Hibbard High School - Lantern Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Q2 THE LANTERN Kolber and Madeline Kalk had left for Germany to buy supplies for big electrical houses they represent. Selma-VVe really should be proud of our class, why both Elsie Gelfand and Ina Wolf have become famous Metropolitan stars and seem to be New York favorites this year. Harry-I hear you have a competitor in the newspaper game, C. O. You remember when Ida Eggericks made the Line O' T ype about twenty years go. Yes? Now she takes R. H. L's. place and edits that column in the ribune. Selma-I found out that quite a few of our class mates have become teachers, just the other day when you sent me to look up the Board of Educa- tion recordsg Qof course you know that Vitalis Smith is the resident of the Boardj at least as far as I could find out Mabel Kloss, Eiilith Greenberg, Elaine Detrich, Leo Nudleman. and Meyer Shapiro are teaching at the Roose- velt. Emanuel Jacobson, also of our class, now runs a drug store on Kedzie and Lawrence Aves. ' C. O. flooking up from copy he has been readingj--This article states that Hibbard has a new coach, Gerald Partch, the old chemistry whiz from our class, and he expects to put out a good basketball team this year since he has the sons of some of the old alumni to work withg namely Jack Heller, Calvin I-Iimmelstein, and Pearl Lemberg. You know what good athletes they were at school. Harry treading an articlej-This sure is a good one! You remember what a hard time Charles Norcott had learning Civics, well now he is head of the History and Civics department at the University of Chicago. Here's an- other funny one, jack Heller and Mildred Sax have entered into the silk trade. These two persons working together will create the biggest silk selling industry in the Tworld. Selma--You think that is funny, but here is something remarkableg Myrtle Kaplan has just completed a master portrait of our president. It is one of the remarkable paintings of the age. C. O.-Hold on. You remember Howard Thomas, one of the quietest boys of our class? Well now he is welcomed as St. Louis's latest find in the bachelor society and is one of the most rushed members of the season. Going away from the subject of classmates, a second, you remember how weak my constitution is and how careful I have to be of what I eat. Harry-Yes man, you always were delicate. C. O.-No humor now. Last night we had a party at Josephine Fink's new athletic club, and she served a most remarkable dinner, that really agreed with me, so I decided to find out who the cook was and justbimaginel Althea Cunningham, who was graduated with us, is the head chef and advisor in the kitchen. Lucille Grossman is cashier there, and Greta Grenman, gym instructor. Greta has become very successful in teaching women since she herself has re- tained a remarkable figure. Selma-Did you hear that Ruby Gantz has disappeared? I just picked up a personal written by Goldie Gordon. Wait, I'll read it to you. Ruby Gantz-Anyone knowing of the whereabouts of above named, who disappeared june lst, please communicate with Goldie Gordon who will give liberal compensation for any information. Box X 58, Evening American.

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60 -THE LANTERN XVe NVere the Juniors. One-half of our High School career was completed. We gazed down upon the little lfreshies and Sophomores with good-humored indifference, but we were slightly in awe of the lordly Seniors. However, we had little time to experience these various emotions, for, we were Juniors and were permitted to organize in earnest. Once more we met together in one room and under the careful guidance of Miss Hunt and Mrs. Stillman, and organized under the dignified title, The Strivers of Twenty-Seven. A Inasmuch as the entire class of over one-hundred members assembled in the first semester, in one room, the meetings were difficult to control. Though we were very much crowded in the room, sitting two in a seat, there was some ad- vantage in being together however, for all the business discussed was im- mediately brought before the entire class. Class spirit developed strongly and under the leadership of Sylvia Gunansky, our first President, we enjoyed a verv profitable semester. ' In the second semester, we again, were divided into two classes, but, with one advantage taken from us, another was given us: the division period was lengthened to a half-hour every day. The class met once or twice a week, in this way the Strivers could keep in touch with each other. With Miss Lillian Melnick as President, we had. for the most part, very satisfactory meetings. Throughout the two semesters, we had, at last, several social events. To increase the amount of money in our treasuries, we conducted a fiower-day in collaboration with the 4B Senior Class. The girls of the classes made the fiowers and sold them to all the pupils of the High School. This little affair, which celebrated the coming in of Spring, netted the classes fifteen dollars each. At another time a cake was raffled off solely to the Strivers, the proceeds of which were donated to the Daughters of Zion's Day Nursery. The cake was given to the class for the raffle by Miss Lillian Melnick, our President. Then we had a few get-together dances and several little entertainments among ourselves. Not only were we enjoying social events, but many of the boys and girls were being represented in school athletics. VVe were also well represented in the Civics Club, the Student Council, the Girls' Athletic Association, the Boys' Athletic Association and on the staffs of the Hibbard Herald and VVeekly. XVe earnestly strove to be one hundred per cent in all student activities and pub- lications. Thus ended the third year. In all good humor we ascended the spacious throne of magnificent dignity allowed solely to those who are the pride of the school, the Great Seniors. VVe Are the 4B Seniors. A vague, shapeless mist lies before us: it is the Future. We, the light- hearted, but dignified Seniors think but a little of the serious work to come. For, soon, we will no longer be Seniors, but we will be men and women in search of success and happiness-. But, we are digressing: this is not supposed to be an essay on subjects of Philosophy, but a history of the present Strivers of Twenty-Seven. At present, we are well organized with Mr. Henry Bode as President and with Mrs. Stillman and Miss Hunt as our division-room teachers. We are striving to make this and the next semester ones of continuous triumph in our daily work and school activities, and so uphold the significance of our name. An so we close this 'brief review of our career at Hibbard High School. May we receive as much and more success in the future. Q -N. Harry Zeikef.

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:PHE LANTERN 63 Harry-I suppose, Selma, that you have seen the new Mannequin Shoppe on Michigan Boulevard. It is full of Paris models and the proprietor, Ruth Kanes, goes to Europe every two months to pick out the latest models. Ruth is still very petite with her red-gold hair and tiny figure. Eugenia Lukasiak is head of the Alteration department and is a very promising designer they tell me. C. O.-This is really interesting. Little Harold Ragofsky has just won a three day Marathon bicycle race. He still is so small that a special sized bi- cycle had to be built for him. He attributes his winning to his small size. Herman Meyers, sport promotor, is going to promote the new champion, it is rumored. Harry-I hear Lillian Karasik is getting to be quite a vamp as she just jilted her fiftieth suitor, a well to do lawyer, Joseph Goldman, a classmate oi' ours. It is rumored that Harry Zeikel, the famous 'broker-bachelor is to be the next victim. Selma-Some of our old school pals have turned to the silverscreen for occupations. Alex Berger is now a second Harold Lloyd in the Paramount Pre Paste Comedies, and Jack Harp a prominent director. On the legitimate stage, Dorothea Pearson is doing marvelous work in Hamlet Harry-just think, C. O., only two more weeks and we start for China. I hear that Bernice Oyen, a world renowned hairdresser, and Mildred Good- man, teacher of dramatic art, are coming along on the trip to study the Chi- nese customs in their respective lines. Wilfred Makarski is captain of the boat, and Fremont Gordon, the designer. VVhy, there is even a boxing ring on the fioating palace and the champion, Gustave VVieland, is signed up for u match during passage. Selma-Sophie Scheribel, inventor of the Squeakless Springs, met me the other day and told me that some old Hibbardites are in the advertising game, plugging for Ray Beerbaum's Yeastless Bread. It really needs a lot of push- ing. The salesmen are Frieda Harrison, Harold Somerfeld, and Isadore Myers. Harry-I suppose you know that Kenneth Brown joined the Navy, and now he is making use of his musical training by blowing the bugle at six o'clock every morning. C. O.-VVeil, here comes our new copy girl, Minnie Steinberg, for the copy. We'll have to cut our reminiscences, as I have to read all the copy before it is line-o'-typed. However, we should spend another such afternoon soon so we will not forget the old friends of '27 from Hibbard and our helpful facultv advisors Miss Hunt and Mrs. Stillman. Class Prophets Selma Malkus Harry Salk C. O. H'ilco:r