Fairfield High School - Quill Yearbook (Fairfield, IA)

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Class Prophecy New York City, N. Y., June 4, 1920. Dear l,illian If lYell, here I am in New York again, and who do you think is with me? lflizabeth Leggett, my former assistant. I just happened to meet her the other day in a depart- ment store. She has just come back from a trip abroad where she went to get material for a textbook on Latin. Vie immediately began to talk over old times and to compare notes as to how our former classmates had turned out. Roscoe YVhitmore and Herbert VVagner are running a scientific farm in Illinois, which is attracting national attention. lflhe .lohnson is a Red Cross nurse, and Lucile Burke is an instructor in Columbia Ivniversity, And. by the way, in that same store where I met Elizabeth, I met another class- mate-Ifmma Klineart. She was presiding over a ribbon counter. She told me that several old friends were in New York. Isabel Bishop and Goldie Hill are the leaders in a prominent suffragette club, and are noted for their fiery speeches. They employ, as their private secretary, Harold Swain, whom you probably remember well. She also said that a few days before a well-dressed woman came in whom she recog- nized as llrs. Berniece Israel. Berniece told her that she and Dutch were just in New York for a few days while she did some shopping. lflixabeth was very much surprised when I told her of your being editor of the 'Torntassel Clarion. She said that she expected your experience on the QUIL1. Board helped you immensely. And so XVanda Barnes is superintendent of a home for destitute guinea pigs, is she? I was just wondering what had become of her, when your letter came telling me. Last night Elizabeth and I went down to a movie theatre to see a new film just re- leased by the Ifssanay company. Gertrude Bailey played the part of the heroine and Delmar Frazey the hero. Oh, yes! there is another classmate here-Stella Griffith. She is principal of one ot the large grade schools and is very successful. Last summer I was in Batavia visiting .lessie Hoffman. You know she is instructor of mathematics in the high school there. XVe were sitting on the porch one afternoon when we spied a book agent coming up the walk. He had already seen us, or we would have fled. He came up on the porch and we recognized Fred Yvheeler. He was taking orders for a new book by Richard Gaines, How to Raise Glow-VVorms for Profit. lfred sat down and visited awhile. He said that in his travels he had run across some of his tormer friends. He had seen Mr. and Klrs. Raymond Holgate, who were lii ing on a farm. and Gala had bought one of his books. Charles Cummings is leading a hermit's life out on Cedar Creek, and is raising onions for his living,

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Senior Class Statistics OFFICERS President, RICHARD Gfxxxas Vice-President, LENA FISHER Secretary, EDW CLASS COLORS Old Gold and Violet CLASS FLOVVICR Sweet Pea Iirlcculaureate Sermon, llay 28 Commencement, June 1 ARD Sumoxs

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Ulm- law-elm has a ranch out west. She took up a clann a ten YUIITS 11110 has DYOVCH up on it. She is raising Angora eats at DVCSCHF. Haw you been reading the l,:idies' Home .lournal lately? lflorenee Clapp has charge ol the Household Hints department in that magazine. 'lihree ol our classmates have positions with the Cliicaggo Tribune. Klae Duke has eliarge ol the Right OH the Reel page, Florence Klelvhirter conducts a column, Affairs of the Heart, and Norene Switzer has charge of the Chicago society depart' inent. I received a letter from Christine lflliott the other day. She is head of a matrimonial agency in liirmingham. She said that last week she went up to Perlee for a day's visit with Iftta lVarner and Ferol Yan Dorin, who are running a boarding house there. XVhen she stepped off the train the lirst thing she saw was a jitnev bus. She went over to it, when she discovered that the driver was none other than Klarshall Steverl She also said that Raymond Davis has a small truck farm just out ot Perlee and furnishes vegetables and fruit to the Vvarren-Yan Dorin boarding house. Last winter I was in Philadelphia, and upon picking up a paper saw an advertisement for Klr. Charles Young. dancing teacher. Lvpon investigation I found it to be indeed our former classmate. Eva hlitchell and Octavia XValgren are also in Philadelphia, where they are running an up-to-date beauty parlor. Paul Pattison has certainly come up in the world-governor of New llexico. I hear that Clarence lllough is his private secretary. You remember what friends Roy Nelson and George Swain always were, don't you? 'llhey are in partnership in a real estate oflice out in hlontana somewhere. Cleona Sor- rell is their stenographer. Donald Garber is a doctor, Orion Greeson a lawyer, and Dwight Kruinboltz runs a theatre in Bangkok, Siam. Allen -lewett, who was always so bright in German, you know, is teaching that study in a high school in Idaho. Owen Linder is the owner of a drug store in Austin, Texas. Clarence Klcforinick went to Alaska a few years ago to hunt gold and I havenlt heard what became of him. His sister Rlary is principal of a school in Denver. I had a letter from her some time ago aiul she said that Orville Nott is also living there now. He has a hobby for collecting old ehina and travels all over the world. Ifdward Sim! mons is United States minister to the lfiji Islands. Did you know that ,lohn lieesey and john Fry were traveling with the renowned 'llreon-Rizor circus? So I heard last fall. They are clowns, and, I have heard, are very skilful. Ot course you remember Yarilla Smith? She is now a model chaperone, taking charge ol young girls traveling abroad. YVould you ever have thought it? Have you seen the Georges lately? I hear they are starring in vaudeville, making quite a hit, if you'll permit the expression. I wonder lion' I-Ielen likes it. Hate you read Florence Lights latest novel? lt certainly is spleiulid. She tells me that some of the rharacters are drawn from high school days. Harold Pi-den is running a meat market in Salina, aiul I.a Vergne Wvhitinore is a