Battle Creek Central High School - Paean Yearbook (Battle Creek, MI)

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f N f X gl..:g.5 i 'e4-W ' -I 'irq A '. avi? ' nu I ll, 51: . fi . Glass lgrnpherg MILDRED BAKER Unaccustomed as I am to visiting potentates, you can imagine my astonishment wl1en, in response to a knock at my door at the cloisters late one evening in 1270, I called Come in, and Pluto entered x ery charmingly dressed in red with his tail switching gracefully on the floor. I said nothing in fact I didn t feel like it, and when he asked me if I would like to visit Hades, I was naturally rather taken aback. But how well he must have known my secret longings! Ever since the com ent cook had died two years before I had wanted to ask her where she had put the keys to thc flour bin so I was glad of this chance. I nodded my head, and in a moment my friend Pluto and I were at the cave Avernus, on the downward trail toward the river Styx. Captain Charon rowed us across in his boat, and we landed on the opposite shore among all the shades Pluto obligingly took me at once to our former cook who sat contentedly peeling potatoes and dropping them into a huge kettle which was being stirred by a rascally looking imp It took sei eral minutes to focus her mind on what I wanted, but she finally remembered and said that they had been hanging behind the kitchen door all the time. Pluto hurried off just then to greet a delegation which had just arrived, and I was left to my own devices I was attracted toward a huge stone wall from behind which came the most awful moan groans and clanking of chains imaginable. I wanted to go in, but was stopped by a pitch fork wielded by a fellow who looked as though he meant it, so I wandered along. In the back yard I came across miles and miles of clothes line from which were hanging souls. No one could gne me any information about them, so I rushed to the brink of the river to look for Pluto for in common with the other members of my sex, I am very curious. Pluto sat on a rock leisurely fishing but when I made known my request his eyes lighted up with an untold eloquence and we hurried to the backyard and sat down on a washtub. He began to talk and tlus IS what he said These souls are those of people who are dead. When their shades come here, we extract tl1e1r souls Cqulte painlesslyb and hang them up in the sun. After hundreds of yearsgas you people on earth reckon time-the sun and the wind purify themg then we dip them in the river Lethe so that there will be no remembrance of the Past in them, and send them, wholly pure, to be relncarnated in the form of other people. One of my most pleasing pastimes is sorting them out and designating what they shall be. At lny expression of a desire to know what some of these quite harmless looking hits of white, foamy like substances were to become, we began to stroll leisurely down the rows, finally stop- ping at the Battle Creek High Section of the 1930 department, where he began to name the odd various shaped figures. George Fisher first on the line, is going to spend most of his life running around after Doro- thea Ixitz trying to persuade her that he is the only one. The next harmless looking one will be called Elizabeth Kerr who will make her living teaching an embroidery class at Harvard University This one poor thing, is to be Maryo Kimball, who will spend her last years in a private sanltarlum after many years of keeping an eye in the general direction of her twin. Here IS a great future benefactor to humanity. He will be Robert Harris who, after many years of research will discover a way to remove pencil marks from the desks in Miss Krell's room without the aid of a handkerchief. These two that are so close together are to be Mary Sabin and Margaret Allen who will pass many pleasant years in the South Sea Islands studying the architecture This blond one will be Margaret Woodruff, who will rise to great oratorical heights in the Senate assisted by her secretary, Virginia Osborn. And these two' Dr. and Mrs. Schoonmaker, whose son, Donald Jr., will be on the All- World Football team. This odd one will be the rather eccentric Charles lValkinshaw, who will donate a new Athletic Field, when the lagoon in Irving Park overflows its banks and covers the old one These two Wilda Shotwell and Wilma Martin, will become nurses and Wilma will marry one of her wealthy old patients and go to Alaska to live. And this rather elongated one IS to be the famous Helen Peters, establisher of a new world's ski-jump record. You will notice that the next two are exactly alike and will be the Muskin Twins who, after some years r ,' f. A t, fri? 1 .- ' ' Y ' ff f, . .1 . . - . i. -' - 4' .. . . - .X- .I I K.... Gif ,Ly j lu 1 Y I ' 9 Y 3 . J . . . 1 - i Y u K 7' . . . . S . I., Some were very white, and some were black. Others were in a doubtful state of cleanliness. : ' ' 4 1. ' . W 1 ' f, ' 3 - . I l ' AL w 1 - x . , A , T 3 , v -Q w-A 1 f H ' . , 'I : U L' . . x Vyff 4 X . l ' . A ,I ...hes . l l l S y ll . ' ' xv . 5 in Battle Creek, will return to their beloved Grand Rapids where they will be very successful in the manufacture of 'fSleep-for-Ever Mattresses. This husky-looking one will be Kenneth Stiner, challenger to the heavy-weight champion- ship, and will be followed from fight to fight by Mary .lane Cummings, who will be very inter- ested in prize fights. This cute little one will be Wanda Bayley, a dancing instructor at St. Mary's Academy in South Bend-the atmosphere there being so agreeable to her. Betty Bailey, the next in line, with the assistance of her press-agent, Mary Brigstock, will displace Marion Davies. WVanda Jackson and Lois VVilson's faces will become familiar throughout the United States through their Bradley Bathing SuitAdvertisements. Here is thefuture Bernard Craw, eminent surgeon, who will teach in Vienna. This one, Gladys Parkins, will conduct a matrimonial agency through which Adelbert Smith will find himself a wife. After that weighty question is settled, l20l

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f+ f - KX F' r cu t - 'f. .5 'A 'N I 'lf XT ,- -' l. l:ll'Ii , fxf 1' 1 1 ' r ' .. gg - I9 DAEAN OQ ,,,,,,, il Semur Qllass Qwtnrg K XTHLEIIN HFN TZ Freshman Ofncers elected-A meeting of the Freshman class of Central High School was called this afternoon at 3:30 in room B-9 for the purpose of electing ofiicers, and discussing the few class ac tivities. The officers were elected a follows: Don Austin, President: Mary Alexander, Vice-president: Katherine Moulton, Secretaryg Howard Duckworth Treasurer' Mr. George Parker, Faculty Advisor. Freshman Scholarship Awards-The Daughters of Liberty held a Mass meeting for girls in thc assembly room of Central High School this morning. Among the more important parts ef the program was the awarding of gold oblong pins, on which were printed thc letters 26-21 Scholarship, B. C. H. S., to the follow ing Freshman girls: Glenna Sharpe, Maryo Kimball Donna La Barre, Ada G. Thrapp Officers Flected-The Sophomore class officers of Central High School have been chosen as follows: lack Healey, President Helen Vlloodward. Vice-president: Donna La Barre, Secretary: Ted Evans, Treas urer' Mr. George Parker, Faculty Advisor junior Class McetsiAt the llrst meet ing of the junior class of Central High School officers were elected as follows Al Gifford, Presidentg VVes Eisenhood Vice-presidcntg Don Schoonmakcr, Secre tary: Howard Finch, Treasurer. Miss Marion Galton is the class advisor The Vocational School Cafeteria was the scene of the Annual J -Hop on Saturday November 24. About 150 couples of students and Alumni enjoyed dancing to VValt Vernic's Music on the improvised football Held which was sur rounded with pennants, tennis rackets snow shoes, boxing gloves, oars, etc The 13th Annual Junior Class Play l speal ing tbihtx Frances Sergeant won first prme in the Kiwanis Annual Oratori cal Contest while second went to Marian Giddings who had also placed the year before Howard Finch winner of the Oratorical Contest in his sophomore year has again brought recognition to Battle Creek bv winning the sectional prize of a summer s trip to South America in the Constitutional Contest lunior Senior Activities The Senior Class of Central High School entertained the luniors it a picnic at Gull lake last Tuesdav afternoon Tonieht the juniors are giving a reception for the class which graduated this morning in the Vocational School Cafetciit Decorations will be appropuatelyc trried out in the cl iss colors Senior Class Meeting Amon the many duties of t graduating class is first that of electing ofncers The class of 30 has begun its w oi k early by choosing th follow ing, to ieprcsent it Al Gifford President Fred Sherriff Vice president Marian Giddings Sec1ctar5 Howard Pinch Treasurer Nlr Shuart will as usual, act as class advisor Board Chosen Richard Fishei chosen by the Senior Class to stiff of the class annual H his assist xnts begin work im in order to issue the Pu mx P nan has been head the will with nicdiately next May The Vocational School Cafeteria was transformed into a formal ltali in garden for the Senior Prom Mark Fitzgerald s orchestra furnished music for this party which proved t big success Nlildred Decker and Howard Finch were the leading members of the cast for the annual senior play The Cat and the Canary which was performed on March Z6 and 27 in the high school auditorium In spite of the difiieulty con - V. , . 4 Y -. X W, C 1 f ' .Q 'E . ' 1 . C - - 1 ' 1 ' 1 -I , S . 1 . 1 S ' F 1 - K 1. . . ,.'. ' 1 ' ' 1 e ' e 1 ' c 1 1 1 - -' A V M i ' I ri' e t 5 y 1 C '. . I .. U X . ,fy Y' 1. ' A .f.. ' 11 . . ,a V L ,E . . 1 ' 1 ff-1 . '. . 1 c .' 'Z Z. . 1 - e .' ' - g , , r . A , 4 L 1 , . , . . Q V Y . E . . . , I I , . - . E il e r 1 H 1 1 Y. . ,. . C .-1 1 - 4 N - . ' . , . 1 . t , , - ' ' L, 1.5: . L A ts, 1 .V 1 ' 1 'Q ' A . ' ' e '. S A 5 2 'f ' ' If t I L . C , '. '.. W' . ' - , 1 - L 1 s v 1 1 1 -i 1' 1' X 'I' 15 ' Z U X K ' 1 ', '. , . . . .'. , 1 . - W. ir . , . 1 1 j -, - si C s as - ti Q 1 . A . A . . c , .A . - . - 1 44 as ' Booth Tarkingtons Seventeen , was presented on December 12 and 13 in the High School Auditorium. The leading roles were capably played by Margaret Allen, Marian Giddings and Howard Finch. The auditorium was well filled on both nights and the number 13 proved lucky rather than otherwise. Orators-VVithin the folds of the Junior Class of Central High School have been found three members of outstanding 191 nected with the production of this mystery it was staged very successfully. The Graduation Exercises for the Class of '30 were held in the Sanitarium Union Building at 10:30 A.M. on June 12. The Junior-Senior picnic and reception Hnished the High School days of the Senior class in a very appropriate and jolly way on the night of June 12, 1930. Y e

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KN I9 DAEAN 50 ff f, he will own a drug store and be busy training basketball teams to beat those of La Verne Park lnson, a grower of fruit-less grape fruit. This will be James Seeney, conductor of the Vox Pop Luther Dean and Schuyler Nelson will be owners of a tanning factory to tan pig-skins for Buddy Dozier to make into footballs. Alice Parry will graduate from Kalamazoo College and will run a successful Handkerchief-a-month Club. Franklin Hoshal will be kept busy posing for pictures on Smith Brothers' Cough Drops after the death of hlark. Clarence Oliver's statue will be placed in the Hall of Fame for his modelling in Ivory Soap, the purity of which will be raised to 99.4695 by Dalyn Ling. John Hokenstrohm and IVelcome Lewis will manufacture tennis balls which will be guaranteed not to go into the alley. Myrtle Emmons will be social secretary for Mrs. Charles A. Lindbergh Dorothy Burke will build a beautiful villa at Bald Pate on the Knob and be a scintillating figure in French society after making a brilliant marriage to a member of the French nobility Clifford Olsen will be a manufacturer in artificial gems which he will sell to the Chinese. Nolda McCan1ly will graduate from her beloved Michigan, then marry a missionary and go to Africa where they will convert all the remaining savages. A diamond mine will be discovered on their property by James Macey, after which they will return to America, build a l1on1e on Long Island and Marshall Lockhart will be their chauffeur. James Anefl' and Tom Proudfit will begin a vaudeville tour, but it will be broken up by the romantic elopen1ent of Tom and Ada Thrapp James will finish the season waiting on table on a trans-Atlantic plane where he will be very unpopular due to the fact that, interested in the ladies, he will often forget that he had a tray in his hand until it is in one of the aforementioned's lap. John Sanabria and Martin Huyck will have a glorious time humming their way around the world, but will land in Paris flat broke where they will wash dishes in one of the night clubs to pay for their meals. But I fear me greatly that many dishes will be broken because,-well, they have such lovelv ladies in Paris don't you know? Monsieur Basso will be chief designer in 'Jake' Shepherd's Paris dress shop. There will also be a little hat shop in Gay Paree run by two from this group, Eleanor Graves and Josephine King. Mark Travis will marry Kathryn Larrew and will be chief assistant to the messenger boy in the Farmer's Bank, Dayton, Ohio. Agnes Trick and Pauline Bellinger will be teachers at Battle Creek College and will travel through Egypt during their Sabbatical year. Mary Alexander, president of a private girl's school in Boston, will resign her position to travel over Europe with Mildred Baker, to help the latter in an attempt to acquire that elusive kulture Edward Long and Hazel Bradley will both make their debut at the Metropolitan, but Hazel will retire to a farm at the peak of her success. Peggy Macomber and Hazel Miller will form a comedy team on the Orpheum Circuit, and Gordon Belson will be a much sought after model for Kuppenheimer's cl1ildren's suits. Carleton Treadwell, married to Margaret Wallace, will make a fortune selling peanut brittle to the Japanese. Vonda Brooks will be hostess of the Ritz Grill in Podunk, Illinois. Vivian Bapsher and Nellie Peterson will manufacture 'Hapsher Perfume for Rapturous Moments' Hellen Hoffman will gain world-wide fame for her discovery of a new flavor for Blatz gum Dorothy Culver, a police woman in Chicago, will remain on her beat for three months, a truly remarkable record. Harry Babcock will be a pilot and his route will take him over Buffalo, where will be the Famous Bevier Sz Co., manufacturers of Spats and Gloves. Frederick Dryden will be captain of a coal barge on Lake Erie. Eva Sonneville will publish a volume of poems and Charles Stevens, who in High School will be art editor of the PAEAN, will gain fame in literary circles. Don Hayes and Donald Johnson will play in Bob Innes' famous orchestra which will broadcast nightly from his night club in Chicago. Thurston Scramlin will scramble sodas for a living in the Cordrey Drug Store in Battle Creek. John Fischer and Parker Briggs will own a Haberdashery there and John will he seen almost daily with a cunnin' little blond hanging on his arm. This one will be Major Powers, Professor of Trigonometry at West Point. A much dis cussed Butterfield Theatre will finallv be erected in Battle Creek, and Marion Dowsett, with a chorus of Gladys Carpenter, Louise Clark, Eleanor Egner, Evelvn Iglehart, Ellois Jones and Marjorie Kinney. The Singing Stenogs will be featured there. Doris Olmstead will give daily organ recitals over YV.E.L.L. Orin Micklatcher will be founder of the International News Organization and one of the most interesting items he will write will be that concerning ff I .' f 1 .,..t 5 I ,A 1 g ,f ' i i i ' 1 l I 51 N'Tvsf- ' ,X ' f , . f, ' I ff-T -N I1 'i x 1 .f-Xfesi, 1 1 I-T, ' I ' ' Z, -1 I 1 yr :1.:1i ' ' R Ykq im... 1'.g.3l-1' ' f' . . - ?.,.. page ln Liberty Magazine, of which Glenadine Jacobs, nee lNIoon, will be editor. . rf- I . I 'l ,' 1.. 1 I 1 l . . i l ' lg i : I . ' . 5 . ' I ' 1 i i I T 1 , . 1 : - v 11 11,51-S Y' . ,. A . - . . ' I Q ,Z 11 ' the remarriage of Julia Clark and Donald Reish who had been divorced ten years before. This will be of special interest because of Mr. Reish being the well-known big fig and date man from Cairo. And also in the newspaper business will be Richard Fisher, Editor, and Kathleen Hentz, Assistant Editor of a New York publication. Marian Giddings will also be connected with the Associated Press but will drop it for the much more lucrative business of writing novels. Martha Helen Hoshal will he Superintendent of the Sunday School class and in charge of all the Child- renfs Day Programs in the church where Charles Harmon is pastor. He will be well known for his famous sermons on the success of the American Home. At the height of his career David Ball will be promoted to the important position of Assistant Sales Manager of the Mail Order Department of the Toledo District of the Barton and Schnackenberg Patent Medicine Co. Ruth Davidson will accept a teaching position in Panama. Harold Vaxter and Irenaeus Gude will be joint owners of the new airport where George Hamilton and Nathanael Gardner will i211