Gas City High School - Epoch Yearbook (Gas City, IN)

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T H E E P O C H Esther asked about other old schoolmates and old times, I told her about them as I knew where nearly all of them were. She asked what I was doing and I told her. Of course, she was not a great deal surprised because my hobby was always singing, but no one ever guessed I'd go to the top, I told her I had never married and she was shocked then. I traveled on to XYashinq'ton and Oregon, and met llelen .Xtkinson in an office. She was surprised to see me and told me she was going east. I was also returning' and we decided to go together. Vve met Clarence Graves on the train as we got off at Cliicago. .Xs we were visiting in Chicago, we met Marion Teague, who was hurrying' to an important meeting of some kind: so nothing' was gained through him. Iflelen and I decided we would come hack to Gas City again To see what things looked like. Passing through Gary, Indiana, we met the only class- mates remaining, Ruth Baker and Ilelen Morris, both of whom were married an d very happy. Before we reached Gas City, my wonderful prophetic dream ended as I had found all the Class of '29. I felt rather ill, hut was thankful for the revelation that had come to me. Wow! THOSE GUM CHEWING GIRLS The gum chewing girl And the cudschewing' cow Are somewhat alike, Yet different somehow. IYhat difference? Uh, yes, I see it now. It's the tl'lUl1g'lllflil.lI look Un the face of the cow. ' L A, I ' alle :lf L, QQ V-5 .L G? 1 9 2 9 Page tiueiztv-mm

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T H E E P O C H i i Leaving, I stopped in front of a very up-to-date establishment on Ififth Avenue, and going inside, I inet Donna Simons who was designing dresses and was becoming famous. I told her of those of who-m I had heard, and she said Zora XYilson and IYilma Mcljherron were both married and had gone abroad. XYhen leaving the opera, I again met Ida Lee, her husband, Mutt. and Riddle, and we went to Ida I,ee's home, very up-to-date and beautiful, to talk over the old times. James Spurgeon, who had planned to be a bank robber, but had taken up aviation instead, had been very successful in carry- ing mail across the Atlantic. I picked up a New York paper and found that IYilliam John XYilliams had just made a great invention, and we were all surprised at that. I left New York the next day to visit friends in Boston, Massachusetts. IYhile I was there. I saw Margaret and XYillard Oliver. t1Irs. Oliver formerly was Margaret Brownj and they recognized me immediately. They said that they had lost all account of the class since graduation. As I was touring, 1uy next stop from Iloston was Buffalo, N. Y., and there I saw Mildred Jeffrey, who was teaching school. I though I was rather lucl'v in Oettinn' in touch with so many' members of the former class C X. e- 6 ' . of 'ml I left the east and went south. I met no one whom I really was intimate with until I reached Tampa, Florida, and there I met Harold Pratt, who owned several large modern garages in Florida, besides many shares of stock in land. He said that ,Iohn Brown and Jim Glaze were also in Elorida, and were great architects.-They had gone into business together. I told I rattie I was leaving that evening for New Orleans. He said I might visit IYilbur Chapman, as he was in New Qrleans, owned many acres of land, and was becoming wealthy. -Xt New Orleans, I met Ruth Yoris and Ruby Robbins who were both teaching school there. I began recalling my acquaintances in my Senior year and I remembered I had not found any trace of my two best chums, Esther Grifiin and Kath- leen Hayworth. I always asked about them and nnally, while I was at San lfrancisco, about a month later. I saw Esther and Joe. now her husband, and they seemed very happy indeed. I asked her about Kathleen, and Esther said Kathleen was married and lived in IYashington, IJ, C., at that time. as Merril fbetter known in school days as Scoop 5 was a Congressman, tkof course, that case was always known to be serious! 1 9 2 9 Page t'lU67'lffL,Y

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T H E E P 0 C H SENIOR CLASS POEM Seniurs have Colne, Seniors have gone: XYe hope theyre all lYhere they helnmg. In this. nur sclmol, Ts a system hulrl, Called ul:CL1ClZ1llSIU,y' Froin the days ni nlcl. First is S'purgec'm, XYe'll call him ,lim,' A wonclerful king XYC fuunrl in him. Then, there is lliclcly :Xncl Bill lXvllllZlll'lSH too, They'x'e clwne a lot Tn luring ns thruugh. The shurtest day. lYithin this year, Is liuclcy Day lYlimn we Fnncl here. These are the oflicers. Of nur Class. Fur ll lwetter set We cunlcl not ask. The rest uf us XYhu fall in line Are living here In a wunflerful elime. lYe see lim Glaze .-Xncl Duke 's with hzni, .X wmifle1'f11l help TU us they'x'e lreen. Our fuulisli jester XYe must name. And plum' Mutt l'r:1tt Is the une we hlanie. L'liappy ancl Shun Are alsn there. lfllthllgll is saicl ,Xlinut this pair. 1 9 2 9 Page tzvenfy-two '-'