Boys High School - Epitome Yearbook (Reading, PA)

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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.

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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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62 THE EPITOME Joseph Philip Turner, jr., is still experimenting. He never seems satisfied. At present he is trying to dope out a way to eat bananas without first removing the skins, because he wants to save the Quija Islanders a lot of trouble. Under- taker Earl Breneman is keeping his eyes on Turner, he's sure he can't eat many more banana skins and survive. Jimmy Loose is one of Breneman's ap- prentices, and Breneman has just taught him the art of inducing a prospect to take a drink of embalming fluid, My, what an eye for business! The little antique shop at Fifth and Vlfalnut Streets is owned by Walt Mason and Bob Hawman. Since it is the only place where genuine antiques can be bought, the business is so rushing that they can hardly make them fast enough. While most of the class seem happy and well disposed, a few are not. Willis Sassaman and Karl Schaeffer attempted to pull a 'fMutt and Ieffi' show in the Pictureland, and, as a result. are spending a few weeks at the Reading Hospital. They have lots of Company, however, as Hen Thomas' Tennis Team is also there. Ralph Snyder and 'fjohnnyn Stout are convinced that pop bottles are not made of paper. Geier Freehafer and Art Bechtel turned out to be carpenters. Freehafer did so much sawing on his bass violin at High School that he couldn't resist becoming a carpenter. Bechtel was no mean scraper himself. Harlan Althouse is married and makes a good housewife. He doesn't believe that a woman should do such vulgar things as peel potatoes, so he does it himself. A wonderful example for the rest of us. 5 Hip Anderton and Grant Bechtel are touring Africa as salesmen. They are selling overcoats and galoshes, and, according to their last letter, they expect business to improve as soon as it gets cold. Out in Hollywood our class is represented by two of its well-known sheiks, Scott Herr and Amos Rinker. In the play in which they are acting, written by Thomas Barnett, novelist, Herr rushes up to the gang of thugs and slays them all, thereby saving a fair lady. Then, as Scott is joyfully marrying her, Sheik Rinker rushes in-but don't miss the picture, it's a reel thriller. At last Bi1l!' Brown got the position he wanted for a long time-a job with nothing to do and lots of it. He, with the aid of Quentin Weidner, keeps the people from crowding in the Penny Arcade at Carsonia. Floyd Rosenthal is also there, guessing people's weight. He learned to guess so beautifully while trans- lating Latin in High School. VVillard Leh and Conrad Falter are veterinarians. Their main object, how- ever, is to collect different species of fleas for Louie Heller, great flea specialist. Heller intends to collect the whole flea family and present them to his wife for a birthday present. Gus Drexler is the proud captain of a croquet team. Fish Hearing and Claude Hangen also play on the team, and at times they have some terribly rough games. The two greatest travelers in the class are Stanley Bibbus and john Boussum. They travel many miles each day, but always get back to the same place, because they are only conductors on a trolley car.