Augusta High School - Beaver Yearbook (Augusta, WI)

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--'-T--1-....if'..' PURPLE AND WHITE - notable success on the American stage. Miss Wegner, or Miss LoRayne Nicholas, as she prefers to be called, expects to join the prima donna in Berlin soon. Richard Harden, who has just returned from taming the chimpanzees in Borneo, is a prominent geologist of the National Geographic Society and is now planning a secret expedi- tion to the Fiji Islands. Leland Rickard is to accompany him as a special reporter for the Rodell Yodeler, a well-known newspaper owned and edited by Walter Luedtke. Margaret Scott was taken as a protege by Rudy Vallee and has achieved much fame with her saxophone and lovely crooning voice. She expects to tour Africa this summer to make a study of the native music. Phyllis Ness is managing a hospital for books that are torn, misread, or partly missing. This is the only shop of its kind in existence, and gossip whispers that she has accumulated a great deal of money. Inez Taylor has a famous puppet show presenting Romeo and Iuliet. Her clever per- formances are world known, and they have recently been contracted for, by Hiram and Fiream Fillum Company to appear in a talkie. The said Hiram and Fiream Fillum Company is owned by the eccentric millionaires, Karl Rick and Louis Kohnke, more familiarly known as the Mutt and Jeff of the picture industry. Rumor has just reached us that Mr. Rick fiand Mr. Kohnke are contemplating under- going the ordeal of a double wedding. Mr. Kohnke is marrying Miss Mitzi Green, and our good friend, Karl, is leading that well known actress, Maureen O'Sullivan, to the altar. Marion Chrysler and Nona Pride are operating a beauty shop in Paris. They are con- sidered the best authorities in the world on beauty, and their wonderful method of face lifting and molding is the newest discovery of the age. There is talk of awarding them the Nobel prize for scientific research. Myraette McLellan is the owner of a chain of tea rooms operating throughout the United States. They operate under the name, The Polka Dot Tea Shops. She specializes in the serving of red and white polka-dot ice cream. Merrill Miller, now known far and wide as the Speed King, has established a new world speed record of 550 miles per half hour in his 98-cylinder Toadabular which was designed by his famous mechanics, Robert Schroeder, alias Toad The famous dancing team of Schacht and Schacht have now settled in New York City, where they teach every kind of dancing in twenty lessons. Rowene instructs in ballroom and esthetic dancing while Ruth specializes in tap dancing. They have been honored at home and abroad for the wonderful progress they have made in this field. Ding-dong, ding-dong! I stopped to listen. The clock was striking twelve, so I turned to go regretfully back through the Looking Glass. I 9 3 I Page Twenty-Two

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PURPLEAND THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS Stepping through the magic Looking Glass, I found myself in the Land Where All Things Are Possiblef' There was a large and beautiful building just a short distance away to which people in fantastic costumes were hurrying. As I drew near I heard strains of music of an odd tempo and mysterious harmony. The people were dancing about grotesquely in their strange garb, Looking down, I saw that I, too, was dressed in an elaborate pair of Turkish pajamas, and as I listened to the enchanting music, I felt the urge to dance and soon joined the throng of masqueraders. As the music ceased, the order came to unmask, and I soon discovered, to my surprise and pleasure, that most of the dancers were the friends and classmates of the Class of 1931. Naturally, we all got together and compared notes to find out what each was doing. Dean Balliett, I learned, had just returned from a trip to Alaska with his young bride, where they had spent their honeymoon hunting ferocious polar bears in the Alaskan wilds. Valeria Frederick is an Olympic star, having won first place in the girls' hundred yard dash at the Olympic Games held at Geneva, Switzerland. She is planning a lecture tour of the United States and Canada to show girls in high schools her medals and inspire them to great honors. Jack Horel is one of Uncle Sam's forestry agents. I-Ie proved his worth in protecting the government forests in Idaho, and is now the chief forester at Yellowstone National Park. jim Boehrer, who, as a youth, was designated by Bobby jones as his understudy, is now the golf champion of Little America, the country discovered by Byrd on his Antarctic Expedition. Agnes Senske, I was told, is now connected with the Heinz Company, makers of soups and pickles, where she has developed a new process for making pickled lemon rinds. Stanley McCombs and Arnold Works are big business men, owning a giant lumber company in Maine. I also learned that Lorraine Zank and Elizabeth Smith were employed by them as very competent bookkeepers. Pat Held, now known as the second Sherlock Holmes, told me that he was at the party on the trail of a notorious crook who had stolen an exceedingly valuable diamond ring from the famous aviatrix, Fern Derry. Fern treasured the ring because it had been given her as a prize for being the first woman to attain a three-mile altitude record. Doris I-Iaugh was absent from the party, but her American manager, Sylvia Wegner, informed me that she was touring Europe on her hrst grand opera tour. Doris was accom- panied by Sanford Johnson, who is her foreign manager. Both Doris and Sylvia have achieved I 9 3 I Page Twenty-One

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-' PURPLEAND ' AN ODE TO THE UNDERCLASSMEN I-Iere's to the Underclassmen, may their spirits never die! Their scholastic records will go down to fame As the many years go by. Their athletic powers are marveled at all through this part of the land. The cups and medals they've won for us, pass proudly from hand to hand. Come on, you noted speaker, why hide behind that wall? You know you're deserving of creditg you're marveled and envied by all. These boys and girls will make their names in many a far-off place, Then hack again to this dear old High, their start in life they will trace. Their talent in music is not so small when you think what they've done this year! And just the renown of their yearly plays Has spread hoth far and near. So it must be, is it not true, dear reader, after all I've said in this rhyme, The Underclassmen will he just as famous throughout the passage of time? The years may come and the years may go, Yet their fame will linger on 'Til these old walls start falling-crumble-decay and are gone. 1931 Page Twenty Three