Menomonee Falls High School - Periscope Yearbook (Menomonee Falls, WI)

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, V? .. ,.. With the remaining group of this ambitious class we are preparing for the close of our High School career. We have worked with earnestness to get where we are and will close with the following activities: Baccalaureate Sermon, Class Day Ex- ercises and Commencement Exercises, which will be the final occasion in which the class will work as a whole. Since the members of this class have co-operated very well and have been suc- cessful until the end, encountering many joys and pleasures which the past four years have brought to us, we hope and wish to meet and to be of assistance to those close and friendly class members who have been so successful and earnest to graduate, Franz Schneider, '24. - Class Prophecy It is a very still evening tonight-splendid for radio broadcasting. All radios are tuned in to listen to Zion City, the Utopia of this universe. The prophet Jupiter is about to broadcast the future of the graduating class of 1924. Stand by and listen to the prophet. In our paths of life we are bound, where eler we are, or what e'er we do, to look into the future. Therefore, to the best of my knowldge and ability, I shall prephesy the future of my class mates. lihe first member is Russell Perrin,who has been class president for the past two years. The future has many things in store for him. He shall be the pilot of one of the largest air hubmobile of this earth, which will be greater than the Shenendoah. One trip that will be most sucessful is the flight to the Greenwich Follies, at the Davidson Theatre. Far out in the Golden West near a secluded town in Idaho, Edwin Last wlll be one of the foremost ranchmen on a one-half acre tract of land. Later he will build an animal gym for the training of wild goats, monkeys and Kangaroos. After many years of toil and labor in VVisconsin, Edward Unger will go in partnership with Mr. Last. Mr. Unger and Last will then promote the wonderful Last and Unger Circus Company, which will visit annually the cities of Sussex, Whiskey Corners, Friestadt, and Couberg. On Lake Street in New City is situated one of the largest hospitals of the United States. In this institution our classmate and friend, Irine Klug will be employed. She will tnake an ideal nurse because of her quiet disposition, jovial face and kind ways. Following several years' of employment in caring for the sick, she will marry a prominent doctor of Chicago. Several blocks distant from this hospital in New York City is a millinery shop. On the outside is a sign which reads as follows: Spanish Millinery Shop--Madam Lurena Leicht. Miss Heicht is famous,for the art of making fancy hats for thc Spaiiish dancers in Spain.. She will receive the pricely sum of five hunderd dollars per at. The next eminent person in order is john Harmon. John will labor on the fann until 'the age of twenty-one. Then he shall migrate to the Hawaiin Islands, where he shall be the proprietor of the largest tobacco package of that country. In that precinct Harman will be known as John the Giant Tobacco Chewer. He will be awarded different gold metals at smoking and chewing contests. Gertrude Loos is the next prominent member. At the conservatory at Paris, France, Miss Loos will be seen striking the famous elephant tusks of the twenty million dollar organ for the benefit of the Royal Family of France. She will receive fame and praise from all parts of the world. At the age of thirty she will be married to a handsome violin master of Venice. After their honeymoon they will reside at the Hague until the uproar of the dykes. 5 'QW F Page T-'wenty-om' . 1' 'ai ul 'VI

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YW' ,hvml Class History I. HE LARGEST class to graduate from the Menomonee Falls High School gf entered in the year 1920, with an enrollment of thirty ambitious and talented members. im T On the morning of September 8, 1920, when the clang of the nine o'clock bell was heard, an awe-stricken group of poor little freshmen were seen standing at the door of the Colonial Hall, wondering what the future four years held in store for them. This frightened group was patiently waiting for some member to pick up sufficient courage to lead the crowd into the building: but sad to say, no one came, and the poor Freshmen were beginning to despair, when up piped a supposed-to-be modest little, Veronica Held, of course, Aw, come on, maybe it ain't so bad after all. The most that they can do is to kill us. With her skillful leadership the Freshmen shyly entered the unknown with twenty-six strong, or, more truth'fully, twenty-six weak, judging by their manner, they crept up the stairs, making hardly a sound. They entered the Assembly. The hum and confusion suddenly ceased, and all the upper classmen gazed down on them: It was then that the heart of every Freshman dropped down, down, down, until it must have settled somewhere between the sole of his shoe and the floor. When the second bell rang there was a general scramble for seats. Spying a few vacant ones in the corner, the Freshmen dashed for them, running into the upper classmen, but finally succeeding in their great effort. After finding seats and recovering from the initiations we began to look for a motto to look up to, which was, Fit-Via-Vi fEnergy Wins the Wayl. Athletics seemed to be our taste for all through the battles we held up our end. A few members of the Freshmen class dropped out, either to enter the business world or to remain at home. Those to leave us were Marie Schuster, Harvey Schultz, Arnold Droese, Wilson Baer and Erna Kuphall. The Sophomore year proved to be more successful for now'all were acquainted with high school methods of instruction, and, more important, there was no longer the fear of upper classmen. During this year fame came to those who entered contest work. Some took part in athletics and club work. This year our class was in- creased with five new members, Saraphina Scopp, Ruby Muzzy, Esther and Stella Worth, and Vera Holmes. We also lost Hve members: Norma Haaschke, LeRoy Obermann, Lavera Leicht and Marion Uebele. When that memorable year came to a close, each Sophomore felt that he had earned a vacation and the right to be called a Junior. At the beginning of the Junior year, the trial of becoming accustomed to new teachers was not presented to us for they all had returned.: Three were welcomed to this lively group, namely, Franz Schneider, John Harmon, and Edward Unger. We also lost a member during this session, who was Edna Jensen. The Juniors felt that they were real society men and women at one of the well-remembered events, the Junior-Senior banquet. They began to assume more dignity at the close of this year, for were they not soon to be Seniors. On the morning of the opening day of school, September ll, 1923, a very happy group of Seniors were assembled in the corridors relating to their friends their pleasures. When the last bell had rung the Seniors proudly occupied the seats of the former Senior classes and they sincerely tried to act the part of dignified Seniors. Of course, it is left to the rest of the school as to whetherlor not they were success- ful in this attempt. Although we lost five members: Ruby Muzzy. Lorraine Zessin, Daela Buczkowski. Esther and Stella Worth, we also welcomed one new member, Irene Klug. Page Tlwrnly 3

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Wall Street in Chicago is at present a good monument in history .... Kenneth Lckhardt will be one of the greatest financiers of the twentieth century. Kenneth Eckhardt was always fond of the opposite sex and he will be wedlocked to john D. Rockefellers' granddaughter of Merton at the age of fifty blooming years. At San Francisco, California, lllyrtle Schultz and Mabel Tietz the Tanglefoot Flypaper Twins will be engaged in learning the professions of actresses, under the coach Charlie Chaplin. One of their favorite acts will be The Dance of the Irishmen by the drama writer, jackie Coogan. Following several years of acting Bobbie Myrtle will marry her employer Charlie Chaplin. They will live in a bird cage on High Cactus Street, Love Me Still, California. Cupid will also dance across Mabels path. She will be married to Rufus Red, the king of the Danes, who is ten years her junior. Their permanent settlement will be in a wooden shoe, standing on the back porch of a Dutch batchelors' home in Argintina, South America. ln the presidential campaign of 1936, Annette Zink will be one of the six candidates running for that office. She will be the first woman who will be set up on the banana split party. The Gods will all turn to her, and the office of the first lady of the land will be bestowed upon her at zero degrees Centigrade. One of the most im- portant measures that will be hair amendment which will be ln this world of ours, we country. John Fredericks, Esq passed during her administration will be the bobbed passed in 1947. shall need men who will enforce the laws of this will, in the near future, attain the high rank of judge of the Supreme Court of China. At the zenith of his popularity, he shall be exiled from the country because he has practiced the laws of China by a dictionary instead of the law book. Although john will be popular with the maidens of China, he will not fall directly in love with them. He shall remain a batchelor. Ten years from now, Roy Schuler, the genius of his class, will be the pastor of a large congregation in El Paso, Texas. One of the most important sacred events that Rev. Schuler will perform will be the marriage of llfliss Vera Holm, the Toe-dancer, to Lee Counsell, a sailor on the Spanish Main, on February 29,l956. Rev. Schuler fears no man for he shall always walk in the path of righteousness, and practice what he preaches to best of his belief. Hildegarde Ludwig, another prominent member of this class, will be a famous singer, having the equal voice power of Galli-Curci. In the events of her profession she will tour in many countries but mainly in Greece, Germany ,Russia, and Scotland. At the singing contest in Scotland, she will be awarded first place in singing My Hearts in the Highlands. Loraine Paul was always very popular with the opposite sex, and she will remain popular until some future day when she will elope with a wealthy crockery broker. The class of '24 will turn out into the world one of the greatest girl athletes-known to us as Sis . Sis will enter many golf and tennis combats. She will be the Champion tennis player of Wisconsin, and in the near future will be sent to the tournament at Dover, England, for the VVorld Championship. Franz Schneider, who was always a very ambitious lad, will reach the height of success in later years. By profession he shall be an agent for the Du Pont Powder Company. He shall canvass all the drug stores and beauty parlors selling this wonderful product. Good luck to you, Franz, and may you meet a flapper to help advertise your product. Edna Zahnow is another prominent members' of the Class of 1924. Edna always wished to be a Latin teacher. Her wish will be granted and at the school of achieve- ment, she shall learn the meanings of Platus, Horace's Odes, Cicero's Letters, Ovid, - ' H - Page Twenty-tfwo