Marshall High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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 CLASS PROPHECY One day in June 1947 I desired to know what my classmates of 1927 wrere doing; so I went to the castle of the Blue and Gold where a lamous clairvoyant lived reputed to keep records ol all students graduated from the high school and 1 made known my wish. She called Fate, who gave i me a hook of Cardinal and White. As I opened the book, the first name I noticed was that of Maurice Putnam, a famous chemist. His specialty was making an eye wash to keep pupils awake in class. Rennie Horr had gone on to college and been graduated with an B. S. degree at the Agricultural School. He was farming in Iowa and getting 30 gallons to the acre. Margaret Rudesill did not like the way Doris Blake wrote her column for forlorn lovers; she was then writing one herself. Clara Henk was teaching French to the Indians on the Standing Rock reservation, and Gertrude Gahler was the chief’s private secretary. Lawrence Merrick, under the management of C. C. Pile, received a tin cup for being the first American father to cross the English Channel in a collegiate Ford. Bartly Wigby was caught by the police while selling Beeman’s pepsin gum in Wrigley’s hall park, Newr York. Meta Rohkohl was last heard of in Venice, selling patented post holes to gondoliers. ' Prestpn Dorset, the famous baker, was then making “big dough in the government mint. Helen Molitor and Rose Lupino were the star dancers in the Midnite Follies of Flo Ziegfields. Selby Lee was a senator at Washington. It was rumored that he was put there by the suffragete vote. Dorothy Pile, Minnesota's only woman representative was opposing the Honorable D. C. on the question of ‘‘Should Dog-Catchers' Wagons he Sanitary? Helen Le Lacheur knew her face was her fortune; so she became a model for magazine covers. Jacob Barsamiam went in for motoring and was known as the second Barney Oldfield. Myrtle Anderson and Amanda Johnson had been advertising for two handsome, lovable, talkative, and congenial men. Object, matrimony. Frank Lenhart and “Swede Peterson tried their luck in the movies and were made stars without much ado. Page Tiventy-one

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The notes of an organ drifted, Wafted along with the snow; And the notes as they softly reached me Seemed people I’d known long ago. The organist’s fancy flew thither. And the rhythm seemed to increase. While in through the open window Came notes that were wondrously sweet. I thought of my friends at John Marshall, Of that last great senior year. Of old students who were always Faithful, trustworthy, and dear. I thought as the music gained volume And finally reached a great din. Of all the fine dances and contests We had in the good old gym. And then as the notes seemed to vanish And through the silence so dead A poor reed vibrated badly And the note faltered and fled, I thought of the football heroes When called on the assembly stage And asked to speak to the students Of whom they were all afraid. And then the music continued, A piece that no critic could blame. It seemed to paint a picture. But I could not remember her name. The notes trailed off in the evening; The organist finished his score; The world was again about me; And I was again fifty-four. JL TT pi r U ' 1 Page Twenty

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Earnest Carls, the second “Will Rogers ’, was then starring in the “Upper Crust”. Josephine Budnick, realizing how ignorant the St. Paulites were, went to that suburb of Minneapolis for the purpose of shedding light on their blighted intellects. Luverne Anderson made a great hit in Boston during the recent bean famine, by giving a benefit for bigger and better pods. John Cullen, like most great men, failed at his chosen profession, law and became the greatest Russian dancer of his day. Meredith Guernsey became a salesman; his specialty was pods for sick corns. Maybella Nergord was given a scholarship in the Isadore Duncan dancing school. She was taking a special course in antiseptic dancing. “Bunny” Richardson was the leader of the orchestra at “Bugs Baruth's theatre, “The Nickleodium . Olive Otteson and Ruth Pardee were running a matrimonial bureau. Lucille Kingsley was notary public and public stenographer at the Blinkmore hotel in New York. Harold Jendor became a repairman for smashed planes. By all reports he was doing a Russian business in Warsaw. Harold Flolid was “chef at the “Paymore and Getless” hotel in New’ York City. His motto was, “Don't knock our coffee; some day you will be old and weak yourself. ’ Carl Olson was manufacturing black axel grease for channel swimmers. At a recent typesetting contest conducted by Loyd Hansen, newly elected governor of New Jersey, Mary Gmitro, Lucille Engbretson, and Mary McMorran were tied for first honors. “Happy Fleetham who at the age of sixteen could tell his former instructor of literature. Miss Hayes, anything that she wanted to know and lots that she didn't, was washing dishes in the New Svea cafe. Gertrude Lang had recently patented a machine to take the wrinkles out of prunes. Margaret Nelson was running a riding academy. She had started an uplifting campaign for straightening sway backed horses. Fred Stellick, the big cheese man from Minnesota, had gone to Switzerland to study the method of punching holes in Sw iss Cheese. Mr. and Mrs. Allan Larson were residing in California. Lester Wilson, the famous radio announcer of station S-O-U-P, brings this prophecy to a close and Fate shouts, “On with the dance to the tune of Nickloid's mushroom orchestra. ’ .. a y F 1 - — Page Twenty-two