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

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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.

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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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“But what is the idea of this cat? Oh, I see. It is the sole companion of Wilma Hartman, spinster Wilma has changed her plans since 1919. “Here are two forms—LaRue Pennell and Lillian Feather. They took a course in domestic science and art at the M. A. C. and are in the Hawaiian Islands teaching the natives to cook cocoanuts scientifically. “Of all surprises! There is Paul Heim in a long frock coat. Always inclined to the ministry, Paul became a missionary to the Africans, narrowly escaped death at the hands of the cannibals and returned home to become a clown in Ringling Bros.’ circus. “And here’s Nina Robinson in her libarry. After graduation she clerked for A. E. Whetstone Co., but hei genius could not be concealed and she is now America’s greatest novelist, known especially as the author of “Theodore in the West.” “Philip Dilley is next. He attended a medical school and is the most popular M. D. in Berrien Springs and vicinity. “And Helen Harrington has realized her dream and is now matron of the Children’s Home at Detroit. “I see you, Florence in jail. You headed the anti-tobacco movement and were accomplishing much in your chosen field when your career was cut short by your arrest for selling cigarets to minors. “Murray Willard is now in New York struggling with his pen. He has as yet gained no remarkable success but his son promises to surpass even Cooper. “Irma Brown’s picture is seen in all the leading magazines in advertisements of Mulsified Cocoanut Oil. “Mildred Ford became a successful school teacher and in a few years rose to the dignity of county commissioner of schools. “Helen Willard became engaged to a fanner but the engagement was broken and Helen sued him for $25,000 for breach of promise. She is now a society leader in New York. “And there you are, Laura, a lineman for a wireless telegraph company in Pittsburg. “And so ends the story of the members of the class of ’19.”