Marshall High School - Cardinal Yearbook (Minneapolis, MN)

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Donald Macfarlane, President JUNE CLASS Dear Classmates: With what satisfaction are we twenty-seveners leaving the pictured corridors and class rooms of Marshall high! I say “satisfaction, for our career here during forty months has been harmonious. Whom have we offended? My pen pauses here for a reply. It gets none; then none have we offended. Each semester have we skillfully and truthfully mastered our four subjects including chorus, gym, social activities, and such polite discourses among ourselves as make the wheels of society turn gracefully; record of which has been inscribed on flamboyant orange cards. We have gone to classes, almost daily, with the hope and the faith that only the first two letters of the alphabet, “a' meaning oxen, “b” meaning house, so named by the Phoenician inventors of these symbols, might be needed to register thermometerically our intelligence. Sometimes this hope has been fulfilled; but frequently we have discovered that the third, fourth, and even sixth inventions of the Phoenicians have been used. We have never been loquacious in the library; never used even kindly satire upon Flora; never created gastro-hepatic chemical compounds in Mr. Reichard's laboratory; never failed to keep appointments for study R7. We have always glided as noiselessly, gracefully, and quickly through the halls as possible; have always sat uncomplainingly on the office bench, during the first period of certain mornings. We have always respectfully removed the gum from our mouths when asked to do so; have ever entered the class rooms quietly, modestly closing the door behind us, with lessons Page Twenty-three

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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

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well prepared. Lastly, we have struggled with “Father Fate” and forced him to surrender to us the signed and sealed parchment, our diplomas. Never in the history of education has a class so marvelously conducted itself and accomplished so many outstanding objectives. But let us grow serious. We have been more or less successful in our efforts here. In our future work we may expect the same sort of success. I sincerely hope that June 17 does not mark a finality to our friendships. On the contrary, may we have “get togethers” in later years that will bring enjoyable recollections of the worthwhile days spent in Marshall. I extend my whole-hearted wish to each one that he may meet with happiness and good luck in future activities. Faithfully yours, Don Macfarlane. Sentiments tender. Memories sweet. Leaving thee render Our joy incomplete. Yet Memory's sorrow, Which parting doth mark, Sees not the morrow On which we embark. Life has its temperaments; Joys have their sad ends; Joy in abundance. Its intervals mends. Page Twenty-four