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

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THE SENIOR OCCIDENT 27 moth plants of the Oliver Reynolds Co. The machine was being put thru a series of maneuvers by the clever aviatrix, Mildred Garrison. Near the entrance to Agricultural Hall, Miss Inez Hubbard was in charge of the display of Burdick Scentless onions, champion seedless squashes and the quart—a stalk—cobless corn, all perfected at the farms of Wm. Arthur Burdick. The seductive charms of Rosamonde Fahy were effective in gathering a large crowd about the snake charmer's kit. where Dorothy Schlegel lured at will, adders, rattlers, cobras and e’en the dread Boa-Constrictor. Senator Wm. Clark in open-eyed wonder gazed upon this spectacle, attracting the recognizing glances of Loraine Osborn, matron of the Chi- cago Orphan Asylum, Katherine Beard, private secretary to Bessie Milder, manager of the millinery department of Turner Lindenberg, and Emily Bennett, governess to a wealthy family on Lake Shore Drive. At Popp's Inn, all was well. The patrons of this establishment were •enjoying the mild beverages, therein dispensed, without exception. It was a most Democratic crowd. Miss Helen Belknap, candidate for Mayor of Rochester, N. Y., Miss Madeleine Housman, head of the department of foreign languages of the University of Chicago, Misses Esther Hall and Olive Wallace, teachers of Ancient History and Biology respectively, and Nevclle Jones, architect, whose latest achievement was the construc- tion of a cat palace for Miss Catherine Robbins, fancier. In the evening at the theater, from their boxes, Ethlvnne Gillette, short story writer, Earl Grover, illustrator, Bessie Armstrong, in charge of the Newbury library and Mildred Cornwall, director of the Chicago •College of dramatic art, witnessed the inimitable dancing and singing ol the Misses Dorothy Ren wick and Edith Milliman. In conclusion, it is gratifying to be able to announce the complete recovery of Congresswoman Mary Elizabeth Daggs, at Sulphur Springs, from a most persistent ailment of flat feet incurred while running for office. The cure was accomplished in spite of the frequent and costly treatments of Doctor Murphy. Cakdl R. Livingstone. .. Tune—PERFECT DAY When you come to the end of your high-school days: And you think “Will I graduate”; And your name goes down on the doubtful list, And you shake in your boots with fear; Do you wonder, what Mother and Dud will say, When they find that you may not pass? But your heart swells up on the final day, When you know you are safe at last. Genevieve Mahoney.

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THE SENIOR OCCTlXZffr IS (Cluse Imiuary 'IS A tall, dark complexioned gentleman was the first to alight from the? 20th Century Limited as it drew in at the LaSalle Street station, Chicago on the 5th of September, 1930. Crossing the platform, he purchased an extra from a newsboy and turned to scan the passengers descending from the train. LeKoy Miller, of the IJ. S. secret service, had been assigned to the protection of the American ambassador to the Confederate Republic of Germany, the Honorable Frank Carleton Leach, during his visit to the World exposition at Chicago, against the threats of the American Bol- sheviki headed by Miss Nellie Pulver. Almost at the same moment that he recognized the ambassador and his secretary, Mr. Schleuter, one of his men approached for instructions. Detailing him to follow the ambassador, he turned to his paper. In a rapid efficient manner he reviewed the news of the day. including the discovery of the South Pole by the noted explorer, Lewis Thayer Gifford ;—the marriage of Miss Florence Archer to Prince Havasli of Korea,—the founding of a religious colony by Leo Knight, based on a belief in death without future— a sensational breach of promise suit brought by the beautiful Rochester society belle, Miss Mabel Tarrant, against Charles G. Schaefer, the wealthy steel magnate,—and the announcement of the Paramount presentation of Elizabeth Dow, supported by Robert HefTron, in Franklyn Adams’ latest production, “The Frivolous Woman. As he folded his paper, a tall, melancholy gentleman accosted him by name. Immediate recognition followed. T’was indeed the Right Rev. Harold Strathman, who had deserted his flock for a short visit to the expo- sition. 4 16 «« ft was a gay party that thronged about the booth where Genevieve Mahoney and Carol Livingstone were serving ’em hot. There were Misses Helen Kies and Mildred Hall, society ladies. Mrs. Farlow, formerly Clara Osborne, and her husband the local district attorney, Dr. Henry Dean Shedd, Jr., the socialist party’s big boss, Mr. George Brayer and his wife, lately Miss Orinda Phelps, and bachelor Wilkes, busily engaged for the past three years in distributing the income derived from his inherited fortune of five million dollars. A steady, throbbing sound overhead startled Mr. Brayer from one of his habitual reveries, and peering upward, he dis- covered the source to be a Deming superhydroplane produced in the mam-

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T ff E SENTO R OCCIDENT 2X ik k w y» k vk ik Honor Holt. Ethlynxk Gillette Rcsamoxle Fahy Catherine Robbins Dorothy Turner Olive Wallace Ffanklyn Adams William Clark LeRoy Miller Henry Schleuter Harold Strath man •f» + ICast ®tll atiii ©pstamnif. We, the noble Senior Class of January, 1919, of West High School,. City of Rochester, County of Monroe, being of sound and disposing mind! and memory, do hereby make and publish this our last Will and Testa- ment, in order, as justly as may be, to distribute our interest in the school among our succeeding fellow students. Item I. To Mr. Jonner we wish to leave a carton of Camels, which are to be passed to Seniors only, when they come in late. This is the most approved method of sending anyone “to blazes.’ Item II. To Carol Jones we bequeath a book entitled “How to Become' Beautifully Slender,” written by Ruth Wickens. Item III. To Mr. Sias we bequeath Frank Leach’s grin, which will gives him a cheerful aspect when requesting anyone’s absence from school. Item IV. To Miss Manchester we leave a hox. of pink powder to brighten her up on “blue Mondays. ' Item V. To the Juniors w« leave our brilliant record in all activities and hope they will profit by it. Item VI. To the Sophs we leave the benches in the corridors but wish to warn them they are “hard” to sit on. Item VII. To the Frosh we bequeath the “Winged Victory” (if they know what it is) in hopes it will spur them on to get a-head. Item VIII. To the. whole school we leave the glorious Service Flag of 420 stars, many of which represent boys from the Class of January, 1919. Given under our hand and seal on this sixteenth day of January in the year of our Lord, one thousand nine hundred and nineteen. THE CLASS OF JANUARY, ’19.