Delaware Academy and Central School - Kalends Yearbook (Delhi, NY)

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June, 1 936 g The KALENDQ The Passing of SCENE I-PROPHECY IN DELIRIUM Characters-Dying Senior - William Humphries Nurse - ---- Ida Lord Doctor - Herbert Eckert fEnter doctor.l DOCTOR: Well, nurse, how is the patient this afternoOn?,' NURSE: Very ill, doctor. He is quieter now, but for the last hour he has been violently delirious-seems to be talking about his Old friends just as though he had the power to see into the future of each one. I'm afraid he'S in for another Seigeg his temperature is rising, respiration rapid, and he is getting more violent. DOCTOR: Well, I shall stay and help you if he becomes unmanageablef' fThe patient leaps from the bedj PATIENT: Ah, I see the light into the future once again. fTl76 doctor ana' nurse force the patient back into bed. He rises halfway up and begins to babble wifdlyj Class Prophecy THE LANE BROTHERS, Joseph anclrjames, will become cowboys and will die in a iight with bandits on the Mexican border. ELLEN LASHER will marry an engineer and help to supervise the building of all his bridges. JANET MACGREGOR will be hostess on a trans- continental airship owned and operated by Ray- mond Dann. EEEIE MCDONALD will be a private secretary to Joe Penner's duck. MURIEL MCNAUGHTON will become a jester at the court of a cannibal king in Haiti. ROBERTA MEANS will become the eminent Madam Means, renowned for the discovery of Serumilitis, a permanent cure for Pediculosis. LOUISE MOGRIDGE will become a newspaper woman and be killed by a gangster'S jealous moll. CORNELIA MOSTERT will become a famous the Old Order swimmer and will be drowned trying to swim the English Channel. CLARENCE OsTRANnER will be hit by a falling star. PAULINE PALMER will become a palmist and develop an uncanny perception that will make her famous. MARJORIE RUSSELL will be an elevator oper- ator in the Empire State Building, fall in love with the guide and live in a tent on the top. ARLENE SMITH will be a human cannon ball, but will be killed when they forget to put up the net. HERBERT WALL will become a Mormon so that he can marry all the girls he's in love with. READITH WILSON will be appointed by the Canadian government as guardian of the Dionne quintuplets. IDA LORD will become a fan dancer and will be hated by Sally Rand for taking away her public. BOB IRISH will be killed while trying to rescue a penny from the middle of Main Street. JAMES JOHNSON will become a minister, and will fall from the pulpit and break his neck. ROBERT NORTHRUP will develop a new kind of sandless spinach and make a fortune. EVELYN HILL will become a model for John Held Junior, and will lose her mind when she sees herself so horribly caricatured. CATHARINE BANUAT will be a school teacher and all her pupils will get A's. DOROTHY BISHOP will be burned to a frazzle while trying to get a sun tan. VIRGINIA BOUTON will marry a minister and will have to play the church Organ all the rest of her life. RUTH FRASER will become an opera singer, and will be smothered to death by rotten vegef tables from the audience on her first appearance, MABEI. CAMERON will marry a scientist. They will go on an expedition to Mars and she will become queen of the Marsiens. EVA CLARK will join Barnum and Bailey's Circus as a bareback rider, and marry the man on the flying trapeze. E151

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T 'Le ,KLA ,L ELNJQE, M f 7 June, 1936 ARLENE SMITH Walton, New York Arlene Lei zlvy speech he bezrer zlmn silence, or he silt-nz slwfthand Club qs, 41, choir 41, 2, 3, 41. HERBERT WALL Delhi, New York Wally His thoughts are high hcca 1c,vL f his rally' Soccer ll, 2, 3, 415 clramatics l31g band l41g orchestra ll, 2, 3, 41. JOHN WESTCOTT DeLancey, New York !KJ0hn7, Although small, he is always heardv Class president fl, 413 basketball lmgr. 413 track l41g chorus U19 band l41g dramatics f31g assembly program committee READITH WII.SON Delhi, New York Redd, She doeth liltle kiiztlnesses, Which mos! leave undone, or despise Class vice-president U15 class secretary l21g vice-president Student Ass,n l31g secretary of choir l31g choir l2, 3, 415 Cain Raisers 12, 3, 41g president of Cain Raisers l41g chorus E141

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The KALENDS june, 1936 JAMES CURRIE will be killed by the explosion when his truck backfires once too often. AUDREY DESILVA will become a famous painter and will be killed when Arthur falls on her head. her portrait of Mr. JIM DZCKSON,S harem will begin lighting among themselves and he will be killed in the s:ramble. RUTH BURGIN will appear on Major Bowes' amateur hour and will get a 'contract for a radio program advertising Limburger cheese. HERBERT ECKERT will gradually wear himself out walking back and forth to Hamden. EDNA GRAY will choke to death from giggling too much. JAMES COLGAN will shave his head too close and die of pneumonia. BILL HUMPI-IRIES will build and copyright an electric amplifier for his tuba softhat it can be heard to the Hudson. ELIZABETH GRACEY will wear herself to a shadow while trying to help other people. Joi-IN WESTCOTT will hang himself on his pat- ented machine to increase height. ROBERT MAEON will become a human skeleton in Ringling's circus. HARRIE FRASER will be a missionary to Uganda and be a tasty morsel for the cannibals to devour. VIVIAN GAGE will be at I-Iymers all of the time instead of most of the time. DON MCKEE will be manager of Fraserls feed mill. ELLEN GESELL will work overtime helping Charlie deliver milk to the good people of Delhi. ISABELLE I-IINCKLEY will open a grocery store where she will feature Armour Star Products, and will never have to worry about her Bill. MILDRED ALEXANDER will chew her finger nails so much that she will accidentally bite her finger off. KATE ANDERSON will accidentally go to the movies twice with the same boy, and die of shock when she realizes it. SCENE II-CLASS WILL AND MEMENTOES. Characters-Lawyer ------ R. Irish Two Witnesses - M. Russell, Lane Patient, nurse, doctor. f The patient sinks back exhausted on the bedj DDCTOR: Nurse, this old fellow is going fast. I wonder if he has any property and wants to make a will? PATIENT fexritedlyj: I guess I have property. Am I not one of the richest classes on record? And you bet I have a will. Mr. A. Swindler is my lawyer. Send for him at once, pleasef, fEnter lawyer with two witnessesj DOCTOR! Good afternoon, Mr. Swindler. Can you make this go as quickly as possible? This old man is in bad shapef' LAWYER: Yes, yes. Certainly. We have the will all drawn up. All we have to do is read it to him and have him sign it. LAWYER f to patientj: Sir, we have your will here just as you dictated it to us. I shall read it to you, and if you are still of the same mind, all you need to do is sign it. PATIENT: Read the will. fThe patient is propped up with pillows. The lawyer hustles forward and begins to read. The patient chuckles with pleasure from time to time and rubs his hands togetherj fAt the end of the reading with some assist- ance he weakly signsj Last Will and Testament In the Name of God, Amen. The Senior Class of Delaware Academy, in the County of Delaware and State of New York, being of sound and disposing mind and memory, do make, establish and declare this my last Will and Testa.- ment, in manner following, that is to say: FIRST: I direct that all my just debts and funeral expenses be paid by the junior Class. SECOND: I hereby devise and bequeath to: Miss Irene Edelman-A roll of adhesive tape lshe may need ity. To Bill Tompkins-A Dot. To Louise Bedford-A model T Ford, so she can get to dances. To Pearl Gesell--A boy friend so she won't have to go with Ellen and Charles. To Georgiana Currie-A 1935 Chevy like Amos's. To Doris Austin-A car, so she won't have to hook a ride home. U61