Hathaway Brown School - Specularia Yearbook (Cleveland, OH)

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authority on strict discipline and an upholder of all Blue Laws on record. What had Frances Waffle done with the years? The fifth picture from the door left no doubt. She was seen being asked by Miss Raymond in her oflice at the Shaker Heights Hathaway-Brown School, to teach singing to students, faculty and assistants on Friday mornings. Frances was being promised a triple length period if she would only accept. V The stranger had frequently heard of Marion Shupe and had seen her picture before in the Leader-News. Martha Lee no longer solved the prob- lems of the city and Marion Shupefs name had become synonymous with advice to the love-lorn. Thirza Hunkin with a red ribbon pinned across her chest had been depict- ed in stately robes. Her decoration was for successfully filling the position of matron of The Boys' Reformatory Home . It was a triumph when even Bull Montana graduated cum laude. I Standing at the lecture table consuming quarts of water, while she paused for consideration of her topic which was How to plan programs for May Day, April Fool's Day, Washington's Birthday, Groundhog Day, etc. on five minutes notice, Shirley Harrison confronted the on-looker. She had become tall and stately, wearing yellow ground gripper shoes and attire of the vintage of 1920. The last picture was startling for it contained Georgia Gary with down- cast eyes, seated by an oil lamp, mending enormous holes in a sock. The thread she -used wfas brilliant red, the sock brown. An open door in the back- ground showed the recesses of a kitchen and on the stove, a stew sent up clouds of -smoke. Georgia Gary! The stranger fainted. When consciousness returned, the woman found herself by the exit door and struggled to her feet. She picked up her umbrella and parcels, straight- ened her hat and wialked rapidly out of the museum as if in a dream, carry- ing the confused memory of twenty-nine familiar but altered faces in her mind. When she had gone, the pictures wondered. who she had been, that had -stayed so long. But you, reader, know and so do I. Shall we let that remain our mystery? Isabelle McPheeters, '24 23

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Virginia Woodward in a riding habit, was skillfully painted on a snort- ing charger at her camrp Hoca where a complimentary course in how to fall off a horse is the novel feature of the management. This class is under the direction of Virginia who became expert in 1923 and has had a brilliant record since. With wrinkled brow and her head on her hand, in deep meditation, Frances Fenstermaker looked out of her frame at the stranger. A list of Sharon hopefulls had Huttered from her lingers to the floor. She still couldn't make up her mind and the list grew longer each day. There could be no mistake that Doris Runge was the well-know-n figure in the seventeenth picture, for she was represented beside a large blackboard erected near an aeroplane filling station. Thousands of these boards held her clever poems each week and their success had made the White Rose advertis- ing manager retire with embarrassment, where her fame began. The pic- ture showed her leaning against the sign board with an enormous stick of chalk in her hand. None other than Katherine Phillips met the stranger's eyes when she looked into picture number eighteen. Forty special delivery Fords were painted, parked in front of her house. Katherine had lined the delivery boys up in a row and was signing for the letters. An explanation at the base of the picture explained that the envelopes all contained urgent invitations to a Belgrade reunion, which would all be gently refused. A sad and alarming canvas hung on the left wall of the museum roomi. The stranger crossed to look at it , and saw Virginia Pettee in a striped dress, gazing realistically at her between bars. At her side stood Stella Kroenke trying to break the door down with a gold club. Two tears, the stranger shed for the one-tim.e President of the Student Council and the Dormitory Pres- ident, before she passed on to the next picture but they were no tears of -sur- prise, she had secretly guessed long ago that theirs would be a career of crime. The rustic scene which followed was refreshing. It put before her gaze, Ruth Towson with a 1934 plow, turning up the sod of her Gates Mills onion farm at the rate of nineteen rows per half second. Isabelle McPheeters, holding a letter in her hand and standing in a Napolionic attitude of serious perplexity, had the next place. This letter, a note next to the picture, explained, was an offer from Oxford. It anxiously bequested her service as Spelling Teacher in that noble institution, but I-sabelle had almost reached the decision to refuse in order to continue as Mathematical Instructor at Hathaway Brown. The animated picture of Florence Schroeder receiving a patent from Washington burst upon the stranger's eye. Her novel device which was in- sured to succeed, was a painless machine for ushering late callers out of the front door and was recommended by the inventor as decidedly effective. Mary Taft in a high collar, stiff black dress and with her hair severely twisted into a knot at the top of her head, frowned from her picture. She had become the head mistress of a Newi England Preparatory School and was an 22

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