Clinton High School - Clintonia Yearbook (Clinton, IL)

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THE CLIO 1912 Glass Prophecy HELLO Central! Please give me long distance operator. Hello! Is this long distance! I want to talk to Clinton, Illinois. Hello! Is this, Clinton? May I have 290? Yes, Miss Hazel Handle.” Hello, is this Hazel? Do you know who is talking? Well, this is the president of the class of 1912. Yes, Ralph.” Ralph May? Well, doggone! Where did you come from and where are you?” “In the new hot air skyscraper on State Street, Chicago. I have just returned from abroad. After graduating from the University of Berlin, I practiced in various European cities and felt a longing these thirty years of absence to hear something of the members of that old star class. Naturally I thought of the one. yourself, who kept close tab on all the boys and girls in those days, and believed that you could tell me about them better than anyone else. “Well, how did you know I was here?” “Why, through the columns of the Clinton Public, of course. What have you done to kill the time in Clinton?” “For the past twenty-five years I have been vocal instructor in the Public Schools here.” “Well that's good; what did your friend, Lester Langdon, aspire to?” “You may not believe it, but “Froggie” is in Africa teaching the cannibals to eat with a knife and fork. What’s that? Oh yes, Harry Swam, he’s Lester's assistant, but I fear he is getting homesick.” “You remember Louise Morris? She’s stenographer for Bill Young, one of the greatest criminal lawyers in Chicago. Why say, their offices are up on the fiftieth floor on the Peppermint Building. Look them up.” “What became of Walker Thorpe?” “The last I heard of him he was holding down a claim in South Dakota.” “And Ruth Large, you recall her smiling coutenance? She is now leading lady in the ‘Follies of 1942.’ ” “I’m anxious to know about El Rev Wampler. Did he make good in his oratorical work ? I remember how he used to work on the debating team, and always thought he had a great future before him.” “He is touring the country, giving a series of lectures.” “Harwood Young? Oh, he took his father’s place at the State Bank. He always went in for frenzied finance, you know.” 28

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THE CLIO 1912 “Of course you read about the swell wedding of Ruth Hughes and George Smith. They went south where George has a large plantation.” “What about Charles Sprague?” “He is sole proprieter of the Clinton Creamery Company and has a sub-station at the Panama Canal.” “And Irene Fields! It’s the querrest thing, you know. We all thought that she was going to be a musical wonder. She went to Oxford College and gradually ceased to write to any of us, and that's all we know of her.” Tell me something of Hazel Mills.” Oh, gee! Hazel Mills, Glenna McKinney, and Lizzie Spencer are militant suffragettes, and are working the ‘No vote, no tax’ to a finish.” “Have you ever heard anything of Milton Miller since you left here?” “He is superintendent of a gang of dagoos w’ho are putting in the Alexander crossing at different points in Indiana and Illinois.” “I presume you haven’t forgotten Lucile Elward. Well, she has a dandy position as cartoonist for the Chicago American.” “Weren’t you surprised to hear about Helen Walker? One of the greatest lecturers and platform orators you ever listened to. She use to be so quiet. “Oh yes, let me see. Myrtle Garwood. Well, I believe she is teaching Zoology in a Chicago High School. Didn’t she used to be afraid of snakes? I wish you could hear Maude McCoid plat the violin. She is one of the greatest violinists in America.” “Do tell me about the class reporter. I suppose he is a great journalist now7. “Well. I guess he is. The last I heard of him he was editor of the San Francisco NW “Frank Kraft, of all the boys in the class, is an evangelist and converting souls nightly.” “Verneal McKee evidently likes a life of single blessedness. She is living in a small bungalow out at the edge of town.” “Ruby Ross is still working in the Clinton Candy Kitchen. Abilene Cantrell has a hair dressing establishment in the Freudenstein building.” “Cecil Hull is—but I presume you know all about her—Oh, you don’t? That is strange. Well, anyhow she is teaching English at Wooster, and Beulah Bentley is teaching foreign languages.” “Edward Jordan is still clerking at Brown and Brown’s, and has a perfectly bald head. Oh, mercy, you remember Louis Morin, and how dippy he was over football and also the fair sex? Well, it lead him astray, for he is now7 coaching the girls’ basketball team at Vassar College. “And you are an ‘old bach.’ Well Ralph, w'ho would have thought it? I’m glad you called me up. Goodbye.” 29