Berrien Springs High School - Canoe Yearbook (Berrien Springs, MI)

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M. “Oh! yes, George Pfeiffer a prize for his giggle.” J. “We’ll give Frances Stover, Nina Harner’s essay on ‘How I Charm Them.’ ” M. “Marjorie Weaver, a spinning wheel.” J. “Frank Dubert ought to have position of High School tenor.” M. “Mildred Hanson, a telephone.” J. “To Viola Hardke the right to propose next year.” M. “The faculty hangs o’er us yet.” J. “The hardest task that we have met.” M. “Mr. Preble, a summer home by the seashore.” J. “Mrs. Preble, the assistant in making seashore home happy.” M. “We haven’t anything good enough to leave Miss Graham, but we will leave her the best we have.” J. “We bestow upon Mrs. Bishop position of Literary Critic.” M. “To Mrs. Millar we grant directorship of our Glee club.” J. “Last but not least, we bequeath to Miss Evans a career. So be it.

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J. “We’ll grant Lois Kinney a divorce from LaRue Pennell.’ J. “I can’t think of any more Juniors.” M. “Why, Clifford Hanson.” J. “Of course, what better could we leave him than success as a cartoonist?” M. “And Nola Bancroft, success as a novelist.” J. “Ruthe Feather—?” M. “The right to become the only red-haired Senior.’ J. “What for the Sophomores?” M. “Your first choice for your wife.” J. “To Miss Schriver, then we leave the Unspeakable Turk.” M. “Learon Skinner, our book on Professional Acting.” J. “Louise Schrader would like a 10c diamond.” M. “Suppose we appoint Ivra Armstrong, High School pet.” J. “What about Natalia’s rubber doll?” M. “Give it to Wade Gorham. And give Wilbert Fischer some bait.” J. “Ruth Ewalt may have her pick of the Junior boys.” M. “Leah Rockey, two car rides a day.” J. “My old Virgil book to Florence Wetzel.” M. “A book, ‘How to Grow Tall,’ to Clarice Bishop.” J. “What have we for Barrett Slight?” M. “We can give him all our sugar cards.” J. “We bequeath Thurlow Shuler another bottle of green ink.” M. “Magnolia Bennett, a look into the future.” J. “Irving Knight, a lady fair.” M. “Mildred Culliton, the right to talk to the conductors.” J. “Marguerite Moyer, one gallon of red barn paint.” M. “Carl Hegner, permission to make frequent visits to the Normal room.” J. “Shall we leave anything else to the Freshmen?”

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 Class Prophecy M % % By FLORENCE BIRR and LAURA FLEISHER “Oh, would you like to have your fortunes told? We have the best way; it never fails.” “Oh do! elucidate!” “Well, wait until we get our kettle and fire.” (exit and return bringing smoking kettle; looking into the caldron they tell the future of each one.) “Fifteen years have passed and I see Isla Brenner as successor to Lady Duff Gordon and the dictator of styles in all parts of the globe. “And there is Nina Harner; soon after graduation from the Berrien County Normal she married the wealthy director of school where she taught. After four years of wedded life her husband died and within a few months Nina married the idol of her High School days, who had then attained to a marriageable age. “If there isn’t J. W. Monaweck. Well of all things! J. W. took up dancing as his profession and has built up a prosperous business in Paris. “And irresponsible Jane Ford, one-time school teacher is now known as the world’s most daring aviatrix. “Here is Natalia Jordan. She went to Italy to study music, eloped with her professor and, after a happy honeymoon, divorced him. She is now editing the column “Advice to the Lovelorn” in the Berrien Springs Era. “Who is this? I can’t see clearly.” “Oh, that is Viola Heim. She became a stenographer and was working in the office of a brick manufacturer where her talent was discovered quite by chance and she now ranks high among America’s great Prima Donnas. “There’s Esther Thomas. She entered the movies where she shows all the qualities of Mary Pickford and many others combined.