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

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Top Row: Sheldon Albaugh Deibler Greer Bryan Ross Post-graduate Class Mistory One of the most interesting of the classes at Wallace is our Post-graduate class. This consists of the following girls: Connne Ross and Lillie Greer. Columbus; Isabel Deibler. Shamokin. Pa. ; Helen Sheldon. Indianapolis. Ind. ; Dorothy Albaugh. Worth- ington, Ohio; and Naomi Bryan. London. Ohio. Of course we are all the possessors of perfectly good diplomas but yet. as we are such superior beings we wish to know more than the average sweet girl graduate. Now that our hard labor ii done, meaning our high school drugery, we think it time to take life a bit easy. Of course there are the serious ones. Connne and Helen. They think they must know much in order to keep their wiggling children interested in singing. Next comes Isabel, the accomplished. She can ' t decide whether to be an opera singer, a famous accompanist, or join Dorothy in playing angel music. For, though you may not know It, our dear Dorothy is preparing to keep a place ahead of us in the Next World and IS learning to play upon her golden harp. Now Lillie, the sensible, never knows quite what she wants to do from one minute to the next and we can ' t decide for her. Naomi, worn and battered by her naughty little pupils, is now at home recuperating in order to renew the battle against them next year. N. B. ' 21. 44

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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

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BSSS W OOR AIN FOLK A Rescue by One Who Regrets He Was Not There Once Upon a time There were two Little puppies who Went to see Another puppy Who was Always chained to His dog house These two puppies Had scarcely Started On their way When they espied A pretty little Fat girl With bobbed hair The long haired Puppy said There goes Velnia Carter Let ' s play with her ' So they started To ask her But She saw them first And started To run That was in front Of Carnegie Library Well She ran to Broad Street and L ' p Broad to Jefferson Avenue And all the time The two puppies Were trying To catch up With her Finally Just As she was about To turn in At Wallace School The pups cut Across the lawn Toward the porch But Veima went on And the puppies Couldn ' t Get near her Although they Followed her Around the park Five times These pups were Only three weeks Old Far too young To understand That Velma was Scared to death Until they followed Her up to Miss Allen ' s Where Miss Allen Fanned them with A broom And it dawned On them that Velma was almost Crying with fear So the wee baby pups Took pity on Velma And went on to Visit the other pup Where they gather To this day And laugh about Velma 45