Bradford High School - Resume Yearbook (Bradford, OH)

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Speedy Weaver read some of his latest poetry. It was something about a pale moon and my own love. After he had read several selection she said that women were still his greatest worry. He had been married five times but still was living with his sixth wife because she thought his jokes funny. Thelma Tisor and Leona Apple both said they had an M. L. degree. Sti wanted to know what college had conferred such honorary degrees upon them. Leona said, “You can call the preacher a college if you wish to. In other words we are married and living on large fruit farms in Michigan.” Pauline Thomas and Glenda Hockett told of their thriving business. They owned an exclusive women's shop on Fifth Avenue, New ork. Leroy Bashore and Harry Fifer told of their famous invention, an electric shoe polisher. Both said when they were in High School they had dreaded keeping their shoes clean. This gave them the ambition to want to make it easier for lazy High School students to have nicely polished shoes without much effort on their part. They both hinted that they were quite wealthy and prosperous in the world of invention. Helen Zimmerman said she had married a rich broker, Harry Bangs. They were living in Cincinnati, Ohio. I wondered at once if Harry still said, “I told you so” when things went his way. Naomi Hill said that she and Clarence Keihl were married and were just plain Ohio farmers and their crops included any thing from cabbage to children. Nondas Cotterell and Lillian Loxley were both teaching. Nondas was the principal of a girl’s seminary in Virginia. Lillian was the new Dean of Women of the College of Bradford. Florence Keller was a famous artist, a portrait painter. She invited all the class of ’27 to come to Lexington, Ky., and she would do an oil painting of each one. Gerald Gibboney was a manager of the Famous Cincinnati Reds. At once I thought of v how he had been manager of the Basket Ball Teams back in '26 and '21. Opal Yates (who always knew how to wear clothes well) was a model at Higbee Department store at Cleveland. Zelmer Keeler was cashier of the Second National Bank at Bradford. I was very glad to hear that Zelmer gained such an honorable position in Bradford. When a report was called for from Herbert Gephart no one seemed to know for certain where he was or what he was doing. Some one said that he was a consular to China from the United States. I at once remembered how interested he had always been in Mr. Morrissey’s American Government class. Carl Hill owned most of the stock in the Kroger Company. He said his wife Darlene (that good looking little Covington girl) and he were living at that time in New York City. Last but not least Catherine Kisner gave an account of herself. She was a play-write and famous actress and wrote under the name of Catherine Liddy. From that I took it that she and Bob were married and she wrote under his name. After the closing address James thanked the Looker brothers, Harold, Raymond and Donald for their hospitality and great kindness that they had shown the class in throwing wide the doors of their Hotel to accommodate the class of ’27. What an enjoyable evening I had. Hearing from all of my old class mates made me feel almost young again. For a few hours I had forgotten my cares connected with teaching in a Home Mission School. I had forgotten that my hair was streaked with grey and I would soon be fifty years old. Hearing from the dear old class of ’27 had filled me with new ambitions and made me to resolve once again to be an honor to them. M. S. 24

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Class Prophecy AS I picked up the evening paper I noticed that a new radio broadcasting station was to be opened that evening. Station B. H. S. Bradford, Ohio. This at once brought to memory my High School days and I started wondering about all of my classmates. What happy days we had spent together. More than twenty years had elapsed since we had assembled for the last time as a class. But now I was to hear from them all again. On the opening evening the station was to broadcast a 1927 class reunion. The occasion for this new station was the dedication and formal opening of a new college which was closely associated with our dear old B. H. S. It was the bright idea of Max Weaver (funny he never had any when he was in school) to hold this reunion in connection with the dedication. Every member of the class had been requested either to be present in person or else send a letter telling all about himself. I was more than two thousand miles away so I was unable to get to Bradford in time. But I had one consolation. I could tune in and hear all about my classmates. This was almost as good as being there in person. At six-thirty sharp I tuned in. At first I had a little difficulty getting the station but this was soon overcome. The first thing I heard was the announcer saying, “This is station B. H.S. broadcasting from the banquet room of the Hotel Looker.’’ How very familiar the voice sounded. It resembled Johnnie Brumbaugh’s voice. Could it be that he had given up riding a motorcycle and being a speed cop to broadcast? I listened more and grew quite sure that this was he. Sure enough in his opening address he told all about himself and said that he was married to Mary Cain. I was so glad to hear the he had married some one so near his own height.????? Before the banquet proper started he announced that we would be favored with a solo by the famous opera singer, Tilly DeWeese. I was especially glad to hear my old chum once again sing her sweetest love song. It was very fitting that our old class President, Jimmie Stichter should be the toastmaster. Such eloquent and technical language as he used was almost uncomprehendable to a common educated person like myself. But he was the same old Sti in spite of the fact that he had enough degrees after his name to reach across a page and was one of the best known lawyers in the East. It is hardly necessary to add that he was still Mary's little lamb. During the meal the music was furnished by Hughes’Syncopating Six. After his graduation Ed. had studied music and was now the leader of a famous syncopating orchestra. After the dinner the toastmaster arose and said that he had just received a telegram which read as follows, “Greetings to the Class of '27 ”. Signed Mrs. Frances Teeter Crowell, Selkirk, New York. On inquiry James found that she had married Maurice Crowell a Y. M. C. A. Sec’y. at Selkirk, N. Y. A letter of regret was read from Jack Miller. He said he was very sorry because he was unable to be there. He was the controlling member on the Board of Directors of the Standard Oil Company and a special meeting had been called for the same day as the Reunion and he would have to attend the board meeting. The only other member of the class that was not present beside myself was Bern Lyons. Every one knew without mentioning it that Bern was the head football coach at Harvard and as the Harvard-Yale game was on the following day he could not be present. When William Tuttle was called on he only said that Clorine could speak for both of them because she did most of the talking at their house. Flicky gave a very interesting toast on “Sweet William”. Just then a lot of static came in but I managed to get that Tud was a M. E. preacher and she was the president of the Ladies’ Aid. 23

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 Juniors President..... Vice-President. Secretary...... Treasurer..... Class Colors ... Class Flower... Class Advisor.. ........Artie Deeter .....Lita McLaughlin ........Dean Armour ........Van Bowersox .....Green and White American Beauty Rose ........Mr. Morrissey Motto: “Work accomplishes everything.” 25