Chatsworth High School - Tale Feathers Yearbook (Chatsworth, IL)

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 SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY OF 1938' It was the year 2033. Two boys from the thriving metropolis of Charlotte were poking about in the ruins of the once beautiful city of Chatsworth. One boy named Karloff had the misfortune, or perhaps good fortune, to fall through the ruins to an underground passageway where the spirits of the departed citizens congregated. The ghosts of the members of the class of 1938 were having a reunion and the uninvited guest was welcomed to the meeting. Miss Mackey, the class advisor told how Elmer and Harold Dassow after graduation had formed a partnership and had gone into the cattle business and specialized in the breeding of anemic cows for bloodless hamburgers. The other ghosts upon hearing their friends conferring with a mortal, floated over to Miss Mackey who introduced each one. The first of these to appear was Paul Trunk who is remembered as an oil executive, specializing in banana oil and elbow grease. He was closely followed by Alberta Schlatter who had been a physical education teacher at Annapolis, where she taught midshipmen how to row. Then appeared a sad, dejected looking ghost carrying a broken violin in one hand and his head in the other. He was introduced as Vfilmer Dassow, who had been a second Rubinoff and while broadcasting violin solos from Ills airplane met disaster when he hit a sour note and his plane dived earthward. A jovial spirit named Mary Frances Trunk was next introduced by the advisor. She had met her doom through sleepless nights caused by a handsome patient in Room 13 and near exhaustion she had taken twelve pills at two o'clock instead of two pills at 12 o'clock. A beau-brummel-llke ghost floated up. This young man was John B. Feely, explained Miss Mackey, and he became wealthy through the insurance business selling drouth insurance to cactu3 farmers in the everglade swamps in Florida Wendell Gard was the next phantom. Karloff's hostesses explained briefly that he had been a ballet instructor at Vassar. Then came Joann Grosenbach, the well remembered founder of the National Society for the Preservation of Pickle Smoke which still has its headquarters at Charlotte. A domestic looking spirit bustled forward and briskly announced that she had been the former Annie Lee Barnes who had married and lived a quiet happy home life with twelve children. Squirming her way to the front of the group, the next ghost was presented as Mary Frieda Zorn who had been a world famous dancer whose specialty had been worming her way through the Big Apple. There was a pause in the introductions of a few moments as Miss Mackey popped a fresh package of gum into her mouth. The opera queen of Charlotte Grand Opera House was next introduced in the ghostly form of Mary Rita Kane, who had drawn immense crowds with her performance of The Dipsy Doodle . Next came a ghost who had been Itching to get to the front for a long time. This was Boyd Crews, a well-known rancher of by-gone days, who had owned a 10,000 acre ranch on which he grew fleas for flea circuses.

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 SENIOR WILL I, Lucille Kueffner, my sun-lamp to Janice Daniels 4 I, Geraldine Homickel, my clear voice, to Paul Sterrenberg I, Danny Kyburz, my manners, to Joe McGuire I, Kenneth Hummel, my careful driving, to Jack Lawless I, Wendell Gard, my foot-work In basketball, to Bob Milstead I, Alberta Schlatter, ray glib tongue, to Dorothy Mae Grieder I, Paul Trunk, my teasing to Louise Gutzwller I, Mary Prances Trunk, my Danny to Ada Rosendahl In Witness 'Whereof, we have hereto subscribed our names and affixed our seal, the thirtieth day of March in the year of our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred Thirty Eight. Senior Class of 1938 WITNESSES CHATSWORTH LOYALTY SONG Chatsworth, thy walls so fair Mean more than brick or stone— And in our hearts they 11 always wear A luster all their own--To us they stand for right and truth For conduct that s above reproof And all the be3t ideals of youth Which to our lives you ve shown. So hail then to Chatsworth High The school we love most dear To honor her we lift our cry And give our hearty cheer—Rah! Rah! So Chatsworth the teams that fight On floor and field for you— Are worthy of thy colors bright The Orange and the Blue. Until 1929 Chatsworth had no school song. A contest was held and the above words were submitted by Willis Pearson, then an alumnus. These words were set to music by Rolland Truitt, music director at that time. Since that time it has served as the battle hymn for Chatsworth athletes.

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 SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY OF 1938 A dignified spectress now issued forth from the midst of the ghostly crowd. This was Dorothy Monahan, who had been a Sales Manager of the Vegetable and Humane Company which sold eye glasses for potatoes and ear trumpets for corn. Following this last spectress came Lucille Kueffner who was the noted designer of clothes for Charlie McCarthy and Ed Wynn. Then two dignified phantoms, Marilyn Brown and Elaine Schade, sauntered gracefully forth and announced that they had once instructed Germanville debutantes how to be presented at a Police Court. Rushing out from the ghostly group. Flip Frobish explained to Karloff that he had owned a chain of Flippfs 66 filling stations and that he had spent most of his life looking for the missing link. Now Karloff's attention was called to the former Ruth Ford who said she had been a gay divorcee with twelve husbands and that she had written that best seller Husbands To Have and To Hold . Next in line was Bernadine Ehraan who is remembered in reference to the music world. She and her hill-billy husband toured the country with the Rural Rhythm Roamers, a hill-billy orchestra. During intermission Bernadine rendered selections on her bazooka. Then Miss Mackey pushed a button and out came the ghost of Charlotte Trinkle through an opening in the wall. Charlotte explained that during her lifetime, due to much previous experience on refreshment committees in high school, she had opened an automat, which featured melancholy cream puffs. Two spirits came forward and the first one recognized as Danny Kyburz, led the way with a great clanking of milkbottles, followed by a bent old ghost answering to the name of Coach Hummel. Danny said that he had furnished evaporated milk and vanishing cream for Hummel's all-star vanquished athletic teams. Nosing her way to the front, Geraldine Hornickel now appeared. She was the former secretary for U. Snoopen, I. Findem Detective Agency and had spent fifty years of her life trying to find what puts the twist in pretzels and how to seal a sieve full of water. A very pompous ghost stepped forward wringing his hands and smiling patronizingly, told how he, Frank Garrity, as uncrowned king of Tammany hall in New York City, had spent most of his life getting a bill passed for the building of a home for orphaned tigers. A very professional looking phantom now appeared. It was Dr. Maynard Game, bird and animal chiropodist who achieved fame as the originator of the idea of bedroom slippers for bed-bugs. Helen Wooten came forward next and related her experiences as the first mayor of Germanville. The last ghost to be introduced was William Turner who had been a scientific pupil of Professor Figgsbottle from whom he had received his Master's degree for aiding the professor in inventing radiators for Igloos. Suddenly Coach Hummel pulled out a time bomb which he threw into the midst of the group and which exploded an instant later at the hour of twelve. Karloff was blown into the air and back into the land of the living. As he picked himself up and shouted for his companion, he wondered if it was all a dream or did he really see the ghosts of 1938's Senior Class.