Bexley High School - Bexleo Yearbook (Bexley, OH)

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24 THE JORCH ’30 CLASS PROPHECY IT’S BEEN about 20 years since your old uncle, Si Slokem, did any wnttin’ fer Bexley Hi, and in that time a lot of changes kin take place in people and things, fer instance the village of Bexley is now a city and extends clear out to the end of my farm. Uster be about ten miles. Their new stadium is right next to my cow pastuer, and you kin bet your bottom dollar that it s one jack dandy. One day about the middle of this spring, I was down in my pasture a mendin a little fence, must a been about two in the afternoon and I was putterin around there in the field when I heard a terrible rumpus. Awonderin what it was all about, cause there wasn’t any thing on the calendar for that day, I just got on old Bill (that s my old horse; you remember him) and I rode over to exit number 36 and tied my old hoss to the iron fence on the side of the stadium and then I slips in to see what I could see. When I got up and saw what was out there on that field, you could have knocked me over with a feather. There was a bunch of old fellers out there a playin football all dressed up in the old colors. Blue and White, and on the side lines was some more old duffers, men and women alike. Such carrins’ on I haint seen in all my born days. There they was a shoutin’ and runnin’ around like they was crazy and fer the life of me I couldn’t swan the meanin, so I goes a little closer, fe - I kinda smeld a mouse and sure enough when I got a little closer, I seen it was that rip-roarin class of ’30. How they would have liked to get their hands on me! So I thought I had better get clear of them some, where I could keep my eye on them; so I goes to the south-west tower and watches them. It seemed that they was havin' a reunion and the fellers of Miss Hamann’s room dared the fellers of Mr. Howell’s room to a football game and they accepted, so this was the result of all this carrins on. When I got to the stadium the game was all over but carrin the fellers of both teams off the field. If I remember the score was 225 to 187 (by the way, the sum of the both scores is Mac Byall’s present weight) and the damages in men ran high. The grand average was 22 injured men. After the game the crowd started to- ward Dieterich Hall, that new hall they got for all their doings. So I follers them and hid up in the grand balcony. Then the meetin was called and everybody took to eatin. While they was feedin their faces I looked over that crowd. There must have been sixty of them anyway. There they was, the same old bunch, and as I looked em over, the old faces that was hid behind the mask of age, came out. The first one that I knowed was them two fellers that we all learned to love so well. They was the two partners of that famous Fifth Ave. House, designers and makers of those well-known Fashion Plate Suits Overcoats for men, headed by Anthony Watters. The boys have built this company to the prominate place that it holds. Everett told me that one of their pet clients is that great criminal lawyer of Chicago (the one that put Darrow on the rocks), Bob Brunner. Three cheers for Bob and Mrs. Brunner. Then the football coach at Princeton was there, the famed Bob Dickey. Yep, he’s still got that smile that kills all the girls who look at him, and his chief delight is riding

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30 THE ORCH 23 EVERETT WATTERS “Lee “A friend to everyone he nows.” Football ’29 : Track ’27, Track Man- ager ’28 ; Glee Club ’29, ’30 ; Chapel Choir ’30 ; “Miss Cherry Blossom” ; Spanish Club ’30. Enter Y. M. C. A. College of Archi- tecture. HELEN LOUISE WHEELER “ Tis easy enough to be pleasant.” From Mill Creek High School; Chapel Choir ’30 ; Glee Club ’30 ; “Miss Cherry Blossom” ; Senior Honor Roll. JEAN WIEBER “Gin” “Wisely and slowly; they stumble that run fast.” From South High School ; Glee Club ’29, ’30 ; “The Gypsy Rover” ; Span- ish Club ’30. Enter Ohio State University. MARGARET E. WILCOX “Marg” “Multum in parvum (much in little).” Girl Reserves ’27, ’28, ’29, ’30 ; Glee Club ’27, ’28. ’29, ’30, President ’28 ; French Club ’30, Secretary ’30 ; Girls’ Athletic Club ’29, ’30 ; Latin Club ’28 ; Annual Staff ’30 ; “The Gypsy Rover” ; “Miss Bob White” ; “Miss Cherry Blossom” ; “Rose of Tokio.” Enter Ohio State University. LUCILLE WOLFE “A indly smile to all she lent.” Glee Club ’27, ’28, ’29 ; Orchestra ’27, ’28, ’29, ’30 ; Spanish Club ’28, ’29, ’30 ; Girl Reserves ’27, ’28, ’29, ’30. Enter Capital University. MEREDITH P. WOLLENZIEN “Perry” “What should a man do but be merry.” Track ’29 ; Glee Club ’29, ’30 ; “Miss Cherry Blossom” ; “The Gypsy Rover” ; Chapel Choir ’30. JOHN W. BROWN “Johnny” ‘‘Humor is wisdom smiling.” (Will receive diploma at close of sum- mer session.) From East High School. Enter Ohio State University. DONALD CALLANDER “Don” ‘‘By wisdom, wealth is won.” (Will receive diploma at close of sum- mer session.) Football ’28 ; Track ’30 ; Glee Club ’29 ; “The Pot Boiler” ; Torch Staff ’28, ’30. Enter Ohio State University. -o G).

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’30 THE JORCH 25 his high wheeled bicycle around the campus. Ted Girard, the noted radio announcer, told the class about his experience before the mike. I was kinda sprused like when I seed Dr. Reed Davidson and his sister, Marian, come all the way from St. Louis where they have their hospital. Marian is the head Nurse. From what I could hear I figgered that Mary Schneider was the big note at the New York Conservatory of Music. I’ll be all get out if I warnt surprised when I found out that our old friends, Florence Fetter and Maurine Leitch, own that place on E. Broad St., called La Shop De France. With his hair reder than ever, sat Ed Gerhold, who now has a chain of rubber plantations in India. Down the table a little ways I saw that little Margaret Wilcox, the new IT girl of Hollywood. You have all seen her on the screen in her latest picture, “God’s Gift To Men.” Then there was that feller Bryan Archibald, who is now Pres, of the same college that Dickey is Coach, Princeton. Yes, he is married and is the proud father of two boys and a girl. True to his youthful ambitions, Frank Lambrecht is now tekenical adviser for the Paris-New York Air Ways. The two girls that starred in the last Broadway review was there—Margaret Carey and Jean Wieber. Rose Marie Keller now has a Kinder- garten school here in Columbus. Dan Busch tole me he is serving his fourth term as Pres, of the Rotary Club. Grayce Jones is secretary to the Pres, of the present governor of the state of Ohio. They tell me that Virginia Park holds a high place in the social world, but I couldn’t find out her new name. Marion Ford has been elected to Congress and has put through several bills. Don Callander has a chain of Cleanin’ stores. The stage sent forth a call for new talent and found it in Betty Harrington. The newspapers are filled with accounts of her success. The Ohio State U. has had an undefeated basketball team for the last seven years and I’m told it is largely due to the efforts of Harry Maxwell, who is the coach. During the bankwit, Mary MacDonald gave a very interesting talk on her work as a missionary in China. Another one of the old class is also engaged in work at O. S. U. That is Edith Manly, director of Girls’ Phys. Ed. In the past few years I’ve seen several collections of poems by Sarah Smith. We were honored by the presence of the Business Manager of the Scripps How- ard Newspapers, who gave us a very delightful talk. It was none other than Walter McCloy. Walter has organized the Tired and Hungry Business Men’s Luncheon Club. Don Morris was there. He’s doin very well in the old business, and golf is his pet sport, but he still devotes a lot of time to whittlin. He has taken a correspondence course and can now give a good imitation of a wiffile hen. Margaret Hawkins is with the local Y. W. C. A. and is next in line for the leadership.