Waterloo Central High School - Skoi Yase Yearbook (Waterloo, NY)

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12 WATERLOO HIGH SCHOOL of Silver Creek and riding in an Essex. Philip Larish has been the cause of great anxiety among his teachers. Generally on Monday afternoon Phil was absent from school. I'll leave it to your imagination where he went. Educa- tion is sometimes hard to obtain. Fred Larsen has driven seventy-two hundred miles to and from school in the last four years. Elizabeth Lewis showed great aptitude in the homemaking course. This may interest Gordon. Elizabeth won second prize in prize speaking this year. Joe McKone was the oldest mem- ber of the class. He has shown much interest in athletics, playing on the foot- ball and basketball teams. Joe is a good dancer and plays a splendid game of black jack. Max Riegel is the pill slinger: he also specialized in hair tonics. giving us a new sample to smell every day. He was an expert in concocting dishes with the ice cream Havor. Max liked Latin but was still fonder of Eng- lish. The shiek of the class was Sidney Ritter. A sailor has a sweetheart in every port, but Sidney has a sweetheart in every town. He has been known to drive seventy miles to take a girl to a dance. Sidney tickled the ivories to per- fection. Flora Smith showed great talent in the Art Department. Her draw- ings may be seen in many of the school text-books. We have two Helens in the class. Helen O'Keefe and Helen Talbert. Their favorite pastime was study- ing. Helen O'Keefe specialized in the Commercial Department and Helen Tal- bert has been working for a college entrance. Dorothy Ridley has naturally curly hair. She could usually be found at all the Grange dances. She was never alone. She was also interested in the gas office. James Tuomy, better known as Rosebud, excelled the class members in dancing. Rosebud was usually late for his first class because of oversleeping. Dorothy Twist made a very sweet old maid and played the part of a spinster exceedingly well in our senior play. Teresa Christiano has been a silent and steady worker. but the old saying is, Still waters run deep. Lena is truly a Walker and has spent her summers at the mountains. Jean Whitaker was usually seen in company with Mary Hall. Jean was a bookworm and her favorite subject was science and performing experiments in the laboratory. And now our history comes to a close. We must leave this high school of Waterloo and the dear teachers who have helped us faithfully through the dim- culties of our four years as high school students. We are determined to become as successful in the tasks before us as we have been in our high school career.

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THE SKOI-YASE, 1928 11 years driving Lux's delivery car and has made many friends among the house- wives with his prompt and courteous manner. John Mitchell has the honor of being the brightest one in the class, having had an average of more than ninety- two per cent during his four years. He is our valedictorian. We expect a great future for John. I will now tell you of the five other honor students. Mary Butler is one of our most dignified members. Last winter she spent in Florida, but she came back this year to graduate with our class. Irma Seeber loved to study and is very fond of little children. She said she was going to be a kindergarten teacher so that she might continue her youthful ways. Louise Whitehead has made a success of her high school life, having taken part in the senior play and having won first prize in the annual prize speaking contest. She always contributed much music at our assembly programs. I think Benn Townley deserved great credit, as he worked both morning and -afternoon outside of school and in addi- tion learned to play the violin. He also played in the orchestra. Doris Bell was noted for her great popularity with the masculine sex. You would always find her in attendance at all the parties. She and the presidents of our class were very great friends. She always had such a happy smile. And now comes the history of the remaining individual members. Albert Buck has always been very bashful. He drives eight miles back and forth each day to school. This year he won first prize of the boys in the speaking contest. Albert looks so much like a minister that we gave him this part in our senior play. Dorothy Campbell, the smallest member of the class. was the champion note writer. You could usually find Dorothy at the hairdresser's or with Jack. Ruth Carroll was one of our most popular members. She was liked by both boys and girls. She had lots of pep and chewed gum splendidly. Rogers Duffy was our athlete and excelled in mischievous pranks. Rogers has always been quite a cause of worry for his teachers. He could usually be found each Saturday night at the dancing school. Katherine Felber has been found usually in the commercial department. If there were stencils to cut or the mimeograph to run, Katherine always did it. She mimeographed our history questions for Miss Hiller, much to our regret. Jack Gerard is a good scout. He has been kept busy the last two years looking after Dorothy. Dorothy has been teaching Jack to dance. We certainly feel sorry for her feet. Mary Hayes has made high school in three years. She is also noted for her sweet singing. Our basket- ball manager for the past year was Harold Hoy. Q He was very much interested in the younger classmen and was often seen in the vicinity of our old school. We had one member who was most demure and quiet: she was Eloise Humiston. Her favorite pastime when not in a class was riding with James Long in his de- livery wagon. Her favorite subject was History C, and she never missed a class. Ruth Huson was one of our best looking members. Her pastime was thinking

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THE SKOI-YASE, 1928 13 CLASS PROPHECY GNE EVENING I was sitting before the fireside idly watching the dancing flames. Gradually they became hazy and indistinct. Ah! At last it is clearing. I see myself on a great ship, traveling around the world. A man enters and asks me if I am comfortable. That face looks familiar. I have it-it's my old classmate, Benn Townley. He tells me that the captain of the ship is Joe McKone. who has traveled for many years on the waters and gained much renown as a hardy, courageous seaman. We talk pleasantly of former times for a few minutes. and then everything changes. I am in a large city. Everything is bustle and confusion. A man seizes my luggage and I at once recognize the strong sturdy grip of my old friend. Jim Tuomy, who had followed his life's work, started in our senior play. He tells me that Jack Gerard and Dot Campbell are now happily married, living in a little apartment in Geneva, so Jack can be near the burlesques. I get into a cab and am quickly driven up to a large hotel. I get out to pay the man and see that it is Harold Hoy, our competent chauffeur during High School days. I go into the hotel, go up to the desk to register, and look full into the face of my old classmate, Phil Larish. He tells me he is proprietor of the hotel and has had a very successful life. We talk of bygone days. and he informs me that Flora Smith has a room in his hotel. I run excitedly to Flora's room and she tells me that she is now a commer- cial artist. teaching at Pratt Institute. Finally I go to my room for a rest and there I am disturbed by a knock on the door. It is Ed Webster, dressed as a bellhop, but he tells me he is really a detective in disguise. He had experience with Irma in' this line during the senior play. A mist obscures my sight. It clears. I am in a large cathedral listening to a sermon, The Modern Generation. and the preacher is no other than Albert Buck. A slight shifting of scenes. Ah! A large cafeteria in New York. I hear voices. a familiar voice. Put that right down here, please. It is Elizabeth Lewis. chief dietitian in the cafeteria, giving orders to her workers. Oh, how well she could do that back in Homemaking. One of her junior dietitians is Lena Walker. who worked so diligently under Mrs. Allison. Liz tells me that Louise Whitehead is head nurse in a large hospital in New York. At least I-ouise's dreams were not shattered by the advice of friends. Liz also tells me that Mary Hayes is now a prominent prima donna. I always knew Mary could roll her r's well. , My mind drifts to a large business concern. Two girls are busily working at a typewriter. They are Helen O'Keefe and Ruth Huson, who worked so hard in Miss Proskine's classes. Another girl, mimeographing a large sheaf of papers, is no less than Katherine Felber. who had prepared our history papers so long ago. I am transported to a tiny attic room where someone is bent over writing