Hudson High School - True Blue Yearbook (Hudson, WI)

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TRUE BLUE Luella’s another real pest These four with Agnes and Mary Can whisper and chatter with zest. Now John G., Oh dear me, Has brought trouble and woe To the heart of many a teacher. And Loren sedate, Known as “Sticky” of late, We anxiously watched from the bleacher. There are Margaret and Myrtle And coy Helen K. Just what shall we say of these lasses ? For like Doris and Esther Their teachers they pester And often upset History classes. Quebec, you’ll remember, Was built on a bluff. Fred’s arguments are, I have heard. A siesta each day, Is essential, he’d say, For to go without sleep is absurd. Now Helen and Esther And sweet Doris J, Must surely be sent to some college. For in high school they’re late, They get just 98 And are sadly in need of more knowledge Stephina’s the lady Who types with such speed And Adolph knows how to keep score While William and Charles, Now Kealy and Jensch, Are Siamese twins no more. The world’s dreamers, dear friends, Have been doers as well; So those who have slept in their classes Will awaken in time And stand right in line To catch Mistress Fame as she passes. —E. M. J. Class Prophecy. 192(r It is in 1929, during the reign of Harold Bleier as Great High Emperor of China. He has at this time for his private secretary a scheming young man, Donald Williams, in whom he foolishly places much confidence. At this time there is a great call for missionaries to help Christianize the heathen Chinese; and recalling an old time friend of his, who has be- come a preacher of the gospel, he sends for the Rev. Stanley R. Beggs who has recently married a daughter of a Presbyterian clergyman. Rev. Beggs and his timid young bride set out immediately for China, taking with them their old family servant, Margaret Douglas, who rules the little family with a high hand. They say farewell to all their home friends and after making a last visit to Charles Jensch’s fairy farm where he raises the highest grade egg plant and milk weed, they set out on their way. They reach China safely, but when the heathen see the stern expres- 18

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TRUE BLUE Class Play IV Athletic Assn. I-II Track III-IV I am not going to school to win a heart. Life’s a serious prop- osition ; girls too. A. W. Kealy: English Course Base Ball I-II Contain III-IV Foot Ball II-III-IV May Fete II Minstrel Show IV Student Cabinet IV Athletic Assn. I-II Class Vice Pres. Ill Class Pres. IV Class Play IV Cheer Leader I-IV I am a good Democrat and proud of it, begorrah! THE SENIORS “As a friend of the Seniors,” Stanley says, “Just write a few lines for True Blue. You know our class With its glorious past That’s why we intrust this to you ” Now a friend, as you know, Your virtues can’t see But appreciates each little fault, Can critically analyze, Horribly tantalize And sugar-coat facts with salt. What a wealth of material For poetry or prose, The Seniors, the bright lights of school! Those exceptional few With nothing to do Yet each in himself a rare jewel! For “Dud” is a pitcher And Jane a “stenog” And Christian a famous inventor And Donald at art Is playing a part And some day may draw for The Mentor. And Nellie can play While Helen’s sweet voice Is wafted away on the breeze. And Stanley can talk Right after a walk Until our Anita’s feet freeze. Class parties no more As in good days of yore Appeal not to Harold and Lyle. While Sigrid ar.d Mae Lillian and Miss Fae Spend hours on hair dressing style. Two Lauras and Ragna Make trouble galore. 17

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TRUE BLUE sion on the face of the preacher they rise up in mad insurrction, and the Keyerend and his little family are obliged to flee to Siberia where they re- main icr a long time. The Emperor locks himself up in his highest tower alter having placed a firm guard about the treasure room, but through the treachery oi his private secretary, Donald Williams, Christian Burk- hardt, a young American, who has invited the heathen to revolt, is able to gain access to the treasury and to make way with an enormous ruby which is worth half the kingdom. Christian hides the ruby securely in a box and sets sail on the fastest beat for America. Just off the coast of the Hawaian Islands the ship is wrecked and Christian the only survivor, having lost his precious box, is washed on the shore of the Hawaian Islands where he is rescued by Nellie Palmer, a heroic young girl. She has become a wonderful opera singer and is taking her summer vacation after a strenuous and successful winter spent in singing jazz music in cheap vaudeville in company with Myrtle Young and Luella Lystad, the famous and graceful tee dancers- From this time on Chris- tian remains in company with Madamoiselle Palmer, whose devoted slave he becomes. But now to return to the little box with its precious burden, tossed about on the briny deep. Suddenly a huge aeroplane looms into view, piloted by a dashing young maid, Doris Johnson, her golden locks streaming behind her in the wind like a veil of sunbeams. Swooping low over the water, she catches sight of the littic box, and with a daring loop the loop she manages to grasp it in her hard, and sails away toward the east. She is extremely- delighted on discovering the contci.N of the package to be a shining ruby and holds it m the light to catch the full gleams of the sun. But alas, just as she is passing oyer San Francisco her fingers slip and the dazzling gem goes hurtling down to be lost in the depths of the city below. Just at this moment Adolph Ilolden, his black hair slicked back from his lined forehead in a pompadour, nervously twirling the ends of his jet black mustache, sees a sparkling gem drop before his eyes. Adolph is a detective cf the highest degree, in fact a second Sherlock Holmes. He seizes it in his clutching fingers turning his beedy black eyes up to the sky from which it seemed to drop. Just as he does so he sees a face disap- pearing from the window of the fourteenth story of the building just above him. Wilh a tiger-like leap he reaches the door of the building and taking the steps five at a bound he eventually gains the upper story. Gently pushing on the worm-eaten door he inserts his crafty face in the crack, and beholds in the dim and dusty room a silent red head bending over a pile of books. On coming closer what is his amazement to see his old time class mate, Jack Gillen, his face now lined and pale and his back bent, scratching away at a sheet of manuscript and mumbling fanatically to himself. At the s' .ht of his old friend, Jv jumps up and greets him with joy. In the conversation that follows, he tells Adolph that he is a rising young poet and is devoting his life to writing a masterpiece on tem- perance. When he finds out that young Holdon is a detective he tells him that he recently lest a very important page of his masterpiece and that he suspects Ragna Olson, a young actress who has a very bad reputation. Upon hearing this news, Adolph leaps up, shakes his friend’s hand and starts cut hotfoot on the trail of the wiA ed damsel. That night he meets her at the stage en rance, and takes her to a cabaret. Her chm-m is so great, however, that he can scarcely believe the awful stories he has heard about her, and in a desire to shew off, he tells her about the wonder- ful gem he has found- Upcn hearing this she flatters him and vamps him 19