Wallace School and Conservatory - Oor Ain Folk Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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Our Sewing Class After all that has been said about some of the classes, we wish to mention our sew- ing class. Although we are not all Seniors in this class, we are honored by having quite a few of these most-noteworthy classmen. You will, if you investigate, find this class rL ' presented by Freshmen, Sophomores, Juniors and Seniors. The girls of all classes seem interested in sewing, for they find that even the much despised darning comes in handy at times. And who wouldn ' t be intere:ted in sewing if she had the wonderful teachers that we have? One of the most interesting features of this class is the way in which our little Velma Carter tries to run the sewing machine at 60 miles per minute. Sometimes when she is sewing a long seam at this speed she will run off the goods, and still keeping up her record-breaking speed by treading violently on the peddling apparatus she will call excitedly for help. Now you must realize that Velma has just recently acquired the knowledge of running a sewing machine. Her chief source of pleasure apparently seems to be in speeding up. Of course you will only begin to realize the vivacity of this class when I tell you that the characters who play the important parts in contributing to its liveliness are Mar- jorie, Billy, Frances, Mabel. Bernadine, Velma, Margaret, Clara, Kittie, Mir- iam, Josephine and Betty Shaaf. B. S. -11. Wanted A ' eD» Excuses — Ann Hilt Something thrilling — Gene Wilson Bushels of Latin — Louise Van Cleve More l(noTi ledge — Ever ' bodv Some kind of cure for Bugs — Mary O. McKcnzie Bobbed hair — Betty Schaaf A job — A ' e e Schneider Enough sleep — Betty Boyd Something nen ' to talk about — Hazel Wallers A sparring partner — Elizabeth Tuttle To be a musician — Afabel Acker man More hours in one day — Miss Lue High chairs and rattles for the infants of Mrs. I-airbank ' s Rhetoric Class Something new to learn — Dorothy Albaugh Seven plates every meal — I ' elma Carter The C onsen atory moved to Broad Street — Everybody A ' hero ' for Isabel Deibler — Her friends More Special Deliveries — Inhabitants of 82 A guardian Ti ' ith good taste in colors for Dot Fink — Her friends A job putting in electric fuses — Virginia Armstrong Time for undisturbed day dreaming — Donna Mayer One peaceful day — Miss Gee A telephone call — Frances McKenzie 41

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BS|gSS Wt OOR AIN FOLK 1 The House We Live In On Lexington Avenue about two hundred feet from Broad Street stand two very large and ancient trees. They marked at one time the entrance to the State Hospital, which was situated on the grounds now called East Park Place. This Hospital had been standing thirty-one years when the main building was totally destroyed by fire. The grounds were sold in 1870, and they were handsomely platted into sireetj, avenues and parks and named East Park Place. Two years after the platting of the grounds Judge Jamieson bought a lot and built a large red brick house on the street that is now called Jefferson Avenue. Some of the bricks used in building the house came from the old Hospital. A few years later Judge Olds, of the Harrison, Olds Morris law firm, bought this house. The judge, after occuying it for ten years, decided it was not large enough to accommodate his family of six children and their many house guests, so he remodeled the house by building on another story, changing the stairway and adding a tower room. At this time the house was painted grey. The members of this family were famous for their delightful hospitality, and the house has rung with the laughter of youth. Frequently guests now tell us of the many happy hours spent in the Olds home. When this home was built there was no idea that it would house a girls ' school, but eleven years ago Miss Luella Wallace and her sister Miss Virgilia came from Philadelphia to Columbus to open such a school. They bought the famous old home from the Olds sisters and gave it the name of Wallace School and Conservatory. The school had a goodly number of pupils the first year. The second year the numbers had increased to such an extent that an extra building was necessary. The school grows steadily and has called girls from South Dakota, Oklahoma, Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, Florida, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, New York and New Jersey, with of course the most of our number coming from Ohio. This year we have been especially pleased to add three girls and a little brother from Yucatan. In the past Wallace School has given many fine, educated women to the world. It IS still doing this work, and it is our hope that this house may continue to be the center from which many girls may go to lives of happy usefulness. I. M. H., ' 21. 43