Erie Community High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Erie, IL)

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THE CARDINAL - Thirteenth: Nettie Dobers submits her incurable Tee Hee's, to moderate Howard Riordon's obstreperous Haw Haw's. Fourteenth: Dorothea Finnicum leaves her drawing pencils to Effie Graham, and her matronly poise to Ruth Slaymaker. Fifteenth: Harland Bleitz leaves his butler costume to Russell Skaggs with the hope that the latter will find it a perfect fit. Sixteenth: Lucy Mahlstedt bequeaths her staid outer bearing to Marjorie Schryver, and her rippling inner self to Robert Wheelock. Seventeenth: Lucille Kelley leaves her Irishness and her preference of ruly horses to willful Fords, to Audrey Bleitz. Eighteenth: Grace Matson shoves off her Thcodoric desires to be grown-up to Do1'othy Skaggs. Nineteenth: Mary Hudson's breathless interrogations are left behind to be perfected by her young brother, William. Twentieth: Margaret Finnicum leaves her average of 97-to the school as a reminder of the class of '25. Twenty-first: Jean Allen will, upon application, return to teach Ardath Ryan how to blush. Twenty-second: Olive Greth and Gwendolyn Kellogg join forces and leave to Lenore Terry, a packet of faded love-letters, several well-worn vanity cases, and a pair of broken hearts. Twenty-third: Everett Housenga, the sheik, surrenders his hypnotic powers to John Forth. Twenty-fourth: Marcia Lodge wills her mountain-maiden innocencen to Marguerite Bacon. All remaining property will go toward paying our funeral expenses. Thus, we the Senior Class of the Eric Community High School, do set Olll' hands and seal this last will and testament on the eighth day of April in the year nineteen-hundred twenty-five. HARLAND BLEITZ. Signed, sealed, published and declared by the said Senior Class, as and for their last will and testament, in the presence of us, who, at their request, in their presence, and in the presence of each other, have hereunto subscribed our names as attesting witnesses to said instrument. PHILLIP ROOS MYRTLE ADAMS 21

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THE CARDINAL Class Will Ladies and Gentlemen, having been asked to serve as chief executor of the last will and testament of the Class of 1925, of the Erie Community High School, I have called you together upon this solemn occasion to listen, and to accept the gifts we have to bestow. We have tried to be fair and just, and hope that the fruits of our efforts will be dutifully accepted and efficiently put to use. We leave to the members of our dear faculty, all our past failings and deep- rooted affection, to be stored away as the most precious of treasures. To our dear old High we leave all the honors we have won. We also leave to the future annuals, room for the cut of a new schoolhouse. Upon the Junior Class we bestow our dignity, intelligence, and our extreme popularity. To the Sophomores we donate larger containers for their swelling brains, as well as our good standing with the teachers. To the Freshmen we leave our empty ink bottles, stub pencils, and discarded fountain pens. And now a few gifts remain to be turned over as personal keep-sakes. We hope that their value, trifling as it may seem, will be fully appreciated. First: Robert LaRue leaves to Kenneth James his great wisdom and excellent conduct. Second: To Austin McMahon, Suart Blean bequeaths his popularity with the girls, and hopes that Austin will take advantage of this golden opportunity. Third: Harold Pierson leaves his athletic abilities to William Hudson. Fourth: Ruth James resigns her position as yell leader to Arnold Hayen. Fifth: Pauline Lawrence leaves a few spare pounds to Esther Keisel. Sixth: Robert Pfundstein designates his extra credits to Dale Arnett's record sheet, and appoints Doran Fadden as guardian over Ruby Turner. Seventh: Alberta Turner entrusts Howard Barkman to Helen Adams. Eighth: Lyla Doll wishes her vocal accomplishments upon Hazel Weber. Ninth: Myrtle Hadaway leaves her sweet disposition to Guinevere McNeill, Tenth: Hugh Perkins passes on to Arden Reisenbigler a cure for smoking along with a package of cigarettes. Eleventh: To future class presidents Lysle Echelbarger leaves his presi- dential success. Twelfth: Ada Slaymaker bequeaths her cuds of gum to Thelma Adams. 20

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THE CARDINAL Class Prophecy One day, as I strolled aimlessly down the street, I came upon a group of children vigorously blowing soap bubbles. Inasmuch as I had particularly enjoyed this childish sport in the days of my youth, I asked them if I might try my luck at it. They promptly granted the request and scurried off to play another game, leaving me to reminiscences. Hastily I withdrew my apparatus to a more obscure, shady spot. Lazily blowing huge, vari-colored bubbles, I fell to musing on my old playmates who had long ago blown soap bubbles with me, and on those who had finally finished high school 'way back in '25, As I became very much enraptured in my dreamy sport, my eyes opened in astonishment, for there in the very center of a particularly large bubble, I fancied I could see Nettie Dobers as a missionary in China. The next bubble was slow in forming, but through all the difficult stages of its development, I could catch a glimpse of Mary Hudson. First, she was studying painstakingly to be a nurse, but her courage broke at the sight of the suffering of her first patient, a man with soulful eyes and ruby red lips, whom she straight- way married. Soon I witnessed Lysle Echelbarger as a radical old scientist over in Egypt, hunting specimens of prehistoric animals and dinosaur eggs. A little bubble formed right off the side of this one and in it, I spied Robert LaRue as a preacher in Springhill. ' The next few bubbles passed smoothly off. In the first one, I saw Ruth James married to a soldier and joined to the band of camp-followers. In another, I viewed Dorothea Finnicum as a decided old maid, but I could see her occasionally indulge in a mild love affair-usually with a traveling Evangelist. Then Olive Greth debutantely slouched before me as a regular flirt. She had been married three times, but her last husband had red hair! Next Pauline Lawrence appeared as a dainty toe-dancer in Chambersburg, Illinois. Then came Harland Bleitz as a doctor, and Everett Housenga as an undertaker. They had formed a part- nership and were doing a Very prosperous business. Another retinue followed closely. As I curiously watched an exceedingly large globule prepare to burst, I discovered Jean Allen, an eminent lawyer in Den- rock. Marcia Lodge tripped mincingly through the following one as an old maid touring the country, giving free lectures on The Evils of Dancing. The subse- quent picture surely surprised me, for it revealed Alberta Turner as a policewoman in New York! Ada Slaymaker, who had been elected to the National Congress was so puffed up that her bubble could scarcely contain her. In rapid succession came a particularly light formation in which, as it floated off into space, I viewed an expert monkey trainer. Who could it be? Why none other than Robert Pfundstein! Immediately thereafter I perceived Harold Pierson, an eccentric poet, in desperation running his gaunt fingers through his long tresses, for want of inspiration. The next creation almost popped out loud when it burst. There was Lucille Kelly complacently whizzing an elevator up and down the dizzy 22