McMinnville High School - McMinnvillan Yearbook (McMinnville, OR)

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McMinnville, Oregon 27 is living near here; Eva Alfrey, an intensive fanner, and the Misses Hatcher, who are raising eats for the Portland market, came from their various places of residence to celebrate the occasion. Elaine Daniels brought from Portland, in her jitney, Maybelle Wagner, a beauty doctor, and Clara Jacobson, who lias joined the Salvation Army. Martin Peterson, mayor of Bellevue, Merlin Christenson, who has become a second Burbank, and Emmet Evans, who has lately built an addition to the South Pole, came from Bellevue in Mayor Peterson’s new model biplane. The much loved president of the class was unable to be present. A rumor tells us that his wife heard of his intentions to leave home for the day and locked him in the woodshed. With the exception of this incident, the gathering was one of the pleas- antest of its kind. MADGE nee EC KM AN, Assistant Editor.

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26 THE LINCOLNIAN is experimenting and trying to rediscover the lost art of making Fords; also Mary Manning, who is manicurist at the Elberton. Many noted educators from the University of Amity were among their number, one of the most prominent being Prof. Roy Loop, who holds the chair of Biology. Two others that should he mentioned are Prof. Earl Richardson, assistant instructor in fussing, and Crystal Kirkwood, principal of the Amity High School. Clifford Alderman, one of the most talented of the class, is now playing the violin in moving picture shows. Among others who returned to renew old acquaintances was Madeline Logan, who is matron of an orphanage. We have heard rumors that she is soon to he married to one of the class. Mary Ilackett also managed to leave her police duties at St. Joe for the afternoon, with Florence Jensen, who has won renown as captain of the girls’ baseball team of this city. Dale Miller, having lost his position in a circus because of drinking a bottle of anti-fat, is now looking for new work. Mina Redmond, who has become a Red Cross nurse, the former Letta Birks, who is living in California, and Esther Miller, a dentist of McCoy, were present. The well known and popular evangelist. Rev. Lloyd Henry, with Miss Helen Anderson, who assists him in his work by singing, was able to he here for a few hours only, as was Edna Boorman, because of the evening performance of the circus, in which she is snake charmer. Earl Prather and Edgar Reeves arrived a little late in the afternoon, as both came on foot. Mr. Prather is selling cosmetics, rouge and such things, while Mr. Reeves depends for the necessities of life on the pennies which his monkey gathers after a musical recital with the hand organ. Rudolph Schreiber, who has come before the public eye lately as a favorite chorus man in New York, with Rosa and John Manning, who are taking the place of the Vernon Castles of 1915, was delighted to return to his old home town. On the same train came Cecil Parker, who has married a popular Russian ballet dancer and has been traveling with her for the last few months. Miss V erna Garner, now at home preparing for her marriage to the noted scientist, Dr. Selby, and her friend, Icy Bryan, who is to accompany them to join the new colony at the North Pole, were pleased to meet so many of their old classmates. Miss Francis Wiles, manager of a co-operative laundry at Vells; Patricia Turner, a boys’ boarding house keeper; Emma Schreiber, a country mail carrier; the former Ellen Yocum, who

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28 THE LfNCOLNIAN CLARA CORRIGAN “AH who joy would win Must share it — Happiness was born a twin” Social Editor Lincolnian, ’16 GEORGE JAMESON “None but himself can be his parallel” Art Editor Lincolnian, ’16 RUBY ALEXANDER “Give me flattery” HAROLD TAYLOR “For Shakespeare never knew a man like that” Editor-in-chief Lincolnian, ’16 MARION THOMPSON “You must look into people as well as at them”