Mason High School - Anchora Yearbook (Mason, MI)

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30 M. H. S. ANCHORA, 1927 The Prophecy In 1927 Kenneth White, endowed with experimental ability, devised a revolving sky rocket in which he placed himself and traveled to Mars. We never believed that he would succeed but would be shattered to atoms in the great universe. However, he arrived safely and, having no means to return, worked for twenty years perfecting a super-heterodyne wireless with which he established communication with the earth. He requested that the Hrst message he returned, should tell of each one of the members of the Class of 27l'. The following message was sent: Benjamin Barr is a salesman selling embroidered shirts and hair- ribbons for boys. Charles Davis is conducting a Research Expedition on the Gobi Desert looking for monkey fossils to prove the falseness of his age-old antagonist-Charles Darwin. Frances Nellis is selling Watkins' Products from door to door and her success is very unusual. Helen Doane is a famous movie star. At the climax of her career she returned and established a movie colony at Okemos and is recruiting many of Mason's beauties in the cinema profession. Henry Eggers captured the world's Champion Title from Gene Tunney and he says he could not have done it but for the training he got using his athletic skill in Mason High. Lynn Harkness went to New York and made millions on Wall Street. We always knew Lynn was smart. However, he lost his cold millions soon afterward by paying too much attention to chorus girls. Doris Densmore and Mary Laxton have founded a Charity Home for Siamese twins. Elsie Morrison is a missionary in Africa. It is said her mission schools are full of converts which she has made through her sincere and fervent work in that field. Joe Bullen is the acknowledged successor of Rudolph Valentino and promises to surpass the ex-star in the gentle art of the Spanish dance. Dorothy Harmon studied music abroad and is now teaching in Jackson. Bob Loomis has invented an automatic stretcher where you are not even required to use your arms and legs. John Chapin drives a junk wagon in New York City. He married a garbage man's daughter, but John says she knows a swell dump when she sees it. James Noxon is a radio announcer. Thank heaven! We can turn him on and off as we please. Rex Beaumont is a foreman in a hot air factory daily supplying, through his manly strength, what thousands of others lack. Marian Jewett and Kathleen Franklin are tight rope walkers with Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey. Thelma Whipp is a vaudeville actress. It is said that stage door

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M. H. S. ANCHORA, 1927 29 teristics and inalienable personal rights in the following manner: Omar Bartlett wills his love for girls to Nellis Bateman. Ben Barr wills his famous lighting face to Gordon Kennedy. Rex Beaumont wills part of his basketball pants to Otis Clipper to make a new overcoat and the remainder to Red Leseney to make a new pair of sailor pants. Leona Benardin wills her basketball ability to Madeline Cogsdill. Betty Brower wills her ability to lead yells to Paul Cheney. Joe Bullen wills his school-girl complexion to Lynette Beebe. Virginia Burgess wills her surplus avoirdupois to Wilma Cline. Anna Couch wills her temper to Edwin Griffin. Charles Davis wills his ability to make three letters, lead the school in activities and go with six different girls at the same time to Geo. Clinton. Doris Densmore wills her liking for tall basketball players to Dorothy Disenroth. John Dean wills his liking for French to Betty Hill. Helen Doane wills her giggles to Merle Haynes. Don Doolittle wills his basketball ability to Chancey Robinson. Henry Eggers wills his coaching ability to Wayne Campbell. Margaret Eggers wills her love for books to Harold Bell. Beatrice Fanson wills her patience to Verneita Sparling. Fredah Francisco wills her blonde hair to Sarah Bullen. Kathleen Franklin wills her mathematical ability to Helen Disenroth. Helen Gunn wills her manly physique and manners to Beth Housel. Lynn Harkness wills his baseball ability to Ivan Swift. Dorothy Harmon wills her crowning glory to Ida Fanson. Madeline Ireland wills the right to get married to Frances Barkway. Marian Jewett wills her love for study to Donald Haynes. Alice Krantz wills her petite manner to Norine Sawyer. Lee Ketchum wills his vaudeville ability to Paul Clinton. P Margaret Lasenby wills her liking for Freshman athletes to Geraldine almer. Homer Launstein wills his bashfulness to Joe Wilson. Mary Laxton wills the right to roll stockings to Leah Diehl. Robert Loomis wills the first payment on a diamond ring to his red- headed Freshman. Otto Marshall wills his ability as a mechanic to Robert Howery. Elsie Morrison wills the right to wear short skirts to Henrietta Donnohue. Frances Nellis wills her liking for children to Harold Beehler. James Noxon wills his ability to get in the last word with the teachers to Lawrence Oesterle. Philetus Peck wills his collegiate manner to Clifford Smith. Murray Peek wills the right to be chief of police to Tink Gilmore. Fern Smalley wills her liking the boy friends to Rheba Kirby. Don Snyder wills his liking for city girls to James Dart. Richard Titus wills his right to spend five years in high school to Elmer Corbin. Q Thelma Whipp wills her absent-mindedness to Dutch Lamont. Caroline White wills her dramatic ability to Katherine Gibbs. Kenneth White wills his ability to start arguments to George Post. We, the Senior Class of Mason High School, hereby appoint Miss Velva Minty executor of this will. We hereunto set our hand and seal, on this, the 4th day of June, in the year of our Lord one thousand nine hundred and twentylseven, and declare this to be our last will and testament. THE CLASS OF 1927, by John Chapin. Witnesses: D. A. Murray, Nelle Densmore.

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M. H. S. ANCHORA, 1927 31 Johnnies are lined for blocks after each performance to present her with Violets and orchids in the hope of winning her hand. U Otto Marshall has his name pronounced Auto so much he invented one with a speed of 200 miles per hour. Omar Bartlett enlisted in the cavalry in order to wear out all of his old riding pants. He was sent to China and upon receiving a false report of the death of Agnes he killed himself in a Ht of melancholy. Betty Brower has taken Horace Greeley's place on the New York Tribune and promises to be the next Democratic candidate for governor of that state. Leona Benardin and Virginia Burgess wanted to be nurses. Now they have a hospital of their own called the Virginia Lee. It is not likely if anyone sends candy there that it will ever reach the patients. When we think of Beatrice, we think of a little rose covered cottage from which no one ever goes away hungry-perhaps she got her start as chairman of the eats committee for the Senior parties. Fern Smalley trained to be a nurse but discovered she was more suc- cessful selling rouge, color of her blushes. While Caroline White was touring Greece to procure material for her latest novel, she disappeared and it is still believed Zeus descended and carried her to the temple of the Gods on Mt. Olympus. Philetus Peck rented a section on Maple street and sells Red Hots. He combines this profession with that of Superintendent of the local Dog Pound. Tales of all missing dogs may be procured at his stand. Margaret Eggers has at last reached her greatest ambition which was to found a home for crippled basketball players, All the inmates are well guarded. Don Snyder went to Africa and was employed picking berries on a coffee plantation. He was captured by a desert tribe and made their sheik. The Dewey nights of Africa have quite charmed Don's romantic soul and it is unlikely that he will ever return to his native state. Murray Peek is a character dancer in a New York cabaret. His grace and supple dexterity are the delight of Greenwich Village. Anna Couch is completing her contract as leading lady in Albert Frazer's musical comedies. Homer Launstein surely has the name of a poet but his poetry far sur- passes any of the famous Greek. Perhaps because he learned so much Greek from Miss Minty. Coxie Gunn rides bucking bronchos on her ranch out west. Zane Grey is using her for local color in his new novel, Hard Hittin' Helen. Lee Ketchum is author of a series of books with lessons that repeat themselves a thing he had always wished for in high school. Ever since Johnnie Dean was a little boy, we admired his eyes. He has invented some glass that gives the wearer as Mary and as magnetic eyes as his. Freda Francisco is traveling as fat lady in a road show. Her days of singing Hello Aloha are over but she sometimes laughs days at a time. Margaret Lasenby is the greatest saxaphonist in the world and spends her extra time as cashier in a Butch -er shop. I am an aviatrix and in my flight around the world I have discovered no better school than Mason High. Madeline Ireland.