Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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THE DART Farmer's Experiment Station on the Jefferson road. Oh! and I liked Cecil Covert’s prize lecture on “Pure Milk for Better Babies.” He is head of the milk department for all the state experiment stations, you know. “I guess Bill Wood, who is making good as a traveling salesman, spent most of his time in the ladies’ department of Grotemat, Burke, and Gron-quist. By the way, Thelma is going to resign her management of the Ladies’ Department. Howard Burke is to keep the Men’s Department, and John Gron-quist is to take over the Ladies’ Department with the children’s.” “I was surprised to see Leona Cooper looking so young and happy.” “Why shoud you be, Harold?” “Oh. I don’t know, but when she married that little redheaded Say-brook man, I rather thought life would be a hum-drum affair for her. But she was about the happiest and best looking girl there. Well, you see, Harold, that proves that a peaceful, country home life is the best beauti-fier” “But, did you hear that Mary Johnson and Harold Robishaw had pooled their money and had bought out Carlisle Co., and were going to call the new firm Robishaw Co.? Think of that!” “And wasn’t it great that the Bech-tol, Beiter Circus was in town? George Cross certainly makes a splendid manager. All Mary and Pearl have to do is to sit at home and spend the money. Didn’t we have a good time at their special performance? And would you ever have believed that Harold Gary would make such a master clown? Weren’t his hits on the class good.” “Isn’t it nice that Dorothy Sprague has secured the new position of Dancing Professor in Glenville High School, Cleveland? Myrtle Payne, Superintendent of the hospital, reserved a room in case it was needed, but luckily all went well. And, by-the-way, have you seen Architect Minnie Salisbury’s plans for the new hospital? They are simply great.” “Yes, and the contract was awarded to William Rainnie. Say, wasn’t his response to the toast. Our Athletes, fine? That song at the end just touched the spot.” “Too bad our famous debaters couldn’t have been here, but they are in a city in California. You know they are to vote on the question of equal suffrage for the men. George Shiya and Laurel Rasey are arguing for it, and Margaret Sill and Eunice Sharp against it. Margaret and Eunice are afraid the state will go wet again, if the men win out. You see there are enough women voters in California to disfranchise all who voted wet last fall. When the election was held, Marion Stewart was the principal lawyer in the case.” “I’m glad that Cassie Bentley, Phebe Hubbard and Helen Britcher could get here for the reunion day. They were having a week’s stand in Cleveland, but their manager, Forrest Jerome, was able to cancel one concert.” “I read a letter Aline Viall, New York’s most fashionable matron, had written to Ruth Hubbard, who is the best city manager Cleveland ever had. She said that Philip Varckette, the new United States immigration distributor, was missing, but that Lucy Strong, the best and most daring detective in the U. S. was on the case, and that Ralph Culley, United States’ chief secret service aviator, was on the job, so that they hoped to find him soon.” “John Dickinson, chief wireless op- 23

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THE DART crew, under whose charge we were placed, were Mrs. Morton and Miss Warmington, who have been particularly able advisers. At the very beginning of the voyage Mr. Thalman came to be our pilot, and a very capable one he has proved himself to be. Evidences of our faithful work were shown in our Honor Roll, which was exceptionally large. Our only social event was the Hallow’een party which was held in the cabin of the boat. The last of January the weather became very rough, but the sturdy A. H- S. weathered the storms of examinations and very few of us were washed overboard. The Dart, this year, was under our management and we trust we have upheld the high standard set by previous issues. In ship athletics, the boys of the upper deck won the basketball championship. Our representatives in debate made a fine showing and were able to carry off the honors of the two upper decks. All through April our interest was centered in the play which the first-class passengers were to present, and we all feel certain that it was a splendid success. But now our last trip on the A. H. S. is drawing to a close. However, before we reach our destination, there will come joys of the Commencement season, and then the real landing in the beautiful city of Knowledge, whose lights we can now c imly see in the distance. After Fifteen Years LAURA METCALF 17 The children of the primary grades at West Ashtabula, where 1 was a teacher, had just been dismissed, and I was sitting, idly thinking of my own school days now fifteen years passed, when the door opened, and Harold Johnson. City Superintendent of Schools walked in. “Well. Laura, did you ever suppose that fifteen years would make such a difference in our classmates? Wasn’t it good to see so many of them again and to hear from all the rest? That idea of having a class reunion in Ashtabula’s Big Home Week, was surely a good one, thanks to our good old mate, Chief of Police. George Ducro.” “But I guess his assistant, Ruth Harrington, who, by the way, is about to change her name, had as much to do with it as he did. Wasn’t Postmistress Barbara Morris’ idea of making the postoffice our class bureau of information such a help? And Ruth Mullin, being physical trainer for the new Y. W. C. A., gave us so much use of their rooms!” “Yes, and Christ Bellios did himself proud with the banquet he put up for us. Sara Anderson’s rest rooms were headquarters for our classmates all the time.” “All the girls had their hair done by Edith Carlson. She keeps her helpers up to the minute in hair-dressing. Carrie Hayford just put three of the girls in her big dressmaking establishment at the disposal of the girls and wives of our class for pressing and refreshing their dresses throughout the week.” “Didn’t Lawrence Cowin make a dandy manager”? “Yes, you know it takes a society bachelor to know all the pleasant en-tertaining things to do for a crowd. What a week we had! I hardly know which I enjoyed most, the trip to Ethel Dorman’s Model Farm on Bunker Hill or the one to William Scott’s Ohio 22

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THE DART erator at Washington, is in daily communication with Clarence Miner, minister to Lapland, and Charles Farrow, minister to England, about his disappearance. Charles is also in communication with Arthur Tkach, secretary to the Russian president. They rather expect to find Varckette in Russia or Siberia.” “She also said that Victor Visconty bad perfected his passenger cable line to Italy, and that Theodore Warren was in New York lecturing on ‘Reform’ and ‘Clean National Politics.’ ” “I had not seen Florence Taylor for years. She is Court stenographer at Mercer, Pennsylvania.” ‘‘Abigail Wescott has a game-bird farm at Conneaut Lake. She says it is very interesting work. I thought Hazel Seymour seemed very much devoted to her bass soloist husband. She is manager for his company you know.” ‘‘Isn’t it fine that Eva Reebel and Harold Scoville give one evening’s receipts every week to German-Am-erican war orphans? My! Can’t they sing? They are a team in evening entertainments.” ‘‘Pauline Lishner and Rebecca Levin are very successful in their girls’ school in New York. They seemed glad to see Ashtabula again.” ‘‘Clarence Maynard said he was just back from Australia. He has finished his explorations, but is going back to take up a ranch. Arthur Louis and William Mantell are going also as they have purchased a sheep ranch there. Beryl McBride and Mary McDaniels go by the same boat. They are to be missionaries to the natives of the interior. Someone said Charles Sanborn had resigned his management of the National Base Ball league and was going to Australia, too.” “Rudolf Siegfried is still making violins and ukeleles, and sometimes condescends to teach the buyers of his instruments to play them.” “Walter Stewart hasn’t changed a bit, even if he is the youngest bishop of the Methodist church and called ‘The Silver-Tongued Bishop.’ ” “Morris Campbell and Forest Kit-son were certainly kept busy showing off their new gyroscopic car line to West Ashtabula. You knew they are to extend it to the Harbor next year.” Doesn’t it seem funny to think of Francis Dickson as rector of St. James church in Cleveland, and Louise Krause and Esther Lang as settlement workers in his parish?” “And did you know that Lawrence Russell was going back to Germany as chief civil engineer to the new President? and that Arlene Henry was going to Germany, also?” “Bane Fassula, though a graduate of Yale, has accepted a position as Professor of Modern Languages. He seemed glad to be here again ” “And can you imagine anything funnier than our faces when we saw Ralph Heil, grown so stout, 240 pounds they say. And a family of beautiful daughters! Neil Knowlton could have found some pretty good famous subjects for hs cartoons in the “Independent’ right here at our reunion, couldn’t he?” “Paul Hogan, barber to the President of the United States, and Thomas Kane, his secretary, came through from Washington in one day in an aeroplane. How would you like the trip?” “No, thanks, but speaking of trips, Lloyd Woodworth got stalled with his auto the other night. Ran out of gasoline. He just took a bottle of pop and a bottle of ten cent perfume which he (Continued to Page 31) 24