Washington High School - Sunburst Yearbook (Washington Court House, OH)

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'CHE SUNBURST 31 In the High School I found 'Clara Davis following in the footsteps of her idolizei Miss Jester, by teaching Shorthand and Typing. She told me that Thelma Luader- bach preferred to teach in the public schools of her favorite town, Circleville, Ohio. I asked about Thelma Davis, and I found that she was living in Xenia in a brick house, so I concluded that a Mason must have had something to do with it. While I was visiting the High School they had a pep meeting. The girls' coach led the yells, and my, how she could yell!! lt was Hazel Eckle. I asked her later about Elwood Engle, and she told me that she was afriad that poor Elwood would die an old bachelor, because it was impos- sible for him to stay in love with one girl long enough to save up the money for the necessary marriage license. She also told me that Donald Jones was under the care of a Dean fDeenJ of Meng and that Mar- jorie Hayward was living up'in Conneaut, Ohio, where she was known as Mrs. A. L. Merritt. While I was in Washington C. H., I found that Eugene Wilson was quite active in local politics, and that for several years he had filled the extremely responsible and lucrative position of dog-catcher. Alva Wilson, I learned, was capably filling his role of custard pie slinger in the movies. One day I went to the country and passed Wilby McCoy's up-to-date farm. Wilby was out in the field driving his trac- tor, but from his rate of speed, I first thought that he was De Palma driving his racing car. The next day I went up town to a bar- ber shop to have my hair cut, and I found that Preston Dray was the Proprietor of this handsome tonsorial parlor. While he cut my hair, he told me that Opher Love- less had just taken his Master's degree from Columbia University. One morning a very business-like sales- man came to my door. It was Edward McRoan, who had become quite popular as a Fuller Brush agent. After his eloquence had persuaded me that I needed one of his brushes, he told me that Gwendolyn Wolfe was starring in the play St. Elmo, and that Nelle Mark was living in the House that Jack Built. Just then I had the sensation of some- thing cold being dashed upon me. I awoke, and my vision departed. My mother was throwing ice water on me, in order to waken me in time for breakfast.

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30 'CHE SUNBURST age of which Pauline Coil was manager, and asked for a demonstration of some car. Pauline, who seemed to be a very efiicient business woman, said that the Haynes CHainesJ was her specialty and that she would be glad to take me a ride the next day. The next day happened to be Sun- day, so we drove out the Leesburg Pike and stopped at the Methodist Church in Sitaunton to attend the services. The Rev- erend Estel Boyer preached a splendid ser- mon. I asked about Helen Byoer, and was told that she was making a name for her- self as a teacher of mathematics at the Ohio State University. Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Deheartf nee Ethel M. Sheridanj and Mr. and Mrs. Russell Rine Cnee Hilda Coilj were also at church, and after the service we enjoyed talking over our school days together. I was told that Florence Haines had been a stenog- rapher, but that her thoughts became so wound up in a Coil that she had stop her work and got married in order to relieve her feelings. Ethel A. Sheridan had also been a stenographer, they said, but she had married her handsome employer. By this time the desire to travel came upon me again. On the way to Cincinnati I stopped for a day in Wilmington. Here I found Amy Roush and her husband liv- ing. She told me that she had caught him at Wilmington Summer School, 'way back in the summer of 1924. I asked her about Mary, and I was told that she was in Holywood, acting for a famous movie cor- porationg that her salary was fifty thou- sand dollars a week, and that she had been thrice married and twice divorced. When I arrived at Cincinnati, I found Celora Overstake seated in the depot. She said that she was on her way to Kalama- zoo, Michigan. to open the Overstake School for Girls. She said that Virginia Ellies was to teach English in this school, and that Evelyn Sodders was to teach French. It was easy for me to see that the experience Evelyn and Virginia had had with English and French would make them well qualTfied to teach these impor- tant subjects. While in Cincinnati, I found Matilda Stevenson and Verna Williams both in- tensely interested in nature study. Verna seemed to get great pleasure from study- ing a brook fBruchl. But Matilda seemed to prefer a forest CForrestJ. n From Cincinnati I went to the Ozark Mountains. Here I found Forrest Smith, making a fortune from his berry patch. He told me that berries had always been his hobby, especially Crisenberries. I had not been long in the Ozarks, when Alberta Roby came to the little hotel in which I was staying. She had come to write an- other of her best sellers, and she said that the mountains always helped her work. She told me that Violet Park was now Mrs. Fred Merritt, that Mildred Fisher and Bernard Orr were married, and that Alfred Hagler and Ollie Rogers had been married on the stage so often that it had become rather habitual, and they had decided to try it in real life, and that Alfred was posing for Arrow Collar Ads for a living. One day as I was wandering arofund in the mountains, I came to the dearest little house. It looked just like a bird-house, and sure enough it was, for a Jay lived there. Berdina Crisenberry came to the door, and she told me that she had always considered a bird in the hand worth two in the bush, so she had caged her Jay- bird soon after she had finished High School. I asked her about Evelyn Hyer. and she said that Evelyn had a splendid position in a jewelry store, which special- ized in Big Bens. On my way back East, I met Clara Belle Terry on the train. I learned that she was traveling around giving lectures and recit- ing Pazul Lawrence Dunbar's poems. She had a copy of a Kentucky newspaper with her, and the headlines announced in bold type that Kenneth Sollars, the famous racehorse man, was winning all the races in Kentucky with his celebrated horse, Sparks, so named in honor of Miss Mar- jorie Sparks. On my way back to Washington Court House I stopped in Mt. Sterling. I went out to see Jennie Callender, while I was there, and she told me that she was living like a queen, since she had married a King. When I got back to Washington I went to visit the school. In the grades, I found Lida Grace Wissler and Geraldine Craig. teaching. Lida Grace was Miss Bell's successor in the Kindergarten. but Geral- dine was tecahing in the Eighth Grade. She said she always had felt a tenderness toward Eighth Grade students, especially the boys.

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32 'CHE SUNBURST Will and Testament of the Class of '24 We, the members of the Class of 1924, having reached the end of our scholastic career, and though somewhat fatigued by incsesant mental toil, but still of sound mind, memory and understanding, do make and publish this our last Will and Testa- ment, herbey revoking and making void all former wills by us at anv time hereto- fore made. As to our worldly estate, and all the property, real, personal, or mixed, of which we shall die seized or possessed, or to which we shall be entitled at the time of our decease, we devsie, bequeath, and disposes thereof in the manner following, to-wit: FIRST-We direct that our obsequies shall be conducted in such manner as is becoming our social standing. duo mention to be made of our various pranks andoar activities in behalf of this school, hoping that our pallbearers will be men of strong muscles and our mourners ready to lament our demise. ' The class as a unit wishes to give and bequeath the following: Item I: We give and bequeath to this noble instit .tion of learning allthe cash we shall have left at the end of our career, which we trust will help the Board of Edu- cation to reimburse the school for any damage we may have done to this edifice. Item II: We give and bequeath to our teachers all our unfinished lessons and our badly rendered recitatfons: we also will to them peaceful nights and undisturbed slumber, for no longer will they have to worry about our examinaoons: no longer will our grades disappoint: no longer will they have to listen to our s'1pplicat'ons. Rest will be theirs, a long well-earned rest from arduous toil. Item III: We give and bequeath to the Freshman class a large pail of unused Brain Glue, to be used by them carefully and persstently while p':'cpar'ng their les- sons, hoping that this wonderful cori- pound, for which we have nothing ti 't words of praise, will aid them in fastening historical data and other dry matter in their minds without too 'much etcrtion. Also as a great favor, for which we th'n': they should alwavs feel grateful, we give and bequeath all our mama dolls, large tops, picture books, and fairy stories to the Freshies. Item IV: We give and bequeath to the next Senior class a collection of magic puz- zles, the solution of which will prove to them an enjoyable pastime when the prep- aration of thier lessons become monoton- ous and other diversions lose their attrac- tions. Item V: In order to show our good will towards the Sophomores, we bequeath to them a copy of an Old Farmers' Al- manac, which will help them to steer clear of many an approaching storm. It will enable them quickly and surely to read in their instr'uctor's countenance, as he en- ters the classroom, what will be the nature and conditions of movements through the day. The members of the class wish to give and bequeath as follows: I, Janet Barger, bequeath my acquaint- ance with a Ford to Frances Griffith. I, Katherine Barnes, bequeath my gum appetite to Mary Brandt. I, Gwendolyn Baughn, bequeath my friend Mr. Kathe to my sister Virginia, so he Mary remain in the family. I, Vivian Baughn, bequeath my innocent expression to Robert Arnold. I, Estel Boyer, bequeath my haircut to Paul Meyers. I, Jennie Calender, bequeath my Orches- tra love affairs to Lillian Teeters. I, Harold Coil, bequeath my Fords Good quallties to Mr. Kay. I, Hilda Coil, bequeath my position as Bookkeeping for the High School to Bessie Oden, if Mr. Thompson approves. I, Pauline Coil, bequeath my sister's love letters to Lucile Rine. I, Warren Creamer, bequeath my vision of the earth obtaind from an elevated height to Lamoine Everhart. I, Geraldine Craig, bequeath my literary knowledge to Howard Dellinger. I, Berdina Crisenbery, bequeath my arti- ficial expression to Genevieve Price. I. Wilma Dale, bequeath my joyous and smiling facial expression to Marjorie Sparks.