prom which will go down in history as the most suc- cessful Prom ever given in R F A As last year s unrors we have now become the present Senior Class We have at last obtamed the final success toward which all our efforts have been dlrected Already thus last year has been made a memorable one Our class was ably represented IH the Slmgerland PTIZC Speaklng Contest ln thls contest my fellow classmates won all four prlzes awarded As Senors we con tlnued to be the soclal leaders of the xsland We gave a Senlor slelghnde whlch added one more lmportant date to our hlstory Durxng thls last year whatever feellng of awe or fear we had felt toward the ruler and those assoclated wlth the government has 1ven away to a new feellng of esteem and reverence We saw 1n them not autocratlc commanders worklng against us but frlends worlclng for our mterests They helped to broaden our mlnds and develope our lndlvldual talents By the lnfluence of these people there has developed among my classmates a variety of tastes and mclmatnons to such an extent that when the last day comes lHSt6ad of leavlng on the same Shlp some hlp some on another Some of us w1ll saxl on to to a land of hlgher educatlon but wherever we go we have been well prepared to be vlctorxous ln the of us wxll embark on one the land of busmess some success wlll follow us for battles of Llfe K ACADEMIC HONORS 1918 First Honor Valedlctory Ruth Seymour Klngsley Class Avera e 93 49 Examlnatlon Average 92 93 Final 93 ZI Second Honor Salutatory Adelaide Gertrude Hyde Class Thlrd Honor Class Fourth Honor Class Fxfth Honor Class Sixth Honor Class Recrtahon Honor Oratorxcal Honor 9162 88 43 89 90 90 86 Exammatlon 89 25 Examlnatlon 86 I6 Exammatxon 83 64 EXal l1lU8tlOh 81 55 Fxnal Average 9 2 ZZ F1nal90 43 lVlar1e Louise Haas LOUISE Margaret Hertel Final 87 30 Bernlce Dretrlch lVlart1n Fmal 86 77 Harold Arthur Rathbone Fmal 86 20 Ruth Seymour Kingsley Harold Arthur Rathbone J , . 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'n'n'ai's'7.4s HM' Fi55iAQe'rAg49EzQs4''U THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL SENIOR SLEIGHRIDE The wmd sung around the corners of the Hlgh School bulldlng Blg grey and whlte masses of clouds rolled over each other rn the northern sky Snow fell lightly large whlte flakes floated gently to the ground Out from beneath a cover of blankets m one of the loads one Harold Rath bone emerged and was seen for a second and then ducking back hid hrs ndentnty He was looking for an extra slexgh whlch might transport the unfortunate left overs to the gay vlllage of Westernvrlle As the tlme was Heetmg fast our worthy Presldent deemed It wlser to start for Liberty Hall and let the others get there best they could Our rlde to Westernvllle with one exceptlon was enjoyed by all The one exception however was blamed upon the first team which evidently could not keep m the road and attempted to swrm through the dnfts of snow toward Lake Delta However after a long and tedlous process the horses were helped mto 'he road avam and we proceeded on our way Prof Roberts was m a very gay state of mmd as he usually IS and when ne was not smgmg some favorlate college son he was very forcrbly expound mg the arguments for havmg movlng plcture houses open on Sunday lVlurry XVlllSfJH and Sarah Stockmg performed the dull dutxes of chaperones and from what l heard and saw they were kept busy but drd not fall short of helr task At last our destmatnon Lxberty Hall was reached and everyone piled out Rathbone RICE and Bradt got thelr first however and saw to lt that no one to the room above and the orchestra started m on some of that ar Jazz musxc fthe klnd that makes you dance and each and every one went to rt During he danclng Adelaide ones dropped a stitch and everybody stopped dancing to look for lt After a short search Harold Rathbone who was er a talking to Lllllan Wood ln an obscure corner of the hall dlscovered rt and rn order to make lt known he had to reveal hrs own ldentlty whlch spolled hrs pleasure for a tame at least About l l 30 the last load of left overs straggled m and after happy greet ngs were exchanged dancmg was resumed tlll mndmght Probably no one would have thought of adjournlng to the dmlng room below lf MOIIIS LCVIHC had not suddenly poped out of no where and made the frank statement that he had gone without dmner and lunch at home Just so he could Hll up on thus occasxon This was enough together wxth the announcement by Adelaide ones and Clay Aldndge chefs and dlsh washer respectively that everythlng was rn readiness for the feast to start a rush for the dmmv room And those eats Oh boy' never 1n the hlstory of Senior slelghrldes had there ever been such a bount1ful feed as was 3Waltlng thelr eager eyes and stomachs too The chef assisted by Ruth Kmgsley had coffee on sale for a mckle a cup which alded consrderably rn clearmg expenses After the enjoyable repast the merry folks resumed dancmg wrth renewed vigor Every other dance moonllght which was taken advantage of by all especxally by Rathbone who was seen attemptlnv a camouflaged lovmv party but was cau ht by Nlurry Z3 . 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THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Wlllson who lnslsted that he keep close to her the remalnder of the evenmg Old txmes were then revlved and the Tommy Tucker and Vlfglnla Reel were called off after whrch the crowd ID general but the chaperones rn particular thought the tlme had come to depart for the blg clty So the merry throng collected themselves together as best they could and made for the slexghs all anxlous for a comfortable seat The homeward tr1p was quite uneventful hveryone snuggled down under the blankets whlch were poor protectlon agalnst the dlsagreeable ram and sleet Many departed into the land of slumber only to be awakened by the shrlll call of the clrlver that we had at last reached Rome So ended that eventful mght one whlch w1ll never be forgotten They approached from either slde Not a word was spoken Not a Slght was heard No one ln the room stlrred She was blushmg prettlly and was as red as a rose He was as pale as death or the chalk cliffs of England Slower and slower they advanced Now only a llttle dlstance separated them Wrll they never reach each other3 They approach They brush one agamst the other They klss And slowly they contmue thelr separate courses Alas they are only bllllard balls' No Longer Blmd Peg Wallis l love my love ln zebra hose ln purple vell she s grand But oh my love ln solled whlte spats ls more than l can stand It s better to alm at somethlng and ITIISS rt than to alm at nothlng and hrt It ln Exams A word on the cuff IS worth two In the book Every man IS occasionally what he ought to be perpetually A Real Sport udve Ten years for burglarlz mfr 1 house Have you anythlng to say for yourself3 Crambllng George Sure you shake the clxce to see whether we mrke lt twenty years or nothlng Wore than 5000 elephants a year go to make our plano keys had been reaclmg a patent medlclne almanac For the land s sake exclalmed the landlady Amt rt wonderful what some anlmals can be tralned to o Flrst Glrl Women always con tradlct one another Second Glrl They do not Pa will you glVC me a good llck mv right now3 Why thls l..emuel3 lm golng to sneak off and go swlmmmg ancl l dont want to bothered wlth a future Speakmg of bathmg ln famous springs sand the tramp to the tour rs l bathed m the sprmg of 86 . 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Y il s , , l Cl Y . . n I - , . , . , . .. , , . s , g, - , . . 5 , 1 Q 4 Q tt . , . - . . y . be . .. u t it Y a v Y U, Z4 THI3 I9Ib SENIOR CLASS POEM The Good Sh1p Hope Gut Irom the port of the br1n11n1r behool X sh1p 5et 511I one day In the month of beplemlber thf ye1r I-I c lp JI ope w1t 1t5c1 A party ot explorers bxllecl on the wood shlp Ilope XX huh w1th 511Is unfurled set out to sed I c r the I1ncI ot Ixnovwleclve 1ncI fI1y5 to be Ihey 11IecI dow n the r1ver of Y outhlul Hope YK h1ch leads to 31rnb1t1on bex FI he w xter ran smooth the hrst CI xys out Xncl lb calm 18 edlm could he They 511IecI on thus two ye1r5 or moxe he Isl 1nd5 ol I due 1t1on X1 QI explored to the1r he nts eontent Xnd c une 111 15 content But Alon the tourse wwhleh now they r1n IIu L YOLIX5 loomed 1I1tO 511 ht Rocks ol D154 111111 ement mount 1111 h1 5 1rI1 1 1 1e1xe5t n1f t Xnc thou h the vx 1ve5 were h1 h iff lttlllll to w uh them on rI1o1r L5 Sllfl VK L Il XVIII or If c I 1 1 IS we 1nc e u 51t1-I5 throu Xncl th 5h1p IN 111 1nnecI wlth 1 noh e grew aunt 1 1 xr: ID 1 r11 htw 15 h 1 xpt 1111 LI1111 :cl IIICII Lou Ihey 5t xrtcly tell the Shoals t V 11Ic cl IIIGICI o er tht ou 111 WIC my h 1d p155ecI D1sro11r1 unc nt I oc X roup ot 15I 1nd5 now I1e 1he1cI Innocent to the slvht But to Ixnd 1nd un '1dm1tt mee Igfxch one would haxe to I1 hr The 1sIes were tlosely guarded On north east south and west By a sex eral he xclecl clraoon Cilled Iznvllsh it ltS best 73 ANNUAL Q : I 2 e I' , I t, ' . 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THQ1918 5i1gTiIfOR ANNLTAL M ppp yypy Y One isle was Clomposition One lqn ll In Lrxmmxr TQCVISLCT Vlhle X1 ehrx l run and Qermm a Before thelr vxonderm eyes Vlxth the sword of Persex erance The clra on then they slew And explored the Isles to therr greatest depth They searched them through and through Victorious xt last and sxtlsfied Wlth the treasures they had won The shxp set sall for the journey home Toward the rlsln sun Therr voyage home l need not dCSCl'IbC But slmply let me say That they anchored safely m 1918 On Gracluatron Day H LATEST BOOKS Uver the Top Graduatmg Under Fnre Regents Week To Have and to Hold Diplomas Pebbles on the Shore Freshmen C urrent l'TlStOl'y Semor GOGQIP Tale of Two Crtles Hlstory of Rome and U T K X Pe son of Some Importance lVl1ss Harp Vveaver of Dreams Dorothy Waldo Vlotor Glrls XxrIll'l1fI'Cd Rowland Evelyn Randolph Marjorle Stevens House of Whispers The Staff bphlll Climb To Get 72 Counts CTISIS Fxams Wrnter Sunshme Xmas Vacatlon TWICE Told Tales Excuses lnnocence Abroad umors ln Semor Cloak Room Prlsoners of Hope Freshmen Before Reports Les 'Vhserables Freshmen After Reports 6 5 v 3. g 's T z z 3 1 V Al .A g 2, ,z ' 2 N z l'y fl' v A I V Q 3 - '3 N ' 2 2 . 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V 4 THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1919 When ln the hlstory of the Rome Free Academy has there ever been such a dlstlngulshed umor Class3 As we glance back into the past three years we cannot help reahzmg what a great benefit we have been and what our presence has meant to thus school September l9l5 was the most memorable month of our young hves for It was then that we stepped forth from the fatherly wmgs of Mr Lowerre and Mr Barrlnger and became members of the school whlch lt has always been our aim to honor On that first day when our trembllng legs carned us lnto the Study Hall of the R F A we were welcomed much to our surprlse wlth bursts of applause the llke of whlch we had never heard and lt was then that we recelved the lmpressxon that we weren t quite so lnslgmflcant as we felt and we really belleved Mr l-larrls when he sald that this demonstratlon was be cause our class was the best looking one which had ever entered the Academy rlowever xt was not long before we knew our proper place and had buckled down to business During our Freshmen year we earnestly struggled to grasp the prmclples of algebra Latln etc and at the same tlme we astomshed sev eral of the teachers wlth our brllllance We lmmerged from the terrors of Regents with flying colors and soon our older brothers and slsters delgnecl to notlce us Havlng satlsfactorlly completed our first year 1n l-hgh School and men we closed our books and looked forward to a long vacatlon ln the fall we returned to school stlll very eager to learn but not qulte so fresh as we had been We took our place as Sophomores and followlng the example of the lllustrlous class of l9l8 as we had always secretly done we again reflected credlt upon our beloved school and upon ourselves And nfluenced ln no small way by the lectures upon concentratlon and other help tul subjects the majority of us again earned well deserved pralse by success fully passlng Regents l-leretofore our athletes had been ordinary but as oon as an opportunity was offered we noted wlth prlde that they were steadrly becoming great and we began to see VISIODS of the future when dear old R F A should be crowned wlth victory by members of the Class of l9l9 Thus passed our Sophomore year uneventful but stlll filled wlth hard work And now havmg been unlors for nearly a year we have fully appreclated the responslbllxty whlch has been ours We have earnestly sought to malntam the renutatlon whlch we acqulred durmg our first two years and you know how well we have succeeded The football team 3SSlStCd by our noble athletes cored many victories agamst the enemy Also several of our members have devoted thelr muslcal talents toward the betterment of the orchestra thus reflecting greater honor upon our class ACCOl'dlHg to a custom whnch has been prevalent m the Rome Free Aca demy for many years the umor class glves a receptlon to the departing Sen xors Contrary to this custom the Class of I9 l 9 feelmg that such a receptlon ought not to be held when there was so much suffermg and sorrow ln the world caused by war voted by a large majority to omlt the Prom for thls year VVe were sorry mdeed to break this custom but l belleve that the Semors agree wlth us when we say that we would have been slackers had we done otherwlse 28 vw - 5 l perhaps happy in the thought that we had passed through the trials of Fresh- - - u , o J ' y 5. . S . . . i THI: 1918 SFNIUR ANNLAL Xs our unlor xe xr dr rms to at elose we refxllze th rt we sh rll soon be cllf n1 fled SGDIOYS 'Xh' soon to he cll nlfied Qemors Xh' how lon hxve we nspnred to that lofty hewht' Xncl to he vsorthy of time hrgh positron we hxve only to follow the path w hreh we heme been tr xxelnn IH and whrch we Lnow will lead to success W. e are Corhclent that use n xncl will xlw rys uphold the honor ot clear old R A X xt least rs well ts the C l rss of 1918 and per ips exen hetter who l-tnou-.J C F OUR FACULTY Uur lrrultx h rs m xcle us sm nrt lnsplrecl our hopes md urns f 1 vs h xt vw clcpx rr t it qu er rouncl the hm XX e hr lcl the m p xrt to lvl mme CT INK CC rss See 3 strlxes to mxlxe Lls row 1' cloes ew rythln just C 'X rss Spear wlth xlgehrr does hc r he t Xnc lxnousl rot H rrrls vxlll do the rest 'X rss H rrp rs xlws Hys xery husx Xncl hrxn Fxrst sud to vshom xre duly Fl here s Nh s Xlcl erren miltes us re xson l'ven vn the summer season 'Wlss Dudley keeps us mmrnf hr h XX hrle most of us pull sex enty Hve 'Xlrss Norse and Peterson comm md Nnd haxe us mike our lunfs expwnd Yes Wxss XIrQF1rl1nd l7lI'll9l'16S sorrow Vx hlle Nlrss Qtocltlng, hrwhtens the morrow 'Vlrss Foote Nllss XX1llS0D h me thelr sh ire 1 h 1 c x or rn Nllss C ooney md Nlr Bmlts Hold the rec ords for rooms so newt 'Xncl lxlrc her wlth the hammer c rn t be beat 'X splendld lust I must tonfess BL1tStlll there s one not n xmecl hefore Nor do we love the rest the less But clear Vlrss Hxvham all the more 'VIDC 9 , K, K. 1 2 A ,ALVLHW .L . 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Kmt kmt knlt On the streets and cars O gee And I would that I had a button Left on the clothes of me' I had a khake colored dog You d see at Just one glance That when he got qulte out f breath Why he had khakr pantsI Llttle drops of water I..1ttIe gralns of sand Booze IS hrgh and sugar scarce Dont you uncIerstancI'3 A veteran poured a glass of rye I thought he never would stop But no he poured and he poured and said Ah well here s over the top' She VV1lI you buy me that I-le No thats too much to blow ln' And he was going so fast that he was unable to tell whether the pants behlnd hlm were hls own or the dog s Theres many a sllp twlxt cup and Is a saymg of Wlde fame But theres nothmg sllps tvuxt I1p and Ilp When playmg the Iovmg game We re too late The cars just Gone up the lull How do you know3 I see the tracks Sald MISS Harp to MISS Angell You have broken my strmgs Sald Miss Angell to MISS Harp I don t do such thlngs qmg a song of Furope I-I hly CIVlll7Cd Two and twenty natlons Wholly hypnotized Xvhen the battles open The bullets start to smg I n t that a sllly way To act for any k1ng3 The kmgs are ln the backgrounds Issumg commands The queens are m the parlor P r etlquettes demands The bankers ln the countmg house Are busy multlplylng The common people at the front Are domv all the dymg re Inc-w 1 luv the company of rs well as by t e V11 p nx vou carnot get mto L mdl, excuse thls dlgresslon Ru we Urve favor to thls concesslon Tea her and the whole processlon xell as students want a smgle cesslon Fdrtors Nlote I wlsh to state h t the author of the above Imes holds 1 poetlc Ilcense A Fme Cure for Love Take two quarts of splrxts twelve ounces of dxslxl-,es one pound of res olutxon two ounces of the power of fvpernence one large sprlg of tlme d one quart coolxng water of con deratlon Set them on the gentle F of love Sweeten lt wlth the Qar of forgetfullness Skim lt th the spoon of meloncholy Put m the bottom of your heart Cook wlth a sound consclence and then let nt remam and you wlll lnstantly hr-fl ease and be restored to your rlght senses agaln These thmgs are to be found at the apothecarys at the house of understandmg next door to reason ln Prudent street ln the parlsh of contentment I . , . i I ' I ' T . 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V : -45-Hgg,,:,f-ff--rf A 3 T T' ,V -1' SU- N 21' O T THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF 1920 From the very first tlme we the Class of l920 entered the Study Hall whlch was on a Wednesday mornlng we became aware of the fact that we were the class whose presence had been looked for And thus lt fell our lot to brmg new llfe to dear old R F A At Christmas tlme 1n the year l9l6 we responded to the carrying out of an old time custom that of decoratmg the Study Hall Thls we dxd ln a pleasmg manner whxch won the admlratlon of all who had prevxously partlcl pated ln carrymg out th1s custom Patrxotlsm a word whlch rmgs throughout the world 1n tlme of war ln thls our Sophomore Year has been our xdeallsm We have glven generously to the Belglum Relief Fund subscrlbed for Lxberty Bonds and Thrlft Stamps and have not fell short elther m glVll'lg money or ln supplylng workers for the Red Cross We now eagerly awalt the time when we ever successful ln our attempts shall assume the dutles of unlors taklng as our standard the memorable work accompllshed by Class I8 R A C Cupid s Culsme Souffle A frothy sweet lxght as nothmg compound of soft words and honeyed klsses mlxed by moonllght and served by twos Frosting A cold Whlte cover mg composed of kmd words and farewell hand shakes spread upon dough Stew Occasloned by finance bemg dlscovered tete a tete Wlth supposedly dlscarded sweetheart Goulash An old fussers dlsh composed of remnants of varlous love affalrs warmed up and served wlth a sauce of ust as young as l used to be Roast Take a bxt of Jealousy let lt summer for a few days then heat It suddenly wlth a hot word or two untll xt turns brown Hash Trxflmg hand squeezers ldle glances vagrant smlles and mls lnterpreted words with blts of be tween the lmes from formal letters served on crusty words Tart Acldulated a ff e c t 1 o n all chopped together and baked dry Doughnut A flxrtatlon wnth nothmg ln It A Scottlsh countrywoman was taking her son to the school for the flrst tlme and after xmpressmg the choolmaster wlth the necesslty of the boy having a thoroughly good educatlon she Hmshed up by saylng Be sure he learns Latln But my dear lady Sald the guage So much the better replled the woman Ye ken he s goln be an undertaker Say walter what s the matter3 Thls coffee tastes awfully muddy3 Well you see lt was ground thls mornmg' Dld you know that l have had my pictures taken'-5 Cot the proofs3 Nope youll have to take my word for lt ane Every one of my beaux IS named Bllly L12 Gee you re a regular blll collector are t you5 ' 1 1 , , , , - . , .A . . . . , - ll 0 u I! 1 1' n 1 o Y 1 , . 7 5 , , . , . . . . . V , . . . . . S . . . -n Y . - . Y . . : . . .. . .. , . .. .. . ' 1 1 1 a cake that has suddenly become all SCl'100lIT1?1StCY. Latin is H dead lan- ,. I u R tb - II I 1 1 - - , , . I l -W 7 - .. . , 9 Y y Q . - - I - - . ,, R 46 D ' 1 - - . 1 1 . . . .. , g . Z . ' ' ' 'Q y KK ' U1 Y ' - ll Y . Y - s li , . . . . s , . Y 32 THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Lflwihblgjf Q 'VV ,f'X s if X14 f'XX I'-X F75 www 'iizl--frat Freshman 1921 Pre xdent Yi ILLIANI CAGE X me Pre xdent ELENOR STALEY becretwrx FLOISE BR-XDT Ir xsurer FREDP RICE. NI-XRKS J JU Hur ww k M N3 3 1 U ff' I 1 i .X ,f A x LR 4 X ' C J f f g ' 5 f ? ' if! 'A ,ff i !!' ax V f 1 Yyx J ,A F X V1 XXX - ' w - W ,Q V! 'Yx -X vw -' X X ff ff! , f fx I Y' 1 K i ' ' , 3 W . i I Q ' V . .- ,i6Qr?N.fw.LED3FxA1 1 K 9 i l S' , ...,..,...........,.....,.. 4 . . . THE 1918 'SENIOR ZXNXLAL HISTORY OF CLASS OF 1921 Vile thought that we were the brlghtest and cleverest class that ever entered the glorrous portals of the dear old R I7 A Our oplnlon was confirmed by our belng recelved by such a tumultous and CHUSIVC reetmg as we strode proudly up the alsles of that cell of torture on the second floor the Study Hall 'after recervmg many a shove and trlp whxle passmg up that auntlet of grln mng Sophs we were finally seated Our sllghtly confuser manner however was qulckly dlspelled as we realized that our brightness was to a certain degree appreclated We sat as stralght as wooden 1mages and kept our eyes nd mmcls concentrated on whom we heard was a most noble Uladlator the hlstorlcal man of R I7 A Prof Harris while he was castlng hrs lme But ts we llstened we became dublous as to the extent of our brlghtness but were not at all abashed as we felt that what our predecessors had accompllshed we could also We were soon lntroduced to the studies of Latln Al ebra etc whlch to our mlnds were of a most colossal nature and which were rn nowlse dlmln shed by the jeerlngs and repeated sarcaslsms of those brllllant Sophs How cver let It be to our credlt that we have smce passed the lme of doubt and are successfully mastering these most 1ntr1cate studres We felt very much pleased and flattered upon TCCCIVIHQ so many compll ments for our very artlstlcally decorated study hall durrng flhrrstmas tlme W regretted very much the fact that we had no OppOYtUDItlCS of compet mg 1n the lme of athletlcs as has been done 1n the past but are slncerely devotnng our energles to what all true Amerlcans are dolng 1n thls trme of strlfe and sorrow W G WINNERS IN SCHOOL CONTESTS 1918 Flrst Prlze, Girls Sllngerland Lrllran Adelarde Wood Second Prize, Girls Sllngerland Dorothy Eleanor Waldo Flrst Prlze, Boys Sllngerland Harry Franklm Rrce Second Prize, Boys Slmgerland Carroll lVIcClosky Bates Davis Essay, 1917 Harold Arthur Rathbone 34 . 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J N ' xx N ,gf- f ' , Q THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL NOT OUR BIT BUT OUR BEST Now that we are engaged ln this great conflict there are many and great demands made upon us as individuals and as a school Never have the stu dents of Rome Free Academy fallen short ln their devotion to their school or to the needs of their country Every student feels an added obligation in such a crisis as the one we are experiencing at this very hour When the second Liberty Loan was floated the students responded to such an extent that two one hundred dollar regls tered bonds were purchased and presented to the school as a gift from the student body Futhermore when President Wilson issued his invitation to the school students of the nation to enroll ln the unlor American Red Cross the students again responded and a sum equal to twenty live cents per student was raised This was a sufficiently large sum to enroll every one now attend mg the school ln that orgamzatlon which IS domg so much for suffering human ity in Europe Thls sum of money is used to purchase supplies needed for the work in our school only Every evenlng the girls worked upon surgical dressings and refugee garments The boys made toys and such articles as can be constructed in th manual training department Night after night the various rooms were busy places indeed The dlfferent branches of work were under the supervision of four members of the faculty Mrs Banks has charge of the bandages and in this section of the work 3 l08 head bandages 334 abdominal and 361 ten tall bandages were made There were about 230 students working ln this department under the supervision of articles contaln baby clothes bootles walsts capes and pinafores In addr tion to this splendid record I find that busy fingers have been flying Miss Angell reported to me that during the season 22 pairs of socks 34 sweaters 65 pairs of wristlets and I2 helmets were turned ln to her department IVI Iflrcher has been busy with the boys m manual training and they have turned out an array of such gayly painted wooden soldiers as would bring Joy to the heart of any poor castaway All this has been given by the students They have given thelr time and money gladly but ln the gxvmg they are Iearnmg to save Already a sum of money aggregating very nearly a thousand dollars has been invested by the tudents individually m War Savings Certificates This amount is rapidly in creasing I am Wfltlng this as a member of the student body and as a co worker in the splendid work the school IS doing If supplies could be obtained I know the work would go on ever increasing As it is we are so in need of maternal that nearly all branches of the work has momentarily ceased I hope that vn the weeks to come that the supplies will be aVa1lablC and that we may again take up the work with renewed vigor I am leavlng R F A and will not be able to take any part ln this excellent work another year but I leave thls parting hope that Rome Free Academy may measure up to the new and greater responsibilities even as well as lt has in the past H A R 36 . . . I W V - of Miss Harp. Between 65 and 70 refugee garments were made. This list ' ' ' . r. TI-IE 1918 SENIOR ANNLAL THE SLINGERLAND PRIZE SPEAKING CONTEST A lar e crowd attended the Fifteenth Xnnual Slln erland Prize Spealun Contest at the Academy eXssembIv Hall on Irrlday evenrng NI1rCh I5 l9I8 rhls Shn erIancI contest rs open to the thrrd ind fourth ye xr boys and 1rIs A prellmlnary contest has to be heIcI lf there are over ten contestants The prlzes are two hrst ones each bemg, twenty dollrrs one for boys and one for 1rIs and two second prlges of ten doII1rs X preI1m1n xry contest had to be heIcI this year for the 1rIs rs there were fourteen who entered The C Ias sf IQIS IS proud of the fact that wll of the ten seIected for the FmaI contest were qenxors whlch IS somethrn unusu'1I The lmprcsslon whlch PTIHCIDHI I'I1rr1s sard the xudrence cmd the yud wou d carrv away wrththem must h ve been very good for never was there held uch a sDIend1d contest as the one this year The whoIe affilr showed the oyal splrlt ot the R F A students Many of them soId trckets 'md 1 Iwrge number were present others ushered xnd ave out pro rams At the openm and throughout the eve rn selectlons were played by XY aI Irs ES. Russell orchestra Prmc pal Ilarrrs Introduced the speakers I ach one drd splendldly and recervcd hearty rpplause I7Ieurette Servlce Dorothy I?Ie1nor VI aIdo The S1 n of the Qross Bxrrett Ruth Qeymour Kun Iey The Wlnnln of Kathernne McCarthy Adelarcle Mara ones The List Le if O Henry Be xtrlce Lourse Townsend The Fleet Goes By Slmon I rlhxn AdeIude Wood I n Irnd s Answer George II xrold Arthur Rathbone The Qoward Iqmpey XVIIIIAUI Rlckard Qcudder qpeech at Unnon qquare N Y I86I B xker II1rry I7r'1nIxI1n Rrce ln 1 n Ixlphng IVIIUTICC Ievme 'Supposed Speech of ohn Kd rms Webster C1rroII IVIcf,IosItey Bltes after the Ixst cIecIxmxt1on the Jud es Vhss Maud xnd Losee Ihon IIB Eachool Protessor Calxm I I ewrs H nmnlton Qollege and Prrncrpal Idward C Babcock of but 1 Iqree Xc ndemy retrred to m xlte their declsron After con 9ICICI'rlbIC time they returned xnd Professor CaIvm I LEWIS 'lnnounced the result He sald th xt It had been very hard for the Jud es to come to 1 de crsron as the contest was so close md ex ery one deserved a prrze He then read the names of the wrnners Irrrst Pnye Grrls I,1II1an Adelalde Xvood Second Prrze Grrls Dorothy EIeanor W aldo Frrst Prrze Boys Harry Franklin RICE Second Prize Boys CarroII VIcCIosLy Bites C 37 v I ' x I Y.-i A sz ' ' ' 2: ' ' s ., 2 ' .' 4 .. 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GIRLS PROPHECY CLASS OF 1918 Frlerds ln th1 vear of cur Lord two thousand and eighteen as you are gathered here together ln the e the TUIDS of that bulldlng whxch once housed the proud st1dents of the dear old R I: A to celebrate the hundr dth ann1 versary of the graduatlon from that mstrtutlon of the marvellous and phe nomenal Class of l9l8 I a member of that very class have thought It fitting to ruse from mv U 'ave and drsclo e to you a mnghty secret As far back as the year l932 I was servmg ln the great World War as an avlator IH America s g1gant1c air fleet The outcome of the war was stlll un certam and there was great lmpatxence among the people of the natlons allled again Germany over the 1nab1l1ty of thexr armxes to force a declsnon One day whlle I was glancmg over the news m a paper whlch had been ent me from home I saw an announcement whlch was concerned wxth a wonderful new mventlon by Thomas A Edrson whlch Theodore Roosevelt at that tlme Presldent of the Unlted States was confldent would brlng the war to a speedy termlnatlon The Presrdent therefore called on an avlator to volunteer hrs servlces as cperator of this 1nvent1on the nature of whlch was withheld, but at the same t1me gave warning that whoever undertook the mlsslon would have to face almost certam death Actuated by a strong deslre to wln favor rn the eyes of our much esteemed presldent and fired wxth a spmt of adventure I determmed to make every effort to Ofam thls appomtment Accordlngly I made all haste to return to Almerlca before anyone could forestall me I crossed the Atlantrc ln my airplane and landed m Washrngton before three days had passed whereupon I secured the comm1ss1on w1th llttle dlfflculty When the formalltles had been gone through with the Presldent took me lnto his confidence I-le explained that It was hrs theory that the Kalser was the very keystone of the stubborn tenaclty exhlblted by the enemy and that once he was gotten rid of German reslstance would collapse As a result of a consultatxon therefore wlth Thomas A Edrson 1n whlch he had set forth this theory Edlson had produced an lnventlon whxch he belleved would solve the problem It was a bomb apparently dlfferent ln no respect from those I had so often used but 1ts mterlor mechanlsm was vastly more dellcate It was posslble for thls bomb to be tuned so that It would be attracted by the bram cells of the particular lndlvrdual selected as a target No two persons have bram cells that are exactly allke and consequently the mechanism of thls extraordlnary bomb could be set m such a way that xt would search out the person for whom It was Intended no matter where he mlght be hlddlng and Ilow hlm into atoms provlded nt was launched from an alrplane wxthm a radxus of two or three mlles of hls vlclnxty Certam emment psychologlsts had made a careful study of the Kalser s bram and by methods known only to themselves had ascertamed the exact number of cells makmg It up and the nature of each lndlvldual cell Under their supervlslon the mechanlsm of the bomb had been accurately set so that the Kalser s bram would attract It llke a magnet I wasted no tlme ln preparmg for my journey Fxve days later I was back on the firing llne wlth the bomb m my possessxon and eoulpped wlth an alr 'zlane made of a transparent material causmv It to be practrcally mvlslble a .ew thousand feet aboxe the earth I chose a dark cloudy mvht to begin my H1 ht and the next day I was hovermv over the clty of Berlm I selzed the bomb and hurled It stralvht toward the heart of the city Then I swung around D9 V L . 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' ' v v A ' k v 5 f , . f ' ' to tw 0 Q V ' ' 5 . .D . 1 a D 1 THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL and squeezrng every ounce of speed possrble out of my machrne shot away on my return Journey But rmagrne my chagrrn when a moment later I heard the roar of a cannon and a shell came screamrng past only a few feet from me I held my breath fervently prayrng that rt would not explode untrl rt was safely past me but rn Vam When rt was almost parallel Wrth me there was a deafenrng detonatron my machrne tottered and crashed to the earth I was rnstantly krlled and my sprrrt thus lrberated wrtnessed the antrcs of the bom whrch was just reaching the earth and was dartrng through the crowded whrle the people fled rn terror There was no need of therr retreat mg so precrprtously however for rt avorded anyone who unrntentronally came wrthrr rts path and threaded rts way carefully through the denest crowds Frnally rt found the Arch Frend for whom rt was rntended who just then hap pened to be rn a Ratskellar enjoyrng a quart mug of lager beer It darted rn at the open door and a moment later there was an explosron lrke a clap of thunder the arr was filled Wrth Hyrng fragments of brrcks rron flesh and bones and my mrssron was accomplrshed Then I beheld an astoundrng srght The earth yawned at my feet formrng deep crater from whrch Ham s darted and smoke poured Deep down wrthrn the crater a low rumblrng was heard whrch gradually grew louder and rouder untrl at last the Devrl and hrs myrrad legrons leaped from rts depths Oppo rte me I beheld the Karser s ghost watchrno' thrs scene wrth consterna tron Toward thrs spector Hrs Satanrc lVIajesty now advanced and prostrat mg hrmself before rt allowed hrs three pronged sceptor the symbol of hrs powe to be taken from hrs hand by one of hrs attendants and presented to rhe apparrtron of the Karser Then rrslng from the ground the Devrl humbly took a place among hrs former hosts rn the capacrty of prlvate so to speak Thereupon wrth shouts and acclamatrons the Karser was pushed rnto the abyss at the head of the ranks whrch were swallowed up as suddenly as they had been vomrted forth and the raws of the crater shut over them I breathed a srgh of relref for I had confidently expected on of these devrls to lock arms Wrth me and carry me along Wrth the crowd consequently lt was Wrth unbounded delrght that I saw a venerable old man Wrth a long Whrte beard and clad 1n a loose flowrng robe advancrng toward me I-le carrred 1 grgantrc key and by thrs srgn I knew he could be none other than St Peter He greeted me cordrally and explarned that although my srns had been mam fold and mv name had already been placed on the books of fate among the lrst of the condemned my past would now be entrrely overlooked and l would be admrtted to the portals of heaven because of the great servrce I had just rendered the earth I-le had come he sard to conduct me to the celestral realms but first rf I had any favor to ask he would be only too glad to grant I thanked hrm heartrly and told hrm that l had a request to make rf rt would not be askrng too much I sard that whrle servrng as an avrator I had had the opportunrty of comrng rn contact wrth the boys who had been my classmates rn the R F A nearly all of whom and they were not any too numerous were engaged rn some branch of the servrce but that I had an rnsatrable longrng to have one last glrmpse of the faces of the pretty grrls and also the homely ones who I now belreve have been largely responsrble for the last mg fame of the Class of l9l8 the centennral of whose gracluatron you are celebratrng here to day 40 , Y . , , , . , .. 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V I , , , l r , - , THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL He beamed hrs delrght at the proposal and graspmg me by the hand we Hoated through space untll finally we allghted m one of the maln thorough fares of New York Clty l looked about me for the moment bewildered by the sudden change from the profound qulet of the upper atmosphere to the nolse and bustle of these streets Gradually as my thoughts grew more col lected l began eagerly to scan the faces of the passlng crowd to see rf I could catch crght of any that were famrllar Then 1 experlenced a queer sensatlon l saw the face of a young woman whom 1 knew l had seen before and who l mstmctlvelv felt had been one of my former classmates yet try as hard as 1 would l couldn t remember the name Wlth one onsent we gllded after the mysterlous person until she led us to a large and consplcuous halr dresslng parlor and my problem was solved lnto one door there was filmg a steady stream of red halred people and out of another door was lssulng a no less steady stream of men wlth coal black halr and women wlth golden locks Then l reallzed that although the halr of the young woman we had been followlng was a glossy brown nevertheless she was none other than Beatrlce Townsend the proprletress of thls place whlch was evlclently dolng a thrlvlng buslness Then St Peter agam grasped my hand and glldlng swlftly along the street we soon reached the office bulldlng of the New York Times and wlthout wart mg to enter at the door floated through the walls mto the ofhce of the Edrtress xn Chlef whom at first glance l knew to be none other than Marle Haas Leavmg thxs busy Edltress to her task we floated swlftly through the clouds half way across the contlnent and allghtlng 1n the clty of Milwaukee not far from the home of The beer that made Nlllwaukee famous as I lould tell by the verv apparent odor of alcohol whlch filled the alr glrded mto a tent where before a large and attentlve audience contalnmg qulte a number of men wlth very susplclously red noses Hazel Lambert was expoundmg on the sxnfulness of the liquor habrt W stayed to hear what thls zealous advocate of prohrbxtlon had to say but as the hours flew past and there seemed to be no hope of her concludmg her remarks we left the city and passed over the green fields untll we arrlved at the door of a llttle country school house through whlch loud CYICS of distress greeted our ears Wlthxn we found Bernlce lVlart1n soundly spankmg an unruly pupll Our next pllgrlmage was to qulte a thrlvmg clty called New erusalem where we entered a large prosperous looklng department store announclng Itself by a consplcuous electrxc slgn as M l..ev1ne ZS! Co ln the ante room of the office the stenngraphers were grouped together breathlessly dlscusslng the handsomeness of their employer Suddenly how ever they were sent scamperrng back to their typewrlters by the entrance of a woman who wore an a1r of co partnershlp ln the firm and l soon recognized m her one of my former classmates Helen Evans We next vlslted an mstltutlon for teachlng deaf mutes the gentle art of talkmg We gathered from the conversatlon of some people just leaving thus bulldmg that the wonderful lnstructress who was m charge could have the most hopeless mute talkmg fluently 1n a few short weeks Flotmg through the walls we beheld Lulu House laborrng patlently wlth her puplls From here we flew through the clouds and allghted ln the streets of Chicago before the scene of a recent accldent It had apparently tamed very hard here short trme before our arrrval and a handsome llmousme drrven by Mar Uaret Wallls the wrfe of a wealthy rarlroad magnate had skrdded on the 41 7 ! ' I . , - 1 . 1 1 1 A- 1 . f' V , 1 T s Y - ' 1 - 1 1 1 1 ' 7 1 7 7 - 1 4 ' ' , 1 1 1 .1 . 11 C , D, , 1 , 1 1 Q . - 1 1 1 1 J . f 1 1 ' 1 . y ' V c ' 1 , . 1 1 1 ca , 1 ' THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL sllppery streets and pmned Elsie Cas Baker beneath ltS wheels severely 1nJur nv her MISS Cas Baker s unconscrous form was bemg borne on a stretcher to the wartmg ambulance driven by Bernlce Van Arnam while we glrded after Margaret Wallis who was bemg conducted by two polxcewomen Ruth Fvans and Mxldred Morgan to the pollce station where the magrstrate Rose Peters sentenced the offender to ten years lmprlsonment at hard labor for crlmmal neglect rn not equxppxng her car wlth Weed Tire Chalns Before I could recox er from my astomshment at seemg so many famlllar face IU so short an rnterval my companion had transported me to Camhrldge Mass and we descended before a house which I at once recognwed as the home of mv frrend Profe sor Rathbone B A Ph D D D M D etc nstructor of English IH I-Iarx ard College whom I had often VlSlf6d mn hrs bachelor days but had not seen for several years On the veranda were Ill han Wood and I-Illda Burkard havmv a confidentlal chat The former was apparently perfectly 'rt home whxle the latter had merely come to make a call l felt considerably ashamed of myself to be eavesdropplng m such an underhanded way but St Peter seemed to thlnk that we were prrvlleged characters so we advanced them Miss Burlrzrd was t llxng her hostess that he had only Just read of her recent marrlage ln the papers and reahzmg that she had been one of her former cla smates had come to off r her con not marrled herself as yet haylng searched the country hrgh and low for a perfect man and havlng so far completely falled To whlch her hostess lephed That sh mlght vust as well dlscontlnue her search at ence for she ferself had already found and taken that man and Nllss Burkard was too late I should have been drsappomted rf rn our wand rmvs St Peter had not txken me to the place where we novs found our elx es We were standmg before the R I7 A ltself and the s ht of the famllxar old burldlnv almost moved me to tears We gllded mto an entlrely new department of the school which had been burlt 1nto the basement and there found lVIadonna Knowles a salarred member of the faculty whose duty It was to nurse back to health those poor unfortunates who had lost thelr mmds strugglmg wlth thelr algebra and geometry We left the bulldmg and floated down the street pass the Rome Sentmel flfhce ln the wmdow of whlch were three bulletlns posted Slde by S1dC whlch arrested my attentlon I stopped and read as follows THURSDAY WANTED X nnddle aged man who mll nuke an Ideal husband He must be handsome vsell hullt and mtellrgent YVould pre ter black han and 4 dark FRIDAY WANTED X nnddle aged man for fi husband 'tlust be possessed of an lverage xntellrgence and present acceptable 'rppen SATURDAY WANTED A HUSBAND ance Apply at Sentmel Offlce Lomplexlon Apply at Sentmel Office Apply at Sentmel Office These bulletms had evidently been posted on three succeeding days and whoever had done the postrng had neglected to take down the bulletin of the clay before Whlle I was enjoymg thus Joke I was delighted at seemg for the first time ln many years a man whom I recognized as Mr John O Lundblad 42 N . . . ' . . - z . , . . I 5 ' Y I , , . , k ' , ' V . A I 1 , ' . .., . ., . ., , ., . . ., , ., r- ' I 1 Y , C , , U ' . I 4 . , . ' . e ' 5 C . . . . . s ., e - gratulations. In reply to her hostess' inquiry Miss Burkard said UNO, she was ' . gr n YI h a .l . If AL I - 'Ira K - o . G 74 J , e , . .. 5 v . I n . . . . D . , , c ,J , . I . r f . , ' I i ' V 1 . Y in . . . . P I Y 1 y , . 3 . . . KV ' . . . . . . v .1 , : . v' C . ' - ' . ' ' -, A , an . . Q '- c i 1 . . . Y . Y , , . . THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL dvancrng toward us Hrs attentron was also arrested by these posters H started rn as I had wrth the first and I observed a look of Iongrng come over hrs face When he reached the second one hrs look was more hopeful and after readrng the thrrd he drsappeared rnto the Sentrnel Offlce only to reap pear a moment later carrvrng an address rn hrs hand He called a taxr and ped off up the street We had not the slrghtest drflcrcultv rn marntarnrng the same speed as hrs car and flnallv he came to a stop before a house where ,uma on the porch wrth her knrttrng and wearrng an anxrous expressron I recogmzed one of my old classmates Phyllrs IVI1ttenmarer That was mv last glrmpse of Rome untrl thrs Very nrvht Our next vrsrt was to the outskrrts of Phrladelphra Here we glrded rnto a mammoth Chau fauqua ten packed to overflowrng Before thrs vast audlence Gertrude Hyde 1 revrvalrst whose fame was second onlv to that of Brllv Sunday was delrver mg an eloquent address She was especially vehement on the subject of dancmg denouncrng rt rn the most vrolent terms and urgrng all who had ever been gurltv of thrs srn to hrt the sawdust trarl and make a full confessron Vhen she had flrrshed speakrng there was a moment of srlence and then the 'Jenrtent began to hrt the trarl Among them I recovnrzed to my unbounded urprrse Adelarde ones Ieamnv on Dorothy Waldo for support They frasped the revrv Irst hard md I heard IVIrss ones gasp through her sobs We drrfted farther on rnto the crtv and found hard at work rn her office Nlrce Conley Ldrtress of the Phrladelphra Tattle Tale a paper wrth a wrde rrrculatron devoted to the busrness of exposrng all the famrly secrets of socrety people Then we launched rnto space once more and clroppmv gently through the dome of the natronal caprtol alrghted rn the assemblv hall of the House of Representatrves The House was rn sessron and I was clumfounclecl at the vast rnajorrty of the women representatrves over the men Fven what fevs men there were looked srckly and forlorn and seemed to be takrng no rnterest whatever rn the proceedmgs The speaker of the House Catherrne Brodoclt was rndustrrously engaged rn chewrng gum whrle Blanche Hawkrns to whom she had grven the floor argued strongly rn favor of the brll whrch had been placed before the House by Lourse Hertel provrdmg for the drsenfranchrse ment of the male sex The men present made no protest whatever but rather seemed to favor the rdea of bernv deprrved of the franchrse as a means of release from therr mr erv The b ll was voted upon and passed by an over vhelmrng majority Among those votmg for the measure were Representa trves Gladys Grfford from Calrfornra Gladys Ingalls from Montana and Helena Roth from Florrda Leavrng the scene rn drsgust we vrsrted the studros of the Paramount IVIO tron Prcture Company and there found IVIabeI Carroll actrng as understudy to one of the most popular movre actresses of the day Ivlrss Sarah P Stockmg In these same studros I caught sight of Harrlet Adams her face plastered wrth powder rouge and parnt ready to take the part of a chorus grrl rn a brg new productron to be staged by that company From here we recrossed the Atlantic and allghted rn one of the wards of a base hosprtal rn France We saw a lrttle knot of convalescent Sammres all grouped around rn a crrcle apparently enjoyrng themselves very much Cur rous to know the source of therr pleasure I approached nearer the group I the center of the crrcle was Ruth Kingsley ln nurse s garb readrng them the 43 zr ' . ' ' . e I Q D Y H T . . a . u 1 - . Y A 1 Y s' ' ., V I ' . . k l Y ' I Y . . . .D Q . . L . 5, . . , L. A U , ' V. J . . . . ' D. ,A . . . I v , K I - ,I I . ' F 57 K . ' A . ?J s . I , , g . . g ' a I s . 2 ' J h L . : Miss H-Hyde, I pr-pr-promise never to g-go to another c-c-college ball. I ' I ' I rw . , V X ' I k ' 9 I 'Y 1 5 , f'! ' V K . Y , C'O , , - . , ' 'S . I T - V . . . . - T . . y . . . 1 ' . n THE 1918 'SENIOR ANNUAL latest copy of Lrfe It was hard to tell whether rt was the paper or the nurse that attracted them most It was wrth drfhculty that St Peter tore me away from thrs group but hav mg accomplrshed thrs he told me to grasp hrs hand trghtly and on no account to let go and we ascended to a stupendous herght untrl finally the pearly gates of heaven loomed up before us lnsertrng hrs grgantrc key rn the lock St Peter swung them open and we entered the threshhold What Joys awart all well mannered people there rt rs not for me to tell Suffice rt to say that all the members of the Class of I9l 8 are now sharrng those Joys and rt behooves all future classes to follow the splendrd example they have set rf they would not have therr ranks drvrded hereafter ls that frrend Black of yours hon est3 Honest why he wouldn t even krn a banana He that wrshes to rrse wrth the sun hould not stay up late wrth the dar ghter Average length of a man s arm 30 rnches v oman s warst 30 rnches How wonderful are thy works Oh Nature' lack Drd you propose last m2ht3 Art es ack Drd the old man krck you t of doors3 Art No he drdnt wart trll t out doors Skrdoo as you would be skrdone yr Can you tell me anythrng about doQs5 Yes fleas are' Rathbone to Rrce Say do you know that Ruth Krngsley rs the pret trest grrl rn our trrg class Class consrsts of flve boys and one grr CMB Mrss lVlcl7arland rn Englrsh Hrs tory What was the character of ames I3 Powers He was broad mrnded rn a way because he always looked after hrs own rnterests Brll Tretze all excrtement Lots of excrtement down to the hotel last rrvht A bell boy was stabbed the eye with a hat pm through accrdent3 Tretz No through a key hole Rathbone speakrng rn Senror Class meetrng about Senior slerghrrde We dont want loads cramed full of chaperones Well well Rathbone you had rh rrght rdeal lVlaurrre Levrne n Debate Thrs rs wrrtten down rn black and whrte rn the unwrrtten constrtutron of England Rockwell rn a worrred tone talkrng to Roberts l wrsh you would apply that formula Roberts l wrsh you would keep your mouth shut 'Vlr Roberts rn Trrg Class This rs a great country we lrve rn full of mountarns valleys and bluffs , r . , - , . , . , .. S - .. 1 H . S ' -i- - ,A . rn Average circumference of a Simon-How did it happen, 7 l- Y 7 ' ' 4 l-1 tk O S 5 . Y li fu i e . . u.. Q- , . . . . I gm . . . i 1 b . . 11 u K v D .. .. 1 , n . I , l 44 THE 1918 SENIGR ANNUAL BOYS PROPHECY One evemng IH the earlv sprlng of l935 as I was waltlng to cross one of the busy corners ID Washington D C I heard a newsboys exclted cry Speaker Rathbone s Farewell Address to Congress The newsboy s plle soon dlmmlshed as everyone was anxlous to read the latest speech of thus promment orator After readlng It myself I felt more than ever the desire to talk wlth hxm and to see lf he would recognlze his former classmate The next afternoon found me presentmg my card to Mr Rathbone s butler ln the hope that he mlght have a few moments to talk wlth me I was ushered Into the llbrary probably the place where he had prepared some of those splendlcl speeches It was not long untxl a man appeared ln the doorway It was hard to belleve that thls man was the speaker of the House for has sult was all dusty and ln hrs arms he carrled a large plle of worn faded books whlch he dropped xn a heap on the table to greet me Well lf this xsn t a colncldent sald he Im making preparatlons for my summer vacation whlch IS to be spent ln my old home Rome I hauled down ome of these old favorltes Coopers you know and what else should I Hnd among them but our old R F A Annual As he slowly turned the pages of the book a broad smxle overspread hrs face I was not quxte sure whether he was looking at the boys plctures or the UITIS I ventured to interrupt h1s medltatlons wlth the remark I see you are still defendmg Democracy start and do you know I have received no honor smce that has meant more lo me than that of bemg President of my graduatmg class at R F A There were only about a dozen boys ln the class but they were a fine lot I know each one xs makmg a success of his llfe Remember Bates who used to slt ln the front seat3 No doubt he s hooked somethxng by thls time If he has changed smce as much as he dld his last year In R F A he has a harem by thls tlme Ah here s a picture of Rice shame he didnt go xnto polltxcs with hls bllltv to speak But I understand he has won success as presldent of a well known book concern The edltmg of thls Annual undoubtedly gave hlm his start And perhaps you d be interested to know that Ward Tyler who won lame during the great war as camouflage artlst IS now abroad making sketches for a book on reconstructlon work ln France which Rxce IS to publish I obtamed thxs mformatlon through correspondence wlth one of our old class ates whom I have not yet persuaded to say she Wood Here the subject was changed rather abruptly and reallzmg the value of thls man s tzme I left A few days later 'Vlr Rathbone allghted from a tram and gazed for some time at the many large buildings whxch loomed up around the Rome station Well well my summer wont be as peaceful and qulet as I had expected lf thls IS a sample of the change Rome has undergone Rathbone stnll had the ldea that he must board a belt lme car but of the many cars that passed hlm none bore the old slgn He lnqulred of a fat fellow who stood on the corner puffing at a cigar when the next belt lme 45 Y - v . , S ' - . . Yes, and I often think how much I owe to that little place where I got my il. , it . a 2 0 O u 1 n s 9 L . - u - a , m 7, 1 . ' ' - - T l u , , THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL car could be expected O ho' laughed the fellow Pears to me you havent been to Rome rn some trme Don t you know what a trme we had wrth our street car systern3 Rathbone felt that he must be polrte even rf he was rn a hurry so gave a negatlve answer Xvell to begrn at the begrn nrng the fellow that made the change went to school wrth me Tretz was hrs name a lrttle fellow but bramy At thrs remark Rathbone became rnterested rn both the speaker and what he was sayrng The fellow talked on wrthout removrng hrs crgar It was thrs way H Won all the rnfluencral people on hrs srde and pushed hrs scheme through and the town has been growing ex er srnce Tretz rs one of the brggest men rn Rome and the best part of hrm rs that he drdn t forget hrs old frrends Why he started me up ln a busrness whrch runs opposrtron to hrs Rathbone wrth an unsurpressed grrn sand Well Alexander what rs your busrness3 A hearty handshake followed the revelatron of rdentrty and Mr Alexander Srmon head of the Rome Taxr Servrce proudly drove hrs frrend rn hrs Packard to hrs destrnatron on West Bloomheld Qt and norselessly glrded away That evenrng Mr Rathbone vvrs delrghted to hear further news of the members of hrs class A numbfr had ar we cl therr countrys call durmg the great War Nlerrrtt Bradt ls d won hor or as err av ator havrng brought down the largest number of German aeroplanes Lreutenant Levrne also sors of a prece of the K rser shrrt Harold Evans rs rn the employ of the En lrsh government as aerral trafhc cop Willard Racha possesses the largest estate rn Central New York and rs wrrtrng extensrvely rn nature subjects The evenrng paper brought ne xs of a great wrestlrng match rn whrch Frank I ederfiend had won the world Q ch rmpronshrp from a husky Australran Therr attentron was turned from thrs thrrllmg news to an advertrsement of the Bates Prrvate School and plans were made to vrsrt lt This vrsrt was enyoyable Bates had burlt up qurte an rnstrtutron and hrs famrly was loxely Th oldest grrl was named Ruth The rnstructor of mathematrcs was Earl Scothon To see hrm calmly conductrng a class rt would be hard to belreve that he was the chref engrneer for the constructron of the Transatlantrc Bridge l learned all about Rathbone s vrsrt from Lrllran who also told me that she was soon to lrve rn Washrngton and l surmlsecl that she had finally sard she Wood When the donkey saw the zebra He began to swrtch hrs tarl Well l never' was hrs comment There s a mule that s been rn yall ln solid geometry after physrcal exercrse Prof Roberts slaps hrs ab domen and explarns lm getting fatter every day wrth only I3 meals a week ra t ts eer rof s beer Prof Schermerhorn rn Physrcs Golly tell me what IS the unrt of power'-l Golly Csuddenly wakrng up The what s1r3 Prof urte rrght Recrurtrng Officer So you wrsh to Jom our organrzat1on'9 Have you had any mrlrtary experrence'-' Count Srmon Yes rndeed Ive worn a wrrst watch for years! . X 1 .... , . .. . V 3 x . 1 .. , x. . - u , . I II u ' Q 1 , . . . . I .. . . e 4 . . V . . . , . I . . Tc m . . rx A 1 U 4 . . 1 .9 . ' w f 1 1 1 r i , ' K rendered invaluable service to his country and is now one of the proud posses- . a. .S . Q . . U. . D X , Q s X17 1 w 4 5 g , . 5 . g 4 . Q . . L. ' f . e .J ' ' . ' . . ' l u 9 n n , V ' i ll Y il. . Q I : , Cl I 0 Q I I Y, ' . a Il J , , . y . . - Ti 0 . ll I Q ' ' - ' ,, . . .A B d -l' b , P . It' ' 1 , I H- ' 46 THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL 1' Vy4V'z4,v-14+-544' 47 'I B l rf 1 X i THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL 'I U ' I . i THE 1918 SENIOR ANINUAI. FOOT BALL ANNALS OF 1917 History tells us ID glowing words that football has always occupied a proml nent and successful pedestal in the athletics of Rome Free Academy We are awed and thrilled by the splendid and glorious tales of the football teams which represented R F A in days long before our time lt is an established nd unanimously conceded fact that wher er scholastic football flourished there the worthy representatives of Rome Free Academy carrying the honor and prestige of the Orange and Black into strange and foreign fields were found to be truly and courageously representative of that grand and noble nstltutlon of learning and knowledge Another football season has come and gone that of the year of nmeteen hundred and seventeen Once agam the brave warriors of R F A clad in their khaki suits of armor have gone forth to battle Once again we have heard and seen the terrrhc clash and commlngllng of youthful flesh and muscle agam experienced the delightful quiver of thrilled and feverish excitement as we gazed upon the mighty struggle of the grrdiron and witnessed our boys fighting for the honor of the school and themselves What were the achieve ments of the football team of I9I 73 We ask ourselves that question when we attempt to chronicle the record of the past year Drd they do as their predeces ors have done valiantly carrying the honor and glory of the school before them in all their efforts3 It is a sacred and time honored pledge of every aspirant to football laurels to remember at all tlmes and under all clr the school rs far more precious than victory gained by unsportsmanlike tactrcs in this much when we glance back over the record of the IQI 7 football team we can well and truly say without fear of contradiction that the high standard of sportsmanship and gentlemanly character typifylng all R F A teams was paralled bv the husky young lads who bore the banner of the Orange and glack during the season of 1917 Before we simmer our ponderances to a hard headed review of facts let us consider the circumstances under which the team fought One strangely peculiar element which stands out with unexplalnable and mysterious power is the predominance of what might be termed hard luck as one of the biggest factors which the bovs had to combat with The term hard luck is often applied to many things as an excuse for their failure but there are times when the appliance of this self explanatory combination of antonyms fits the case in hand lnjurres of serious nature occurred with startling and depressing frequency from the beginning of preliminary practice even unto the final game f the season Three of the squad s malnstays received injurres early in the eason which made it Impossible for them to participate in the season s battles Captain Howard Spellicy about whom as a nucleus it was planned to build the team was seriously hurt in the first practices and as a result was confined to his home and away from the football field for the remainder of the year However the loss of their chleftam did not daunt the worthy warriors Prtted against foes far superior in weight and experlence and losing games by small margrns when victory seemed almost within reach they played a splendid Game throu hout the season 49 s X, , . ' I . . . AX. . ' - . . . , 3 . . . O . . . J g A . t . , . S y . . cumstances that to preserve the spotless and stainless dignity and respect of Y . - . . , I I s ' u L , Q A . . . . . . . D . . .5 ' . - 2 . THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL To be brlef R F A won one game and lost slx Tom H Barnard was mana er and Howard Spellxcy captam of the team ln the captam s unfor tunate and hand1cappmg absence Manager Barnard steered the shrp through tormv and troublous waters Prof Vvalter L Peterson physlcal Instructor n the Academy and Alvm C Banks physlcal dxrector of the Y M C A were the coaches throu hout the season and to them much credlt IS due for therr able and conscxentlous Work R F A unofhmally opened 1ts 1917 season on September Z9 havmg as nts opponents the Peerless A C eleven composed of former star s and alumnl The Peerless team matenally alded by thelr superlorlty ln welght and expel' zence won by a score of 7 to 0 although the hghter and faster team put up a splenflld game Th Hrst regular game was played on October 20 agalnst the heavy Syra cuse Techmcal Hlgh School team which was won by Tech by a score of I3 to 0 The work of the Rome lme was wonderful whxch the battermg aggres vveness of the backfield gamed many yards Tlme and agam Rome had the ball Wlfhln the shadow of the oal posts but the vulnerable human wall of defense whlch separated them from the coveted llne proved rmpenetrable Playmg one of the greatest games of the season R F A slammed through the lVlorr1sv1lle Agrlculture School eleven for thelr fir t and only vlctory of the v ar on October L7 wmnmg by the comfortable score of 20 to 6 The llne bucking and Held runmng of the Rome backheld made posslble by the da hmg worls. of the Orange and Black llne enabled the Romans to grab an easy vlctory The champlon Syracuse North Hugh School team came to Rome on Novem ber 3 and defeated R F A by a score of I 3 to 0 Rome can well feel proud of their playlng m thls game North Hlgh certamly had a wonderful team 1n 191 X and defeated some of the largest and best schools ln thls sectlon of the tate by overwhelming scores Cn the l0th of November R F A traveled to Syracuse where they played the Svracuse Central Hlgh School team and lost by a score of I4 to 0 Syra cuse reatly outweighed the Qrange and Black but they were forced to play to thelr llmlt to beat the boys from Rome -Xs a practxce game before the bxg U F A struggle on Thanl-tsglvmg Day V' F A agam played the Peerless A C thls tlme losmg by a score of 9 to 0 IH a clear well fought battle The day of the blg game Thanksgiving dawned clear and cold The cene of the classxc struggle was the Utlca gY1dll Oll whxch was covered with everal lnches of sllppery snow Agam the same old season story of welght and experlence bespoke the outcome of the great COI1HlCt U F A was vlc torlous by a score of 38 to 0 The Romans held effectxvely durmg the earller perlods of the game but weakemng toward the end Utlca was enabled to amass the total which It dld It was 1n thls game that 'Vlerrltt Bradt one of the most rellable and consistent members of the R F X team shattered hls collar bone and was rushed from the held ln a seml conscxous condltlon Thus even to the end the old Jlnx or onah was wxth the boys and Bradt was the player selected to suffer long after football had become a mere memory As we review the wrltlngs vn our yournal we are glad to say that although JC Y Y , 1. . . .. of I - fs ,. ,, . . : 1 t X. . .. , , , : , , .1 , . ., , g ,. , . .. . ., . . c , ,- . , , , ' 7 15 F5 c . 9 - ' . . , ' s, . 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' . , , J , - ,. , D , THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL MEMORIAL PROGRAM AT R F A The annual 'Vlemer al Dax exercr es of the Rome Free -Xeademy were held xlay 79 1016 lsverv vcar the fa tltv and student arrange the pro ram md FVITC the Duhllc to attend the exercises There was a verv lar e attendance and the guests of honor were a delefra 'lOl'1fOH1ql-'llllh Rc t No I G 'X R and Sergeant XX B Owens Corporal lvle l Howland of the armv and Ben Beach of the naxv former students f R F A It w as verv ITDDTCSSIXC as the members of the C A R followed ny the three former R l' A students marched upon the platform The xeterans occupled one slde whlle the heroes of to diy sat on the opposite lde of the stage The sides of the assembly hall were banked with ferns and the front of the stage was beautifully decorated wlth ferns and flowers At one end of he stave there W a framed mcture of Henry l-larrlson Cummmgs who went down wlth the tran port Antllles surrounded wlth the flag of the Allres The CXCTCISCS opend at 7 o clock wvth a very plea mg program The Fr t number was a medley of patrlotlc selectlons by the R F A orchestra Vh s was followed hy l mcoln s Gettyshur Address IN en by W1ll1am N IU rent Toomey The next was a declumatxon hv Harry Frankl n Rlce Speech t Umon Square TN Y l86l fBaker Three ClVll Vlfar songs were then ung hy the school tal Battle Cry of Freedom tbl Tramp Tramp Tramp f lVl'1 yland 'Vly Wazvlard Contmulnv the speaklng part of the program TVTHUYICC Levme gave Krplmv s Gunva Dm and MISS Dorothv lvaldo recited Fleurette fSCYVlCC Three songs of the present war were rn f Keep the Home Fures Burnmg b We ll Never Let the Old l'lag Fall It s a Lonff Way to Berlm At thls tlme the class memorlal a handsome servxce flag was presented to he school by the Class of l9l8 It was unfurled and horsted on the wall at the rear of the platform The presentatlon speech was made by Harold Rath lone our class Presxdent 'Vlr Harms read the honor roll contammg l70 1 mes of forrnrr students of Rome Free Academy who have yomed the colors The erxlce lla h xd the figure 170 on It wlth on gold star for Henry ll ummmv and two red crcsse for Miss Agnes Dool y nd 'Vhss 'Vlyra lVl1rxavn morn e nurses ln the servlce A former member of the Rome Free Academy Henry Harrlson Cummmgs made the supreme sacrxflce for Democracy He lost hrs llf when the transport Xntllles was torpedoed A trlbute was pald to his memory by Ruth Seymour Klngsley who reclted the followmv poem Oh happy boy you have not lost your years You llved them through and through ln these brlef days When you stood facmg death They are not lost They rushed tovether as the waters rush From many sources you had all m one 32 . . 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One could Tlflh 1918 S1:N101x ANNUAL LAST DAY Cotld Me exer forget ln 1c 1-ith tla smates xo 10 you readers knoM t t that memorable day Mas OL1 last 111 Good old R E X 5 It M as ar lor us to real1Le thls sad thouffht but Me tr1ed our best to be fray Wferen t ax t oug 111 day l0nU3 s the 111110 clock le-11 1 11 e111or r s mr woxs M1111 dolls 111 Q r1'1 cs 1110 cxpress 1 xrts 111 11ched around thc Qtudx llall ex ery 0116 wxth 11a cr IL ll s 1rr Xu t1emsc xes 011 t Q moxs Slflf' an Xlgl vcr th the openmf of the rfternoon sessxon 1ppe1rcc1 lYYy Rue 1111 De1son1t1ng Plxnclpal l'larr1s One could hardly tell the dxfference twxx V11 l-la1r1s and our noble Sen1o1 Those llttlc personal 01111 tus Mhreh Me 111 know so well had been well stud1ed out and wcxe rece xed bx thc students Mlth Cfre1t applause But Ma1t Mhit IS he saylng 'X spealxcr3 lVl1ke Bow le s sole SUTVIY or ofthe Hogan Alley Reglment He must have had wonder ful eXper1ences3 Ah here comes Supermtendent Staley w1th the Speaker ls that Mr Staley3 No 1 do belleve that IS Harold Rathbone hardly tell the dlfference l never kneM they resembled each other so closely Mr Harrls after greetmg M110 Bowler' prese1 ted Qt 1ley who gave an lnterestlng outl1ne of Major Bovxleg s llfe Mr Bowlevs was all that one could 1mag1ne Ile succeeded 111 makmg the most solemn of our school laugh Ulltll tears 'tppeared He certa1nly plctured h1S adventures very plamly None other than Wllllam Tletz could have done t 19 After showmg how great was hls apprec1at1o11 for th1s great man lVlr Harms announced that the performance would be contmued at 3 o clock At the set tlme the curtam arose on a country school room Old fashloned desks and all Ah sure enough here comes the old schoolmaster up the alsle loaded down wlth books and an umbrella After puttlng the room IH order he rang a huge bell out the door to call the pUpllS to class One by one they come tomboys SISSICS freckled kxds sunburned and all sorts and var1et1es Agam there IS a resemblance of Harold Rathbone ln that schoolmaster Yes tlS he On the last day school No 21 always has exerclses and a Chrlst mas tree Such was the program Such good songs the vlsltors and students had never heard better How appropr1ate each llttle glft was' Not a person was left out The SXCTCISCS were closed Wlth the master s benedxctlon As the last sound of laughter dled away and the schoolmaster closed the school the audlence shared each other s feelmvs that Class 18 certamly would be remembered as the best class that R F A ever produced D1d she come to the door when you serenacled her Wlth your mando IDB No but another fellow came along and brought her out w1th an auto horn Tommxe You sald you would meet me and d1dn't lVlar1on Xvhy don't you know lm Ol'DQPTVlI'1f' meetless days Kernel D1d you bury all the dead a l ordered thlS mornlng'-1 P1'lXlt Ye slr but we had a l1ttle trouble wlth one of them Kernel XVhat3 Pr1x1t Xvhy one of them ralsed up on h1s elbow and sald he wasn't dead but then he Mas one of them d d Germans and you can never belleve anythmg they say so we burxed hlm anyway ' 1 1 ' ' w ,1, Y f K 1 , Y A A V Vrirw Y W V Y V W Y Y U 1 ' ' 5 11 1 '. . 1 st ' , 1 1 1 EW y' . 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C - 7 T ' . . 5-1 THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Du You Have Truble Wlth Your Spelling If So Sea Me Whlle at schule l wun ateen med dles for excelence ID thxs branch of edducashun l have not mlspeled a word for slxten yers My methud IS a slmpel one Ask to se my latest and last bok entltled Padgetts Peerleas Speller ANTONY TEXAS PADGITT Chlef Managers Fraus Carroll und Townsend Fussers Club Headquarters Shelleys Grove Colors Rouge and Flesh Motto On to the Dam or bust Officers Presldent Harold Martln VICC Presldent Beatrlce Townsend Secretary Dorothy Waldo Actlve 'Vlembers C Bates R Klngsley H Rathbone Lllllan Wood Elsle Davls Wlnlfred Barr Adalalde ones Margaret Wallls Ruth Evans Elsworth Rockwell Thomas Puttock Merrltt Bradt Donald Barnard Harry Rlce Vlncent Raffauf Alumm Wlnxfred Rowland Mane Raffauf Two men came out of a depart ment store the other day One was Scotch and the other hadnt bought anything elther S My boy l-llram IS a pretty ood French student look at all them Par1s1ennes he reads AND THE BAND PLAYED ANNIE LAURIE l say son where IS the Boston Store5 Dllllngham While your mode of address slr warrants of vul ar not to say undue famlllarlty you shall have the lnformatlon you seek You can no doubt observe yonder a rather tall structure of rennalssance archltecture and directly opposlte that very beautlful bank of whlte marble Well the bulldmg you de sure IS lmmedlately contiguous Miss MacFarland ln Amerlcan Hlstory You wlll remember that you began your Tarnff outllne back Ill l 33 Mr Harrls after glvlng the stu dents a lecture on gum chewing walked down the ansle and expound ed the followmg to Kmgsley Klngsley lf you could see your self chewlng gum ln publxc you would cut lt out You look llke a bllly goat chewing the tall end of a tln can Prof Roberts rn Trng Rath bone how dld you derlve formula No 61 Rathbone l dldnt derlve t Pythagerenous clld that Ruth Evans ftelllng a story in oral Engllshl About 4 or 5 years ago glrls and myself had an occa lon to rlde on a street car about 7 years ago May II Prof Harrls seen ID Selllcksl Ye Gods' V Prof Harrls talkln to SCDIOTS about commencement tlckets You know there wlll have to be a cer tam number of seats reserved for the Board of Eclucatlon the Mayor and the Scommon Scoundrels - . , , , Q' 1 I . T Y 1 I , ' , '. g , . 1 Y ' . . ' ' ' - ' P . l U ' 8 . Treasurer. . . ..... Madison Jackson - - 1 . K . . : . , - , I l s V n n - 1 . - S. . i- V . Y . , Sl 4 ' , 56 THF 1913 SENIOR ANNIIAI xt Ixept you awake s nlfhtJ -Xw I could hear the hed tuck ac t0aIIantIy IVIar1e dear anythmg that you say goes IVIWTIC qu1cIcIy ack I-Ie Id Ilke to take you to the theatre to mght hu the seats wouldnt be comfortable She What makes you thunk so3 He The oy ernment put tax on them II' C, 1 No I Been O11 H VdCdtlOl13 Ito No 7 INo been on a tramp' Q in I rent you a flne Camp near Lake DeIta3 Vot by a dam slte The starving tramp puIIed hlm self up to the door of the suburban home Food h asped to a woman X ho lnswered the door The woman hrouvht out a Ioaf of hread Ia e lt s e S81 t S III there IS ID the house Is It rye bread3 whlspered the tramp N0 white bread answered the woman I cannot take lt t1S wheat Iess d1y And he died on the spot itleut octor wh, does smaI cu y e m so rue to ton1ue3 IDEIUQI ut the natural en devry of the ton ue to exaggerate I s ppose Now Qynthla th1s ar t1cIe 1n the 1Imanae proves that corvtry people are much smarter Iran clty folks yx thxa Ilow s t at5 Ihram It says is how the pop 1 ton III the LIIICQ ire denser than IU the Country IIIYPAFH feetng the Pew mlhtary styIe halrdre s 1zeI Is that so3 AdeIaxde Yep Bangs Ilv s of Q FIOYS all remlnd us We can strlxe to do our best Ard departlnff Ieave behlnd us Note hooks that WIII heIp the rest Ilorex Graclous Your mud uard IQ all smashed Dld you bump nto someth1nv3 Harrx No We were standmv perfeeth st1II ahd 1 fire hydrant Ixdded mio e m h If mphned o Iss you e ow stupld of me thouvht you were mereIy round houIdered - I 5 1 - Y W K W W W H VLf'hr ' ' ' Ia t Ile ' 1 L D . 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Y S- e 12 .1 right heside her. in A2 1. . 2 ' g - f Ot- THE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL Excuse me he sald would you mxncl taking your foot from under 'J ITIIHC l-low considerate he was such a perfect gentleman Yvette knew that she could follow hlm through any cafe All too soon the car reached her destlnatxon and Yvette got out So clld the young man Yvette went up on the front porch of her home The young man stlll followed her She fell more and more m love wxth h1m and she slammed the door 1n h1s face Snr she crled l shall call my father Please do replled the young man l have here a laundry b1ll of yours that l would lxke to collect Somewhere ln the house a pm fell to the floor wxth a dull thud But as It was a safety p1n no one was alarmed Cornell Xvrdow ln hs Business Engllsh D Lewns glves a lust of words common ly mlsused The members of the class rn fourth year Engllsh would l1ke to ask hlm to add the word funny to thls l1st It IS the word used almost excluslvely ln crltlclslng our themes Who can account for when she means blundermg extradlr cllnary laughable peculiar astonlsh mg odd cllscouragmg poor froma fourth year vlew pomt badly pressed lncomprehenslble etc Rathbone Say Levine cl1d yOu know they had schools 1n the dark ages3 Levine No dld they3 Rathb Y h Knight sglfliolsl es t ey ad Raffauf lVlr I-larrls my grand mother IS dead and l must get off to go to the funeral match I mean the baseball ceremonles I1 MISS Seely What IS gender3 Nervous Pupll Ah h let me see why gender IS that whlch shows ah whether a man IS rnascullne fernlnme or neuterl I Wonder How They Would Look' lVhss Angell wlth a frown3 Nlxss Hxgham chewlng gum3 l-larold Rathbone smoklng c10arette3 Gertrude Hyde wlth her mouth closed3 Honey Scudder graduat1ng3 B111 Gage ln a shower bath3 Prof Harrls wlthout a mustache'-V Ruth Kingsley lf she ever flunkecl an exam3 Frederlck Talman saymg hrs pray ers Amateur l got hlt once wlth a coward tomato Frlend What IS a coward to mato3 Amateur One that huts you and then runs' l-larold Rathbone translatlng ln German Class Nothlng IS more pleasant than to stroll through the woods and stroke the arm of a glrl Correct Translatlon more pleasant than to stroll through the woods on the arm of a gurl Nothmg IS , , 3 K ' . , . I Y r. . . , - a .. ay . . . ' 4 1-, I the reason that she must use funn Blanch Hawkins in a gym suit? . ' - . - . , , y ' - . . - ' 1 I 1 ' ' ' . . s ' Q ' ' , ex- ' , 1 ' Y Y n ul Y I , D ? ' y ' . TT . . . t - h - 1 ' ' , - -1 1 ,-.1-. ' - O - . . -i.. . . I ' -1 ' A l- ' y ' -1 . . v TWO STAFF MEMBERS WOBKING LIKE 60 AN YOU 'fe f f-'QQ X S1 X? ,fi , I 1 wk X' 'gf si MAUNE 5 is JS I' R W 2. X If 0 W 'Z ff 41 , 19 , 1 ffflf, rfg X 4 if ' mx v n Q 1 v ,. , L, ' . n W1 1' L ig f .. ' 'f -xr' f, f'- ' , X i 2 W - , 2 1 A G A V , , ' ' 'K V if wfxfie f- M1 1 . ' 'T - 1,2 g 'lx xt pg , Y. - .Yvf QT, A ,J , , , , -'pf-. A5531 - ' ' 6345335 'Va frfgyf ,ifwfw fc - 'W MK-. ' Eff '-Wfffv, .fa QQ- f-'V H411-M' mr 55141411 if Q fa! E A ' I . y S n n ff 1,1 , ,wx P .P wx- ,1 4 , 'nl wr, SA- ,' ,I Wy., Af, 'if ' Qi. -,X A ,k gm. , .sift-: -g5gf.fQ-5 -. , 41 JL 4 5. I :' : A - Q wm OiLiibiiQbQiiLi 1 nfsmu w.1.stt,tt'sQQt'5s1!.s Nxlfblxl 11 QHJJ PIA 0 FV? 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UNIVERSITY or BUFFALo COLLEGE OF DENTISTRY SESSION OF l9I8 l9I9 Prellmlnary Educatlonal Requlrement llallfylllg certrhcates may be Issued on evldence of the satlsfactory completlon of a four year course m an approved hugh school or IIS equlva lent or any Regents AC8dCmlC Dlp oma Thus course of lnstructlon should lnclude one year each chemlstry physics and blology Course of Instructlon The course ln dentrstry IS one of four years The first and second years are devoted to the fundamental studies of medlclne and dental technlc w 1Ie ln the thrrd and fourth years the greater part of the tlme IS spent ln the general practice of dentlstry There are more patlents applymg for treatment than can he accommodated whlch glves a student a rare oppor tumty to become famlllar wlth all classes of dental operatlons There are only hfty thousand dentlsts to one hundred and hfteen mllllon of lnhahltants ln America alone Therefore the proresslon IS not ln any sense crowded Opportumtles T e general practlce of dentlstry Oral Surgery Orthodontla e Navv The Army e Lecture Platform of the State Boards of Health T e free dental cI1n1cs whlch are estahllshed ln most every clty and town ln the United States Attendmg dentists to rellgxous charltable mdustrlal and penal lnstl tutxons Dental educatlon FOR CATALOG ADDRESS DANIEL I-I SQUIRE D D S Dean 25 Goodnch Street Buffalo New Yorl: I l Q a ' e Q n , lil . .. . 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We Ask You If you dont feeI just r12,ht If you C In t sleep it mght If you moan and SI h If your throat IS dry If you cm t smoke or dr1nIx our ruht stfs I1Lc 1 If your he 1rt dof sn t I ou ve r c cf If your head Q 111 1wh11I Why don t you marry the lr 9 An Edltor s Savmgs -Xn ed1tor who started about twenty years 1 o w1th onIy Hfty five cents IS now worth S100 000 H13 1uurr1uI1t1011 f th1s y 1st fortune IS owm s 1 1 ood h1IJ1ts 1, mderful hc td Ior IJLISIDCS mc e fmt th1t 1111 e cur md e hlm 1509 COI RTI S1 Ot f I RII II Nlr Robert Do you subtr xct 1 Vx hy IS Amermin 'xrmy the cle-nommfxtor trom the numerl I1Ite x D03 tor or the DIIYYICYIIIOI from the de Sxm Ill D e nom1n1tor3 me ee A J KNAUER PRINTING Envrax td Cards 'md Im1t'1t1o11s I LOONE LE-XF LEDL IRS RLBBER NTAXIPN -XNID LPPLIES PI1Of163'IC II XX DONIINICR BT I 1 Beexuse It mxkes 1 n dread Try our TEAQ ind C OFFEI S Put up or us I y CI11n, ot 'Xml or11 N INI IRLII Ix TI-IE NIARIXET BASRET XX r IWom1n1Ix r N0tlC6 Iiro h xx ho thou ht the 1I1l'tll?1IbO'i uw a Iot michme tm hxve thelr penme back by applym to the ecI1 tor 'W Y 1 5.2 I A ' lg ' - V E ' f A ' V, 1 E E ' O 'J YA. 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Iuv bCIIODI cf IncI111duaI Imtructmn Rome IVIHCHYOHI Mfg Qompanv 'NI I K I XII Kmds of H1 I1 Clad IVIACARONI I' E P BOY SON I-Iabcrdabher and Lustom QIOIIIILI' 109 Wet IDOITIIUILIC Sirvct ALWAYS ASK I-OR RED STAIVIPS 11os1 ON s1o1zF IVILRPIIY 61 BURPIS W ALK OV ER SHOES IO1 'Worth ame Street ROX AL SWELTS IR Ice CICHUI, ITFLIIIS and Candles BUSH C ORINER LREI m 64 I XIVIIS 1 014111 QIQN IRAL I LJNLH xxx Serv: 'NOIIWIPS5 B t In QI AI' RI XSON XIII E IRIC I S IT IS A FAQT c ID ol r mr ou VIAPIQH mx! Xx1II gnc I Perfect Satlsfactlon lt m1II KO I you notI'11ng NJ one mn do morn TRY US A P WILLIAMS The Jew Ifr I-I8 XXI ST DOIXIIINICK SIREET I WEISS The Fan Store Drv Cloud II u e Iurmshmgs Nohons Class x are Qrockn-rx C rpet NXIBIIIIIQS an U1I ' Ioths 179 NORTH IXNIES STRLET I R FOOT Inc Qc lik VND 71a SIORI I CITY BARBFR SHOP A1411x 1 . 1 r 1 V KV L, ,A I L ,I , Y i 1 1 I I 1 ,- v . S ,- 1 O My aol il S 1 1'f I 1 1-A221 X I 1 1 ,f ',.f I-f , I I ' J' f Q. V 1, W 10,1 fy: I 2 ., H I A L HT W K ' . I. I L . nu f' i I - 9 9 T Qu' 1 T S N I'111gsQ1111I IIs InIs ' IZ7 IN I-XIXIIQS 54I'IiI:1If'I' KIA.' 'A IIIQRIIXS JI' I P I I V N 1 V' '- x I T -. 'L Q II' Off I ., 2 1I .I If II I ? BC. IIIB W PX! Iif11111111cIg 521112 r w AN , . ' ', W cv n PI 21' y 1' II P I so IIQ it I jou .s ' . - . . . ' 1' g ' . 1 o I 7 ' L I . . ' , 'I T T 4 f 'N I I N -,,,, 4 . I , i T . . I . U 7 ,W i V S, YO S , A h , - 1 , v , , 1 a 5, 1 ' ' T TT T T T d ' Q ' 1 I S ' 1 - .' ,I A ' K A . . , . J . , I ,I 1 1 J ' ' 3 -A I ZIIJ Nf11'I1 ,Ia cs Ftrr-et 1 P. L. NI I , JIOIY. A -Mu r TI-IE 1918 SENIOR ANNUAL ICE Home Macle V I I CREAM . f, CANDIES f ll? N james Street Useful Gifts for the Graduate Ex'1111111e thc UNIVERSAL LINE of Elcct11c Appli 'mccs ind IFS cxccpt1o11'1l feituics ot brylt Fmish fmcl utility You 1x1ll 111111 111 o111 shoxx 1oom 1 complete llllc of elcctr1c peico itors, to 1sters, gulls, chdfinv d1shes cmd curl 11111 110115 We strc 1lso shoxxiiw 1 completc l'11c of 1c'1cl111wl1111ps The Rome Gfts, Electr1c L1Oht LSL PoWe1 Co FOREMCDST IN AIVIUSEM ENT F 1 Nou and 1l1v1xs1l1x111 E1 T1111 Viuclexille All C V Hui lliric Acts Diitct from thc Kcith Thc1tres PHCTC PLAYS OF UNUSUAL EXCELLENCE FRANK GIARDINO l W1r Economy c llikt thiru cel Imported incl Domestic Groccries 19 S1 we 0 H111 SCI E Dommiclc St Rome N X the II lr EXCLL SIVE Bracelet Watches THE WORLD S can pu 1 se the HALL x1AR1c I3 el 1 xx af 11 Guqust Ftqture P1-Oducuous mi s 0 de no N0 e f e a ww snoxxisl AT THE V I C H10 C C r Verso al t e 1 m cl ds oftl H-XLLN ARR to st S I e I S JUERCJENS txt FRAX ER 1 No t 7 . X 3 A. ., 4 C 1 . 5 ' X . Y - 3 i X . ' 1. Q I c c , - L . v' N ' - v - 1 - ' x l 3 A .1 2 Q A Q 1 L h R R c l ' 1 A ' 1 1 - v' 1 x . x ' x G 4 ' L I A 157 L n C. at l 0 s s N 1 L U Q 1 1 . .1j'1zj'g -11-0 . 1' . . DCQIICT in ,L--I html ' , , ' , , Its 71 1 ' '- ' Sl -UlIUXVtll'II1Q'.' ll ' g' neut c' . - . . , , , 'z . 1 . ., , A . . Y Y 1 Ours is the only store i11 town i11 which you rcm . -. ' mc c I' c . xc X :L Co e 'n and ce ur exclusive 1110 l. We lc w I' u will lik is afpearanc , ricl we n- 'M 11 all, guarantee h 1' m 11tz1nd case to satisfy. O11 n guararx e is backed lr' the any hun re 1e 1 f. I. ' S rc l1rougl1oUt th fuitetl otntcs, one in mth r11w11 or citxp N 1 - - If , 1 1 c, C2 1' r E1 ,lames Struct Kg-i?i.i I THE 8 SENIOR ANNUAL ---' IQ Q I QUALE SteeI Engravers HH Manufaeturlng ewe rymen Amerlean UHIVCYSIIICS I NEW XORK ALBANY CHICAGO W -I 9ChpI 6-IERdphS XXII IES RI CO RF I IORXI R Six If Ii I d II II II ' - J N I X to I I II I , , . I I I f I II 23 est ZCI St. I a e St. . an OI L H '- II , Sf . . ' Q 'ILIDI II I I .VII-X'I'I . 'IALRY LII ON L hl5'I' I2 -CM 7 , S NI IDIC .-XIIII5, CIOSIA X H E 1918 SENIOR f. Q , iN' 9,2 BUY LIBERTY BO D Lp 9-Q 1 Yr