Commerce High School - Ledger Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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E w wf f LEIZEER-, Billie Wylde bequeaths her ability to keep the Class Roll from running crooked to the next class secretary. llfiabel Yeager bequeaths her athletic ability to hlinnie Winters. Josephine Zeller bequeaths her ability to catch poison oak to David Lewis. Lee Hornstein and Walter Freiter bequeath their ability to join the graduating class on the spur of the moment to some others who wish it. To Miss O'Keane we bequeath the torn pages of the library books we read, so that she may have accurate knowledge that we read hard. We hereby appoint lllr. Allen sole executor of this, our last, first and for all time, VVill and Testament. In Witness thereof, we, the June Class of 1928 of the High School of Commerce, the testators, have to this, our Will, set our hands and seal, this date of June 15, Anno Domini, one thousand nine hundred and twenty-eight. CSignedD MARION ISENSTEIN, VERNONA HOLLAN. Class Prophecy for 1938 S IT IS the custom of the graduating class to publish a prophecy, it behooves us, as the duly appointed committee, to so entangle ourselves. We were employed to be funny and sarcastic. We will do our best and will offer no apologies no matter how pathetic or tragic the result may be. . CSignedJ MARION ISENSTEIN, VERNONA HOLLAND, VVILHELMENA KRAIG. The old home of the High School of Commerce shall be a pile of ruins where its old shipmates may come to gather a last stick to spank their unruly children, The new High School of Commerce shall be noted for three things: 1. As the most beautiful school of its kind in the world. 2. The school having the largest attendance in the world. 3. The school having the largest number of cud chewers in the world. Alfred Abranz shall become the chief cook and bottle washer in a Chinese chop suey restaurant. Elizabeth Ackerman shall be the only woman having short hair and shall be honored by all nations on earth. Evelyn Bishop shall be the first woman from Portland to be sent to Congress. Edith Blum shall be known as Skinny Skeeziksn and shall weigh approximately 1,000 tons. Grace Boland shall run an Old Woman's Home. Irene Bollenback shall originate a new dance step called Ugazellegglideu. This step will be popular in the New High School of Commerce. Harold Brown shall be famous for his ability to teach football to kindergarten children. Evelyn Berg shall become Lindberghls private secretary. i Fred Burton shall join the Mack Sennett Comedies. He shall win great renown in his latest play, The Last Kissn. ' Anne Camijn shall become a reformer of the younger generation. Louis Caputo shall become an explorer and try to rediscover America. llladeline Carlile will become famous for her book on f'Class Room Etiquette . Tfwenty-four

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.. Q -4' LEDBEl?, L Helen llflontgomery and Lucile Zeller bequeath their inseparability to Reta Parker and Glenville Starr. Lucille lVIoore bequeaths her ability to gossip to lwiriam Coolbroth and Bertha Stephenson. Lucille Myers bequeaths her irresistible smile to Delores Quinlin. Elizabeth lllyerson bequeaths her dancing ability to Frieda Kristol. Louise Oesch bequeaths her ability to draw pictures underqthe teachers' noses and not be called down to Jessie DeBord. Sarah Olimansky bequeaths her ability to sing to lylarie Peterson. Anna Olsen bequeaths her quietness to Dorothy Tinker. Frances O'Neal bequeaths her position in lVIrs. Wade's office to a coming Senior. Leslie Page bequeaths his misplaced eye-brow to Carl Ayers. Angelina Partipilo bequeaths her ability to teach music to lliary Berardinelli., Daisy Pasanen bequeaths her basketball ability to Thelma lnghram. Esther Pelz bequeaths her eager expression to Russell Shaner. Edith Pessia bequeaths her bad habits to Opal Sutton. Dorothy Peterson bequeaths her ability to look bashful and not act it to Sam Rotenberg. Margaret Porath bequeaths her great desire for parking space in Portable G to Dorothy Austin. ' Carl Rice bequeaths his important manner to'Genevieve Johnston. Laton Riesland bequeaths his worries, cares and perseverance to the next Ledger editor. Grace Rogoway bequeaths the worries and cares of an editor to all future Ledger editors. Marjorie Romine bequeaths her profile to Fanny Bloomberg. Leona Sall bequeaths her soprano voice to Mrs. Wicklund. Bernard Schott bequeaths his excellent scholarship to Amelia Lorenz. Edna Semenza bequeaths her ability to wear blues Cfacial or otherwise, to Barbara Ackerman. Clarabelle Sexton bequeaths her love for Room 9 to Peggy Hartman. Louise Sirianni bequeaths her position on the Blotter Staff to May Small. Dorothy Smith bequeaths her rag dolly to Ernest Myers. Viola Smolnisky bequeaths all her good habits to Thelma Riley and Rose Riehl. Lillian Smolnisky bequeaths her perfect attendance to Ada Riehl and Ella Seidel. Mary Snell bequeaths her daily candy bar to Miss Von Berg. Eloise Snoddy bequeaths her raven locks to Lola Knutston. Heinz Sonnekes bequeaths his reputation as a lady's man to Jack Burles. Lillian Spiess bequeaths her ability to act Cfunnyj to Willard Kutner. lllildred Stalcup bequeaths her dislike for work in any form to Joe Davis. Violet Stewart bequeaths her fringed gentian eyes to llfr. Carlton. Reuben Strinsky bequeaths his poetic genius to Diana Bernstein. Helen Swint bequeaths her Irish descent to Goldie Rosenfeld. Evelyn Taylor bequeaths her athletic physique to Fred Nagel. Clara Uhlman bequeaths her sweet disposition to Lodovico Berardinelli. Millie Vidan bequeaths her boyish figure to Anita Williams. Edna Wagner bequeaths her ability to get her shorthand notes down before they fall from the boss' lips to Dorothy Clark. Jessie Walters bequeaths her ability to get along with people to Lenore Tarshis. Minnie Wenner bequeaths her ability to graduate in less than five years to Irene Kinzell. Levi Wickstrom bequeaths his banjo eyes to some little mermaid . Velda Winters bequeaths her position in the Uregon Tuberculosis Association to Bessie Sirianni. Clifford Witman bequeaths his rabbit's foot to Charles Cleek. Twenty-three

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. 6 .. FW -'A' LERBER. L . Joseph Ceglie shall become a great conqueror, and shall attempt to bring about the downfall of the Red and Black Ants. Frances Chamberlain shall go into the photography business and shall make of it a hobby to take pictures of her favorite- Valdyn Chandler shall acquire great knowledge and shall try to solve the great problem of life- Why Women Leave Home . Ted Charles shall become an astronomer and shall find some means by which man will be able to communicate with Venus. James Christison shall teach dogs to meow and cats to bark and women to keep quiet at the proper time. Millard Chung shall teach his people such dances as the Gigolo, Black Bottom and Charleston. Harry Clement shall eat so many nuts that helll go nutty. Grace Davis shall join the Fanchon 85 lIarco Circuit. She shall become very popular as a stage scrubberu. Jerry Davis shall become a great judge in a beauty contest. Albert Dappen shall be the caretaker of the monkeys at Washington Park. Billy DeCristoforo shall become a lifeguard on the Tigi Islands. Alvina Demsky shall be a noted attraction in the Sunday funny paper. Clara Dezurick shall be the head matron of the New York Orphanage. Alice Dimbat shall be a beauty specialist and shall specialize in face lifting. Arline Emerson shall found a home for shell shocked cooties. Lyla Dodson shall win a brass tack for her ability to swallow tacks without choking. Evelyn Epley shall become the joint owner of the lVIultnomah Hotel. Mary Ferraris shall write a simplified dictionary containing all kinds of slang, non-slang and other kinds of slang. William Fleming shall be the dark horse for the presidency in the future. Walter Freiter shall establish a school for teaching flappers how to cook. Bernice Galbrath shall become a champion woman prizefighter. Isabella Gray will become renowned for her ability to teach deaf and dumb people the art of talking and hearing. Rosa Halemba shall gain world-wide fame for her radio rhymes for infants. Helen Harila shell defeat Helen Wills, the heretofore tennis champion of the world. She ascribes her skill and splendid physique to early rising. Yvonne Herlick shall be an industrious worker for the Prevention of Liquor in Canada. Bessie Harvey shall be a woman of strong mind, strong will and strong temper. Sennia Hill shall be a lecturer in strong subjects, one of which shall be: An old maid demonstrating her independence of mann. Vernona Holland will invent a new reducing salve which will work wonders among the starving Armenians. lX'Iarion Hollenback will live happily ever afterward in a little cottage by the sea. Clara Horn shall receive great riches from some unknown source. Lee Hornstein shall invent a painless method of absorbing Chaucer. Ruth Huget shall go to Africa, where she shall occupy her time writing poetry. She will become quite a genius. Lucille Hunter shall be a crabby old spinster-a bachelor's girl. hIarion Isenstein stall study scientific research and discover why doughnuts have only one hole. Florence Jacobson shall join the Ziegfeld Follies. She shall, of course, dance. Lester Johansen shall be the head warden of the Salem Insane Asylum. Mayme Kosmuch shall become the rival of Clara Bow in choosing the leading lady in the show called f'Red Tempersu. Walter Kosmuch shall become a millionaire by borrowing money from his gen- erous friends. Tfwfnty-fifve