Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH)

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30 MIRAGE Scene:—Madame Parlor. Time:—May 1917. Madame Levinski gazing fixedly into a medium:— Ah, the future is so unusually clear this evening that I feel confident that the desti- ny and future fortune o+ class of T7 will be revealed. Yes, the globe, is becoming clear and I am able to distinguish more and more the signs. First is being revealed the fu- ture of the one who guided us safely thru the sea of school tribulations but almost became stranded himself, our President Russell Lloyd. He shall continue to be a leader and will be recognized as such by the National Government. Before twenty years have passed he will have assumed his duties as Ambassador to China and hav- ing become very much infatuated with a Chinese heiress he will fall the victim of Cupid’s arrow and marry her for her Or- iental beauty and sense, (cents)- Professor Brasseur, who is to be the dis- tinguished director of a remarkable “Two- Piece” Orchestra will entertain the Presi- dents and greatest citizens of both conti- nents. The personnell of the orchestra will be made up of prominent musicians, Noel Horn and Robert Sharp. But he will attribute his greatest success to the warb- lings of his concert soloist, Viola Thrush. The artistic mind of Harold Mayer will result in his opening an American Dress- making Establishment in Paris, with Eva Kneller and Edythe Cave as private secre- taries. Austin Gibbony, Ralph Beck and Albert Brehnstuhl will become joint owners of a large aeroplane factory in Buenos Ayres, which will average fifteen hundred mach- ines in daily output since the aeroplane will become the chief means of travel for flighty people. That “to love is to sacrifice” will be th( motto of Forest Rose Brandt for she must wait patiently through ten long years until “Tub” Silbaugh graduates and finds it op- portune to marry. Professor Dilger and his wife Relva will probably find life most exciting in Rock- bridge where “Dig” will accept the posi- tion of Professor of Chemistry and Physics in Rockbridge High School, and spend his leisure hours in coaching the “Varsity” team. But now the globe is cloudy. We must wait until it becomes clear. Ah! now I have the meaning of the indistinctness, for it bodes evil. Alas! Ruth Derbyshire and Dorothy Rarick have a sad future! They will be unfortunately disappointed in their love affairs and spend most of their life in a convent. Dorothy will find that this is the only sure cure for “giggles.” Agnes Bookwalter, Grace Friesner, Ruth Meeker and Jeanette Spears are forming a private Corporation, and after buying a large farm in Alaska, will take up agricul- tural pursuits and perfect a variety of skinless onions. George Rutherford will graduate from Harvard and spend the remaining years of his life in Rome making historical research to ascertain whether Virgil was the true author of the Aenead. But there is one member of the class des- tined to become the most popular 20th cen- tury novelist, Lawrence Raymond Derry. Derry’s greatest sensation will be a book of two thousand pages and two hundred and fifty beautiful illustrations entitled “The Girls I Left Behind Me in The West.” Fate will indeed smile upon “Dotty” Noles and give him boundless wealth be- cause of the inventive trend of his brain. His discovery of a “Patent Hair Restorer” based on his own experience will go far be- yond any similar attempts made in previous history. Ralph Eiman and Roy Sheets will find especial solace in Dotty’s Patent am therefore travel extensively as agents ft Nole’s Hair Restorer- “Hal” Phillips evidently decided upon his future career because of his decided success in editing the school paper for he will become editor of the National Wo- man’s Suffrage Journal which has its head- CLASS PROPHECY Levinski’s Spiritual

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MIRAGE 29 edge of the universe so far as we were concerned. Ah, Well! Perhaps we may meet them again on life’s broad ocean, or in some cool- ing spring or purling rivulet—who knows- “For there’s a divinity that shapes our ends, rough-hew them how we may.’’ “Rivers will always have one shingly shore to play on where they can be shal- low and careless and happy and free,” says Carlyle. The “shingly shore” of High School life is the Junior year. Having weathered the storms of tests, exams and finals for two strenuous years they emerge quietly, con- fidently, joyously into the smooth current of Junior days. “Then, if ever, come per- fect days” for what is so rare as the days of a junior. Memories crowd thick and fast upon the historian of these days for there was something doing every day. We must pause to note the departure of Mr. Brashares to become Superintendent of Hocking County Schools, and to record the elevation of Mr. Thomas to the posi- tion of Prncipal of L. H. S. Both were men of high ideals and our lives will be enrich- ed by their influence. We had never been fully organized as a class, but this was one of the first acts of the Junior year. On September 22, 1915, we elected the following officers: President, Russell Lloyd; Vice-President, Mary Hood; Secretary, Mildred Baker, Treasurer; Francis Pannabecker, Sergeant at Arms, John Silbaugh; Mirage Represen- tative, Eloise Tidd. Class colors chosen were green and white; class flower, red rose bud; motto, “Desire to do well.” This year we had charge of an auction sale at the Senior Carnival. Owing to the arts and wiles of John Silbaugh who acted as auctioneer this proved to be the best money maker of the evening. According to custom, we banqueted the football team and this was voted one of the most enjoyable social events of the year. Our class play “Rooms for Rent” was well patronized and was accorded by those in attendance one of the best plays ever staged at L. H. S- The Junior-Senior banquet marked the high tide of the year for the Juniors and was even quite favorably commented up- on by the Seniors. The class picnic was held under more favorable conditions than the year before and consisted of less experience and more enjoyment. And again the waters are troubled, the rain drops agitated. Some, indeed a ma- jority I may say, bubbled brightly through by the honorary route, while a few, alas, were “all het up” by Junior exams and finals, a very few to the point of ebulli- tion and elimination. “A sad farewell; we could have better spared a better man”. The closing scene—the Senior year— that seemed not long ago so far removed is here, alas, too soon, for scarce have we settled to the serious toil for which we came hither than we are told to pack our books and say farewell—a long farewell. But ere we go we crave a parting word. This year has been little different, we venture, than the corresponding year of all previous classes of L. H. S. We have had the usual Senior studies and activities, in which, while we may not have excelled all previous performers, we have put forth earnest, honest effort. We have not been disinclined to heed the direction and advice of those who have been selected to rule ov- er us, and to each and every teacher who has borne with our faults and commended our efforts and our virtues, we bid an af- fectionate farewell. We bespeak their kind indulgence of the erring Juniors, Sophs and Freshies until, in the fullness of time and by the acquisition of sufficient knowledge and discretion, each class in turn shall occupy our present happy em- inence and shall pass on to join the great ocean of human endeavor and achieve- ment upon whose shores we have now ar- rived. The waters are agitated by the most aw- ful storm that has ever swept the earth and the stoutest hearts may w’ell tremble. Who knows but that the Class of 1917 is come to the kingdom for such a time as this?

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MIRAGE 31 quarters in New York City. Eloise Tidd will ably assist Harold as Society Editor. And again the haze of indistinctness ap- pears. The future is so clouded that I fear the globe is being taxed to its utmost capac- ity. In the year 1936—Now I have it, in the year 1936 Mildred Hamilton and Rob- ert M. Giesy will enter the race for Gover- nor of Ohio. “Dick” will win out and af- ter his defeat Robert will accept the Presi- dency of a large Women's College in the East. Leland McCleery and his wife Ethel Tracy McCleery will certainly lead a ro- mantic life as farmers. “Lee” will accept Herr Thomas’ advice and choose this pur- suit because it requires more grey matter than any other occupation. Because of the demand and need for nurses and in response to the plea sent out by the American Red Cross Society, Elsie Tucker, Floy Sexauer, Shearl Miller, Abby Houser and Bernice Walter will enter the service and become very prominent pro- fessional nurses. St. Clair Burden assisted by Nellie Shan- er Burden will hold a lucrative position at Superintendent of a Deaf and Dumb Asy- lum in the Sandwich Islands Previous to this time, Saint will have made repeated at- tempts, all in vain, to compound a gas which inhaled into the cranium would keep the tongue in perpetual motion. Mignon Hummell will go to Washington as Senator from Ohio and the reduction of the present high cost of living will be due to the efforts of Senator Hummel. Mariam Grove will graduate from the Medical College at Ohio State and become a noted brain specialist. Elizabeth Schleich- er will succeed Miss Mowery as Instructor of Music in the Public Schools of Lancaster. It is utterly impossible to make out the next. All that is distinguishable is that it concerns Pearl Spears, Bess Baker, and Fannie Lake. Evidently the fate of Fan- nie and Bess has already been sealed as we know Pearl’s to be, and may they have all happiness in the field of Matrimony. The Salvation Army will need very ef- ficient workers in the future and under the leadership of Ralph Brenner and Harry McClanahan it will occupy a higher place in the social development of America- Several of the class will embark upon the Sea of Matrimony shortly after grad- uation. Among them will be Nellie Beh- rens and Frances Chapman. The former will marry a scientific farmer, and the lat- ter a lawyer of Cincinnati. About the same time the marriage of Mary E. Hood to a graduate of the class of 1914 will be solemnized. Isabelle Work will also test the value matrimonial life and after making three different trials finally give up in despair and in partnership with Marie Deffen- baugh supervise a Bachelor Girl’s Board- ing House on Fountain Square. Teddy Roosevelt’s Volunteer Army shall be greatly strengthened by the addition of several stalwart High School braves, Har- old Rohrbaugh, Harold Hughes, Ross George, Leo Hartman, George Burnstein, Frank Graf and Douglas Grimm. Elizabeth Kent and “Pud” McCleery, af- ter taking the required training will join the U. S. Aviation Corps and make some re- markable flights across Buckeye Lake. Paul Spears will investigate many trades and finally open a Beauty Parlor on Fift’ Ave., New York, making a specialty of Wigs and Switches of every hue imagin- able. Among his lady assistants will be Margaret Shonting and Myrtle Jane Horse- man. Mrs. Grace Me Morris Shott will establish a great reputation and win a fortune for herself as cartoonist for the Chicago Tri bune. Gerald Hewetson will live for the sole purpose of bettering the moral conditions of humanity and is now spending his leisure hours in preparing the lectures which will make him a famous reformer. His mor soul inspiring subjects will be “Why Don’t Smoke Cigarettes” and “The Frater- nity as a Public Menace.” The Self-Serving Grocery Store carrying everything from a toothpick to a fried chicken will be introduced to Lancaster cit- izens by Miss Brunella Dilger.