Baptist Missionary Training School - Beacon Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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-i-- THIE BEACON -.ii E V PEARL VILHAUER ' Milwaukee. Wisconsin Entered 1929 Class Vice-President, 1930 Class President, 1931 Founder's Day Pageant, 1930 ELSIE ANDERSON, B.S.lV1. Humboldt, Iowa Entered 1930 Committee, Dramatics Class Play 1 Class Secretary, 1931 Glee Club LAURA VOIGT Avon. South Dakota Entered 1930 Chairman. Dramatics Class Group Dramatics Class Play ADELE CHISM, A.B. Cleveland, Ohio Entered 1930 Chairman, F-ounder's Day Committee President, Dramatics Class Senior-Freshman Party Q NANCY ESPY Nan ' Centerville, Iowa Entered 1928 Beacon Staff, 1929-30 Vice-President, Student Body Asso- ciation, 1931 Class Secretary, 193 0 ADA NELSON, B.A. Minneapolis, Minnesota Entered 193 1 Senior Class Play Committee Dramatics Class Play Senior-Freshman Party Committee IVA GURLEY Fort Lupton, Colorado Entered 1930 Faculty-Student Tea Committee, ' 193 1 Invitation Committee, Senior-Fresh- man Party, 1931 l 2 v MARJORIE BRADSHAW, Topeka, Kansas Entered 1930 A . 20

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-1--1 THE BEACON ----- CLASS PROPI-IECY I was off somewhere in the Land of Unconsciousness. And I dreamed a dream-a weird dream. I was sitting on a lofty bank of clouds nervously pulling its silver lining to shreds. How could I help being nervous when a pallid, billowy apparition composed entirely of clouds had informed me in a vaporous voice that I was presently to view the future of the girls with whom I had struggled through Prophecy, Pageantry, and Public Speaking. As soon as the terror which this mysterious and unearthly creature had inspired within me diminished somewhat I begged to know the past also. There were several things I desired to know, such as, Where did Bessie get that picture? and Who borrowed my tooth brush? , but the ghastly one commanded me to be silent - and I was silent. Then there came a great clap of thunder and the cloudy monster disappeared. In his place there rose a giant structure resembling an elaborate stage, bearing the inscription Prophecy of the Class of 1931 upon it. I-I'm! I said to myself as I settled more comfortably into the clouds to watch the Pageant of the Prophesied. Sky-writing! First an orchestra appeared upon the stage and then to the din of an invisible but enthusiastic audience in stepped the conductor and at her signal the first strains of the new symphony, Imagine My Embarrassment struck my ears. As the mists cleared away I saw that the musicians were the Oysterhouse Ortho- phonic Orchestra, conducted by thedistinguished F. Warburton. Then Margaret Cuddeback stalked proudly by wearing an insignia of dis- tinction conferred upon her by the Japanese government for inventing a com- bined cherry-pitter and kimono-mender. She stopped to display her medal to Iva Gurley. who stood in the doorway of a fashionable church where she had been pastor's assistant for many years. This enterprising young woman held in her hand a book, the author of which was modest Laura Fish. Iva asked Margaret to stop in at the Fashion Show down the avenue where Bessie Gillies was modelling and give her the little volume, entitled Fish Stories, since it included an appendix on Boston Baked Beans Beat the Best in which the Girl from Awlington might be interested. As Margaret rounded the corner suddenly she bumped into Laura Voigt, who was wearing shoes a size larger since she married Martin. From Laura's appearance it would seem as if she didn't even think of poor dear Ivan any more. Then the scene shifted to that of a Paris street cabaret where I could see Ruth White and Marcia Cudworth passing out tracts among the merry-makers when a big black bear came into view. This trained bear had written a ten- thousand word M. A. thesis in five thousand words and had since been author- ized by Congress to reduce the dictionary to half its size. The face that peeked out from the bear's skin strongly resembled Mae I-Iunter's. Myrtle Rawson seemed to have received the Nobel prize for l950 for her painting of her boy's Sunday school class which was entitled, The Pills of the Church. Then I saw Winifred admonishing her little niece, Margaret, for using her auntie's powder puff. Winnie's time seems to be spent in training Margaret to become an ideal B. M. T. S.'er, while she is not engaged in con- ducting popular concerts. Next came a glimpse of the bakery shop which Elsie and Esther had opened in the Sahara Desert, using the burning sun instead of oven heat. Elsie wanted to trade-mark her pies Sun-Kissed but spared Esther's blushes and decided against it. Some time later I saw them on the stage playing the roles of Damon and Pythias, with the audience constantly exclaiming How realistic! fC'onlinued on page 472 19

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-1.1 THE BEACON MARCIA CUDWORTH, Sc.B. ' Wichita, Kansas Entered 1930 one Club, 1931 , Class Vice-President, 1931 1 Mission Union Program. 1930 N DA ESI E LAWYOW Seattle, Washington Entered 1929 Beacon Staff, 1930-31 Class Treasurer, 1931 Missionary Committee Chairman MARGARET CUDDEBACK. B.A. Eugene, Oregon Entered 1930 President, Third Floor Club Beacon Staff. 1931 Chairman, Dramatic Group MARGARET NEWELL Peggy Pawtucket, Rhode Island Entered 1928 Class Treasurer, 1930 Founder's Day Play, 1930 Student Body President, 1931 LOUISE JEFFERS, B.S. West Lafayette, Indiana Entered 1930 Senior-Freshman Party Committee Gleeful Club MAUGUERETTE ALLEN 'Pickles Huntington, West Virginia Entered 1928 Mission Union Play, 1928 Class Vice-President. 1929 Marshal, 1930 MARIE LEOTA STODDARD, B.A. Pueblo. Colorado Entered 1930 Senior Play Committee, 1931 Chairman. Grace Committee, 1931 LAURA FISH, B.R.E. Amherst. Massachusetts Entered 1931 21