Mechanic Arts High School - M Yearbook (St Paul, MN)

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Published by the IIB ll' Students of Mechanic Arts High School JUNE, 1925 Julia Fayed Jack Morrissey John Gran Jennie Orenstein Rosalyn Simon Mabel La Doucre Marcella VanCamp Editor NEIL BOARDMAN Associate Editor MAX SCHIFFMAN Stah' Bonita Mester Sidney Gadow Howard Schwankel Bus Dunn Avalon Rines Delbert Jurgensen Melvin Anderson Photographs-Wilbur Horton Adolph Johnson Martha Klotz Willis Besenius Pearl Mundahl Jeanette Goldberg Helen Tinner Billie Thomas Advisers Miss Mary E. Copley Miss Geraldine Fitz Gibbon Miss Eleanora F. Deem Business Oliver Perry ........ . . . .,,.,..,........ ....,.. B usiness Manager H. A. Wolcott ,...,.,.... ......... ....,. F a culty Manager Hazel Mattson ,......,..... .... A dvertising Manager James Stepka, George Stepka .... .... C hief Floor Captains Cover Design ....,.. Frontispiece- June, Twin Troubles . . . CONTENTS The Precipice .....,.... Free Verse ....r.....,. Disillusionment -A Poem. . . . After the Happy Ending , . . . . . The Garden of Allah -A Poem. , . A Page of Senior Sonnets ....,... The Coveted Letter . . TO a Tree Cut Down -Sonnet. . . Pals .,r..,..,..,........ Chronicles of The Seniors ...... After High School--Editorial. . . Senior Photographs . . . Class Prophecy, 1925 .....,r..,.. The Orchestra-Picture . The Cogwheel- M Staff-Picture ...... . . The Swimming Team-Picture and Records. . . Cartoons ...,.......,, The Relay Skating Team ,.........,, Senior Facts ......... Track Team, Baseball Team-Pictures .... Basketball Team ....,. Basketball ..,.,, ,.....,. ..,,... Hockey Team--Picture. MOurner's Bench ...... Snapshots ,,..,. Autographs .. Ads ..........,..,................... . , . . . .SAM STABEROW . .ADOLPH JOHNSON . . .NEIL BOARDMAN THEODORE SCHMIDT . .ADOLPH JOHNSON , . .MARTHA KLOTZ . . .NEIL BOARDMAN . . .DAVID HAYNES . . MARION ROE . . .LOUISE ORR . .GRADDEN DUKES 9 11 14 14 15 16 17 19 22 22 24 25 26 57 59 59 62 67 68 69 75 76 77 .. 78 79 ,..13, 18, 23 4, 5 88 .,.,........l-2,80- + 1,,,i,,,, 111,i1,,11i1i1i i11i111ii u 1-u-n--al1u1 Q.:

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JUNE, 1925 T H E M 9 VV1I'1 I'Ol1lJl9S By ADOLPH JOHNSON It was night-a June night let us say. The moon beamed benignly down on the world below and occasionally seemed to wink roguishly at some very delectable scene. The stars, never brighter, danced like fire- flies over a still brook. The wind sighed a would-that-I-were-young-again sigh. And the night was still. Quietly up the street came an automobile creeping silently Clike one of those ships that pass in the nightj. lt stopped in the shadow, and a youth, banjo-armed, leaped out and took a position under a window. A light song of love, free and happy words intermingled with the strumming on the banjo arose and filled the night. The singer, a youth, stood silhouetted against the dull grey of the house-a figure which ex- pressed youth and freedom and happiness in its every line and movement. The song, spontaneous until now, grew weaker. Moment by moment it faded. Sud- denly it stopped entirely. The serenader dropped his banjo in despair. He stepped back so that he could look into the window above, and in a voice discordant in such a beautiful setting, cried out plaintively: Aw come on down, Kate. l dowanna wait all night. A tantalizing laugh answered him. I wondered how long you'd last? Kate laughed. 'Tll be down in a minute, Jack. Jack threw himself in the grass in disgust. Girls--and twin brothers-. Jim, his twin brother, was to have the car on the next night, and now Kate-he contemplated the window with mingled anger and joy--was wasting this night for him. Women he con- cluded, sagely chewing a bit of grass-and twin brothers-were the bane of his exist- ence. Contrary to all the rules which govern feminine actions Kate soon appeared. Within two hours Jack and Kate were seated in that big silent car, gliding slowly along the banks of a still, cool lake. For a time neither spoke. Then Kate, just like a woman, broke the almost sacred silence. Jack was too awed to speak. lsn't the night wonderfull lt's great to be alive. And all Jack could answer was a long, Ah-h-hi How bright the stars are? Wonderfull Jack gasped, intent on her starry, eyes. Just look at that reflection in the water! lVlarvelousl answered Jack now glory- ing in the beauty of her gleaming black hair. See how happy the moon looks. fThe moon winked at thisl. Isn't the night just too wonderful for words? A'You're right, Jack exclaimed, now too thrilled to contain himself- You are beau- tiful-just too beautiful for words. They talked on and on, for who can re- sist the charm of a June night? Jack couldn't. Overcome by Kate's beauty and by the irresistible spell of the night and of the June moon, he burst out with much feel- ing: Kate-I-I-lo-will you go to the Senior Ball with me? He sighed inaudibly. He had done the deed and now his fate Clt meant life to himj was in the hands of the gods. Would she never answer. Why had the moon encouraged him? Kate thought-appeared to think-for some years. Once she looked at Jack. The slowly moving machine veered sharply. Kate turned to hide a smile. Finally, after an eternity or two, she spoke very deliberately. Jack -CHis name was music on her lipsj-'Tll tell you --and then was a long pause- TomorrowI she Hnished dramatic- ally. Jack looked as if she had said In ten years. Still he took it remarkably well. The stars were sinking, when with a prayer in his heart he left Kate at her door. The moon, now a little pale, still smiled, a little idiotically, Jack thought. S