Ionia High School - Ionian Yearbook (Ionia, MI)

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who will also be present, Dorcas Steele, Rena Gould, Dorothy Edlin, and Kathryn Hawley. I began to feel a bit hungry, and asked Mr. Crane for the location of a good restaurant. Mr. Crane directed me down the street where 1 saw a sign, “DINE AT DYKE’S.” I walked into the restaurant and saw another calssmate, Donna Dyke, who was the proprietoress. Virginia Flanders, Frederic Simmons and Louise Eckert were busily serving meals. Sitting in the booth next me were Mary Badder and Harriett Baker, who informed me that they were in the confectionery business. I learned later that the Pulsipher-Patrick confectionery just across the street was running them keen competition. With her arms full of books and with the air of a dignified teacher, Jane Wilson was walking up the street. I caught up with her, and Miss Wilson told me that she was principal of the Newville High School, and that four other classmates, Frances Ostrander, Margery Stewart, Doris Sible, and Agnes May Haynes, were teachers there. We parted and as I proceeded down the avenue, I noticed a sign, “IF ITS MOORES YOU EAT ITS MOORE’S YOU WANT.” I went closer and saw that Evelyn Moore was also in business. She was owner of the largest creamery in Newville. I stopped and chatted for a wh le, then continued my interesting tours through town. “THEY BLOOM BEAUTIFULLY AT BLUEMLY’S.” After inquiring I found out that Nila Bluemly had the reputation of having the most up-to-date flower shop in the state. The last sign that I saw was one of special interest. “NEED REPAIRING FOR LESS? TRY NIELSEN AND ELLIS’S.” I went inside the shop and saw Spencer Nielsen and Robert Ellis, owners of an auto repairing garage. They told me that phyllis Willaman was the owner of a large automobile agency and Charles Campbell was now known, because he had been in so many accidents, as the crash king, (not the crush) and was Phyllis’s head salesman. I also learned that the most modern shoe shop for ladies in town was owned by Esther Mundt, and that Rozella Hallett, Lenore Hoople and Eva Gaut were the sales ladies. I inquired about Helen Callow, and they told me that she had taken up aviation very seriously and was -•oing well at it up in the air. I counted the friendships that I had a°ain made. I counted 91. As I remem-oered it, there were 93 in the class of ’35. Yes, I remembered I had not seen Elton McClow. I called up Chief Gierman and asked about him, but the Chief did not know, and I asked him to please locate Elton. Three days passed when a knock came at my door. It was Chief Gierman, and he had seme information regarding Mr. McClow. He stated that he was a valet for the king of one of the largest pygmy tribes in southern Africa. Mr. McClow stated that he had always heard that the big things in life came by first following the little things. After my pleasant visit in Newville, I returned to my newspaper work with new vigor and enthusiasm for having renewed every old friendship and recalled the happy memories of 1935. 27 —Charles Stout

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CLASS POEM Now from this citadel of friends. We journey on a lonesome way; And all the varied paths that tend To separate us from today Can never fill the void we find. In leaving all our classes behind. The treasure found within these walls Cannot be weighed in Mammon terms; The friendships made within these halls A haven from our trials to turn. But off now with these solemn thoughts. To face a world and conquer there; To reach the goal that each has sought. And see our dreams of fortune fair. To travel through this forest cold. To reach our fortress, and there hold Our place among the world of peers With fading mem’ries of former years. —Donna Dyke 29