Parkersburg High School - Parhischan Yearbook (Parkersburg, WV)

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WHTHE PARHISCHAN- CLASS PROPHECY '27 ,,g'-:rqig NE AFTERNOON as i'Gus Pahl was having a tooth extracted while My the under the influence of gas, he had a dream of our class of 1927 as he 0 Ynwxt imagined them seven years from now. ill:-,N Tl,2:5.' 7 A IV . He saw our class president, John Stout, assisted by Clem Overton and 'AHoly Lowe, as traveling salesmen. They are now selling baked 5 9 -'Axcis beans in Boston. Lelia Ashton and Joe Cain are running a Y. W. C. A. cafeteria in Belpre. Irene Archer, Cora lsner, lla Henershot and Catherine Goff are all teachers in the kindergarten at Grantsville. John Ault is now head cornet player at the Salvation Army. l'Park Bowser is now assistant to our former teacher, Mr. Schwehowe, in Chicago. Hazel Barnum is a professional basketball player. Mary Bowser is married to Frank Bickel: they are now out west shooting oil wells. Mary Boltz and Desmond Ruppel are traveling with a large show boat. Evelyn Burk is now a famous artist. Virginia Cook is camping in the mountains. Harold XVilliams has taken the place of Will Rogers in the movies. Russel Woofter is a flea trainer at Kalamazoo. Mary Atkins is now painting a portrait of Paul Lehmann at her Studio. Doris Hull, Nancy Dawley, Pauline Erederick and Alice Crout are now missionaries in Paris. Mary Doak is head model at Lasky's. Harold Caswell is now carrying mail at Cornwallis. George Collins is heavy weight man in Gentry's Dog and Pony Show. James Donlan is now playing the villian role, in the HShooting of Dan McGrew. Hazel Swain is now married to Glenn Mate Evans who is head tennis coach at Murphytown. Bob Hubbard, assisted by his wife, Margaret, is selling foot warmers to the Eskimos in South America. Shirley McManus is also married. Her name is now Mrs. Ruble. Keggy is managing the 'AStar theater at Washington Bottom. Earl Duncan has a second-hand store at Beaverville. Charles Eriedlander, William Gustke and Ed Hile are running a limburger cheese factory in Hamburg. page thirty-one

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-THE PARHISCHAN- A CHALLENGE TO YOUR HERITAGE Your life as high school students is short. It seems but yesterday that we entered as freshmen, yet today our student days are over. Opportunities which are now yours will tomorrow be the heritage of others. lt is a duty to your school, to yourself. to accept the responsibilities that are now laid at your feet. To assume command of the obligations, which were once ours is your privilege. What use you will make of them, only you individually can determine. , ,, Z The record of your achievements we will watch with the greatest of interest. If it is one of successes and failures, remember that it is running true to life, and is giving assurance that you will be fit to meet the experiences of life. Success brings pleasures. Enjoy them. Failures sometimes bring discouragements but by him who can build in the failures of the past the secret to future success is realized. It is the hope of the graduating class that each individual record will clearly show the development of a strong body. It we bear in mind that a very large percentage of the applicants were rejected in the early days of the past war, because of physical defects, we at once realize the necessity of training in this phase of work. It is your duty as students to accept the responsibility to develop to the fullest extent your physical character, to take part in all activities which will aid in this development. The school has provided for your needs, their usage is your responsibility. Your record as a student here should show the development of a trained mind. Facilities have been placed at your disposal which will make it possible, courses have been carefully outlined, and able instructors secured to assist you. The world is in need of more intellectual leaders and more trained units. lt is feeling the need of millions of educated hands to run the Wheels of industry, but there can be no educated hand Without a trained mind. After your work is completed here you will be called on to do some of the things that have been done before, but you will be expected to do them better than they have ever been done before. To be useful is to be the test that society will place upon us. You are to be measured not by what you have, but by what use you make of it, and that will largely be determined by the working of a trained mind. Here again the responsibility is yours, the school can but supply the tools. It is your duty to your school, to yourself, and to your country to fit yourself in rnind and body. Surely the great heritage which is now yours is not deserving of less. MALCoLM LOWE page thzrtq

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-THE PARHISCHAN- CLASS PRGPHECY '27 We see Kathleen Bibbee in her Chrysler Sedan driving up the straight and narrow path to Marietta. Oh! Yes, she's going up to see her latest thrill, Phil Becker. Arilla Mahaney has been married for several years to Bud Dailey. He is now a big butter and eg man in Detroit. Alfred Maxwell, Forrest Leach, and James Marshall are the latest purchasers of the Belpre Bridge. Ed Nupher cannot live here without his old friend Tubby , so he also joined the show. ff V Norma Kelley and Frances Kramer are both floor walkers at McCrory's 5 '56 IO Cent Store. Julia McCluer is traveling abroad. Ruth McCutcheon, Anna Postlewait, and Goldie Moncrief are traveling with a show troupe. They are booked for the 'AState next week. Johnny Page, who took dancing lessons from Jack Madagan, is now the leading toe dancer with the same show troupe. Francis Gorby, Claude Haines, and Gerald Hanks are swimming directors at Worth- ington Creek. Helen McHenry is married to the Hcream of the football line of 26, better known as Jack Gilchrist. Roanna Sims and lsodene Smith are now nurses at the sanitarium at Terra Alta. Maxine Mathews, Wilmadine Miller, Ada Nicely, Roena Noland and Alexie Parsons are out at Hollywood, waiting for a chance to get into the movies. Thelma Wharton, Artie XVilson, Julia Poling, Mabel and Pearl Rogers and Goldie Smith are now in Flo Ziegiields red-headed follies. Sam Piersol, Milton Stroehman, Fred Swearinger, and Gail Wharton are running a bus line from Grantsville to Washington, D. C. Paul Tigner and Harry Sarber are now running the Sarerb theatre on Clay street. Creo Rinard is stenographer for the Purity Bakery. Elizabeth Roush is advertising How to keep the hair beautiful tho' long. Jeanette Shafer is now teaching Civics in our local high school. Marguerite Stephens is married to Bill Waitnight. They are living at Slate. Virginia Trout is Head Coach of the girls' basketball team at Belpre Tech. John Scholl has a printing press at Little Hocking. Norton McNerney is now teaching the local football team how to play football. After coming out from under the influence of gas, I could hardly believe that l had been only dreaming, as I visioned the class of '27 so clearly. page thirty-Iwo