Medina High School - Medinian Yearbook (Medina, OH)

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MEDINIAN and none other than Hazel Effinger, clad in overalls, painting her own sign. She was having the time of her life with her little Art Shop and doing well. Walking on, I met Howard Dailey. In the course of our conversation I learned that he had bought out B. F. Keith’s and then had charge of all the theatres. He had also employed Loa Rickert as his private secretary. I decided to return to my old home town of Medina which was now the largest suburb of Cleveland with the exception of Chippewa Lake. I bought a Medina County Gazette and noticed an article headed “Household Management by Mildred Siders. She wrote two articles a week and also answered any questions related to her department. Moving down the main street I met Frank Mabry who was a sign painter. Dorothy Frederick, I learned, was his private secretary. He told me Henry Crisick was an undertaker. This did not surprise me much as Henry followed this line of business while in high school. It was noon so I dropped into Yaekle’s restaurant for dinner. Florence had worked up a very good business, and had converted the prosaic restaurant into an attractive tea room. She informed me that Eva Shaw and Velma Shook were lead ' ers in the 4 H Club and were doing wonderful work in Northern Ohio. It was now time for me to return home. I had found what all the Class of ’26 were doing, except two boys and three girls. When I arrived home I tuned in on my radio to W. R. C. of Washington which was giving the most important events that had taken place in Washington during the past week. (1) Maisie Tollafield head of English Parliament was to debate against Olive Davis speaker of the House of Repre- sentatives of the United States on the long discussed subject of prohibition. (2) William Leohr, President of the United States, has appointed Henry Mabry as Secre- tary of Agriculture. Mabry was formerly the largest dairy farmer in the State of Ohio and for the past two years had been editor of the “Ohio Farmer”; therefore he was capable of handling the position. Then I turned my dial to W. E. A. F. of New York; here they broadcasted that Beatrice Carlton, who had been in France studying music, had returned to New York and was going to open a Fifth Avenue Conservatory of Music. I kept turning the dial “fishing” all the time, when suddenly I heard something about fried chicken, escalloped potatoes. That sounded good to me so I listened in until I heard the entire menu for the next day, and then to my surprise I learned that the author of said menu was none other than Juanita Davis. At last I had heard of the entire Class of ’26. Twenty-Six

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MEDINIAN to see the Grand Canyon and when I registered at the hotel the woman at the desk asked me if I wasn’t an M. H. S. graduate. After telling her that I was she said she was Mabel Leavitt. She told me that she and her friend Emma Bennett had estab ' lished a good business there and were quite successful. A few days later I boarded the train for Hollywood, California. There I met George Gable, who told me that he had joined the movies and was Harold Lloyd’s rival, and was considered the fifth best actor in the United States. The next part of my trip took me to Minneapolis. I was now on my return trip. Arriving at Minneapolis I noticed a very unusual but effective lighting system in the Union Station. I inquired of one of the men at the station how they had obtained such a system. He told me that a very skillful electrician by the name of Theodore Wyer, from Cleveland, Ohio, had drawn up the plans and had installed the system. Mr. Wyer, he told me, was also a manufacturer of radios. I boarded the steamship to return to Cleveland by the Great Lakes. On board I was welcomed by the captain who proved to be none other than Roger Johnson. He said that he had graduated from Annapolis Naval Academy. While on the ship I met Mrs. — formerly Ruth Dalzell, who had been visiting relatives back in Minneapolis. She told me that Luella Gilbert, Head of the Patent Office had granted Iva Crofoot a patent on a new kind of sweeper which was guaranteed to take the lint off the ceiling as well as sweeping the floors, and that the Porter, Seller, Amheiser Company were sole agents for Miss Crofoot’s new inven- tion. When I reached Cleveland I still had some time left. Since I had met so many of the Class of ’26, my curiosity was aroused and I wanted to know what the others were doing. Knowing that quite a few of the class were in Cleveland I began to look them up. I entered Strong’s Charity Hospital which had been founded by Irwin Strong former scholar of M. H. S., now having the reputation of being the best doctor this side of the Mississippi. Here I found Audrey Lance head nurse and Florence John- son, her assistant. While I was walking down Euclid Avenue, I noticed a sign ’’Freeman and Tooker Milliner’s.” Oh, yes, this must be Eleanor and Violet who were always .the first to get the latest style in hats. Eleanor and Violet informed me that Mildred Pritchard and Ethel Woodruff were running a beauty parlor in Pittsburgh and that they were noted for giving perfect marcels and permanent waves. They also told me that Elizabeth Thiele was a star basketball player and was then playing for the Newman Stearn Team of Cleveland, formerly playing with some team in New York, and that Helen Novak was teacher of Shorthand and Typewriting in Dyke Business College and she employed Agnes Lentz as assistant instructor. As I was walking along Superior Avenue I stopped to gaze into a very interesting and attractive little Art Shop window. I was suddenly startled by a voice shouting “Watch out below.” I glanced up to see a bucket of paint hurtling through the air in my direction. I stepped aside just in time and was ready to call down the man on the scaffold above me for his carelessness, when I discovered that he was a she Twenty -Five

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MEDINIAN Class Will Howard Dailey The Senior Class has chosen for an attorney to write their will a very able-bodied (not minded) classmate (?). The Seniors of ' 26 will soon become Alumni long to be remembered. Many of these Seniors have traits, talents, and treasures, which they say they wish to give to some of their beloved under-classmen. First of all, we bequeath to our faculty all the things we have forgotten. We al- so bestow upon our advisers a portion of their salary in advance for the purpose of buying new alarm clocks with the hope that they establish an early hour for retiring unless the evening is being used for study. With the best of wishes we bequeath Ted McDowell’s slow motion to Harve Kraver. We are proud that none will be able to compare with our distinguished musicians Herb” Blanchard and “Dick” Warner. We bequeath Emma Bennett’s and Mabel Leavitt’s friendship to any two cap- able young freshmen. We perhaps can not find a couple to fill Hall Kellogg’s and Helen Hammett’s case, but the closest we have been able to come to this pair are “Chick” Fulton and Phyllis McNeal — may their friendship never waver. The ability of Donald Bagley as a grocery manager, we impart to Tommy Haight. Fern Selzer wishes to bequeath her good will, grace and scholastic equipment to whomsoever can get them in the mad scramble of the vociferous under-classmen. We wish to bestow the good behavior of Juanita Davis, Helen Eastwood and Ag- nes Lentz upon “Bob” Flammer, “Brother” Kern and Tommy Munson. Henry Crisick wishes to notify the pupils of M. H. S. that he leaves nothing and takes nothing; he leaves this will so there will be no argument as to shares. Donald Chase takes pleasure in bestowing upon Frank Mettie his limitless knowl- edge and astounding information that he has furnished at various times in his examina- tion papers. George Gable wishes to leave one pure-bred Holstein cow to Daisy Hoddinott. We bestow Loa Rickert’s habit of showing everyone a good time to Stanberry Nichols. Eleanor Freeman wishes to leave Lois Kiefer her nice quiet manner and her “gift of gab” to Carl Roth. We certainly pity Carl. Olive Davis gives one pair of number nine shoes to any freshman that can wear them. We hate to be relieved of “Doc” Strong’s combined “horse laugh” and “girl’s giggle but he must get rid of it so we have decided to give it to Jay Lash. Twenty-Seven