Fulton School - Fulton Yearbook (Toledo, OH)

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575' til-l.ll.. l':N egg writing, gum-ehewing, or window-breaking. Mrs. Myers, who had substituted during the latter part of the eighth year had retired from the work, owing tot inf-reased demands on her time at home. She was happy there with her duties and 'ilaeobf' After getting this information, we went on our way. I felt the need of some 1-hange so we stopped at the bank and nearly eollided with the janitor, who turned out to be Edwin Seabury. He had married Margaret Usborn and we wondered how she liked being a janitor's wife. Un at-eount of being strangers we had some trouble getting the money and finally had to interview the presi- dent. After that there was no trouble, for the president was Robert MeElheny, and he was willing to take'the risk. While we were talking in walked Miltonf Wiseman, and we found that he was viee-president of the bank. Leaving the bank we walked aimlessly down the street trusting our next! eneounter to luek, and she was with us, for we soon eaught sight of a sign bear- ing the names of .loe Benis and Raymond Soldner, followed by the word Stock- brokersf' We went right in and found Doris Williams typing away for all she was worth After greeting her we asked for Joe and Raymond. She pressed a button and there was a blinding Hash. Dorothy aetually turned green with fright. What on earth is the matter? asked Doris. All the offit-es have this sys- tem now, It is very eoinmon in Toledo. You see, when I press the button the flash showed you to Messrs. Benis and Soldner. If they wish to see you they press another button, and I push this lever, eausing the door to open. Doris showed us in to our old friends. They were prosperous stoekbrokers and prosperity agreed with them. We had a regular gabfest and learned during the eonversation that Wellington St-haal had beeome ehief of poliee. He had invented a new method of holding eourt by radio at any desired time. Again we eontinued on our way, but had gone only a short distant'-e when Dorothy turned her ankle and it was neeessary for us to find a plaee to rest for a time. Fortunately there was a ehureh near by and we went in there. The minister was seen entering just ahead of us and something about his abruptness in moving made us think of sehool days. So we hurried all we eould and, sure enough, it was Melvin Hankenhofnf. Yes, sir, he had turned good at last. So you ean never tell what may develop from a not very promising beginning. He told us that Dori-as Caswell and Virginia Harring had a little hat shop around the eorner. As soon as the ankle permitted we went around to see them. They were very glad to renew old friendships and showed us all through their shop. W'hile we were talking in eame Ruth Carnes and Lenore Dresser. Ruth had inherited some money and Lenore was her traveling eompanion. Ruth had eome to buy a hatg blue was the desired eolor, so Virginia pushed a blue button a.nd all the blue hats in the store eame out. Une was selef-ted and paid for. It was time for dinner. and after that we planned to go to the opera. Our luek still held, for the Prima Dona was Virginia Eekhardt, and another member of the east was Robert Schmidt. We had heard that they were playing together and were very glad that our visit to Toledo eoineided with theirs. The Waldorf was to be our headquarters while we were in Toledo, so we re- turned there now feeling satisfied with the number of old friends we had seen that day. I was turning from the desk when Dorothy exelaimed that Jane Crandell was sitting aeross the lobby. We approaehed her and asked her if she were not Jane Crandell. She replied that she formerly was, but that now she was Th r'r!y-Iwo

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575' I- I.ll-.TZINI 'gig Class Prophecy of Room Nineteen E, THE Al'TI-IDRS of this paper. tirell ol' the eonstant rush anll roar of New York, anll our work there, lleeillell to return to Tolello, llhio. anll see how many of our elassmates of Fulton flays we eoulll finsl. Dorothy Stophlet. my eo-author, is an enthusiastie worker for the rights of womankinal anll has spent most ol' her time sinee finishing at Fulton, preparing herself for that work anll putting into praetiee what she has preparell. You will lincl out a lit-tle more about me later on, After flue eonsilleration we lleeilleul to make the trip in an airoplane anll were llelightetl to finll that our pilot was to be Nelson Thal. We were soon on the way ancl enjoyell it all greatly. ln an ainazinggly short time we were in Tolello, anrl cleeirling on a taxi as the best metholl of transportation. erossenl the street to where a number of them were slrawn up. But there was not a taximan in sight. We lookell at eaeh other in amazement. A man, seeing our bewilller- rnent. erossell the street anfl askell if he eoulal he of assistanee. The man was Sam Kaplan. He hall beeome an artistg no garret style one, but popular eyen to Studio Teas! We explainell our troubles :intl were taken baek to Fulton clays in earnest when Sam's laugh at our ignoranee prec-erlefl his answer. Uh, tlon't you know, he saill, all the Yellow Cabs are run by raclio waves? You speak through this transmitter anal they hear you at the ofliee anll rlireet you by rallio to where you want to ego, Uh, I won't risk 1ny life in that thing! Dorothy saifl, lleeillenlly anll mueh to my llisgust, I hall to agiee to a street ear. We lookefl arounll for one, but none was in sight. Not even a street ear traek, Then arounll the eorner eanie a ear. There were no traeks! Again Dorothy was rather lil'lfllllt'llQll, but lleeillell to risk it. As soon as the ear startefl we began looking arounll for familiar plat-es anfl people. Aheall of us in the ear was a tall. quiet woman. Surely that was Leona Harris. the author. She hall written Lost Souls, The liartlen of Ellen. ete. l'nl'ortunately she got off the ear before we hall an opportunity to speak to her. The next thing to startle our eyes was the sight of a man apparently stanfl- ing in miclair. We got off the ear at the next eorner anll ealling up to the fat, dirty-faeefl earpenter, askefl him how he llill it. He was so startle-cl that he almost rlroppecl the eiggar that he was smoking. The surprise was mutual for the carpenter was Charles Kehoe, Do it, he exelaimerl: why this is easy. I am helll up here by eo-hesion anrl all-hesion. Better go in anll see the boss. was his next remark. We went into a near-by shell anll founll that the boss was Louis Leiboyitz. After a little visit with him we were on our way again. The next stop was Fulton Sehool. Miss Marker was no longer the Prineipal for Miss Keplinger hall taken her plaee, She tolll us what hall beeome of our former Prineipal anll the three eiglitli-grade teal-hers. Miss Marker. Miss Ueehsler, anrl Bliss Benster were perfeeting an illea for a ehain of sehools through- out. the United States, whieh woulll he taught by raclio, Hallios were eheap now and it was thought that mueh time anll expense eoulll be sayell by this metholl. Miss tleehsler eoulwl still say, A llolllen Goose lieu, but it woulll be impossible to say, Empty your mouths, unless the teaehers hall unusually goonl hearing. Also the pupils woulll be lueky as they eoulll not hear the jingle of Miss Marker's keys, whieh usually proeeelletl a ealling llown for some offense. sueh as note- Thll Uvour

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575' I- l.lL..'l ZINI gig Mrs. William Murphy. The name suggested something to ine, and after a time I was able to plaee it. Mr. Murphy was the great ehewing-gum manufaeturer and Jane was loyally advertising his produr-ts. After talking with her for a while she told us that she was due for a dam-ing lesson and asked us to aeeompany her, As that was right along my line we were glad to aeeept her invitation. It didn't take long for me to dec-ide that New York was ahead in that partieular if not in some others. They were just learning steps that I had taught my elasses th,ef previous season, There were a number of points that I eould give the instruetor and he seemed appreeiat-ive, The next morning, when we inet for breakfast, we der-ided to start out inde- pendent. of eat-h other, as I wanted to visit a barber shop and Dorothy didn't2 want to sit around waiting for me. When I entered the shop a vaguely familiar voir-e asked, Hair eut or shave? I found that I had ehaneed on a shop owned by Bert Seligman and that .lohn Turner was his assistant. It was .Tohn who had addressed me. He also told me that Hazel Smith was Bert's wife, but that they more frequently disagreed than agreed. From .lohn I got the additional infor- mation that Harold Mat-k was a sec-ond Babe Ruth, While I was at the barber shop, Dorothy had gone for a walk and, among other things, saw a double house. There were two signs on it. Une read, Leonard Heeht., Dom-tor, and the other, t'arl Lavey, Undertaker. She heard that they were doing a thriving business. When we met and I told her that, Harold was playing in Toledo, she suggested that we attend the game. But in some way we got lost- and landed at a sc-hool for blind children instead. There we found Mareella Bossie teaehing the pupils musie by eleetrieity. YVhile we were there Helen Fox eame in to give them an Intelligent Test. She was a regular old-fashioned sehool teaeher, with her hair pulled baek and wearing speetaeles. IYe told her that teaehing hadn't improved her appearanee and she replied that it wasn't mueh fun to grade over a hundred papers every night. There wasn't mueh time left to think about how one looked. From there we went to .Iohn Mandler's Home for Cats and Dogs. At. first we e0uldn't tell whieh was John, but got straightened out after a time and later he told us where we eould find another of our elassmates. After a short walk we saw a sign whieh read, Lena Rappaport, Washwoinanf' VVe entered the building and Lena eame to Hnd out our wants. She didntt look like wash- women are generally supposed to look, and we soon diseovered whyg for while we were there a youngster eaine in and asked for B's wash, She had worked out. a st-heme by whieh the wash was all done by eleetrieityg she was having an easy time of it and getting rim-h, too. Our last visit was to the Board of Eduf-ation's olfiees. Lucille Pool had at- tained tlie position of Superintendent of S1-hools of Toledo. We had a little visit with her and found that even if some things had f-hanged a lot, boys and girls were about the same as ever. Now we had seen all our old elassmates, not one was missing, and we had enjoyed it all immenselyg so we were ready to go baek home and settle again to our respective tasks of uplifting womankind and tear-hing the world to be frivolous. Perhaps some day in the future we will take another vacation, and if We do, hope to find all our old friends at least as happy as they now are. -DOROTHY STOPHLET, Louis GIBBONS. '17u'rU'-lhrep