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

Page 31 text:

GH D9 Charles Michael Fults has just won the Indianapolis Classic for the third time. Charles always was a fearless driver. Helen Veona Hoppess is the agent for the Buick car. She chose this automobile lzecause of its lovely Coil . Maxene Elroy NVilson is now holding the world's wrestling championship for the fifth consecutive year. He goes by the title of Kolokenthokefalos . Helen Chandler is capably filling the position of English instructor at Oxford, near London. I I Little did we think Anna Bell Nelson would ever he a song writer! Her latest hit is I Want 'Stew' for Every Meal. She has also revived the song that was popular in our day, Charlie My Boy . - George Thomas Watson is touring the country demonstrating That School- girl Complexion for the- Palmolive Soap Company. Frances Catherine Griffith has become a very well known journalist. Recent announcement by Harper's indicates she is to be circulation manager for that magazine. ' Francis Marion Kennedy Juniords quiet ways would naturally lead him to the Silent Drama. He is now a star with Paramount. He has recently been very ill in the Greenfield Hospital, but the doctors say he might now be called well tCaldwellJ. The stern reality of life has taught us the necessity for the apparently strict discipline and for the thorough instruction we received as students and it is my prophecy that the Class of '27 will continue to add to its already notable list of achievements. CLASS WILL We, the members of the Class of 1927, of the Washington High School, City of Washington Court House, County of Fayette and State of Ohio, having completed our scholastic career, publish this, our last Will and Testament, hereby annulling and making void all former wills by us at any time heretofore made. As to our worldly possessions and all property, real, personal or otherwise, we dispose thereof in the following manner, to-wit: FIRST: We direct that our ceremonies be conducted in such a manner to be fitting to our exalted position, due credit being given at all times to the pinnacles of fame reached by our Class in the various activities engaged in. We, the Class as a whole, wish to will and bequeath in the following manner: ITEM 1: We hereby will and bequeath to this noble institution our heartfelt wishes for its welfare in the futureg and whatever cash we may leave may be used for its improvement. ITEM II: We hereby will and bequeath to our teachers, our deepest sympathies, knowing that no other class can ever give them the satisfaction in preparation of lessons that we have. ITEM III: We hereby will and bequeath to the Freshman Class the Hint that the way of the transgressor is hard and that if they follow that time-worn, but nevertheless safe policy of being seen 'and not heard until they reach the dignified position of Seniors, their careers as underclassmen will be made much more happy and joyous. ITEM IV: We will and bequeath to the Sophomores one hundred cartons of Professor Pep's Brain Food to increase their Grey Matter in order to become ideal scholars of the Sophomore teachers. ITEM V: Vlie will and bequeath to the oncoming Senior Class a document, writ- 29

Page 30 text:

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

Page 32 text:

CB D19 ten in code, which when transcribed will give to the world that long-sought secret, the qualities that make an ideal Senior, including their dignity, extraordinary knowl- edge on every subject, excluding only advanced algebra and Spanish, and their minor eccentricities. We also leave them one hundred musical instruments of various kinds, because as music hath charms to soothe the savage breast they might be very appropriate when an enraged instructor arises in wrath. The members of the class wish to will and bequeath as follows: 1. I, Thomas Doyle, will and bequeath my speed with the fairer sexl' to Glendon Kelly. ' , 2. I, Darrell Williams, will and bequeath my military air-'y to Thurman Shep- pard. 3. I, FrancesrGriflith, will and bequeath my perfect recitations to Elizabeth Fite. 4. We, Dorothy Sparks and Hazel Ellison-, will and bequeath our Daily Dozen records to Richard Carr and Herbert Sollars. 5. I, William Henry, will and bequeath the qualities that make me the 'tapple of Miss Jester's eye to Ralph Fisher. 6. I, Anna Belle Nelson, will and bequeath my standing date with a certain young farmer from Leesburg, to Margaret Rine. 7. I, Robert Hartman, do will and bequeath my manly stature to Robert Fergu- son. 8. We, Ralph Burke and Florence Moss, will and bequeath our romantic conver- sations in the typing room to Mary Louise Plymire and Corwin Carr. 9. We, Ruth Kay and Lucile Janes, do will and bequeath our ability to produce harmonious melody in Prof. K'ay's orchestra, to Emily Rowe and Nona Louise Cripps. 10. We, Elizabeth Burnette, Helen Hoppess and Marguerite Leaverton, will and bequeathlour ability to type ninety words a minute to Leona Shasteen, Norma Flee and Mina Minton. ,111,' I, Maxine Clark, will and bequeath my 'ability as an artist, to Nell Pat Kay. 12. I, Prugh Chapman, will and bequeath my delightful visits to the Victory and conversations therein with a tall handsome Senior, to Robert Schneider and Annabelle Stemler. A 13. I, Dorothy Boggess, do will and bequeath my ambition to becomr 'a clean at Vassar to Lillian Fowler. 14. I, Herbert Plymire, will and bequeath my ability as a dancer to Virginia Garrett. 15. I, Lucy Hoppess, will and bequeath my excellent monthly grades to Dor- othy Hudson. 16. I, William Robinson, will and bequeath my modern impersonations of Romeo to Tommy Craig. 17. I, Essyle Bell, will and bequeath my extraordinary height to Helen Louise Jackson. 18. I, F. M. Kennedy Jr., will and bequeath my ability to ttburn down on a banjo, to Harry Ferguson. 19. I, Edwin Sollars, will and bequeath my stunning appearance in a football letter to Red Thompson. 20. We, Jean Cavinee and Jean Michael, will and bequeath our latest edition of Debating Made Easy to Elizabeth Cline and Helen Todhuntcr. 21. I, Lawrence Moss, will and bequeath my ability to captivate the Freshman girls to Williard Bonecutter. ' 22. I, Marjory Evans, will and bequeath my interest in hair-cutting, especially Bobs to Mary Louise Mark. 23. I, Ruth Wright, do will and bequeath my ever present 'Spearmin to any- 30 K t77