Downers Grove North High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Downers Grove, IL)

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Lurabel Sherman leaves her four-year mortgage on Butch ' Klein to Virginia Lacey. However, Lurabel says it isn’t much good, as it was foreclosed six months ago. Jack V aughn leaves his cute looks to John Fox. Edith Wells leaves her poetic ability to Richard Kellogg. (You can do whatever you want with it, Richard, so long as you don’t come near us.) Lillian Wilhelm bequeaths her regal dignity to Olive Statton. Ruth Thatcher leaves her out-of-town address book to Dot Patterson. Signed: CLASS OF TWENTY THREE. Witnesses: Mrs. Shaffer and Mr. Leverentz and Miss Bleecker. ('lass Songs We came as Freshmen, raw and green. And we didn’t know our lessons when we should. 1 hough the others aimed to teach us, Stretched a friendly hand to greet us. And we learned our daily lessons when we could. Chorus: Farewell, farewell, farewell to Downers High We re the class that’s always happy. And we’ve made our four years snappy. Oh, the Class of 23 will never die. We soon as Sophies bolder grew And we held our heads a little more erect. But they never caught us napping, I .ittie time we had for flapping. And we left our second year without regret. Chorus We blossomed into Juniors then Looking down on all the freshies that we knew. In our French we were erratic, In our manners more emphatic. And our brains became as mixed as Irish stew. Chorus Ot, how our heads began to swell, When as Seniors we had reached the highest mark. We crammed, we bluffed, we frolicked. Till the old town had the colic, Downers High has surely been the finest lark. Chorus —Margaret Smith. Page lu enl }-fivc

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Class Will WE, THE CLASS OF 192 3, of the Downer s Grove High School, being of a sound mind and body, but realizing that we can no longer resist the efforts of the faculty to infect us with germs of knowledge, and realizing also that we must soon succumb to the dread disease “graduationitis,” do hereby make, declare, and publish this to be our last will and testament. First: We order all our just debts to be paid; namely, (I) to the faculty, in payment of our debt of gratitude, our invaluable opinions as to how the school should be run, (2) in payment of our debt to the community for establishing a community high school district, the remains of high school. (3) to the concerns involved in publishing the Cauldron, we leave our reputation for always having paid our debts during our lifetime. Second: (a) We leave to the Junior class the illustrious name of Senior with all rights and privileges attached thereto. (b) We leave to the Sophomores the inestimable privilege of attending Miss Bradbury’s English classes. (c) We leave to the Freshmen the surplus of intelligence in the departing Senior class. (Now Frosh, you ought to ertablish a teachers' training class for the Faculty.) Third: Pat Barr leaves to John Cooper his happy faculty of keeping his love affair, within class limits. Bill Boon leaves his commutation ticket to Hinsdale to Polly Ogren. Lvman Dum bequeaths to next year’s football team his avoirdupois to be divided equally among the members of the squad—share and share alike. They’ll need it. John Edwards and Lilly Borman leave their grades to anyone who wants them, in fact, they are willing to pay you to cart them away. Alice Conley leaves to Margaret S»ough a plush covered copy of “ I he Girl of Mv Dreams. and a propensity for blushing. Kathryn Deegan bequeaths her assorted set of nicknames to Beatrice Hanchctt. Jack Fisher leaves to Jeanette Phelps his perpetual and much lamented absence from everything. Eugene Foster leaves his massive eyebrows to Ruth Geissert. Vernon Fuller leaves to Mr. Vernon and Mr. Reed his eternal grin, Mr. Vernon to have full possession in the morning, and Mr. Reed in the afternoon. Martin Herring beoueaths to Samuel Dum his owlish expression. Butch Klein bequeaths his curling iron to Don Gallup. (Now Don, you won’t have to go around looking like Von Hindenburg.) Bridget Leibunguth leaves his plaid shirt to Sam Hurley. Helen Lewis leaves her angel'C di«nosit:r»o to Marietta Stoops. To Marietta’s brother. John, Franklin McNally leaves his sheik hair cut and his toreador trousers. Nclleeta Miskelly bequeaths to Eleanor Waplcs her slim height. lames Mitchell leaves two bottles of concentrated bluff to the first Junior to get A on an English theme next year. Bill O’Neil leaves to Mr. Brown his position as dancing master. It ought to be a great help in organizing the girls’ track meets. Bill Pape bequeaths the realism of his stage kisses to Herbie Hawkins. (Treasure this ability. Herbie. Bill is going to miss it.) Harry Putnam leaves his agility in getting in and out of trouble to Lucille Heintz. Clifford Sedwick leaves his collection of radio bugs and wireless bacteria to Richard Henderson. Antoinette Smith leaves her copyright on roles with an Henglish Haccent” to Eva Pollack. Margaret Smith leaves the canary quality of her voice to Betty Mahoney. You can easily get rid of canaries with chloroform or rat poison. Betty. Doyle Moore leaves his Seniority to whoever can make the best use of it next year. Theodore Speir leaves his chewing gum plantation in Westmont to Thomas Tizzard. l age ln cnl ;-four

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Class Prophecy T ime—1933. Place—Demonstration rooms of the O’Neil Electric Company. ILLIAM O’NEIL, president of the company, is seated before his monstrous f radio set. when Clifford Sedwick enters. I hey recognize each other as former high school pals, and when Sedwick tells his friend that he wishes to buy several large radio sets, (he is a dealer in radio supplies) O’Neil sits down at his set and begins to tune in for stations all over the world as a demonstra tion of the power of his instrument. “And then, mv dear children. Peter Rabbit scurried home to tell the exciting news to Mrs. Peter Rabbit.” “This is station K. Y. Trouble You. Edison Building, Chicago. The bed time story tonight was read by Mr. Gardner Barr, writer of the Peter Rabbit stories for the Daily Snooze. “We have just received a telegram from the Rev. Jack Fisher, missionary to the South Pole. He asks the hearty co-operation of the public in the sale of Eskimo Pies to raise money for an ice plant in his territory. This is Station C. B. Q.. Union Station. Chicago. Mr. Ray Klein. President of the Union Stock Yards, has just arrived from Washington. D. C.. after a con- ference with President Debs concerning the merging of Union Stock Yards. Chicago with Louis Klein’s Meat Market. Downers Grove. Miss Ruth Thatcher has just arrived in New York with her new creations from Paris. She reports that skirts are to be worn shorter than 'way back in 1922. This is station B. V. D., Sidney. Australia. Mr. John Edwards has just in- voluntarily landed from his trip to Mars in a sexto-plane. He was forced to curtail his visit because he was found to have anarchistic views, a cap gun. and six sticks of dynamite. Associated Press report. Wednesday. 2:30 p. m. Miss Nellccta Miskclly. the 30th woman in the Illinois legislature, now an ambassador to the heart of Africa, addressed the wives of Bo Bo. an African chief. Her subject was A Woman as Chairman of the World Court. At this time Miss Margaret Smith will sing her new song: Hubby Makes a Darling Maid. Mr. William Boon, of the University of Afghanistan, boldly issues a challenge to the world and any other inhabited planet of the solar system. His domino team has been in intensive training for month. He says. T feel confident of winning. My strong point in the game of dominoes is the bone yard.' This is station C. A. T.. Belmont, Illinois. We are pleased to announce that James P. Mitchell, P. A. M. Ph. D.. teacher of painting, designing, sculping, etc. in the Downers Grove Community High School, has received a medal and $1.000 in gold from Campbells Soup Co. for his picture entitled A Plate of Baked Beans. which won first prize in the recent contest at the Art Institute. Chicago. This is station C. O. D., at the Lisle County Fair. Illinois. Miss Lilly Borman, the world-famous daredeviless. has beaten her parachute to the ground after a 4000 mile airplane race, in which her machine. ’Elephantina,' was in the lead. The in- quest will be held tomorrow, in the undertaking rooms of Deacon Jack Vaughn.” At I :00 tomorrow afternoon Miss Lillian Wilhelm will walk a tight rope across the roaring Du Page. Franklin McNally has won two first prizes: One. for raising the largest turnip ever seen in Illinois, and the other for the most beautiful chicken. This is station S. O. S.. Jake Hotel. Chicago. Illinois. We will now be favored with a selection from the new light opera. ‘Make Love While the Moon Shines.’ played by Putnam’s Razz Orchestra. “Don't fail to register tomorrow. Your vote is needed in the mayoralty election. Vote for Antoinette Smith for mayor. She is the people’s candidate. 5-6 7-8. Squat, holding arms above head. To the count of four. Begin: I-2-3-4. I he exercises just given were by Mr. George Lyman Dum, author of the famous Dum Daily Dozen. Eugene Foster, dancing master of the Trianon will hold classes at Downers Grove Community High School once a week. Page in cnty-iix