East High School - Quill Yearbook (Des Moines, IA)

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Twfphw Em. 5 i By RALPH Wmss For the Service of Humanity, the East High motto, that interlaces with the traditional school spirit of loyalty and pride, is the solid foundation upon which many a brilliant career has been built. Many have traveled far alon the road to success since leaving East High school, some reaching heights almost beyond their dreams, but who can find one who does not cherish the memories of Days at Dear East High ? A few picked at random from the alumni is truly a panorama of successful men and women that the school might well be proud to call its own. Foremost amon them is Miss May Good- rell, a graduate 0? East High school sixty years a o, who returned later to act as princi- pal of gre school. Through the years she has carried high the torch that lighted the devious beginningls of the road to success and with a guiding and started hundreds of young men andl women climbing toward their respective oa s. 9 The late Frank O. Green of the class of 1880 founded the Green Foundary and Fur- nace Works and other enterprises. Anna Stohlgren is a principal in the Des Moines school system. Iver Newlen, undertaker, was a graduate of East forty years ago. Eskel Carlson, attorney. has been city solicitor and judge and holds an executive office with the Y. M. C. A. Miss Alma Hammer is a graduate of the school she now serves as clerk and registrar, and many of East's teachers were once students in the school. Ed Lytton is business manager of Drake University and Lillian Hethershaw is an in- structor of general science and education there. Martin Roe is assistant secretary of the Banker's Life company and his brother, Charles Roe, is a successful lawyer at Carson, Iowa. Harold Gordon is proprietor of the Gordon Grocery Stores in this city. Forrest Geneva is advertising manager at the Register and Tribune. Iack Brophy, an East High football star of 1913, is Chief of Detectives in Des Moines. Iack Lazarus, another player who helped make East's football history, is business man- ager of the Iowa State Policemen's association. Hu h Redhead of the class of '14 heads the CCC units in the Re-Forestation program in Wisconsin. Adelaide Ewing is a well known music teacher in this city. Carl Heggen is president of the Heggen Shoe company. Cleatie Devine is chief probation officer for the Polk County Iuvenile Court. Art Holman is proprietor of the Hiland Potato Chip Company. Helen Redhead is bacteriologist at the Flynn Dairy company. Ro Peel, who is professor of government at the Ilfniversity of New York, has recently re- turned from the Scandinavian countries where he spent twolyears in research work for the Rockefeller Foundation. Warren Bassett, class of '16, is an editor and ublisher in New York City. Bruce Gould is editor of the Ladies Home Iournal. Darrell Iohns is supervisor of a well known insurance company with offices in New York Cit . yKenneth Henkle is president of an invest- ment company in Des Moines. Dr. Fred Peel, who taught chemistry in a college in Minneapolis, Minn., is now practicing dentistry in this city. Carl Christopherson, who has traveled from coast to coast, from Alaska to the Phili - ines and from China to Australia for the flnited States Department of Commerce and Geodetic Department, is now living in Shanghai. He is the United States Trade Commission to China. Fred Mathis is a successful real estate man in Des Moines. Carl William D er is manager at Ames for the Northwesternvgell Telephone company. Iean Carroll heads a market analysis com- pany with offices in New York City. Carrie Christopherson is manager of the Media Department of the Coolidge Advertising company of this city. David Bolen is credit manager at Younker Brothers. Iohnny Iohnson, another of East's famous football stars, is athletic supervisor for the Des Moines Public School System. Clifford Iulstrom is music instructor and di- rector of the orchestra and band at Western Illinois State Teachers College. Herbert Nelson holds an engineering position with the Goodrich Rubber company of Akron, Ohio. Is this record of achievement a criterion of the future fortunes of graduates of 1937 and those to follow?

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mf' Fwavftwt wtfhllfvgf-2 After so many years of absence from Des Moines, during our long sojourn in Little Amer- ica, I was prepared for the inevitable changes that have ocurred these last fifteen years. I am positive you will be interested' to hear the latest news from our home city. I noted the first difference when the morn- ing paper was brought to me at the hotel. It was not the familiar Register but a bitter rival, The Des Moines Star, whose editor is Berniece Wilson. Here are some outstanding items I found: The Reverend Wilbur Patrick who is con- cerned with public education has appealed to the school board for an extra half hour to be added to the school day. Thomas O'Byrne f you remember Tommyj superintendent of schools announced that the school board is consider- ing it. Doris Pointer and Betty Kimble, two other graduates of the '37 class are managing Younker's Beauty Salon, making rapid pro- gress in that line of business. When I had finished my paper, I knew that my first object of excursion must be dear old East High school. As far as the building is concerned, it is the same old school you and I graduated from, but, I am told that our ag- gressive mayor, Iohn Folsom, is at present working on a project that will result in the complete remodeling of East High. Imagine my feelings to find that the scholarly lookin gentleman teaching Latin was Fred Gruber. Itlor was my surprise lessened when I saw Sidney Feintech patiently ex- poundinlgl the principles of grammar to a 10-A class. ildred Lippy, who teaches vocal and instrumental music, and Wayne Larson, the dramatics teacher were bus at work on an extravaganza to be presentecf' soon. Those are ale hradical changes in the faculty bf East ng . There is an excellent book store near East High which, I decided would be the place to buy my books for future reading. Passing the place, I noticed in the windows several co ies of Weldon Fetters popular Mirosco ic Igni- mals, as well as two other current favorites, Vera Galleher's best seller, The Ghost of Sing Sing , and, Vernon Evans' History of Print- ing from Beginning to End . After lunch we attended a matinee of Romeo and Iuliet fl95l version with a roof- arden instead of a balcony, in which lack Ristvedt and Annabeth Kurtzweil took the title roles. You remember Maxine Kremer, our song- bird back in 1936. She is now singing grand opera. And, while I'm on the subject of music, I might add that the Des Moines Symphony Orchestra conducted by Mark Scott is the latest thing in streamline orchestras. Rumor hath it that lean Koenigsberger, Margaret Wilson, and Genevieve ineinger have been missionaries in India all these long years. And di-d you know that Carl Linder is a licensed Canadian guide? Next year he will be study hall teacher at East High. After the performance I decided to walk back to the hotel and thus finish my first day of excursion in Des Moines. Walking down Grand Avenue, I was blinded by a sudden cloud of dust which meant Ronald Mason was on his cross country run again. In passing ohn Van Gundy's music ichard Davis' famous new store, I heard, over radio, the conclusion of Paul Kempe's and Iohn Allen's hilarity hour. Deciding to enter the store, as I had intended to buy a copy of Earl Alber's latest song hit, I was startled to hear the throaty voice of Patricia Wolcott announc- in the two uests of the afternoon, Robert Viyildrick and Arnold Carlson, who have just re- turned from their jungle expedition in Africa. I must draw this long letter to a close, now. Of course you wonder what became of the rest of our classmates. From all regaorts I gather that they are hap ily married or ollowing well- chosen careers. Several of them are bank presi- dents: there are three engaged in the thriving business of airplane manufacturing. Of course they are all prosperous, having been ambitious and hard-working students in high school. Until our expedition to the North Pole. Wils-

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. 'l'Mn I L ,A:WMiim,. . l 5 7 Why. By GEORGE PILKINGTON Why must we study simple facts, That seem to bore us so? What's it to us if this man lived A thousand years ago? Why must we know the weight in grams Of a certain piece of lead? Why must we know The Bells by heart, Or just what Shakespeare said? Why should we know that 'Ich bin dein' Really means 'l'm yours'? Why must we know the year Caesar Reached 'England's chalky shores'? We're really 'fed up' with these facts. That teachers hold so dear. But I suppose we'll study them At least another year. . Of Pink Slips By DoRo1'1-nr GARRETT QESSAY A LA BACONJ Pink slips serve for delight and reproach. Their chief use for delight is in going to one's locker when one forgets one's books: for orna- ment is in fluttering them between the fingers while wandering about the halls during class time: for reproach is for conversing with one's neighbor on forgetting the assignment. Expert pupils can wheedle pink slips from the teacher one by one, but dull pupils collect them with not a word. They perfect memory and are perfected by the printer. Witty pupils delight in them: dull pupils condemn them, and crafty pupils use them. Use pink slips not to escape a test, nor for paper wads to shoot from rubber bands, but to pass monitors in the hall. Some pink slips are to be avoided: some are to be accepted nonchalantly: and some are to be sought. Pink slips make confident stu- dents, nervous students, and indifferent stu- dents.