Emerson High School - Emersonian Yearbook (Gary, IN)

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contest and first in the girls'. Clara Hogan won first place in the Lake County contest, while Glenn Rearick took sec- ond. In the Northern Indiana contest Sherwood Judson took second place. George Dunleavy, captain of the Emer- son football and basketball teams and a member of 1920, has probably gained more renown for Emerson than any other one man. In social life we also took the lead and gave two of the finest dances of the year. All this meant much to us and always will be cherished as fond memories. These deeds, all more or less concrete, will with time be dimmed, but though it may not realize it, our school can never forget our gift to the spirit of Emer- son. We have nurtured and cared for it patiently, and through such organizations as the Senior English Club and the Boosters' Club, both founded and led by mem- bers of '20 , we have sought to strengthen it. We have succeeded, and left that school spirit a living, breathing fac- tor which exerts great influence on the life of old Emerson. Future classes may not know our names or our deeds, but we have left to them all a priceless heritage in this revived spirit, and the result of our good work will live as has that of few other classes. -Glenn R ecwiclc, '20. 'WN 5 P19 lg I Q ' Z? 4 ,gl 2' Q - I Q , -r - 'Ti I 4 ygilr, 5 4. 1 I as A f ,ff gf '21 1, , - 'flee ,l' ' dl -1 I Y ' i , L, f img ZIZX, Ed Tw en ty-four

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SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY , ,G-1'-3 WAS the night of Commencement and all through the school Not a senior was idle, not e'en the class fool, For each heart was hard beating the sight to behold Of the magical glass of the Wizard so old. He had come from afar o'er mountain and dell To our great class of '20, our fortunes to tell. And now, bent and gnarled, and with wand in his hand, His Visage all wrinkled, but stern, sage, and grand, He stood by his wonderful crystal so clear, While all gathered 'round him the future to hear. My children of Emerson -the silence he broke- List carefully now to the words which are spoke: Neither whisper nor laugh, lest the Spirit you scare, With one sweep of this wand you'll breathe Fate's magic air. And waving and murm'ring o'er our wondering band He brought us to '19 and '30's dim land. sg: :11 The United States court room I see, said the seer, Judge Judson presides, whose name strikes great fear To the hearts of all criminals whose judgment is near. Who is it now enters with step sure and swift? Ah! 'tis Senator Wilson, who has the great gift To move strong men to tears and women to fright When he speaks on the great Prohibition iight. He opposes the Anti-Tobacco League Bill, And now is in court to sway men to his will. But his case was nigh lost e'er to court Wilson went, For the judge upon passage of that bill is bent. Ed puts up a good iight Calthough wasting his breathj And clinches his argument by, 'Liberty or deathl' Now in the crystal, foreign scenes I behold- Arnold Lieberman Russia's whole future will mould. In out-speaking any man in all tongues he excels, And, becoming excited, ofttimes he loud yells That he'll make out of Russia a second great Rome, While his wife, Floret Ohrenstein, brightens his home On a scene of excitement his eyes next he bent, And he told us 'twas Dunleavy, first president Of the Irish Republic! We had long known at school How he stood pat and firm for the Irish Home Rule His brilliant career was marked out by his wife, Who leads him and Ireland in all social life. He'd been captured at last by the coquettish way Of his old senior classmate, Miss C., I say! I foresee in the crystal a war will progress Against foes who our whole western coast do oppress, But out of the fray a great leader doth rise Whose ambitions do carry him up to the skies. 'Tis Ed Smith, who the world's fiying record does make When he circles earth thrice and twice Mars, by mistake Then, perceiving the foe, he comes down like a streak Twenty-six