Allegheny High School - Wah Hoo Yearbook (Pittsburgh, PA)

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THE TOXVER 25 are Helen Bussey, Lorna Brown, Oscar XVallace, Elinor McKelvy, Florence Newell, Irene XVhite, and Albert XVesterman. I A concert is to be given at Carnegie Music Hall in East End. Elman the great violinist, Sembrick, Schumann-Heink, Paderewski, and other great artists will be there. Miss Ruth St. Clair, who we are proud to remember graduated with us from .Allegheny High, is the woman who will draw a great crowd that night, not only because of her winning personality, but because of her marvellous performance at the piano. She is on a tour around the World. A list of the patronesses are Miss Anna Belle Haley, Miss Elizabeth Garver, Miss Alice Black, and Miss Elizabeth Hammer. XVilliam Hart is working in Boggs and Buhls selling mirrors, powder, etc. XVe hear that the poor boy is soon to lose his position because of his use of the articles he is supposed to sell. XVith him is Joseph Gross and Nell Reid. Gunpowder instead of rice powder was applied and a terrible explosion occurred in Room 109 on the last day of school and Adelaide Peiters was seen no more in Pittsburgh. An article in the paper says that a person of that name, has been wandering about in China muttering wildly about the mirror in 109 and the evilconsequences attending any one who goes near it. Recently a new bank has been established and Paul NVineman elected its president. He is very etiicient and the lady customers all support him. Alice Beatty is busily engaged selling Kathleen Kelly's book. She is making quite a neat little sum of money this way but her specialty seems to be in selling combs. 1 In a deserted part of Pittsburgh is a little hut. At First it appears as though no one lives here, but later we find that the place is inhabited by Grace Braun who is still working' on Latin Prose Composition, thirty or forty years from now, she will be a marvel, putting poor Vergil entirely out of the limelight. VVilliam Seibert conducts a select dancing school. At all the dances now he and his partner, Miss Hilda Schodde, give exhibition dances. It is rumored that they are about to go on the stage. The Pitt Football team has again won the world's championship. One of our own classmates, Robert Irwin, is the captain. The star players are Robert Titzel and Talavsky. 1 Many medals adorn Edith Beck. No one now dares compete with her in swimming. The Kaiser has just sent a note to Dorothy Turkle asking her to come and advise him in a very grave state matter. She will probably not be gone very long as there is a great demand for her at many places. Jessie Elliot went with her. Sara l.endrum is the first woman representative from Pennsylvania.

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24 THE TOWER Grace Borchers will become a teacher of the Classics, making a specialty of Virgil. She will guide many a young mind, unfolding to them the wonders of the classic world. Harry Sell and Howard Fry have both become writers. Mr. Sell's most famous work is that entitled The Joys of a Bachelor as seen by a Married Man. Edna Purcell is aspiring to no nobler calling than that of cooking teacher. Many a dainty morsel w'ill be burned, while Edna goes out to fill her dates. , Gilmore VVilliams is a doctor and has made his name in Surgery. For the Foley girls I see wealth, happiness and everything that is good. Cora will in time marry a preacher, while Virginia will marry into a Royal family. Amelia Klicker will spend most of her days on a ranch in Montana with Margaret Woods to help her cook for the farm-hands. VVhat is this next shape? Oh yes, I see now. Mildred Davis. She is president of the Women Suffrage Association. Her shoes are a little worn but that is because she has led so many Suffrage parades. Behind her always a great train of women, some of the most important of which are Margaret Hamilton, Eleanor Lotz, Isabel Ferguson and Marion Foster. But a man of note in this great city is seen at the rear of the line, carrying an enormous banner which seems very light, judging by the heavenly expression on his face-Charles Danver. Kathleen Kelly has just completed her first great novel, The Mystery of the VVavy and Beautiful Tressesf, In order to be near her chum, Margaret Hartley has decided to teach typewriting in the room opposite one in which Grace Borchers is endeavoring to conduct a class and impress upon the pupils the superiority of Socrates over other men. I fear this shows a bad trait in Margaretys character because if she has a tilt with her loved friend she can easily open the door and the noise of the hundred and one typewriters will soon bring Grace to a realiza- tion of a great offense she must have committed. Caruso is no longer the most celebrated singer in the world. Ade Higgins makes him look sick, and now we will all pay enormous sums to hear him, when but a few years ago, it would have been a punishment. Gertrude Clark has become a teacher in English, specializing in Rhetoric. The people of Spring Hill have decided to have an elevator which runs at all hours of the day and night, up and down that hill. They have found a jewel in their elevator boy-Clarence Dieter. A great play entitled My Belovedn has just arrived at the Alvin. Mr. Rody Patterson is the star and his leading lady, Miss Jeanette Singer, has been recognized as a very clever and remarkable actress. Others in the cast

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26 THE TOWER john Kvatsak has entered into politics and is considered a good presi- dential timber for 1930. The Street Car Company employs one conductor of whom they have every reason to be proud. Don Luty is most eflicient. The way he yells NVatch your step and Fare, Please' is quite an accomplishment. Lenna Rugh has just arrived at the front as a Red Cross Nurse. lt is not known whether she will do much good because Lenna was always very careless and she might give some poor soldier camphor instead of castor oil. Some of the girls who went with her as nurses were Elizabeth VVright, Dorothy Volbreight, Mildred Harvey and Helen Avey. Mildred McKinley owns a chewing gum slot machine in the Union Station. She stands continually beside it and when she isn't extracting a piece of gum for herself she is busy looking into the mirror which is attached above the slot machine. And now that you've gone over each one, dear Hexbert, you had better go, because we must talk over these amazing disclosures. Oh, of course its always that way, when l've done what you wanted. But Iyve no objections. Say the quick spell and have me Bang-a-boo--bar Bang-a-boo-whack, XVitch is gone, Sun come back. Marrombah. Grace llorchers. Ruth St. Clair.