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

Text from Pages 1 - 114 of the 1925 volume:

E sl 2 5 3 E 5 3 54 F 9 if E S 5 2 E :Q 55 s if E S Q: E 2 5 uuncwwf fp ..,- Q. ,f - . ., 41. , 'Mu-. - - , , - , - , 1 ' -, ,- , 1-' .-.,,.w.wMumNf.- . 1. .4-. -.H-.. -,.- -,Q-. x -. .-4 H aw-nfx.,,g:',v.:,, Ebe Senior Elnnual PAL 4.- 4 34 Glass of 1925 DEDICATION What a strange thing it is that whenever a school teacher is mentioned there always flashes before our minds a picture of a tall, thin monster. with bulldog jaw and fierce eyes, a ruler in one hand and a huge book in the other. And how strange it is that that horrible monster, when once we happen to know it, turns out to be an ordinary human being, and not so cruel after all. And, too, have you not felt a thud when you for the first time have found out that someone you knew and liked was really one of those stern school teachers. I believe most of us have come to realize by such experiences that though we sometimes have those strange visions of school teachers they are really after all likeable creatures. We have certainly found it to be so with Mr. Whittemore. Who of us, four short years ago, was not over-awed by his presence in the study hall? But in these years we have come to know him and he has been found a real friend and helper to us all. More and more We are coming to under- stand that to be a good teacher one must be a friend to the pupils and come close to them so that they understand each other. Mr. Whittemore has discovered that fact long ago and made good use of it. He has become a friend of all those who have come to know him. So it is with a feeling not only of respect but of deep appreciation and friendship this Annual is dedicated. i I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL To Mr. Whittemore, who throughout our whole high school course has proven himself a real friend as well as an able instructor, we dedicate this Annual. Photos hy McClusky 6 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL SICNIK Hi ,XNNLYXL S'l'.XFlf XYilli:ims, .Xlnlrillgr-, Flillllljlilll, Zin-man. .xfl'ilUSllll. IFL-llimvi' llalmlur-ll. l,zxg:1tt:l. Day, lllzil-wslri, Lzzkr-. I,:uvlur, Gilnmn l'l1r-llc, 'l'+11'l11'. iQ1l1'lL'll. Stocking, Stonlmam l'hoto lay C. Il. liowlzmd, Cummm-rcial Plxotogrzlplwr STAFF LISLE B. CALDWELL ......,.......................... .....4.... E ditor-in-Chief EDWARD LAGATTA .,....,...L7..,7...,..f,....,,......... ...A7.... B usiness . Manager Associate Editors Helena M. Ubelle James W. Atkinson Marjorie L. Stocking Holden D. Aldridge Anna Margaret To-epp Marie E. Stedman Literary Department Joke Department Geraldine E. Karlen Austin W. Day Ervin W. Ziemann Thomas W. Flanagan Art Department Clayton W. Blakeslee Paul B. Burkard Erances C. Gilman Vito Janone ' Sports Editor W. Stanley DeHimer Assistant Business Managers Robert M. Lake Victor Lawler Junior Class Representative Howard Williams I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL 7 EDITORIAL Class of twenty-five, here is your Annuall Your staff has worked faith- fully and industriously to prepare and publish a good Annual. We are proud to say that we believe we have produced the best Annual published by any class of R. F. A. Of course every class has thought that its Annual was better than any previous one, but we are sure you will agree that this year a great improve- ment has been made. One of our greatest difficulties in producing this publication has been the problem of financing it. We sincerely thank the Chamber of Commerce com- mittee which so heartily co-operated with the staff and also the business and professional men who have subscribed for Annuals, for in this way they helped us to solve our problem. Without their aid it would have been absolutely impossible to publish this volume. We have at present sold more than twice the number of Annuals sold by previous classes. In all departments of our work we have been very successful. We also wish to thank C. B. Howland, who has added so much to the attractiveness of our book by loaning us many of the pictures which you ind here. . When you receive your Annuals your first feeling will no doubt be one of excitement and interest. You will first turn to the pictures and the jokes. To most of you, probably the Annual will seem to be a source of entertainment for the present, but Seniors, keep your Annuals down through the years. Each year that slips by they will mean more to you. They will bring back the memories of friends who may in years to come' be called to the four corners of the earth. To many of you these Annuals may bring back much dearer memo- ries. To some of you they may represent not only your days in school, but this whole period of your life. In these four years in R. F. A. great turning points in your lives may have been reached: perhaps a friend has been made who has so impressed your character that your whole life has been changed and made better. So it is with the sincere hope that your Annual may not only afford you entertainment now, but bring back in the years to come pleasant memories of events in the years to come, memories of events in your lives that only you ever knew, and only you will remember, that we present to each one of you your Annual. 8 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL GEORGE R. STALEY. Superintendent of Schools BOARD OF EDUCATION Herbert T. Dyett ................A,..................,...............,..,....A................... President Mrs. Mary Sutton Whyte ...... ......... V ice-President Leon V. Jones ................,,.....................,......... ...................................... C lerk William E. Scott Ernest L. Spriggs Daniel W. Wardwell George R. Staley ........ ........ S uperintendent of SchO0lS I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL FACULTY-4925 Photos by McCIusky no q , 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 'XVAL'l'llR I., NEXVTON ,.,, . , ,,,,. ,,,. Y,,.,...,,,,,,,Y. . . H ,YYY,,,,, ,,,,,,,., ,,Y,,,, ,,,.,, ,,,,,,. I 7 1 ' incipul Kirmlllxiti- Sxrtirtisn' lviiixi-rsitv 19117. ll. S, lirzulllxllv Stuilt-ut Sviziaiilst- :mtl lllivlumlrixx l'iiiit-isitivs. ilt-:ul fit Si-it-Nw 111-ivzirimt-111 f:1zt'i1m'iz1 St-iniimry. l'rii1ri1ut1 Xlnulius 1115111 Srliiml. 1'viiiri1r:n1 l.iln-rty lligli Srli-ml. l'i'im'i1v:il 111011 lliilgt' IX. ,l.1 lligll Scliiml. I'ri1r1- pqil liiiuit- lfri-L' .Xu:ult'uiy. 19211-1925. f 1f1.0R1fNC1Q C, SEELY ,,,. ,,,.,,,, . .A,,,,,...,.,,..,,,.....,,.,,,,,,,,.Y.,..,,,,.... Junior .1ndScniur English llrauliintc L'uriui-11 l'iiix'i-iwity, 1SN5. l'1i. II., l'11i 111-txt lxzipptt. Tztuglit :tt lfxiirlmit, X. Y., llmiri-i'i't-ltr. X. Y.. .Xu1vurn. X. Y.. .Xu-ry lustitutr. Clmrlvstiiii. S, K., Ruiiic 1'rct- Aczimlciiiy, 1'Jl14-1925. MARY L. COLE ,,,..,,, ,,,,,,..,, ,,,,,,,.,,,.,,.,,, .....,,,,,,.....,,,.,,,,,,..,,,.,..,,,,,,,,,,., ,.,,,,,.,,..,,,... E n g l ish Kli'mlix:tt4-11 Stzitc Nffrinztl Llillcigt-. 1N9fv, l'1i. IZ. Syrzicusu l'iiix't-rsity 1905, .X. ll., l'l1i lirtzi liziiilpzi, Klrzimltifitt- XYfirk in t'u1um1ui1i, 1916. ,ll1il1jL'l1f in XYL-st XYiu1ic1il, llurkiinrr, Sairntugai Spriilgs, liuukirk, .Xu1wuri1. Ruins Frcc .Xrzulciny 1922-1925. 1 , . . LOUISE KIINGSLLY .,,,..,,.,,,.,,,.,,,.,,.,,, ,...,.,,,,...,....,,,,..,.....,,,...,... ,,.. E n glish llrzuluzitt-41 XYv11s Cullt-gc 19211. Rmnc Fr:-r .Xczult-iny 1923-1925. KARLOTTA I-IEYNE ,.,......,,..,...,...,......, ......... ,....,............ .,.................. ,...,,.............. E n g 1 ish lirziiluzilt-41 Syracuse luiivcrsity 1923. Tziuglit :lt f1II1StillllL', N. Y., Ronin Frvc .XCJIKICIIIY 192-I-1925. ADA E. BENNETT ...........,...................................................,.................................... English firzultizitril Syracuse University 1915. Tauglit in Sinclnirvillc, N. Y., 1915-1917, Ellicott- villc. N. Y.. 1917-1913. ,X11llL11'1l, N. Y.. 1920-1923, Rmiit- Frm- .Xcntli-iilv. 1923-1925. MARGUERITE POTTER ..........,..........,...........,.......,,,.................., ,,,...,,,,.,.,.,,,,.,. E ngligh firmluzitorl Syiuwtisv l'nivvrsity 1917. Taught at I'u:u1i1l:i, N. Y., Roscoe, N. Y., Newark, N. Y., l't'1I'll1Q1'1lI1l, N. I., Rome Frrc Academy, 1924-1925. PHILA EMILY STROUT ........................................................ Public Speaking and Dramatics i1I'Il1l1lI1.1L'4.I Ifincrszm College uf Orzxtury, Il. L. I. Taught i11 Riumc Free AXCIICICUIY, 192-1- 1925. LAURA R. STAURING ......................... .,..,..,.......,,..........,....,.,....,...,,,,..,.,,,,,, , ,,.,,,,,,-.,,,, L grin Grznluntcrl Iilmira College 1916, A. B. Taught in Iliun, N. Y., 1916-1923, Rome Free .Xcru1i'iny, 1923-1925. HELENE L. O'CONNELL ......................,............................................... ,,.,,..,,,...,,,, .,,,,,, L Q1 fin Grzuluatcd Syracuse 1'nivt-rsity 1924, Phi Beta Kappa. Taught in Roma Fruc Academy, 1924-1925. AGDA E. HOLMES .....................,.....,,.,,.,.,,,......,......,.... ......... .... ,,..,,,..,,,,..,,.,,.,,,,,.,.,,,, F 1- Q nqh Grncluntecl Syracuse Iluivcrsity 1921. Taught at Groton, N. Y., YVl1it0sl1t1ru, N. Y., Rome Frvc Aamir-iliy, 1924-1925. MARGARET R. MEYER ............. ............................................................. H istory and Civics - llrzuluatcsl Stntu College 1922. 'llziught at Rome Free Aczulcmy 1923-1925. LEILA M. EYSAMAN ,,,,,,,.,,,.,.,,,,,,,.,,,,....,,..,.... ..,,...,................... A merican History and Civics Ili-znluntcsl Syracuse l'nivt-1-sity 19119, Ph. Tl. 'Fauglit nt Saranac Lake, Ilcmpstt-nd, Lock- purt. llt'1ll'Sl'L' XYQSIQ-yan SL'11l1111l1'j', Lima, Rome Free .Xczulciny 1922-1925. l925 SENIOR ANNUAL ll g HENRIETTA FOOT ...,..,,........ .,............... . , .. ...,.,...,................ Ancient History and Civics Graduated Sf: it ust University 1912, A. B Taught in Rome Free Academy 1912-1925, MYRON J, WHITTEMORE ........... ......... . ................ . . ..................... Chemistry and Physics Graduated St. Lawrence University 1918, L. S., Phi Beta Kappa. Taught in Rome Free Academy 1919-1925 NATALIE F. VNU IITTEMORE ............................. .. .. .............. .....................v..-------- B iOl0gY Graduated Syracuse University 1915, A. B. Taught in Sack-.tt Harbor 1915-1919, Rome Fine Academy 1919-1925. ELIZABETH BACH ..................................... . ............... ................................ ..... S Cience Graduated State College 1924, B. S. Taught Rome Free Acadizrzy 1924-1925. ANNA 1, SIJEAR .,,,-,,.,,,,4...,,.,-,,,,,.,,.,,.,.,,,, , .,,.,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,, ,,.,,.,,... IX iithematics Graduated Syracuse University 1905, Ph, B. Taught in llhoerix, Canastota and Rome Free Academy 1915-1925. DANIEL H. COLE ,...............,........................... .................,.................................. M athematics Graduated University of Rochester 1895, B. S. Graduate Work in Columbia 1916-1917. Taught gt Flushing, L. I., Haverford, Pa., Dunkirk, Angelica, N. Y., Rome Free Academy 1921-192 . ANNA A. KEOUGH ...............,............................................................................ Mathematics Graduated Syracuse University 1918, A. B. Taught at Tupper Lake H. S. 1918-1920, Syracuse North H. S. 1920-1921, Rome Free Academy 1921-1925. HAROLD A. MOE .................................................................................... Commercial Subjects Graduate Commercial Course Plattsburg State Normal School 1916. Taught in Franklin Academy, Malone, N. Y., 1916-1918, Rome Free Academy 1918-1925. MARY B. WILLSON ......................................................... .. ....... . .............. Commercial Subjects Graduated Commercial Course Plattsburg State Normal School 1913. Tauglit in Rome Free Academy 1916-1925. ERNESTINE BILLINGHAM ......... I ........................................................... C ommercial Subjects Graduated Simmon's College. Taught in Keene Valley, N. Y. Rfme Free Academy 1923-1925. HARRIET M. BLOOD .............................................................. ............. C ommercial Subjects Graduated Syracuse University 1917, A. B. Taught in Genoa 1917-1919, Jamesville 1919- 1921, Sherburne 1921-1923. Rome Free Academy 1923-1925. CLAYTON K. DOUGLASS .................................................. Commercial Drawing and Joinery Graduated Mechanics Institute 1913. Taught in Beaver Falls, Pa., 1914-1917. Uniontown, Pa., 1917-1918. Rome Free Academy 1918-1925. CAROLYN A. BIBBINS ........................................................................ Supervisor of Drawing 1911135121-elated Mechanics Institute 1903. Taught in Tonawanda and Rome Free Academy JOHN O. LUNDBLAD .............................................................................. Supervisor of Music Graduated Theoretic Course Teachers' College, Columbia University 1912. Institute lVIusical Art, New York City, 1913. Trinity School of Church Music, New York City, 1914. Institute of Musical Pedagogy, Northampton, Mass., 1918. Member of Music Council of the N. Y. State Board of Regents. Supervisor at Rome Free Academy 1918-1925. MARIAN S, GRAVES ..................... . ........................................................ ,,,.,.,. H ousehgld Aff Graduated Cornell University 1918, B. S. Taught at Interlaken, Rome Rural Schools, Rome Free Academy 1921-1925. MILDRED H. BARNARD ........................................,.........................,..... .,,, H ouseligld science Graduated Albany Normal College 1915. Taught at Hudson Training School 1915-1919. Rome Free Academy 1919-1925. WILLIAM G- KEATING --.--------.----------..--..-.-......-.......... .............. P hysical Director and Coach Graduated Lebanon Valley College 1918. Rome Free Academy 1923-1925. MARION E. ADEY ................................................................ ................ S ecretary to Principal Graduated Rome Free Academy 1923. Rome Free Academy 1922-1925. I2 i925 SENIOR ANNUAL .HX Rome Free Academy 9 WVas erected in I8-48 as a private school. at a cost of Sb2U8.9.?.. Rev. S. Ii. liruwn was first principal at a salary of 51000. The second principal was If. Moore. The th rd was Oren Root. Jr., and his .issistant was Elihu Root. The Academy was adopted as rt part of the Union Free School System of the Districtnnjuly10,1S09. The Academy lot was originally the gift of Dominick Lynch. in the interest of Education to be foiever occupied by it building devoted to that purpose. I Photo by C. B. Howland, Commercial Photographer The old building was taken down in 1847 and the present building costing 580,433.31 was erected in its place, being com- pleted and iirst occupied in the fall of 1899. The upper floor was devoted to Academic Worn, the lower to grade work nnder the name of Court Street School. W. D. Hood was Principal of Academy, R. H. Barringer the Principal of the Court Street School, Grade work was grad- ually crowded out of the build- mq' until 1913, since then the entire building has been used for Academic purposes, At that time 119139 there was a. total registration of 421 pupils, This year 119253 the total registration is 809, f 1 l i X M F L i. A 8 lik hi f. ,.L, K4 ,ihvil J 1 . X 9311 3. Q, ,i iii i l ' , '. fi K, ra ig ik, IV A, .k K '!, , 3 , ,.g'-Mtg N 5. gf 9 5.1 Eg fr 1, N, L. -at 'S X l t- tl- 5 3 lit fe i - if 2' ,g f f' f,.l E 3 1 f ' Q Q alt 2 535 1 Q 6 of 9. , was 1 .i . i l Q ' -' 1 r 1. 'Q 4' ' V fr in ' ' A 1 Y . I 1. 352 3 ,ui e if i , . ., I F231-1 if s 1 . f mf 2 J it 2 I .- 9 3 . . I ,. , ' K f , ig: - i r ' s?jl, . . ' 1 e . . , T A - L . ' i f M -- 0' el. . . 1 Y t. i , , ,ie . , .. . The new structure now building was authorized in May. 1924. Construction started in November and will be ready for use some time during 1926, It will accomodate 600 pupils of Sophomore, Junior and Senior grade, The building appropriation was 8400.000 and the lot cost 525,000 additional, The present building will then be used for eighth and ninth grades, 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 3,0 C A A f . V V X I4 1923 SENIOR ANNUAL 'l Winslow Francis Alder- Babe Photos hy RlcClusky 3 Blanche C. Baril- Frenchy We wonder if archery is the only thing To those who knoweth not no words Babe has been teaching Marjorie. can paint, Baseball '25, ' And those who know thee know all d ' f' 2 Norma Caroline Baker- Norm wot S are mm She lgkcs potsdam weft 4 David Holden Aldridge- Hobo This handsome young man intends to take a post-graduate course at St. Aloysius. Staff. Hi Y. 6 James William Atkinson- Jim He's got a face so meek and mild, You'd never think he was so wild. Staff. Hi Y. 5 Ernestine Leona Affolter Zeal is stronger than fear or love. 7 Helen Louise Arthur- Hollie Love sought is good, but giv is better. Class play. Second Girls' Slingerland '25. Secretary of Senior Class. en unsought 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL Photos by McClusky Stuart W. Barrett- Stu Christine shoots an awful line, How can Stuart Barrett? Florence Helene Bowman- F1ossie She is quite a basketeer And deserves a hearty cheer. Paul Burkard He draws horses but the horses draw them. Staff. Elizabeth Anna Benkert A'Of her smiling, she was full coy and simple. Bertha Etta Brewer- Bert Altho her hair is very red, There's much gray matter in her head Clayton Walter Blakeslee- Clayt Static may come and static may go, But Clayton stays on his radio. Staff. never draws carts : Marion Ruth Blakeslee If eyes were made for seeing, Then beauty is her excuse for being. J 16 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL Photos by Mcfllusky Lisle Bentley Caldwell Mildred Adah DeWolfe- Milly Concerning Lisle there is much to tell. She has :1 head for curls and music. But call him a good fellow and you have Orchestra. Caldwell. Editor-in-chief of Annual. Austin Wirth Day , Vvlait till some Eve ends Day. Anita Campanaro Salutatorian. ls she dieting to get Slim ? Honor League. Staff. W. Stanley DeHimer- Stan You should hear him sing 4'l'm Goin' South. Class play, Basketball. Staff. Baseball. Basketball. Grace Marie Courtney Bernice Ethel DeParma Grace does not believe in taking the will When Bernice drives his little Ford, for the deed: she gets the deed. We wonder what she drives it toward 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL I 7 Photos by McClusky Dorothy Ely Ira George Egger Her aim in life is high. Does he ever get Red'in the face? , , Class play. Mzeczyslaw J. Dobrowskl- Metz A Trouble in the Latin class is Stauring up Beulah Almma Drake for him. A bright little girl is Beulah Drake, In History Class she is no fake. Howard Eades He's strong, He's Karlen's cheese. President of Senior Class. Orchestra. Leo Edson Duggan- Dug Paul Ellinger Leo's popular with the teachers. He ought He's all around Wright when he dances to get a lot of outside tutoring. Class play. Class play. -,na yy I925 SENIOR ANNUAL F Photos by McC1usky Georgiena Flanders jack Peter Farr I'd walk a million miles Be careful, Christine! This boy knows A For one of your smiles, lot about batteries. He may shock you. Georgia! Stage manager of class play. Cheer leader '23, Orchestra. Cl l . , ass p ay Irene Ernestme Fox Carlton DeVello Gardiner- Mutt Ah! hergs to our fair Irene: A clever man, tho they call him Mutt, Of Point Rock she's the village queen. To Catherine there seems to be nothing else but. Football. Baseball. Hilda E. Flack- Flip Here's to Flip, who doesn't care a rip, For all the men she has in her grip. Llewellyn Rawson Fitch Donald Evans- Don We all have to look up to this young man. One would not think to look at him He would like the lights so dim. l925 SENIOR ANNUAL W I9 Photos by McClusky Virgil Eugene Gardinier- Virg A good catcher in baseball, but hasn't ex- tended his efforts to the fair sex. Miriam Celestia Gladding We hear this girl is leaving town, F b ll. Bigtbjlll Patrick H. Grogan, Jr.- Pat Tennis, The youth of the fountain. Does he take a Toepp. Treasurer of Senior Class. Sixth academic honor. Frances Charlana Gilman Docs she always get her beaux at Wool- P worth's. Staff. Clara Glickman Shes pretty, witty, and very smart, We wonder who has won her heart. Beatrice E. Goldman- Bee Jeanette Mary Grogan Actresses will happen in the best regulated Very shy and very Coy: families. Never bothers with a boy. Orchestra. She says she's going down to Brown. CVC! A20 I925 SENIOR ANNUAL Photos by McCIusky Ernestine Dorothy Herrick This young lady's the class scamp Who doesn't bother about Walter Camp. Vito C. janone Men may come and men may go, But I talk on forever. StaiT. Anna Horowitz A thing of beauty is Joseph Wendell jones- Squire I-Ie's too tall to walk under his own um- brella. Class play. Ralph W. Harrington In his bonnet you'll agree There is a little buzzing Bee . Mary Louise Harrnacker Mary, Mary, quite contrary: You're the cream of your father's dairy. a joy forever. John Hnat A lie in time saves nine fin English classj I925 SENIOR ANNUAL 2l Photos by McClusky Emily Jutzler Orrin Augustus Kilbourne- Sonny Her looks do argue her replete with mod- This boy has all the ladies looking, estyf' But he doesn't go so well with Stocking. O h t . Morris Robert Jones- Morry rc es ra A-1 fear thy kisses, gentle maiden, Geraldine Eudora Karlen- Dee Dee She doesn't like boys. Oh, fplShaw! Stall. Class play. Martha J. Kilborn- Mart All is not bold that tittersf' Emma Kilbourn Hazel Leota Kite The greatest possession is se1f-posses- Knowledge is power. She is powerful ll sion. V zzggn 1925 sENioR ANNUAL Plmtos hy KleCluskv Arthur Knight- Art He surely is a ladies man. Just ask Helen Holihan. Football '2-l. Basketball 'Z5. Baseball '25, Helen Eloyse Kropp Never too old to yearn. Myra Beatrice Kite The doors of opportunity are push and pull She has push pulled. Brcrii Kozma Young Lochinvar came out of the He left home his coat and also his Second Boys' Slingerland '25. Orchestra. Rudolph Lagai- Rudy He imitates Bill Tell and Cupid, And in his studies is not stupid. Fourth academic honor. Honor League. Oratorical honor. Harold LaFountain- Speed Find the woman involved And the problem is solved. marked ed ind VJest vest Gaeta no Edward Lagatta- Nuche Handsome is as handsome does. wonder our Annual is a success. Advisory Board. Business manager of Annual. Boys' Slingerland honorable mentio H l'l l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 23 Photos by McC1usky Victor George Lawler-- Choppy Robert McAdam Lake- Bob The number of this man's widows will Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, be in proportion to the size of his estate. If the cops don't get you the flappers must. Staff. Staff. Tennis. Advisory Board. Eric Owen Lumley Dorothy Mary Meyers He shows Wisdom in that when he has Let her now speak or hereafter hold her nothing to say, he refrains from giving us piece of information for a good price. wordy evidence of the fact, Emil Lewis Mosier- Em Somebody's stole my gal. Hi Y. Philip Marion Marguerite Martin He sure can play football. Silence gives contempt. Football '23-'24. 24 I9Z5 SENIOR ANNUAL Photos by MeClusky Dorothy Irene Neudecker Arthur Jackson Neaf- Art He didn't hold true. so l havent one. Vvle don't know how far back he is in his , , studies, but he's halfback in football. Enrlco Nicolello Football' Speaking of this Nicolello, A , You may be sure he's quite a good fellow. Lois Mildred Noble , Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds. Florence Elizabeth O'Neill She likes Nichols better than dollars. Orchestra. Kathleen J. O'Neil1 Paul Page She who owes nothing fears nothing, This is the liveliest page in the Annual. Football '23-'24, Baseball '23-'24. 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 25 Photos by McClusky Conrad Clark Pressey- Conny Dominick James Parry- Bambino A Con, man. Shaving is his skin game. I'm interested in business, too, Patronize me and I'll patronize you. John Tlwmas Parsons Football '22423-'24. 'Tis better to have loved and lost, Basketball '24, Than to have fallen and be bossed. Baseball '24. William Merritt Pendorf- Bill The handsome blonde sheik of the 25's, He makes all the ladies run for their lives Doris Anna Rebe ln Lee Center she's the belle. But in Rome-who can tell? Class play, Franklin Rayland- Bum,' Leo Adolph Rees Consistency. thou art a mule. Just ask Marguerite, She'll say that Leo's sweet. Orchestra. 26 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL Photos by RIcClusky John Edward Rienzo- johnny Catherine Julia Rosenburgh All around athlete and all around the girls. She was a phantom of delight Football '23-'24. When first she gleamed upon our sight. Basketball 'Z3-'24-'25. Vice-president of Students' Association. Baseball '23-'Z-I-'25. Tennis. David Aaron Shacter Not so very large a factor, Anna Rlzzuto But there's a lot to David Shacter. This young lady sure has the looks: ' Down at the library she looks after the books. Mary Arletta Schue This Schue has a soul, a tongue, eyes and toes. Helena Serena Christine Deitrich janet Shaylor A friend in deeds is a friend one needs. I can talk like a book, but I don't shut up so easily. Class play. 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 27 Photos by MeClusky Elizabeth Margaret Slagel As studious a little miss As reached sixteen without a kiss, Newell Smith Faint heart ne'er won a fair lady. Valedictorian, Honor League. Leo Lawrence Stump Can you imagine this mild young man Ruthless? Orchestra. Clara Isabelle Stafford We hear Clara is quite interested in the Y. M. C. A. Frances Eleanor Mary Marjorie Lucia Talcctt Stocking- Socks 'Nuff said. First prize Vernon Center '24, Class play. First Girls' Slingerland '24, Orchestra. A Honor League. Oratorical honor. Fifth academic honor. Vice-president of Senior Class, Staff. Marie Stedman Marie should be clean-minded, because she changes it a dozen times a day. Staff. Class play. Second Girls' Slingerland '24, Sara Slutzker One of Bevitt's chambermaids, She's gay and lively and yet well stayed. l Z8 i925 SENIOR ANNUAL Photos by McC1usky Myrtice Irene Tudman Tut, tut, men:-Tudman. Rosemary Waller During nights and during days, All she thinks about is Hayes. William White Wardwell- Bill Save the price of egg shampoo. Stay Comb makes the hair lay. Secretary of Advisory Board. Orson Emest Van Wagenen- Ernie People who love in glass houses should pull down the shades. Anna Margaret Toepp Let her that standeth Pat take heed lest she fall. Staff. Emogene Pearl Stook With her Walt She finds no fault. Helena Ubelle With reason firm, the temperate will, Endurance, foresight, strength, and will. Staff. Honor League. Third academic honor. jackson DeWitt Waterbury- Jack Jack of all trades and master of many. President of Students' Association. Manager football. Manager baseball. Basketball. l9Z5 SENIOR ANNUAL 29 Photos by McClusky Margaret Stedman Wolff Ruth Margaret Williams A lovely apparition sent Ruth, we hear, is quite a child. To be a moment's ornament. But we are told she's not so mild. Gladys May Wood Jessie Irene Wellman We wonder if Gladys Wood, Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, But, no, we hear she's far too good. Like twilight, too, her dusky hair. Ervin William Ziemann Horace Wocdcock He that laughs last laughs best. The It takes a college girl to understand Hor- laugh's on you, Ervin. ace. Staff. , , , Emlyn Gifford William- Ham Milton Wi11i3mS Milt,, That girl he talks to back at the reference As Miss Seely would say, Many girls table Isabell. take Milton, but how few have learned to appreciate him. First Boys' Slingerland '25. First Vernon Center '25. Orchestra. l 30 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL HISTORY OF CLASS '25 Now are we presenting the final tableau in the history of our class. Yet a few more weeks, and the great ship with its precious cargo of a little better than one hundred souls will ride peacefully at anchor in its longed-for haven. Long has been this voyage and prosperous: days of calm and days of storm: days of hope and days of despair: days of light-hearted frivolity and days of earnest endeavor. Can there be one voyager upon whose brain the events of this four years journey has not been indelibly stamped? ,Is there one whose sorrow in the dim and mysterious future will not be lightened by reverting to this most happy period? If such there be, we know him not. Therefore is my task burdensome: the class history a hollow mockery. It was in the September of 1921 that there entered into the Rome Free Academy a great multitude of new students who, according to the custom of the school, were called Freshmen , but, according to the custom of the upper- classmen were called Freshies . I do not know whether we deserved this name or not, but I am inclined to think we were very meek at that time. We were informed that to protect ourselves from being ruled by the upper-cla,ssmen we must elect a set of officers. This ritual being duly accomplished, we felt more safe from those haughty and dignified upper-classmen. During our second year, as is usually the case, we were not seen or heard from to any great extent, but in our third year we realized we were in that realm of the upper-classmen, working for great achievements. We found that we were in a gallant, gay crowd and were being swept along on a tide of school and social activities. However, our greatest delight and accomplishment was to reach the height and fame of Seniors. This we did the following year and found to our great dismay that we had only one more school year to spend in dear old R. F. A. We decided to make this year the very best. We started out by giving our best support to all the school activities. We think it can truthfully be said of us that we have given the class of neither 1924 nor 1926 cause for sorrow arising from bitter defeat and that it has always been our policy to bring joy to all and sorrow to none. . The history of the class of 1925 as undergraduates is now almost com- pleted. The proudest moment of our lives, when we shall receive the diplomas of graduation, is yet to come, but is not far distant. Then we will be scattered to the four corners of the earth, some of us, perhaps, never to meet again. But whatever the future may have in store for us let us ever retain the spirit of R. F. A. and, grateful for the memory of these happy years of school life, let us express our gratitude by ever increasing love and devotion for our Alma Mater. H. L. A., '25, l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 31 GIRLS' PROPHECY I was walking slowly through the woods when suddenly I heard a low moaning. I advanced in the direction from which the sound came, and saw a queer old man, about three feet high, vainly trying to free his long snow-white beard, which was held fast in a crack in the bark of a tall pine tree. When I reached the old man I took out my jackknife, intending to cut his beard in order to free him. But he objected to having his beard cut. So I inserted my belt axe in the crack, and by exerting all my strength, was able to free him without harming his beard. How can I reward you? he asked. For three days I have been impris- oned in that terrible manner by an evil witch. If you had not freed me I would surely have stayed there until I died of starvation. I am a wizard, and I shall do all that is in my power to reward you. I thought for a moment. Then I asked, Can you look into the future? Yes, he replied, but to do that I must be in my enchanted cavern. If you will come with me I will show you what you wish to know. I followed the old man through the forest until we came to a large rock. He tapped thrice upon the rock with a heavy cane which he carried. An invisi- ble door in the rock swung open, disclosing a narrow passageway. We fol- lowed this passageway until we reached the cave. I peered curiously about me as I entered. The cave was dimly lighted by a queerly shaped lantern, which was suspended from the roof. A raven croaked thrice as I entered. A large owl, perched on the back of a three-legged chair, winked solemnly at me. A small red fox, chained to a leg of a heavy table, arose and snarled warningly as I approached, but at a sharp command from the wizard he lay down and became silent. About the cave hung many heavy draperies, embroidered in fantastic designs. All this I noticed in a few quick glances. The magician then motioned me to sit down on a bench. I did so, and he drew back a curtain, disclosing a magic mirror. Look into the mirror, he directed me, and slowly repeat the name of the person whose future you wish to know. A vision will appear in the mirror, and you will see what you wish to know. The first girls I named were Hilda Flack, Geraldine Karlen, and Catherine Rosenburgh. I found that they had founded an Anti-Men Society, which had utterly denounced the masculine sex. I-Iow like their attitude in R. F. A., did you say? In addition to their activities in this new society, all of them were prominent socially in Rome and elsewhere. Christine Shaylor was the superintendent of a deaf mute institute. She made up for all that the inmates could not say, and then some. 32 I925 SENIOR ANNUAL Helen Arthur was a famous political leader, and was starting a campaign to become the first woman President of the United States. Helen had not married, for she was so sympathetic that she could not say Yes to one and No to forty-nine, so she had said No to all. Her campaign was managed by Mar- jorie Stocking, a very noted lawyer and elocutionist, and by Beatrice Goldman, the greatest orator in the Senate, and a rival to Daniel Webster's fame. Rosemary Waller was an instructor in gymnastics, dancing and fancy skat- ing, in New York City. She had hordes of young men in her classes, but she had not been able to single out any one suitor. Ruth Williams and Marie Stedman were directors of a large manufacturing firm in Chicago. They had installed a system of management originated by Professor Moe, and were making large profits in their business. Georgiana Flanders had become a movie actress of great note and was the idol of millions of movie fans throughout the country. Hazel and Myra Kite had founded a college for girls at Ava and had turned that quiet village into one of the greatest educational centers in the United States. Blanche Baril, Norma Baker and Bertha Brewer, the famous Senior trio of colorful hair, had founded a home for friendless men on North Washington Street. Many were the fortunate ones who had taken refuge there. Mildred DeWolfe and Jeanette Grogan were in Europe, where they had opened a school of music. Students from all parts of the world came to study under these two talented violinists. ' Miriam Gladding was a noted politician, and was running for Governor of New York State on an anti-hair net platform. Her opponent was Doris Rebe, the beautiful Lee Center society leader, who was heartily supported by Elizabeth Benkert, ex-flapper, and the most popular woman in West Branch. Marion Blakeslee was a history teacher in the new High School in Rome. She was using a method of teaching similar to Miss Eysamen's, and was getting excellent results in her work. Needless to say, she was well liked by all her pupils. Helena Ubelle was a prominent scientist and had discovered a new element whose properties were vastly more amazing than those of radium. Much of her success had been due to the able assistance of Margaret Wolfe. Kathleen and Florence O'Neill were noted respectively for their skill on the violin and piano, and together were touring the country, playing every night to crowded houses. l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 33 Frances Gilman had devised a combination between jazz and classical music that was both pleasing to the general public and at the same time highly praised by the great masters of the music field. She was now in Europe to introduce this wonderful new form of music. A Ernestine Affolter and Gladys Wood were running a large hotel at West Branch. This hotel had become one of the most noted resorts in the state. In both summer and winter it was filled by fashionable people from New York and Boston. Mary Schue and Dorothy Myers were running a tea room in New York City. Their place was a popular one, and every day they served that invigorat- ing beverage to thousands of people. Clara Stafford was the head nurse in a large hospital in Brooklyn. She had done a great deal toward furthering the cure of pneumonia and diptheria. Anna Margaret Toepp had taken Mr. Lundblad's place as music teacher in the new high school. She was known throughout the state as a wonderful pianist. Elizabeth Slagel was nationally known through her exceptional work in the Women's Club and Girl Scout movements. Anita Campanaro and Anna Rizzuto were manufacturing a new kind of typewriter which was vastly superior to other makes on the market. Helena Serena had taken up oratory as a profession. Her speeches were of a humorous nature, so funny, in fact, that she had been forced by law to make them less witty, for several people had nearly died laughing at them. Martha Kilborn was the highest paid stenographer in the United States and was eagerly sought after by all big business men. Needless to say, she had received many free meals from her bosses. Bernice DeParma was another member of our illustrious class who had taken up history teaching as her life work. As a side line she was driving a Ford belonging to a man whose name we will not mention here, but will supply on receipt of twenty-five cents in stamps. Beulah Drake and Emily Jutezler had achieved enviable reputations as book- keepers and accountants. Florence Bowman had just won a medal for typewriting. In this contest she had defeated contestants from all parts of the United States. Irene Fox had become a great chemistry teacher in the new high school. A certain young man was in the habit of calling upon her quite frequently. Mary Harrnacker had become the proprietor of a live and ten-cent store. Many were the men who had made it a habit to have at least eight hot dos and ten glasses of root beer a day served up by charming Mary. V 34 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL Clara Cilickman had secured a position as a private secretary to an oil mag- nate. Rumor had it that she was engaged to her boss. Sara Slutzker had gone to Russia and had turned that ruined nation into a prosperous republic. She was the head of the Russian Chamber of Commerce. Grace Courtney was a very successful business woman. She was such a good saleswoman that she had sold two carloads of raincoats in the Sahara Desert. Ernestine Herrick and Eloyse Kropp were running a gym and school of toe dancing in Syracuse. All the women in the Salt City fought to get in their establishment. Anna Horowitz had become a member of the House of Representatives. In this body she had achieved fame, and there was talk of electing her Speaker. Emma Kilbourn had opened a canning factory at Taberg. Vegetables canned in her factory were demanded in markets as far away as Dallas, Texas. Dorothy Neudecker was a great lawyer who had not yet lost a case, for the simple reason that nobody could put in the last word while she was in the court room. Myrtice Tudman was a member of the United States Weather Bureau. She was the best guesser in the department. Jessie Wellman, Marguerite Martin and Lois Noble had formed a company to manufacture automobiles which used water for fuel. It was believed that their company, once in operation, would revolutionize the automobile industry. Dorothy Ely had invented a periscope to enable short girls to look into the eyes of tall fellows. Emogene Stook had become famous as manager of a large banking concern in New York City. At this moment a loud ringing sounded in my ears. No, it was not the telephone, it was my alarm clock. I had been dreaming, and now I must get up and hurriedly dress for school. How much of what I had dreamed would come true? A. W. D., '25. I925 SENIOR ANNUAL 35 BOYS' PROPHECY Come, little leaves, said the wind one day: Come over the meadow with me and play. Soon as the leaves heard the wind's loud call, Down they came fluttering, one and all. Over the meadow they danced and flew, Singing the sweet little songs they knew. n The leaves of the beautiful maple standing a lonely, silent sentinel on the brow of the long sloping hill, were not alone in hearing this call of the wind. I. too, seemed to heed that weird, inviting sound, Come, I looked toward the maple and saw its leaves falling gently one by oneiinto the breezes which carried them away. But not all-a few of the most beautiful leaves resisted the wind and sank to the ground beneath their mother tree. As I came nearer, the sweet sounds of the songs the leaves sang as they fell grew louder and clearer. Upon reaching the foot of the tree, I sat down to rest and listen to the music made by the leaves: songs without words but of the most beautiful tunes. Suddenly as a large yellow leaf sank to the ground, its song finished, I was startled to see a flame of ire flash quickly over it, leaving faint red tracings on it. Too astonished and awed to move, I watched this happen to leaf after leaf. But still another surprise was in store for me, for as the leaves continued dropping they formed letters. I waited. Imagine my surprise on seeing the characters R. F. A. '25 formed. Too excited to longer remain quiet, I hurried over to the leaves. On the back of each one, names were written, and upon closer examination I found them to be the names of my classmates. I turned over the first leaf and read: The achievements of the Rome Free Academy class of 1925. Howard Eades, president of that world-famed class, has won the gratitude and blessings of all nations by so strengthening the authority and powers of the League of Nations through his office as prseident of this body, that peace amongwhe nations is permanently and securely established. Mr. Eades was last year awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his services in the cause of international peace. Eagerly I turned the next leaf and read, Another topic of international dis- cussion is the proposed expedition to Mars to settle the question of whether or not it is inhabited. This momentous question was recently debated on by two of the foremost orators in the United States-Edward Lagatta and Rudolph Lagai. Both presented such unanswerable arguments that this expedition is planned to forever settle the question. Metz Dobrowski is the inventor of the highly perfected airplane to be used on the trip. The renowned scientists, Aus- tin Day and Vito Janone, are to head this important expedition. Philip 36 l925 SENIWOR ANNUAL Marion, who has become an expert photographer, will accompany them and take a series of pictures. The information recorded on the next leaf was very welcome because it told of our Alma Mater and Rome. The office of principal of R. E. A. is efficiently filled by Ralph Harrington. Another class member, also on the faculty, is Victor Lawler, who finally overcame his dislike for American history and is now very successful as instructor of that subject. All Romans are enthusiastic over the fact that their city is soon to have a skyscraper. This building was designed by the noted New York architect, Leo Rees, and will be constructed by the Fitch and Barrett Contracting Company. 'Others of '25 who are helping to make Rome one of the most prosperous and up-to-date cities in the State, are Emlyn Williams, Franklyn Rayland, and Erwin Zieman. Emlyn, a prominent editor and journalist, is at present editor of the Rome Daily Sentinel, which under his direction has become the best known daily in New York State. The Zieman Stores, carrying a special line of students' books and supplies, are situated in every state in the union, with the main offices at Rome. Franklyn Rayland is the general manager of this large organization and much credit is due him for its rapid success. Also in Rome are Jack Farr and William Pendorf, occupying the position of chief and assistant chief of police, respectively. I felt that the future of Rome and our old school could safely rest in the hands of such capable persons as these. Surprising, indeed, was the writing on the next leaf. No more does an assignment from the 'Literary Digest' strike terror to the hearts of American history students. Since Lisle Caldwell has become editor of this magazine, the students as well as the public are complaining that the issues are too few and far between. I hurriedly turned another leaf and read, Among those chosen for training as members of the All-American team for the coming Olympic games are Conrad Pressy, Jack Waterbury, Carleton Gardinier, and Arthur Neaff' Satisfied that the class of '25 was ably represented in athletics, I picked up the next leaf and here, indeed, was news. Leo Stump and Virgil Gardinier have recently been appointed judges of the Supreme Court of New York State by Governor Robert Lake. Also in the field of politics are Joseph Jones and David Shacter, the longest and shortest Representatives from New York who, accompanied by Mrs. Jones, formerly Dorothy Ely, have just arrived in Washington. Here they were met by the Secretary of Agriculture, Donald Evans, and Stanley DeHimer, who held the oflice of Secretary of War until the 'Era of Peace' was ushered in by the activi- l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 37 ties of the League of Nations and thus the need of such a department is obliter- ated. Others in the employ of the government are Clayton Blakeslee and Wins- low Alder. Winslow holds a responsible position as head of the Weather Bureau. Professor Blakeslee has made several radical improvements in the radio and is now special agent for the government in this Held of discovery. The next leaf in order was artistically decorated with musical notes. From it I learned that Arthur Knight had gained great prominence by composing popular songs. His pieces are still given preference, showing that his popularity is well merited. The name of our valedictorian on the next leaf made it look especially inter- esting. The inscription read: The popularity of Yale University has greatly increased since the choosing of Newell Smith as president. Newell has gained great distinction in view of the fact that he is the youngest president Yale has ever had. Other noted pro- fessors at Yale are Morris Jones, Paul Burkard, and James Atkinson. Messrs Page and Parry have become successful and widely known masters of dancing. Paul Ellinger is the best known movie celebrity in the United States. Paul, who was never at home in the role of business man, has engaged Horace Woodcock, the financial wizard of the age, to undertake the management of his enormous salary for him. The further I read the more surprised I became. The Rev. Ernest Van Wagenen and his bride, known to friends of R. F. A. as Ellie Abbey, embarked today from New York City on the 'Round the World' Airship Line. After a short stop in England they will go as missionaries to Africa. The owners of this prospering air line are former classmates, Holden Aldridge and William Wardwell. On other planes leaving for London were Eric Lumley, who goes to take up his duties as Ambassador to the Court of St. James, and the great oil magnate, Henry Nicollelo, who is on a few days tour of the world. The following leaf was brilliantly colored and from it I read: Harold LaFountain is the inventor of the latest automobile on the market. The Duggan and Egger Co., which has contracted to manufacture this car, have christened it 'The Redstartf saying that the name and vehicle bring back pleas- ant memories of their High School days. Scanning the names on the leaves, this one attracted my attention-Patrick Grogan, A. B., M. D. Dr. Grogan is recognized in the medical world as an authority on heart diseases. At present he holds the position of head physician at the Johns Hopkins Hospital. 38 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL Before turning the next leaf, I paused to admire its beauty, which greatly excelled the others in perfectness of form and wonderful coloring. Surely, I thought, this beautiful leaf must contain an interesting mes- sage. Nor was I disappointed, for it read: The Grande Symphony Orchestra, under the able management of Emil Mosier, has recently arrived in England, where it is to lill several engagements at the royal court. Among the members of this orchestra are such artists as Broni Kozma, Orrin Kilbourne and Milton Williams. In company with the orches- tra is the famous 'Jon-Jon' trio, consisting of John Parsons, John Hnat, and John Rienzo. This trio and orchestra have been highly praised by music critics in both Europe and America. The evening breezes whispered gently in the treetop: the fading rays of the setting sun shone softly on the leaves, and as I finished reading I looked around with a sigh of satisfaction, believing that indeed the boys of '25 were well started on the road to happiness and success. M. B. IX., '25. There was a man in our town, and he was .wondrous wise, He got more on his radio than all the other guys. One day he took his set apart to see what made it go, But when he'd done it he just con- fessed he really didn't know. He got it back together, then found, to his great joy, I-Ie'd parts enough left over to make one for his boy. .425- The foreman looked the applicant over. Are you a mechanic? he asked. No, was the reply. Oi'm a McCarthy. -125.1 McClusky: Do you want a large or a small picture? Vito Janone: A small one. lVlcClusky: Then close your mouth. Viola walked in to the store to buy some walnuts, but was not im- mediately waited upon. At last she grew impatient. Who waits on the nuts? she called out. y 1251 Prof. Cole Cto Mosierj 1 Every- thing I tell you goes in one ear and out the other. , Farr: You're wrong, professor. Sound can't penetrate a vacuum. ..'251. Employer: I'd engage you for this place at once, only I must have a married man. Atkinson: Keep the place open until tomorrow, sir, and I will be around to take it. -'25, Some day I'll be rich, said the dog as he picked up the scent. 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL CLASS POEM Oh, a wonderful stream is the river of Time, As it runs thru the realm of tears, With a faultless rhythm and a musical rhyme, And a boundless sweep and a surge sublime, As it numbers our High School years. How the winters have drifted, like Hakes of snow, And the summers, like buds between 1 How the years have sped past-they come and they go On the river's breast, with its ebb and flow, As it glides in the shadow and sheen. We must now say farewell to our old R. F. A., Ne'er more thy dear walls shall we see. With our eyes to the front, we go forth to the fray, To the battle of Life! Alma Mater we pray Thou wilt guide us to Victory! CApologies to B. F. Taylor.j Leo Adolph Rees, '25 40 I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL AN APPRECIATION OF THE UNDERCLASSMEN We appreciate the underclassmen, the Juniors, the Sohphomores, and even the Freshmen. The latter, insignificant though they are, have won our recog- nition. We have seen them scurrying hither and yon about the school and have been amazed at their seemingly unlimited number. As we became accustomed to their presence it was a source of unending pleasure to study their activities closely, and wonder what the school was coming to. The Sophomores and our closer relatives, the Juniors, have reached an im- portant stage in their high school career. We, the sophisticated Seniors, can scarcely help being amused at their attempts at dignity. Of course, we realize that time will cure their vanity Kas it did oursj and they will eventually become venerable and esteemed Seniors. But putting all sarcasm aside, we certainly have a deep feeling of brother- hood and friendship for our schoolmates in whose hands we leave the future of Rome Free Academy. G. E. K., '25. NFAINT PRAISE FROM THE CLASS OF 1926 At first glance the Senior Class seems to be such a respectable lot. It pos- sesses looks fair Cwith some exceptions and variationsj, wits nimble, manners on the whole acceptable to the faculty, brains keen Qperhaps in only a few cases, thoughj and other attributes too numerous to mention. We wonder, however, if the class as a whole has not been basking in the reflected glory of Newell and a few other bright intellectual lights. We believe the faculty will not consider the class of '25 much worse than any other. Along with its faults it has some redeeming virtues. The class certainly has its full quota of persons who pull off wise cracks frequently-Day, Lawler and their compeers. In appearance there is all anyone could desire. All tastes can be suited. Eyes of any color, faces of any complexion, features of any form can be found. Geraldine Karlen, Helen Arthur and Joe Jones are enough to distinguish any class. We extend many thanks to you for taking along with you many persons, the length of whose course of study we thought might perhaps extend to the year 1930, and whose presence in the class of 1926 would be especially unwel- come to us. To have them graduate with us would be like wearing grandfath- er's long discarded clothes. The class of '26 has endeavored to appreciate you, class of '25. We hope when we have become Seniors to rival the standards even you have set. H. D. W., ' 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 4l ADVISORY BOARD liezltillfl, Evans, iiuyer, Cole, Newton, Lake, llellimer, Kuauer XYaterlwu1'y, Rosenlmurgli, VVartlwell, XxvI1fft'1'S, Lagatta, XVolfe Photo by C. ll. llnwlaml, Commercial Pliotograplier ADVISORY BOARD . Jack Vfaterbury ,,....,, ,, Catherine Rosenburgb ,,,,., Vvfilliam W'ardwell ,..,A,. Mary L. Cole ,,,,,,,,,, Robert Lake ,,...,, Eunice Vsfatters ..... Gilbert Wolfe ,,,.. Norma Spear .,..,...,,,.. William G. Keating ..,.,. Andrew S. Knauer ....,.. Stanley DeHimer .,... Jack Waterbury ,...,,, George W. Guyer ,..,... Edward Lagatta ....,, W. L. Newton ....... President ,,,.,.Vice-President .,,..,.,,Secrctary ............,.,...,,,,,,,,,,,,Treasurer ...,..Senior Class Representative Junior Class Representative ,,.,.,Sophomore Class Representative ......,..Fresbman Class Representative Faculty Representative and Coach ......,...........,.,..Football Manager ,....Basketball Manager Baseball Manager ............r...,.......,Athletic Advisor ..,..Senior Annual Representative ...Principal X ...Sue 42 i925 SENIOR ANNUAL I'lmto by C. li. llowlnml, Coiumereinl Pl10fUj.'fl'Zl1DllC1' HI-Y CLUB The Hi-Y Club has just completed the sixth year of its existence in Rome. This organization is a club for the betterment of the ideals and the raising of standards of high school boys of the upper classes of the school. This year we planned and have completed a wonderful program. On Wednesday noons we have had a luncheon meeting. followed by a talk by a prominent business or professional man. These men have not necessarily been residents of Rome. This year some of our most interesting talks have been by men living out of town. Rev. C. F. Miller has been our discussion leader and has given very much worthwhile thought to our club. His topics have not fol- lowed any routine but have been formulated upon any phase of life which has become of interest during the time between meetings. To bring the season to a successful ending. a banquet was held on April 7th at the Y. M. C. A. This was not limited to the club members but to their lady friends as well. As a speaker we had Rev. Paul F. Swartout of Little Falls. His message was appreciated by all and was of great importance to those who heard- it. The officers for l0Z-l-25 were: President, .lack Vsfaterbury: vice-president. Stanley Delrlimer: secretary and treasurer. Emil Nlosier: club advisor. Albert R. Sabine: discussion leader, Rev. C. F. Miller. At the meeting before the last one, our annual election took place between the Cockroach and the Socialist parties. The entire Cockroach ticket was elected, due to the influence of William Jennings Bryan, alias Robert Lake. The omcers who were elected for next year are as follows: President. Hubert Rel- yea: vice-president. Frank Cihentz secretary and treasurer. Leo Hower. Our best wishes to the officers for another successful year. J. D. W., '25. I925 SENIOR ANNUAL 43 NEVV YORK STATE HIGH SCHOOL HONOR LEAGUE Smith, Day, Vlmelle, Prof. Newton, Lagai, Stocking, lifllglilll Photo hy C. ll. Howlrmd, Commercml 1-,ll0l0jIl'1l1lllCl' NEW YORK STATE HIGH SCHOOL HONOR LEAGUE The High School Honor League was instituted by the Academic Principals of New York State during the year of 1924-1925. Their object is to form more systematic habits of study and to develop finer qualities of leadership, serv- ice, and character. Membership in this society is open to all High School pupils who have advanced to the rank of seniors and have attained an average of 909k in all work taken thus far. Election to this society may takeplace in September, January or June of the Senior year. Besides his scholastic record the eligible student must receive the approbation of the faculty for his loyalty in school life. The class of '25 is the first class fortunate enough in having this honor be- stowed upon any of its members. Therefore, the class of '25 takes a special pleasure in announcing the names of those who have been elected to this Honor 44 I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL League and who will receive the medal. Their names and averages are as follows: Newell W. Smith ......... ...,... 9 6.1421 Austin W. Day ..........., .....,. 9 l.l2fZy Helena M. Ubelle ........ ....... 9 0.62'k Rudolph Lagai .......... ....,.. 9 0.1276 Marjorie Stocking ...................,.............,...... 90.00fk Patrick Grogan ...................,,,..,...,,...,,........, 9000? These six thus far are the only ones who have been given this honor, but doubtless after the June examination many more of our classmates will also be members. We, the class of '25, also hope that the classes of '26, '27 and '28 will be as fortunate as we are. J. W. A., '25. ALL IS WELL Now all is darkness in the street below: The hour of midnight tolls the pondrous bell: When down the road I see a lantern's glow, The watchman calls out clearly, All is welll rr So when in life, when all is dark and drear, We long to break from out our prison cell, And lurking dangers fill our hearts with fear: The Watchman calls, Fear not, for all is well! And when in death we reach the silent stream Whose mysteries no mortal tongue can tell: Above the troubled waters shines a gleam: The Watchman gives assurance, All is well! L. B. CALDWELL, '25, I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL I ff W fff f W 'xx Xu X I - w X KX X , X X YN ff SX X X ff XQXSF1! f KX If . Q f ' 7 3 - iz ,Q -Z F 'X ff f 1 1 - M J W Y,-TANoNE2L .5-,A, .4 I. l .151 33, .',.: . ,-.31 I: ,- 1 - . : vi. ','.' 46 I925 SENIOR ANNUAL SENIOR sLE1GHR1DE As it came time for sleighrides, the Seniors naturally turned their thoughts to their annual night out , the Senior sleighride. A Senior Class meeting was called for a discussion of the subject. Here the news was broadcasted that the Board of Education desired all school activities to cease at twelve o'clock. A Senior sleighride seemed doomed. After many brilliant suggestions for evading this clause in the Board of Education's new rules, the storm of protest subsided somewhat. Committees were appointed and in due course of time a Senior tea party sleighride was planned. We were to start at four-thirty P. M., reach Westernville at seven P. M., eat, dance and adjourn to sleighs for the homeward stretch at twelve o'clock. Father Winter decided he'd complicate matters so he sent along a great big storm a week before. But the roads were plowed out, seemingly for our benefit, so that on Friday, February 27, four loads of Seniors jingled along in the two-horse open sleighs. The chaperons were Mr. and Mrs. William A. Arthur, Mr. and Mrs. Mark McLaughlin, Carl Clippinger and Miss Ethel Gufiin. McLaughlin's five-piece orchestra furnished music and a good time was enjoyed by all. We hear that this is to be the last of the Senior sleighrides. It certainly was far-famed. We hope that all will appreciate our attempt to make the last one a fitting last chap- ter and that they will remember what a really nice jolly one it was. M. M. S., '25, THE FOOTBALL DANCE On Friday evening, November twenty-ninth, a dance in honor of one of the Academy's greatest teams was inaugurated into the realm of social events of the High School. It was something novel and turned out very successfully on both a social and financial basis. The Fort Stanwix School auditorium was the scene of the funfest and it was attractively decorated in accordance with the occasion. Shaded lights, pretty frocks, a multi-colored stage and the cavalier air present all lent a refreshing touch to make the evening enjoyable. The original Pep-San orchestra of seven pieces furnished the music and did it in a very creditable manner. Instead of serving punch, as had previously been the custom, a novelty was introduced in the way of ice cream pies and Arc- tic Sweethearts, which turned out successfully both as to the novelty and profit realized. Chaperons for this delightful affair were Mr. and Mrs. John Lundblad, Mr. and Mrs. William Sturtevant and Principal and Mrs. W. L. Newton. Midnight came and went and with it passed one of the most enjoyable dances ever held under the auspices of the Students' Association, one more credit to them and to the committee which put it across in such a capable manner. H. E., '25, I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL 47 SLINGERLAND CONTESTANTS Koziua, Lagai, Strout, Lake, XVilliams, Lagatta Bradley, Goldman, Staley, Arthur, Ubelle Photo by C. B. Howland, Commercial Photographer T WENTY-SECOND SLINGERLAND PRIZE SPEAKING CONTEST A P R O G R A M Cinderella Dines ....,........,,. ............,......,............ ......,,., H e len Arthur Aristarchus and Elocutionw ,,,, ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, ,,....,, E 1 izabeth Bradley The Heart of Old Hickory .,,,, ..,..... B eatrice Goldman The Light, from Lancelot ...... .......... M ation Staley The Golden Doom .,....,,,....,.... ........ H elena Ubelle Why l Refuse to Play Golf .,.,. ........... B roni Kozma The Team .......,.....,..........,,. ........ R udolph Lagai Undying Fire .,,v,.,,,,,,.,.,.,,, ,,.,... E dward Lagatta Lest XVe Forget .,... ......... R obert Lake The Chariot Race , ,,,........ ..,,. ...... M i lton Williams AWARDS First Prize Second Prize Marion Staley Helen Arthur Milton Williams Broni Kozma Honorable Mention Elizabeth Bradley Edward Lagatta JUDGES Prof. Elmer YV. Smith, Head of English Department, Colgate University Mrs. E. J. MacMackin, Utica, N. Y. Mr. Earl P. Watkin, Superintendent of Schools, llion, N. Y. 48 I925 SENIOR ANNUAL SLINGERLAND PRIZE SPEAKING CONTEST On Friday evening, April third, 1925, the largest crowd in the history of R. F. A. attended and greatly enjoyed the twenty-second Annual Slingerland Prize Speaking Contest. As always, there were ten contestants-five girls and iive boys. These were chosen from a group of about thirty who took part in the preliminaries held on December 17 and 18, 1924. Music hath its charms, and who would not succumb to the delightful strains given forth by the R. F. A. orchestra under their most able director, John O. Lundblad. The Oriole, by Dyke, and Hail to Uncle Sam, by Weber, were presented as opening numbers. The stage, decorated with large palms, formed a pretty setting for the speak- ers. The first speaker on the program was Miss Helen Arthur, who gave Jen- son's delightful little story, Cinderella Dines. The story treats of the exper- iences of fifteen-year-old Letecia Kents, who has the honor of playing the part of a grown up lady. The next number, The Light, from Lancelot, by Robinson, was excel- lently rendered by Miss Marion Staley. The selection presented the parting of Lancelot and Guienivere. The third selection, a very humorous number, Aristarchus and Elocution, Anon, was given by Miss Elizabeth Bradley. ln this piece the troubles of a household caused by elocution are pictured. Miss Helena Ubelle, the fourth speaker on the program, related The Golden Doom, by Dunsany. This number was an old mythical tale. The last of the girls to speak was Miss Beatrice Goldman. The impersona- tions of a young newsboy and a kind-hearted old gentleman were clearly brought forth in Drorngoole's touching story, The Heart of Old Hickory. After another pleasing selection by the orchestra, the first boy's number. The Team, by Buchanan, Was given by Rudolph Lagai. The piece was greatly enjoyed by all. The next number was one of Stephen Leacock's humorous essays, Why I Refuse to Play Golf. Broni Kozma won and kept the attention of his aud- ience all through his number. - The third speaker, Robert Lake, gave a clipping, Lest We Forget. This clipping from the Rome Daily Sentinel was given in a very pleasing manner. The fourth number, The Chariot Race, by Wallace, giving an account of the contest between Ben Hur and Messala, was presented in a very animated and realistic manner by Milton Williams. The final number, Wells' Undying Fire, was given by Edward Lagatta. The selection discussed the life of a boy in the German submarine service. The speaker gained much praise and admiration for the way in which he handled his piece. After the judges had retired to make their decision, the orchestra relieved the strain and tension of the audience by playing several selections. Principal Walter L. Newton also gave the audience a few interesting ideas of the new High School. The judges were Prof. Elmer W. Smith, head of the English Depart- ment of Colgate University. Professor Smith acted as spokesman in announc- ing the prizes. Mrs. F. J. MacMacken, Utica reader, and Mr. Earl P. Watkin, Superintendent of Schools in Ilion, were the other judges. The prizes were awarded as follows: Girls-First prize, Marion Staley: second prize, Helen Arthur: honorable mention, Elizabeth Bradley. l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 49 Boys-First prize, Milton Williams: second prize, Broni Kozmag honor- able mention, Edward Lagatta. After the contest the speakers and their friends held an informal party in the biology room. Refreshments were served. Mr. and Mrs. Newton, Miss Phila Strout, and the judges were guests. The greatest of credit is due to Miss Phila E. Strout, instructor of Public Speaking. The result of her hard work was shown by her splendidly trained speakers. A. M. T., '25, A Hrst prize of twenty dollars for girls, a first prize of twenty dollars for boys, a second prize of ten dollars to girls, and a second prize of ten dollars to boys are awarded to those High School pupils who by a committee of judges are pronounced best in a public speaking contest held annually in March or April. The awards for the last three years are here given: 1922-First, Emeline DeLaMater, Raymond Keiser: second, Jane Schle- becker, Carroll Wilkes. . 1923-First, Diantha Evans, Jesse Shapiro: second, Doris Loomis, Spencer Drake. 1924-First, Marjorie Stocking, Allen Baker: second, Marie Stedman, Erwin Mumpton. i THE VERNON CENTER INTER-ACADEMIC PRIZE SPEAKING CONTEST The Presbyterian Brotherhood of Vernon Center has for several years past put on an inter-academic prize speaking contest. The contest this year was held on Friday evening, May 15th. The schools participating were Oneida, Sherrill, Clinton, and Rome. Be- fore the contest began and during the intermissions the Utica Lodge quartette rendered various selections. The Brotherhood of Vernon Center was very fortunate in securing the services of Rev. Philip S. Bird and Robert Fraser, both of Utica, and F. R. Spalding of Vernon Center to act as judges. Mr. Bird gave the decision after the deliberation of the three judges. The first prizes of ten dollars each were presented to Marion Staley and Milton Williams of R. F. A., the second prizes to Elizabeth Fake of Clinton and Francis Walsh of Sherrill. , All loyal Romans were gratified at the result and sincerely hope that Rome Free Academy may do as well in years to come. M. S., '26 - DAVIS ESSAY CONTEST There is la prize of forty dollars awarded annually to the High School pupil who in the judgment of an unprejudiced committee writes the best essay on a topic chosen by the President of the Board of Education, the Superintendent of Schools, and the Principal of the High School. The past three awards have been as follows: 1922-Gerald Jones. 1923-Katharine Clarke. 1924-Tie. Prize divided between M. Josephine Newton and Doris R. Clarabut. 50 I925 SENIOR ANNUAL Austin Bevans ..... David MacKenzie ...... George Boyd ......... Tim Simpkins ....... Jim Simpkins ..... Homer Johns ...... Elise Benedotti ...... Miss Hays .......... Miss Curtis ......... Sally Boyd .......... Muriel Doughty.. Ethel Spelvin ...... Alix Mercier ....... Lillian Stafford... CLASS PLAY CAST OF CHARACTERS .......Stanley Del-limer .........Joseph Jones ........,Paul Ellinger ..........Leo Duggan Egger ...........Jack Waterbury ................Gera1dine Karlen Katherine Rosenburgh.. ........Marjorie Stocking .........Christine Shaylor ,.,,,,,,.....,,Helen Arthur .........Beatrice Goldman .........Marie Stedman ..................Doris Rebe Madge Kem ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,,,,.,.,,,,,,,,,,.,.,,,,,,,..,,,,,,,...... ......................... G eorgiena Flanders Should David Belasco drop off the Twentieth Century as it sails by Rome and should he wander about the halls of R. F. A. he would find there a troop of players such as he has never seen on Broadway, and for that matter never will see on Broadway. Mr. Belasco, as he would watch the untiring efforts of Miss Strout as she worked unceasingly to perfect the natural talents of the cast of The Charm School, would probably take pity on our directress and fire the whole cast. However, it would be a very unwise thing for Mr. Belasco to do, as-well, think of the great loss which R. F. A. would sustain in losing her foremost actors and actresses of inestimable value. Think only of the loss of Stan' 'DeHimer as he so nobly plays the part of Austin Bevans, an energetic automobile salesman, and then as principal of the Charm School, a young ladies' boarding school. There would be a loss also in length-if nothing else in Joe Jones This solemn long-legged youth plays the part of a lawyer, David McKensie, and later as history professor at Austin's school. Paul Ellinger, the latest R. F. A. sheik, most ably presents the part of George Boyd, an accountant and ardent admirer of Geraldine Karlin as she plays Elise Benedatti, the heroine and president of the senior class at the Charm School. Every time George meets Elise he proposes. George, however, does not consider her answer a refusal, as she only says, George, you don't know how much you bore me! At last George's hopes are dashed to pieces by Austin Bevans, who captures the love of Elise. Got any money? This is demanded by Ira Egger who plays the part of Jim Simpkins, of everyonelwith whom he comes in contact. It is the high am- Ilgtion of Jim and also his twin and side-kick, Tim, who is played by Leo uggan, to marry an heiress. Nevertheless they are smitten by Sally Boyd, George's sister, and the imp of the school. This part is played by Christine Shayler. Homer Johns, the impatient and boisterous uncle of Elise, wants the school to be in charge of his divorced wife, Miss Hays, Catherine Rosenburgh, who is an ardent hater of men. Jack Waterbury plays the part of Mr. Johns. l925 sEN1oR ANNUAL su Marjorie Stocking brings in a good comedy sketch as she plays the part of Miss Curtis, secretary to the school. Miss Curtis is always striving to please but is forever in the way. The remainder of the cast is composed of the members of the senior class of the Charm School, Helen Arthur, Beatrice Goldman, Cueorgianna Flanders, Marie Stedman and Doris Rebe. After reviewing these noble actors and actresses I feel sure that if Mr. Belasco had discharged them they would have bought a theater on Broadway and run Mr. Belasco out of business. J. W. J., '25. ASSEMBLIES 1924-25 The assemblies during this past year have proved considerably less boring than the average. Perhaps this is largely due to the fact that Cpardon, we understand Mr. Newton has already copyrighted that phrasej, most of the participants on the rhetorical programs have been members of the class of 1925. That isn't all the reason, though, for we have had several diversions from the main trend of events, namely, the introduction of musical numbers, violin, cornet, and piano selections. We, as a class, thoroughly believe in the encour- agement of all the arts. Early in the school year Professor Staley delivered his annual message to Congress. He talked to us about the new school and about the rules of R. F. A. which the students are asked to observe. We, as usual. enjoyed his talk very much. We regret that we have not heard from Mr. Staley oftener this past year. Last fall Mr. Nye Smith, a representative of the Northern New York Utili- ties, from Watertown, gave us a very enlightening talk on an essay contest. The result was that everyone wrote an essay on lighting and then waited, as patiently as could be expected, to receive the notice to move into the fifteen thousand dollar house which was the lirst prize. , At one of the assemblies Dr. Reed, a representative of the State Health Department at Albany, talked to the students about their health. They en- joyed his talk and profited very much by it. On another occasion Miss Hortense Neilson read John Drinkwater's Abra- ham Lincoln before the entire student body. Those of the students who had not been fortunate enough to see the play were greatly interested in this number. Because we are so many in number it has been impractical to have all the students present at assemblies. This is one of the reasons why we have not had more outside speakers. The Seniors, Juniors and sometimes either the Sopho- more boys or girls have been the favored ones. Since the two session plan has taken effect the Freshies' presence has been denied to most of us. We have gotten over it, but we'l1 never be the same. M. M. S., '25. 52 D925 SENIOR ANNUAL FLORENCE C. SEELY 'APPRECIATION AND FAREWELL TO MISS SEELY A Miss Seely has been a part of the faculty of Rome Free Academy for seven- teen years. She has advised and aided senior classes with patience, and willingly given her services whenever they were sought. Because Miss Seely's Work as teacher of fourth year English has brought her principally in contact with the Seniors she can be most appreciated by them, though she is highly thought of by the whole school. Students from all classes have her to thank for advice and sincere helpfulness in their individual Work. As an English teacher she has brought inspiration and interest to all her classes. The results of her Regents classes have been noticeably outstanding. Recently she was chosen as Dean of the Girls, a position which she has very faithfully filled. It is with sincere regret that the school realizes that she has decided to give up her work. The present Senior Class can not but be thankful that they were fortunate enough to be numbered among the many she has taught. The Whole school unites in bidding her a farewell and in Wishing her future success and happiness. ' G. E. K., '25, 19251 SENIOR ANNUAL ,001 LL I 7 l? LY -X t-my ,.,,,,-f - - A nr -in ,- .. ,, Y Y, ,fI'+++g,.? - -- -.. lf? 4- ii- ATHLETIESW I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL 1 Q I fx f . , x Yi ALQQX , 1 Tia' TX! 1632 ' xv Q . I 2... X , E fix! . ,. 1 ., K L14 ,... , Q fi l:: ' 3 CD 'Fi T. I925 SENIOR ANNUAL 55 FOOTBALL, 1924 THE SCHEDULE AND SCORES September 27 ,,,,,,, ,.,...,,...A...,...,....,,.. R . F. A. C261 vs. Syracuse Central C191 at Rome October 11 .,,,,,., ..,,......,,,...,,............ R . F. A. C261 vs. Oswego High C121 at Rome October 18 ,,,,.,., .,,,,,,.,,..,, R . F. A. C451 vs. Ilion High C01 at Rome October 25 ,,,,.,., ...,,,. R . R. A. C71 vs. Christian Brothers C01 at Rome November 1 ,,,,... .......,............, R . F. A. C141 vs. Utica C01 at Rome November 8 ..,,,., ....,,., R . F. A. C211 Vs. Oneida High C61 at R0mc November 15 ....... ............. R . F. A. C71 vs. Auburn High C71 at Auburn THE SQUAD Ends--Knight, Tyler, Page. Moyer, Shaw, Alder, Wright, Knauer. Tackles-Marion, Martin, Briggs, Morton. Guards-Baker, Parry, Coleman, Greene, Farr. Centers-Fielding, Waterbury. Backs-Rienzo, Rothmund, V. Gardinier, C. Gardinier, Mezza, Gualtieri, Neaf, Parry. ,iliil--1 The prospects for a successful football team for the l924 season were un- usually good. From a squad of about 75 candidates there was a wealth of- line material, but a whole new backiield had to be developed. There were six letter men to use as a nucleus for a team, but only one was a backfield man. Therefore the problem was to develop a satisfactory backfield. After practicing from the beginning of school the team was ready for its initial struggle with Syracuse Central, the strongest team in Syracuse. No one knew how the backfield would line up at the opening whistle, but the line was the same as last year with the exception of the ends. In our new backfield were Mezza, Rienzo, Gardinier and Neaf. Although the Syracuse team had a won- derful reputation and were expected to win easily, the Rome team swept them off their feet and won the game 26-19. Next came another hard game with Oswego High, a school which had beaten the championship C. B. A. team of Syracuse the year before. They had practically the same team as the year before and a good game was expected, with Oswego as a slight favorite, In this game Art Knight picked up three loose balls and ran for three touchdowns. Oswego secured her two touchdowns through intercepted passes and Rome secured her last one through straight foot- ball. The only easy game on the schedule for 1924 was the one with Ilion. The game might be called a farce because Rome was never extended and won with great ease, Coach Keating using the whole second team the last quarter. The next game was with the much-heralded C. B. A. of Syracuse, the cham- pions of the preceding fall. This was the most severe game on the Rome team's schedule and was the most disastrous, for in it one of our star backs, Virgil Gardinier, was badly injured and lost to the team for the remainder of the sea- son: Slim Mezza was also hurt, his work thus being impaired for the rest of the game. In spite of these handicaps Rome emerged from the game a winner by 7-O. 56 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL Our time-honored rival, Utica, was our next opponent, On November l, before the largest crowd that ever witnessed a football game at Riverside Park, Rome scored a 14-O victory. As Rome had won the game the success of the rest of the season was assured. Art Knight again starred, making the iirst touch- down, Mutt Gardinier, a substitute back, making the second one. Another traditional rival was vanquished when Rome beat Oneida 21-6, Oneida being saved from a shutout by their fleetfooted back, Williams, who dashed across Rome's goal line the last quarter of the game for a touchdown. For the last game of the season Rome journeyed to Auburn to tackle the Maroon team, which had been defeated live times straight. Rome expected to win easily but it ran into a snag, consisting of lax officiating, a rejuvenated Auburn team and a muddy Held. Rome clearly outplayed Auburn and made the first touchdown, but Auburn got a big break in the form of a questionable decision and was able to create a 7-7 tie. In spite of the tie game Rome had the best record since the championship team of 1913, which had ten victories without a defeat. The team which came nearest reaching this record was the 1919 team, coached by W. F. Dunbar, which lost only one game but tied two with Auburn and Ilion. The success of the season of 1924 was due to the spirit of the players, com- bined with the coaching ability of Bill Keating. The team was not an aggre- gation of veterans. Returning to school as a nucleus for the team were just six letter men from the previous season, and five of them were line men. Develop- ing a backiield was the greatest problem Keating had to solve, and around Johnnie Rienzo he built his attack. Tony Mezza, who developed into the greatest star of the season, was a big factor in the team's success. Although it was his first season he has already made a name that will live for years. . To Virgil Gardinier, who was injured in the C. B. A., goes much credit also. Weighing only 140 pounds, he developed into one of the best scholastic halfbacks in the game last fall, and if he had not been injured in the C. B. A. game he would probably have made the scholastic team. To the ive veteran line men, Captain Fielding, Marion, Coleman, Captain-elect Martin, and Parry, goes the honor of having been the backbone of the undefeated team. The list of scorers are as follows: Player Touch. Points Total Mezza ...... ....... 8 14 62 ' Rienzo ......... .... 5 0 3 O Knight ........... .... 4 0 24 V. Gardinier ...... .... 3 0 18 C. Gardinier ...... .... l 0 6 Martin ......... .... l 0 6 J. D. W., '25. 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL to by C. B. Howland, Commercial Ph0t0g!'ZlUh6'l' 58 I925 SENIOR ANNUAL THE BURIAL OF UTICA Our highly successful football season-in fact the most successful season since 1913-reached its climax in the annual game against Utica on November l. Needless to say, the R. F. A. gridders made hash of their ancient rivals, and whentthe final whistle blew the score stood 14-O. The time-honored custom of burying Utica was slated for the following Monday, the first school session after the game. The regular class periods were held until two o'clock, when the school was dismissed, and the entire student body prepared to participate in the sad ceremony of Utica's funeral. The foot- ball squad had the honor of drawing the antiquated hearse, which contained Utica's remains, and upon which were perched Pep Boehnlein, dressed as an undertaker, and l'Dathy Evans. This rig followed a student band, which led the procession, and whose stirring, harmonious funeral dirges had an emotional effect upon its hearers, Then came the student body itself, consisting, in the order named, of the Senior Class Cleading as usualj , the Juniors, Sophomores, and, last and least, the Freshmen. The procession formed in front of the High School and then marched down James Street to the business section. At intervals the march was halted to in- dulge in a few cheers to let the city know that R. F. A. was still on the map. The grief-stricken students proceeded through the business and uptown streets, after which a halt was made in front of the school for the interment cere- monies. A raised platform, trimmed with the school colors, orange and black, had been provided, and upon this the bearers laid the casket. Vic Boehn- lein, as master of ceremonies, first introduced Capt. Ernie Fielding, who promptly proceeded to deliver a funeral oration modeled after the famous one of Mark Antony. Other nfembers of the squad were called upon to speak a few words, and then Utica was ignominiously heaved by the squad off the back of the platform and was no more, N. W. S., '25. l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 59 l 1 I l!ASEBALL 1925 LaFountain, Pt'llli.0l'f, VVolfe, Coach Keating, Gualtieri, Byrnes, Dellimer Shaw, Rienzo, Mezza, Y. Gai-dinier, C. Gardinier, Doran, Alder, Knight, Waterbury Photo by C. IE. Howland, Commercial Photographer BASEBALL Over fifty players answered Coach Keating's call for baseball candidates. Half of this number sought places on the High School Junior team, which made a successful record in '24. There was a goodly number of last year's letter men available for this year's team, such as Virg Gardinier, captain and first-class catcher: John Rienzo, star outfielder of two years' experience: Sam Gaultiere, ex-captain, star pitcher and third baseman: Don Henderson and Jack Meade, infielders: Stan DeHimer, a pitcher, and Paul Page, a veteran outiielder. With such material as Knight, Shaw, Mezza, Doran, Waterbury and C. Gardinier to pick from, this year's nine appears to be the best for a winning combination. Up to the time that the Annual goes to press, no games have been played, but a hard schedule is certain. Games with New Hartford, winners of The Michigan Trophy in '24, Oneida, Auburn and Utica, show that R. F. A. should have a first-class season. W. S. D., '25, 60 I925 SENIOR ANNUAL l1.XSlilf'l'I!,Xl.l, 'l'lC.XNI IOL-I-Ji XY:ltvi'lxill'y. l':u'i'5'. livzitiilil Icozxrlll. Slmw, liiigllt, Rin-lilo, llelliiliei' l'lmto by C. IZ. llowlzmml, L'mmm-reizll l,lmtug1':i11l1ei' BASKETBALL The basketball schedule of l924-25 was one of the hardest calibre. It con- sisted of nearly all the leading high school teams of Central New York. Twenty-three games made up this schedule, thirteen at home and ten out of town. Out of this number the team won thirteen and lost ten, which was a very good showing considering the handicap of bearing only two of last year's letter men to build a team around. Ex-Captain Johnny Rienzo and Captain A'Slick Shaw were the only vet- erans to report for this year's team. But from a host of material Coach Vv'il- liam G. Keating selected Art Knight, Jack Waterbury, Fat Parry, Stuart Briggs and Stan Del-limer, all last year's subs, to link with Rienzo and Shaw for this year's combination on the court. This was a green team at the start, but ended the season successfully by winning the city championship from the Rome Beds. The team stepped out of its class in playing Eastwood High, Mohawk and Oswego, but made a credit- able showing against them. 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 61 The team finished third in the North Central League, which is composed of seven teams. This success is due Coach Keating for his untiring efforts in de- veloping a winning quintet. Stanley DeHimer managed the team in a capable and efficient manner, and his schedule showed work and earnestness. The following men earned the right to wear the basketball R's: Captain Shaw and Parry, guards, DeHimer and Waterbury, centers: Knight and Rienzo, forwards. - , W. S. D., '25, The complete schedule of the team is as follows: R. F. A. Opponents 21 ........ ...... A lumni ..... 20 13 ........ ....... A ssumption ....... 20 25 ........ ...... H erkimer ..... 24 21 ........ .,.. C anastota 10 10 ........ ...... O swego ..... 22 8 ........ ,..... S herrill ..... 17 17 ........ ...... M ohawk ..... 40 17 ........ ...... O neida ..... 241: 13 ......., .... E astwood 43:1 30 ........ ........... S . A. A ......,.... 13 30 ........ ............... S herrill ......,,....., -13 29 ........ ....... S yracuse North High ....... 13 14 ........ .......... W atertown .......... 231' 25 ........ ...... V ernon ..... 22 19 ........ .... C anastota 184' 32 ......,. .... F rankfort 16 17 ........ ........ F ulton ....... 15 'F 14 ........ ...... O swego ..... 22'F 3 ........ ...... ernon ..... 17'k 28 ........ .... Q gineida ,... 15 28 ........ ........ F ulton ....... 23 25 ........ ........... U tica ........... 27 19 --..-... ........ R ome Bedstead .,..,,. 10 463 467 'Out of town games. li. .-l. - Harrington: Who was the first radio fan? Aldridge: Adam, I guess. 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Fish 06 Dum inm'r'7 40. Umnes lS llriecl QZUYII 43. Tnixic nf Davis essay, 1925 IM lfclgv Note: Tn the fii'st person sulnnittiug, on oi' hefore July 6th, il correct solution of this puzzle, will he given a prize of live ilollars. The only solutions Considered will he those nrinterl or written on this page nf the Annual. Senrl answers to Mrs, Mary L. Cole, 1018 North James St., Rome, N. Y. 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 63 F ' ',!' 7fw,',, H V, JIT A 9'4fWf,i:f f',Mf Wf:f4v4 77',-3 , 'M .L WN ww vw we , r14llw'lLl!ll,?, V1 NH V1 li -f i ,JZ RVN jM 6'2 0 Z w,4pg,Jl,41ffQ.Qmfmg 1+-if--' if AW. KL I V' IL, . .je -W al' .- 9 'vs 'x X N ff! ,V Q ' -Q w-YW W ' X ' W S w,FWc,vf7lf if- fy ! 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The story reveals the successful efforts of Rosini and Count Almavira to Wed in spite of the objec- tions of Rosina's guardian, Dr. Bartolo. One of the best of the season's entertainments was The Admiral, pre- sented in the Family Theater December 5. The Admiral was interpreted by the author himself, Charles Rann Kennedy, as a sailor: Edith Wynne Mathison, a queen, and Margaret Gage, a girl. The Admiral is a story of the days of Columbus, adroitly arranged to convey a lesson in citizenship of the kind dis- played by the men responsible for the Magna Charta and the Declaration of Independence. Queen Isabella of Spain, Beatriz Enriquez and Christopher Co- lumbus live again in their generation of the fifteenth century. On January 27 Colonel Lawrence T. Driggs of New York gave an instruc- tive talk on aviation. Colonel Driggs made an appeal for greater interest in air- craft by the public and by Congress. The address was also a story of flying itself. Colonel Driggs drew an amazing picture of the rapid strides made dur- ing the war. Francis Moore, pianist, and Hugo Kortschak, violinist, played for a de- lighted audience at the Family Theater February 24. Their recital concluded in brilliant manner the concert-lecture course of this season. Perhaps the strong- est number was Frank's Sonata, played by Mr. Moore and Mr. Kortschak together, and with Which. they opened the program. Then came three violin numbers. Mr. Moore played a very unique number, By the Frog Pond. This is a picturesque bit of fun, a talking moving picture in music. To have missed the concert-lecture course is to have missed several evenings of remarkable entertainment. H. M. U., '25. I925 SENIOR ANNUAL 65 - Four Third Year English Narratives. Note.-The following stories were suggested to their authors by a sentence taken from Merz's Centerville, U. S. A. : 1- slid the top drawer of her desk half open, let the --- slip into it, and walked across the room, The pupils had not read the original story, but built up their own narratives by imagining answers to the questions, Who? What? Where? Why? Consequences? WILLIE'S FIRST CIGAR Willie had several times seen various members of his gang under the influ- ence of their first cigar. However, Willie knew that the proof of the pudding is in the eating. After several moments of serious reflection on the subject Willie had made what was to his mind a very noble and brave resolution. He would smoke a cigar! In his present financial state it would be impossible to buy one of those lovely, large, brown, odorous ten-cent cigars, which he had seen often in the corner drug store. Willie possessed exactly seven cents. Where would he find the needed three? Of one thing he was perfectly certain, it could not be found in his room for he had hunted many times before that day for one cent with which to purchase a top and Willie knew that if one cent could not be found, three cents could not. Therefore Willie sat down on his bed to contemplate some method by which this financial difiiculty might be overcome. Luck was with him! Willie, Willie, same a soft voice from the downstairs hall. Reluctantly the ten-year-old opened his door and yet more reluctantly an- swered his mother. Willie, please hurry. I want you to do a very important errand. Willie, if you will run down to Mrs. Morgan's with this pattern I'll give you five cents to buy some candy on the way home. Upon hearing this Willie brightened considerably. He took the pattern and the nickel, then fairly flew from the house. After delivering the package, Willie ran to the corner drug store. Immediately outside he assumed a rather dignified swagger. He opened the door and sauntered nonchalantly up to the counter. He ordered out the cigars and began fingering them over. Having made his decision in favor of a lovely ten-cent one he asked for it. The somewhat suspicious clerk asked tactfully, Is this your first attempt? Willie colored and then lied heroically. No, sir, it's to be a surprise for father's birthday. With this the still suspicious clerk wrapped it up and exchanged it for the nickel and five pennies which Willie reluctantly proffered. Then he walked out of the store and hurried homeward. 66 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL When he reached home he did his best to conceal' the lengthy object and succeeded in getting it to his room without mishap. He opened the package and again felt lovingly of its contents. Why not smoke it immediately? The more he meditated on this idea the better he liked it. Willie soon discovered that his mother was out and consequently he was alone in the house. He decided thereupon to be a real man and smoke in his room instead of out behind the barn, as his other friends had done. Therefore he lighted the cigar and then sat down to what he expected would be solid com- fort. The Hrst few puffs he took very cautiously. Suddenly something hap- pened. He had attempted to inhale. The coughing fit which ensued was painful but it was soon over and Willie resumed his slow puffs. Suddenly he heard someone coming up the stairs. He hurriedly rose from his chair, looked wildly about the room and then made a dash for his bureau drawer. The cigar was tumbled into the drawer without a moment's hesita- tion, still lighted. Willie walked across the roomto the window. The door opened and revealed his mother. She stood on the threshold a moment, halted by a strange odor. She in- stantly looked about the room for its source. As her gaze encountered WilIie's bureau drawer, she noticed a thin line of smoke trailing out between the crack and through the keyhole. Immediately she started for the bureau. Willie suddenly became very dizzy. He felt for a chair gropingly but sat abruptly on the floor. His mother having reached and opened the bureau drawer. took in the situa- tion. First of all Willie was put to bed, next the cigar was disposed of and last but by no means least, Willie's father came home. I will leave the rest of the scene to your imagination. but rest assured that between the efforts of the cigar and his father, Willie has never smoked from that day to this. M S '26 . ., . DOUBTFUL DAVY Davy sat reflecting on some subject which by the expression on his face was apparently one of great importance. He was at an age when small matters looked like mountains to him and were often very distressing. His problem, while it was not of a kind concerning play or school work, an ordinary source of disturbance. was not altogether unusual for a small boy. As he sat thinking the pretty face of one of his classmates would now and then loom up in his mind and remind him that he had been invited to her birth- l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 67 day party, the date of which was only a few days off. Of course he must take some gift to her, but what it would be he didn't know. For several minutes his face looked puzzled and then it brightened, At last he had an idea and, hurriedly donning his hat and coat, he started down street to carry it out. It was more than mere fun to hurry around to the brightly lighted stores in search of his gift. It was intended for a real girl. At last in a little corner store he found the very thing and with a glad feeling in his heart, he turned his steps homeward. Yet there was something which still troubled him. 'iWould she like it? he wondered, half fearing the contrary. The party was not merely to celebrate Helen's birthday but also the Fourth of July. Therefore it can easily be realized why Davy was so happy during the three days which elapsed before the eventful night. He could scarcely suppress his excitement, At last it was time to get ready. It took a great amount of patience and much readjusting before he pro- nounced himself ready to venture out. Finally, after taking a last look in the mirror at his beaming face, he took the precious gift from its hiding place, his desk, and eyed it with boyish pride. But alas! All unknown to him he was being regarded by the mischievous eyes of his younger' sister. She made no attempt to conceal herself but started to enter the room immediately. On hear- ing the noise Davy hastily slid the drawer of his desk half open and let the gift slip into it. Then walking nonchalantly across the room he proceeded to gaze out of the window. But it was too late. Anne had been watching long enough to gain considerable information and she proceeded to use it at Davy's expense. You needn't try to hide your old present, she said. I know what it is. Davy was plainly flustered. Why did a fellow have to have a kid sister, any- way. They were only a nuisance and the hardest thing in the world to get along with. It's none of your business, Anne, and I wish you'd go out and leave me alone, he replied. But Anne was not to be put down by a few words. What a funny thing to give a girl, she added, tantalizingly, I wouldn't like a boy who gave me an old lirecracker. I don't think I'd even speak to him any more, This set poor Davy to thinking. His visions of Helen's beaming face when she opened his gift vanished. Would she be provoked with him? No, that couldn't be, but anyhow there was no time to change now. He must go and if worst comes to worst, he would have to take the consequences. Down the stairs and into the street Anne followed him, all the time flinging remarks which fairly tortured him. He was far from cheerful when at last he went swinging down the street with one last Davy's got a girl still ringing in his ears. However, as he neared the house and heard sounds of merriment he felt considerably better and bravely faced the situation. On arriving he imme- 68 i925 SENIOR ANNUAL diately gave his gift to Helen, who felt of it and then hastily proceeded to get at its contents. Davy watched with anxious eyes. Would his suspicions be realized? he wondered. A look of bewilderment came over her face at Hrst and then it lit with pleasure. Oh! she exclaimed, holding up a large red stick for the others to see, lt's a real giant firecracker. l'll put that with the rest of the fireworks and ask father to let me shoot it off. She was not, however. the only pleased one in the little gathering. There was one other even more so than she. When it was dark they all gathered outside to watch the fireworks. One by one they were shot off amid the shouts of the boys and girls. All but one! What had happened to the big lirecracker? They went back into the house soon for a little while before going home. Davy was provoked and did not join in with the rest. She was only putting on. he thought. She didn't mean it at all. Then someone suddenly interrupted him and mysteriously guided him out of doors all unknown to the rest. I've got the firecrackerf' a voice exclaimed excitedly. We'll shoot it off now. A few breathless minutes and they were rewarded with a powerful noise which fairly shook the earth. The rest of the boys and girls came running out to investigate. They found two scared but happy young people looking with satisfaction at the few dejected remains of the wonderful Iirecracker. That night when Davy went home Anne was triumphantly waiting for him. She intended to say a few more things to her brother but at first sight of him her hopes were shattered. One look at his beaming face was sulicient to tell her that she had been mistaken about the birthday gift. I. E. S., '26. A MATTER OF COLOR The girl entered the room and softly closed the door behind her. Her breath came in gasps and her bright eyes betrayed intense excitement. She wiped her hot cheeks with her pocket handkerchief. At last, she thought exultantly, At last it is mine. Drawing the shining thing from her pocket she let it rest on the palm of her hand. How it flashed and gleamed when the light struck it. It was, indeed, a beautiful plaything. What would Nurse Jane say? she wondered. Her thoughts were interrupted by the sound of footsteps coming up the hall -nearer and nearer the door against which she was leaning. She crossed the room to the little desk in the corner. The footsteps sounded close now. She slid open the drawer of the desk, dropped the bundle in, and crossed the room 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 69 again to her former position. The door opened and Ann turned to meet a pair of steely gray eyes. The voice, too, was steely as it spoke. Ann Eldridge! Aren't you ashamed of yourself? A young child only ten years old, stealing! What do you think will happen to you if you do like that? Ann's cheeks became Hery red and she indignantly denied having stolen any- thing. Honest, nurse, I- StopI said nurse, when you have already done something you should not have done, why do you make it worse? When little children start in by stealing they usually end in prison. But, nurse, I didn't- Ann, why do you contradict me? What will your father say when I tell him? He Won't say anything, because I am going to tell him myself. Ann fled from the room into her father's arms. Noting her weeping, he said, What is the matter, Ann girl? Oh, dad, sobbed Ann, My dolly was left out in the rain and her color was all washed off, so I had nurse's rouge to color her cheecks again. I guess she just didn't want you to know she rouged. And the worthy Doctor Eldridge found nurse's cheeks much redder when he met her than any rouge could make them. B. W., '26. ONLY TONY Mary was to go to college in September and pet animals were not allowed in college. What could she do? She and Tony were absolutely inseparable. He was the funniest and cutest little friend. Tony was the little white mouse that her brother had given to Mary a few months ago. Mary had taught him to do many tricks and his clever little per- formances soon won him many friends. The time had come when it meant either to part with Tony or break the college rules. Mary decided on the latter course of action. She took him to classes with her and when he was not in her pocket he lived in a small box on the corner table in her room. Then inspection day came and it was announced that all trunks, boxes, and bureau drawers were to be left unlocked for examination. Mary easily arranged to wear a dress with a pocket so that she could take Tony to class with her. 70 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL Half way through the morning Mary was summoned to her room. She went fearfully. At the window stood Miss Steele, the matron, holding Tony's box. She glared at Mary and demanded what she kept in such a dirty little box. Mary, confused, explained that she kept in it little things that she didn't put in the waste paper basket. While Mary was explaining this, Miss Steele turned to throw the box into the basket. At the same time Mary slipped across the room and dropped Tony into a half-opened drawer and shut it quickly. Miss Steele dismissed Mary as she crossed to the bureau and opened the top drawer. Little Tony, thinking her to be his mistress, quickly ran up her arm and on to her shoulder. Miss Steele screamed. Mary turned just in time to snatch Tony from her shoulder with one hand and to point to the floor with the other, screaming, There he goes! There he goes! I saw him! , As Miss Steele's flying figure retreated down the corridor, 'Tony snuggled comfortably in Mary's pocket. M. L., '26. Senior Philosophy Horseback riding will reduce your weight: just see how the Prince of Wales has fallen off. Tell a girl that she has a musical laugh and she will fall for your stalest joke. Life is just one fool thing after another: love is just two fool things after each other. A woman may be shocked if you make love to her, but she's mighty disappointed if you don't. Many a true word has been spoken between false teeth. Nowadays it takes two licenses to marry a girl,-marriage and automo- bile. When we have a fire the Seniors should march out first, the rest of the school are so green they won't burn anyway. 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL .. . SENIOR ENGLISH VERSE When winds are howling thru the trees, And all is dark and drear and cold, I'd rather sit before the Hre Than to go out and be more bold. But when it's warm, and dry, and light, And the sunset looks like bands of gold, I'd rather walk a winding path Than be inside while tales are told, Doris Rebe, '25. Give me a green and grassy bank Beside some sparkling pool, Give me a bit of everything, But please don't give me school. Winslow Alder, '25, The Joy of Living When I was only twenty-one, A long, long time ago, I took a little pleasure jaunt A hundred miles or so. The path led thru the mountains And by those sparkling lakes, Among the forest thickets, Over the green fern brakes. The days were truly wonderful, The nights were better still, The moon gave forth her golden beams, Ah! hear that whip-poor-will? And as I gaily swung along That path of Nature's giving, I filled my soul with perfumed air, Oh, what a joy in living! Leo Adolph Rees, '25, The pipes of Pan are calling, Come away, away! They call to me to follow, down every sunlit way. When the trees are lacey green and the birds sing out their lay, Oh, the pipes of Pan are calling me, I cannot stay. F. C. Gilman, '25 Behold whose arms uphold the golden lyre, Mad to regain his lost Eurydice, His music soothing Pluto's raised ire, Ah, wretched bard! but half regained was she. Mary Schue, '25, I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL A butterfly perched on a mossy brown stile, A little girl saw him and cried with a smile, Oh, pretty butterfly, yellow and blue, Stop! let me sit on the stile with you. S. DeHimer, '25 The Storm The sky is dark and full of clouds o'erhead, And soon the storm will break with all its force: The wind first comes, its voice is somewhat hoarse: He bends the trees, and fills one full of dread. A lightning flash lights up the sky, and then A low deep growl of thunder from the west: The drops soon fall with no especial zest: The ground's soon wet on hill, on dale, and glen. But soon the storm is past-the cloud's o'erhead Have gone: the sky once more is clear and bright, While in the sky the rainbow stands out clear, The sun doth sweetly smile upon us here, All signs of strife and storm are gone: daylight And peace-with these our souls are fed. W. Pendorf, '25 Irregular Verse 'Tis a balmy, lovely, grand spring night, 'Tis one that makes you feel lt's good to be alive and well: It sends emotions on their flight, It makes one love with all his might And think of everything as real. Believe in heaven and in hell, Eternal triumph of the right. Such nights as this inspire the best Y That's in us, for we know the rest. In health, in wealth and pleasures great Will follow after, as our fate Has planned for us poor mortals here To work out on this round old sphere. Marjorie Stocking, '25 I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL Moonlight The moon was tossed on clouds o'erhead, And by the hand of God was led To zenith's throne, its beams to shed Upon the World. The cool and soft and silvery beams, Untouched by brush or artist's creams Flowed down upon a world in dreams- The Master's Hand. And as the break of day drew nigh To another world the moon did fly, Then dawn came forth and broke the sky, Another Day! L. A. R., '25 The Old Building as its last walls were being tom down in 1897. I925 SENIOR ANNUAL UNDERCLASS EFFORTS -1 The Timid Mouse and a Bold Mouse Once upon a time two mice lived at the same house. One was a very timid little mouse, who did not be- lieve in taking any chances of being caught, while the other mouse was not the least bit afraid. Whenever the little timid mouse heard the cat coming, he would run as quickly as possible into his hole. The other mouse was very different. He would wait until the cat was right in the same room as he and then he would play a trick on her and dodge into his hole. One day the mice were conversing just before they went out in search of their dinner. You are a 'very silly little mouse, said the bold mouse. Why don't you do as I do? You never stay out until you have finished eating, but scamper off at the least little sound. Look at me, I can fool that cat any old time. I take no chances. Maybe I am sigybbut I wish to be on the safe si e. l'Well, come on, silly little mouse. Let's get something to eat. You stay out with me today and I'll tell you when to run. You'll be all right if you listen to me. I d--don't think I'll stay with you, although you always get home safely. I guess I'll use my own ears the same as I always have done. Soon the mice were nibbling peace- ably at some cheese. All at once they heard a sound as if someone was com- ing near. The little mouse scam- pered off but the bold one stayed to eat a little more, remarking that that was not the cat. A few minutes later the bold mouse was pounced upon by the cat and held fast. Alas, it was too late to dodge and be tricky. The little timid mouse, who knew he wasn't the wisest person that ever lived, was safe in his hole. Edith M. Potts, '27, ,MM-l. Playing I like to go a rowing On a hot summer day: Because the river is flowing, And the wind comes my way. The wind that comes my way, Lets me cool off on the river, Then I can go farther in my play, And I feel healthier and bigger. In the winter when Jack Frost comes, The water in the river freezes, I go home and get my skates, But now I don't want any breezes. -Stanley Ciszek, ' 28 . The Seed One day in the corner of our garden I saw a tiny little seed. I watched and watched each day, And gave it care that it might need. One morning I found it full grown, And that naughty little seed, Instead of blooming like a flower, Had grown to be a weed. Eleanor Milker, '28, It Wasn't Right Had you told me, Get your gun, And go chasing down a Hun, I could do it! I could do it! But for me a poem to write Almost makes me want to fight: It isn't right! It isn't right! . C. Lynn Watters, '28. 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 75. Boyhood of Odysseus Odysseus' father was neither rich nor poor. He had enough money to give Odysseus what he wanted. He taught Odysseus how to use the bow and arrow. This was one reason why Odysseus used it so well in later years. He was taught many things by his nurse, Eurycleia, and taught how to hunt and fight by his father. His father gave Odysseus a little or- chard and Odysseus had to take care of it. This he did with great care. He by everybody. It was while he was was a good sportsman and respected hunting that a boar gave him the scar by which he was recognized when returning to Ithaca. His sports helped him in Phaeacia to earn the respect of the people. Odysseus was very happy in his boyhood, not knowing what was to happen to him in later years. Antoinette Rosenburgh, '28. The Price of Vanity It was the hunting season. The dogs were in the woods with the men. In a remote part of the woods a deer and a peacock were standing near a large pool which reflected the forms of both, The deer was drink- ing and the peacock looking from a branch that hung far out over the water. Really, my dear, the peacock was saying, I think my feathers are quite beautiful. Even if I do say so myself, I think I am the most beauti- ful bird in the world. The peacock walked up and down the bough, eyeing his reflection in the water with satisfaction. But the deer answered, Vanity is a silly ideal. I never watch myself in the water. One must be careful nowadays. I-Iarkl what was that? The peacock did not notice. It watched itself in the water, preened its beautiful feathers, bowed in grati- tude to the way it carried itself. But the deer, having heard the dogs barking, begged the peacock to fly away. The foolish bird only tried harder to look more beautiful. In case a mn should see me, the peacock said, I must look my best. At that moment a dog appeared from the thicket. The deer, seeing it, rushed off in great alarm but the peacock staid and, drawing itself up haughtily, ex- claimed, Why such impudencel In- truding while I'm preparing for my morning's excursion. But the dog neither cared or under- stood. It barked and its master came, raised his gun and fired. The pea- cock fell dying to the ground. The deer, looking from a distance, muttered sadly, Vanity and Pride all travel the same road, the road of death. Stuart Kroll, '27. 'flaw ,cya 'wwwgvfwi - vs. nmN 'f.,..3C0 :Vw ffE'f:, guyz ' ' I Q ' ., '.::', -,QTL sa '- 1? si 76 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL SCHOOL DEBATE Resolved, That the Board of Education should furnish school books for the pupils. AFFIRMATIVE SIDE NEGATIVE SIDE First speaker, Anna Margaret Toepp First speaker, Sheldon Shay Second speaker, Virgil Gardinier Second speaker, Mary Schue Won by affirmative side, ISSUES 1. Would free text books be a benefit to the pupil? 2. Could the Board of Education afford to furnish the books? 3. Would the present system be improved? The affirmative contended that free text books woud be a benefit to the pupil, because we all know that a great deal of money must be given out at the beginning of each term for new books. In the case of large families, it is often hard for the parents to spare money just at that time. With boys it is not so hard for them to purchase their own books. If books were furnished by the Board, that money could be spent for lectures, plays or concerts, that are brought here for the benefit of the pupils. The Board of Education could afford to furnish the school books, for the taxpayers are the ones that provide money for the Board. This money could just as well be used to buy books as to lie idle or be used for something not so necessary. The present system would be greatly improved. The text books are changed quite often: some used only for a few months and then set aside, never to be used again or sold. If the Board furnished books there would be fewer used: also getting the books in large numbers, they could be purchased at cost. If books were furnished more children could attend schools: thus the world would be benefited by having more learned, intelligent people. NEGATIVE Text books, as the common property of a school, are very unsanitary. Dis- ease germs are spread by means of books more than by almost any other means, and disease among school children is something to be dreaded. Different pupils handle the same book which possibly may carry the germ. As a result we have the illness not only of the pupils in contact with the book but also those in contact with these pupils. Since the pupil does not own the book he becomes careless in regard to its care. A book of his own would be taken care of, while one not his own prop- erty soon becomes marked up and ruined. This careless habit formed during l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 77 youth, will cling to the pupil during mature years, thus being a disadvantage to him. It would take time and a great deal of extra labor at the beginning of the school year and at its close, to get the books in order. lt would be more than a week before a pupil would be ready to start in work at the beginning of the term under this system. Whereas now, when the school book purchasing is left to the pupil individually, it can be done in a day and school work begun earlier. And in the end the cost really comes back to the parent anyway in the form of taxes. Every year the number buying their own homes increases. There- fore the cost of the books finally devolves upon the parent, only at a little higher rate, since the books of other pupils whose parents are not taxpayers are thrown in. Why not let the pupil himself continue to purchase his own book and get to work so much earlier at the beginning of the term, save his own and the teacher's time, and be insured against disease? M. S. REBUTTALS Free text books would not be any more unsanitary than second-hand ones. No one knows when he buys a second-hand book what diseases the former owner had. Carelessness could be prevented in use of books by having a regular inspec- tion Cduring vacationsj and destructive persons could be fined for misuse of public property. If the Board of Education furnished books they could be purchased and be placed in the schools during the summer recess, in readiness for opening classes. It is often a week or ten days before some pupils are able to procure their ma- terial. The affirmative side therefore declares that the Board of Education should furnish books for the pupils. A A. M. T., '25. 78 i925 SENIOR ANNUAL J UN IORS President.. ....................... ........................... ...... C a rlton Gardmier V1C2-President ............................ ...... M arguerite Lynch Secretary and Treasurer .....,.......,,. ,,,,,,,,, J ulia Hagerty Advisory Board Representative ....... ,.,,,,, E unite Watters Abbe, Ellie Harrison, Mildred Rebe, Freda Akers, Ruth Hanicker, Grace Reed, Alice Bowers, Catherine Boyson, Carolyn Bradley, Elizabeth Brennan, Julia Brvnilsen, Helen Burlingame. Marion Coventry, Claire Corr, Elizabeth Cook, Edith Combs, Lois Dabrowski, Mary Dillenbeck, Rozeflie ' Dunham, Margaret Esche, Cecelia Eychner, Mabel Fike, Esther Fisk, Elsie Fleming, Isabel George, Jean Gorzkowski, Mary Greggains, Amber Grimes, Naomi Grower, Aristine Hagerty, Julia Applegate, Kenneth Baker, Charles Bates, Curtis Bellinger, Forrest Breckenridge, Howard Benedict, Charles Colangelo, Vito Collins, James Cook, Lawrence Conner, Maurice Davis, Stuart Deeley, Leman De Lutis, Conse Evans, Tom Ferguson, Charles Ferlo, Joseph Flanagan, Thomas Hayes, Harry Herbold, Albert Hower, Leo Hyde, Harold Hinckley, Amy Holihan, Helen Horin, Mary Huntington, Mary Jenny, Doris Jones, Louisa Jones, Marion Kanwischer, Ella Kaplan, Isabel Kilbourne, Ruth Lloyd, Marjorie Lynch, Marguerite Marshall, Katie Martin, Edna McMahon, Eleanor Merritt, Dorothy Merritt, Mildred Milewska, Lillian Munney, Georgianna Neaf, Justina Obrist, Marguerite Pacelli, Rose Parkhursr, Irene Potts, Edith t June. Harry Kahler, Joseph Kline, Lewis Knauer, Sprague Lewis, John LaFountain, Albert Luberda, Stanley Martin, Bertis Mathis, Raymond Marturano, Phillip McGreggan, Harold McMahon, Robert Mead, Jack Miller, Leo Moore, Carlton Obrist, Robert Odell, Bert Pendorf, Henry Perry, Alfred Pfeiffer, Frederick Pisani, Franklinson Rieck, Amelia Schroth, Mabel Scully, Mary Louise Seager, Winifred Seifert, Margaret Smith, Catherine Smith, LaVonne Spear, Ruth Stafford, Betty Staley, Marion Sturtevant, Helen Trachsel, Elizabeth Tyler, Ethel Ullrich, Margaret Watters, Eunice White, Ruth Williams, Beryl Williams, Marjorie Winchell, Gladys Woodcock, Lola Wright, Anna Mae Zingerline, Arlene Young, Ethel Relyea, Hubert Robinson, Alexande Schneible, James Schue, Francis Seals, Hayden Sestito, Frank Sgambellone, Tony Shaw, Renwick Shea, Sheldon Stafford, Edward Stretton, -Ernest Strohl, Joseph Taft, Chester Tamburrino, Alfred Tiffany, Charles Tyler, Edward Tyler, Emerson Williams, Elmer Williams, Howard Williams, Milton I 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 79 SOPHOMORE CLASS President -n-.4---------.---,,,,,,,,,,-,--,,,,,,,,,,,,,-,,,,,,,,.,,,,,,,,, ,,,,,,,, ,,...,..... F 1' ank Ghent ViCe-PfgSident ,-,-,,,-.,,,.,,,,,.,,,,,-, ,,,... D oris Mltfenmalef Secretary and Treasurer .............. .............. E 1Si2 Olson Advisory Board Representative ......,......................... ...... G ilbert Wolfe Adey, Elizabeth Aegerter, Helen Akens, Kathryn Andronaco, Isabella Anken, Anna Anken, Ruth Baker, Isabel Ballard, Gertrude Benedict, Esther Bobowski, Cecelia Burroughs, Anna Burtch, Anna Butts, Winifred Caraher, Catherine Carrier, Ernestine Carrier, Martha Ciszek, Frances Collins, Marion Conrad, Marjorie Day, Dorothy Delaney, Marion Derrick, Ernestine Doyle, Kathryn Duggan. Letha Dyett, Charlotte Edwards, Eleanor Ely, Alice Getbehead, Margaret Ghent, Mary Louise Abel, John Aldridge, Curtis Aquino, Nick Armstrong, Clifford Baker, Abraham Baril, Louie Bathrick, LeRoy Bell, George Benner, George Boehnlein, Victor Bower, Milton Briggs, Stuart Brush, Merwin Burke, Clarence Carey, John Castle, Leland Caswell, Tiffany Colella, Phillip Costi, Phillip Delano, Donald DeLutis, Thomas DeMatteo, Phillip Doran, Robert Edwards, Maurice Evans, Woodruif Farely, Glenn Fitch, Lloyd Garafalo, Leo Frison, Gerard Gerber, Harold ,MMM-lil Hagerty, Margaret Harrison, Harriett Hertel, Florence Herter, Gladys Hickman, Nellie Hildenbrandt, Marie Hobday, Leona Houser, Ramona lodice, Josephine Joslyn, Hazel Joslyn, Lucille Kapfer, Marjorie Keller, Ethel Knight, Dorothy Knight, Ruth Lansing, Velnette Lavender, Gladys Levitt, Freda Lumley, Elizabeth Malone, Mildred Mamosser, Elizabeth Martin, Florence McCurn, Mary Mead, Sarah Mittenmaier, Doris Morton, Alice Mostizer, Genevieve Mudge, Gladys Nevinger, Elizabeth - Ghent, Francis Glickman, David Greene, David Grimes, Charles Gualtieri, Sam Hartness, Howard Hauk, Ernest Henry, Michael Honert, Norman Jones, Jacob Jones, Paul Kaplan, Isadore Kelley, James Klossner, Lyle Knight, Stuart Kroll, Stuart Lagatta, Joe Light, Frederick Lombino, Charles Lutz, Randolph McAdam, Robert MacBurney. James Marian, Peter Mast, Richard Midzinski, Stanley Morton, Harry Neaf, William Norton, Clayton Page, James Phillips, Francis Northrup, Mary Odell, Leona Olson, Elsie O'Neill, Bridie Patalla, Suzzanne Pawelko, Rose Pfluke, Lois Piluke, Marion Pillmore, Margaret Pliniski, Frances Plunkett, Margaret Powell, Mildred Richmond, Lamina Rizzuto, Gilda Romen, Grace Scott, Elizabeth Seifert, Mae Skeba, Nellie Spadafora, Adeline Stewart, Carmela Storms, Margaret Streun, Pauline Sturtevant, Gladys Sumner, Eleanor Tracy, Eleanor Tudman, Clarice Uvanni, Helen Van Hovenburgh, Dorothy Venturo, Lena Phillips, Randall Randall, Grirhth Rhemick, John Regetz, John Rizzuto, Mario Ross, Tony Ruby, George Rung, William Sanzone, Frank Schneible, Arthur Singleton, Donald Slagel, John Stanford, Theron Stevens, Leonard Spinner, Victor Spriggs, Robert Stone, Alvin Thayer, Bernard Thomas, Everett Tryon, Robert Tuzzolino, Dominick Utley, Harold Warcup, Harold Wardwell, James Wolfe, Gilbert Wollaber, Forrest Wood, Addison Wright, Harry Williams, Henry I925 SENIOR ANNUAL Photographer Photo by C. B. Howland, Commercial SS CLA FRESHMAN OI1 Johns a 07 Treasurer. ..... .- and Secretary Z3 E so s: o .11 4-3 s: KC sident .... I6 P 31' a Spe 0I'ITl ....N epresentative..- R oard B fY dviso A 011 Johns eu .Z N 09 J C1 aa YE cn ea L1 D-4 I N U 5 I925 SENIOR ANNUAL 1 THE ACADEMY ORCHESTRA JOHN O. LUNDBLAD, Director Violins: Akers, Ruth Arthur. Robert Bourne, Teleta Bell, George DeWolfe, Mildred DeLaney, Marion Grogan, Jeanette Kozma, Broni Kahler, Joseph Kingsley, Sumner LaFountain, Albert Lewandrowski, Zygmut Martin, Bertis O'Neill, Kathleen Pfeiffer, Frederick Staley, Marion Stocking, Marjorie Spear, Ruth Uvanni, Andrew Vivianni, Louis Watters, Lyle Watters, Eunice Williams, Marjorie Trumpet: Brush. Merwin Hughes, William Kilbourne, Orrin Teller, Howard Piano: Aldridge, Curtis Williams, Milton Viola: Hicks, Lavina Clarinet: Eades, Howard Odell, Bert Pisani, Franklinson Stump, Leo Rees, Leo Zingerline, Alfred Flute: Di Prospero, Augustine Saxaphone: Herbold, Albert Alto Horn: Farr, Jack Trombone: Boehnlein, Victor Rothmund, Klein Watters, Lynn Drums: Bielby, Ernest Loftus, Howard Several years ago Miss Nourse, then director of music in the Rome schools. conceived the idea of starting an orchestra in the Academy. There were not many musicians in the school at that time, possibly ten or twelve. The orchestra was composed of several violins, a number of violas, a double bass, trombone, 'cello, drums and piano. There was not a cornetist in the school and so on special occasions a man from some nearby town supplied. The Board of Education contributed a trombone and a 'cello. These instruments were loaned to students who learned to play them. Due to good luck, the orchestra was fortunate in having a double-bass. About 1910, the beginning of the first high school orchestra, the principal of the Academy found a double- bass in the attic of the Y. M. C. A. building. This old instrument proved to be of great value and has remained in the orchestra up to this time. Because 82 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL the double-bass is an odd instrument to play, a musician from outside the high school has often supplied. If the high school course were longer a student would be able to learn to play the double-bass during his academic course. As the orchestra became older its members increased. Five years after its beginning there were twenty-five members. ln 1918 the size had increased to thirty and in 1922 there were twelve more added. At the present time there are fifty-live members. The variety of instruments had also increased until it might be said the orchestra is now well balanced. The Board of Education has generously sup- plied suflicient funds for the support of the orchestra and made it possible to enjoy a good variety of music. Among the annual events of the year at which the orchestra has taken part are the Christmas festivities, Mr. Southwick's readings, the Slingerland prize speaking contest, and the graduation exercises. The orchestra has also fur- nished the music for the concert-lecture course at the Family Theater. In May there was a concert given in the Woman's Club gymnasium. Much credit is due to Mr. Lundblad, present director of music, and the orchestra members greatly appreciate his efforts in bringing the orchestra to its present state of elliciency. O. A. K., '25. - Miss Eysamen: A'What do you mean by saying Benedict Arnold was a janitor? John Hnat: Well, the book says that after his exile he spent the rest of his life in abasementf' 1 .6251 Rees: Why do old maids wear cotton gloves PH Grogan: Probably because they have no kids. ,'25.. Mrs. Cole: Don't you know that punctuation means that you pause? Collins: Of course I do. Father punctuated a tire Sunday, and paused for half an hour. Cirogan: I see that the gas com- pany has been dubbed 'The Light Brigadef Prof. Cole: Oh, yes, what a charge they made. -'25... Judge: For beating your wife I line you Sl.lO. Prisoner: I don't object to the dollar, but why the extra ten cents? Judge: That's the federal tax on amusementsf' ...'251 Lake: What's the difference be- tween capital and labor? Lagatta: Well, if you loaned me a quarter, that would be capital: if you tried to get it back again, that would be labor. I925 SENIOR ANNUAL 83 ALUMNI GREETINGS viill- April 29, 1925. Mr. Gordon E. Kent. Chairman of Board of Directors Rome Free Academy Alumni, Inc. Dear Mr. Kent: Is there such a thing as an amusingly pathetic invitation? If so, your form letter comes pretty near to that phenomenon. I wish I knew the address of my classmates of 1870, and could reach them. Who knows but that radio may yet accomplish that miracle? Charles H. Dunning of '70 and I were good chums: the girls, Ella Carroll and Emma Smith, moved in their sphere apart from us. Miss Carroll I do not recall ever speaking with, Miss Smith I did once have a word with. How strange this must seem to the boys and girls of this day, who mingle happily like brothers and sisters. In those days we lived largely in the past, as shown in books, getting one lesson after another in rather monotonous succession. But we got the lessons. It is the crowning glory of the present High School youth that they face the future in social contact. It must be forty years since I attended the reunion of R. F. A. I have always been con- nected with schools, and so unable to leave duties at commencement time. I may get there this year, though. But who would know me, or whom should I know? I should have to ask for grandfathers. Sincerely yours. LEIGH R. HUNT, '70, il.l.l.-1-i-- May Sth, 1925. To the Members of the Graduating Class of R. F. A. of 1925: I have been requested to send a message to you from the class graduating from the same institution fifty years ago and of which I was a member. What shall the message be--to those about to enter upon a new and unchartered course, by one who, speaking back, as it were, from so many years ago? I can think of nothing better than to repeat a Latin quotation, In all matters, before beginning, a diligent preparation should be made. Your graduation is the first and very important step in such preparation and thereby you have taken advantage of and become a beneficiary of a free educational institution in a coun- try which spends more for that purpose than all the rest of the world put together. No one would be so courageous as to advance a formula on preparation applying under all circumstances and to all callings for those who are aspiring for material success. One can only generalize and be content with the injunction-to prepare as well as one can afford to and be influenced, of course, as to his or her adaptability to the proposed kind of calling. The prepara- tion for one kind of vocation would be a stranger to that for another. However, the time and cost of the best preparation for the life work anticipated is negligible as compared with the results which can be realized in the experience of the ordinary span of life. Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, in celebrating his ninety-first birthday last week, among other things said: The only sure guides to success are character, health and happiness. To this I would add thrift, hard work and plenty of it and then some, while young, and care to keep physically lit as a practical guarantee to health and the accomplishment of results, The class of '75 consisted of only sixteen, and I am informed that if all of your present membership graduate this year, the total will be' ll3, the largest class in the history of the R. F. A, Should this same' comparative percentage increase during the next fifty years, Pro- fessor Staley will have to ask for another school building. 84 I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL It may not be presumptious for me individually to add that the class of five decades ago sends greetings, congratulations and best wishes to you over this span of half a century, and may all those who have already followed you over the threshhold into the High School emulate your example by completing the course. Very respectfully, JAMES P. OLNEY, '75, Pursuant to request from the Senior Annual staff, I, as a representative of the Class of 1880, take great pleasure in sending greetings to you, the members of the Class of 1925, and in hoping that someone representing your class, forty-five years hence, in sending similar greetings to the graduates of 1970. will have a groundwork of world progress to look back upon which will equal or exceed the marvelous strides in intellectual, industrial, scientinc and archaeological progress which mankind has witnessed since the Class of 1880 made its commencement bow. Not that any member of our class Calthough we concede it was individually and collectively the brightest aggregation of talent which ever stepped forth from the portals of our common Alma Materj had anything to do with inventing the telephone or electric light, the automobile or the airplane, nor, as far as I know, did any of us have a hand in digging up King Tut : but, for all that, we have each formed a constituent part of the forward looking world popula- tion which made such achievements possible. I do not wish to throw any sand in the cogs of your well-lubricated class gears nor to dampen in any manner the cheerful and optimistic outlook you now have on the future: but you know Cicero, after telling Cataline he wouldn't mention any of his shortcomings, went on and described them in detaily Daniel Webster once said: The first great lesson a young man should learn is that he knows nothingg and the earlier and more thoroughly this lesson is learned the better it will be for his peace of mind in after life. ' This saying of Daniel's is probably true, but you do not need to let it worry you in the least. You have just as good an opportun-ity before you as have had any of your predecessors. There is an old Chinese proverb which says, Eire makes its own room, so, no matter how many obstacles you find in the path nor how many rebuffs and setbacks come your way, if you are willing to work and back up that work with the vim and push and energy which are so graphically and comprehensively included in your modern word pep, you will have no cause to worry about the future. It is my heartfelt wish that each and every one of you will come to the year 1970 crowned with honor and success and that you can then look back and feel that each of the passing years has held its full quota of achievements and joy of living. ' SAMUEL H. BEACH, '8O. To the Class of 1925, R. F. A.: Age is often garrulous and it is the prerogative of years, to preach. Tolerate us while we talk: then smile, as you must, and start la longue traverse. For it will be long for some of you if we can rely on the Carlisle tables. We would adjure you, above all things, to be good. Of course, if you can't, just be as good as you can. We use the adjective advisedly. Someone once said, Be good and you'll be happy, but you won't have much fun. We would rather change the saying to Be as happy as you can: all good bears company. We have been the allotted time in the Wilderness and should know! The promised land is in sight and vain is regret! Then why regret? Time has taught us much: much that we have forgotten. What loves he has hallowed: what dislikes he has mellowedl He waits at the door to serve and be your shadow, too. Remember no matter, what the Persian said: We are grass in the garden of God. Victor Hugo died just 40 years ago, full of honors and happy: his children, The Unhappy, still survive! We hope to repeat at the half century. Vale! ANNIE A. MCADAM. CORA MCHARG JARVIS, Class of 1885. I925 SENIOR ANNUAL 85 Dear Miss Seeley: Yes, indeed, I will write something for the Senior Annual. Furthermore, I will do it with pleasure, remembering how thankfully contributions were received when I was helping to edit an annual, and welcoming the opportunity to pay a tribute to Rome Free Academy, where I spent three of the happiest years of my life, as they were also among the very richest. In trying to analyze the pleasant memories of my school days, I find that three things stand out more prominently than many others, namely, the teachers, the spirit of the school, and the joy of studying new subjects. We appreciated our teachers while we were working under their guidance, and we still appreciate them after having had many others. Nowhere else have I had teachers who so per- fectly combined beauty and nobility of character with good scholarship. They were an inspira- tion and an example in those days. as they are still a benign influence and a real factor i11 my life today. The spirit of the school was something which I recall with pride. Most of the students were serious and earnest in their work, making hard study a pleasure. Most of us obeyed liter- ally the rule which required two hours of preparation on each lesson. When we had spent the time conscientiously, we went to class with a confidence and an assurance that made recitations an occasion for friendly rivalry and competition. In no other school have I ever experienced such keen enjoyment in new subjects. Latin. Roman history, Shakespeare, botany. to mention only a few, each opened up a new world. While this was due largely to the superior scholarship and the teaching ability of those who taught us, something must be conceded, of course, to circumstances of age and previous training. I like to think, when I see boys and girls going in and out, as I pass, that the same rare privilege is theirs. Since my day there have been many changes in customs and in ideas of what constitutes a good education, yet it remains true now, as then, that our teachers may be among our best friends, that there is genuine pleasure of the highest type in learning to use our minds, and that the more we learn about the world and its people the more wonderful a place do we find it and the greater possibilities does it offer for living a happy and useful life. I can wish nothing better for the students who read this than that they may so spend their time that when they leave the Academy they will carry with them the same sense of gratitude for its opportunities, and the same feeling of obligation to live up to its high standards, and the same pleasant memories of companionship that I still enjoy. IDA L. REVELEY. '90. To the Class of I925: May the hearty greetings of the Class of '95 be extended to you as you join the forces of the R. F. A. Alumni. May your spirit of enthusiasm revive us and urge us to greater efforts and may our earnest- ness and experience be helpful guideposts along the way to better things. May you excel all who have gone before in placing R. F. A. standards in more advanced positions in the battle of life and along the paths of achievement. This is the wish of the class of thirty years ago to the babies of today. LILLIAN BRADT, '95. May 6. 1925. To the Class of 1925 from the Class of 1900, Rome Free Academy: Twenty-five years! This is a long time as you look forward to it now, but we, who graduated with the Class of 1900, can look back and say, How short the time since we set out on the journey which would bring us to the twenty-fifth anniversary of the day we left the old Rome Free Academy for the larger activities of life. Ours was the first class to graduate from what was then the new Rome Free Academy, and at that time the Academy occupied only the upper door of the building which has now been entirely outgrown. During all these years we have never lost the enthusiasm with which we 86 1925 SENICJR ANNUAL set out and still hold dear the memories of our academy days and the friendships we formed, which friendships possibly have been of more value than anything else. Remember that you are young and filled with the same enthusiasm that we were then. You have acquired a foundation on which to build and are just starting to assume the resposibilities of carrying on the wor1d's work which will be almost entirely yours at the end of the next quarter of a century. Our message to you would be: Retain the enthusiasm you now have, cultivate the friend- ships you have formed under such happy circumstances, and success and happiness will come to cach and all of you. This is our wish and our hope and you can be sure that the Class of 1925 will ever find the hand of the Class of 1900 stretched out to you in a spirit of helpfulness and good-will. ARTHUR E. SPRIGGS, 1900. Twenty years! What a world of difference it makes whether one is looking forward or backward upon the elapse of that many years. Viewed by the youth, it appears a lifetime: to one approaching middle age it seems but yesterday. 1 How vividly I recall June, 1905, when as a member of the graduating class of that year I left the portals of old R. F. A. to take up my education in the school of life. Can it indeed be twenty years? And yet as one of R. F. A.'s babies at the alumni banquet that same June I had looked with an awe akin to reverence upon members of the Class of 1885 attending that function. ' How old they looked! Had they really and truly been away from R. F. A. all that time? Ah! The eyes of youth were looking at twenty years then, but now to the eyes of middle age how insignificant that amount of time appears in the span of the human life. Ask the football warrior of 1905 how quickly he goes back twenty years, when from the side lines he sees the visiting school's halfback slipping around the end and headed in his direc- tion. The thrill and the desire for the old flying tackle fairly shoots him over the intervening milestones of life and twenty years is indeed yesterday. Suppose he attempts it. To those of his own age he was simply carried away by the thought that was uppermost in their own minds and he has their sympathy. But how does youth look at it? I ' One can fairly hear their Put him off the field, why did that old man tackle the runner? Old man, indeed! Was it not yesterday that he hung up his moleskins? Have twenty years really intervened? Two decades ago we sat with our heads proudly erect, a class of thirty-six members, the second largest to graduate up to that time. Now old R. F. A. turns out classes nearly three times as large. But large or small, let them all stand back of the old school, that the eyes of youth and the eyes of middle age may see as one their common Alma Mater, R. F. A. THOS. S. WILSON, '05. To the Class of 1925, Greetings: Fifteen- years ago we were occupying. as you now occupy, box seats, with the whole world at our feet Cso we thought, as you think nowj. For a full week from the baccalaureate sermon to Saturday's Summit Park outing, we continued to occupy that commanding position. As we passed-people turned to look, and from open windows we saw peering eyes and heard ,excited exclamations of come quickly and see the graduates . Even Cles'T Howland' came 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL 87 with his camera and asked us to sit for him. CShould you get his invitation to sit accept and profit by the fifteen-minute rest he is sure to offer you.j Suddenly we awakened, as you will, and descended from the heights, and great was the descent. Diplomas, we found, had no mesmeric powers. College entrance exams were to be passed and employers to be shown that we were worth ten dollars per week. Life's goal line for us had not been crossed. We had simply made first downs , with seventy yards to go. But we, like you and every other graduate, had tasted partial success as a result of deter- mined efforts to attain a goal against opposition. Commencement proved to be but the oflicial's whistle, giving us another chance to make first downs . So it is with you-the game is on: the signals called, and the opportunity is yours to make your goal. God speed you on your wayf M. A. KENT, President 1910. ,-i-1 Rome, N. Y., May ll, 1925. To the Class of 1925 and all R. P. A. Alumni, Greetings: To you of the Class of '25 ten years ahead may seem a long time, but to us of '15 it has passed almost as a fleeting shadow. lt really seems but yesterday that we, too, were struggling with the finals exams, the secrets of last day, the class day frolic and, last of all, the thrilling graduation exercises. Ten years of life has taught us more keenly the rvalue of education'and the necessity of application. May we urge each one to use every opportunity for continued study. Our paths have diverged widely and we find ourselves scattered almost to the four winds, but the bonds of friendship which held through our four years of R. P. A. are still as firm and lasting as ever. ESTHER HOWARD OLSON, 'l5. ' MARY C. CRAIG, il5. Hobart College, Geneva, N. Y., May l, 1925. Members of the Class of 1925: ln behalf of the Class of 1920 lextend greetings and congratulations. In a few weeks you will be alumni, watching with deep interest, as we are doing now, the future graduates of R. F. A. I sincerely hope that some of these graduates will find their way to Hobart College. This college has an interesting history. It was chartered one hundred and three years ago, and was the most western college in our country. The principal aim is personal instruction through small classes. At the present time there are only two hundred and twenty-live men in the college. Hobart is not a rich man's college. lt is well endowed with scholarships, and expenses are surprisingly low. Opportunities for work are good. Any young fellow who really wants a good education, and is willing to work for it, will find Hobart ever willing to lend a helping h d. an W. F. ALLISON, '20. mx Wx xr -a :S AH HH' in e 39 QE ffl N lil 1 - x xrfr ' 'X1 A X A .- . ,af Ffgigfli, .gf . :Ziggy w:4E.gq,f:, fl 1 fr- ,h . .Saw 88 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL You Won't Get I-looked if You Buy This Paper. THE U-VXDIEFHER Published Whenever the EXTRA Will Be Announced . Afterwards. Occasion Demands. GOOD la jfis betman OH, WHAT LINES WE HAVE! RATES: ONE DOLLAR IN ROME 1 EIGHT BITS ELSEWHERE KLEIN ROTHMUND IS BACH IN TOWN. Big murder on North Washington Street. A pa- perhanger hung border. For further detail see page 7711 of this issue. Accident between Rome and Utica. A trolley struck a cow somewhere between Stops 10 and 11. Nine Lives Endangered on North James Street. Prof. Cole's cat got out and ran in front of a passing auto, but was rescued by Prof. before any harm befell it. Great Event: While din- ing at Point Rock Marjorie Stocking found an oyster in her oyster stew. But as far as is known she did not rind a horse in the horseradish. nor a cottage in the cottage cheese. CLASS-IFIED ADS Big Sale on Shirts for boys with 13 or 14 necks- Lake's Clothing Store. l. Lost-Fountain Pen, by a girl half full of ink. Re- turn to Christine Shaylor, or keep it with my hopes that you can make the darn thing work right. Found-Package of Wrig- ley's Spearmint Crum. Col- lins, you may have your property by calling at my residence on North James Street. Hurry, or I'1l throw the stuff away.-Prof. D. H. Cole. Wanted-Someone to hold my gum while I serve in church,-Art Knight, Wanted-To know who sent Charlie Greene over to my house with a box of candy.-Geraldine Karlen. Wanted - Less noise- Miss Keough. Wanted-Someone to help me do my lessons.-Newell Smith. Wanted-A good second- hand safety razor,-Broni Kozma. Wanted-To know why Miss Spear has spent so much time at the big dic- tionary in the back of the study hall. Can any of our cross-word puzzle fans help us out? Wanted-Answers to the following questions: 1. How can a cow be turned into a pasture? 2. Why do they say a hat becomes a woman when it still remains a hat? 3. Why is a fountain pen that needs assistance in filling called a self-filler? For Sale-A saddle, a sleigh and complete harness, and a darn good horse thrown in.-Doris Clarabut. For Sale-A fishpole by a boy with a brand new line. -James Atkinson. Wanted-Girl for bakery: must be an early riser, born in the Cyleast, a good mixer, and will get her dough every Saturday night.-Federal Bakery. Wanted-Tom hvans to wear rubber heels.--Miss Stauring. I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL 89 N .-.-1.-....--...,....,1.......,......, J. Schneible: What kind of fruit grows on telephone poles? Prof. Cole: Electric currents. i'25.. Mrs. Flanagan: Were you a good boy at school today, Thomas? Thomas: My health book says that talk at the table should be of a pleasant nature. -25- Geraldine: I hear you adore good music? Grady: I do, but never mind, keep right on playing. -'25.. Joe Jones fto county clerkjz I- ah-er-um-, that is-1 Clerk Cto assistantj : Henry, bring out one of those marriage li- cense blanks. -75- Prof. Moe Cover the telephonej: Ah, is this the fire department? Oh, yes: well, will you tell me the loca- tion of the nearest fire alarm box, my house is on fire? ..'25.. Waterbury: I once loved a girl that made a fool out of me. Wardwell: What a lasting im- pression some girls make. Newell Smith: 'lWhy do some men consider their wives angels? Bob Lake: Probably because they are always harping on some- thing. -35- Lagai: I see that out in one of the western colleges all the men stu- dents are growing beardsf' Knight: Kinda rough on the girls, isn't it? -15- Blakeslee Cdining in a restaurantD : Say, waiter, what kind of meat did you say this was? Waiter: Spring lamb, sir. Blakeslee: I thought so. I've been chewing on one of those springs for half an hour. .425- David Shacter: Why haven't you any hair on your head? Prof. Cole: Grass doesn't grow on a busy street, does it? Shacter: Oh, I see. It can't get up through the concrete. 1 ...25.. Alder: What time is it when the clock strikes thirteen? Prof. Cole: Time for the clock to be iixedf' 90 I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL Helen Arthur: Was father vio- lent when you asked for my hand? Milton: A'Was he? Good night! He nearly shook my arm off. v -25- Rayland: They say they aren't going to make moving pictures at Hollywood any longer. Kilbourne: Why not? Rayland: They're long enough now. ..'25i Geraldine: I wouldn't marry you if you were the only man in the world. Howard: You bet you wouldn't You'd be killed in the rush. .425- Farr: The telephone is annoy- ing sometimes. Alder: Yes: it's like matrimony: one doesn't always get the party one wants. -25- Tramp: 'illave you a good square meal for a hungry man? Mrs. Gole: Yes, and he'll be home at six to eat it. .. 25- J. Schneible: How do you like your new job? Collins: Fine. Schneible: What time do you have to go to work? Collins: Any old time as long as I get there before eight o'clock. -'25- Traveler: 'AThere's a tribe of wild women in Africa who have no tongues. Babe Alder: But they can't talk, can they? Traveler: Of course not. That's what makes them wild. Kilbourne: Do you believe that dark-haired men marry first? Pressey: No, it's the light- headed ones. .325-. Ike: Rachael says she is twen- ty-four. Izzy: Yes, twenty-four, marked down from thirty-nine. -'25.. Babe Alder and Marjorie were having a soda at the Candyland when Mar4jorie's straw broke. Pat- rick, said Marjorie, my sucker is broke. Gosh ding it, said Babe, how did you know that? 1 .. 25, The fate of Lot's wife Was all her own fault. First she turned to rubber , Then she turned to salt. 1 - 25- Miss Eysamen: Where was the declaration of independence signed? Milt Williams: At the bottom. 1 - 25- Pressey: What? You a house- wife. I bet you don't even know what a needle is for. Helen Arthur: UI do, too. It's for a Victrolaf' -'25- Hilda: Marion swears she has never been kissed by a man. Geraldine: Well, isn't that enough to make any girl swear? -'25.. Wardwell: Aldridge is rather dumb, isn't he? Waterbury: How so? Wardwell: He thought that thermometer in the front of the study hall was to register the number of people Miss Spear called down each day. I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL 9l gg Outline of an After Dinner Speech by Miss Strout Three long breaths. Compliment to the audience. Funny story. Outline of what she is not going to say. Points she will touch on later. Two famous quotations from Shakespeare. Outline of what she would say if she had time. Reference to what she said first. Funny story. Compliment to the audience. Ditto to our city state and coun- try. Concluding remarks. Funny story. Applause. -125, Rienzo: What did you do yes- terday afternoon? , Knight: Took part in a guess- ing contest. Rienzo: I thought you took an examination in math. Knight: I did. 1 - 25- Relyea: How did you ever catch such a cold? Pressey: They started playing the' 'Star Spangled Banner' down- stairs when I was taking a bath. 1 ...25.. Waterbury: What kind of shoes do you think I ought to wear with these golf hose? 'Knauer: I'd wear hip boots with those crazy things. 1 - 25- Crogan: Is calfskin good ma- terial for slippers? Rees: Banana skins are better. Hilda: How did you act when you saw Robert this morning? Catherine: I gave him the geo- logical survey. Hilda: In other wordsi- Catherine: The stony stare. 1 -25- Higgins: Will you be at the club tonight? Jiggins: No, I have another important engagement. Higgins: What's that? Jiggins: I took my mother-in- law to the movies the other night and she nearly died laughing at Harold Lloyd, so I'm taking her again to- night. Higgins: Well, good luck, old man. As Rudolph Thinks Dan Cupid is a marksman poor, Despite his love and kisses: For while he always hits the marks, He's always making Mrs. '25 A -15- YOU DON'T SAY Prof. Cole: When the tempera- ture of a room is ninety degrees, and you can stay in it without having your brains dried out, there is only one conclusion that you can make. ..'25.. Sprague Knauer: Where are you going tomorrow night? Eunice Cexpectantlyj : No- where. Sprague Ccalmlyjz Well, Ihope you get there all right. -QED Doris Cto I-IildaD : Geraldine may not like sideburns but she certainly does like Byrnes by her side. 92 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL Mrs. Whittemore Cafter the Fresh- man biology class had been discuss- ing cowsj : Name some other ani- mals that have horns. Eddie Flack: Automobiles - 25- lVIr. Duggan: Where were you last night, Leo? Leo: Oh, just riding around with some of the boys. Mr. Duggan: 'iWell, you had better return this lipstick that one of the 'boys' left in the car. .425- Lagai Cdining in a restaurantD : I wonder if this steak used to bawl and give milk, or whinney and draw a wagon? v -25- Knauer: What's the difference between dancing and wrestling? Waterbury: Quite a difference. They bar some holds in wrestling. -'25, Pat: I call your daughter Sun- maid. Mike: And fur what raisin? Pat: She's the first girl my Sun- kist. -.251 Woodie Evans: Where did Shiek Broga get that Indian neck- wear? Caswell: What's that? Evans: Bow tie and arrow col- lar. -'25- It's easy to smile when you're happy, And free to do as you please, But the girl worth while Is the girl who can smile While bending at ninety degrees. i'25-. I This let's me out. said the con- v1ct as he fondled the hacksaw. At three o'clock in the morning a man called up a garage. Hello, he said, is this the garage? I just turned turtle. Garage Man: What you want is a zoo, not a garage. -'25- Duggan went up to Lee Center and went in to the general store. They were out of nearly everything Duggan wanted. Finally Leo got rather peeved. I don't suppose you have such a civilized thing as dog bis- cuit in this run-down, one-horse. jay town of yours. he said to the clerk. Sure we have, said the clerk. Have 'em in a bag. or eat 'em here? -'25- Rees Cwould-be poetj 1 My girl said that that last poem of mine caused her heart to miss a beat. Caldwell: Then we can't use it. We can't print anything that would interfere with our circulation. -'25- Bobby Spriggs: Papa, what makes a man give a woman a dia- mond engagement ring? Mr. Spriggs: The woman. ..'25T She: No, John, I can't marry you, but I'll always be a sister to you. He: Good Say, when your old man dies do you think he'll leave us any money? Q .. 251 Atkinson: 'Tm half inclined to kiss you. Doris: Oh, I thought at first you were merely round shoulderedf' 425- Grady: Dearest, I love you. And that comes from my heart and not from my head. Geraldine: I believe you. Noth- ing ever comes from your head. I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL 93 Mr. Ely: But, young man, do you think you can make my daugh- ter happy? Joe Jones: 'ADO I? Say, I wish you could have seen her when I pro- posed. 1 251 Kilbourne: 'iSay, did you know that I was quite an electrician? Lake: I-Iow's that ? Kilbourne: Why, last night over at lVlarjorie's a fuse blew out, and the house was in total darkness. Guess who fixed it. Me'-I--myself. Lake: HuhI You're not an electrician, you're an idiot. 1251 Waterbury: What was the de- nomination of that bill you loaned me Knight: Episcopalian, I guess. It keeps lent. ?n 1'251 Aldridge: What is your favor- ite flower? Atkinson: Well, I asked my girl for forget-me-nots, but she gave me tulips instead. 1251 Jack Farr: Say, dad, can you sign your name with your eyes shut? Mr. Farr: Yes. Jack: All right. Shut your eyes and sign my report card. .4251 Lagai: Do you make life size enlargement from photographs? Hendricks: Yes, indeed. That's one of our special lines. Lagai: All right. Do this one. lt's a snap of a whale I took when I was at the seashoref' A dance, a data, Perchance out lata. A classa, a quizzag No passa, gee whizza. 1 1251 Prof. Whittemore Cjust about to begin the study of snow in the physi- cal geography classb z As we walk out into the cold winter night, what do we see on every hand? Blakeslee: Gloves 9 1 251 Shaw: I was told that anyone with any brains at all could learn to dance. Geraldine: Some people are so discouraging. y Geraldine: What beautiful flow- ers. Why isn't there still a little dew on them? Shaw Qblushing furiouslyj: Yes, but l'll pay it before long. 1 1 251 Paul Jones: According to the Bible we are all made of dust. Morton: I don't believe you are. If you were you would dry up once in a while. 1 1 251 Mosier: What do you call a guy that drives an auto? Prof. Cole: That depends upon how near he comes to running over me. 1 1 251 Bert Odell: Would you give five dollars to bury a saxophone player? Prof. Lundbladz Heres' thirty dollars. Bury six of them. 1'251 Duggan: What is a bigamist? Prof. Cole: A man that makes the same mistake twice. 94 I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL Bobby Spriggs: Say, dad, what keeps us from falling off the earth? Mr. Spriggs: The law of grav- ity, of course. Bob: But how did people stay on before that law was passed? -15- Conductor: Madam, this is a smoking car, Fair One: Good. Have you a match? 1 LZS... Colored Mammy: Ah Wants to see Mistah Cummins. OfHce Boy: Mister Cummings is engaged. Colored Mammy: Well, ah don't want to marry him, honey. 1 -25-. First Guy from Utica: Gee, aren't there a lot of policemen around Rome? Second Ditto: Well, it's called the 'Copper City,' isn't it? 1 -25- Zieman: Were you ever in Hol- land? Pressey: No, but I've often been in Dutch. -'25- Chairman at K. K. K. meeting: Now, gentlemen, please be sheetedf' ..'25.. Miss Seeley: What Word is the opposite of happiness? Gardinier: Misery. u Miss Seeley: What is the oppo- site of woe? Gardinier: Giddap. -'25.. Jones: How much will a Scotchman drink? Alder: Any given amount. Newell: Do you like candy, Marjorie? Marjorie Stocking Ceagerlyj : Oh, yes, sir. Newell: 'lThanks. I'm gather- ing statistics for Whitrnansf' +'25.... Mr. Karlen: You surely have your nerve with you, asking for my daughter's hand. Shaw: Good heavens, sir. You surely don't mean that she's as bad as all that, do you? 9 .. 25- ilda: I see Marion has gone out for athletics. Geraldine: No, not for athletics, merely for athletes. 1 -25- Old Lady Cwatching the Atlantic fleetl z What's that enormous boat over there? Sailor: 'lThat's a man o' war, madamef' Old Lady: How interesting. What is that little one beside it? Sailor: Oh, that's just a tug. Old Lady: Oh, yes, tug of war. I've heard of them before. L -'25- Out of Town Girl: Gee, this is a great cheering section you have here. Ham Williams: You bet. Be- fore every game they sell root beer. 1 -25- Morton: Hey Jones, Whither bound? Jones: Going to buy a revol- ver. Morton: Six-shooter? Jones: Naw, nine-shooter, gotta kill a cat. l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 95 Miss Strout: I'm from Missouri, you have to show me. Miss Holmes: I'm from,Elgin, you have to watch me. -25.- Kozma: Who were the four horsemen? Janone: Paul Revere, Jesse James, Tom Mix and Barney Goo- gle. LZS... Prof. Cole says that he does not know for certain who invented the slow motion movie, but that the guy that did received his inspiration from watching two Scotchmen reach into their pockets for money to pay for their drinks. 4251 Pressey Kon way home from Springfieldj: Is this a fast train, conductor? Conductor: Yes,sir. , . Pressey: Get out and see what it is fast to. 9 ..25.- Ted Reid Cafter first night outjx Steward, where are my clothes? Steward: Where did you put them? Reid: In that little cupboard over there with the round glass door. Steward: Good night, man: that's not a cupboard, that's a port- hole. -'25- Prosecuting Attorney Cto oppo- nentj : You're the biggest boob in the city. Judge Crapping for orderb : Gen- tlemen, you forget I am here. ..'25-. Morton Cin Lake'sD : Give me an Arrow collar. Robert: How narrow? There once was a fisher named Fisher, Who fished from the edge of a fissure. A fish, with a grin, Pulled the fisherman in, Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher. 25 Mosier: After the dance last night I told my girl what I thought of her. Zieman: What did she say? Mosier: I love you, too. 1 1 25- Atkinson: Have you heard what they've been doing with the revolting Chinese? Aldridge: No, what? Atkinson: They're plastering the chinks in the great wall. Q -25- Janone: There goes a whole trainload of tobacco. Kozma: Oh, that's one of those chew-chew trains. -'25- Egger: What happened to Joe Jones when he was in the country? Duggan: Aw, you know that sap used to work in a garage and when he got out in the country he crawled under a mule to see why it wouldn't go, and he naturally got bumped off. '25 Miss Eysamen: 'Name an island possession of the United States. Farr Crudely awakenedj: Huh? Why, ah-- Miss Eysamen: Correct, sit down. -'25.. Wardwell Cardent anglerj: Tell me, would it be an offense if I catch some fish in this pond? Farmer: No, it will be a mira- cle. 96 I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL Can You Imagine Miss Strout and Pat Grogan with black hair? The Board of Education making rules which met with the approval of the student body? Dwight Broga with light curly hair? Joseph Jones four feet ten? David Shacter six feet two? Prof Cole built like Prof. Moe? Prof. Moe built like Prof. Cole? R. F. A. without the Seniors? Mike Viscosi in a bathing suit? Lagai with red hair? Helen Arthur not flirting? Art Knight playing dominoes Knot galloping dominoesj ? Hank Lawton without Eunice Watters? Assembly without a song? Helena Ubelle reading Life ? ...'25.. Art Knight: Yesterday I was watching a girl climb up a flight of steps, when suddenly she turned around and soaked me on the penin- sula. Lagatta: Peninsular? Whatls that??, Knight: A long neck stretching out to sea. -125- Duggan: What pretty hair Miss Strout has. Egger: Yes, but it's false. Duggan: What makes you think so? Egger: I heard her tell Miss Holmes that she inherited her red hair from her mother. Egger: What are you going to give Dorothy for Christmas? Jones: Nothing Egger: 'Smatter? Engagement broke? Jones: No-I am. - 25.. Aldridge: What's the difference between a Scotchman and a canoe? Lake: What? Aldridge: A canoe tips. 9 -25- Lagatta: Did you hear about the fellow that called his girl 'Post- script'? Kozmez No. Why did he? Lagatta: 'AHer name was Adeline Moore. ...QSM Mrs. Cole: Give a synonym for universal. Collins: Ford -15- Miss Billingham: Miss Williams, can you name a city in Alaska? Ruth: No'm. Miss Billingham: Correct. Sit down. 425.1 Geraldine frather bored about 10:30 P. MJ: I don't know a thing about baseball. Howard: Let me explain it to you. Geraldine: All right. Give an illustration of a home run. ..'25.. Doris: I wou1dn't marry the best man on earth. Hilda: Of course you wouldn't, you couldn't. Doris: And why couldn't I? Hilda: Because I'm going to. l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 97 - Impossible Events Christine Shaylor not trying to vamp someone. Vito Janone with his mouth shut. Joseph Jones talking to some other girl than Dorothy Ely. Newell Smith flunking. Broni Kozma shaving. Stewart Davis without his Ford. Mr. Lundblad playing a saxo- phone. Marjorie Stocking and Mary Huntington both getting to school on time the same day. Marion Staley walking through school not acting as if she owned the place, Prof. Cole not trying to be funny. Bum Rayland making a five- minute recitation. Atkinson not talking with a girl. Aldridge not taking Flossie to all social affairs. Dwight Broga without his hair plastered. Mr. Lundblad not making four or Hve announcements at assembly. Jim Collins not chewing gum. Rudolph Lagai using Stacomb. Babe Alder not sitting with Mar- jorie Stocking. -25.- That Sleeping Sickness Barber: Hold your head up or I can't shave you. Briggs: Oh, shucks, give me a haircut, then. 4251 Marjorie: Were his letters to you during the summer sort of a Romeo and Juliet affair? Helen Arthur: No, Much Ado About Nothing. A One-Act Tragedy Mule in the barnyard, lazy and slick, Boy with a pin on the end of a stick, Creeps up behind him, quiet as a mouse: Crepe on the door of the little boy's house. 1 25.-. Mrs, Relyea: Don't eat any more tonight, Hubert. Don't you know you can't sleep on a full stom- ach? Hubert: I won't, mother. l'll lie on my back, 425- Jack Farr: Yes, father, I'm quite a big gun up at school. Mr. Farr: Then why don't l hear better reports? ..'25- She: When you were in France I suppose you saw the great tracts of barren waste? He: Yes, indeed. He has a wonderful estate. -'25.. Little drops of water, Frozen on the walk, Make the naughty adjectives Mix in peoples' talk. 1'25... L, Stump: I can speak every language except Greek. Caldwell: Let's hear you say 'Good morning' in Russian. Leo: Oh, I can't speak Russian. That's Greek to me. 1 - 25- Morton: You must come over and have dinner with me tonight. Byrnes: Sorry, old man, but I'm going to see Macbeth. Morton: Oh, that's all right. Bring him around, too. 98 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL Help A missionary from the Fiji Islands writes home as follows: Our small band of brethren seem to be absolutely unable to cope the desperate situation which exists in this dark and benighted land. Great distress prevails throughout the is- lands. Many of the natives are starv- ing for food. Please send a few more missionaries. -125.- Grogan: What's the difference between a vision and a sight? Gardinier: You flatter a girl by calling her a vision, but never call her a sight. ...'25T Mrs. Knight: 'Now if I gave you two apples, and you were to offer them to another boy, you would tell him to take the larger one, wouldn't you? Stuart: No, mother. Mrs. Knight Cgreatly disap- pointedj: Why not? Stuart: It wouldn't be neces- sary. -15- Little grains of powder, Little daubs of paint, Make the ladies' freckles Look as thought they ain't. 9 .. 25k Prof. Cole Cafter Joe Jones has Hnlshed reciting a proposition with his hands in his pocketsj: You wouldn't make a good lawyer, Joe. Joe: Why not? Prof.: You always have your hands in your own pockets. L25- Zieman: What's a gold digger? Pressey: A girl that meets a fel- low at the door with her hat and coat already on. DeHimer: Do you play Mah .Iongg? Knight: What's that? DeHimer: Oh, that's a game you play with little ivory blocks. Knight: Sure I play that. Why didn't you say what you meant? .425- Sunday School Teacher: Why does the Bible admonish us to pour oil on the troubled waters? Pupil from New Jersey: So the mosquitoes may be killed. 1 25.- Dr. Broga: What do you think? I caught Dwight shooting crap with some other boys behind the barn to- day. Mrs. Broga: There. I knew he would do something he shouldn't with that new riile you bought him for Christmas. -'25-. Knight: Lend me live dollars. will you? Shaw: But I have only four. Knight: Oh, that's all right. Let me have the four and you can owe me one. -425- It's ten P. M., said Geraldine, But useless did it prove, For Renwick did not understand That P. M. meant Please Move. - 25- Newell Smith: What's your idea of an intelligent girl? DeHimer: One that makes her complexion taste as good as it looks. -'25-- , Paul Jones: I'm looking for a girl who is my direct opposite. Atkinson: That ought to be easy. There are a lot of intelligent girls around school. I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL A QXVWMA 751 B-as! k 100 l925 SENIOR ANNUAL 3 'f 5 4' 7 B 7 IU ff is 73 ly is I9 - I 37 59 so 68 -I 75 3? 3? 86 I XS 'l'JRlXllN'il.Xl, -W Name nf a faviiiile prist- i. 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X'lfli'lilL'.Xl, Xleasure nf heat 1111.3 Raise the standard high Just ready fur action iNaut.J .X eounty and county-seat in Uentral Califnrnia fi-rm uf pretix Cnnihining meaning nut Cninlviiiing fnrm meaning new .X passage to which gradua- tion is often cinnllarecl .X studv dealing with farms iahlnzl Radiifs Niirnial Needs ialulnxl .Xttendance falilvrj lfxtremely citilied .X form intu which Ciree ehanged her victims .X light hat worn in lndia XX'hat every schnnl does, S1117- imseilly Tn cover with gold .Xn inclined plane .X sulvjeet taken lmth in the grades and in the high sehnul .X snuvd sometimes causing euninnutmn in the study hall 'I'he ideal cnnditiun uf an athlete Slang descriptive nf the freshman and his love fnr tnvs .X science studied in R. F. .X. ller laws we must whey 'llhe fi'eshman's hindrance to liecnming a soplmnmre Une nf a set nf very early Italian playing cards The degree that many of our girls wnrlc for iiwn fahhrj The fnrin that take tu some 'lli fiiree nne's way thriiugh iulistaeles I .X eivrrelative cnnjunctinn .X lim-lc read in ling. l lalxhixl .X11 nrgan uf the hndy not always well used Xital iiuestinns to he solved XX hat will make people lie- lievc that you are right Prelix meaning hack XX'hat every team member must du 'l'he snrt of spirit contestant should have .X variety of liinestnne aft er gradua- exznniiiations every 4almlmr.l .X secondary schnol .X title nnne nf us prnlsahly will uhtain Lalrhrj .Xn animal similar in struc- ture tn man. .X hinlngical cinnhining form meaning germ lfull of mischief Study of the structure of a lmdy iahlmrj Vavment for services Calilnzj ,X large city nf India: a small village nf N. Y. State .X kind of acid XX'hat the chimes did .X descendant of Shem, men- tioned in Gen. 10:28 .X legal document guarantee- ing payment .X place nf sojourn .-X musical term meaning the highest point in the scale .X tll1'E'C-fO6il sloth ,X university chosen hy many of the graduates of R. F. A. I 925 SENIOR ANNUAL The publication of this Annual Was made possible by the generosity and hearty co-operation of the business, professional and manufacturing men of our own city. Go to their business places and express your gratitude by patronizing them and tell them why you do it. ATTORNEYS Henry J. Semo M. J. Larkin Baker 'Ed Baker McMahon '26 McMahon Edward Wolfe AUTOMOBILE ACCESSORIES Burns Bros. Farr YS Puls Gurley Bros. Economy Tire Co. BAKERS Federal Bakery Thomas J. Ferlo F. X. Dersherl BARBERS U R Next City Barber Shop M. Pragola G. M. Porter A. J. Traxell BOOKS AND STATIONERY John Wilson CIGARS AND NEWSPAPERS United Cigar Store Leo Schuler COAL AND WOOD Kelly Y5 Schnieble John Grodell Coal Co. Baynes Coal Co. Olney-Williams Coal Co. W. W. Parry Coal Co. CHIROPRACTERS N. L. Nichols CLOTHIERS Lew's Bargain Store Chas. H. Rudd Goldberg Bros. W. W. Cooke Lippman's Clothes Shop N. Y. Tailoring Co. H. G. Lake Model Clothing Co. Toggery Shop Theo. S. Goldman United Supply M. Pacelli A. Gregory Middle Door Spear 25 Co. J. C. Penny Co. Simpkins '25 Co. Doyle-Knower Co. Economy Clothes Shop CONFECTIONARIES-RETAIL A Roscoe C. Marriott Candyland Royal Sweets Chocolate Shop Milvo L. Kitz John Seifert CONFECTIONARIES-WHOLESALE C. J. Aldridge Co. CONTRACTORS-ELECTRICAL N. W. Colton Wesley Kimball Juergens Electrical Co. DENTISTS A. F. Southeimer C. J. Spriggs John Box H. D. Wood F. R. Smith DEPARTMENT STORES Jackson Co. F. E. Bacon DOCTORS W, L. Kingsley H. D. White H. J. Teller James H. Whaley Dan Mellon George C. Reid lOl DRUGGISTS HOME INDUSTRIES I02 I925 SENIOR ANNUAL GAS AND ELECTRIC CO Broderick 25 Everson Green Drug Store Owen's Drug Co. G. R. Cogswell Broughton Drug Co. F. J. Hager P5 Son Z. J. Lesiskowski FIVE AND TEN STORES F. W. Woolworth Co. FEED STORES Green Bros. Fred Caswell FLORISTS W. T. Hughes FRIENDS George G. Clarabut A Friend FURNITURE DEALERS F. M. Orton Markson Bros. Wiggins Co. J. E. Bird 3 Son Bezold fd Striefert Northern Utilities Co. J. Querilo Ice Cream HOTELS Stanwix Hall F. W. Uvanni Empire House INSURANCE AND REAL ESTATE J. H. Carroll Frank A. Gualtieri Roth 8 Gregerson Kenneth T. Bouton Besley 8 Besley Fred M. Shelley Olin B. Lawton Newton I-I. Jones J. Gordon Smith Co., Inc. George Riley L. G. Van Wagenen Carrier 25 Lawton J. C. Lynch, Jr. JEWELERS Juergens 25 Fraver H. C. Midlam M. J. Englebert T5 Bros. H. A. 8 A. P. Williams John W. Wendt LEATHER GOODS M. Solomon MPANIES GAS AND FUEL COMPANIES Ideal Gas Co., R. Armstrong, Mgr. LAUNDRIES Ideal Gas Co, Go-Gas Co. GROCERS-RETAIL Rocco Gualtieri f Angelo Coia Market Basket Co. M. J. Birnie New York Grocery F. M. Gregory John F. Zieman H. G. Higby James Peluso GROCERSQ-WHOLESALE L. Hower fd' Sons HARDWARE Holland Furnace Co. E. F. Rockwood Co. Rome Hardware 8 Implement Co. Wardwell Hardware Co. J. Townsend E4 Sons C. E. Tyler XVhite Laundry Rome Perfection Laundry LUMBER Beach Lumber Co. E. Comstock Lumber Co., Inc. MANUFACTURERS Rome Brass if Copper Co. Rome Wire Co. ' Rome Manufacturing Co. Spargo Wire Co. Rome Soap Manufacturing Co. Rome Sporting Goods Co. J. Karlen Cheese Co. The Kent Co., Inc. Adams Foundry Rome Iron Mills, Inc. American Hard Wall Plaster Rome Metallic Bedstead Co. Rome-Turney Radiator Co. Rome Box 8 Lumber Co. Rome Tile 8 Mantel Co. 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL I03 MEAT MARKETS PfeiIl'er's W. T. Binks E5 Co. Pasquale Casalenuvano Rees Market Co. MILLINERS Wendt's The Famous Thomas S5 Follette MUSIC STORES Schuderer i5 Castle NEWSPAPERS Syracuse Telegram Dick Howland ORGANIZATIONS Y. M. C. A. OSTEOPATHS W. T, Dowd OPTOMETRIST C. W. Miner PAINTS AND OILS H. F. Bates PHOTOGRAPHERS Ubell 'id Hall Brainard's McClusky C. B. Howland PLUMBERS Charles H. Jackson Co. Charles E. Spinner T. V. O'Shea John R. Harper PRINTERS A. J. Knauer RADIO AND SUPPLIES Onondaga Radio Shop RESTAURANTS Electric Lunch Business Men's Lunch C. F. Lutz SHOES Edward L. Denio Y5 Sons C. T5 S. Shoe Co. Beck-Hazzard Stores, Inc. Casey Bros, SHOE REPAIRING City Shoe Store SHOE SHINING AND HAT CLEANING Rome Shoe Shining and Hat Cleaning Parlor STORE SUPPLIES National Cash Register Co. STOVES AND ELECTRIC SUPPLIES Service Appliance Co., Inc. SPORTING GOODS E. U. Martin Cahill THEATERS Rome Theaters TAILORS J. Mammosser Max J. Baker E. W. Meyers TOBACCO--WHOLESALE Rome Tobacco Co. UNDERTAKERS Joseph Bottini Griflin 25 Aldridge WALL PAPER AND SUPPLIES Wilson Wall Paper 25 Paint Co. Mg i. --'V w avr .f gf.. If 1925 R AmfQc.RAP1-is S l' '59, 3 45,2 .V Q 7 Q Q, 1' -E f J f 3 4 pf7z gi X. fm .X 4, iff, .fb VM. Yrfid 5,9--W: X. ,-kv, -X gig? ml. ,- ,4 3, ',,A 6 :,f..s,' 4 . Y , Q N 1 W' 'Elf 1925 SENIOR ANNUAL AUTOGRAPHS A. J. KNAUER, PRINTER TWENTY- NINTH YEAR A School of Refinement and High Ideals for Young Men and Women who wish a thorough Business Education. Individual Instruction by Specialists Graduates placed in good Business Positions Studentsqfmay enter any Monday. School in session the entire year. Secretarial, Accountancy, Shorthand, Typewriting and English Departments. 14-24 BANK PLACE T. J. Risinger, Founder W. S. Risinger, Principal Positions I Positions l Positions! Do you know that the very best positions in Utica and vicinity are being obtained by the graduates of The Excelsior The School of Individual Instruction 1008 Cornelia Street UTICA, N. Y. I-I. 1. CONKLING, Principal WRITE OR CALL FOR ILLUSTRATED BOOKLET Comfort Fit Quality Kg Pantilever Appearance I Shoe..f.i:.':.2.:. PUMPS OXFORDS BOOTS Cantilever Shoe Shop 121 W. Jefferson Street SYRACUSE, N. Y. Compliments of The Manlius School Manlius, N. Y. ACKNOWLEDGEMENT We, in this brief space wish to ack- nowledge our indebtedness to C. B. HOWLAND Commercial Photographer for his splendid cooperation in takin 8 a number of pictures for this Annual. x . 1 1 Y x ,v, W' -.f' -,, ,, ' .,. ,N N4 . , . '4. v' I ' .M I ' fy g Q, . jg, ,. , 3 , v. 4 .-. ,V N., ., x12..f' ., H .Q C. R . , . J kv, ' ,. ff' - 1? ,,.,. ' f c. yn' ' v ' .,. - 5 'ns' , fa ,M.,.1.p - ,-- vw... f..+..-smug. www. . mmuwm vw' wx 5??6w?Kk w'. e, v . rp fvwsiv ., ,, , 'w nf' ' VX- ,'mf' ' ,ff'fi,'??3 rl :Q Q 4:1 L at -iii ,.,.'N'1Evq .1,Llxq,M A' ,f. . mv ., -.AA W., ,W if WQEWW L' I Tw 3515: 15 Miz.- - .-y f'Y Gziiif , fail FU X isf- - 'e- Jani: gg- f'.f-:-fllfi J f. 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