Houghton High School - Amygdaloid Yearbook (Houghton, MI)

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THE AMY GDALOID Page21 from Stella Armstrong, who has several classes at South Range. Stella is intending to enlarge her offices because of the increase in business. 'Puddy' stays at Loretta's most of the time. Even all these years couldn't part them. I'1n so glad to hear about these girls,', said Lucille. I had hoped that I would see or hear from them before leaving again. Well, to go on. The Sullivan Brick Manufacturing Co. has for its manager a man who married the former owner, Stephanie Sullivan. Of course you know who he is. 'Odger's Laundry, I read on a Ripley building just yesterday. I suppose it is Hankis. We knew he wanted a Landry ten years ago. Lillie Piippo and Lily McCance desired to continue as business women, so they es- tablished an Employment Agency in Chas- sell. Business there increased so that it necessitated something like that.- Thomas Trathen completed a successful hockey season with the Portage Lake team a few months ago. Through his never- failing efforts this team has won every Tom is planning a trip to Norway, game. where he intends to keep in practice. Evelyn Geismar has quite a problem be- fore her. Two very fine-looking men have proposed to her and she is trying to decide which to accept. Ev says that she may re- fuse both and take a position with the Ga- zette, similar to that of Doris Blake in the Tribune. Augusta Haller decided that she wanted always to remain at home. But this lasted only a few days. A week after graduation she was married. VVithin a year she was divorced and married again. Now I hear that she is living very happily in Ripley. VVilliam Slattery, perhaps you know, is a street car conductor at present, and has been working for the Houghton County Traction Company a year. Previously he was a policeman in New York. Did you know, Lucille, that Gage Coop- er is senator from Michigan ? Yes, not so very long ago I was in Washington and met Gage. He told me that his friends want him to run for presi- dent next term. He also thought that I would be interested to know that Lila Kel- low is his private secretary and deserves much praise for her excellent work. Marion Noetzel is located there, too, and has been very active in club work. VVhen I was there, she was president of the Civic Club. While I was in Chicago, continued Lu- cille, Uplaying at the Blackstone Theatre, I happened to look into one of the boxes, and imagine my surprise when I saw Harold Gustafson with a party of girls, and assist- ing him to entertain. them was Waino Ha- kala! Two pictures in the Chicago Tribune caused me to want to read the paper first. One was Emma Girard, who won laurels as the best all-round woman athlete in the world. The other was Edwin Goodale, a strapping, well-built man, who has become a prize-fighter. In the article it mentioned Robert, alias 'Tex', Richard, who is pro- moting a bout between Ed and Edward VVayrynen, who, they say, has grown to be almost tive feet tall! I am watching the papers for news of the outcome. Eileen Kennedy, after completing her three years' course in nursing in a large Chicago hospital, has become quite famous for her rapid cures. One of her sunny smiles and her happy disposition is her rem- edyg in other words, a moderation of Coue's Principles. Sigrid Pelto and Helen Pettis have a neat little bakery in this city. Soon they will branch out and have a chain of stores through various cities. 'tMelida Gardner is employed on the of- fice force of Ford Motor Co. in Detroit. She has prospects of a promotion which

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Page20 THE AMYGDALOID Regarding the personnel of the class now graduating: forty of us entered Houghton High School in September, 1919. Ten of those entering in February, 1920, have completed their high school course. Three have joined us from the class of 1922. Seven have come from Ripley High School, three have come from Calumet, and one from the Central High School of Detroit. entered high school in September, Two 1920, completing a four-year course in three years. This makes a total of sixty-six stu- dents,-the largest class in the history of our school. CLASS PROPHECY HENRIETTE GUNDLACH Ten years have passed-ten years since I have been in Houghton and since I was graduated from Houghton High School with the Class of 1923. Yesterday I won- dered where each one of the class had gone, and now I know. This is the way I found out. I picked up the Gazette, and to my surprise found that Lucille Williams, The Little Redheadf, was playing at the Ker- redge. I was determined to see her. After the matinee, where I recognized Elmer Jacobson as the comedian in the vaudeville, and Palmer Sullivan, in the minstrel show, I rushed to the dressing-room, where I greeted Lucille and began to inquire about her travels. Have you run across many of our class- mates during your travels, Lucille ? I in- quired. Have I? said Lucille. I believe I have seen them all. After a moment's thought she began thus: Exactly ten years ago today we gradu- ated from Houghton Hih. and at that time each one of us pursued different courses, scattering throughout the world. I know you are eager to hear about all of them, so I will tell all I know. No doubt you recognized Elmer Jacob- son this afternoon. He has been with this company from the start, drawing a salary of two hundred dollars a week. And when did Palmer join the com- pany? I asked. Oh, we ran across Palmer down in Ala- bama a year or two ago, and as he was not working, we took him into the minstrel show, Lucille went on. I have been at the Kerredge playing for almost a week and during my spare time I have been able to look up some of the boys and girls. Alice LePage and Helen MacFarlane, you know, are running a tea-room in the fashionable district of Dodgeville. Alex Pakkala is running a bus line be- tween Hurontown and Houghton. I-Ie told me that he studied in Germany to become a doctor. but this did not satisfy him, so he returned to Houghton. When I was riding this morning, I passed through Laminga, and noticed a big sign, 'Calverley Hotel.' I went in and found that the proprietor is no other than Harry, and that Helen Fovargue is the head waitress. Oh, yes, I interrupted, Yesterday, when I was riding on the train through At- lantic, I noticed a pretty young lady hang- ing up clothes lines in the back yard. By the time the train had stopped, I recognized her as Loretta MacRandle, and I thought 'There's Loretta giving out her line againf I called to her and she said that she has been married for several years and has lived at Atlantic all the time. Loretta also told mej in the few min- utes that I had, that Henrietta Krellwitz is taking an Advanced Course in Flirting

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Pase22 THE AMYGDALOID will make her assistant secretary to Henry Ford, himself. Kathryn 'Williams studied at the Uni- versity of Michigan, specializing in Eng- lish, but after finishing she went into the insurance business, locating at Detroit. Ethlyn T ulppo has been a basketball star for these many years, and she is as en- thusiastic as ever. When we were playing in San Francisco recently, we had several opportunities to visit Hollywood. One of the largest studios bears the sign, Paul Goodale, Incorporat- ed. Imagine my surprise when I learned that Paul is taking the parts formerly played by Rudolph Valentino. Judging from the number of his employees, he is doing very well. Daniel Brown is Paul's secretary and chief counsel. Dan has had much experience of this kind, so he is able to help Paul's business along a great deal. While I was still in the realms of 'Mo- vieland' and not far from the Goodale Stu- dio, I saw Mary Theriault, the beautiful 'Sis' of our high school days, riding along in her Rolls-Royce. She has retired to pri- vate life, having inherited no small fortune. In Oregon, we ran into Kenneth Lewis, who is now manager of the Lewis Lumber Co., with several branches throughout the United States. Florence Brimacombe is living a lonely life on a ranch in Montana. Living alone and away from people, she seems in danger of having some one Steehler her, but she is well armed. Richard Carne is a salesman for a large concern selling 'Ideas for a Good Time.' This is only a small part of Dick's occupa- tion, because his most important work is finding a girl in each town that he visits. Papers and magazines have scarcely room to print anything but Urho Strang's complete proofs of Einstein's Theory, which has ended all further investigations on this matter. Returning to Canada after graduation, l. but remaining only a few months, Ruth Hamilton decided to remain permanently in the states to devote her entire time and wealth to social work. Ruth has made friends wherever she has gone with her lov- ing, winning personality. I know you haven't forgotten how mu- sical our class was, Henriette. Several have continued along musical lines. For in- stance, Lawrence Gilles and Edward Hild- ner are playing leading parts with the New York Grand Opera Co., and are at present touring Japan. Of course, we expected no less than this from them, after hearing them with the sextette in '23. Also, since John Moore finished college he has Written two books, 'How to Play the Saxaphone' and 'How to Bluff, from Ex- periences at High Schoolf Oh, by the way, John is touring Australia, giving sa:-iaphone concerts. Louise Uren has declared that she is a man-hater and has settled down to write novels from her own experiences here and abroad, her favorite title being 'Storms' Traveling with her husband in Panama, Ruth Kendall spends her spare time making speeches in the public schools. During my vacations I have gone to Europe several times. On one of my trips a few years ago I learned that John Har- rington is poet-laureate of Ireland. I was quite surprised at this, even though John did possess talent of this kind. I In Spain, Marcella Allie is giving en-- thusiastic speeches for Woinan Suffrage. This is surely Marcella's life work. Also in the same country, in a secluded convent, Florence Richards, after breaking many hearts, has become a nun. Here she's finding'peace and contentment. Muriel Kellow and Leona Hartz came upon a fortune, which enabled them to live ten whole years in leisure. Now that the money is gone, 'Sis' has decided to become a model for John Nelson, who has a studio in Rome. Muriel is trying to decide 'vs ' ,ji