Keokuk High School - Comment Yearbook (Keokuk, IA)

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26 THE COMMENT Since lVlary Pickford has had to give up acting for the movies Alma Covington, with the help of her curls, has more than adequately filled her place. Celeste Coe is teaching Spanish in one of the leading Universi- iies of Spain. Byron Hart has gone on the lecture platform and is delivering a series of lectures on How I Nlanage to Kiss Every Girl I Date With, and Gene Elting, who travels with him, practices what Byron preaches, and says he has never known it to fail. George Hubert is a scientific farmer and nearly drives people distracted telling them about his over-sizebeets and carrots. George has been wearing magnifying glasses for some time and no one has the nerve to tell him it is all an optical illusion. l.ois Seigfried and Bessie Wedel are joint owners of the most successful beauty shop in Galland and Henry Leu is their ardent sup- porter. He claims his complexion has never been the same since he began using their beautifier. .hfladeline Radasch has been married for some time and Little Alberta is her constant joy. David Collisson has been studying feminine roles ever since the Athletic Association show, and has now become quite famous. Edward Becker is in Shanghai with his family of six, in the em- ploy of the Soviet government. just recently he sent for Charlie lVlorris to be his secretary. Charlie made it his aim in life to be the fastest and most accurate typist in the world, and has now attained that height. Rosalind Shultz is called the K'Best Dressed Wloman of Ameri- ca, and gowns of her designing are much sought for. Fred Grams is the owner of the largest chain of graneries in the world. He is married, of course, and has a charming little wife. Edith Kiedaisch and Helen Steele are making a dancing tour and are making the world sit up and take notice. hlelbourne Roach, who is the director of the orchestra that accompanies them, has com- posed all of the music and says the Stepping Sisters interpret it wonderfully. Garvin Nlayhew has added one more vehicle to the worldls al- ready crowded air. lt.is called the Aerobat, and carries 500 pas- sengers. It rises above the earth and remains stationary while the earth revolves, and then drops to the desired spot. Ruth Kiedaisch is now a noted poetess, and one of her noted poems is 0de to the Homely But Hopeful.

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THE COMMENT 25 ward Ebersole, Captain, Herbert Vance, Edward Rich, Carl Schmidt, Wilbert Prasse, Charles Morris, Harold Worster, Harold Wyllie, Byron Hart and Eugene Elting. We will leave this record for the Seniors to beat next year. Mild1'ed French, Violet Cochrane and Lee Brown have also shown their talents in Declamatory work, each having won medals. So we have come to the close of our school life, out upon the highway of life we go in a few more days, no longer bound together as a class, protected and guided by our teachers, but as individuals- each a law unto himself-made better and stronger by the years of training and association within these walls. Never, though the years be long and strenuous, or full of brightness, will the memories of the past four years grow dim or leave us. Nlay our lives be richer and sweeter for our days together in the Keokuk High School, and we beg forgiveness of our patient instructors, especially Doctor Reid and lVIiss Solomon, for the hardships we have put upon them during our four years' sojourn in their midst. HELEN STICIQLE. CLASS PROPHECY I was in my library reading when Mildred came in. Her stage career has been quite wonderful and now she out-rivals hfaude Ad- ams in her new version of Peter Pan. She was on her way to her mansion on River Side Drive, and seeing I was at home, called. Marnie, she said, after a time, I've been thinking quite a bit about the good old days in K. H. S. and wondering what has become of the boys and girls who graduated with us. Strange to say, I had the same tho'ts and since there had been so much talk and so many articles about the fourth dimension, I sug- gested that we take my Ouija board Cwhich I had just recently pro- curedl and try it. NVe consulted lwlr. Spirit in this fashion. Please, Ouija, tell us where our class presfdent is. And after wandering over the board aimlessly as Ouiijas are prone to do, this is what it told us: Ebbie is now at the head of our army. just after graduation he went to West Point. He advanced so rapidly and made such re- markable reforms in all military tactics that he attracted the attention of the President. When the Secretary of War resigned because he realized he was not up to date, Ebbie was asked by the President him- self to fill that oHice.

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THE COMMENT 27 Everett Folker takes great pride in keeping his air-propelled hearse and white gloves spotlessly clean. Benton Hancock, who is a surgeon, supplies Everett with business. Strange to say, few of Ben- ton's patients ever survive. Ann Joyce is now the head librarian in one of Alexandrials larg- cst libraries. She was in New York, but came back to take this offer. Harold VVorster and Elmer Meister are both running for a seat in Parliament. They went to England to study social conditions. Harold is running on the wet ticket, While Elmer is a strong pro- hibitionist. He and Harold get into some very heated arguments. blary Dillon is teaching ball-room dancing in the High Schools of Keokuk and its suburbs. Mary always was tall and willowy, and her pupils just adore her. john Thoeny is the minister in one of the largest Christian missions in Chicago. THis benign appearance alone is enough to make one forsake his wicked ways. One of his first converts was john Burrows, who is now a warden in the Penitentiary at Ft. Madison. All of the prisoners delight in going to chapel just to hear Brother Burrows speak. Helen Nlessenger has a little delicatessen shop situated just across the street from the H. S., and there is a constant stream be- tween her little shop and the school. Oh, yes, Dr. Reid doesn't ob- ject at all to the pupils eating in assembly, it keeps them quiet. Billy Hollingsworth is our one and only famous orator. He is making a tour of the VVest Indies, lecturing on Oh, VVould That the Time l Had VVasted Could Come Back to Me. We had some trouble hearing from Edward Rich. You know he has a home on blars, at which he spends half his time, and he was on his way home. Then: M-a-r-, the Ouija began. Now for yours, blildred said. As we both knew all too well what I am, we put it away, feeling repaid for the hour and a half we had spent with it. MARGARET HAMILL.