Danville High School - Tom Tom Yearbook (Danville, IN)

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27 Fl 5 At theIDesk next year. All lllill re111ai11s to be done is get tl1e consent of lllk' townspeople, Zllld there is 110 doubt b11t that this will be done willi11gly. Mr. Parker is also very famous for l1is XVOllCll'l'l.1ll lectures 011 Falling Ac- tion, wl1erei11 l1e holds that tl1e laws of gravity are untrue. Maxine Sears Longmire. Located 011 a l4fll'Ill near Danville. Married a very quiet man who devotes all of l1is ti111e to a sim- ple life. Mr. llllil Mrs. Longmire are lllll0lllI tl1e most respected citizens of the county. john Comer. Now cl1ief of police in the lOXYll of Plainfield. Mr. Comer recently proved himself clear of a charge that he was using confiscated liquor for purposes of l1is own, ill a case tl1at gai11ed state-wide 2lllClltlOl1. Mr. Comer is Zlll active member of tl1e anti-tobaeeo league. Me married a girl fro111 Haughville, Indiana. Leroy jones. Present janitor of Da11- ville l1igl1 school. He is a graduate of Har- vard, Zlllfl ll2lS taken post-graduate work at ffblllllllllil, Zlllll Oxford. Iingland. He co11- templates attending tl1e spring term at lllk' Central Nofllllll College. Joe Gibbs. Located at Passaic. New Jersey. He is eoacl1 of lllC high school basketball team, which has WOII fame i11 tl1e long record of victories, They recently XYOII the l,0O0th straight. He is fZlI1l0llS for the special training he gives l1is lL'1llll. They are compelled to take ar111 exercises each day, in order that they Illilj' make longer shots. He also has a very f2illlOllS girls' basket ball tea111. Mr. tiibbs married a chorus girl by the llillllt' of Harrison. Thelma Chatham Merritt. Located i11 Indianapolis. Married Cecil Merritt ill 19213. She and l1er l111sband are very sel- dom together, having separated as the ont- come of a quarrel wl1erei11 it has bee11 rumored a violin was tl1e cause. They have 0110 child, who was last heard of as being an outcast from the Paris underworld. Cecil Merritt. Located in tl1e Odd Fel- lows building. He is a11 expert lllC0l1lC Tax lllllll. He is tl1e best known authority on ways to reduce income taxes. He is a llillis gets up mul looks olwr flu' .vfllrfwnf body and then prays for Ihr school

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26 I1 H S in the last few years, and stages several fox hunts at her country estate every year. It is rumored that she may enter the polit- ical field next year, and her picture is to be found in many of the English magazines at the present time. Martha McKamey, Class Treasurer. She is 11ow well known as traction agent for the T. H. I, Sz E. Traction Company at Amo, Indiana. She has been given the Noble prize this year for her valuable work in the Society for the Protection of dumb animals. Years ago she seemed on the point of achieving fame in the musical world, but she suddenly abandoned all at- tempts, after the sudden exposure of great scandal involving the name of Horace Fulps, Esq. John T. Hume, Vice President. Busi- ness address, 829 Wall Street, New York. Junior member of the firm of Griffin Sz Hume. Also famous in connection with the New York stock exchange, where he has lost almost twice as much as he has won, thereby causing his legal advice to' be very valuable in more ways than one. Was married to M. P. Thomson, of Danville, in 1932, it being leap year. He has two children, both at home with their parents at the present time. Elizabeth Haworth Graham. Located on a farm near Danville. Married Fred N. Graham immediately after graduation from high school. She is a fancy chicken raiser, and has made herself famous from the pro- duction of a new stock, which lays three eggs per day. The hens of this variety are a pea-green color. Fred N. Graham. At the present time he is taking treatments at the state hospital for insane at Mount Jackson. For many years he devoted his entire time to an in- vention whereby electric lights would not go off so soon after the current was shut off, and thus people could get into bed be- fore the room becomes dark. He was never able to quite perfect it, and a few years ago his mind became affected. At the present time he is laboring under the hallucination that he is the ruler of the world. Pauline Thomson Hume. Located in New York City. Married John Hume in 1932. She has recently returned from a trip to the Orient, where she spent a great deal of time investigating the condition of the starving rats there, the people of that section where she visited, Armenia, having long ago died of starvation. She has been made chairman of a committee whose aim it is to help out the said rats by sending rat biscuit to them. Lenore Matting Crawley. Located in Crawleysville, Texas. Married a wealthy oil magnate, who founded the town of Crawleysville after striking oil there. Nine children have been born to this union: Nell, Jimmie, john, Harold, Orville Jr., Mary, William, Ebenezer and Clay. Mrs. Crawley is known as the First Lady in Crawleysvillef' Alice McCoun Wickeloskovik. Lives at Brooms, Poland. She married a noted composer. They have recently made a tour of the world, giving concerts, she singing and her husband playing. They have one child, who is a prodigy, being able to master the Jews Harp at the age of four. William Brill, jr. Located in the Van- derbilt Hotel, at Palm Beach, Florida. He inherited a large fortune, and so lives a life of leisure. He has been a competitor in the 2,000-mile airplane races for a num- ber of years, and won the race two years ago, averaging slightly over 540 miles per hour. He gave up the sport a year later in disgust, after ruining a S200 suit of clothes when he fell into the ocean when his plane collapsed at the height of three miles. He is engaged to Glordioo Swams- lon, a noted movie actress. Reverend Miss Grace Barber. Affiliated with the Holy Rollers society, and is preaching with a traveling missionary crew. She received a degree from the Uni- versity of New Winchester in 1930. Crawford Parker. Located in Indiana- polis. He is an architect and at the present time is working on plans for a new gym- nasium for Danville. The school is badly i11 need of a gym, as they have been for the last 30 years using the Christian church. It is hoped that Mr. Parker can have the plans drawn and the gym built in time to have the sectional tourney here Ch.a.rm0d, I'm surcf, said the snake

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28 Fl 5 staunch member of the Socialist party, very powerful now, and is talked of for the position of mayor of Six Points. It is rumored that he is studying a mail course on Matrimonial law. Leah Foxworthy, alias Mamie Jones, alias Georgia Williams. Serving a twenty- year sentence in connection with a series of murders in Hoboken, after a criminal record reaching round the world. She was exiled from France for polluting the Paris underworld. It is said that she chose this life because of a disappointment in love. Charlotte Hollingsworth. A member of the faculty of Shortridge high school in Indianapolis. She is the head of the Latin department. She is the author of several very good ponies for all Latin students, all of which have wide circulations, in the form of vest-pocket editions. She has been married twice, but divorced each time and given her maiden name. Lawrence Thompson-Deceased. He was killed when an anarchist put a bomb underneath the old county jail while Mr. Thompson was serving a term as sheriff. He had established a wonderful reputation for his inability to catch criminals. He left a will giving his entire fortune to a home for aged fleas. Sherelene jenkins Thompson. Located at Greencastle. Married Maurice Thomp- son, '23, who owns the Greencastle Ice Plant. She is famous for an invention, with her husband, of a non-melting ice, for which they have received rewards from the great nations Turkey, Philippine Is- lands, and several tribes of Eskimos. Edgar Franklin. Now located at La- fayette, Indiana, where he is an instructor in the Physics department of Purdue Uni- versity. This year hc made a famous talk before the International Society of Physists on the subject, White Soot from Black Coal. He married one of the employees of the Indiana State Prison for women. Professor Franklin uses a great deal of time in his classes for laboratory, and some of the experiments performed by his classes are famous all over the country. In one of these the class with Mr. Franklin's aid was able to dissect an atom and use the power stored there to run a Ford, from which the motor had been removed, around the square. Opal Kivett. Now touring the country on the Orpheum Theater Circuit. She is staging a chalk act in which she gives her audiences quite a thrill. In one of these she draws on a canvass, and after turning it upside down twice, it becomes a beauti- ful picture. She has never been married, but has had several sensational love affairs with some leading pugilists of the day, in- cluding Lawrence Pryor and Talmadge Moore. Lelia York. Located in Danville. She is at present the head of the Latin depart- ment at Central Normal, and also the coach of the girls' basket ball team there. Her team has challenged the Passaic girls' team coached by Mr. Gibbs, but the chal- lenge is as yet unanswered. She is famous for her wonderful collection of tom-cats. Daisy Sallee. Nothing is definitely known of Miss Sallee. She left on a trip to Egypt in 1933, and since then her rela- tives have been unable to locate her. It seems as though she might have been kid- napped by a desert Shiek. A tribe of people in the neighboring country of Ara- bia have recently told the world that they are holding a white girl for ransom, but they refuse to disclose her nationality. The United States, through its secretary of state, Coffin, are doing everything in their power to locate her. Helen Ray. Located in Danville, and owner of one of Danville's monopolies. She is the proprietor of the Paint A Cheek beauty parlor. She is engaged to a minister in Illinois, and they are due to be married sometime in June. Miss Ray made a trip to Siam last year to make an extensive study of the art of cheek work. The na- tives of this country are said to be experts at it. Dorotha Hughes Smith. Mrs. Smith with her husband, owns the Danville Hotel and The Danville Airplane Works. Mrs. Smith has full charge of the hotel, and has recently announced that she intends to build an addition to the present building. With this added number of rooms she says she will be able to lower the cost of rooms from S15 per day to 313.99 per day. A hair in the head is worth two in the brush