Mars Area Junior Senior High School - Planet Yearbook (Mars, PA)

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it Mars High School “This one is pretty good, Jean,” he said. “It’s just five minutes since we left your school house. I’m doubling the size of the factory this year. My racer won at the Denver Races last week. Say, Jean, won’t you let me give you a roadster for your birthday?” A cloud of dust swept before me and I saw from a skyscraper window a large shipping yard. ‘The door opened and in stepped George Harbison, the young business manager of the shipbuilding association of Newark. He handed a sheaf of papers to the Vice-President and turned to go. “Just a minute,” said that worthy official, “we are finding your work so good that Mr. Blair and I have decided to raise your salary.” “Now,” I said, turning to Dr. Faustus, “what will I be?” “What would you be?” he parried. a ltissnard to decide,’ I replied. “Very well then,’ he replied, “you will be a lawyer and a teacher, by patience you will succeed in abolishing capital punishment in America. Is there anything else? Oh yes, if you want anything long enough and hard enough you will get it. Goodbye.” Crash! I awoke with a start. The sun was setting. It threw long shadows on the veranda floor. On the table lay the Senior Class Prophecy and on the floor the broken tumbler. The dream was gone but I knew it was The Prophecy. a Ne einen Le a Page Twenty-nine

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Mars High School je- rushed Dave still in his corduroy working suit. They were happy. The street scene faded and I heard as in a dream the melody of a piece - of music played in a haunting minor key. ‘The spirit of Chopin, Beethoven and Rubinstein seemed to attend as Mabel Werner’s fingers wandered over the keys. The audience sat in silent wonder and admiration as the’ spell of the music increased. In one of the front box seats 1s Mabel’s husband. When the score is ended they hurry home amid a storm of applause. Ina few minutes they stand by a snow white crib in the beautiful Cleveland home. The evening program is forgotten and Mabel stands glorified in the love of her husband and tiny son, the king of hearts. “Better that tribute than the praise of the nation.” The scene changed again and Dr. Faustus had transported me to Reno. There we heard my old classmate, Vera Hyett, had offered for sale her expensive mansion. Puzzled over this we paid her a call and she told us she was going east. She told us how after being married and divorced five times she had met her first husband and had fallen in love again. They. were to be married that afternoon,” she continued, ‘‘and then start east When they reached home they were going to housekeeping on a tiny farm near Mars, Pa.” 3 Nodding goodby, I turned toward the door and found myself standing on an upper balcony of an old chateau in southern Spain. Before me was Rosa Nauhaus, now Countess Somebody. “Come watch me get dinner,” she said, “the Count will play for us on the mandolin.” So Rosa made an omelet while the Count played on the mandolin and told Dr. Faustus and me how he had met Rosa studying music in Paris. He had wooed her till in desperation she had married him to get rid of him. In the twilight we all went boating on the ocean cove at the foot of the chateau and Dr. Faustus and I were wafted into the west, back into the eS Aa | There in a pretty suburban cottage I found Jane Stitzer adding a long list of figures. “What’s the matter?” I asked, curiously. ‘Why,’ said Jane, ready . to cry, “this column adds up nine hundred dollars.”’ “Well, what of it?” I replied. “Penny said we could keep house for two cents. How will we ever get nine hundred dollars?” she moaned. “The compound interest on two cents ought to amount to that in time,” I said, dryly. Gazing out of the window I saw a large machine flash by. Loyal Wal- ters was trying out his latest car. I looked and saw Jean was helping. ae ee Paige 2 are nty-eight

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Mars High School 'xeo Commencement Program The Senior Commencement program will be given in the High School Auditorium, on June 2. The following program will be rendered: 1. Processional. 2. Invocation. Rev. 5. L. Louden Orchestra. Oration. Service’“—Anna Longdon Cornet Duet. Ruth Hoffman Paul Steiner Oration: “Making of a Real American” —Catherine Hooks. Mixed Chorus—Senior Class. “Night Sinks on the Wave’’—Cowen. Oration: “Reconstruction’’—Dorothy Forsythe. Class Donors: Esther Boice, Rosa Nauhaus. Class Will—Margaret Kilpatrick. Girls Double Trio—Senior Girls: “T Know a Lovely Garden’’—Forester. Address: “The Sunny Side of the Street—Dean W. J. Chambers. Presentation of Diplomas—J. R. Gilleland, President Board of Education Orchestra. Lie sete Baccalaureate Serman Sunday May 29 Processional. Song America. Invocation... :«% ja. 90 ce lakes ee Rev. Shotwell ‘“ Babylon”—from Elijah Mixed Chorus Neel: of Scripture Rev. Moser Rev. Kelpatrick Girls Trio DEMMONs ...4. whe oo hts ew ct a Rev. Ernest Spoehr Prayer Rev. Spoehr