Adrian High School - Sickle Yearbook (Adrian, MI)

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'Che SENIOR SICKLE 1922 CLASS PROPHECY WALTER Wars gf: 1153 OME months ago the program committee of the Senior Class re- quested me to consult competent magicians concerning t-he future of the individual members of the class. I at once sold all my world- ly possessions, including one Physics notebook with all experi- ments carefully recorded, one Chemistry notebook in which all L 3' formulas were carefully written out, the solution of several origin- als in Algebra and Geometry, twelve book reviews, and a set of outside readings in American History, to weak but deserving members of the Junior Class for such a sum as made it possible for me to visit the Orient. In Egypt, I found a seventh son of a seventh son, noted for his ability to read the stars, who gazed into the azure sky above him, made certain mystic signs, and read the horoscope for each of my classmates. I had previously supplied myself with a package of index cards and as he read I wrote, but so glib of tongue was he, I was able to get only the most important of his statements. I have the cards with me and at this time I shall be glad to give the readings of the horoscope. Lawrence Hayward and Walter Miller, say the stars, will hold import- ant commands in the Alaskan Volunteers, when Alaska attempts to subjugate Siberia. Clarence Ehinger will become a wealthy owner of a peanut ranch in south Carolina, and, adjoining his estate, will be the plantation where Argue and Crandall will raise sunflower seed for Miss Cheney's poultry farm in Ogden, Michigan. Forest Cook will wed Edith Church and they will tour Switzerland where they will get material for their play t'The Moonshine Still in the Dark. Carl Groth, Leilah Kerr, Anne Moreland and Lolita Schomp will have leading parts in the production. Fred Fairbanks will become a salesman for the Cant-Stretch Dog Collar Co., of Jasper, owned by Blanche Barnes and Sarah Breese. Carl Smith will write a world-famous book entitled Michigan From a Mule's Back. Herbert Wilkinson, the astrologer said, would be the Adrian City health officer with an office located over Richardson and Schmitt's under- taking parlors.

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The SENIOR SICKLE 1922 -VALEDICTORY By MARIE KRUEGER gf: 135 NOTHER year of our school life is finished. To some of us this day will mean the end of school life, while to others it only marks lifawel' '1 t th h' h d i' B h' 1 l ,,23.,34Q,5 , a mi es one on T e way to a lg er e uca ion. ut w ICICVGI' ?ES1f'f1I?Qij,i course we choose, we can all find abundant cause to remember if-,AV 'WSE -I' fgild gl Y our High School with gratitude. The friendships formed between teacher and classmates, the associations which cluster around our High School, can never be forgotten. They will go with us through life and form an important part in the individual experience of each one of us. After the burden and heat of the day, when the battle of life has been fought and won, it will give us the greatest pleasure, no doubt, to remember many trifiing incidents which now seem scarcely worth the telling. Then also this Class Day and the past school days with their trials and triumphs will be recalled with pride and pleasure. In leaving our High School, we cannot, however, forget the great debt of gratitude which we owe to our teachers for the training, both moral and intellectual, which we have received from them. The high ideals which we have been led to form in the classroom are safe guides for us to follow. If they do not always bring us material prosperity, they at least will bring us lasting happiness and tl1e joy of noble service. The value of these ideals will become more apparent to us as we go out into the world and assume the duties and responsibilities of active life, but we realize now that with- out them, success in life would be impossible. Appolonius of Tyana, tells us in his Travels that he saw 'ta youth, one of the blackest of the Indians, who had between his eyebrows a shining moon. Another youth named Memmon, the pupil of Herodes, the Sophist, had this moon when he was young, but as he approached to man's estate, it grew fainter and fainter, and finally vanished. The world should see on each graduate's brow, as a shining moon, when he leaves High School, the impress of a high ideal. He should be watchful lest his actions cause this moon to vanish, and, sadder than all, vanishing, leave no sense of loss. To some of us, our High School training and our ideals will represent our entire capital in Life, to us it will mean the difference between success and failure. To our parents who have aided and encouraged us, and to the school patrons who are responsible for the upkeep of the public schools, and who have placed the means of education within the reach of all, only honor and credit is due. They have encouraged us to keep on when it seemed to us that our life was especially hard and to go on was almost impossible. To the school ofiicers of the present year, who have supported us in our undertakings and have shown their hearty interest in us, we return our sincerest thanks. And now, fellow classmates, the time has come for the inevitable separation. May success and happiness be your lot and may you never lose sight of those ideals which alone can lead to lasting joy.

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'Che SENIOR S1CKLEl922 Gladwin Sell will become a shoe string merchant. Messrs. Morse, Filter and Seeburger will make a fortune selling post holes. Martha Hicks and Francis DeBow will be leading dentists in Adrian, Michigan. Alma Howe and Leta Jackson will enter vaudeville. Mildred Weaver and Myrna Williams will write movie scenarios. Carl Angell will be a famous evangelist, in Northwestern Canada. Cleo Aldrich, Ruth Ash and Hilda Barber will be known as the Angell Evangelistsf' Helen O'Bryan., Melva Hawkins and Velma Hopkins will run a soap- less laundry in Clinton. Messrs. Davitt, Goodes, Gruber, Hellems, Coy and Eggleston will be conductors on the trans-planet air-line from Earth to Mars. Donald Richardson will be an athletic Coach at the University of Michigan and Hall Spelman will have the chair of English Literature at the same University. Irene Skinner and Clara Procknow will conduct a peanut and lemonade stand in the Philippine Islands. Bernadette Hayward, Margeretta Hafer, Carmon Evilsiser, Clara Kolz and Margaret Smith will be married under a law permitting married women to retain their maiden names. Sesta Tuttle will be known as an acrobat. Doris Nicolai will open a business school in Tipton. Esther Krueger and Marie Krueger and Elda Hiftline will make up the corps of teachers Gertrude Moore will be matron at the East Lansing Orphan's Home. Burdette Andrix, sales manager of the Bancroft Toothpick Co., will deliver toothpicks as fast as manufactured, to Lowth Sisters' Cafeteria, Fairfield, Mich. Francis Collins will teach elocution and oratory to the Hottentots. Ray Clapper and Florence Cole-Clapper will have a fine drug store and lunch room in Monroe. Ernest Kapnick and Gerald Osgood, Adrian's greatest criminal lawyers, will win reputations in the divorce courts. The other members of our class, if we are to believe the learned astrologer, will live happy and useful, but rather uneventful lives, and will be honored and esteemed by their fellowmen. -fuum'Q, iQ.'x5ziisnV- 3