Norwich Class of 1896

In Other Days

Washington Birthday Entertainment

Sixteen Years Ago

Utica Saturday Globe, February 1912

 

 

 Norwich High School Class of 1896
Well-known and popular residents as they appeared in Washington's Birthday Play

 

 

Norwich [Chenango Co., NY]:  Sixteen years ago the class of 1896 in Norwich High School, were responsible for a Washington's birthday entertainment in which the members of the class impersonated some of the Presidents of the United States and their better halves from the days of the immortal George and Mrs. Washington down to the time of the residence of President and Mrs. Grover Cleveland in the White House.

 

The colored gentleman who stands at the left end of the rear row in the accompanying picture is Fred Cook, who by the aid of burnt cork had become a dignified "at your service, sah."  Mr. Cook is now a representative of Norwich Pharmacal Company in the west.  At his side stands Linn H. Babcock, now the well known village trustee, next appear in order Miss Mabel Greenman, now Mrs. Fred Ogden, of Scranton, Miss Katherine McCarthy, now Mrs. Wallace Woodard of Norwich, William Norwood, Miss Nellie Willard, now Mrs. Fred Johnson, of Norwich, Clayton Fields, now a resident of Middletown.

 

In the front row are Harry Summer, who became the city editor of the Passaic (N.J.) Daily News and died in January 7, 1911.  Miss Bessie Dalrymple, now Mrs. Y. Mortimer Dimmick, of Norwich; John P. Scott, the well known baritone and popular ballad composer now of New York city; Miss Lillian A. Eldredge, now a school teacher in Plainfield, N.J., and Miss Harriet M. Thorpe, now Mrs. Chester W. Judd, of Norwich.

Glen Buell Collection, Guernsey Memorial Library, Norwich, NY