Washington High School - Brainonian Yearbook (Brainerd, MN)

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. B Brainonian the Class of ’23, leave to this school, is a flock of beautiful, new lockers, into which the football, bas- ketball and baseball men can toss their duds with im- punity. We hope the boys will use these lockers gently and so prolong their stay in the B. H. S., but as they are made of iron the lockers ought to stay longer than the boys. 15. And last, we have decided that the executor of this will shall be Kenneth Bouma, as we know he will be able to carry out our instructions. In testimony whereof, to prove this genuine, we have here subscribed our name and affixed our seal, this last day of May in the year of our Lord nine- teen hundred twenty three. (Seal) CLASS OF ’23. Witnesses, who have honored us with their signa- tures, are: PA DENT, UNCLE JOSH. Senior Statistics CLASS BEAUTY Bernice Reid Handsomest Boy | Joe Dunn Brainiest Girl : Ione Johnson Class Gossips Ed Tom O’Brien L-cille Nolan Most Conceited Boy Lyle Northrup Most Conceited Girl Lois Chadbourn2 Best Athlette George Orth Laziest Boy , Irving Quinlen Class Favorite Billy Graham Biggest Bluffer | Joe Dunn Best Dancers Lloyd Jones Lucille Nolan - Nerviest Boy Arthur Johnston Most Melancholy Hjalmer Johnson Best Natured Blanche Kimbrel] Some of the Seniors are so hard working that one —Joe D.—had that his highest aim in life was to get to bed at 10. Merle wanted to be a coal heaver on an ocean liner; Billy Van and his bunch dream of climbing the Woolworth building: Alyce to reach Mars; Carl Anderson to pedal up Mt. Everest on a bicycle; Ted to Rival John D. controlling oil—these are the frivolous—there are serious sotls who want to be something decidedly worth while—a great pub- lic benefactor—while others want to be teachers and doctors and engineers and nurses. These are the four most popular indoor sports of the future. Many are going to college or normal next year. There will be Paderewskis and Galli Curcis galore if their dreams come true. Websters will thrill the world with their eloquence, Irene Castles and Ted Shawns are to be found in the graduates—Aces will travel] the skies in their aeroplanes. Most of the class have famous pedigrees—Adam seems to be quite popular as a forbear; St. Patrick runs him a close second; the Queen of Sheba is next in popularity, but, the favorite of all] is the famous King Tut; a good Swede claims to come from Eric, the Red; Harry goes back 9,504,758,263 000 kilo- meters. Joe goes back to Thomas a’ Becket, Casey to John Paul Jones, Kay to Katherine of Russia, Lucille to Cleopatra—we can believe that—Addie to | Bobbie Burns. Chemistry is almost unanimously chosen as the hardest subjects, with mathematics a close second. Th combined weight of this illustrious class would sink a battleship; the class put end to end would reach the first lap to King Tut’s tomb, their favorite ancestor. They could do that, or hang from the 52nd story of the Woolworth Building. But the first would be more adventurous. And the years of the Seniors, the first would go back to the time when King Alfred made his peace with the Danes—Lyle was probably wielding a battle axe at that time. Their musical instruments are varied—they can form a band with everything from a Jew’s Harp to a uke. Their favorite songs run from the classic, “Love’s Old Sweet Song” to “The Dark Town Strut- ter’s Ball.” They get up from 6 to 8:30; they go to bd from 9:30 to dusk, don’t mention it! As to qualities most admired in women—they all want beauty and grace—a few sensible souls want common sense, but that’s secondary—in men they want dancing ability, some few, brains, but no one seemed to care whether they were good fanciers, they did ask for courage. Page Twenty-seven

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- The Will of the Senior Class of 1923 - By M. Congdon Being pressed upon by our prospective heirs, the Juniors, the Sophs, and others, we, the Senior Class of ’23 have decided to settle all possible possibilities of dispute over inheritance by declaring this to be our last will and testament. We, supposedly having: a sound mind and being otherwise safe and sane personages, at times, do, therefore, hereby bequeath, dedicate and in various other ways condemn our worldly goods: that is, we will proceed to the busi- ness of dealing out our meagre store of useless articles to the next year’s Seniors, Juniors, Sophs, and two year Freshies. Therefore, we proclaim: First: that the executor of this will, hereinafter named, shall, after our most welcome demise, give us a decent burial, with all the triumph, pomp, an] ceremony of Ancient Rome. He shall also desion and erect a fitting monument to the Class of Ait Furthermore, he shall carry out the instructions or this our last will. For this tremendous task he shall receive, from our sand bank, the three goose-eggs that the Seniors won from the rest of the classes. Second: that the following articles, which are be- queated to the respective heirs, are all we have left of worldly goods. We wish we had more to give away, but we are glad we have a chance to get rid of what we have. List ye then to our remains. 1. George Orth, our respected and adm'red com- rade of the Seniors, does hereby bequeath, w:th his best wishes, his surplus of nerve when facing an audience, to Alpha Fogelstrom, an idol of the Jun- iors, and hops that he will make use of this valuable gift should the time arrive. George says, “ogey’s nerve is in a football line.” 2. Vanny Jepson bequeaths his ability to perform on a velocipede to Earl Peterson and hopes that he will amuse hisclassmates in the future, as Vanny has in the past, and who still makes us smile. He also gives his style of accordion playing to Lester Bur- ton. Besides this he leaves his new popular piece, “The Jew’s Harp Lament,” to Mr. Swanson, our faithful janitor. 3. Art Johnson bequeaths what we hape is his last pair of short trousers to George Harris, and wonders if they would be too large for George when Page Twenty-six he is a Senior. Incidentally, Art also leaves his ability to read a perfect chemistry lesson from an open book to anyone who cares for it. 4. To Mr. Hitchcock, the Class leaves the further supervision of the Champion Marble Team of. the B. H. S. As you all know, this team consists of three crack shots: “Rosy” Rosenberg, “Bus-Fitz” and “King Jerry.” We present to the manager of this team, this small appreciation of their Herculean efforts. As Jerry was last year’s successful man- ager, we presume he will be this year’s, and there- fore, we trust our gift to him. 5. To Mr. White, we leave the direction of the “Freshie Crack Spitball Squad.” We have noticed their persistent practice, and therefore, we present this piece of ordnance to assist them in winn'ng the next year’s championship. We express the wish that Mr. White take care of it until it becomes useful. 6. Irving Quinlen leaves his industrious nature and willingness to study to Kenneth Hodgson. 7. Henry Johnson, our Class poet, dedicates his unfinished poem, entitled, “Oh, Gee! I’m Tired,” to Bus Lowe. 8. Kay and Skinny leave their vamping smiles and dancing partners to Dolly Quinlen and Katherine Nolan. Kay and Skinny think it’s best to keep things in the family. 9. Walter Herman leaves his lazy natzre and in- difference to classes to Wm. Opsahl. 10. Lyle Northrup and Jenny Hanson, chamv typists, lave their combined energy to Gerald Schrad- er ,who is a natural speed demon at a typewriter, with the hopes that Gerald will some day win the World’s Championship. 11. Lloyd Jones, alias “Casey,” leaves behind his famous “Fox Trot” to Virgil Quanstrom. 12. Bernice Reid, our champ boxe, and Mar- guerite Peterson, her coach and sparring partner, leave their scrappy disposit‘ons to Charles Hofman and Kenneth Nicholson. 13. Hjalmer Johnson leaves his amb't‘ovs nat:re, when practicing with drafting instruments, to Lester Burton, and hopes that Lester will proceed to ac- quire a few scattered A’s from Mr. Rosel. 14. About the only thing of real value that we,

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—————$——a ——— —— ——— Class Prophecy - In 1938 By The “Victoria” was making her way calmly over the blue-green waters as the noon-day sun fell upon her deck. It had been three days since I had turned my back on “God’s country”—as Jack London would say—and now I gazed out on the very unchangeable sea. I had left—“The Reindeer King’’—Hjalmer John- son, on the large tier of docks at Nome. He had gone into Alaska for experience in his new idea of “Animal Life.” Hjalmer found the northern deer so interesting that he invested his money in a herd. Today, when one visits Nome—the great spot of Alaska—he is shown the reindeer feeding and graz- ing on the half-frozen thickets. These reindeer are Hjalmer Johnson’s—“The Builder of Northern Alas- ka.” Bill Van Alstine had entered Alaska with H‘almer. He had crossed the bay and entered Siber:a, where he established his claim as “new ruler” and now 80,000 people in the Province of Alstine, are under the suprior guidance of William, the Powerful. My eyes, following a strange bird, fell upon the captain of the “Vic”—whom I had not seen before— and instead of looking out again to the Water I ad- vanced hurriedly to meet the Captain—Carl Ander- son.—We talked for a while and then he led me to the newly equipped wireless room. Lloyd Lewis got up to shake hands with me. Lloyd was experiment- ing with new wireless and radio equipment for the government. The same “business like” Lloyd. Lloyd told me that Harry Sundquist, his chemistry partner, had followed Miss Laipple’s profession and was also in the employ of the government. Just now he was stationed at the government laboratory at Baxter—and he was termed the “God-send-to-the- farmer.” He told me also that Marguerite Peterson had established herself in New Jersey as the presi- dent of “Americanization” work in the states. Olga Nelson, Hazel Westphal and Helen Erickson were under Marguerite. Olga had charge of Ver- mont, Hazel, New York and Helen, Pennsylvania. Carl had seen Mabel Johnson and Betty Peterson on the Keith Vaudeville Circuit in San Francisco. They were in a clever act with two trick ty ewriters Eastern Page Twenty-eight Joe Dunn which, at the close of the act, proved to be minia- ture pianos. A real “head-liner.” Lucille McCloskey was now owner of the circuit; she was the widow of J. Roger Keith and Carl whis- pered her income was enormous. The six remaining days the three of us had “real” times and when we docked at Seattle we had ex- changed promises to meet at the next “Class of ’23” reunion. My trip from the coast to Chicago was one of the “things to be remembered” in my book of travels. On the Limited I met Alice G. Johnson and from there on the trip was filled with many surprises. Hulda Erickson was traveling with Alice as a companion. She had invested her money in stocks and bonds and was now retired, having a wonderful time travelling. Alice, Hulda and I had breakfast together in the diner. She ordered the famous “Evice” ham, wheat cakes and coffee. To me it brought back memories of “Child’s” in Minneapolis after seeing Fred Stone back in 1923. To Alice it was an entirely different proposition and to her it brought back the days in Brainerd High School. “You know Evelyn Halvorson and Alice Hukari co-operated and they started a ranch in eastern Mon- tana. This famous “Evice” ham is theirs,” she said. I was astounded and in fun, I asked, “What’s the big joke about the cakes and coffee?” Alice smiled as she said, “Well, Jennie Nelson the year after she graduated found a formula for this wonderful pancake flour. Her ‘ad’ is the one with the long, thin, black face lighted by flashing: eyes and her little invitation of ‘I’m heah, too, honey.’ ” More surprised, I said, “Proceed, Alice, who makes the coffee?” Isla Borden and Adele Congdon are the owners of the large coffee manufacturing plant in Michigan. Adele is stationed in Brazil, and with her clever manner, she has the natives waiting on her right and left. Isla has the selling part of the ‘game.’ They have been very successful.” I ate in silence—these surprises had been a little too much for my “standard of thought.” After our