Wooster High School - General Yearbook (Wooster, OH)

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OBSERVER ANNUAL 1936 feminine heartsg Stanley Good, who trains sealsg and Virginia Phillips, the daring horsefback rider. And look at this. It's Dick Graff, enjoying to the utmost his job of candy taster for the Mars Candy Company. This picture has taken on the aspect of an advertisement. It reveals the interior of a little dress shop, Belle Maison, with its proprietor, Eileen Thompson, and its chief designer, Ethel Robison, shown talking to the former Luella Grassbaugh, now the gra' cious mistress of a lovely colonial house in Virginia. For the virtue of advertising, it must appear that she patronizes Belle Maison exclusively. Priscilla Derr, Evelyn Braden, and Geraldine Chapman model the beautiful dresses. This next photograph seems to belong in Greenwich Village because it combines two budding poets and a garret. The one is Richard Jensen while in the next room abides Art Cowles. Really, with so many buds this would be an ideal spot for Ray' mond Young, the famous horticulturist. On the floor below is the studio of Mary Louise George and Margaret Kennard, the coming painters. I had to look twice but I'm sure that this is a snap of Ruth Patterson, editor of the Atlantic Monthly, and owner of the best private collection of hankies in existence. Will you look at this picture of Lucy Ormond? According to the photo she seems to be raising Great Danes in her Detroit apartment. Why, Lucy! This one is easy to recognize. It is the interior of a radio station. Howard Shaw, the announcer, is just telling his listening audience, This program is sponsored by the Howard Smith Company, makers of thumb tacks for school desks fyou see, Harold, Amalgamated Bloomer Buttons, etc., has not yet been foundedjf' Also appearing in the allfstar cast are Yolanda Thomassetti, Mary Massaro, and Betty Rice, blues singers, and Bob Skelly, comedian. I'm sure that in fifteen years this picture will be a prize for any movie album. It is a group picture composed of Bill Mills, wildfwest star, Bob Albaugh, famous for his Tarzan pictures, and Jean Mayberry, now appearing in that superfpicture, Mrs. Murf phy's Chowder. With them is jim Lightner, ace camera man. This next group of pictures seem to be all more or less in the field of mechanics. There are Frank Swinehart, garage owner, and Ned Reed, designer of airplanes, whose latest model plane is being piloted by that daring aviatrix, Irene Swank. I believe that official records say she has flown around the world three times. As stewardesses for this trip she has Martha Jane Smith and Mildred Smith fnot sistersj. Dick Weaver seems to have a soft job-efficiency expert in a onefman company. He owns the company. Here is a lovely picture of a model farm, run by John Nixon, Tom Steuart, jim Buchholz, Mark Hixson, and Randall Billman. Unless pictures lie, Peggy Silver is a 4fH leader and Betty Warner a reporter on a woman's magazine. And speaking of leaders, the Daughters of the Union Veterans seem to be getting along all right under Mary Lou Pfeifer. Zona Shearer apparently is slated to be a governess, while Mary Ellen Fox is going to have quite a calling, that of telephone operator. IfPage Twenty-nineil in am iw, x. ' ml' Mlm 'I ., Ji l . ..-. ulllllllliln

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YQ 3' I ' Ulm 1 I fill OBSERVER ANNUAL 1936 SENIGR CLASS PROPHECY All day I had been looking forward to evening when I could spend some time enjoying the treasure I had just bought. Imagine, only a week after graduation, and I had been able to buy all the senior pictures and the very camera with which they had been taken. Seating myself in the armfchair in front of the fire, I picked up the first picture. What on earth! It was, it must be, Eddie Heminger, but-he had a bald spot! And those lines around his eyes! Gasping, I reached for the camera, and after inspecting it carefully, got my second shock. The dial which usually regulates the distance now was marked, IO years, N20 years, while the hand on the dial pointed to li years. It seemed too fantastic to believe, but yet Eddie at the present time definitely does not have a little bald spot on his head. Entering into the spirit of the thing, I look again at the picture. Underneath it is written, The author of the best dictionary since Webster. Good old Eddie. I won' der if he has preproanteprotransubstantiationalisticallyn in it? QThanks to Kitty Oltf house for the word.j The next picture is, yes, it is Harold Mirvis and Sam Shapiro, two wellfknown communist leaders. This next picture looks like the faculty of Wooster High School, but see the new faces. The new principal, john Smucker, a new kindergarten fand detention hall, teacher, Carol McClelland. Several of the teachers have assistants, for there are Hazel Snoddy and Kenny Fowler standing beside Miss Rahl and Mr. Jameson. And, oh, yes, Katherine Olthouse is now a junior member of the history department. Florence Switzer also looks school teacherish with a French book under one arm. Ruth Snyder and Irma Stair now manage the High School Cafeteria. This snap of someone sitting in the mayor's office is a bit indistinct, but I think it is Charlie Rath. Rah for junto Club! And while we are on politics, here is a family group from the White House. Will wonders never cease-snow we have two presif dents, Stoll and Layton. Also in the picture are the two Mesdames Stoll and Layton, nee Clive Seaboyer and Anne Stillings, the social secretary, Jean Smith, that wellfknown diplomat and ambassador to England, the Honorable Anne E. Holden, and Senator jack Mentzer. My, what an illustrious class. This lovely picture must be going into some music magazine for it shows Elizabeth I remember Betty?j Lorson, wellfknown pianist and accompanist for another Bettyee-A Hofacker this time, a concert violinist, and the famous male quartet of Lowery, Heller, Ritter, and Beers, which is now touring the country. Also in the entertainment are the team, Miller and Cferlaugh fRed and Judy to youj, who have earned quite a reputation as adagio and exhibition dancers. Judy is also teaching dancing lessons. And can you imagine Ben Follis as a second Cab Calloway? Anyway, he's leading an orchestra. This picture looks like a circus handbill. At least, here is the owner, Earl Cline: the clown, Bill Dean falias Totojg Bob Gifford, the blond lion tamer, who thrills the fPage 'I'wcnty'eight:I

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4-f -44,1 in li l l l y, ,, . . OBSERVER ANNUAL 1936 About this time I began to wonder if I couldn't make a little money by setting up a fortune telling business. Frankly, this matter was getting interesting. I took another deep breath and began again. Elizabeth Shamp and Lois McAfee seem to have had ideas, for they have set up a training school for public stenographers, together. Among their pupils are Mary jane di Luca and Lucille Quicci. Mamie Combs is teaching at Tuskegee Institute, I think, although the writing is blurred. Every class has some missionaries and our class is no exception. Philip Good and Carolyn Douglass are both missionarying in Africa. However, apparently, not all mis' sionary children are returning to the foreign field. Harriet Smith, for instance, has be' come a librarian. And what have we here? Maxine Wirt, a trained nurse? Yes, and Mary Seib is a buyer for a Cleveland store. I'd like that job. Anastasia Buchholz is clerking at Freedlander's, while in the beauty shop we find Eleanor Hardesty as a beauty culturist fwhat on earth is that?j and Kate Chermely as a manicurist. One of their most frequent customers is the famous Helen McGarvey, made wealthy by the sale of her book, How to be Popular. Danny Boyd has succeeded in his own way, too, I see, for he is now an Clympic champion skater. Ah, this looks interesting. jane and Winifred Snyder are putting on a sister act in a bigftime vaudeville show. I wonder if I could get their autographs. Here is Martha Newburn's picture. By the look of it, she is a prominent club' woman. George Gorton seems to be a clubfman of superior quality for he is running the Country Club very well. By the way, Guy Coccia is the pro there, now. jack Kaltenborn is a psychiatrist and at his hospital we find Jim Smith, Chuck McClintock, Harry Young, Eugene Walter, Ensel Green, and Frank Massaro, not, however, as patients. In fact, they're guards. This picture of the law firm of Marshall and Murphy seems to be rather nice. With john and jack are Robert Ramsey and Earl Mollenkopf, junior partners. Allan Bach is managing a big league baseball team and, from the look on his face, he would not sell Ralph Daugherty or Adis Murray for anything. Beulah C'Brien and Pauline Bonadio, with the able assistance of Camilla de Pas' qua, Josephine Mancini, Mary Moretti, Virginia Myers, and Eileen Pontius are run' ning a settlement house in Cleveland. This picture must be John fwe used to call him Red j Parker, the famous tech' nical engineer from Madisonburg. Marian Conrey, Ruth Jentes, and Betty jane Keister are working in a Y. W. in San Francisco. Close to the Y , jane Eckstein, Eva Fulton, Florence Dowling, and Bernice Grafton are the proprietors of a popular restaurant. A Geraldine Franks, Fay Switzer, Arlieen Walton, Hilda and Margaret Zemroch are keeping a bird store, and from all appearances I am one of the cuckoos. Oh, dear, what a discouraging future. I should so have liked to be a redbird. PEGGY Mum.. lPagc Thirtyl