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

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Class Prophecy--Time 1958 □ Ah! At last it is perfected. I call it my new Radio-Eye, which sees all and hears everything— Present or Future. As I adjust the dials, I hear a crooner. Is it a radio singer.-' No, as the picture appears I see John Wright the mechanic who sings while he works. Turning the dials I see a wild mob on the Notre Dame football field. Borne by cheering crowds is Lawrence Van Meir, the Irish coach, who is hailed for leading his team to a victory over the Army. When this picture fades I seem to see deserts and pyramids. On the top of the largest, sits Dick Anderson, the fellow who travels the world as a carefree vagabond. Out of the air I hear a forceful speaker saying 1 shall pay off the National debt and end this tyrannical farm program.” His voice seems familiar and soon I see Erwin Thompson, the first Republican President since Hoover, giving his inaugural address amid the cheers of a wild crowd. The scene soon changes and a small island appears completely surrounded by white ducks. Out of the house comes the big duck ranchman, Verne Olson, who has enjoyed raising ducks since his earliest childhood. The island vanishes and a super-streamlined locomotive capable of a speed of 200 miles per hour appears. George Kares, the fellow who worked his way up from a chauffer’s job to chief engineer sits at the controls of the thundering locomotive. Turning the dial slightly I behold a well dressed playboy entering a swanky New York night dub. It is Randall Jensen, the millionaire. He is met at the door by the manager Marvin Clary. The light goes out and Marvin steps to the stage to introduce the first number. He presents to the applauding crowd the maestro. Ford Jacobson and his high class Swing Orchestra. Again I turn the dials to see a handsome fellow making love to a beautiful girl. It is Charles Jones and Dorothy Roush but it is only for the movies. Incidentally Charles and Dorothy were voted the two most popular screen stars ot the year. As I shift the dial a battleship comes into view. On the bridge stands Admiral Clinton Thompson and Captain Harold Stier both Annapolis graduates and fine sailors. Thompson's fleet defeated a rival navy last year and he has been hailed as a hero ever since. A Texas scene comes into view and Tex” Strole appears at the head of a detachment of hard riding straight shooting Texas Rangers who are feared by outlaws all along the border. Tex” learned to ride a horse while still a student at good old M. H. S. Now we are back in Illinois and someone is giving medicine to a sick horse. It is the veterinarian, Leland Dabler, who has a reputation for never losing a single patient in ten years of practice. Now a radio broadcasting station comes into view and popular announcer Milford Behrens steps up to announce Neoma Barker, the author and reader of an Advice to the Lovelorn” skit. As this disappears, I behold an old familiar scene. It is the front assembly desk at Manlius High School and wearing a pair of horn rimmed glasses is Harold Andrews the principal of the school for twelve years. Now I know my machine is a success for it has brought back the faces of the class of 38 from all parts of this wide world. —Bernyl Sanden

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The Senior Giant □ If by chance you should meet the nineteen Seniors, who will be graduated in 1938 from the Manlius Township High School, as one great Senior, you would seek the first hiding place available. A man six feet tall would only be able to reach the great man's ankle, as this man would be one hundred and ten feet high, or taller than a nine story building. This monster would have the weight of two thousand, seven hundred and twenty-five pounds, equivalent to nearly one and two-fifths tons. The Senior's foot would require a shoe of the unbelieveable size of one hundred and sixty-six. One foot alone would cover an area of nine hundred and seven square feet. The giant’s stride would be nearly forty-four feet and in only one hundred and twenty steps he could walk a mile. Not only would this monster have a waist measuring nearly fifty feet but he would have a chest measurement of nearly fifty nine feet. One arm, alone, would exceed a length of titty feet, making him able to reach an object over 160 feet high. His wrist would have a circumference of eleven feet. The man's third finger would be over five feet long while his forefinger would require a 1938 class ring—size of one hundred and eighty. The Senior's huge shoulders would tower 96 feet above the ground and fourteen men could be placed on his shoulders. The monster’s ears would have a surface of approximately nine square feet and the lens tor his glasses would be two and one-half feet in diameter. The required hat size for the Senior would be the impossible size of one hundred and thirty-four. Insofar as appetite is concerned the giant would break all of the world records of the past. For breakfast he could eat a pancake nearly three feet in diameter in one enormous mouthful. His required dinner pail would have a volume of nearly five cubic feet. With all of the loud-voiced boys in the Senior Class the giant would have a voice that could be heard for miles away. When he walked the earth would tremble as if there were an earthquake. So I am sure that the residents of Manlius are glad that this mythical Senior exists only in the imagination of the author.

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JUNIOR CLASS President .. Lawrence Dale Vice President.............................Rubye Lindelof Secretary Opal Conley Adviser............................... Miss Mensendick Bottom Row, Left to Right—Lauraetta Stoens, Bette Philhower, Leah Alters, Opal Conley, Gertrude Wiggim, Hazel Riggs, Vera Pierson, Geraldine Oloffson, Miss Mensendick. Middle Row—Betty Hartz, Rubye Lindelof, Ethel Schmidt, Leonard Hansen, Lawrence DeBolt, Alverda Teske, Ruth Jensen, Treva Renner, Jean Allen Van Ormer. Top Row—Ben Butler, LeRoy Hard, Kenneth Tucker, Lawrence Dale, Bernard Schuneman, Forrest Kerber, Kenneth Smith, Delbert Edlefson. SOPHOMORE CLASS President....................................Jack Swanson Vice President........................ Donald Roush Secretary Billy Rudiger Adviser Mr. Curtis Bottom Row, Left to Right—Mr. Curtis, Raymond Van Pouche, Anna Mae Hochstatter, Ruth Butler, Marilyn Spratt, Helen Debolt, Rita Hewitt, Viva Pierson, Lorene Hornback. Middle Row—Verla Teske, Jacqueline Stier, Marzatta Anderson, Mary Van Pouche, Bernadine Teske, Evelyn Smith, Nina Heward, Sadie Whipple. Top Row—Billy Rudiger, Donald Roush, John Wise, Clifford Thompson. Leland Stier, Jack Swanson, Cecil Hard, Howard Andrews, Ralph Jones. FRESHMAN CLASS President.....- Janet Jacobsen Vice President —......Owen Hurst Secretary............................Bernice Schuneman Adviser Miss Nelson Bottom Row-, Left to Right—Vance Casteel, Bernice Burgess, Audrey Wolfe, Robert Wilkinson, Lester Pierson, Mary Margaret Ballard, Janet Jacobsen, Flossie Hardesty. Middle Row—Estella Heuer, Bernice Schuneman, Pete Devos, Robert Strole, Harold Murray, Leo Lindelof, Leo Hartz, LaVonne Alpaugh, Avis Thompson, Lillie Hartz. Top Row—Betty Lou Pierson, Doris Hubbard, Virginia Moe, Herman Andrews, Owen Hurst, Margaret MacLean, Ethel Jensen, Viola Ray, Phyllis Pierson.