Emmerich Manual High School - Ivian Yearbook (Indianapolis, IN)

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Diary of a January ' 21 Senior With due Apologies to Sam Pepys and little Benny By Paul Habbe, Historian Introduction. What is a class history that it should feel obliged, to ramble ov«r two or three precious pages of the Senior Booster? Could not a. page or two be saved by a concise history and be used more profitably. Since we all agree, let ' s begin: March 23. The whole show commenced with that famous Now folks, go aiow in your selection of officers from Miss Knox. Bob Uhl ' s famous presiden- tial countenance triumphed, and that now exalted individual strode forward without a bit of embarassment. Lxilyon Snyder won the honor, vice-president job, and Alberta Bernd was chosen to keep track of what we had done and what President Uhl thought we had done. April 7. Emil Harmeson, Manual ' s premier athlete, almost unanimously was put in charge of our millions. April 21. Contrary to the examples set by preceding classes, the fellows heioically allowed the girls to choose a nice, soft (?) coral ribbon. May 7. Margaret Kluger ' s pin design was chosen but then on May 12. Miss Knox explained that a two-piece pin would not only be more expen- sive but would also be impractical. So it was that Magdalene Eberhardt ' s individual, simple but unusual design was chosen. May 14. We entertained June ' 20 with farewell dance. May 19. Miss Knox suggested that we think over Ivy Day program during summer months — which, of course, we did. INTERMISSION. October 6. Some excitement. Four ballots and still no president elected. October 7. Robert Uhl re-elected president on fifth ballot. It ' s certainly too bad we have universal suffrage. October 11. Just see how much we did today: re-elected Lillyon Snyder vie- presi- dent; Alberta Bernd, secretary, and Emil Harmeson, treasurer, chose William Wetter to satisfy our curiosity as to our future life, and Josephine Renier to appropriate our funds to such worthy causes as a dancing teacher for the Roines Club; and (almost the end) appointed Ivy Day committees. October 25. For some reason we chose a class flower — the Aaron Ward rose. Maybe the girls expect the fellows to Say it with Aaron Wards on Com- mencement eve. November 2. (Ivy Day) The Ivy Day exercises, in spite of the fact that the pro- gram was made up at the eleventh hour, were an unusual success — so was the dance that followed. November 29. Bretzman was chosen to do the dirty work. It seems that the girls believed that he could make them appear different from the way they really look. Of course, the selection of a photographer was of no concern to the boys. December 17. Thanks, Junes! Almost as good a dance as we could have Sylung. January 12-13-14. Four performances of the biggest and best class play ever seen at Manual — and no exaggerations. Katherine Fisk and Otto Wick- strom are sure some players. In closing, the January ' 21 class takes this opportunity to thank publicly Miss Knox, Miss Gawne, Miss Perkins, Miss Williams, Miss Ernst, Miss West, Mr. Barn- hardt, Mr. Weigler, Mr. Winslow, and Mr. Holloway for their help and guidance to us through our Senior year.

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12 THE BOOSTER fluent because of the liquid conditions of his chief sensory organs. Noises caused by ids oracle orifice produced the following announcements of the freak inside: He neither eats, sleeps or drinks, but lives entirely on cigarettes. We slipped in and were not surprised to see Sherman Lightle as the center of attraction. Cecil Bird was teaching a Pink Rhinocerous the Zoo Dialect. Janet Moats was performing some Strong Man stunts. The juggling of typewriters was the most worthy of mention. We stepped into a bakery at the next town to get a bite to eat which proved to be a bit because of the deprivation of full value to the public in Albert Hart- man ' s placing holes in doughnuts. Upon leaving I paid two bits for our bite to Pearl McDaniel, the cashier. We stopped at a farm-house after leaving the town to get water. The door was answered by Florence Wacker. In our conversation she pitifully told us of her marriage to Dan O ' Connor, who had sued for divorce and obtained it on the grounds that too much attention was centered on Robert Uhl, the butler at her former city home. Her income was due to alimony which was being used for buying milk for her much needed beauty baths. In a paper lying on the table, I noticed a picture of Katherine Fisk, a recent star in Max Sennett ' s comedies, who after strong competition with Rose Saperstein succeeded in vamping Perry Nichols, the Shall Be Husband. Mr. George Thormeyer and wife, formerly Marie Ziegler, were the hired hands at the W T acker vs. O ' Connor farm. Anna Weaver won the beauty prize at the county fair, Alma Williams second, Edith Meyer, third. The honor constituted the prizes in value. Goldie Beck won six electric curlers, to be used in her beauty parlor which is patronized by all the beauty prize winners, for the most popular lady in Homely County. Mr. and Mrs. Strain, whose name was Maude Hitchcock before the said catastrophe, were living on the adjoining farm raising poultry, principally sparrows, black-birds and crows. Emil Harmeson ' s better half was said to have been lone Bryant. In Chicago we junked our car in Paul Adam ' s air liner station to have it con- verted into a planet conveyance. Paul informed me that Otto Wickstrom had made a fortune by consolidating ministry and shoe repair. His money was deposited in a Sand Bank on the Nile River. A sign on his shop read We Mend Your Souls and Heel You. Lillyon Snyder had changed her name to Wickstrom. Otto surmised that Hazel Bowman, Hortense Smith, Evelyn Gaddie, Irene Turner, Anna Richardson, Lillian Wood, Chavous Gardner, Postelle Vaughn and John Motely were students of Tuskeegee College of which Leon Saunders was president. Postelle Vaughn and- John Motely were studying dramatic art. Shortly after leaving I met Mamie Gebhart strolling through the streets and alleys. She said that since the Broadway Theatre at Indianapolis had closed she did not know where to pass the time away and had become very lonely because her plighted lover, Victor Helm, had deserted her. She told me that Irvin Heidenreich was teach- ing Toe Dancing and that Norman Wise was his assistant. The method used was Other Peoples ' Toes. Lillian Rosenthal, Caroline Carle and Henrietta Copley joined the Salvation Army. Alma Whitely, Helen Rosebrook, Alice Parker, Daisy Duvall, Edna Habeney and Ruth Kingham had formed an Old Maids ' Syndicate to forward Synthetic Foods. Passing through Water Street, I noticed Hyman Kamisky running a commission house, hash house, second hand store and a dealer in auto parts in a combined store. The menu board read: Ice cream and sauer kraut, boiled watermelon, hair soup, cowless milk and sandwiches at Palm Beach. I entered and ordered ice cream with castor oil flavoring, the waiter being Norval Stellhorn and the Soda and Soup Slinger, Geraldine Goodwin. I put up for the night immediately at Hyde Park Hotel where in all his glory and high ambitions stood Raymond Damaske operating the elevator. He had devoted his life to solving the following problems unsuccess- fully: How many angels can stand on the point of a needle? If one should stand on the edge of space and protrude his arm horizontally, where would his arm be? If a man stood in the center of a sphere twenty-eight feet in diameter with mirror walls, where would the reflection of his face stop and begin reflecting his hack? He had been forced to work because of failure to receive royalties on an invention of a perpetual motion machine. The invention as described by him cleaned the shoes, clothes, teeth, and combed the hair all with one brush. He seemed to be under the influence and effects of this combination brush. Edna Melvin and Saul Klein were the violin soloists on the roof garden of the hotel. I spent a delightful night with the snakes and angels, due to the sundae I ate on Monday; the following day was spent on Mars where Alberta Bernd was secretary for Jabo, the president of the Ethereal Space. Revenge I sought, but a doped ice cream soda I got. Class Facts Robert Uhl President Viora Frye Class Poet Lillyon Snyder Vice-President Pearl McDaniel. .Banner Arm Band Alberta Bernd Secretary Magdalene Eberhardt Pin Emil Harmeson Treasurer We Ourselves Must Paul Habbe Historian Pilgrims Be Motto Will Wetter Prophet Coral • • Color Josephine Renier Will-Maker Aaron Ward Rose Flower

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