Commerce High School - Ledger Yearbook (Portland, OR)

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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

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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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.. W ga Wilhelmena Kraig shall become a dietician. Her great aim shall be to make fat people fatter and lean people leaner. Bessie Kreml shall be a painless, priceless, toothless and worthless woman dentist. Helen Kruntorat shall lead a great campaign against microbes. Her slogan will be, Talk them to deathg scare them to deathg step on them or use your head, or any other methodu. Marguerite Lee shall become an attorney at the Hawaiian Islands. Leona Leveton shall become the world's fastest talker. . Gertrude Levin shall sail the Seven Seas. She shall encounter many thrilling incidents. Marian Levoff shall visit the home of the Prince of Wales. Her winning smile shall cause him to propose. ' Rose Lichtgarn shall learn by this time why men like to be flatteredn. Arlina Lloyd and Lydia Lloyd shall be the inventors of a new hair-dressing style. Jeannette Mageske shall marry a poet. He will sit all day long writing poetry about,-oh, various things. Frances Marsh shall become Commerce's most efficient shorthand teacher. Lucille Maskey shall teach monkeys that fleas are fatteningg therefore, they will have to stop eating them for fear of being overweight. Imogene Miller shall become the broadcaster of women's gossip over R. G. VV. Olive Moen shall become the head matron of the Moen Baby Home. Helen Montgomery shall become superintendent of Public Schools in Chicago. Akira Moroto shall become a prominent business man. His greatest wealth shall come from selling blind cats. Josephine llrfenniss shall invent some magic clay that will make people beautiful over night. Lucille llloore shall become an evangelist. She shall cause as much confusion as Aimee llIcPherson. Lucille lllyers shall establish a very exclusive tea room which will be well pat- ronized because of the owner's charm. Elizabeth Myerson shall have the leading role in the latest opera, called What Killed Sweeneyn. Louise Oesch shall lead a very thrilling life. She shall paint everything from flag poles to faces. Sarah Olimansky shall go to the South Sea Islands and become queen of the hula dancers. Anna Olsen shall own a cattle ranch where she will become the greatest girl cow- puncher in America. Frances O'Neal shall have the leading role in Cecil B. DeMille's greatest production. Leslie Page shall become a football coach at the Girls' Polytechnic. Angelina Partipilo shall become a famous pianist. She shall go to New York to study music. Daisy Pasanen shall establish a gown salon and the models that she designs shall make Paul Poiret's mustachirs tremble with envy. Esther Pelz shall become a missonary to the fishes in the Dead Sea. Edith Pessia shall own a curio shop in some fantastic part of the world and sell old chromos to the natives for immense sums of money. Dorothy Peterson shall own a factory where baby dolls are manufactured. Margaret Porath shall become a class play coach at the Sehewawa High School. Carl Rice shall become a noted horse doctor. I Laton Riesland shall establish a very large soft drink establishment. His mil- lions will equal those of Henry Ford. Grace Rogoway shall be the edtor of the True Love lVIagazine. Marjorie Romine shall by this time gain a reputation by being a Walking Dic- tionary. Tfwenty-six