Kenton High School - Echo Yearbook (Kenton, OH)

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The Class Prophecy of '33 can obtain a good stenographer from that list of typists. For two other students of Mr. Letart's I can see Clyde Millisor and Harley Shrider winning fame in the International Typing Contests. And Neil Bradley, of all people, I can see operating a jewelry store in the fair city of Forest. Not only for the jewelry did Neil go to Forest. Tsk, tsk. Then too, I can see that the House of David is materially helped by the new members, Avon Payne and Joe Wagner, that is if Joe can become man enough to grow a beard. Leonard Goslee, the Sax player, and his orchestra, Jack Zingg, Harold Stewart, Lauren Holland, Thomas Cadwagan, Carl Goetz, Evelyn Chiles, Gretchen Haudens- child, foretell sad things for Rudy Valee and his orchestra. Peg Kaiser and Dot Higgins are slated to be the best women directors of the legitimate stage. When they are famous don't forget they got their start from Miss Doughton at K. H. S. William Willoughby, Philip Brielmier, Ray Shemer, Donald Martin, Clayton Kritzler and William Wilson have been destined by the gods to give their gifts to science. Let us hope that the gods were not wrong. I can see that Dot Schrenk's ambition has come true and she is an instructor in a Kindergarten. She is ably assisted by Mary Mulligan, Catherine Ault, Eleanor Baker and Margaret Glock. Ernest Pfeister, Theodore Detwiler and Carl Ewing are constantly worrying about the price of eggs. I wonder why? Perhaps it is because they are running a cream station in partnership. And who do you think is president of the Y. W. C. A.? None other than Betty Holycross. Dorothy Fitzpatrick, Mary Ellen Jacobs, Ella Jonash, Catherine Overly, Naomi Reed, Esther Sherman and Helen Marquis make their residence there while working in some other part of the city. Edna Naus is now editing one of the largest newspapers in Ohio. Her old schoolmates, Eva Shick, Mary Williams, Evelyn Culley, Dorothy McElroy, Allene Detwiler and Avonel Bryant work on her great and efficient staff. Bernard Cavin and Carlos Wilfe now have charge of a great number of chain barber shops, in which Grace Smith, Helen Owings, Pearl Marquis and Thelma Johnson work as manicurists, while Freda Kerns and Dorothy Linnington are work- ing as blonde hair specialists. Keel Bryant and Donald McC1aren are running a sports shop in partnership selling water buckets and a few other accessories. Paul Fisher came through and put a lot of boys to shame by getting good grades. I can see Paul, a prominent figure on Wall Street. with a tidy sum laid aside, from careful speculation on the Market. It is not every one that gets straight A's in bookkeeping. Now that practically every one has had his future read I think that I shall finish by saying that no matter how bright you get or where you go, some day, some place, somebody will throw you in the ground and pat you in the face with a spade. Norman Pyle Page Twenty-three

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The Class Prophecy of '33 In the merry month of May the Senior Class of '33 will graduate from the High School. That is, I hope that the Senior Class of '33 will graduate. And since such an illustrious group of pupils are leaving the school it seems a shame to let them go without knowing what is most likely to become of them. In such a case I shall endeavor to enlighten your slow brains as to just what shall happen to that Class. In the first place, I doubt whether you know what a great salesman Gordon Swartz is. He says that in a few years he will be running the Jerrold Store, but between you and me and a couple of gate posts I believe that he will be selling oats to hobby horses. And by the way those self same hobby horses will be ridden around by none other than Tom Weaver who desires to be a riding master. I seem to hear wedding bells in the distance for some of the members of the illustrious class. Now I wonder how Helen Oglesbee or Beatrice Katterjohn will like living on nice prosperous farms, or how Lenora Johnson will like the city? I can see Ralph Calhoun and Raymond Shipp coaching good basket ball teams and buying the teams big, black cigars after each game that they Win. They are not taking chances though, perhaps their teams won't win all the time. William Robinson Kraus on being asked what he was going to be when he got out of college, replied that he would be an old man. Won't we all! And then I see Mary Lou Black who is teaching an exclusive school for girls, telling them what they should and should not do. Mary ought to know! And also in the future I see C. L. Burkart astounding the music world with her achievements in obtaining music from those strange instruments the piano and the marimba. Just so that we do not forget the boys who get their start from Mr. Tam, I dimly see in the distance William Wolf who has, through much study and practice, won the hog calling championship of the world. And Wayne Rapp, Earl Breiden- bach, John Berry, Robert Deerwester, Ernest Sutermeister, Kyle Gordon and Walter Fry are still fighting the corn borer. To whom it may concern I wish to say that Virginia Hill is going to be a journalist, and if I am not mistaken Gerald Pfister is also inclined in that direction. And then I see those two little boys known by the names of Burt Harrison and Roxie Jones, doing a two-man vaudeville act which is laying their customers in the aisle. One look at their act and the customers are ready for the morgue. We all know what a good place the Navy is, but I doubt if any of us know as well as Mary K. Brown. So in that case all that I can say is that four years is a long time to wait. Those two hard working boys Earl Kelly and Lewis Arnett who have quite a bit of interest in the great A. and P. are slated to become Kenton's great chain store magnates. Work hard boys and some day I'll raise your pay fifty cents. I see nothing in the future but prosperity for Mary Jean Borton, Alice Weber, Marcella Predmore, Pauline Butcher, Vivian Mentzer, Edna McCormick, Marion Born and Mary Hart. Because you know P. F. Letart knows his stuff when it comes to teaching people how to type. Any business man whose wife does not understand him Page Twenty-two

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The Class will We, the Class of 1933, Kenton High School, City of Kenton, County of Hardin, State of Ohio, United States of America, being about to take our departure from the aforesaid, and being of sound mind, memory and understanding, desire to make a proper disposition of all estate. We do declare this to be our last will and testa- ment revoking all former wills. SECTION I To the faculty we give the right to cheer and rejoice violently as we leave for the last time. To Mr. D. B. Metzger we give the right to try to produce bigger and better classes than our own dear class. To Mr. H. L. Naragon we give the right to assign more than fifteen page history lessons. To To Mr. Tam we will all our pipes and tobacco fto make more El Ropeos.J Mr. McKinley we give our deepest appreciation for his work toward the renewal of the three mill levy. To To Miss Doughton we give the right to produce many more of her famous plays. Miss Dorn and Miss Johnson we give the right to expel from the library as many Seniors of 1934 as they please. To To Mr. North we give Mr. Secoy's oxygen to produce greater bugs. Messrs Seitz, Letart and Doughman we will the right of entering upon the rites of Holy matrimony. fYou have our blessings fellows.J To SECTION II the class of 1934 is given the right to become Seniors if they promise to uphold the dignity of the class. To To the class of 1935 we give the right to tear the flag of 1934 to bits. the Sophomore class of 1936 we give the right of bullying the Freshmen now entering K. H. S. To the Freshmen we give four long, happy years. Be not discouraged, but re- member the class of 1933 as your ideal. SECTION III To Jean Roof, Gretchen Haudenschild does bequeath the natural curls and blushes and one dozen boxes of powder, six powder puffs, and we do grant her per- mission to use same any time she wishes to. To Noisy Warner, Norman Pyle wills his ability to think of wise cracks at any time. Burton Harrison gives his manly height to Uncle Jack Fink. Paul Fisher and Avon Payne will their ability to go to sleep in the assembly to John Johnson, alone. Tommie , the brass horn tooter, wills the said horn to any one who thinks they are as windy as he is. SECTION IV Lastly, we do hereby revoke all former wills made by us, in witness whereof, we have unto subscribed this twenty-first day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-three. Signed: D. B. Metzger CLASS OF 1933 E. M. Sem By Chas. Secoy Roscoe Jones Advisors Page Twenty-four