Port Clinton High School - Revista Yearbook (Port Clinton, OH)

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.ff 4'l WW ...1 A 5 T A 1 -+- . --f-s- ' , ix- - -: ' if 'f-' A, ,. 5 Q1 Z .ik W, - ffl, 'I 4 I use 6 g, X- X h--lf -f' , I i D ' , ' Ti . , , 1 R X g I g 5 . to my view any place or any person when I spoke the name into the micro- phone. I named Harold Dent and immediately the scene on the screen shifted to a classroom where I saw Harold conducting a class in Physics. After watching and listening a few moments I discovered that he was Professor of Physics at Columbia University. Professor Dent, a short time before, had created a sensation in the scientific world by bringing forth a new theory of motion. His calculations completely upset every phase of Einstein's theory. Upon giving Esther Kerr's name I saw a convent in southern France and just at this moment Esther emerged from an arched doorway in the sombre robes of a nun. She evidently had repented the frivolity of her youth. I turned to the microphone and spoke Howard Fritsche and on the screen loomed the interior of a small insurance office. At a desk sat Howard Fritsche dictating a letter to his stenographer, Helen Lacumsky, and at one side was Nellie Jane Mackey who, I believe, was a lawyer be- cause of the advice she was giving Howard about the letter. I found Oscar Lampe standing in front of his Buick Motor Sales talking to Mary I-Iartwig, his wife. Mr. Lampe was extracting some money from his pocket and giving it to Mrs. Lampe who grasped it like a drowning person would grasp a log. Then without another word she walked away. Oscar, turning back into the garage, sighed, It's a great life . Leroy Willabor had become a minister and was preaching to the people on how to travel the true path of everlasting' life. I said Kenneth Reichert and a vision of sunny California greeted me. Kenneth Reichert and his wife, Ruth Fehnrich, were operating a goat farm and seemed to be successful in raising many kids. James Kessler was the next object of interest. I found him seated in a cabin of rough logs fwith a sign above the door Hudson Fur Post y just finish- ing his supper and talking to his wife, who was none other than Armella Hopfinger. The outdoor life must have been agreeable to James for he was the picture of health and certainly had a wonderful appetite. The screen revealed Harvey Snider performing a number of breath-taking stunts on ice skates. He was skating on a large rink and the crowds were greatly pleased with his feats. Harvey was Olympic champion in figure skating. He had succeeded in doing three back flips and landing on his skates with perfect ease. He performed this seemfngly impossible stunt at the Olympic meet, thereby becoming champion. I found Alice Hurrell and Marie Hofacker in charge of athletics at Western Reserve. When I spoke Madonna Cooper's name I saw an artist's studio and there stood Madonna and, to my surprise, Mildred Fillinger was at her side. Both were dressed in smocks and thoroughly smeared with paint of all colors. The paintings on their easels were futuristic and Mildred was criticizing the canvas on which Madonna was working. I discovered Mary Koegle in a hospital dressed as a nurse. James Rowley entered the hospital at this moment and greeted her rather too warmly. He was an undertaker and she was a nurse. They seemed to be getting rich quick . Don Kohanke and Anna Rose Reamsnider were on the road with a Page twenty-two .l.

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