Iowa City High School - Red and White Yearbook (Iowa City, IA)

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Ruth Davis, aviatrix. has just established a women ' s altitude record of 32.000 feet. Marcus Owen and Henry Mortenson are the master farmers of Johnson County. Gertrude Miller has just published the first copy of her book Advice to the Lovelorn. Belle Markovitz is physical education director of a girls school in New York. Elizabeth Gatton is head manicurist at Ruth Fullerton ' s renowned Beauty Shop which is reserved exclusively for men. Charles O Donnell is manager of the Chicago Cubs with Nathaniel Mutchler as star first baseman. Gerald Rogers is a television movie producer in Hollywood. Edith Hughes and Betty Kirchner were recently starred. Harold Paulus. an author, has just completed his book How to Get E ' s in High School. Karl Kirk was so despondent over an unhappy lo ve affair that he jumped from the top of the Eichler building, thus ending a promising career. This building is owned by Eleanor Eichler. a successful business woman. Evelyn Abbott manages a Home Made candy shop in Oklahoma City. Her taffy pullers are Margaret Campbell and Catherine Carrigg. Mary Louise Epperson recently won a world wide beauty contest held in Chicago. Robert Hedges is a floor walker at Marshall Fields ' in Chicago. Evelyn Mapes has made herself famous by her world-read essay How to Put Up Your Hair with Three Hair Pins. Elsie Sedlacek is a rug designer in Younkers ' rug department at Des Moines. Ardis Sanger and Janet Seger are reviving the almost extinct dime novels. Lester Parizek is selling ads for the New York Times and is earning $500,000 a year. Fred Higbee is a taxi caller in Chicago. Charles Cohn is running a cat farm so there will never be a shortage of fur in his store. De Vee Chesmore is the keeper of a home for old maid school teachers. Three of the inmates are: Gernele Cuppy. Marcella Cole, and Jeanette Sybil. Raymond Hotka has broken the Prince of Wales record for falling off a horse, by an average of two times a mile. David Danovitz is the shoe maker in the Royal Court of England. Lester Gafeller is manager of a circus in which Vera Davis is the snake charmer, and Alberta Coon the lady who walks the sword ladder. Merle Edwards is a cartoonist in the Philippine Islands. Woodrow Fousek is the national manager of an insurance firm. Jerome Chapman. Roger Claney. Richard Greazel. and Wilson Hedges are his district salesman. Paul Jacobs has a fine job. He throws the switch for the brand new electric chair at the Federal prison at North Liberty. His first victim was Dale Koser who was found guilty of singing The Belle of Barcelona, in his sleep. committee- Margaret Mapes. Chairman Sidwell Smith Karl Kirk Dorothy Hughes Cleldon Ruppert Page 44

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In spite of Miss Buckner ' s resignation from I. C. H. S. her Blank tests still exist. Edna Roessler and Doris Robbins are her successors. It took both of them to fill her place. Louis Zager has a life job — carrying water for the elephants, in William Ruppert ' s circus. Zilpha Burr is the celebrated model for Lawrence Smith, the noted illustrator. Robert Stevens is paid $50 a lesson as teacher of public speaking for em- barrassed football heroes. Gladys Hagenbuch, as might be expected, is a great success as a teacher. She is the first woman to explain Einstein ' s theories creditably. She bases her success on Miss Etta Metzger ' s careful high school training. James Anderlik is running a road show. Kenneth Barrick is the judge who picks the pretty girls of the show. John Boyles has just finished his tour of the world, making a perfect record for himself in tennis. Harry Austin and Arthur Anderson are cruising the seven seas in search of the Spanish riches said to be sunk there. Monsieur Henrique, a card prophet of France, unfolds and brings to light interesting facts by means of his baffling deck of playing cards. Looking fifteen years ahead, he gave the still unsatisfied seniors an account of a class reunion. Considering the contents of the newspaper writeup of 1946 they were naturally interested. Six teachers of the new Iowa City High School, the Misses Lucile Smith. Lois Williams. Hannah Jacobs. Alice Krofta. Marjorie Bryan, and Mr. Walter Houser. sponsored a class reunion for the class of 1931. October 16. 1946, at the Iowa Memorial Union. This reunion, combined with the dedication of the new high school building, formed a double celebration for the fifty former graduates. At the banquet held the evening of October 16, Mr. Rodney Stewart, contractor for the new school building, was toastmaster. Among the out-of-town guests present were: Senator Wesley Walter of Arkansas, successor of Mr. Robinson; Professor Cleldon Ruppert, teacher of biology at the University of Michigan (known to his students as Bugs ' Rup- pert); Mr. Robert Barrick, millionaire owner of the Barrick Green Ink factory at Sioux City; Mr. John Ruby of Oxford, champion sod layer of Johnson County: Mr. Herbert Shulman of South Bend. Ind.. inventor of non-squeaking dresser drawers; and Miss Ruth Aurner, president of the Little Theater Guild of Des Moines. Miss Williams is office girl in the high school; Miss Smith teaches Esperanto; Miss Jacobs, German; Miss Krofta, Latin; Miss Bryan is head of the English and journalism department; and Mr. Houser is Miss Margaret Metzger ' s successor as head of the math department. Iowa Citians present included: Miss Evelyn Stutsman, Martin ' s successor as cartoonist of Boots and Her Buddies: ' ' Miss Zita Beuter, cateress; Mr. John Vander Zee, writer of the Read It and Be Convinced column in the Press- Citizen; Mr. William Hervert, superintendent of the Psychopathic Hospital at S. U. I.; and the Misses Lois Crain and Edith Virginia West, two of his assist- ing nurses. With the futures of many of their classmates still unsolved, the patient seniors visited a famed Hindu mystic of India. With his superior means of fortune- telling and with the reputation of India ' s cunning and mystery behind him, he gave the destinies of the remaining graduates: Clinton Moyer is Speaker of the House of Representatives at Washington. D. C. Ben McVicker, far-famed motorcyclist, has just established a record for hill climbing. Albert Tauber sharpens tack points, and is 96th in the line of factory workers in Margaret Patterson ' s thumb tack factory at Clinton. Iowa. Page 43 1 THE 1931 RED » WHITE S s 5S

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SENIOR CLASS WILL OF 1931 All the world ' s a stage And all the men and women merely players. They have their exits and their entrance And one man in his time plays many parts. How truly has immortal Shakespeare spoken! Is there any greater stage than that of high school life with all its diverse characters? Are there not many exits and entrances, too? Usually these are four years apart, but some are one year, two years, or possibly — five or six years. Of course in a cast of 1-40 players one finds good. bad. and indifferent actors. The more talented have played many parts. Just four years ago. the class of 1931 rushed upon this stage of Iowa City High School each determined to act his part successfully. Many of them have inscribed their names upon the walls of the hall of fame, while others have merely carved theirs upon the desks in the auditorium. Inasmuch as these players are desirous of perpetuating their achievements, they, on the eve of their departure to fresh fields and pastures new ' do will and bequeath their places in the cast to the succeeding generation of actors in the drama of high school life. Betty Kirchner leaves her conceited ways, and ability in numerous lines to Virginia Holden. Ben McVicker bestows his ' barbell on any boy who is able to make a suc- cess of it. Gladys Hagenbuch leaves a vacancy in the office which she bestows upon Gladys Dunton. Zilpha Burr donates her winning childish way to Catherine Burke. Gerald Rogers wills his height to John Findly. Gernele Cuppy s place in Normal Training Club goes to Ella Mae Hora. John Boyles bequeaths his tennis racket to anyone who can wield it as well as he did. Ruth Aurner leaves Newt on condition that no one else takes him. Frederic Higbee bestows his art of love-making upon John Pelzer. Zita Beuter and Hannah Jacobs who will not part with their sisterly devotion are taking it with them. Karl Kirk will not leave Zilpha: he is taking her along. Marcella Cole gives her place in Normal Training to Margaret Pierce. DeVee Chesmore s rollicking, boisterous manner goes to Charlotte Hain. Joe Russell leaves his power over women to Irving Schump. Harriett Batie leaves her particular ways to Josephine Walsh. Bud Wright has only one thing to bestow, and as he must leave something, he wills Helen Armstrong to Tom Gegenheimer. Alys Rummelhart regretfully leaves her boyish bob to Dorothy Strong. Ruth Fullerton leaves her smile to Ruth Burrell. Harry Austin gives his slow, lady-like manner to Donald Rogers. Page 45