Leesburg High School - Blazer Yearbook (Leesburg, IN)

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L. H. S.-1929 RAVELINGS I, Leannis Valentine, do will my oratorical ability to Mary Wallace. I, Margaret Gay, do will and bequeath my personality to Pauline Harmon, and my position on the B. B. team to Zona Stackhouse, but I won't part with my boy friend. I, Milla Kirkendall, do Will and bequeath my position on the student council to Nina Bareham. I, John Chapman, will my love of Leesburg High School to Maxine Scott. I, Pearl Funk, will my habit of day dreaming to Juanita Brookins and my seat behind Maurice Bareham to Virginia Murphy. I, Mary Austin, will my divine right to be late at school to my worthy successor, Frances Thomas. Signed: CLASS OF' 229. Per MARY AUSTIN. Witness: This class will, signed, sealed, and acknowledged by said Class of '29, in our presence this nineteenth day of April, nineteen hundred and twenty-nine. Signed: MRS. WALLACE. MR. AUSTIN. E WISH here to express our sincere thanks to each and everyone of our Teachers who have so faithfully helped us in our ups and downs all through our high school journey. We'll admit that even tho' it would have taken the patience of Job to have stood by us, never have they failed to do so. And it is with tears in our eyes that we part with them and our Dear Schoolmates, who have helped so much to brighten our many happy days in L. H. S. Page Twenty

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L. H. S.-1929 RAVELINGS Ilnnking Ifiarkmarh IN THE year of 1932 during my vacation I decided to take an airplane trip all over the United States so I went to Chicago to start on my journey. I discovered an airplane which was painted a beautiful Ma- roon and Gold and named L-29 so I chose that one for my trip. Imagine my surprise to discover Loman Doty was the pilot of the airplane. We started for New York where Loman said I would find some friends. At the Ritz hotel where I stopped I discovered my old class mate Wayne Deckard who was assisted in his work by his manager, Pearl Pendergrass. The barber shop in the hotel was one of the most wonderful in the world and the owner of it was Margaret Gay. The elaborate beauty parlor adjoining was owned by Mary Austin and it was generally supposed that these two girls were multi-millionaires. In the southern part of the United States on a little farm down in Georgia, I discovered John Chapman trying to raise watermelons. After feasting on melons for a time we went to a recital in Atlanta of which the star performer was Leannis Valentine. After flying on we discovered the airplane to be out of gas so we stopped at a small filling station to get more. You can imagine my sur- prise to find that the owners were Milla Kirkendall and Isabell Stahly. Going on into California we stopped just outside San Francisco at a wayside inn where we found old friends. Ray Shue was the propri- etor of this inn and his cook of great renown was Esther Jane McKib- ben. In San Francisco I went to a large theatre. Another surprise awaited me there for Harold Hartman had the leading part in a play that had been very successful. From there we went to Seattle where I found Merle Deckard run- ning a ish Cannery. He said that he had much competition from Pearl Funk who also owned a cannery close to him. I heard many strange things while on my journey and among them was that my old school mate Wayne McCann was coaching the Nation- al Basket Ball Team and that Mae Stookey was editor-in-chief of a very popular magazine with Ralph Church as her chief assistant. Toward the end of my journey I went to a large art gallery in Chi- cago where I found many wonderful pictures by the great artist, Carl Kilmer. Arriving at my oflice I discovered that the ofiice force had been in- creased by the mechanical drawing expert, Maurice Bareham. In all my wanderings I had not seen Millard Wallace. I later found that he had been on a great hunting expedition and that he was the greatest Coon hunter known. I had had a wonderful vacation and its greatest joy was discover- ing that all my class mates of 1929 had been successful in life. PRINCESS RATHBUN, '29. Page T 1 t