East High School - Crucible Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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THEY DID-BUT DIDN'T DIE . . . ln spiTe OT The cold weaTher, people were perspiring on The nighT oT January 26. PerspiraTion Tlowed mosT copiously Trom ThaT secTion in which saT eighTy-six EasT High School graduaTes. Nervous whispers came Trorn The corners oT drawn mouThs. Tenseness permeaTed The aTmosphere. A slighT relieT was TelT when The sTudenTs ioined in The sTrains oT songs ThaT paTienT music Teachers had drilled inTo noT Too recepTive brains. Then came The crisis-one by one The bodies oT graduaTes sTood as The names oT Their schools were called. The voice called, NorTh High , WesT High , CenTral High . Then came an awful, Terror-inspiring, phrase, Miss Gugle, and The graduaTes oT EasT High School . All The graduaTes oT EasT sTood as Their principal rose. Dry ThroaTs TighTened, waTer came To eyes, and knees knocked wiTh an indefinable rhyThm. As The music began To play, backs sTraighTened and chins Took ThaT resoluTe do or die Tirmness. Then The music began, across The packed house, in TronT OT The proud parenTs and up Those' seemingly never ending sTairs. Midway across The sTage, The pupils were presenTed wiTh The cerTiTicaTe oT Their achievemenTs by obiecTs which seemed To swim around in space buT somehow managed To place The paper in an ouTsTreTched hand. Then down The long sTeps Tearing To sTumble every minuTe. BenedicTionl lT's over aT lasT. The rewarded members wenT lsTill hoTl ouT The door wiTh Their TaThers and moThers or alone, To Tace a new world and cerTainly To caTch a cold. IT WAS PROPHESIED . . . Bob GasT and Ralph Billups are enjoying Themselves immensely over The laTesT ediTion oT The Esquire when a message Trom MargareT Hedges, Bob's secreTary, informs The relaxing genTlemen ThaT Their TorTunes have been losT in The sTock markeT crash. Ed Rice, Their broker, has ruined Them. . Fear, Terror and panic Take Them as They make plans To Tlee Trom Their wives who have n-o selT-conTrol in such siTuaTions. Marjorie Ludwig and BeTTy STrader always did acT ThaT way. The broken business men Tear being overTaken by Three ace sleuThs: Jack Chapman, Bill King and STanley McCollum. TwenTy miles on The road Trom nowhere our Two heroes were swinging Their Thumbs aT passing moTorisTs going in The direcTion OT Columbus. ATTer hours TOT Thumb- ing an EchT Whizzer, an auTo propelled by rockeTs, invenTed by Their old school- maTe, lrving EchT, sTops To accommodaTe Them. ArT Landon is aT The conTrols oT The Whizzer . While whizzing abouT The counTryside, Ralph is engaged in scanning The morning issue OT The Gosnell Herald , owned and ediTed by ArT Gosnell. Scanning The TirsT page Ralph discovers ThaT Their Triend, Bob Lynas, married Vivian MacKay on The day ThaT he was promoTed To The posiTion oT chieT invenTor aT The DuPonT Company . On The social page was The announcemenT oT a parTy given by James Eriedenburg and wiTe lShirly Aaronl. Among Those presenT were: Julius KnighT, Rachel Welder, Jean Dworkin, Miriam WinTer and BeTTy Snider. On The sporT page The name oT Warren Gerber looms in The headline. Our sTar has recenTly become manager oT The ST. Louis Cards., now aT Wamba Wamba. Florida. There seems To be Trouble as To wheTher or noT John Mosure will accepT 550,000 Tor The coming season. Johnnie is The Cards' ace caTcher. On The opposiTe side is The line-up oT The Bluebirds , a proTessional baskeTball Team. Topping The lisT oT The players are The names oT Charles GaTewood, Bill HesTer and Tony Callendar. ArT Landon Tunes in on his KlopTer all wave super TilTered car radio whose in- venTor was Emery KlopTer. They are greeTed by The voice oT Quincy Cheadle, WLXTQ'S popular announcer. TConTinued on Page 86l THE CRUCIBLE OF 22

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THE LAST FEAST. .. 'Twas a brighT January morning when eighTy-six seniors, wiTh doubT in Their minds, Tiled inTo The girls' gymnasium To eaT Their lasT meal as one body oT high school sTudenTs. When The orchesTra began To play under The leadership oT Mr. William STeinhauer, The Tension was eased and everyone began To Teel like himseIT once again. WiTh The Theme being The birTh oT The new year, miniaTure cradles wiTh The new year represnTed by a small doll, were placed aT each pIaTe: each member oT The TacuITy presenT received a raTTIe. James Freidenberg gave a shorT ToasT and Then inTroduced Miss Marie Gugle, who gave a New Year's Message. The songsTress, JaneT NewTon, held The class spell- bound while she sang The popular Indian Love Call. The class hisTory was given by STanley McCollum, which was Tollowed by Cargo, a song sung as only Jacob McKinney could sing iT. Mr. H. L. McMiIIian gave a message, ThoughTs Tor The New Year. The class will was Then read by Jane Hill. OriginaIiTy Then came wiTh a communiTy song wiTh words wriTTen by JaneT NewTon, which proved very amusing. ArThur Gosnell Then read The class phophecy. EighTy-six seniors deparTed, much wiser, wiTh a new year in hand. AS A CLASS ON SUNDAY ... To The sTrains oT God oT Our FaThers, The senior class Took Their respecTive places in The audiTorium on Sunday, January 23, I938. WiTh The sTage decked in Terns and Tlowers, The air was Tilled wiTh a reverence ThaT beholds all religious services. ATTer The song, Prayer oT Thanksgiving by The graduaTing class, prayers were given by Ralph Billups, Marjorie Ludwig, Vivian MacKay, Irving EchT, MargareT Cooper, and Henry Bland. Two selecTions, Oh, ResT In The Lord and No Blade oT Grass Can FIourish, were oTTered by The class. Dr. GusTav C. GasT gave The address. - The quarTeTTe: JaneT NewTon, Frankie Wear, Jacob McKinney and Lyle Jennings sang The King of Love My Shepherd Is, which was Tollowed by prayers given by ArThur Gosnell, Quincy Cheadle, RoberT Boyer, BeTTy STrader, Warren Gerber, Marian Snyder, Aaron Barksdale and Julius KnighT. The quarTeTTe closed The pro- gram by singing The Seven-Told Amen . WiTh The recessional God oT Our FaThers, The graduaTes broughT To- an end anoTher oT Their never-To-be-TorgoTTen exercises. OUR OVVN NIGHT. .. WiTh graduaTion exercises drawing To a close, The graduaTes marched down The aisle To The Tune oT Pomp and CircumsTance , wiTh regreT in Their hearTs and lumps in Their ThroaTs. The enTire class Tollowed Their emoTions and bursT inTo song wiTh Flag oT My Land and Then seTTled back inTo Their seaTs To IisTen To The PresidenT's Address by James Friedenberg. JaneT NewTon sang II Bacio, which was Tollowed by a seIecTion on The TrumpeT by William Johnson. The class again came Through wiTh colors Tlying and sang John Peel and The Czecho-Slovakian Dance Song . The Romance oT MaThemaTics was given by RoIoerT Lynas and was Tollowed by The STudenT and His CaT , sung by bariTone Lyle Jennings. The presenTaTion oT The Science Award was given by RoberT GasT To Roberi' Lynas. The senior class sang EasT High School Tor Their IasT Time as a class and Tollowed wiTh The RecessionaI . ReTiring To The girls' gymnasium, Taps could be heard in The disTance. N ET EE N T HI RT Y EI G H T 2

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Clara, we are proud of you . . . Miss Clemson and Mr. Young's helpers . , . Cuifers beware . . . Good Composiiion, Carl My Goodness, wha? did 'rhis phofographer inierrupf? . . . Genilemen prefer blondes. Big l-loopiiy-uppern? . . . Dick Worch forecasis swimming sfyle . . . Of- fice Assisianis . . . Some January grads caughi posing . . . Our own Robin Swan . . . Your guess fhis lime . . . Ned Sheridan shoois . . . X-Ray adverfising mana- ger . . . One from Queens courf . .. X-Ray bigshois . . . Belly Smiih - Easi High Lassie . . . Baseball spec- Tafors . . . Behind The Chrisrmas pageani scenes . . . Adorafion . .. A good performance, Spir- iiuals Chorus . . . Weav- ing... NINELTEEN Ti-iiRTY EIGHT