Bexley High School - Bexleo Yearbook (Bexley, OH)

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THE TCECH Cheers from the crowd drew our eyes once more to the court. Frances had entered, and the mob was going mad. Quite a drawing card, Jane mused. The great actress hurried through the court and vanished within the lobby, from where arose a subdued chorus of oh's and ah's. What a pity Shirley Engler Roberts couldn't be here, Paul lamented. She married Bill Roberts, you know. They're touring the world. I turned to Paul. Is it true, I asked, that you're trying to buy Hoffman and Brenning for a football epic? We're trying. But Jack is so busy with the hotel business—he and Dick Morris operate a nation-wide chain of hostelries, all of them designed by Ray Latham and one of them managed by Janet Graham—that he's afraid he can't make it. Bren- ning is operating a physical culture school with Bob Burgett. He was such a football giant at Wesleyan that they abandoned the rest of the team. From the orchestra came the lilting strains of a waltz. 'Viennese Waltz Suite, Movement Number One,' Jane murmured. Helene Coppersmith has critics wag- ging fingers af Strauss positively! And have you heard that Mac Pryor has signed for radio appearances and is the most valuable star at the Met? Elaine Bernhard, Helen Murphy, and Vera Nesser are doing wonders over the CBS chain, Eleanor remarked. You should hear them over the radio on our yacht! Roy gave me a yacht for a wedding present, she explained. Mac Henney designed it and Clara Wheeler did the interior. Very modern. At the far end of the court below Maxine Fuller and Frieda Busch stepped from a Rolls and made their way through the lines to the lobby. A moment later they joined us. M axine, I said in an aside to Jane, is the colony's most popular divorce law- yer, and Frieda is the envy and despair of Paris. She creates all of Frances Joseph's personal and screen wardrobes. Hello, hello, hello! Maxine gushed. She made for Paul and straightened his tie, and then turned to me. I received a long letter from Thornton Smith, she said. He's making millions as president of a pancake griddle company. Mr. and Mrs. George Baumann (he owns the Chinese Theater, and Mrs. Bau- mann is a former teacher) and Betty Kurtzhalz joined our group. The round of saluta- tions was inflicted. Mary Kauffman, Betty told us, entering into the spirit of the thing, is deeply engaged in social welfare work. She's being assisted by Faye Silberstein and Virginia Cohagan. Esther Polster, you know, is studying economic conditions in Europe, and plans to journey to Russia with her work. 'Speaking of Russia, Paul put in, Harry Miles, Harold Jording, and Ted Mayer are erecting what is claimed to be the world's largest hydroelectric plant, in the Soviet Republic. Woodford Thomas and Vernon Underwood recently completed a similar project in India. Oh, yes, Eleanor finished, Everett Drennen is General Electric's representative there. Violet Smoke went along as his private secretary. Bonnie Mae Steele and Clarabelle Storer are doing secretarial work in our Eastern offices, and Ray Leddy and Warren McCracken are news reel cameramen. They're covering the Geneva Arms Conference now, Paul informed us. Senator Francis Taber is an important member of our delegation there. ( CONTINUED ON PAGE 34 ) [24] CLASS of 1 932

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THE TCECH CLASS PROPHECY POLICE experienced difficulties in maintaining order at the world premiere of Vienna , latest starring vehicle for Frances Joseph, whose phenomenal rise left the world in a faint. Through the narrow aisle leading from the curb to the gate at the court of Baumann's Chinese Theater the great and the near-great streamed to attend the opening. The whole scene spread out gloriously before me as I stood on the outer balcony. Hello! a soft voice said behind me. I turned and faced Jane Landrum, mag- nificent in gold lame and sable. I'm stopping off on my way to the South Pacific, she said. Missionary work. You don't look like a missionary, I informed her frankly. Oh, I sell chewing gum on the side, she returned. But tell me about yourself. Tell me about yourself! I begged, and some of the people back home. A lot has happened 'back home'. Elaine Moore and Mary Kathryn Dingledine have opened a stage-struck sort of gym, where I maintain my figure, and Don Elsass is heading a new hospital. Ruth Jane Barrow, Ruth Lamborn, Fred Eckley, and Paul Callif are on the board; and Jane Drescher, Helen Corcoran, and Martha Smith are nurses there. Bill Drennen and Harry Keys have their own private hospitals down East. Jack Silberstein is their most famous surgeon. They're all intensely expensive. Our attention was drawn to the court, where the masters of ceremonies an- nounced the great names as they arrived. The Roy Leadys (Eleanor Pabst) and Paul Leady had just entered. Roy, I informed Jane, is president of the studio which releases all of Joseph's productions, and Paul is his legal representative. Eleanor gave up her kindergarten work to marry Roy. How noble! Jane sighed. The Leadys joined us. I've signed Eileen Ebert and Jim Sanford to a co-starring contract for three pictures, Paul announced proudly. Five other studios bid for them. They're Broadway's favorites, you know. By the way, I saw those new musicals with Bob Gill, Eddie Sayre, and Albert Heil in them. Their comedy is amazing. I remember having seen drawings for their stage settings, I offered. Virgil Jones did them. He's getting along. To the extent of having a private secretary, Eleanor informed us. Mary Jane Koch. She's resigning, though, to marry Ray Medors. Dorothy Hansberger and Courtenay Wakefield are getting married soon, Jane said. Courtenay and Bill Brightman head that new globe-encircling air line. I came West on one of their ships. Betty Kurtzhalz was with me. She's representing Jack Benjamin's news sydicate, and is covering the premiere this evening. She should be here any minute now. Speaking of marriages, I put in, Charles Frank and Virginia Reeves have finally done it. Virginia ’bummed’ her way through Europe first, though, and wrote a book on it. She intends raising Scotties. Chuck is one of our foremost ceramists, you know. Virginia entertains the Missionary Society every Easter, Jane told us. And have you heard about the International Chemical Products Company? We hadn't. Harry Allen, Norma Downing, John Malloy, Ludwig Myers, and Fred Pullen have founded it, and make everything chemical, including a gasoline substitute that won't work. CLASS of 19 32

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THE TCCCH CLASS HISTORY 3b1 dll school. ET US take a look into the past and see what we, the class of '32, have been doing in the last four years. First we see ourselves a group of timid, green freshmen, wondering what it's about. But soon we become accustomed to the fact that we are in high The big event of the first year is our picnic at Rector's farm. Now it seems we are getting a little bolder—not the same scared freshmen. No, of course not—we are sophomores! By this time we have that know-it-all air and even dare to walk along beside the high-and-mighty seniors. We begin to show brawn in athletics as well as excellent ability in studies, with five of us in the Honor Club. Again there is a picnic at Rector's farm and also a masquerade party. Another year has passed, and now we are taking a very active part in athletics. Football and basketball, especially, claim our junior athletes. Representing our class in the National Honor Society are Betty Kurtzhalz, Leland Roy, and James Brooke, the first juniors ever to attain that honor. Of course we have a Junior-Senior, and the seniors invite us to their party too. Then we come to the greatest and best year of our high school career. We have a number of outstanding athletes, especially in tennis, swimming, football, track, baseball, and basketball; we have many honor students, musicians, dramatists, artists, and leaders along all lines. Our class has changed the standard school ring for the first time in four years. Presidents of the various high school organizations are: Jean Boerger, Girl Re- serves; Virgil Fogle, Hi-Y; Dorothy Hansberger, Latin Club; Betty Kurtzhalz, Girls' Athletic Club; and Esther Polster, Spanish Club. At our homecoming game with Piqua, Elaine Bernhard is the queen with Shirley Engler and Virginia Reeves as her attendants. The operetta, The Toreadors, reveals some fine singers, among whom are Elaine Bernhard, Virginia Reeves, Mac Pryor, Charles Frank, and Jim Sanford. Then the senior play, The Nut Farm , with Eileen Ebert and Fred Eckley as the leads, is also a great success. Francis Taber is president of our class and Mac Pryor, president of the school. At the graduation exercises, Mary Jane Landrum is our valedictorian, Jack Benjamin, salutatorian, and Bill Drennen, class orator. The juniors give us a big party, and then this happy senior year is concluded with our class breakfast. And now we have completed the first chapter of our careers. As we look back over our high school days, we do not think of them as the most interesting volume of life, but rather as the early chapters that lead to the grand climax—Success. —FRIEDA BUSCH. CLASS of 19 32