Merrillville High School - Merrillvue Yearbook (Merrillville, IN)

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Luebcke. Always having advocated a hotter means of handling the nation ' s milk supply, he was now director of the Safe-from Bacteria Milk Association. But things had not all been running smoothly, for he was running competition with a oheap subs- titute for milk, made from gound cracker crumbs and sulpher water. It then became Ruth Struebig ' s turn at the wheel. She was a music teacher at the Skreech Music Academy for Young Women. She had set a record on the big trombone for playing the scale in sixty- one hundredths of a second. Helen Keilman had long been private secretary to Eddie Cantor. She made the astounding reoord of disoovering the un- derlying leap feeling expressed in his jokes. Rita Krieter was the famous woman lawyer whose name had so often filled the front pages of the newspapers. Her fame had . soared from the time she had defended the Merrillvill basket- • ball team in a suit against the German Leaguers. Cora and Dora Roberts may be heard over radio station WIND every evening at seven o ' clock. They are in such de- mand that most of the stations use recoioings by them.. John Heoimovich, often called the man of iron 11 by his friends, is president of the Gary Steel Mills. He has in.ro- • duced the four-hour day and raised the minimum wage to seven . dollars per day in order to encourage a higher standard of living. Dorothy Poop next took the spotlight. She had reached the. height of her ambition when she became famous as a torch sin- . crer. A newsboy once remarked while watching a juggler peri arm., ’. . • . . ... . . ...

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' ’ As ' the party sets to work on its . over it. A tall, middle-aged man, hearty meal , cresumably a a hush falls • minister — hus-- 1 band to one of the class-rises to address the party. After . speaking in slow, quiet tones for a few moments, he again take his seat. The floor is then taken by a chairman; he is not a 1 member of the class. He delivers a speech of welcome, and . then with a queer smile on his lips, he calls upon the differ- . ent members of the class to tell something of their history . for the past quarter of a century and their present standing, 1 or as much of it as they care to relate. . The details of their biographies probably would not inter- . est an outsider, but I am sure a brief sketch of each would. . Ella Demmon was called upon first. She had been nead nurse . in the Laiman Lacy Hospital in Chicago. She was in charge of . many important cases, one of them being the case in whicn she . had helped to find a cure for the cancer. She had. also attend . ed John Hecimovich after he had fallen in a thimble of hot . steel while inspecting his mills. . Andrew Schoppel was next to clasp his hands behind his back . and proudly relate his experiences. He had started his career 1 . as feeder on a butterfly ranch and had worked up until he is now owner of a large stock farm in Nebraska. . Dorothy Piske, always the good secretary, related that she . was secretary of a great movement for advanced education and . more efficient standards of living. She was advocating quali. 1 ications for elective offices and eugenics as means to these . ends. . Next to reveal his experiences in the world was Martin

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after Dorothy had left the stage, that juggling of four balls. J between his hands looked like Dorothy Popp trying to watch her ex-husbands go by. Edward Nelson had also reached the heights. As a geologist, at Oxford, he had discovered the skeleton of Adam in an apple, orchard near the school. Ruth Luebcke had spent a great deal of -her time in China as. a missionary. After many years of tedious work she had fin- . • . • r ally convinced the children to take a bath at least ones a year. ’Melvin Fraikin is nov an automobile manufacturer in Detroit He ' drew the original clans for the new Zepher auto; 1 ffh’? S i Ut o • has eight wheels and an engine in the rear. Barbara Schmidt is the famed composer of the .late song hit,. Just a One Room Apartment and You. .She is at the ' present leading an orchestra made up entirely of wojpen. No, there are no presidents or presidents ' wives, no nation- al heroes or heroines, and no millionaires or millionaires ' - wives — all the members of this class being honest and upright. citizens. But the class is extremely wealthy, if you con- sider happiness, contentment, and service to their fellow- citizens as wealth. There are no saints among them; yet, « • yet there are no good-for-nothings. They are just fifteen good actors who know how to make the best of their sho ' rt time ’t j • • upon the. .stage of life.