Kibler High School - Scholastics Yearbook (Tonawanda, NY)

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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

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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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-fx - l' 5 ARE -A i I M fl mill' 3 The Washington Trip FROM the beginning of this school year, the students have been asked to sell tickets or candy or megaphones, and the money received was to go to the Washington fund. I wonder how many of us quite realized how important that Washington fund really was. The seniors have raised money in various ways this year. There have been movies, plays, candy sales, and even a balloon sale. Our Senior play was one of the most successful ever presented by a senior class of Tonawanda High School. It meant work-hard work, but the cast received their just reward when the following week they boarded the train for the Unknown-the goal toward which we had all been striving. In Washington, we moved rapidly. Our time was all too short. Our worthy chaperones, Miss Farrell, Miss Bellinger, and Mr. Tussing, seemed to be gifted when it came to getting us to bed nights, that is, most nights. The Hotel Hamilton proved to be a fine place, and its officials were most tolerant. There was a flying field not so far from the hotel, and when we might have been learning the significance of the paintings in the Capitol dome, or what the president had for breakfast, many of us soared away over the city, and felt ourselves quite lifted above earthly things, figuratively as well as literally. Probably the most beautiful thing we saw was the Lincoln Memorial. Its simple beauty is startling. The building itself is lovely, but the statue of Lincoln is beyond the power of description. It invokes both awe and reverence, and if the great man should suddenly speak, I doubt if one would be much startled. The most of us had never been further south than Mount Vernon, and not for any- thing would we have missed that trip. We hope that the Underclassmen with whom we part thisjune, will see to it that these Easter trips are carried on. It is not easy to be continually asking people for their support of this or that or the other thing, but when you have taken the trip and realize what it means, you will not be sorry that you did your bit toward sen ing your class to Washington. Now, in behalf of the Senior Class, I Want to thank every one who was loyal enough to support us, although they may have received no reward. They will be rewarded when their class has its trip. Take it from one who knows, you will never regret having worked for so line a cause. GLADYS ELsoN I ,AZZKQE Q, , 1' 7-9