Medill High School - Medillite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE MEDILLITE 19 Em Sz Ess fmacaroni and spahgettii, a concernfmanufacturing only these two products. The owners of it, Albert Mategrano and John Indelly have greatly profited by this novel factory. . ' l ' e Trip it lightly as you go gzyw fi. , - On the light fantastic toe. My quotation from Milton refers to Yetta Pincus, the prima' danseuse of the Metropolitan,Opera Company of New York. T H g . j I am now carried into distant landsg an expedition of American scientists are in Egyptg Ben J amansky is studying the botany of that region: 'Sam Pizer is interested in the astronomyg and Thomac Vitac- co, the archaeologist who is excavating many of the tombs of the Pharaohs. A prominent woman suffragest in Turkey is Anna Flaxg she is trying to raise the standards for Turkish women as high as they are in the United States. And still Ihear musicg touring the -European continent, as well as England, Goldye Shapiro, the violinist, 'accompanied by Lena Frank at the piano has captivated all who have heard the performances of these talented musicians. : .F - Again a pause+-now he talks, We are returning to America. Chicago is at last free of its lawlessness, due to the great efforts of Alvin Shadrow, the chief-of-police of the city, and the former Ser- geant-at-Arms of your class. S One who has strived to get a simplified method of shorthand, and was successful, is teaching it to ,many-she is Pauline White. There is something new'in the scientific world. It is ceasing great comment everywhere and the entire' world is watching with the greatest interest. Jack Schakner-is Chairman of the Committee to investigate the recent enlarged Mechanical Wizard that is to make a solo flight to Mars, invented by Maurice Fishman, the electrical scien- tist, and Charles Katz the optician. i As was always the case with George Feirstein being ticket col- lector at all functions, so is he now more prosperous as the Circulat- ing Ticket Manager of the Balaban 8a Katz theatres. Maurice Protus, by his winning personality, congenial behavior, and Chesterfieldian manners, is now Dean of Boys at Harvard Uni- versity where he is also instructing them to be other Lord Chester- fieldians. f Stella Cicero and Mildred Ruberticchio are well pleased in their work as school teachers and are still known as the 'lnseparablesi Emmanuel Solomon has incorporated the largest chain drug- stores. His able assistant is Sidney Marovitz and the chief chemist is- Samuel Dvore. Rosalyn Baker is now in charge of the Filing and Indexing De- partment at Washington, rising from the rank of a routine file clerk. A banker in South America is Irwin Horwitz. He is now con- sulting with his chief C. P. A., Sidney Patt, and is transmitting his

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18 THE MEDILLITE Prophecy of February, '29, Class While sitting out on the veranda of my spacious southern home and reading a-.book by the well-known authoress, Dorothy Mack, I was suddenly aroused by the ringing of the telephone. To my great delight and surprise I heard the voiceof Jeanne Marcus. She had just returned from a tour around the world and while in India she had met Sir Ghanda Tiuka Bhan, the crystal gazer. She was so deeply impressed by his work that she asked me how I could like to accom- pany her to visit him while he was in America and thus learn about our Classmates. This, you understand, was the twentieth anniversary of our graduation. On the way to the Medium in the new model equippage recently manufactured by the Phaeton-Aero Company of which Harry Schoen- berg was the President, we successfully averted a collision with an- other party which we found upon investigation to be Jack Margolis, Winfield Cohen, Jack Spector, and Menahem Cassorla. In a very few minutes we came before the regal Hindu. Garbed in robes befitting such a personage, and seated upon a raised platform covered with the most valuable Persian rug, a large crystal ball be- fore him, the blood-red ruby flashing in the center of his turban, his eyes centered upon the ball, he was a figure of utmost admiration. Catching a glimpse of us, however, he came with an outstretched hand toward Jeanne, who introduced me to him and told him of our mission. He requested us to be seated in a very pleasant voice, and immediately set about his task. My friends, he began in a solemn tone, I see your class Pres- ident, Charles Levin, seated before his mahogany desk in the city of Chicagog he is Superintendent of the Board of Education. Ah, Paris+the Rue de la Paix-an elite Modiste Shoppe of which Ethel Tirsky is the proprietressf' A few minutes of suspense as the crystal is a blank, then he re- sumed his speaking. I hear the rapid clicking of the typewriter keys-a breath-taking speed contest-a beautifulcup isawarded the winner, Ann Stashkin g,she broke the Wor1d's record. Ha, ha, ha! There goes Martin Kanter, the chewing gum mag- nate, who has superseded William Wrigley himself. We were interrupted by a knock at the door and as the servant admitted the newcomer it turned out to be Shirley Orkin who came for the same consultation as we did. Shirley told us of her inheritance of a large sum of money and of her preparation for an extensive trip to the Orient. Once more we listened to the words of the great Master' Mind. Sweet strains of music-the orchestra is playing Chopin's Symphony in E Minor, now it ceases, again I hear music, but 'tis the Jazz of the year 1949. This far-famed combined'Classic and Jazz Orchestra is conducted by Maurice Lichtman.

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20 THE MEDILLITE business through a microphone to his private secretary, Dorothy Brody. 1 ' J . 'Z This, my friends, concludes the interview. You may wonder at my abruptness in ceasing it but in a very short time you are to meet a few of your old classmates and thinking that you might prefer to talk personally with them, which no doubt you will, I end. May I make this statement, however, that never have I seen a class as successful in their undertakings as yours has been and never have I enjoyed my work more immensely than the present. I'm sure that this has also been a pleasure on our part as well, Shirley, Jeanne, and I simultaneously vouchsafed. . I Bidding Sir Bhan adieu, we started for home. Having gone but a very short way we met Evelyn Flox,..the society leader, 'we told her of our news and her delight equalled ours. As we were departing she asked us over to dinner at her beautiful home later in the evening, we graciously accepted her hospitality and started out to the loop hotel where we stopped for the day. In doing so we passed the li- brary and Jeanne remembered that there was a book that she would like to get. We went in and to our joy of joys we met Rebecca Sher- man who told us that she was chief librarian of all the books and that she recommended, the Poems of Gertrude Geller which headed the list. As we were conversing she handed me one of the daily papers, on the ,front page of which waswritten, The greatest basketball players on the Heavyweight and Lightweight teams are Lester Wilens and Irving Strongin, respectively. Their prowess was displayed at an international basketball game. A Arriving at Evelyn's home we were met by more of our fellow graduates. There was Jacob Schwartz who had recently been be- stowed with the, sixth honorary degree for his research work, Joseph Bernstein, his associate, Alvin Fried, Postmaster General of the United States, Benjamin Baim, President of the Hebrew University at Palestine, Dina: Kolender, Evelyn's social secretary, Mary'Levee, who had done the interior decorating of our hostess' home, Herman Friedman, Congressman from Illinois, Nathan Roskin, the artist, Min- nie Bloom, who hadmjust returned from the Olympic games with many laurels, Reuben Zookjwho was Chairman of a greater Clean-Up Cam- mittee than any other 'that he had ever headed. He was chairman of the Chicago Clean-Upftlommittee and it was through his tireless ef- forts Chicago was proclaimed the model city in cleanliness. We also met Sara Rothbard who realized her greatest ambition when she be- came the gymnasium instructor at Medill's new building, and Alvin Halperin, the renowned lawyer. ' The story of Sir Bhan was repeated to them and after an evening of the greatest enjoyment we all departed with a promise to meet at our twenty-fifth anniversary. All of us were of the -same opinion as had been Sir Ghanda: i 'i s Never have I seen a class as successful in their undertakings as yours has been. PAULINE BRODSKY '