Mechanic Arts High School - M Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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T II E M I' On leaving Poland the group went to Russia, where GERTRUDE PEYER, HELEN POSNANSKY, MIRIAM and LIBBY PAPERMASTER were having an argument with AARON MODELEVSKY, MILTON MA- KIESKY and LELAND NITZKOWSKI on Men's Suffrage. The men are arguing for their rights which were taken from them five years before. REEN OLIPHANT. on their arrival in Pekin, China invited them to see her jinrikisha race against DELIA NEWMAN. After the races the tour- ists went to see the 'iLittle Theater Group consisting of JACK STRANE, JUANITA ZEHNDER, RAYMOND SMITH, LILLIAN SACHS, VIR- GINIA JOHNSON, EYLEEN BENNETT and MABEL STROMMER. Their production was the Shy Little Violets -which they all portrayed ex- cellently. In the audience were WILMA MATHEWS, WALTER McDON- ALD and GEORGE MARX, now eminent English scholars. Upon leaving China, the party went to Africa. Here they saw OTIS GRIEFENDORF teaching the Africans the Bendola while MILDRED YAN- DON endeavored to compete with Otis' class by teaching another group the BLACK BOTTOM. ANITA KIENITZ, the sultana, was at open war with her lawyer, VIR- GINIA HINDS, because she had lost her last seven cases. JOSEPH NEMO is Anita's Minister of Finance: CLARENCE RIST, her Prime Minister: NOR- MAN STEIMER, Commissioner of Education: PORTIA SWAIN, the head of the medical department. BERTHA ROSENBERG has the largest hosiery factory in Africa. VIVIAN DE MARS has become rich selling cocoanuts. JAMES SAGER and RALPH NEWTON were standing in the middle of the main street directing traffic. EARL SMITH is teaching the girls in DORO- THY WEINSTEIN'S private school how to play football. He is in rather a diflicult predicament, because they refuse to get their beautiful black eyes and shapely noses bruised. In the harbor was a gigantic ship captained by WARD PETERSON. The ship contained a cargo of beans. The group soon tired of sleepy Egypt, so they flew to Australia, the land of the great open spaces where men are men. The first ranch where the party stopped is owned by CARL NELSON. DORIS NELSON, who was visiting Australia, was speaking to DARRELL WILBER, BENNIE WEINER, GLENN WICK, JACK STORKERSON and ALF ROMSTAD, cowpunchers on the ranch. MAMIE UHLIS and OT- TILIA ZENKER were guests of Doris and Carl. They are recuperating from severe attacks of hay fever and asthma, respectively. MARION SMITH is the nurse who is helping the invalids back to health. GEORGE VAVOULIS has been working on the geographical aspects of the country, and has gathered enough material to write a book. JOHN KELLY is assisting George in his work. ESTHER AAMODT and MARION ANDERSON, who had been visiting MARJORIE ADLER in South America, had wired him to come home. So George was left alone. KARL RUPP is to illustrate George's book. In the central part of Australia the party found a popular resort run by HELGA SWANSON, MAXINE HOLMBERG and MAMIE KOCH. DALE PERFECT and JOHN KELLY are the bookkeeper and Hnancial manager of the summer resort. HAZEL KOCH is the tennis teacher, JOSEPH BERN- STEIN, the golf teacher, and VERNON GRANNA, the riding master. JOHN BRACE has the largest printing concern in Australia. OLIVER AN- DERSON is the head of the Foreign Mission Society and ELEANOR IN- GALLS has helped him convert the Australians. HELEN SANBORN is the teacher of the Australian Physical Culture School. CHARLOTTE INGRAM is in the detective business and her best dick is MARGARET JACOBSON. Page Twenty-six

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THE M HERMAN as close second. They played a set of doubles against EDWARD DAVIS and ROMAN SNELL. The match was a tie. On returning to their hotel the party decided to leave for Paris to see the great Paris Ladies' Doubles. MARGET ESCH and DOROTHY LUND- BERG were playing an exciting match against ESTHER HARDY and MIL- DRED ANDERSON. Margaret and Dorothy won the match. The judge, BERNICE ANDERSON, recently married to a millionaire, awarded the trophy. RALPH BARNES and BORGNY BERNSTEIN gave speeches on The Trials and Tribulations of Tennis Playing. From the tennis match the party went to ELEANOR JOHNSON'S Pe- kin Road Housef' And from there the tourists adjourned to the Latin Quar- ter. They discovered JUSTUS SEELEY studying to be a saxophone artist. FLORA WHITBECK was taking a course in writing at the Sorbonne in order to write the 'iGreat American Novel. WILLIAM STAMESHKIN and ROSE DOYLE are aspiring poets. ROBERT GUTZMAN and BERNARD HAGMAN are studying public speaking. Rose said she heard from MARY CULLINEY who is in Russia studying the language with the intention of teaching it later on. KASPAR BERLINE is now a famous actor, and his leading lady, CECILE CHAPMAN, often comes to the Quarter with WIN- THROP BLACKBURN, Gordon Craig's successor as a scenery designer, MARGARET BARNHART also travels with Cecile, as wardrobe mistress. After leaving the Latin Quarter the party went for a walk and happening on a church decided to attend. CORDULA CLOETER was in the pulpit giving a sermon on 'iBrotherly Love and Affection in the Home. WILLIAM CONRAD and THELMA DORLAND were having a heated debate in the back of the church. Finally, GEORGE MARTIN, the head usher, requested them to leave. JULIA OLSON, the organist, played Home Sweet Home, while AUDREY LIBBY sang. After leaving the church, the party returned to the landing field and de- parted for Germany. They arrived an hour later in Berlin and were greeted by JOHN LEWIS, now dictator of Germany. A telegram was handed to Eleanor. Upon reading it, she discovered it was from CARL PETTIJOHN who wanted assistance in getting out of prison where he was put for writing free verse. SUE LEW, now a great commercial artist, had just arrived to study German art. FRED KOCH, the mayor of a small community town, gave them the key to the city, and ROBERT KOCH was their personal escort. Robert took them to the HOFF Laboratories where REGINA HOFF is the manager, and KATHERINE KEMP, her assistant. They went to LOUIS SELBIN'S Beer Gardens, where FRIEDA FRIEDMAN discussed the worries of a housekeeper with MABEL HOLM- GREN. ELEANOR BARTZ, in a far-removed corner, was teaching the stolid Germans the intricacies of the Bartz Strut. MARGARET CODY had come to visit the famous gardens and rest, after having won a speed skating contest in Switzerland. ERNEST FEURST was refreshing himself with the famous beer. after his strenuous canoe trip up the Rhine. On flying over Poland, they saw GERTRUDE FROEHLINGSDORF, Dictator, riding to review her troops: the Captain of the troops was RUTH FIEDLER. HARRIET ERICKSON, the drum major, was swinging her stick in a fancy manner. LUCIA DUSTIN rode with the Dictator, disclosing all her beauty secrets to the Dictator. FRANCES DRUCKER, also riding in an official car, is the Kingdom's head seamstress. The beautiful Public Library in Warsaw is cared for by HARRY FA- GRIE, head librarian. MINNIE DENNISON has become very popular in Warsaw when she founded her Home for the Blind and Lame Mice. Page Twenty-live

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T11 I? M l' HILMAR JOHANSEN now runs a kangaroo hide factory. His chief foreman is ADOLPH NEUBERG. The next stop was South America. Looking at the weather report, they found EUDORA SWESEY as the weatherwoman. MARIA WACHOLZ, LOUIE VIVIAN YOUNG and ANNABELLE SHANLEY are reporters on the same paper. On the sport page they found a picture of ROBERT SHET- KA and JAMES STARR who are boxers. Their manage-rs are VIRGIL STRANG and STANLEY RADSOM. In the theaters they found MILDRED WEYER heading the bill. THEOLA ROWE is Mildred's publicity manager. They saw an article about EVELYN SCHULTZ who is now a famous chemist and her close competitor, HARRY SCHWANKL. EMMET SCOTT runs a column on l'How to live on twenty-live cents a day. An extravagant lady now, HAZEL WALD, dislikes the thriftyness. MARY MCGRATH is mayor of a neighboring town while DAVE McGUIRE is the Chief of Police. VIR- GINIA MacKNIGHT is the speaker of the House: CHARLES MIKESH is a justice of the supreme court and FRANCES MILLER is poet laureate. Just now a committee of DOROTHY MORRIS, MILTON NAHINSKY, MAR- GARET NELSON and ISADORE NILVA are trying to put a bill through the House prohibiting married women's going to bridge parties, Being married, MARY PEWERS and ADELE MCGARTHWAITE are protesting the bill. In a nearby matress factory they found EDWARD MCDONNELL em- ployed as their chief tester, After walking around the city the group saw that VIRGINIA HINDS was billed at a theater and had become very popular in Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice as Portia. MARCELLA SLECHTA is mistress of wardrobe in the theater. After the theater the party went to a quiet little tea room run by CLARA JONES. After leaving the tea rooms the tourists went to a museum founded and managed by GERTRUDE WAITS and BERTHA JOHNSON. They themselveshad brought many rare specimens from Africa. Upon leaving South America the tourists picked up MARGUERITE SCHENK, who was an ex- cellent typist to type their Who's Who for them. Upon landing in the U. S. the tourists were greeted by reporters, whom they assured they had a great deal of material, and that it was all good. They then left to begin work immediately on an account of their around the World trip. The Family Picnic By MARIAN BERG. '29 CSuggested by A'L'Allegro: Lines 83-84D Where relatives and old friends met Are at their picnic luncheon set Of salad, pickles, cake and ants, While young boys slide and rip their pants And little girls fall in the lake To be dragged out with a long rake, And snoring fathers buzz like bees While mothers swat flies near their knees: Sometimes with dubious delight A family picnic will invite. Page Twenty- seven