Manlius High School - Mirror Devil Yearbook (Manlius, IL)

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• MMSNS%3KS!2ii MANJUAN i ®!P13S3RS«»9 SENIOR CLASS PROPHECY After ten years of exhaustive scientific work I had decided to take a vacation and visit my old High School town. I had just discovered the code to the wireless messages from Mars, and the publicity was more exhaustive than work. I had packed and was ready to start, when the butler announced that there was an important man to see me. I asked him to show the man in. It was a man who wished to take a picture of my apparatus for a Ford animated weekly. During the course of our conversation I learned that he had attended Manlius High School in Illinois. To my surprise 1 discovered he was Bill Folk. Bill had changed much in ten years: he was an enterprising young man, now full of ambition. He was still single and believed in showing the girls a good time. As I was settling myself in the passenger airplane I met Arthur Williams. Right off the bat he tried to sell me a non-freezing solution to put in my gasoline to keep it from freezing. I finally had to buy a couple of gallons of him. As I conversed with him he told me of his ups and downs since he left school. He had started the year after he had graduated, in the Upholstered Pillow Co. as a salesman. After working up to a first-class salesman he had been offered a position in the present company and had accepted. Like the sailors he has a girl in every port, and he told me of a couple of beauties he knew. When the plane come down in Princeton I went to a restaurant and was served a meal bv Bertha McMahon. She had married a young man from Sheffield and they were working together for a bungalow. I arrived in Manlius and the old burg hail changed quite a bit. The high school building that was new when I attended was in the center of town. Scott Miller runs a factory in the building. They manufacture noiseless soup spoons. Every winter Scott goes to the Hawaiian Islands. Thete is a new high school out on Lang's hill. Clara Hurst and Martha Anspach are now old maids and teach in the high school. H. I). Holden is still Principal. Clara teaches Mathematics and Martha teaches Domestic Science. Howard Hamilton runs a mule farm out by New Bedford. He married a chorus girl and she left him. He then married a girl from Kewanee and they are living happily. Chas. Krager married a girl from West Bureau and they live on a farm. Chas. is specializing on a new breed of stock, a cross between a cow and a goat. Thyra and Smithy have left the farm and entered Manlius society. I returned to the city in a week greatly refreshed in mind and body. One night 1 happened to think 1 hadn't heard about Dutch or Antoinette. One day I picked up a paper and read that Dutch had changed from Northwestern to Harvard as athletic director. About a month later I met Antoinette in a department store. She was the Paris buyer for the style department. PAGE EIGHTEEN

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MANJUAN BERTHA McMAHON 44 Bert” Delphian Member, Glee Club, 1919-’20. She is a vamp. She thinks she is going to be a nurse. She ought to be a movie star. Pet phrase: 44 Pit near. WILLIAM FOLK s “ BUI ” Delphian Member. President of Delphian Society 1921. Basketball, 1920-’21. He is lazy. He thinks he is tired. He ought to be prodded. Pet phrase: 44 Can’t I go to sleep? ” CLARA HURST 44 Chubby ” Delphian Member. (Ilee Club, 1919-’20. She is a flirt. She thinks she is going to be married. She ought to be learning to cook. Pet phrase: 44 My Gash.” PAGE SEVENTEEN

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 MAXJUAN ■? THE PROPHECY OF THE SENIOR CLASS It is the year of 1932. I have been a missionary for a number of years, so i am now coming home for a year's vacation. When at last 1 have reached Manlius, I find it has changed in a great many ways. Most of my schoolmates are married, while I am an old maid. When I heard that Beva was married and lived on a farm about two miles from town, I decided to visit her. I asked her about all of our schoolmates and soon found out about them. She said that Martha Anspach was a noted writer of short stories. While she was in Chicago she met the Count de Bologna, of Italy, whom site afterward married. Even though she is the Countess de Bologna, she is not a bit stuck up, and even writes short stories yet. Glen Hewitt ran a garage for about four years, but when he proposed to Fern Rudiger she said she wouldn’t marry him unless he had nicer work- So now they are happily married, for he works in the State Bank. Scott Miller is happily married to Oreetha Monson and lives on the farm which is just west of the High School. Clara Hurst is a great dancer—even greater than Irene Castle. She was in Paris for two years, but she is now in New York, where she has an engagement. Alvin Glafka now lives on a large ranche out in the West. He had a contest with a young man from Princeton for the hand of Lucille White, but he won out, after a hard fought battle. Antoinette Smith went to college for four years and has been teaching school ever since she graduated, but she will soon be married to Lester Olofson, who proposed to her about five hundred times before she would say “ yes.” Charles Krager is a preacher of the U. B. church and is married to Fay Nelson. After having courted her for three years, after his graduation, she finally accepted him, saying that a woman could get along with a preacher and that, anyway, Charlie was a dear boy. Bertha McMahon is a movie star. She is famous for her bewitching smile. Over a million men have proposed to her, but she never accepted any of them. William Folk taught school for a year. He quit teaching because, as he said, lie tired himself out licking those blamed idiots that were his pupils. So he joined a small circus that came to Manlius. In a few years he grew to be such a good acrobat that a larger circus hired him. He married Marguerite Eldridge, who was with this circus, and altho they fight most of the time they are not divorced. Glen Jensen is a noted cartoonist, and is working for one of the leading newspapers of New York City. He lives near the city in a very large house and he needs a large one, too, because he married a widow with ten children. Arthur Williams was a doctor for about a year. At last no one would have him for their doctor, and I don’t blame them either: because, once when he was operating on a man he left same of his tools in him. Arthur became discouraged and went into the movies. He is a great star and is called the second Harold Lloyd. People say he is happy and carefree, even though he has been divorced three times and is now engaged to some girl of the movies. PAGE NINETEEN