El Reno High School - Boomer Yearbook (El Reno, OK)

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SENIOR BOOMER 17 HISTORY OF OUR CLASS About eight o’clock on September 5, 1918, over a hundred very green Freshmen began to decorate the halls of E. II. S. with verdant brilliance. Can you believe it? They were, we, the Seniors (we now say it with pride) of ’22. But even as Fresh- men we Iwjgan very early to show signs of pep. We were the first class to secure Mr. Bradshaw’s con- sent to have a class meeting. We assembled in the old Study Hall and the following officers were elected: President—Vinita McDonald. Vice-President—Anna MacSwain. Secretary-Treasurer—Ronald Bailey. Sponsor—Miss Lee. The first social event of the year was a picnic at stop thirty-six. We all arrived safely but no one had enough money to pay fare back. It was a dire predicament but we were rescued from the peril of walking home by Mr. Randle, who assist- ed us financially. Later in the year we gave a party in the Gym and for once in our history the eats were left in- tact. When the summer was over, our career as Sophomores began. A more conceited, dignified bunch had never graced these halls of learning. We smiled tolerantly and condescendingly down upon the poor little Freshmen and gracefully hid the fact that none but we ourselves had ever equal- ed them in their amazing ignorance. Mr. Randle and Miss Shuttee agreed to attempt sponsoring us and we elected inita McDonald, president; Emmett Thompson, vice-prcsid?nt; Vernie Fales, secretary-treasurer. We began the year’s social activity with a pic- nic at Tourist Park. Maybe you can’t have good times when you’re Sophomores! We also had a Christmas party with a Christmas tree and every thing. Everyone received a valuable (?) present. After another vacation we returned to school as Juniors. We again selected Mr. Randle and Miss Shuttee as sponsors and elected Marshall McDougle, president; Francis Irving, vic?-pres- ident; Alice von Merveldt, secretary-treasurer. As Jolly Juniors we set about having a good time at once and we began the year with a very suce ss- cul picnic at the brick plant. Now that we were sufficiently important to as sociate with the Seniors, we began to look forward to the banquets we would have. Our hopes reced- ed a blow when we came to the realization that neither class had the funds to give a banquet to the other. So we decided upon the only reasonabl • course of action—pooled our funds and had a won- derful May Day banquet at the Methodist church. Our Junior year was a very eventful and very happy one, indeed. At last we are in sight of our goal. We are Seniors. We arc trying our best to assume the dignity seemly in those who have reached our sta- tion in life. At our initial meeting Sanford Babcock was elected president, Harold Sawallisch, vice-presi- dent; Vernie Fales, secretary, and Robert Harri- son, treasurer. Miss Witcher was chosen sponsor. A picnic was held north of Ft. Reno and we had a wonderful time. Only the ice-cream arrived late, and we began to think we were going to re- turn without dessert. Close upon the heels of the picnic came the Kid Party. The Seniors assembled in the Gym and proceeded to forged our dignity. Childish games were played and Miss Witcher sent the little dears home at an early hour. A society for the promotion of school spirit and pep in athletics was organized by the Senior Class. The members of this society were called “Razzle Dazzles”. Leo Miles was chosen as .veil leader. With our last picnic, social activity will lx aban- doned until banquet time. Our career as students in E. II. S. ends May nineteenth, but we will not soon forget our four happy years there and we hope to be remembered as loyal supporters of the “Blue and White.” IMA PENNEBAKER. DERRY THEATRE THURSDAY AND FRIDAY HAUNTING. IRRESISTIBLE. COMPELLING The Nemesis that broke up a man’s home and pursued his tor- tured soul into the trackless wastes of the Frozen North. Prices, 10 and 35c.

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SENIOR ROOMER 10 THIRTY YEARS I,ATER On April 13, 1952, while in New York waiting for my private car to arrive from Philadelphia and bear me to San Francisco, I went into the Zeigfeld Follies in an attempt to while away an hour or two in seclusion from the business world. To my surprise, Miss Rhoda Harrison was the central figure of the ballet. Regardless of a slight- ly advanced age, she still entertained an apprecia- tive audience, daily, in the premier hall of amuse- ment. After the show, Lewis McIntyre, Harold Sawallisch, Leslie O’Brien and Hubert Smith en- tered in keen competition to see who would take her to an exclusive cafe and later, home. While making the trip across the Continent, I saw on the Banner (Okla.) City Bulletin, beside the depot, that Helen Hanson, Prima Donna of vaudeville fame, was soon to appear on a two-day stand in the Banner Opera House. The next day was rather windy, and when I changed cars at Hcaston, Okla., I obligingly chas- ed down a hat for a lady at the station. 1 found that the hat belonged to my old classmate, Edith Mohnike, who is in partnership with Iris Rutledge, engaged in the wild business of locating oil wells in Greenland. They were at the time, trying to persuade Fred Wewerka, the chief of police, of Hcaston, that they really did not need a license to sell stock. By the following extract from the Squashville Gazette, “Jim Rowley, local fire department, gol darn neer lost his job last week. While he wus usin ’ the new red fire waggin to haul away the trash from his yard, the Harrington General Merchan- dise Store come neer burnin’ up afore Jim cud git back. Wog Rice, mayor of the city ’lows as how he’ll let Jim off this time, but he’d better not due it agin. It is believed that his wife, who used to be Fawnette Witcher, had something to due with the dicision.” I found that J. Rowley is now Adonis of the fire-fighters, Kitty Harrington is engaged in the merchandise business, and Wog Rice is mayor of Squashville. After transacting my business in San Francisco, I went to Hollywood, where I found that Zella Arnold and Glenn Crawford were, at the time, working location on the six-reed thriller “The Vile and Villainous Village Vampire’s Vanity Vanishes.” I arranged for an evening with them. In the course of the tele a tele, we discussed the various members of the Class of ’22. Vernie Fales and Harriet Rector, it seems, are missionaries to Afghanistan. J. Stackpole is collecting strange fossils of pre- historic animals in the Australian Wilds. E. Thompson, noted physicist, recently discov- ered the Solar System, the base of which is the ( THE NEW SYMBOL OF SERVICE ...THE... EL RENO ICE CO. PHONE 57 EL RENO OKLA.