Grandview Heights High School - Highlander Yearbook (Columbus, OH)

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THE IGHLANDER. SENIOR CLASS HISTORY As graduation time draws nigh, the seniors cannot help reminiscing just a little. Twelve years have passed, and while there were many trying moments, all in all, those have heen twelve happy years. There are ten in the graduating class that have attend- ed Grandview from the first grade, seven girls, three hoys. The grade school days flew rapidly, hut there are a few things that will always stick in our memory. Those thrilling games of Black Man at recess time with Kliss Layland in ex officio position of referee. The picnics in the Grandview woods were always hig events and that great rock Qmy, hasn't that rock grown smaller though?J. After a hrief two year stay in the old red schoolhouse we were promoted to the high school huilding. Oh what days those were, running from class to class, nearly killed in the rush, and then, those awful combination locksl But fate was kind and soon it all seemed very commonplace. Then to high school. No noble senior ever felt more important than that group of Freshmen that filed into the school on the first day. The teachers soon showed us that our importance was greatly over estimated and we settled down x-ing and amo, amas-ing. Like all freshmen we gave a dance. YVe borrowed the old victrola fwhich really should he in the Smithsonian lnstitutej, a lot of records and started out for a gay time. Those were the days! As Sophomores we were going to set the world afire, hut, somehow our matches wouldn't do the work so we were contented with having a few hoys on the foothall and haskethall squads and two on the track team. The high spot of the year for the girls was the Junior-Senior when they were permitted to wait tahle. Then we were juniors. The first great event of the year was the choosing of rings when we very emphatically voted down the design used hy the previous class. flt was ever thusj. Then the Junior play, when the hoys of the cast were harely ahle to endure the hardship of wearing garters for a few nights. Of course it was a great success, hut immediately we discovered that with the money we took in we must give the Seniors a party. COh, death, where is thy sting?J The junior-Senior managed to use up most of our money, but it was a great affair and everyone was happy. And now we are Seniors! And like all senior classes, we feel far superior to anything the world ever has produced, and certain that nothing hetter ever will he produced. Class meetings turned into free-for-all fights, with great orations as to the superiority of these colors over those, of this photographer's work over that and of this commencement invitation over some other one. After the meeting was over, every one forgot their anger and hroadcast to the world what fine colors. photographs and invitations the class of 1931 had. Oh! how we enjoyed that Junior-Senior banquet. Knowing the envious eyes with which the Juniors watched us devouring the play profits, we all gorged and as a result, had indigestion. Although the senior play is yet to be, we know that it will he a success and we are sure we'll enjoy working when we know the fruits of our lahors won't go to support a hread line. Then the last few days, with speeches on how we must go out into the cold world and attempt to warm it up, only to find that it can't he done. Thus endeth the history of the Class of 1931. And, like all classes, assured that we are the hest that has ever graduated, and murmuring, Ohmy, ohmy, what will hecome of G. ll. S. when we graduate? And we hear the Juniors answer, YVell, there they go at last, that's the hest thing they ever did for the school. 1 9 5 1 Pngr' Tfuwlfy-Six

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'rl-as I-IIGHLANDER. Angeles automobile magnate. He made his pile by his financial genius for reclaiming out-of-date automobiles. Bert introduced one of his secretaries to us. lt was Fern Russell. She is the world's fastest typist, having set the record of 1000 words per minute. She is obliged to use a special asbestos typewriter ribbon. Mr. Carlos' con- cern operates on a three hour day, due to lyliss Russell's efficiency. Later, we took a ramble through the country, and whom should we meet, but Dot Rambo, and Juanita Hughes. They told us that they were working for the Hobnaile Boote Shoppe , they take long hikes to try out each order of shoes, before the management will sell any to their patrons. Dot told us that Ruth YVonnell is the proprietress of the Salon, and that Billy Roberts is a mannequin displaying the latest styles in hobnailed bootery, before a discriminating clientele. Miss Langford keeps a shoppe near-by where high-heeled slippers are shown. Leaving Los Angeles, we traveled by boat to the Caribbean, via the Nicaraguan Canal. On our ship there was a scientific expedition, and among the party were several of our former classmates. Morgan Jones, modest as usual, would not talk about him- self, but we learned from others, that he has advanced a philosophical theory, destined to reclaim the world. lt is said that this theory calls for men scrapping all hats save derbies. Ernest Penrose talked freely of his book, the best non-fiction volume of 19-H, VVhat's Wrong with the Modern Ice-Box ? Paul Lane, the head of a second-hand Barrel Trust, is financing the expedition. The fourth day out, we noticed the strangest airplane we had ever seen. We learned that it belonged to Dot Crepps and Annabel livans. They had spent much time putting Hying apparatus on the car of G. H. S. fame, and are now making a non-stop flight around the world. VVe heard by chance of another of our classmates, Dolores Knapp, who is doing heroic work as a nurse in the fever infested canal area. WVe stopped for a few hours at Miami, and in that time visited the Misses Pinney's and O'Dell's nationally known dancing school. They told us of Paul Kerns, who wrote a simplified study of Chemistry, and is therefore known as the schoolboys' idol. YVe stopped at Child's Miami Branch, and were quite surprised to find that the Chief Cook and Bottle Washer there, was Hugh McCulloch. VVe noticed that the waiters' uniforms had something very fetchinch in the way of buttonholes. These buttonholes were created by Mary Louise Clements, noted Parisian Designer. Our next stop was Bermuda. We found that one of the Bermudans' national figures was Leavitte Pease, who invented Swiss Cheese, minus the hole, so delicious with the national onion. From here we took an airship bound for bally old England. Our first day in London, we ran over to the House of Lords, to hear a speech delivered by Dame Doris Campbell. Dame Campbell is an authority on political economy, an artist, and the most talked of woman in the world today. She introduced us to one of her friends, Irma Hazlett, known in diplomatic circles as a sturdy worker for woman's suffrage in Liberia. She happened to be in England to work up sympathy for her cause. Later while strolling along Downing Street, we chanced upon a sign announcing lessons in fencing given by the Hon. Seth Hammond Esq., Head Master of The Royal Thrust Academy . On the third floor of this same building, Doris Graves con- ducts a school for the proper training of cherry-cheeked servant girls. She is affection- ately called Susie by the girls. At the Royal Hotel, we met Rachel hlcCarty. Yes, indeed! Rachel now conducts lfuropean tours. She is especially noted for her book, The Follies Bergeren. We spent the evening with her party. Being Americans, they listened to Amos 'n Andy. We heard a new voice, Madame Queen. Who takes this par ? we cried. Why lllargaret Penney, who elsel Her adimiration for Andrew H. Brown led her to beseech this inimitable pair for a part in their programs. Due to her ingenuity at thinking up new scrapes for Andrew H. she was admitted to their team. Thus ends the account of the famous class of 1931, whose members have so distinguished themselves in the eyes of the world. 1 9 5 1 Page T-u'1'r1ty-Fifw

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