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

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:gg ' D10 Mary Josephine Paul is a famous name. Shortly after she graduated she be- came secretary to Aimee Semple McPherson. In the last few years she has taken complete charge of Mrs. McPherson's evangelistic work. Mary Alice Davis has become one of the most sought for public speakers of her time. She is now debating tl1e momentous question of whether or not the Campbells really are coming and if they really do go without food and water as long as it is said they do. 1 Herbert Emory Hard is manager of a Woolworth store in Lancaster. He is gathering material for his book on married life. Hazel Elizabeth Ellison is assisting' in conducting a chain of red-fronted curio shops throughout the United States. They are well liked because service is given so quickly fQuigleyJ. Lucile Ethel Janes is following in the footsteps of her beloved Mr. Kay. She is instructor of chemistry in Wilmington College. Ralph Leonard Burke and Florence Wilmah Moss are married and living in New York. Because of his knowledge of Spanish, Ralph is an interpreter for a South American importing company. Mildred Elizabeth Mc-Gee founded the McGee confeetionaries, which are famed all over the United States for their excellent food and quick service. Jedediah Bernard Witherspoon, the noted biologist, is now tracing the origin of the black-eyed Susansv. Everybody knew what Thelma Jane Gwendolyn Stevens' plans were, and now that they are carried out she spends many of her afternoon sitting on a bench near the banks of the Little Miami. Richard Manning Sprenger has been in China for twenty-five years. He still startles the natives when he comes riding' by on his hicycle . Ursula Marie Meyers fs Latin instructor at the VVest Virginia Institute Forrest Pensyl Smith, after a wild High School career, is happily married and is a prosperous banker in Milledgeville, Ohio. He has been ailin' tAileenJ since the June after he graduated. Lucy Mabel Stokesbury has given up her worldly life to become a teacher in the llawiian Islands. Malcolm William Craig is a Junk man. He received his first instruction in t'his art before he left school. Velestia Cleora Speakman is the owner and head designer of the Mme. Ce- leste gown shop in Paris. Richard Warren Staubus after a long High School career finally graduated from the Hall of Dear old Washington to operate a J. V. Penney Store. Florence Mae Hoppess is Private Secretary to Governor Charles Schwart. She surely is climbing higher and Hyer on the ladder of fame. Because of his captivating smile and self-assertive manner, Jacob Edwin Sol- lars has won much success as a Fuller Brush salesman. llazel Gertrude Bennett is on the Chautauqua platform as a reader with the Swiss Bell Ringers. Darrell Allen Williams the famous contractor has just completed another large building. lt is noted for its wonderful Lamptejs. 1 llelen Elizabeth Hutson has been in Germany for twenty years searching for Wagner's manuscripts. Helen always has been musical but it was not until after her Senior year that sl1e developed such a decided preference for this man. Robert Leroy Flee is a very prominent physician. He is a mumps specialist. Mary Katherine is his most troublesome patient. 27

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Z 1 ,ova the names mentioned, I am sure the older generation will not have forgotten. VVith your permission I will read just what is written: Georgia Prugh Chapman has been with the Hartman Stock Company for the past several years. She is the prima donna. Ivan Manville Boyer is successfully completing his fifteenth year on the con- cert stage. The public never allows Mr. Boyer to leave the platform until he has given them his unique and absolutely original presentation of Twittering Birds. Ruth Ellen Sheppard is not the man-hater she was in High School days. She is especially fond of reading the nursery rhyme about Tommy Tuckerf' Aulten Edward Carter, profiting by his own experience while in High School, is the head of a large Automobile Protective Association. Elizateth Florence Burnette is the wife of the manager of a Penney Store. She is in charge of the music department recently installed in her husband's store. Thomas Ware Doyle had so much trouble with his private correspondence in High School that now he is the head of a large concern for handling communica- tions between High School pupils. Dorothy Louise Boggess is now living in Sabina. Gone for awhile, her m- Emory has returned and now she is quite happy. Harold Allen Todhunter and Bertha Inez Smith have attained great success by their interpretive dancing and at the present are touring Europe. Marjorie Katherine Evans has been doing reform work. It has been rumored that she gives most of her time to the Irish. Loren Donald Overstake has remained in the occupation of his forefathers. He is the owner of one thousand acres of land around Washington Court House. Susie Irene Tracey, because she disliked her name so much, changed it to Jane! She has been teaching all the children in the neighborhood the beautiful old ballad Oh John, My Joe John. George Everett Conner, so much admired by the Faculty of IVashington High School for his scholary attitude, did not accept the Rhodes Scholarship offered him. Instead he has the job of entertaining the fair maidens of the Kindergarten in their spare time. Laura Esther Hurtt is now with the Zeigfield Follies. She has the responsible position of costumer. VVilliam Kouns Robinson has seemingly repented of the characteristics that gave him, while still in High School, the nickname of Wild Bill. He is now con- nected with the Capital University Conservatory of Music. Essyle Mae Bell and Florence Marie Christian are stenographers of the National Defense League. They are extremely well fitted for their positions because of their High School experience with Reds . William Lawson Henry is doing a great deal of good among the poorer classes in his position of secretary of the local Y. M. C. A. Jean Catherine Michael's natural talent has led her into politics. She has sp-oken a Little for Senator Miller, Congressman Carr and others. Being non- partisan she always speaks for the best man. Robert Samuel Whiteside-'s slow and cultured drawl acquired in school theatri- cals is an invaluable asset in, his law practice. Two persons with the initials, UD. W., one of whom is Daniel VVehster, have had a marked influence on his lffc. Armeda Jean West has just returned from Afghanistan. She has been explor- ing for the National Geographic Society. Always interested in Athletics, Herbert Condon Campbell is Head of the Athletic Commission for the State of Ohio. It was a great Schfriock to him when Frank Palmer lost the heavyweight boxing championship to Thurman Sheppard. 26

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Ruth Hannah McKay is happily married. She and her husband have been mis- sionaries in China for the past fifteen years. Mary Elizabeth Sauer is the famous woman banker. She says she owes her success to the bakery in which she handled dough for so many years. Naomi Irene Miser is a hostess at one of the Montmartre cabarets in Paris. Her husband, an Apache, is the proprietor. William Kenneth Eggleston within a Short time after graduation took up the manufacture of Kimonas. Klang! Klang! Jean Cavinee and Ruth Elizabeth Kay are conducting a Finishing School for Girls in Alabama. Hazel Margaret Parkison is also connected with the school as instructor in Mathematics. Dorothy Louise Sparks is President of the Federated Club Women, President of the Non-Partisan League of Women Voters, Secretary-Treasurer of the American Red Cross, and Manager of the Ohio State Conservatory of Music. She gives as her reason for not being married-too busy. Robert Edward Hartman, our All-American, after following his own in-Cline- ation for several years has now supplanted Ralph Graves in Mack Sennett productions. Although Lucy Ellen Hoppess did not take Latin in High School, she is now studying Virgil very strenously. Mildred Ruhama Deiber is one of the few women interested in Insurance Brok- erage. Representing many of the largest, she insists the Company she likes best is Lloyd's. Edgar Dwight Bell and Herbert Franklin Plymire are winning great success in their vaudeville act, Mutt and Jeff. Always accomplished linguists, they are now presenting their act in Spain. Ruth VVright is a bareback rider with Robinson's Circus. She is appearing in Columbus this week. Gene Russell McLean is now first assistant to Coach John Miller of Harvard. Gene and his wife have been visiting relatives here and in Milledgeville for a few weeks. Edith Jane VVilson has never been the same after a wreck in a Chevrolet coupe shortly before graduation. Lawrence William Moss is illustrating for the Little Folk's Magazine. We all remember his fondness for children while he was in High School, especially during his Senior year. Charles Elmore Lynch, manager of the Fayette Tire and Rubber Company, after exhaustive research, declares that of all tires made not one compares with the Dunlap Although in High School, Thelma Dorothy Runyan's heart belonged to one man, Robert had other plans, so Thelma is still in a state of single blessedness. William Ireland, following his youthful convictions, has established and is now conducting on Pott s Hill, the Florence Home for Aged Women. Bill is quite happy in this work and the elderly ladies think him adorable. Maxine Louise Clark and another well-known Senior girl have had much litiga- tion over a long standing Bill After many years, Maxine has won her suit, and they live -in Columbus. Lorin Eyre Combs is leading a quiet and retired life in Columbus and with the aid of his Evelyn is raising large black cats. Mabel Marguerite Leaverton is living in the country near Devonshire and de- votes all her time to growing Sweet Williamsf' She says she loves the location because every night she can watch the Shep-pards come home with their sheep. 28