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

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SPORTS WORLD ALL AGOG OVER THE ONCOMING CHAMPIONSHIP GOLF MATCH BETWEEN ACKER- MAN AND MAMMANO The Winner Will Travel to England To Attain Golf Honors There Miss Genevieve McAlpin, Erstwhile Un- known Nurse at Highland Hospital, Rides to Fame on Her Bicycle in Carrying Serum to a Snake-Bite Victim at Buffalo “SHORT SKIRTS COMING BACK,” SAYS NOTED PARIS DESIGNER Miss Fanny Barber, Famous Stylist, Tells What the Well-Dressed Woman Will Wear Next Season ROCHESTER GIRL RECEIVES HIGHEST AWARD IN JOURNALISM Miss Ruth Kurtz Receives Pulitzer Prize for Her Excellent Work in Journalism TALENTED DIRECTOR OF NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ATTRACTS MUSICAL AUDIENCE Mr. Donald Phillips Succeeds Long Line of Famous Directors All Former Love Making Excelled in New Novel by Parisienne Divorcee, Miss Elizabeth Wilshere MISS EVA WILLI AND MISS MARJORIE NESBITT WANT POSI- TIONS AS PRIVATE SECRETARIES Their Experiences Are Many and Their Recommendations Are Excellent Apply Box 324 Twenty-three

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Floyd Gibbons, Famous Headline Hunter, Finds the Most Famous Headlines of the Year 1940 FAMOUS WOMAN FLYER CON- CLUDES SENSATIONAL NON- STOP FLIGHT AROUND WORLD Miss Mary Orford Lands at Lakehurst Flying Field The Cheers of the Excited Crowd Drown Out Whir of Motor DREAMS OF HIGH SCHOOL DAYS COME TRUE Miss Wanda Smith and Miss Josephine Gurnee Have at Last Seen Their Dreams Come True Their Names in Bright Lights Now Adorn Broadway FORMER STUDENT OF WEST HIGH SCHOOL TO PRESENT VIOLIN RECITAL AT THE METROPOLITAN OPERA HOUSE IN NEW YORK CITY Elinor Snyder, Accomplished Violinist, Will Make Her Premier Debut on the Concert Stage Thursday Evening of Next Week RELIGION BEING UPHELD AMONG CONVICTS OF SIBERIA Miss Abbie Brandon, Devout Preacher Of the Gospel, Daily Faces Death In Her Attempt To Save the Lost Souls Now Perishing in Penal Servitude Tuvnty-lwo

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EXTRA—THE LATEST IN ENDURANCE CONTESTS Miss Winifred Cook Has Been Picking Cherries Incessantly for 102 Hours, 33 Minutes and 1 6 Second The Championship Now Lies in Her Hands AN ACCOMPLISHMENT WEL- COMED BY SCHOOL CHILDREN Coy Edith Bennett Has Finally Suc- ceeded in Inventing an Elevator for Use in Public Schools RED HAIR ATTRACTIVE ACCORD- ING TO COLLEGE PROFESSOR When Marguerite Struble Passed Pro- fessor Lucifer J. Butts of Quinine Academy, the Latter Was Heard to Remark: “Another Reason Why Red Headed Women Cause So Much Trouble’ KINDERGARTEN TEACHER WINS CONTEST Miss Catherine Forster Has Been Judged The Most Attractive Kindergarten Teacher in Existence The Prize Was Offered by that Worthy Association That Stands for Bigger and Better Opportunities for Cradle Roll Students Which Is Led by Beatrice Wegner MODERN DAY ORATORS BEING WARNED TO LOOK TO THEIR LAURELS Miss Ruth Masterman, Rapidly Rising Public Speaker, Is Storming the World with Her Forceful Speeches on, “The Greater Metropolis” Twenty four