Findlay High School - Trojan Yearbook (Findlay, OH)

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THE BLUE AND GOLD President Senior Class Message Of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. As graduation draws near there comes to every senior a doubt as to whether he has made the most of his four years in high school. Although some have done a great deal, nevertheless nearly all can see where they might have done much better. lt is only after we have successfully passed through high school that we realize that those years were four of the greatest and most important years in our lives. There is a tide in every man's life which taken at its flood leads on to fortune. Certainly the advantage of a high school training is one of the greatest opportunities in our lives. Since Opportunity knocks but once, the problem confronting the under classmen is to take every advantage of this opportunity. One of the criticisms of the modern high school student is that he seems to be drift- ing along without an aim. Too many of us believe in waiting till graduation to think of our particular vocation. There is no better place than the high school to bring out the individuality and peculiar abilities of a person, if he enters whole-heartedly into every possible phase of school life and tries to perfect himself in those to which he seems adapted. Many a cornerstone bears the inscription Toi our youth, the hope- of our country. Boys will be boys, but boys also will be men. Our country's position in the world tomor- row .will depend on our preparation today. The world's progress is in the hands of its youth. There must lbe progress, there is no such thing as standing still. We must either move forward or backward. Fellow students, are you fitting yourself for the task that THOMAS CUNNINGHAM, President Class '24, lies before you? Senior Prophecy It is in the charming summertime within the lovely, attractive city of Findlay, on the banks of the mighty Blanchard. 'Tis afternoon and it is in a dignified, illustrious private office on the thirty-third floor of the new Crawford Building on the corner of Sandusky and Main Streets, the chief architect, engineer, director, boss, janitor was Don Craw- ford. ln said ofhce sits Frank Traucht, world renowned electrician, chemist, radio expert, physicist and inventor of the new electric patent dog-catcher designed for safety service director, Ralph Strauch, with his ruthless gang of appointed officers, Donneta Bird as Chief of Police, Mary Oswald as speed cop, with such assistant right hand deputies as Doris Stall and Mrs. Hattie Runyan Thomas. In the fire department any day may be seen Vance Kramer, john Hazel, and others participating in a hotly contested game of Mah jongg, or reading for enlightenment such literature as the Orthwein version of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. As public health officer, Edward Bruck- lacher, assisted by Esta Orwig as campaign leader, is conducting his struggle against the hydrophobia germ or the path to Maple Grove with such mottoes as Let Bruck- lacher dispose of your garbage and Marguerite, go wash your feet, the Board of Health is across the street. As our city Mayoress we take great pleasure in announcing Evelyn Damon. Her slogan is Kale or Jail. ln the court room we have joe Ann Redfern as Prosecuting Attorney, and as Bailiff, Delbert Boren. The chief janitor and window washer at the Court House is Dwight McLaughlin. Now going clown the street in a 1938 model Fellers jazz-buggy we see at the right near Front Street, Marquet's Mecca for Chili Hounds. This establishment is the popular resort for Drayman Grove, Street-cleaner Simmons, Milkman ller, Stage Hand Jones, Ragman Ursehalitz, and Iceman Firestone. Here on Saturday night is a big attraction. On this night it is the privilege after their copper-boiler bath of the week for Farmers Gerald Line, Edgar Johnston, Harriet Thomas and Cecile Skidmore to see Jeannette Bonham, alias Tickling Tilly, star of the soulful musical comedy Vengeance ls Mine or Two Toothed Tilly by Pyorrhea with a charming. beautiful chorus, con- sisting of Elnora Spoon, Geneva VVyant, Doris Alexander, Ruth Cramer, Pauline Smith and Bernice Beeson. Opposite to the highly touted Miss Bonham plays the dashing young hero, jimmy Hammond. As chief soup-slinger and chief bouncer, the small but mighty Dick Hosler runs the place. Over the bridge and standing above the surrounding buildings is seen the WOIHCUYS Kindness to Dumb Animals Club, with Beryl Amsler as president and Ethel Honecker as keeper of the gold fish. Betty Harvitt is the campaign orator against the cruel en- snaring of rats, cats, dogs, birds or bugs, for any purposes other than foodstuffs for Clarence Myer's chop suey joint., Page Nineteen

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Page Eighteen THE BLUE AND GOLD Class of 1924 'Twas nineteen hundred and twenty-one. That a famous battle was begun. We Freshmen clad in uniforms green, Were shot and shelled with a hring machine. For one whole year, the battle waged, But never once was the little troop caged. Though the force was divided, they 'could always uphold, The cherished banner of the Blue and Gold. As the year rolled around, advancement came, And we were classed in the Sophomore fame Some of our number did illustuious seem, And proved their ability on the football team In Sophomore rhetoricals, programs and such We couldn't hope to show off much. Who dare against Juniors and Seniors compete. VVithout being forced to take a back seat? 1 With our banner before us, onward we trod, Till we planted our feet in the Junior sod. Here was our first real chalice to show. That you can reap just what you sow. We planted the seed when we met and selected, Commander in whom no fault was detected. Our play, The Charm Sehoolf' won for us fame, And our debates and music gave us a name. From all around you could hear fine words of praise, And to us, those were the happy days. Now we are Seniors, our services o'er, But we're struggling and striving as never before. Our goal has been set and we have maintained, The former standard by which we have gained This year as last. no talents we lack When we passed so ably The Third Floor Back. VVe had speakers and writers and artists galore, No better could be found from shore to shoreg So that is why we proudly bore, the name of the Famous At last we are veterans in our High School career. Liife's problems will be met without any fear. Though in future years, wc-'re scattered wide, Our services, this old world shall not be denied. And in remembranees, when we are wrinkled and old, XVe shall hail Captain lfinton and our Blue and Gold. -LOUISE ASKAM, '24

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THE BLUE AND GOLD On the opposite side of the street is the Men's and VVomen's Incorporated Barber Shop with barbers Howard Marvin, Kenneth Tyner, Walter Duttweiler and barberesses Susan Beach, Margery Morris, Pauline Hummell and Freda Schlaaik, porter Wilson Allen, and manicurist Florence DeRhodes. At the cigar counter Margaret Strickland makes a specialty of selling by her Winsome ways Linard's Five-cent Super Qualirty Aroma-giving Stogies with the trade mark Smoke one of these and you will smoke no -other, Thedbeauty parlors and Gold Dust Twin baths for ladies are managed by Catherine Fellabaum and Mildred Cole. And now on a corner nearby stands a church, Coburn Vandersall its the pastor, Mabel Gruber is chorister with Ruth Foster as organist. Nellie Love is president of the VVoman's Missionary Society, while Howard Nau is janitor. Next we inspected the Exchange Cut-Rate Bargain Department Store, which is one of the famed women-organization establishments. Ruth Reimund is boss, president, and Floor-walker. Erma Coleman runs the style department with everything the latest from London, New York, Paris and Arlington. Helen Shafer has charge of the millinery with bird feathers from Africa, Asia and the rear of Myers' chop suey hang-out, where Emery Snyder picks chicken feathers, peels potatoes, and cleans the rat meat for the popular dish. Edna Norris has the kitchen wares. Mildred Walters receives rugs from Persia, India, France, for her department, and her special agent is Shiek john Newton, in Egypt, who, by his cave man ways and good looks, has made as big a hit with the camels and Egyptian damsels as did Valentino himself. Margaret Strathman handles the book depart- ment, her latest sellers are The Heroic Capture of Wild Bill Hickupsu or Saturday Morning in Dick Reed, Jrfs Back Yard, by Carl Long, and Love in a Ford by Betty Porter. Catherine Stears runs the meat marketg her cows come from Mildred Ru.dolph's 100 per cent efficiency cow, pig and poultry farm. Vera Hutton runs the jewely depart- ment. Delite Ebersole models and manufactures the earrings for this department. Mabel VVise is the head of the dry goods. Virginia Curtiss has the shoe department. Gladys Caughman takes care of the grocery department and makes a special sale of animal crackers each day to the twelve children of I-Ion. Thomas Raymond Cunningham, Esq., B. V. D., President of the Ladies' Ready-to-VVear Shop, State Sewer Inspector, Cashier cf the Mortimer Federal Reserve Bank, Nominee for Board of Education, running against Miss Badger, popular educator and golf player. The toy department is con- ducted by Margaret Mays, who sells VVisner's patent talking dolls, sheep, horses, dogs. rats, cats, rabbits, squirrels, teddy-bears, bears, tigers, and fish. Nellie Stevenson runs the candy counter. Margaret Sheridan runs the elevator and Rita McGavey does the window decorating. May Bowers drives the truck. Farther down can be seen the office of Mrs. Benner-Ccrykendale, and Miss Myrth Hosler, Attorneys-at-Law, their private secretary and stenographer is Vernon Kanable. We then returned to Frank's ofhce where he has his radio call set by which anybody could be talked to by calling the city telephone exchange or the nearest 'phone exchange in case of foreign lands. First we called San Francisco where Bill Pifer and his Howling Hounds, successors to Paul Whiteman, with Howard Mays the star of the aggregation, were playing for a ball given by ex-middleweight champion-prize-hghter Arthur Hen- dricks, who had made his fortune in the ring and in the movies. Next we called Honolulu where Admiral Vorhees, on his trip around the world after a historic career at Annapolis, is sitting on Hawaiian sands watching the Hula Hula, having totally forgotten, per usual, his waiting love, a manicurist in a barber shop in Findlay, Ohio. And now we called New York. Florence Meyers, of the Ziegfield Follies has just taken Broadway down. Roberta Hanrahan is p'aying with the Metropolitan Opera Com- pany. Not such a soulful player has been heard since Rachmaninoiif started to play jazz. At Columbia University we found Professor Albert Hughes whom Miss Amsler of the humane society thinks is setting a bad example for the class by killing twenty frogs a day for his biology class. On the Bowery we hnd the House of Stanheld, one of the most noted clothing houses in New York. Stanheld sells only to the handsome men and his version of good-locking socks is especially recommended in New York, by Errold Struble, a popular society man, tea-hound and cake-eater, who having won a medal in the Olympic games for running, is now the talk of New York. We then called Hollywood and talked to Twc-gun Misamore, the Hoot Mix of 1940, who surpasses all previous movie actors as an lndian fighter and a serial star. Also at Hollywood resided George Oess, a rival of Larry Semon, who features, as his comedy queen, Miss Annabel Poole. Hence to Indianapolis. Here we found Dick Blackburn and Charley Auseon enter- ing in the annual speedway classic a Carrothers 5 wheeled 20 cylinder speed-hack. This cart is a great favorite, the monopoly of all betting being held on this chariot by Harvey Greer, millionaire, as the result of his invention of a new patent electric family tooth brush, and Floyd Payne, wealthy manufacturer of farm implements and electric plows, tractors, threshing machines, and electric vacuum stable cleaners. At Indiana Univers- ity, there has been erected for Francis Heckert Dye, literature professor, a library wherein professor and students are funished beds and may read and study all night, the library Cljontinued on Page 869 Page Twenty