Harrison Hill Middle School - Beacon Yearbook (Fort Wayne, IN)

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Jups 1, 1937 THE BEACON Page 15 was soon to have my chanee.Only a few minutes passed and there was a great commotion down the cobbl- ed street and two bagpipers e- merged gleefully playing their bagpipes. But, why, it couldn't be, but, yes, it was--the bagpip- ers were Dorothy Kline, and Leland Bradley. Unfortunately, we couldn t pause too long over this spectacle. We had to' hasten to France. Presto!WG were in Ffancc where the French are French and we're just plain Americans. Oops there goes my purse!UThank you,UI said to the little girl who pick- ed it up. But, she didn't lock very French so letis take another look. Well! for goodness sakes!! if it isn't Phyllisg Eodenpeck with Joan Gable My! what fun we school days. We went over of town to get beauties there. accompanying her. had talking about to the nicer part a glimpse of the WWait,Hsaid Alice in amazement,Ndoesn't that sign look familiar? HYes,W ehimed in the rest. The sign read: NReece and Dale Shop.H We crossed the street and quietly stepped in the door. On one side was a door Dale, Child Psychologist.nWe went in the opposite door and found Margaret Reece looking for mi- crobes in boiling water. During our excited conversation while walking to lunch we heard two- hoarse English voices shouting, UClear the way! WClear the waylu uOhh!N we exclaimed, Wit's none other than Sam Bacon and John which read UMiss Elizabeth Ann Tyndall. He decided he wouldn't give us a ticket--boy! OUT lucky day! So off we went. Caroline remarked that she's like some Spanish food and we heartily agreed. We were soon on our way- to a well known cafe. We went in and sat down and soon were waited on. We ordered from Bob Worman and in about three minutes we were brought our food. One bite was enough. We all agreed it was the worst food we had ever tasted Bob was very Apologetic about it and went to get the chef,who turn ed out to be our old pal, Douggas Kigar. We Walked out Disgustedly- remarking,NNo wonder the food was awful.UYou probably have heard of Germany's cleanliness. Well, so had we, and therefore believed it that is, until we visited the Olm Banks Hotel. The place was filthy so we rang for the manager. Up walked Louis Hallenstein and ask ed what the trouble was. Uwrong? I shouted, Hthe place is filthyn UNO wonder,U said he, HYou're in the attic. You went up a flight of stairs too far.H That was too much for us and so decided we needed some amusement. Naturally, my first thought was ice skating. So we visited the Berlin Rink and saw the great Sister lee Skat ers,Aileen and Jean Summers.After their act was over ten expert fan cy ice skaters Appeared on the scene. The girls happened to see us and told us that the fancy skaters were Thomas Adams, Donald Pens, Paul Beerman, Roy Heavner, Charles Kerr, Harold Boze, Jack Bonsib the head garbagemen of Paris, and good ones, too.W But who would ever think they's end that way? It was rather funny,and we certainly laughed. We must hurry, though, for we had to go to Spain. Anyway we werein Spain driving Nat a tremendous speed, and as sure as fate, up strode a policeman. VAre our eyes deceiving us?W we exclaimed. As soon as the policeman, spoke we -were convinced that it was Howard . V... Selzer, Willard Fisher, William Gatter, and Jack Green. We then realized they were our former schoolmates. After the show was over we went back to the hotel and got our things to-gether so we could leave early in the morn- ing for Italy. Sure enough, next morning we headed for Italy. The first thing we heard was a milk maid exercis- ing her voxal chords. We stopped to watch her do her work and imm-

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Page 14 THE BEACON June 1, 1957 55' I If you have a good imagination, just imagine Charlene Mc Atee, L rollioers who were Jean Weil, Betty Swain,Betty Jean HaneX,Lois Alice Jeanne Sweet, Bob Young,and Caroline Lichtenberg in a dark room seated before a wierd old woman who is gazing into a round globe, dazzling in its beauty. You've guessed it--we're in a for tune teller's tent. The old lady mumbled something and then told us to look into the globe.Lo and behold! Before our amazed eyes we saw the globe grow larger and larger and form itself into what is better known as the earth. We locked at each other questioning ly and then a light was focused on the airport of New York. We saw ourselves boarding a plane for Hawaii, with our old school- mates Clarence Jackson as pilot and Homayne Hediger as the Air Stewardess.Soon we were in Hawaii The first person I noticed was a strange looking native who was staring at us queerly. NWhy,H- said Alice, HThat's no native-- that's Robert Wendell sunburned a little.h Later when we were in our hotel,Alice came bursting in, with four tickets to England and she said that we'd sail the next day. When we boarded the ship I noticed two sailors arguing with what seemed to be a Stowaway . Upon a closer inspection it was shown that the two sailors were Paul Dannecker and Fred Baker, while the stowaway was Clar- ence Ditton. Later as I sat in a deck chair reading a paper I no- ticed this item, W8th day of week found by Donald Parkinson. NWould miracles never cease? Well, it seemed they wouldn't. That night we went down to the dance floor A who should be the band leader but Alice Hall with her rollicking Campbell,Helen Ninde,harjorie Me- Mahon, and Mildred Hankee. The stars of the show were Leis and Faye Gumpper, appearing in the famous sister, act. I must say they were very good. The days passed swiftly for us then,and soon we were in London, whistling for a cab. Up drove Hebert Dancgg, in a model T. Ford and asked us if we wanted a cab. We certainly did for we had been waiting for an hour,so in we hop- ped and were soon driving up in front of a hotel and climbing out Later as we were walking down the streets of London we decided that we were hungry, so we stop- ped at a hamburger stand. The chef, surprisingly, was Charles- Closc and he was a picture with a large chef's hat on, and flipping hamburgers.We were served by none other than Marilyn Sondles,Chucks assistant. After satisfying our appetites we started investigating the stores. In one of the stores some boys rushed up and pushed a foot stand underneath our feet, while we stood speechless in as- tonishment. Finally when they were finished they asked us if we wanted our shoes shined. What could we say? Bob gasped in wond er and then revealed the identity of the boys.The' smxpuplets were James Weaver,Robert Wylie, August Luyben, Fred wSehwier, Morris Sprinkle, and Qick Stevenson. After this episode, we decided we wanted to go to Scotland so we donned kilts and to Scotland we journeyed. New there's one thing I've always wanted to see and that is genuine bagpipers, and I

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Page is THE BEACON , June 1, 19157 ediately noticed it was WilmaLage man, the Jeanette Mac Donald o 1950. After exchanging greetings we travelled on till we saw a large pond with a little island in the middle and guess who should be marooned on the island, but Dick Green and Ivan Truman. So into a row boat we bounced,to rescue the poor boys. After taking them to their homes or should we say villa, no, that's Spanish-Oh,well who cares? Everybody agreed unani mously to go to the opera as it was something different. We walk- quiet ed in in our best dress and ly took our seats. Martha Jane Krauskopf and Bob Robinson were singing the leads and the chorus included Frank Du Waldt, Karl- Eberly, Vincent Minger, Russel Krauhs, LeRoy Ehrman,and Wallace Richter, Erleen Lee, Betty James Betty Fremion, Mary Bowlby, Mary Demetre, and Patsy Seibel. After Hearing the opera we de- cided not to waste any time so we went to China. Whewww! how dif- ferent it was from the other coun tries. The first thing that met ur were four rickshaw boys run- ning up to us. nWhy, they aren't boys, they're girls,W said 'Bob Young excitedly. We blinked our eyes. It was,no doubt, Alice Sun ier, Mary Scheuer,Elinor Alvather and Virginia Lee.So in we climbed and rested our weary bones, and proceeded to see the wilds of Hong Kong. In and out of crowds re rode until we came upon our classmate of 1957, Betty Koehler, coming out of a sweatshop. Evi- dently she didn't see us so we hurried on.Then who should we com upon but Delores Daniels and Mar- tha Jean Smith fyou remember, the hot spots of Harrison Hill in 573 All decked up in prospectors out- fits in the middle of Hong Kong's busy streets. Tsh! Tsh! They were so engrossed in their work that they didn't recognize us until we spoke to them. We chatted awhile and they said we hadn't really seen China until we had investi- gated all the little provinces of China. We assured them that we would do as they advised. They told us some of the choice gossip One of the most interesting bits was that Betty Helen Harrison was planning to swim backwards across the English Ghannel!!!! After that we thought we'd bet ter go. Into what we called the wilds of China, we ventured. The first night we stayed at a quaint Chinese tourist ledge. As we ap- proached the door a young farmer came up on the porch to greet us. He stood still. We did we. The young farmer was Dick McKay. He and we shed our coats. we were served by his who amazingly turned Barbara Hughes. In the led us in At dinner housewife out to be living room was a queer organ. We were informed that only one per- son could play it. The tinkling of the organ in- terrupted cur dreams the next morning and none other than Elaine Hirschy was the talented player. We left in the afternoon about 4:50. We had traveled about two miles when we noticed two young women hitch hiking in our di- rection. When we stopped to look our curiousity was more than re- warded becausc the young ladies were Sally Slater and 'Maxine Molin. After breakfast which consist ed of rice, we traveled on. We heard some shooting,and guess who it was.Jack Cranfill,Clarence Ere man, and Robert Kite were having a Chinese feud. We thought we'd better stay clear of that so on we travelled and traveled until we thought we had seen enough of China. Thenwe went to Russia and as we rode in- to Moscow some pleasant ladies were dancing. As they danced up to us they started laughing. We didn't knowg'rhy but we were soon to find out for they were Maxine Relue,Florence Stauffer, Virginia