Madison High School - Cauldron Yearbook (Madison, OH)

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CLASS PROPHECY “Quick! Grab that chance and make it a hot story!” said the boss. So I hurries out with note pads to see the Queen Mary dock, bringing with her, her majesty’s King George and Queen Elizabeth, who I m supposed to cover. Well, when I arrive, I nearly drop my eyelashes, for who do I see ambling down the gangplank but Stanley Ulle, who just completed a tour of Europe with his all-girl singing orchestra. His orchestra is much like Phil Spitalny’s former Hour of Charm Unit. In place of the Three Little Words” appear Margel and Alberta Knittel and Ruth Komssi. Mildred Faust, sup- planting “Evelyn and her Magic Violin,” is known as “Fausta’s Viol. We begin talking of dear Alma Mater and what our classmates of 15 years back are doing. Ulle informed me that on the same boat is Katherine Gross who just won an Olympic Figure Skating Champ- ionship. Grover Strickler, winner of the Olympic Track title for old U. S., will be returning soon with his wife, the former Betty Parsons. Also returning on the Queen Mary is Ruth Johnson, sparkling over the winning of the National Women’s Singles Tournament in Chimney Falls, England. Ruth’s fifth successive victory still keeps the Davis cup in the United States. “I want to get back to the home town haunts,” says Ruth, and I tell her that Geneva is a prosperous city that has grown 5-fold since the building of the canal on which Ludwig Fryer, James Nichols, and Earl Hensel worked as chief engineers. It boasts the ownership of Isaly’s, the half-a-block creamery, sweet shop and gathering place of the elite. The owner’s wife, Mrs. Tom Findley, is the former Kaye Green. Bob Hoskins Syncopated Swingsters and songstress Frances Grgat offer amusement to patrons. Ulle, ever in tune with his music, says that he had heard something about the “3 H.’s” abroad, but who arc they? Well, they’re none other than Kathryn Heartwell, Betty Hummel, and Thelma Headley, who made a sensational hit on the radio by singing Jack PethtcTs new song smash “Mammy’s Got Shoe Strings in Her Hair.” James Dean, who has been in the limelight after translating the French Encyclopedia, the work of which took three years, has been offered a professorship in French by Bertha Jane Adams, president of Vassar College. Taking Ruth and Ulle to the Ritz, I find Margaret Nash in the lobby in joyous tears over the winning of her horse Pink Eye at the Saratoga sweepstakes. Pink Eye netted $150,000. Margaret just came from the beauty salon and says that she saw announced on the wall that Hubert Reigert has just left Pans for the National Hairdressers’ convention. Having gained world fame, he was selected as the best representative of the United States in this profession. I inform Ulle, he wanting to hear more about the home town, that Wick Hathaway still kicks out on his nursery and heads all the nurseries in Lake County. After touring most of the state, Betty Whipple is stopping in Madison with her “Bee’s Lectures” on the sanitation, care, and decoration of our glass houses. With her arc her twins. Hector and Helga. Betty is Mrs. A1 Mond in private life. Rolling in wealth after a successful boxing career, Paul Sidley had built a modest mansion beside the Madison cemetery and is inter- ested in the building of an auditorium in the public square. For the opening, Esther Gabor has graciously consented to sing the leading role in Die Walkure , and Richard Collistei, one of the leading Wagnerian tenors, will sing opposite. In Madison, too, is Jean Forte, head librarian at M.M.H.S. Also at M.M.H.S. is Bernice Volante, girls’ track instructor, while Harriette Lockwood is teaching sewing to the 5th grade girls at Homer Kimball. Not far from the home town is Joseph De Roberts, who is doing a profitable job of “mayoring” the city of Willoughby. [25 1

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SENSELESS CENSUS THE SENSELESS CENSUS FOR THE GRADUATING CLASS OF 1939 A. D. Most Popular Girl...... Most Popular Boy....... Prettiest Girl......... Best Looking Boy....... Most Easily Fussed Girl Most Bashful Boy....... Most Conceited Girl. . . Most Conceited Boy Class Comedian ........ Best Girl Dancer....... Best Boy Dancer........ Most Learned Shark.... Class Tomboy........... Best Actor............. Best Actress .......... Best Natuned Girl...... Best Natured Boy....... Best Dressed Girl...... Best Dressed Boy....... Biggest Feminine Feet. . Biggest Masculine Feet. . Most Talented Girl..... Most Talented Boy...... Best All-Around Athlete Most Traveled Person. . . Most Artistic Person. . . Quietest Person........ ..........Betty Jane Parsons ........Jack Sharkey Pethtel ........Mickey McCormick ........Johnny “Andy” Babic ................Norma Bond ..........Jimmy “Diz.” Dean ............Flarnet Lossing . . Grover “Birdlegs” Strickler . .Charlie “Rabbi” Brotzman .........Bertha Jane Adams ..................Bud Reigert . . . .Howard “Doc.” Walding .................Jean Forte . . . Richard “Cocky” Collister ................Evelyn Kless ........Kathryn Heartwell ................Bob Hoskins ................Alma Laurie Wit!: 1 1 smoothie” Hathaway ..............Mildred Faust . . . . Howard “Doc” Walding .............Florence Bates . .Grover “Birdlegs” Strickler .... Jack “Sharkey” Pethtel ........Mickey McCormick ...............Lila Alanko ...........Katheryn Rooks COMPILED BY JOE FACTS [24]

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CLASS PROPHECY As Ruth, Margaret, and I go up to sec Florence Bates, who is supervising the redecora- tion of the Rainbow Room, we meet Mrs. Penn Knee, alias Alma Laurie, who is bringing her four boys to be photographed by Fred Miller, whose office is on the second floor. Florence says she had just come from a farewell tea held for Donna Easterbrook who is sailing to Bermuda for Easter. Donna married Mr. Baga Doe, broker from Wall Street. Since it is evening, Florence, Ruth and I go to the roof ballroom where Philip Stamm is master of ceremonies of the floor show. Katherine Rooks sings the ever lovely Indian Love Call. It s good to see Betty Prince who this week is guest conductor of the orchestra. Glancing into the newspaper at the table, I see that playboy Howard Walding is off on another yachting cruise. I his time it s French Guinea. I also notice that Harriet Lossing, one of the foremost artists of today, has a 23d item in the art galleries. Glancing at the entertainment columns, we girls make plans to go and sec “Gone With the Wind”, starring Amy Rutter as Scarlet O’Hara. Also a reigning favorite on Broadway is Evelyn Kless in Victoria Regina. Richard Van Pelt is her leading man. Gee, my eyebrows curl, for who comes up but Norma Bond! I didn’t learn the name of her husband, but I can sec she is tickled pink over six-year-old daughter Colleen’s winning the Juvenile Dancing title. Norma tells me that Charles Brotzman owns one of the smartest tailor shops on Fifth Avenue, and he often collaborates with John Babic, host of the Flat Foot Floogie, largest shoe store in Milwaukee. Dorotha Scott, general supervisor, and John’s better half, often accompanies him on his trips. Along the same line, I sec that Mildred McCormick, after a successful modeling career, is one of the foremost fashion critics of the day. Another one achieving fame is Jack Bortz, prominent lawyer in the East and head of a political dis- cussion group resembling the Round Table of yesteryears. 1 inally in bed! Tiled nearly asleep—I sit up cjuickly! Good Heavens! The Queen Mary! Lila Alanko [26]