Medill High School - Medillite Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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THE MEDILLITE 45 Prophecy of June, 1929, Class June 27, 1944. After fifteen years, the former Class Prophets of Medill, June 27, 1929, have written a true version of what really did happen! And below follows a summary of their book as reviewed in the World's Greatest Newspaper. Read it and compare it with their prophecy. A Book in Which Truth is Stranger than Fiction In the Language of Flowers, by Anne Niagoff and Annette Cohen CThe Tirsky, Swichkow Publishers, Incorporatedj. This book is remarkable, not only for the astounding veracity of its contents, but also because of the singular conjunction of Annette Cohen and Anne Niagoff, both famous in such widely different fields of letters. Coincidently, In the Language of Flowers is written Cand publishedh not only of, but by, members of the Medill Class of June, 1929. Flowers symbolize the different groups into which the members of the class are placed, each Flower-Bed Cas the chapters are called in this book! containing its specific type of person and hence the title of the volume. The first of the Flower-Beds, Buttercups, which proves that, Beloved are they who have wealth and use it wisely, speaks of Harry Speigal who in school days gave his word to that sub- stitute, Miss America, never to smoke again, and consequently built up the candy company which boosts, Reach for a 'Sweet Spei- gal' instead of a 'Weinstein Cigarette' and retain those bounteous curves , of Harry Weinstein, Producer of the Weinstein Cigarettes, his best friend outside of business hoursg of Mary Cohen and Evelyn Billow, founders of the gigantic tea-room chain known as the Bil- lows of the Cea g of Selig Altschul, the banker whose real business is to make money, not loan it. Maurice Modell, the world's greatest fruit salesman, claims part in this chapter, having already attained more than twice the wealth Rockefeller ever had. Others dwelling in the cup of Wealth are Herman D. Friedman, concoctor of the Veg- etable Hotdog which brings an income of 510,000 per hourg Frieda Abrams and Lillian Zaenchek, A to Z designers and fashioners of the new-style feministic clothingg Joe Gelfeld, discoverer, and Albert Minkus, Sidney Shudnow, Irving Fineberg, and Bennie Zelig, only claimers to Zingold, the new precious metal and the present money standardg Rosita Anis, the best paid Tango Dancer on three planetsg and Lillian WeiskopH, successor to Peggy Hopkins Joyce, who has written her experiences in the volume, How to'Pick Wealthy Hus- bands. A pansy for your thoughts, and there's many a pansy burst into bloom in the adjoining bed of posies. For there is a white pansy of peace, faithfully tended by Edith Rappaport, Ida Kaplan, and Freda Lieberman, which marks the grave of the final war-that dev- astating Interplanet Combat-these three having evolved the most marvelous peace pact ever conceived by mortal mind. And the sense of touch-who could have dreamed of a kiss by long distance in those long past bad-boy-school-days? The realization of it has come to pass the efforts of those planet-wide known inventors, through Isa- dore Grossman and Edward Shrote. Nursery dreams came true through the experimentations of Ruth Morgan, who gave to the world the unexhaustible supply of green cheese imported from the moon. Telepathy was made an actuality by Max Kerman, who gave great promise of it by reading his teachers' minds in his youth. Occupying

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44 THE MEDILLITE Class History, June, 1929 On that eventful day of September, 1925, the sun was shining brighter than usual, for once Chicago was free of smoke tif that were possiblej, the 14-16 street car came on time, the trains restrained their noise and everyone was ready to welcome the guests. Guests did I say? Well, I'll say it again, for into the city of Medill, in quest of Knowledge, we came-ninety strong. ' How we shivered when we first came to Room 307! Soon Mr. Hall, Mr. Thoren, and our dean, Miss M. Joice Adams, set our minds at rest, and everything was arranged for our comfort. In vain we looked for the elevator which the upper classmen were telling us about, in vain we looked for some sophomore, junior or senior whom we could trust. Then, like the green fi-eshies that we were, we labored over our homework, burning the midnight oil. Why do two negatives make a positive? Why is not 2 x equal to x 2? Please tell me how to conjugate 'amo'. Such were the questions we asked of everyone. Finally February came. Ah, glorious world, how good to be alive! We were advanced freshmen! Slowly we were losing the green color and taking- on orange. Did you hear the news? Why those Sophomores are clever! I mean they ACtually are , of course THEY referred to US. Besides trying to prove that two triangles are similar when one is the size of J eff and the other the size of Mutt and learning the divisions and subdivisions of the pteridophytes, we were taking part in school activ- ities. The Students' Council was organized and its doom was forseen unless WE helped it out. The girls joined the Sophomore Girls' Clubg and helping the Milk Fund and tag day were familiar to us. Like the seeds that we were studying about we had taken root and were growing. All things come to an end, and so did our sufTermore days. Those green youths and maidens of two years ago were big-shots. Athletics and social activities, Honor Roll and ditching were our mid- dle names. But suddenly all is quiet as Medill mourns the loss of her beloved principal, Avon S. Hall. Mr. David M. Davidson soon came to govern over us and then we, the Juniors, were in the midst of the throng. Yea, Seniors! Yea Seniors! Yea Seniors! How they all looked up to us! Again we received anew principal, Mr. Davidson having been transferred to another school, and in his stead came Mr. Thomas C. Johnson who guided us through our Senior year. H2SO4 and word signs were forgotteng especially so in the last semester. After class elections the air- was electrified with pins, rings, photographs, ban- quet, picnic, and prom. After breathless anticipation and eager Wait- ing it arrived at last--Commencement Night. Oh, the pride of it- the sturdy, well-carriage of our bodies as we were wearin'g our caps and gowns and receiving our coveted diplomas-having expected them for the last four years. We had finally reached our goal in High School. And now good-bye, Medill. Through the years to come we will miss you, dear school of our youth. Medill, adieu, adieu, adieu. ANNIE BRODSKY.

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46 THE MEDILLITE a cozy place at the end of this flower-bed are Norman Bernstein, Em- manuel Zullo, Louis Erlich, and Warren Goldstock who have given to the world an ideal punishment for crime and who have rendered cap- ital punishment obsolete. Bow thy head that we may place on it, the Laurel Wreath of Fame, bid the authors to John Ody, originator of the Ody Oodle, which dance has taken the planets by storm, to Harry Shrier, known as The Grandson of History, for he stepped into the sandals of Heroditus, to Eddie Kretske, for whom the Constitution was again amended, so as to enable him to take the chair of the President of the United States in spite of his lack of years, to Meyer Kurlansky, Whose before and after pictures of himself have made the Us his reducing machine, the best seller of times, and to Carmella Frach- ella, that bluey-blue singer, who gained fame immediately after grad- uation, having received ample training and practice during her gym periods. Gertrude Epstein and Sylvia Jastromb have found the long sought Fountain of Youth in an obscure place on the planet Mars. Coincidently, the Three Modern Graces are graduates of Medill, Esther Raif, Mary Burak, and Rose Robinson. Movietone has been presented with its greatest find since its birth, the voice of Edith Rab- inowitz. Rose Fulgaro, Ethel Ginsburg, Libby Rizer, Tillie Rotstein, and Lillian Roitman have abandoned Earth and accompanied their husbands to the first colonization of Jupiter 'by Earth people. Goldenrod is Encouragement, and here we have our School of Encouragement whose founder is the renowned Annie Brodsky. Her helpers are Fannie Katz, encourager of domestic felicityg Ida Belon- sky, of citizenship, Fannie Yoelin, of music, Bessie Davidson of busi- nessg Isadore Libman, of dancing, and Louis Palmer, of methods of study after the teaching of the beloved Mrs. Wilson. Etta Markovitz Dorothy Baum, and Rose Pastko are the sponsors for the habitation of Mechanical people. More gallant than the gallant Don Juan is the gallantry of these, say the authors. In the Sweet-William bed lies Archie Castle- whose Archie's Castle promotes the spirit of King Arthur and Knights of the Round Table, with his aids, the two Georges 1Handt- man and Margolisl lying beside him. The honorsof being the first and most illustrious professional toastmaster belong to Abe Weiner. That famous Order, The Rollyans has been organized and fur- thered by Jack Goldberg and Jack Kohen. Rocco Amico's gentleness is reflected in his acting on the screen where he is famous as the Movietone Lover. - Air bus courtesy has been developed by Abe Bohrer and Maurice Buckman, who never start their buses without permission from the ladies Cas in the old, almost mythical daysl. The very scent of the Heliotrope breathes Devotion, and those who represent this ideal are Stephen Krasny and Ben Rosen, ardent leaders in the anti-Smoking movement, John Sheehan, the new St. Patrick of Erin, Sol Frauman, who has lead the Hebrews back to Palestine, Anne Griffin, Ernestine Hopgood, and Elizabeth Junkins, who have given to the Negro what centuries have given to the White Man, Aleck Weiner, founder of the Up-Start Party, which has done so much in Political Reform 3 Lauretta Iocco, celebrated feminist, Edna Finder, Helen Yatzuk, and Belle Cooper who have devoted themselves to making each continent a single nation, and Florence Rosenberg who has given all her attention to uniting the Camp Fire Girls, Girl Scouts, and the Newspaper Clubs for betterment of girls. God bestowed on Man Immortality, so that all Things Beautiful ,.