Kibler High School - Scholastics Yearbook (Tonawanda, NY)

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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

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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 A - .W 2 Q . i .N K N f .fu lv-all Kai Commencement Wiz have been looking forward to our Commencement for four long years, but now we find it hard to realize that the important event is really at hand. Soon we shall no longer be the ranking body of the High School-the seniors-but merely alumni. The happy activities of the Commencement season will begin with Class Day on Saturday, june 15, at Creekside Park, near East Aurora. The afternoon will be spent ' Th S ' in games and sports, then will come supper and the regular program. e enior President, Harold Struebing, will give the first address, then the Junior President, Clyde Wagner, will try to outdo him. The donors will furnish more fun with their clever and sometimes too appropriate gifts to their classmates. The girls donor will be Anna Gromlovits, and the boys' will be Thomas Rowley. Then comes that great gulf, Regents. Some of us will breast the current and reach the other shore cum lafzdef others, mirabile diem. Some may even get lost in the Waves and reappear, belated but undismayed, next January. I.et's hope their number will be small. The next event will be Baccalaureate Services in the Auditorium, Sunday evening, June 7.3. The sermon will be given by the Rev. W. Merle of the Evangelical Church. Commencement exercises will be held in the Auditorium on Tuesday evening, June 15. The salutatory will be given by Josephine Colby. The orator elected by the class, Lyell Hauger, will be the next speaker, and the faculty-elected orator, William Harmon will follow. The valedictory will be given by Caroline Hatfield. Rev. H. Elliott Chaffee of Syracuse will give the address. The diplomas will be awarded by Mr. W. Kibler, President of the Board of Education. Then the class of 192.9 will be disbanded, and we shall join the ranks of the great outside world. .-ZZV1 ' 18