Lancaster High School - Mirage Yearbook (Lancaster, OH)

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CLASS PROPHECY Just think twenty years ago we were the happy-go-lucky Class of 1931. Now, we are celebrating the 20th Anniversary of graduation aboard the Dirty Dig Dirigible do- nated to the class by Capt. Thomas Schneider. This ship is one of the many that make weekly trips to Europe and back. And isn't it swell. We are now cruising about the airport, at an altitude of 5000 feet. The airport is owned and operated by Joe Woehrer and Melvin Bitler, both famous aviators. Their talent for aviation was manifested in their youth as their fellow students at good old L. H. S. noticed that they were alw'ays “up in the air over something.” Since noon, when we left the airport, there has been considerable action. The President of the Class, Rev. Mr. Tobias who with his wife (nee Dorothea Shannon) ns host and hostess, selected a fine committee composed of Hamilton Smith, Woodrow Huddle and Beulah Clark who filled the whole afternoon with entertainment. The main event was the Men’s Bathing Beauty Contest. Those entered were Frank Cly, Robert Lane, George Behrens, Carl Daubenmire, Karl North, Robert Logue, Geo. Berry, Charles Cattran, Willis Martin, and Byron Beveridge. The class organized it- self into groups and suppoted their favorite to the utmost. The judges, Mae Portia Hood, Ivene Hoyman, Ada Kitchen, Dorothy Lyons and Pauline Morehart, had a difficult task in selecting the winner, but finally after much argument and hair-pulling the jury returned a verdict of guilty and sentenced Byron Beveridge to end his days as Mr. America. Some of the class said that the judges had been bribed, but as this could not be.proven, they let the matter drop. After quiet had been restored, Virginia Robinson gave the report of the Secretary Club. This club formed five yeais after graduation. It's main purpose was to insure a stenographer a fair chance of marrying her employer! So far it has been very suc- cessful, for fully half of it’s members have reached their goal. The roll-call was answered by Dorothy Alvis, Myrtle Carsey, Marcellette Cooper, Lucia Dickson, Evelyn Featheroff, Charline Faust, Emma Hensel, Mai vine Horseman, and Janet Kindler. This club is very exclusive and its waiting list is full. Say, with a line-up like that what chance has an employer nowadays? While everyone on board the Dirty Dig was thrilling to a birdseye view of the beautiful Hock-Hocking, the crew invited the L. H. S. love birds, namely, Sue Nolze and Lester Burcham, Lula HufFord and Robert Chapman, Elizabeth Mowry and Walter Miller, to look at the machinery in the engine room. All was going swimmingly until suddenly one of the crew, John Van Gundy, noticed that the motor-meter on one of the engines was showing a dangerous rise. Consternation prevailed until the cause was located. These motors being air-cooled, could not keep a safe temperature while the L. H. S. love birds were indulging in their usual indoor sport, the spouting of much Hot Air. One of the crew, Walter Mikesell suggested a remedy for this condition:—Matri- mony in large doses. After a tour of inspection over the marvelous Dirty Dig, the ear-drums of the guests were shattered, when Capt. Schneider, intoxicated by the delicious culinary odors emerging from the kitchen, grabbed a sledge hammer and struck the dinner gong a terrific blow. Instantly all was in confusion, as the guests stampeded! The doors of the dinning room were almost wrecked by the onslaught of the Class of 1931, who never lost a chance to any feeding—either plain or fancy. The fumes from the food must have caused a sort of delirium, for Mae Smith, Bernice Henderly, Alberta Veidt, and Almeda Whiley, not being able to locate their place-cards at once, jumped upon the table, and with wild eyes and tongues hanging out, raced up and down seeking their places. Alarmed by the confusion the ladies

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CLASS WILL In the course of human life it is only natural that we have to fade from the scene of events. When we are told this we then prepare a will. So the class of ’31 of L.H.S. being told by their doctor, Mr. Hickson, that it will soon be fading from the scene of events, (Lancaster High School), I was called in as its legal advisor to help draw up its last will and testament. Know all men by these presents: That we, the members of the Senior class of 1931 City of Lancaster, State of Ohio, being of sound mind and body at the time this will was written, do hereby bequeath our assets, resources and advice to the following: ARTICLE I To the faculty we bequeath our memories and a bottle of hair dye to blot away any gray hairs we may have caused. It is also our wish that whomsoever shall look upon a Senior class room after June 1931, they shall be haunted by our memories, deeds, and misdeeds. ARTICLE II To Miss Soule we leave the incoming Freshmen: to these she is to explain the mysterious X. To Mr. Johnson we leave sole-ownership of the sassy Jun- iors who wish to become chemists or actors. To C. R. Enoch and P. J. Miller we be- queath the Sophomores who wish to become historians and boxers. To Mr. Berry we bequeath a crocheted bicycle spoke, (this is our reward to the person who gave us the most merriment during our four years at L. H. S.) ARTICLE III To Mr. Wallace and Mr. Wilson we leave the new gym, wherein they may turn out many cup winning teams. In esse L. H. S. ever gets a museum, we bequeath to it Wendell Butcher’s ears and Bob Black’s knowledge bump. ARTICLE IV To Mr. White and Mr. Franklin we bequeath a bar of soap, a bucket of water and a wash rag to wash the ears of the statues of Caesar, Cicero, Lincoln and Minerva. ARTICLE V To the many girls of high school age who want to be beautiful, we leave Feme Selder’s and Evelyn Fetherolf’s beauty secrets. ARTICLE VI To the Juniors we bequeath the title, Seniors, beginning September 1931, also the senior class rooms and the gum parked therein. To the Junior girls who think they are a sequel to Clara Bow, we leave the pot of gold at the rainbow’s end so that they will not have to bother any men for a while. To Bill Glassford we leave Bob Murtaugh’s power of dominating women. To Tom He wets on we bequeath five kegs of beer, but to keep them, he must share them with Bob Welton and Jack Eggart. To Eddie Mattox we leave Emerson Gilliam’s suits and shoes. ARTICLE VII When the Junior’s assume the title, Senior, we request that they give their discarded title, Junior, to the Sophomore’s. As per our request, the Sopho- mores shall receive the Junior rooms and assume an air of supremacy over the Fresh- men. To Ruth McClanahan and Jayne Messmore, we bequeath a phonograph record entitled “Lover Come Back to Me.” To Phil Bumgardner we leave Clyde Vorys’ per- sonality. ARTICLE VIII To the Freshmen we bequeath three more years of learning, the right to pull the incoming Freshmen through the pond, and to call themselves Sopho- mores. It is our wish that the Freshmen shall receive the class rooms formerly oc- cupied by the former Sophomores. ARTICLE IX To all future classes we bequeath the new high school and hope they may have a better time therein than we did in the old one. To Miss McCoy we leave the Junior boys and a safe to keep her grade book in. To the rest of the school we bequeath a few of our unfortunate fellow classmen who prefer to go to school than work. ARTICLE X To the first circus that comes through Lancaster we ask that the classes in charge at that time give it Karl Shaefer. To anyone not mentioned in this we bequeath our apologies and blessings. In witness whereof this Senior Class of 1931 of Lancaster, Ohio, does hereunto set their hand this Seventeenth day of March, in the year of Our Lord, One Thousand Nine Hundred and Thirty One. Signed, LEE RIDER

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caused, several males of the cave-man type, grabbed them from the table and seated them forcibly, nay, even painfully. The trains and doo-dads on their evening gowns were beautifully decorated with fruit cocktail and butter. Later in the evening a Kangaroo Court found them guilty of disturbing the piece—of bread, and they were penalized by having to eat the strawberry preserves they had stepped in. After every one was seated, the Star Spangled Banner played by the orchestra was greeted unenthusiastically, while every one arose again trying hard to keep one eye on the flag, while keeping the other on the door that led to the serving room. Anthem over. Everybody please be seated—or rather re-seated. And then the festivities of the evening began in good earnest! The first course over, there ensued a slight delay in the service, (owing on doubt to the amatuer wait- resses, Zelma Baughman, Opal Healy, Ruth Martens, Ruth Messmore, Vivian Primrose, and Gertrude Schadel, who were members of the class and volunteered for the job.) The Captain, with the instinct of the true host, always alert for the comfort of his guests, picked up a candle-stick and hurling it thru the swinging door, in a command- ing voice yelled for “a little service this way!” No apparent result. Then taking his plate, he struck a pose like the discus-thrower, and using full steam ahead, let the plate follow the candle-stick. It did. Just as Marguerite Schaffer opened the door and came forth bearing a tray of delectable dainties! Result unmentionable. The waitresses, knowing now what was expected, shifted into high speed, and all the guests were soon happily absorbing their calories. Several of the more domestically inclined girls, Louise Bigham, Anna Rohrer, Mar- tha Smith, Eva Noice, Magdaline Hankinson and Lillian Miller, had helped with the banguet by preparing some of their favorite receipts. These were brought forth in due time and set before the guests who greeted them with outward pleasure but in- ward misgivings. But no one could be so ill-mannered as not to eat them. After in- dulgence in these prize concoctions, the undertakers, Karl Schaeffer and John Siegler, always with a weather eye out for business, who complained that the Class of 1931 gave them little support, began to see a prosperous wave coming their way. But their hopes were soon dashed to the ground when Drs. Wendell Butcher and Harry Thomas, with a few well chosen pills, restored the victims to normalcy. The banquet, like all good things, must come to an end, the guests kept their seats, and after settling themselves comfortably were treated to a fine program, which was as follows: Orchestra........................................“What Goes Up, Must Come Down” Invocation--------------------------------------------------------Rev. Dwight Cave Address of Welcome---------------------------------------------Rev. Thurman Tobias Quartette “We Ain’t As Young As We Used To Be” Ethel Tipple Sung by Adrian Abele, Lucille Trout, Hattie Walter, and Dorothy Webb. Toastmaster : Judge Joseph Acton Speech—“I’ll be Strong ‘Till I Meet My Weakness” Virginia Strong “The Wordless Song”—Composed by Richard Bellhorn Sung by Ruth Feeman Speech—“Boy’s Athletic Development At L. H. S.” Coach Joe Dennison Speech— Girl’s Athletic Development At L. H. S.” Coach Bee Stein “The Long and Short Of It” Black Faced Minstrel End Men ------------------------------------Lee Rider and Raymond George Ably Assisted by Cyril Baughman, Kermit Keller, Clyde Voris, Noah Molar, Robert Murtaugh, Howard Mallory and Carl Soles. “The Blue and Silver,” March Orchestra