Elyria Public High School - Elyrian Yearbook (Elyria, OH)

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Uhr iirnpherg nf the Gilman nf 1919 Hearken all to the lines below, Read ye well and ye will know, What we herein have this foretold Of the 19 Class when they grow old. Cliff Manor, Los Angeles, April 1, 1950. Dear Glenn :- In reply to your recent letter I am glad to hear that your latest invention was such a great success. I have noticed that they are using your automatic wick-trimmer for electric lights in Pata- gonia. As for me the world has treated me more than fairly. Since I left college I have followed a literary career. By separate mail I am sending you a copy of my latest novel, ................... As soon as my last book of verses comes from the press I will send you a copy of it. In the course of my career I have traveled extensively, visiting all the civilized world, and Lorain. You inquired about our former E. H. S. classmates. During the last five years I have met most of them in one place or another. Where do you think Bus Lyman is? Upon my recent visit to New York I visited Sing Sing in search of prison atmosphere. There I found Russel musical director and time keeper. On the same trip I found George Wuhrman bailing the water out of the Hudson to keep the river from rising. During a stopover in the Islands of the Pacific a year later I ran across Isabelle Robson. She is President of the International Syndicate for Wandering Suifragettes, with headquarters on Wake Island. Can you beat it? In Hawaii I encountered Mildred Corf- man acting as dancing instructor for the belles of Waikiki, who are again the rage. In China whom do you suppose I discovered? Our old friend Stearns of Berea, who has climbed from lineman to the presidency of a wireless telephone system. He receives the fabulous sum of 750,569,499 yen per year, or about S513 in American currency. In the same country Ernest Jones, M. D., is private physician to the favorite Pekenese dog of the Chinese President. Dr. Jones sprang into prominence a few years ago by amputating the salary of the movie queen, Marjory Francis. Two years later I took the Aerial Route, of which Richard Gazely is manager, to Europe. At the Hangars I was accosted by an old man who asked to carry my luggage. Upon closely scru- tinizing his countenance I recognized the famous Yale football star, Harry Armstrong. In the course of the ensuing conversation 31 3 J

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PM I asked him the cause of his downfall, and he replied sorrowfully in the one word, Woman, By further questioning I discovered that this Woman was none other than Flossie Starr. In London I met Kathryn Mahn and Mildred Austin compiling a volume of anecdotes on the lives of London Bobbies or policemen. Thru them I learned that Georgia Burt was frequenting the haunts of the old poets in a vain attempt to write poetry. They informed me that Muriel Reisinger, Naomi Marsh, and Gladys Slater Were dispensing pink tea at the cricket meets on Trafalgar Square. While passing thru the Channel Tube I recognized the con- ductor as Perry Daley. We had quite an interesting chat. When I arrived in Paris I found the city ringing with praises of the great American painter, Allan Bates, who had just finished fres- coing the bolts on Eiffel Tower. One evening While dining in the Cafe Molin I was very much shocked to iind Gladys Williams as the leading ballet dancer. I next journeyed to Cairo on the Nile and there located Pro- fessor Leo A. Martin studying the phrenology of the sphinx pre- paratory to Writing a treatise of the men of the Paleolithic Age. Professor Martin told me that he had encountered Bruce Gibbons traveling to regain his voice, Which he had lost on an extensive lecture tour. On a short trip up the Nile I met Eugene Knectges as a barker on a rubber-neck boat. This trip Was cut short by the urgent request of President Humphrey at Washington to attend a conference to be held in Brownhelm. I took passage from Alexandria on a submarine. Upon looking over the roster of the officers and men I discovered Herman Lovejoy listed as a deckhand. The voyage was uneventful. A Week later I arrived in Brownhelm and I Was met at the station by Walter H. Hines, the director of World Amalgamated Sympathy Orchestra. At the conference it was decided in accord- ance with the President's suggestion to eliminate English and to substitute a course in the study of the modern novel under my personal supervision. At the same time Walt suggested drop- ping from the curriculum mathematics in every Way, shape, and form, replacing it with a course of Classical Syncopation under his direction. This measure was unsuccessfully combated by Miss Josephine Brarnen and Miss Margaret Klein, head of the Mathe- matics Department in Grafton and La Grange seminaries. Miss Cochrane, Supervisor of English for the State of Ohio, also stren- uously objected. At the close of the conference, Walt and I motored to Elyria and were met at the station by a committee composed of Helen Holcombe, Josephine Lockard, Nellie Vogler, Ruth Reynolds, and Ruth Kahliif, Whose married names I do not knovv. This commit- tee was headed by Mayor R. Joel Baker. That evening the Elyria Tattler, edited by Eva Mackey, devoted a large portion of the 332 P f 4