West High School - Senior Occident Yearbook (Rochester, NY)

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Senior Play “THE LADY OF LYONS” Given in West High School Assembly. Hall, May 22, 1908. Under the direction of.Mrs. Charley S. Ellis. DRAMATIS PERSONAE. Claude Melnotte ,.... Colonel Damas ....,.... Beauseant ............ •. . • • • Glavis ............... Mons. Deschappelles . . Landlord ............. Caspar ............... Capt. Gervais ........ Servant ...,.......... Pauline .............. Madame Deschappelles Widow Melnotte ...., Janet........ ........ Marion ............... Seelye Qu ckenbush . .. Milfon Robinson . Christian Schaeffer .. .George E.berwein .. .. Louis S. Pierce ,. Clarence G. Stage .. . . Ralph- Schaeffer ......John Lehnen , .. . Charles Dorkey ....Lillian Messner .....Louise Berdel . ..Bertha Boughton .........Ada Culver .. .. Florence Blazo MANAGEMENT. Business Manager . . Stage Manager....... Advertising Manager Property Manager . . Electrician .......... Make-ups by......... ... Wheeler Allen ......Robert Lee ......Carl Nixon . .Albert Waldron . .. Herbert Allen Frederick D. Rich

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By the fourth year we had increased in wisdom and stature, and were well able to undertake the duties of a Senior. One of the duties is to support the different athletic activities, and we surely did our share. In football there were Mr. Uderitz, Mr. Ball, Mr. Smith, Mr. Long, Mr. Lee and Mr. Lehnen. They say cheering wins one-quarter of the game and actual playing the other three-quarters, so we must have helped many a game to he won, as the cheer leaders were both from our number, Mr. Nixon and Mr. Dorkey. Then in basketball Mr. Sterling and Mr. Uderitz, and in track, the captain, Mr. Long, who was the ‘.‘saving grace” in so many meets, were of our number. Of man- agers we had many, and they proved themselves very efficient. Mr. Sterling, the treasurer of the school, so handled the money that we not only paid the debt of the preceding year and the new ones which were incurred, but made one thousand one hundred dollars for the Athletic Field Fund. In the musical clubs we were so well represented that I cannot enumerate all. The Senior play, “The Lady of Lyons,” exceeded our highest expectations, and everyone played his or her role well. Our Senior dance has not yet taken place, but we feel sure it will be a fitting end to the social functions of the year. Now, as we are completing our four years, which have passed only too quickly, it is with a sigh and yet a smile. A sigh because we have spent so many happy and profitable hours under the protection and guidance of the West High School and a smile because we long to do greater deeds, so that we will be deserving of such an Alma Mater. May the classes to come be as fond and proud of her as we are and always shall be, and may they always seek to elevate her standard. Ada C. Carson, Historian.

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SENIOR PLAY