Brookfield High School - Echo Yearbook (Brookfield, OH)

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X lv- 1,.. W Q i fi Twentv-ix? 1 Y l 9 5 O of f be eff- fECHOf- SENIOR CLASS HlS'I'0R'l' fllontinuedj We are proud to claim among our ranks, Helen Locke, Captain of the en on the all-county basketball team, All in all four Senior girls, and four Senior boys lettered in basketball and five boys in football. ! Girls' Basketball teamg Elizabeth Evans and Dorothy Melnick, who were chos- Many Clubs of the high school have several Seniors as members. Many Sqeniors are members of the Glee Clubs. Two members of the class were on the Debate team. And now, as the year draws to a close, we regretfully bid goodbye to dear old Brookfield High. So Classmates, stand together, As heartily we raise, One loyal song at parting In Alma Mater s praise. May fortune smile upon her May men her name enthrone And we forever cherish Her honor as our own. YLucille Callahan. f 9 i ass ropheey I like to dream of wealth And of ships that come in from sea Laden with jewels and beautiful glass But happier I drink to the health Of a Muse who can furnish me With dreams of my Senior Class. Dazed as I always am I at facing Judge Whitcraft in the Court Room ion Shorthand writer, taking notes of the trial. How suprised I was to see that Tom Davis was the Prosecuting Attorney. When we were Seniors at Brookfield High everyone predicted that Stinky would be a comedian, and now, there he was rattling off trans-continental sentences that were so complicated a Philadelphia LaWyer.couldn't under- stand them. His speech was suddenly broken by the ringing of the noon whistle and Judge Whitcraft, deeply in sympathy with the appetite of man- kind, dismissed the case. y I wandered out of the Court House, into the Warmth of an early June Sun, conscious of the fact that 1 had been acquited of whatever misdemeanor it was that Leo Luchetti, Professor of History in Columbia U., had accused me. As I stepped into the street whom did I meet but Helen Shannon, chic in a. smart sport suit., and behind her was, the ever faithful, Hugh McConnell, carrying two traveling bags, labeled Hollywood. V y S y of Detention prospects and Watched Bernice Henderson, the World's Champ-

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X as 2- S+---:uosofeee .. 11- -EQHQ eimior Class History Let us turn the pages of history back to nineteen hundred twenty-six and we s-ee a band of sixty-five young folks, with very green looks on their faces entering B. H. S. That was the beginning of our high school career. We, of course, followed the style of our upper classmen and had our first class meeting, at which Carl Hall was elected President. We stepped into society when we had our first HalloWe'en part.y at Addison. The Freshies showed the rest of the school they were there when the call for athletics was sounded. We had several candidates for the football Squad and basketball teams and several representatives in track. Thus passed our first year in high school and we were eager to return in the fall. 'Ilhe next September found us back again, but some of our number had fallen by the wayside and now only forty-five remained to cont.inue our Work as Sophomores. This year Elizabeth Evans was chosen President. As Soph- omores we were again well represented in athletics. The outstanding events of our class this year were our HalloWe'en party at Stevenson and a Weiner roast at Elk's Cabin. Another vacation period rolled by and in the early autumn we returned, as Juniors with an enrollment .of thirty-six. Carl Hall, who so capably led us in our Freshman year, was again elected President. We immediately sensed the importance ol' our duties, so started in work- ing with much energy. This year we were to banquet the. Seniors, so to help raise the necessary funds we sold candy and sponsored a chicken supper. Then came our Class Play, 'The Family Upstairs, which was highly successful. Also, we must not forget the Junior Vaudeville, which pleased the public. In this year, athletics again beckoned strongly as we had Seven on the gridfield, five on the basketball squads and many representatives in track. Our first party was with the .Seniors and then Miss Biggin, our class ad- visor, entertained us, at her home. Three girls were members of the debate team. The melodious voices of severa-l Juniors were to be heard in the Glee Clubs. We closed our careers as Juni-ors by banqueting the Seniors in royal fash- ion on May 17, at the Wickcliffe Manor in Youngstown. We returned as Seniors, with several more dropping out and now there remained twenty-nine to keep up the fight. At our first class meeting Charles Branfield was elect-ed class President. This year our ring was put, up for standardization, and the vote was favorable. The Junior-Senior Halloween party was held at the High School. Twenty-one l 4 I Mfg fs: ,

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L-AF--3 A -ECHO-f . E., CLA SS PIIOPH ECI' fC0ntinuedj From a radio, in a shop window, nearby, came the voice of' Frank Golaske announcing that Beulah Newt-on and her Banjo Babies would play-- Let's Do Things and Neva Patterson would sing- Oh, for the Land of Barbecues. The musical numbers were followed by a talk on More Baskets -by Eliza- beth Evans. Across the street, this sign- George Nicholas- Merciless Dentist pend- ed into the street. Near the Dentists' office wa.s the Beauty .Salon of Sophie Callas and in the next block stood the National Bank of which Joe Murcko is president. These :familiar names and faces instilled a spirit of' restlessness into my being, so it was with nervous satisfaction that I hailed the first taxi-cab that came along and told the driver I just wanted to go places. He drove to tlhe show ground where the ' Highest Paid circus troupes had pitched their tents. Imagine my surprise, wihen in paying the chauffeur I glanced up and saw that he was none other than Cloid Couts. Good Fortune seemed t.o smile upon me that day, for as I entered the Circus Gates I saw Lila Foreman, New York's youngest and most popular Society Matron, talking to Chuck Dunkerly, the famous Railroad Magnate. Lila t.old me she had just received a letter from Genevieve Hill, who is kept very busy at her Studio in Greenwich Village and Genevieve had told her tha.t Mary Emily Phillips, the Colleen Moore of our Senior Class, together with Irene Biondy had es'tablished a Make-Up Relief Hospital on the top of' Beverly Hills. As we walked over the show grounds, the familiar voice of Al. Nagy came to our ears. He was introducing Hromyak, the greatest of magicians, who would now exhibit some ol' the feats Houdini couldn't learn. In the crowd of interested spectators, w-e found Regina Fejes who said she had just arrived. Regina was bubbling over with excitement. She had seen Helen Locke, the Athletic Coach of New York University, and Dorothy Melnick, th-e swimming coach of that same University. Ding Hall, she told us, was over on the field back of the show grounds 'taking people up in his aeroplane to an elevation of 5000 feet. Lila and I decided to go up, and as we were about to step into the plane, Charles Branfleld--that enterprising New York Undertaker-- slipped two of his cards into our pockets. I can't say whether Ding cheated us out of the tail-spin or not, for when I again knew life, I was lying upon a bed in the City Hospital. Esther Mac- Cleery, the head nurse was applying ice packs to my head, while Beatrice Houston, our Pharmacist was making up some pills. I know just how you feel said the clear voice ol' our cheerleader, I went up with Ding yesterday. Then why aren't you in bed too? I asked, but looking up into those large brown eyes of Lucille Callahan's I needed no answer--for I know--you ca.n't keep an Irishman down. ----Lillian Hake X I H' :ur A-' 't'g ' 5 Oil' Lx Twen ty-th ree