Kibler High School - Scholastics Yearbook (Tonawanda, NY)

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I I I ,rf- I . x I -Q I dl! Wulf! I I I I I I- I I Sa War It Writ In The Starry I Clary Prophecy I I HAD been called from Boston to San Francisco to clear up a law suit, for I am a famous I lawyer now, ten years after graduation from T. H. S. Imagine my surprise when I found that the case was a bad mix-up my old friend, Straw Struebing, had got into. , It was not financial, as he was a successful sanitary engineer, but his weakness was , always the women and this was another breach-of-promise suit. I got him out of it, though, with a little settlement of a hundred thousand dollars. I always win my cases. As a reward Straw took me with him on a trip around the world in his yacht. I Half way across the ocean, we spied a sea plane evidently in distress, riding the waves. It was the plane which had set out from Japan for the first non-stop flight across the Pacific, Mr. Albert Hawthorne, Aviator. We exchanged reminiscences, and Abc borrowed a huge amount of gasoline and food and cigarettes, and continued , on his way. Later we learned that he was credited with a non stop flight, his excuse for the delay being that he missed the contient and had to fly back. I In the Phillipines, we met Roger Homeyer who was superintending the con- E 'struction of a huge electrical plant. His wife was with him. No need to say who. In Japan, we visited the American ambassador, the Honorable Edward Dierdorf. Ed I had crashed the gate of politics, and won for himself an enviable position. In Egypt, l . whom should we find but Alex Friebold, a noted engineer, who was involved in the , process of making grass grow on the Sahara Desert. ' I We went across the continent to South Africa to visit a diamond mine. The ro- I prietor, clad in white, was reclining in an easy chair, but, boy, was he making tlliiose I niggers workl- On closer inspection we saw it was no other than Eugene Hartman. , In Rome, whom should we find but Caroline Hatfield and Gladys Elson, two famous I poets who were in Italy for inspiration. At Monte Carlo, we were accosted by, Messrs. Bernard and James O'Connor, both wealthy sportsmen. Hmm. Arriving at I Bordeaux, we decided to go to the horse races. There we discovered our old friend, I Lyell Hauger, riding an American horse, owned by Dick Britt. Lyell had become' America's premier jockey, succeeding the late Earle Sand. - I The Olympic Games were being held in France that year, and to our great surprise and pride, we witnessed Lil Wilcox and Ann Gromlovits win the swimming race andl the shot-put titles. In Paris we got a great kick out of meeting Emmet Kenney, who. was a professor in a famous French school of dancing. He said that Edward Raps was one of his assistants. We had had enough of Europe, so we returned to America via the Atlantic. Im New York, we ran into Honey Ott who is now proprietor of a chain of drug stores, and a multi-millionaire. We met his wife, our former classmate, Margaret Phillips., We decided to see a baseball game and found Joe Dreyer manager of the Giants, with Allan Oswald for his famous second baseman. Of course the Giants won. That night we went to Grand Opera to hear Vera Robearge, one of the world's greaq prima donnas, sing. Vera told us that Ruth Loeswick is running opposition to the amous Dew stands with her famous Ruby for Red-Hors places, which were stationed all over the largest cities. She also told us that Grace Meyer was a famous I author. I I :IKKAHJ W I gr :lil . I I 16 I I I I I

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,-f f- i -fu law' '55 l 7 ' 7 - The History of the Clam' of IQ29 Wa pause long enough in our little ship of time to look backward as the four years of our high school life fade away and become dim by the light of the future. How shad- owy and gray is the past when life now seems so bright. The first thing that we see happening to our class, was moving into out new school. We do still believe it was the brilliance and unusual intellectual qualities of our class that was rewarded by our being moved into more suitable quarters. And what fun it was those first years! Parties in the gym were entirely new, and did we have a good time! The junior year of our high school career was more or less a grind to stay juniors and a grind to become seniors. Our senior year was, in most respects, an ideal closing to a studious high school life. I say in most respects ideal, for we cannot forget our Thanksgiving Day defeat. But we cannot let that mar our closing year-on, no, we are proud, and no one will know it if we do not forget. Our after-school gym dances and the Halloween Masquerade were the big times this year-at home. What we did in Washington is nobody's business. What a great time we had on our Washington trip. It was a big get-together and we made the most of it. We hope there will never be a year when tear-dimmed eyes will read of the death of the Washington trip. And now, Commencement. How clear we see it, and how clear it makes the realization that it is our last aim as a class. Now we are off alone. Our paths have separated. But then, perhaps when stars are lighting life's twilight hour, we shall again be able to look back and see how our paths have crossed and how We have captained our souls. WVINNIFRED LUTHER My P , 7-5

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..- eas I - A 4 '!EQe'1f 53s Leaving the Big Town, we sailed for Montreal. Here we met Gene Duffy who had moved his family across the border where he owned a large malt factory. Straw's yacht had magic in it, for our next stop was at Washington where we paid our respects to Lillian Deemer, who had just been elected first woman senator from New York. Next we landed in Panama, and had a visit with Elroy Hale, the gov- ernor of the Canal Zone. Then came the last lap of our journey by water. At San Francisco, I left Harold and continued to Hollywood where Ray Foels had come into his own in the talkies, outdoing Al jolson who is getting a little old for a mammy singer. Hollywood was rejoicing that it had at last found a successor to Valentino in the person of our own Dick Stone. And then, there were Ruthie Riedel as one of Mack Sennett's girls, and Betty Bauer Chow my heart fluttersb who had supplanted Greta Garbo. I read in the paper that Tom Rowley had just Won the Catalina Channel swim, and that John Roth had become the amateur diving champion of the United States. On my way back home, I stopped in Denver to see Charles Abram who owns a chain of stores rivaling Woolwort 's. In Chicago, I met Warren Gordon who was a fight promoter and literally coining money. We went to hear Glenwood Dcmmin, the famous violinist, give one of his lpopular recitals, and met Cliff Harry who is a traveling salesman. What a line! I rmly believe he could sell a person the Statue of Liberty with that lingo. He said Adrian Manary was working for the Hupmobile Agency designing bigger and better Hups. , Since I had to stop over in Buffalo, I decided to run down to my home town. There I met all my remaining classmates. Elaine Davis and Edna Bernhardt were both ha pily married. Violet Brider was teaching in the High School. Dorothy Hancock and Lorena Mowitz, Paris-trained modistes, were conducting an exclusive shop on Delaware. Lucille Schutt and Leona Hahn had a beauty parlor for the elite. Ifene Regenscheid and Laura Walters were trained nurses. Virginia Roth, of course, was married and her husband was a member of our school if not of our class. I read in the society section of the Buffalo News that Mary Coshway was about to have a very fashionable wedding. Bill Harmon had become the owner of a huge plumbing business, and Victoria Novotny was his secretary. I was surprised to learn that Erma Gentzke had found her vocation in missionary work in China, and that Eunice Henneberger had become a famous aviatrix and had set a new woman's endurance record with her own plane. Iwas not at all surprised to learn that Jessie Irvine was playing with ' 'The Follies of 1939. Lucille Hall was in the theater, too, being organist at Shea's and very popular with the crowd. The theater was the only sky-scraper in Tonawanda. It was built by Lyman Keller and he was the proudest man in town. A portion of it was given over to Winnifred Luther's flower business-the closest rival of the famous Palmer Flowers. Bernice Miller and been elected mayor of Tonawanda, the first woman to receive that honor. Her first official act was to forbid a rize fight in which Hamilton Kelsen ho d to win the championship title of his class Ciliily Weightj. Jqist outside of town on a nice little farm of their own, lived Mr. and Mrs. Earl Weidman Cnee Evelyn Wittnauerl, and they're doing well, too, by gum. Six months after my departure, I returned to Boston a wiser man. I had thought I was pretty good, but on looking over my Scholastica of '19, I realized that I was only one of many in that famous class who were also pretty good. JAMEs HEFFERNAN , ,...d4 .q... .. 7-7