Greenville High School - Hi Life Yearbook (Greenville, MI)

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G. H. S. NINETEEN-NINETEEN HI-LIFE — Class Prophecy) ’19 One day as I roamed thru the forest I came to a scraggy oak tree And bushes, all forming a deep recess The abode of the weird sisters three. In the center there rested a cauldron With things that might well cause alarm, And around it the witches were dancing, Chanting a wonderful charm. “Please tell me, oh sisters prophetic— Quick open your lips and foretell The destinies of my companions Who now in this High School dwell.” Then smoke rose in wreaths from the vessel. And I shuddered with inward fear As in slow and hissing accents Came the words I longed to hear. “Fair maid, in reply to your query, The state of your comrades we’ll show In the year nineteen hundred and thirty Then out of the realm you must go. Helen .Emery a cross old spinster is, Who’s been disappointed in love. Leo Nickerson, that famous surveyor, Around the world does rove. The humorist, Mr. Kent Slawson, Is very well known through the town. Miss Cyphers, as great as was Milton, Is wearing her laureate crown. Gretel Le Valley, the popular novelist, Will publish a book very soon, With the odd and striking title, “My Visit to the Moon”. M. Kopanska, the songstress so gifted, In a land across the foam. Is noted for her rendering Of dear old “Home, Sweet Home”. As speaker in various club roms, Mildred Sagendcrf’s fame has been spread ; To the heathen in Japan and China A small Christian band has been led— Florence Munson is the leader, She willing left her home. Life’s wicked pathways shunning, Ethel Soveriegn lives alone. Page Twenty-three

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NINETEEN-NINETEEN HI-LIFE — G. H. S. But we did survive them, somehow; Left but to return as Seniors. In our Senior Year the number Of our clan had smaller dwindled ; But we strove on ever valiantly, Strove to keep our name untarnished, Took up more responsibility, Did our best for G. H. S. Then we had a victory party, Junior Senior victory party, Peace had come and we were happy, All rejoiced that war had ceased. We were always represented On the teams that had good standing Base ball, foot ball, basket ball teams, Of the team that in debating Won much praise for Greenville High School, Two were from our number chosen. And they raised the teams up higher By the work they there accomplished. Now we close with flying colors. High School life with fellow students, And we leave it with a feeling That we’ve done our best for High School. GRETEL LE VALLEY ’19. P.-igc Twenty two

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NINETEEN-NINETEEN HI-LIFE — G. H. S. Away to distant Italy Engelhard Hansen has sailed, But as a famous painter He signally has failed. Allen Church is director Of the little Greenville Band. Alta Bowerman wedded a sailor And dwells in a foreign land. Mildred Nelson is wife of a butcher, Whom Gladys Campbell adores. In the center of darkest Africa Otto Sorensen is reforming the Boers. Duncan Black joined the dread cannibals, And revels in warm human gore, He ate Marion Watson In nineteen hundred and—? Sarah Miller will marry an ice-man, To whom she has long been engaged. Esther Miller, heir to a fortune, Gives parties that now are the rage. Mildred Dietrich is running a millinery— Her pattern hats cannot be beat. Ginnia Browne is keeping a dancing school Way down on Lafayette street. Lyle Van Dusen, once society’s darling, Through fortunes reverses cast down, Is cjuelling unruly young hopefuls By the power of her terrible frown. Donald Slawson, his fame still increasing, Is coaching a football team; Gordon Rettinger, known as an inventor, Caused hydrogen to go up in steam. Helene Rich is wife of the president And o’er him, her subject, she reigns: If he tries to exert his authority He is ridiculed for his pains. An atrocious woman doctor Is charming Miss Esther Siple; That her cures are worse than diseases Her patients have trouble to stifle. Glenn Livingston is an engineer On the Pere Marquette; Carl Andreasen is a dr)’ goods clerk, Franz King has houses to let. Irving Fralick has fulfilled his ambition, He now is the census man; Yet he dwells in mental anguish Beneath our social ban. Page Twenty-four