Washington High School - Brainonian Yearbook (Brainerd, MN)

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S the register must just suit his voice. The Brainonian S have found his forte on commencement Geraldine Kiebley has movies. She’s doing “ Oliver must night. thrown her lot in with the atmosphere” now with Lubin’s, She is waiting for a chance to “sub” for someone. Says she feels sure Senue role. This seemed a little to from Babe, somehow, to us. pected a vamp part rather, con ability in that line years past. It was learned the “Co in the “New York Sun” doing cartoons instead of mere literary has adopted the style of doesn’t make the does! Mavis Robinson, known as with all her circus paint on. At that sg hide her wrinkles, poor girl. ezist is an awful Strain and that if she ready attained Barnum and Bailey’s, she lots of times when the boss “gets her.” Florence Newman bought out M the installation of a soda fountain, her creased wonderfully. She couldn’t quite under Perhaps no person j as Gladys Lagerquist. who is not very ment of their home, a far She could make a hit in an in- o far removed We would have ex- sidering her unusual penhagen Lyre” still lives only -Richard hag started Ring Lardner only he girls as good-looking ag Lardner “Flighty Fanny” came he couldn’t She says being a trap- hadn’t al- would quit a Billings. After profits in- Fame without a doubt! n the class is quite as happy She married an ex-soldier | active. Consequently the manage- on Gladys’ capable shoulders. She js “in for she can boss first prize at a recent exhibi cient! Eleanore Gile was given th the play being given at Bos newspaper reporter, wouldn’t like to said she’d be crazy to Or a wig. Mabel Linn’s choice m at Daggett Brook, falls her glory” the whole place. Her butter took t so she must be effi- € part of Lulu Bett in ton just now. When a recently asked her if she play Lady Macbeth some day, she only she detested the thought eof a life work was due cer- tainly to fate. While she wag in Duluth on a visit €r on which was portrayed a perfect Adonisan Arrow collar advertisement. sands of Adonis’ Dick Beale is looks and peculiar “four hundred” bzsiness trip for a month. an ideal lounge-lizard. fascination attracted New York’s to him, while he was there on a h which he a text-book concern wit was affiliated. When they began to entertain him quite handsomely he simply bought a monocle, a pair of gray trousers, spats, and kept a standing order for gardenias with a florist. He became a typical New Yorker over night. Alice Herman is the idol of the Brainerd teachers. She felt the great lack of home atmosphere during’ her two years mission work in Mexico so when she returned she built a fine big residence on the site of the old playground on 5. Sixth St. and there she “homes” (as she puts it) all the Brainerd teachers. Helen Holden ig head clerk at the ribbon counter at Donaldson’s. Her distinct ideas of leadership doubtless helped her to secure this responsible posi- tion. She said she tried desperately to Set at the organdie counter but couldn’t manage. We’l] hope the adage “Absence makes the heart grow fonder” will have some effect! It was easy enough to imagine Harold Canfield a label designer. He does some selling for the com- pany with which he is connected, too. His specialty is “Strawn’s Cough Syrup for Babies.” He hastened to tell us tho’ that it was also efficient for croup. In Mayme Britton’s last letter from Gladys Peter- son she expressed her keen regret at not being able to attend the reunion, but she felt it was impossible. She is traveling abroad as companion to a very ec- centric woman who is studying archeaology. The day before her letter was written, Gladys said they were visiting some old ruins in Athens when a par- apet fell. Her benefactress was very “in-pressed” so they would probably be in Athens for some time. The O’Gilligan overal] factory in Buttersville, New Jersey, held a contest. All the employees were eligible. Hazel Shew was therefore a candidate, as she had been employed there for some time in the department where the buttons are put on. The con- test was to decide which one of the 10,000 employees had the best smile; and Hazel won out—of course! She says that ever since, her days have been one round of camera men and fashionable dinners. But Hazel isn’t spoiled! Gladys Britton has been organist for a company of evangelistic Singers for several years now. The only thing she ever disliked about the work, accord- ing to Gladys’ own words, was that it meant less powder and more hair. It really didn’t detract from her appearance tho’. “Des” Hurley was eagerly greeted, for his ever- reat popularity has increased rapidly, especially among those who read the Kewpie page in the Pic- torial Review. Desmond’s many love affairs made him thoroughly capable of drawing these little imps. Surely he is an instance of the value of early acquaintance with Cupid! Page Thirty-one

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The Brainonian | Dorothy Fisher has gone deeply and enthusiasti- cally into the study of astronomy. She is special- izing in the relative position of the morning stars —that is: about three o’clock in the morning. For this reason she never goes to bed at night but rath. er sleeps in the day time. Lester Bredenberg owns a jewelry store in West Brainerd—a very ordinary kind of a jewelry store but for one thing. His sign over the door states: “All kinds of jewelry except wedding rings.” Know- ing Lester’s customary conscientiousness as his classmates, it is easy to believe he is sincere when he says he feels it sinful to sell a ring for marriage purposes to a man contemplating nuptials. He class- es them with imbeciles. Ruth McCabe couldn’t come, Gordon said. In her letter, she was bubbling over with happiness. De Mantelean had chosen her as model for his painting “The Age of Innocence” and it had teen placed in the Louvre. Virginia Casey is the only girl in the class who is teaching school. She is at Loerch, leading her pro- teges along the flowery realms of knowledge. Her exquisite taste in the matter of clothes puts her in constant demand by the village swains, but she pre- fers no strong attachments, it seems. Edna Kamrath is the “Snappy Stories” magazine company’s most cherished agent in the northern part of Minnesota. She takes subscriptions, prefer- ably in clubs of three, at $1.50 for three months for the “Snappy Stories,’ “Today’s Housewife” and “War Cry.” She reports business good. Esther Claus was as jolly and good-looking as she used to be. She was so enthusiastic about “my girls’ and spoke so glowingly of them, that the au- dience had fully decided she must be the mother of a large family, when she mentioned being dean at Radcliffe College. Her love of her classmates had bro’t her from Mt. Chester, Massachusetts to be with them. Gordon McPherson is what Middle West people call “well-off.” And it all come about by whistles. You see, Gordon made some kind of a whistle which could be made cheaply, and was very appealing to children. Turned one way it sounded like an alarm clock; the other way it was curfew. Since it was decidedly useful to parents, all the ten-cent stores grappled onto a big stock immediately and hence, big returns for Gordon. Leslie Croswell, newly elected mayor of Brainerd, gave a heart-rending speech, first of welcome and then expressed his delight at seeing his old friends again. He challenged Lawrence to a fight, and as Lawrence never could resist a few punches at Cros- Page Thirty by, they “laid it on,” hot and heavy. It was keenly stggestive of ancient noon-hour tussles in the senior room! The Society for the Curtailing of the privileges of Lap Dogs was originated by Irene Brose. As governess in the home of the idle rich for a while, she became sensitive to the great cruelty thus in- flicted upon the “deah little things,” as she calls them. She conducts her meetings on the street corners. Her most successful place is at the corner of Fifth and Front Streets. At one inspiring meet- ing, some three hundred shaggy poodles were lib- erated. With the spirit of the great out-of-doors upon her, came Ruth Everest. Her eyes lit up with the gleam of hope almost realized as she told of her obscure little cabin near Lake Vermilion. She has become an adherent of the back-to-nature move- ment. Says she’s positively getting fat on moun- tain-ash berries. She is sure the divine urge is al- most materialized now. When it does she knows she will startle the world in some way. One of the first things Alfrieda Eggen did after graduation was to get married—and to a doctor! She has three adorable little girls, she said, and ins:sts that they must all become nurses some day. Alfrieda always was wild about nursing, someway! Edith De Rocher distributed circulars immediate- ly upon her arrival. We hastily read them. They stated as follows: Saxaphone lessons by Mail! No musical ability necessary (only breath) Learn to play any tune from “Tipperary” to “Send Out Thy Light.” Edith kindly played for us later and reminded certain ones of lessons taken twenty years ago dur- ing “Clarence” rehearsals. Mayme Britton couldn’t be persuaded to come to the reunion. She asked if boys would be there and upon being answered in the affirmative, hastily sent her regrets. She lives in Pillager, rather two miles from that city. There she stays in utmost seclu- sion. Her habitual solitude even gives her enough confidence in herself to be able to say quite con- vincingly that she never could tolerate a man! We were glad to see that Oliver Cook came any- way. We would have hated not to have seen him just because of a possible little misunderstanding. Nor were we surprised to know that he is singing on the Orpheum circuit. It happened, too, that Carle Holmstrom gave us a few little side-lights as to what kind of a man Oliver is to work with. He says he is very particular about what songs he sings— eee = cr |] A} eco ta or ca Wi Sk sa loc me be

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The Brainonian 5 When Floring Ziegfield was looking for the girls to make up his revue in 1940, he happened to get May Anderson. Her “taffy-like” hair (as someone once expressed it) made him decide to keep her, so she’s been with him ever since. She has apartments at the Biltmore and she said she even had Persian rugs. About ten years ago Cecile Morrison decided to leave the teaching profession. She was offered the position of superintendent of a huge prune-packing establishment. Fortunately, there was one depart- ment devoted to the cooking of prunes. Cecile im- mediately sent proof of her High School domestic science credit and was put in charge of this depart- ment. She says she never burns them. That sounds good for there were days when she did! Clang!—s-s-h!—Alice Bakkela. Of course she didn’t bring. her “elevated” with her, but told us vividly enough about it. She runs the Oak Park elevated in Chicago and she says she loves her work. She is particularly fond of Lake Street for she can look in all the manufacturers’ windows and see half the world at her feet. Before receiving this position Alice was a cashier at Marshall Field’s but her craving for excitement necessitated a change. Edward Stevens is the millionaire of the class. You remember asa Senior he was peculiarly adqi- ated to weekly trips to Staples, Long Lake and other commercial centers? It seems there was method in his madness, for it resulted in a keen realization of the great waste of natural resources. He bought a great deal of land, grafted wild roses onto tame ones, and consequently Woolworth’s held rose bush sales weekly. Now Ed has a magnificent estate at Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson. After an extended trip abroad, during which time she studied the ladies smoking rooms in particular, Ellen Tervo returned to Brainerd and began a very popular establishment called “The Smoke ’Er.” She said the reason for her choice was that she really felt it was one of the most “refined lines of work open to women, and certainly the one most legislated on!” Sigrid Lund is enjoying her fifth busy season in Pequot. Her occupation is most easily told by the words “social butterfly.” She has been engaged en- tirely in pleasure pursuits and the question of “what-to-do” for twenty years. They are both still far from completion. Norma Hagberg’s “divine urge” led her into the realm of woman’s hair. She felt the greatest serv- ice she could render humanity would be to find some way in which hair-combing to a femalé would imply only one performance a day. At first she bobbed her own and experimented. She finally decided Page Thirty-two upon this style which she employs on ALL her cus- tomers. It is called the “Norma-do.” She lets the hair grow to the shoulders, curls it in front of the ears and lets it hang, and—well, write to her and she’ll tell you all about it! Hiveryone gasped when a young man entered with a graceful walk of ease and and air so entirely born of culture. Kenneth Brackner—of course. He is a pupil of Maurice. He says of all the dances, his favorite is the new “Trombone Slide.’ He proceeded to illustrate it, and everyone agreed that he did honor to his famous teacher. Kenneth expects to open up a school of ball-room dancing. at Nisswa as soon as the town has ten thousand inhabitants. We would hate to waste his time in a small place. Irene Evans is employed by a carnival company. She has the “nigger baby” stand. Her recommen- dations included senior class play “secretary”; mem- ber High School debating team; two years as an agent selling Stoddard’s lectures and other minor qualifications. Before they let her call out her wares tho’ (as she must to hold the job) they sent her away to have her voice softened. Irene resented it very much, but went anyway. Now her voice is very flute-like. Beatrice Guin is stenographer for a real estate man in Minneapolis. She has been watching twenty years with eagle eye for exactly two things: a use for her great knowledge of Latin and—The Right Man. So far, neither have appeared. Her sister, Marie, suggested the best thing to do would be to marry a Latin professor and get both in one swoop. Beatrice is considering this suggestion seriously. As for Marie Guin, she rooms with Beatrice but works in a different place. She bakes all the cakes for Child’s in St. Paul. When she first started there she had quite a time to refrain from tasting each one. At one of the employees’ parties tho’ some- one contested with her to see who could eat the most. Her nearest rival was fifteen pieces. Since then the constant teasing has worn down her apve- tite for cakes. Lester Clark is very favorably known in Mon- tenegro. He is an American attache there. He studied four or five foreign languages before being ‘appointed to the position, and those who have heard» him talk them, especially French, say they go as speedily off his tongue as his English does. And, for more to be wondered at, he occasionally gets angry—only occasionally, of course. Doubtless, Miss Tornstrom would gladly make the trip for the satisfaction of having seen this phenomenon! Esther Nelson’s picture was in the “November (1940)” copy of the American Magazine, designated as ces scl the of dei an the an- bre ing