Boys High School - Epitome Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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60 THE EPITOME Class Propheey By ALBERT S. READINGER My Dear Audience : ' A great honor has been bestowed upon me this evening, namely, to predict the future of the members of the class. I sincerely hope you will receive this prophecy in the spirit in wihich it was Written, jollity, as the whole program turns to that stage of emotion. In order to make it realistic, let us imagine ourselves in the City of Reading twenty-five years from now. Howard Frantz, our president, is now mayor and fights daily wtih his four councilmen, Freddy Bertolet, Dick Koch, Hjimmyl' Rheinhart and Art Hessinger. Frantz is a Republican and Bertolet a Democrat, and they argue so much as to where they should place the new City Hall that the other three council- men are quite willing to put it down on Canal Street just to stop the argument. Wilbur Lefller has become a musician and every day thousands listen to him. He grinds an organ, and, instead of a monkey, Harry Seltzer collects the pennies. Harry always was up to some monkey business. Wilford Reist is also in the music game and leads Reist's Rhythmatic Riot Band of Rosedale, which now fur- nishes the music at the Rajah Theatre, where Francis Leisman and Bob Light are leading meng that is, they have charge of the ushers. W George Shindel runs an Acrobatic School for the weak-minded on Penn Street and specializes in teaching the St. Vitus dance. His assistants, Fat Wink and Bob Yeager, do toe dances for exhibition. VVill Burkhart, who is quite a poet, visited Shindel's school one day and was so everwhelmed by the grace of Winkis dancing that he wrote a heart-rending selection called Ode to Grand- pa's Red Flannelsf' Mario Bernardini and Cal Humbert have a large tonsorial parlor with lady barbers, and their advertising manager, Burt Jones, booms up the business by walking around with a sign on his back. Quite a few of our class seem to be actors. Bob Maurer and Russ Meinholz are acting, and are known for their quick getaways after their perform- ances. Walking up Penn Street, we come upon Kauffman Sz Heston's Haber- dashery, where they sell anything from Reading's products to imported Scotch. Izzy Singer and Max Bloom are chief clerks, and a hard team to beat. fit Adams and Dave O'Neil are preachers, and after Adams preaches his sermon, Ways of the VVorld, in the morning, O'Neil follows him up in the even- ing with Eluding the Devil. They are drawing record crowds. Acting as choir-master at the church, we find Howard Zeigler, who, with his mixed quartet of three men, is achieving great fame. John Neihart, Carl Gring and Dan Burky comprise the quartet, which, by the way, was recently honored by being allowed to broadcast from Station WRAW.

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THE EPITOME Presidentgs Address of Welcome By HOWARD C. FRANTZ O It is, indeed, a great pleasure for me, as the representative of the graduating class, to welcome you to these our class day exercises. We are exceptionally anxious to greet you tonight, because we know that it is the first opportunity many of you have had to visit the school that gave us our first real awakening and start in life. It has always been the earnest desire of the class of 1926 june to accomplish those things that would raise the standard of old Reading High. We have achieved many of these results, yet we know only too well that our successes would have been impossible but for the untiring efforts of our faculty. It is through the friend- ship and patience of these men that we are here before you tonight ready to show our worth-to show our worth not by digniiied deeds of sadness, but by deeds of mirth and fraternity. Tonight marks the end of our High School career. During our four years in this school we have made the best friends and the pleasantest associations that we may ever make, and to gather tonight perhaps for the last time means more to us than some of you realize. Tomorrow is commencement, when many of us will commence life in a greater degree for ourselves. Some of us will learn trades, some of us will enter business, and others will enroll in college to receive training for some profession. But no matter what field we enter, we are sure to derive benefits from High School Training. The most important thing we received during these four years was not merely the matter of fact material in our lessons, it was a quality for true friendship and a broader outlook in life. Wie of the class of 1926 June feel that we can look back with pride upon our High School career. We feel that we tried to do our very best in every way to honor our school. Neither the athletes nor the students produced in our class ever faltered at an opportunity to keep aloft the standard of our Alma Mater. There is much, both concealed and evident, that is the result of our labors, but the real test will come in time when we hope to give a worth-while showing. Tonight is one of fun, for it must be in keeping with the spirit of class day. We do not wish to show you that we are sad. VVe again take pleasure in welcoming you tonight to enjoy a good time with our class, and we thank you all, mothers, dads, rela- tives and friends, for the interest you have shown in us.

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THE EPITOME 61 Harry Miller and john McLeod are strangely connected in business. Miller has a bakery shop, and every time he sells some buns to a customer he hands him one of McLeod's name cards. McLeod is a painless dentist. Brookman Painter and Howie Boyer are still in college. It's miraculous how those two can keep from getting kicked out. VVhen someone asks Painter whether he is still going to college, he says, UO, deah, nog I go to Haavadf' Juke Anderton and Alivicious Vath are Hyweights in the professional ring and pull fake fights, Vath letting Juke knock him out. Anderton claims it's great fun. So does Vath. At the Reading High School we find John Douros and Francis Conway try- ing to teach chemistry. Douros mixed a new kind of tooth paste one day-a kind that would make teeth white and keep them white. He gave it to Conway to try, and now Conway has pure white teeth-they're also false. Sam Kozloff and Dick Abraham are pawnbrokers and get along second- rate. They buy a lot of their products from Harold Sallada and Elmer Smith, who are running a fast moving junk business. Sallada drives the wagon, while Smith collects the junk. Harry Merkel owns a cigar store and gives Eddie Schmauder free cigars, provided he smokes them in front of his door. Merkel says it saves the price of a wooden Indian. Sad to relate, Fred Hoffer and Walt Finch are residing in that venerable brownstone mansion near Eleventh and Penn because they cheated in a marble tournament. Fred Perella is a fireman. This is just a disguise, however, for with his two-gallon l'lI'61113.11,S hat he smuggles pre-war stuff into Warren Dresher's Orientale Garden, where they have dancing until 9 o'clock, a terribly wild place. The music is furnished by Dave Dickinsonls Orientale Antiques, and John Delp, who had a marvelous blowing power in his High School days, blows the trumpet in the orchestra. The Trailer Sleuth Company, headed by Bob Mattern, has been after Dickinson for sometime for disturbing the peace. Mattern, it seems, learned the art of trailing while running on our cross-country team. Spence', Smith is happily married and lives on a farm. He raises his chil- dren and chickens, and has quite a Hock of them, too. Earl Rickenbach is at present running an extensive campaign for the presi- dency of the anti-Liquor League. His henchmen, Theodore johnson and Carl Snyder, are fast roping in the public with a fragrant brand of five-cent cigars and a smooth line of fiction. Running in competition with him is Dick Beyerle, who is now a strict adherent to Volstead's law. Of great interest to us is the new Roller Skating Club originated by Allen Ritter, the only requirements for entrance being the ability to skate. Claude Glase recently made a noble attempt to enter the club, but was found too duck-toed to pass the requirements. According to all predictions, Ted Price has become a minister. VVhile performing the marriage rites of Red Ribble's wedding, someone started whist- ling Charleston Blues and the wedding broke up in a contest between Ribble and Price. Ribble and f'Wally!' Miller have gone into the boot and shoe business, and they're real good shoemakers. They claim they're going to stick to the last.