Ashtabula High School - Dart Yearbook (Ashtabula, OH)

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24 THK DART Class Prophecy OLAF SWANSON It was a big job getting information about all the graduates of the Class of '18 and I don’t know as it ’s all true, but I think so. Wirt August is married and lives at the Harbor. Alina Anderson is a st root-car conduct or. Anthony Bernardo has a cigar-box full of Fords with which ho runs a passenger lino between East Village and Swedetown. Decima Blakeslee is a Domestic Science teacher at the New bvme Institute. Howard Blakeslee is one of the Deans of the (Irand River Institute. Eleanor Blanchard is the proprietress of a restaurant on Chestnut street. Ralph Brockett is an aider-man in Stoneboro. Mary Brake is a dentistress. Laura Bratton and Mildred Brown have their law offices on (’enter street. Avleen Cummings is married and helps operate a farm. Mildred Cooper is married and works on the Ashtabula Rapid Transit Railroad. Marleah Cox is truant-officer for the Ashtabula Schools, (’lark Crandall is the junior member of the Walrath-Crandall Excavating Company. He’s been making excavations in Potsdam. He recently advanced the theory that the Kaiser must have been stooping over when the bomb hit him. Mac Crosby is a Senator. a broker, journalist, and one of the country’s greatest orators. Scientists claim that in 55 years he’ll own the earth. Hazel ('rum is a detective. (■race Daugherty is reporter for the A sh labula Evening Messenger. AI erle Dawson is in the movies. She recently celebrated the 10th anniversary of her 22nd birthday. She has been married and probably will be again. (leorge Dewey is an insurance agent. Josephine Dibbs, as you know, is Lieutenant-Governor of Ohio. C’arleton I)it-tenhaver is a chemist. He invented the Icksscoocitchz Powder, which, when rubbed on the face of an alarm clock, makes it ring without any noise. Felix Doyle is with the New York Giants. Genevra Ducro has now, for several years, been the greatest political boss of the Prohibition Party. Clara Early wine is Ashtabula’s Socialist City Manager. She proposed to Harry Peck but was refused. Hazel Farr married Hobart Kirk. They live at Saybrook-on-the-Lake. Edna Gear is a farmer. Elizabeth Godley is manager of the Cleveland-BufTalo Submarine Limited. George Guarnieri is coach at South Kingsville. Albert Guerini is a photographer. Frank Hammer is a jack-of-ali trades. Roy Hogan is traveling with a carnival as the headless wonder. Lura Holbrook married a millionaire and is traveling the country in a flock of Packards. Wade Jenkins is clerking in the grocery store at Griggs Corners. Dagmar Johnson is a school teacher in Swede-town. Rupert Kimball is traveling with Barnum A' Wallin’s Mammoth Circus

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THE DART 23 Hallowe’en party. We danced in the Gymnasium and refreshments were served in the Mess Tent. It was now our turn to have the management of the “Dart”. We walked off this year with both the boys’ and the girls’company basketball championships. We congratulate Company B on winning the Debate. We gave a reception to the Commissioned Officers. Officers and Privates alike seemed to enjoy them- selves. Next came the play, which caused much excitement and was “the best ever put on.” (That is said every year.) The reception given to us by Company B was a great success. Now comes General Dieterich and shouts, “Over the top, May twenty-ninth!” For have we not been in training four years? And are we not ready to go over the top” and fight Life’s battle? A Drama ACT 1 The scene is the Manual Training Department on a September morning in 1914. A Freshman boy is sitting at a table gazing out of the window. Enter Mr. Meister. Mr. Meister: So this is the Manual Training Department, is it? Boy, lazily: Yes, sir. Mr. Meister: Well, this looks pretty fine. I guess it’s up to me to put out some good work. Boy: Oh! so you’re the new Manual Training teacher, are you? Mr. Meister: Indeed I am. Manual Training is my middle name. ACT II The scene is in the Domestic Science Room on a September morning in 1914. Enter two Freshmen girls. First Girl: Isn’t it great we’ve got such a fine new teacher for Domestic Science this year? Second Girl: I should say so. She is from O. S. U., and my mother says she is charming. First Girl: Huh! Here she comes now. Enter Miss Kennedy. ACT III Scene in Manual Training Department. Big class of boys busy. Mr. Meister puts finishing touches on a tea cart and begins work on a floor lamp. Enter girl from Domestic Science room, with some pudding for Mr. Meister. Girl: Shall I wait for the dish, Mr. Meister? Mr. Meister: No, thank you, I’ll attend to that for myself. Exit girl, followed by Mr. Meister. Twenty minutes recess for the boys, also for the Domestic Science girls. ACT IV Scene in corridor on ground floor of A. H. S. on March 27, 1918. A group of Senior girls talking. A Senior boy rushes up and says: Say, girls, I’ve got an astonishing piece of news! Girls, in chorus: Oh! what is it? Quick! Have the Germans retreated? Boy: No, but something has happened as unlooked for and as astonishing as that. Why, do you know, Miss Kennedy and Mr. Meister are engaged! Quick ('urtain.

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as their strong man. John Kohut is the author of “Jutt and Meff” pictures you see in the leading newspapers every A. M. Ruth Larson and Mabel McAlister are contractors. George McDonald is ambassador to Armenia. Hilda Magnuson has been making firey speeches against the movement for giving men the right to vote. Ellen Metcalf married Harry Peek. Wallace Metcalf is a milkman. He has been selling milk that’s 86% water. Elmer Miller is a local guardian of the peace. So’s Victoria Nelson. Mary Newberry is teaching dancing by mail. Agnes Paine is principal of the Plymouth High School. Hercule Paolino is the city editor of the Neapolitaliano Telegraf. He’s something of a girl masher, too. Harry Peck is the head reporter on the Saybrook Sentinel. Eric Peterson fell down on his job and hasn’t had a chance to make up. He was an aviator. Mary Rainnie is Ashtabula High’s football coach. Ethelinda Rice is a public speaker. Joseph Rosenbluth is sinking lower and lower. He was first an aviator, next a steeplejack, and then a miner, and now motorman on a submarine. Francis Rogers is with the Tommy T. Tones’ Carnival as the bearded lady. Margaret Schaeffer is a chauffeur. Raymond Seymour is playing left field for the Pumpkin (’enter Bulldogs. James Shea is Thelma Swedenborg’s leading man. Grace Shipman and Leona Zaugg are the engineers who built the Aust inburg-Say brook Railroad. Both are married. (Not to each other.) George Sholtis is a writer of detective stories. He is the author of “Who Stabbed Susie With an Icicle?’’ He married Agnes Sullivan. Katherine Sill got rich on a lottery ticket. She’s living at a summer resort in Patagonia. Ethel Smith is principal of Raven High. She says it is the best High School in the world. Martha Sodergren did the same thing as Lura Holbrook. They say she’s awful stuck up now. Ruby Spring is a graduate of Yassar and West Point. She has been teaching Latin and Bavarian in one of the Harbor High Schools. Lulu Stearns is an artist’s model. Garner Stephenson is the owner of a grocery store on Hiawatha street. He also sells such luxuries as meat and vegetables. Thelma Swedenborg is now a Ziegfeldian graduate. She was recently in New York with the “Broadway Belles. Thelma Sweet runs a livery in Carson. Wendell Sweet is a magician. Olaf Swanson— I am now a multi-billionaire living on the interest of my money. Lucile Tilton owns a shoe store. Margaret Tinney is teaching Spanish in the Junior High of Ashtabula. Ruth Ward is an engineer on the Pennsy. Howard Warren is a Sunday School professor. Alice Weldon works in a welding shop on Park place. Hubby stays at home and takes care of the house. Parker Wilkerson is a manufacturer of strawberries and tomatoes. Winnifred Wood is an inventor. She invented the electric lawn-mower, the electric towels and the electric clothes-line. Theodore Zikovsky is now so fat that he hasn't seen his feet for three years. He’s a merchant.