Madison High School - Trojan / Madisonian Yearbook (Madison, IL)

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“Graduation Day” It's time we got to thinking What we’re going to say To everyone who’s interested In Graduation Day. No more studies, no more fun Because our diplomas, at last, we've won. Classmates dressed in colors gay, Are waiting for—Graduation Day. Now it’s almost the end of May, Closer draws Graduation Day. Our time has come to say Good-bye To friends and classmates of Madison High. But when we’re old and feeble, And from each other far away, There’s one thing yet, we'll ne’er forget, That’s our Graduation Day. Robert Hocking. Page Thirteen

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LOW SOPHOMORES First Row: Mary Lascu. Marie Czervinske. Ina Wedler, Annie Lauri Hill. Pauline Harshany. Elmina Strain. Vera Gozia. Sophia Purdes. Veloris Barr, Birdelle Klein. Irene Kismer. Second Row: Lewis Waggoner, Bennie Lamm, William Radman. Robert Hendricks. Leonard Gozia. Faye Brown. Mitchell Yanow. Gladys Hayes. Raymond McDonald. Victor Novak. George Kawula. Lee Harlan. Paul Holshouser. James Mullen. John Ficor, John Gresko. TOP FRESHMEN First Row: Neil McGeehee. Norman Gnoth. Alec Kurilla, Tony Smith, Joe Tomlanovich, John Bruder, Pete Posipanko. Second Row: Lucille James, Louise Gurba, Henrietta Greenlee, Stephana Nenoff. Cornelia Graville. Marguerite Reilly. Bessie Havranek. Elizabeth Blattner, Eleanor Burns, Lena Kamarovsky. Third Row: Anna Mejaski. Loretta Dron, Olive Lipscomb, Justine Brown. Dorothy Foot. Bonclyn Bergfield, Eleanor Amend. Eleanor Kozielek, Wilma Welshaus. Clara Williams. Fourth Row: Fred Macias. Anthony I.apinski. Leonard Lupa. James Walsh, Clarence Barethelemy, Wilbern Pearce. Leo Haligoski. Theotiste Peebles. Joe Gadwill, Courtland Lybarger. John Bouth. William Oldal, Edward Little. Adam Prusack. Page Twelve

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PROPHESY In the hot summer, it is always my delight to find a soft mossy spot in a wood where I can read, or just amuse myself by watching the beautiful birds and the funny-shaped insects. On one of these sultry, beautiful days, I lay down upon the bank of h lovely brook. The babbling of the brook and the song of the birds soon lulled me into the land of sleep. The dream that I had was of the Class of 1931 of dear old Madison High, and it seemed so real that I shall have to tell you about it. I dreamed that Mar- garet Lewis had become a great prima donna. While appearing in St. Louis she had planned an informal entertainment for the members of the Class of ’31. The first to arrive was the orchestra, directed by Frank Wondra! It was quite a surprise for Frank to be first, because he was always last at school. He and his orchestra had been playing on Broadway in New York, but he had post- poned his next performance in order to meet his old classmates again. Next came Melvin Lee, who had become a noted financier since we last met. He told me that he was divorcing his beautiful chorus wife. June Fogle, because she wouldn’t stay home one-sixteenth of her time. Dr. Brown and his wife, Mae Levy, arrived soon. They had been spending the winter in Florida, but Frank couldn’t miss a chance to see his old friends. Jane Purcell and Margaret were always pals. Jane was the owner of a millinery shop in Paris and was dressed like a queen at the party. I suppose Alex Gitcho had his wish because he had inherited the title of Count from a relative in Russia, but had received no money. The Count and Robert Hocking, whose ambition had been to be a doctor, were running the Hocking- Gitch Cabs, famous for speed. Richard Mefford! Who would have thought that he would ever have made a lively master-of-ceremonies at a Los Angeies night club! Ruth Fogle and Genevive Lawson were in the beauty-parlor business in St. Louis. Helen Kowalinski and Velma Martin were the most talked of movie stars in Holly- wood. The biggest surprise of the evening was yet to come. Ermel and Adam arrived together. Ermel is now a noted aviatrix and Adam a wealthy ice manufacturer of Tampa. Florida. Adam told us that Henry McMullen, owner of a group of chain stores in Kansas, would soon come but his Packard had a breakdown on the road and it would be a couple of hours before he would be at the party. Everyone was anxious to see him. When he finally arrived, he had basketball stars of ’31 with him. Everette McCart, Woodrow Lybarger and Lloyd Williams. I hardly recognized Ever- ette because he wore glasses. McCart was an announcer over the Columbia Page Fourteen