Franklin High School - Dial Yearbook (Reisterstown, MD)

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P I-I S TI-IE DIAL 1937 Prophecy of the Class of 1937 cont we held our breath while we heard her smg In the audxence we noticed Madeleine Schulthexs From her conversation between scenes we learned that she was teach mg French ln the Unlted States but was vxsltlng Anna and touring the contlnent during her vacation Then 1s the LlblqLlISCOpC was turned an entxrely different vlew met our eyes This time we saw the Red Cross headquarters ln New Orleans A very efhcxent Red Cross nurse was bandaglng 1 small boy s broken leg Why look' the nurse Thxs time the machine was turned we saw a tall office bulldmg 1n Baltimore and on the fifth floor was the ofhce of 1 blg buslness hrm The ofhce supermten dent was Els1e Knight who has just been conferrmg wxth LeRoy Hess 1 prnvate ecretary to the president of the company In the bookkeeping department were Charlotte Mechalske and Helen Duncan buslly working with figures Not far from Charlotte was Frances Mosner who was stlll her best friend Frances Inez Peltzer Irxs Frxtts and Sylvia Txllman were typmg Their typewrlters however were nolseless qulte dlfferent from the ones they used at Franklin There was still another member of the class of 37 ln this office Addle Mummaugh a certx fied publlc accountant who was busy exammxng the company s books Margaret Smith whispered to me just then that Gertrude Cross was also a certlfied publl accountant and had been do1ng well un thls field The scene then changed to Washlngton and w saw Kenneth Ryan and Evelyn Spence both workmg m the same office They had recelved then- posmons through the ClVll Service and had been promoted quite frequently so we knew that they were well qualified Next we saw another Government office and there was Homer Culllson a promment architect dlscussmg hrs plans for a new govern ment bulldmg That remmded me that Alden Smith was a successful archntect nn New York Next we caught a gllmpse of Mademolselle Helene ohnson greeting several soclety matrons ln her fashlonable beauty salon m Phnladelphxa Whom of our frxends should we see ln the famlllar bank bulldlng of Balt! more? There at the cashlers window was Jack Baker who was busy recelvmg sums of money from the depositors who were waltmg nn lme Around at the other window whom should we see but Fmmett Coursey also workmg there After that we focused the ublqulscope upon the Olymplc games and there we saw Vernon Sullivan among the contestants from the Unlted States Looking around among the spectators we saw Charles Plammond and Ivan Sullivan who had taken time off from thelr baseball playing to v1s1t the games wxth Garfield Weaver, a promment newspaper reporter Agam the scene changed, thls time to the business section of a large city In the various office bulldlngs we saw the following secretaries Merlam Myers, Betty Long, Marie Lexght, Norma Osborn, Catherine Bucher, Marlon Griswold, and Eleanor Trxplett Some of these glrls were takmg dnctatxon from their em Page Twenty one q .J 1 7 C C F . . , -- - , . . . , . was Margaret Hemlerl . . . , . . . ' L K, . I 1 A I A y C I t ' 7 C I C 5 . . . 7 U I I . L 5 ' 7 n , 7 ' Y 9 l 1 I . , . . . . 4 , . - ' - 9 , . . . . . .C . , C S . , ,. a 1 ' I . . , . . . ' I , , . 7 1 ' 7

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H THE DIAL 193' Prophecy of the Class of 1937 exciting mall Mr Richard lVlcCusker invites Miss Pearl Bobbltt to b present at a demonstration of his new invention the ublquiscope on Mon day evening une 21 1952 ln Science Hall at the ohns Hopkins University Baltimore Maryland I was delighted to accept his invitation It was quite a pleasant change to go back to Baltimore for a vacation after my duties as a teacher of mathematics at friend Margaret Smith whom I had not seen for a long time although I had been hearing much of her in New York as she was one of the important writers of the day I soon found out that she had received a similar invitation so we flew together to Baltimore In our conversation we recalled with pleasure old days at Franklin and Margaret told me that a few days ago she had received a letter from Verna Belt a famous musician who wrote that she was then preparing for a concert tour of the United States Lucille Speacht was her secretary and busmess manager Verna told her that Helen Rhoten now had a prominent orchestra of her own She added that Furner Eckenrode was successfully practicing medicine in San Francisco That reminded me that Irma Pickett and Imogene Chaney had very important positions as nurses there and Richard Bond was quite a noted specialist who spent part of his time at the ohns Hopkins Hospital We were so interested in our conversation that we landed at Logan Field in Baltnnore before we realized it Doris Benson and Marjorie Raver were there to meet us and went with us to our hotel On the way we learned that Doris was supervisor of English in the senior high schools of Baltimore and had as her as sistant Edith Walsh Marjorie was general superintendent of nurses at the Uni versity Hospltal ln Baltimore Then Doris recalled that she had a message for us from Toot Garman from whose beauty shop she had lust come We had just time enough to dress for dinner after which we all went immediately to Hopk1ns It was nice to see Professor lVlcCusker again who was quite dignified but as friendly as ever And speaking of friendly reminds me of the purpose of his new invention It enabled people to see their friends in any part of the world H explained that by turning a certain switch and by focusing the machme in the proper direction we might see and hear what was going on in any part of the world Before the demonstration actually started we had discovered that some of our other friends were present Marie Savage was there dressed in one of her latest creations since she was then a well known dress designer who spent part of her time in the United States and part in Paris She and ane Kelley, an interior decorator had just returned from Paris aboard the fastest liner of the day Nancy Goode who was a very capable social worker came up to speak to us She told us that she often saw Cora Burton who was one of her colleagues Charles Hen richs and Lee Geist joined our group, and they were interested in the ublquiscope from a busmess point of view, since they were both prominent business men Charles J Kelley was assisting Richard, for they were both electrical engineers Professor lVlcCusker explained to them how the machine worked, then turned on the switch, and there before our eyes was the well known Opera House ID Paris There in the midst of the dazzling spectacle on the stage was Anna Altvater, and Page Twenty F. . S. Q H! ' ' ' : . ' ' ' ' ' e . . Y . . , . . , i 1 .T 1 v .T ' , . Columbia University were over for a few weeks. At the airport I met my old ' 5 I 7 7 ' 7 l ' , ' 7 7 , , J . . l 9 - ' Y! 97 ' ' ' , - . , . Y Y 3 ' 1 9 Y ' I ' ' Y , ' 9 - '

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FHS THE DIAL 1931 Prophecy of the Class of 1937 cont ployers some were typlng whxle stlll others were XVOIlxll1g over bool1s On the hrsl floor ue saw a lon row of tele hone oaerators all bus FCCCINID cllls Who b P l- Y g was the fourth gxrl from the other end' Why lt was no one but our old friend Pauline Zlnlx She was uttxn tlarou h a call to a lumber com an for laldrld L P g g P Y 155 Armacost a rural builder and contractor who was MO1'lxlI1 on a new brooder house g on Robert Alexanders poultry farm In another large bulldlng we sam Evelyn Watson seated at the librarian s desl1 1v1n lI1f0I'I'l1'1IlOI1 to her ltt'Ol1S concern g g P mg the latest books Then the scene changed to give us a gllmpse of the beautiful country On a beautiful and fertlle farm vse saw Farl Ruby overseeing the work ers ln hls held The swltch automatically turned off lndleatmg to us that the professlon of all the members of the class of 37 had been disclosed The ubxqunscope was a sun cess and another great sttp tom ards SCICHIIEC advancement had been accompllshrd O Page Twenty two 4 -1 4 'y 1 ' ' - ,1 --' 1- - , , 1. 1 ' 1 1 7 1 +1 ' ' L 1. . , V1 x t , '. 1 1 1 1 1 . 7' ,K C s , 1 flu- 1 - 1 . - , . . . 1 ' 1 ' ' ' . . , V . . 1 . 1 , 1 1 - 1. 1 1 . 1 '1 1 ' '1 ' -1 ' ' '- ' S. 1 1 1 , 1 1 1 1 1 , . . . 11. . 1 . '1f 1 ' 't 11,1 1 7 1 1' , '1 1 1 ' A 1 1 1 X . K D