Mondovi High School - Mirror Yearbook (Mondovi, WI)

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THE MIRROR cards before leaving school and upon these cards had left their finger prints I decided to find out the future of some of the old graduates. To my astonishment, when I went into the tent, I found that this sweet, young woman was none other than Sylvia Thorson, the same lovely Sylvia who had always been so inattentive in school. Upon close examination of several of the finger prints she said “When a period of five years has elapsed, Lester Colby will be chosen coach of the Girl’s Basketball team at the University of Pekin and will undoubtedly be well liked by the little Chinese Maidens. However, at the end of an unsuccessful season he will be asked to resign by the President of the University, Hazel Berg. About this time there will be another Bolsheviki uprising in Russia. Vera Amunson will gain great fame as a red agitator and she will succeed in removing Mabel Thompson from the throne and having Clarence Call elected Dictator. I can also see a great Women Suffrage movement started about the year 1929 in British South Africa. Owing to the untiring zeal of Mildred Eilenberger and Emma Cashmere, the women of that dark, uncivilized country will gain equal rights with the men.” After spending several hours with Sylvia, our machine was ready and we started for Havana and eventually Christiania. When we landed in Havana we saw an immense crowd assembled to greet Greay Hurtley and Charlie Whittworth whohiid just returned from a trip to Mars. Incidently Greay and Charlie were running a hair dressing apartment as a side line. After visiting with them for a little while we started for Christiania so as to be in time for the ball. After landing Doc at the Palace, I flew around the city for a while, when I noticed a large sign on a barn V. I. Ruffler’s Peanut Farm.” I landed and found Viola and Rose Frazer salting peanuts to be shipped to Peanuts Ede, Dictator of Mexico. After traveling around Europe and Asia for a few months I started across to America and Mondovi. On the way I stopped in Hawaii and there saw Grace Claflin teaching the Hawaiians to step to the tune of a Camel Walk, and Margaret Ilognlein giving swimming lessons to natives. When 1 got back to Mondovi, I found a big brick High School with every modern form of equipment. Bricks was coaching the athletic teams and Lloyd Smith was English Instructor. Next, I went down to the Herald office, but their helpers were all strangers to me with the exception of Joyce Ruseling, who had charge of “Advice to the Lovelorn” and Mary Wiggen who answered inquiries on “Beauty” and “How to Keep Well.” As I came out of the building I noticed a large sign out in front, which read “Heck Voll, We buy everything. If you have anything to buy or sell we solicit your trade.” Thus in my travels around the world, I learned something about all my class mates.

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THE MIRROR CLASS PROPHECY It was a bright moonlight night in early June and having nothing else to do, I thought I would get out my plane and take a flight over the loop and afterward go to a movie. After flying around for about fifteen minutes I began looking for an advertisement of a good picture. Suddenly my eyes focused on an immense electric sign on the top of a building. On closer observation 1 found that Miss Mary Pabst, a noted medium, would give a seance at nine o’clock that evening. I landed and it being only eight o’clock I determined to pay a visit to my old class-mate, Mary, before going to the show. She received me and gave me a hearty welcome. We talked over old times and the of M. H. S. days. 1 asked her if she kept in touch with any of the class of ’21. “A few of them,” she said. She told me how Marvin Edison had died three years ago and was now acting as assistant to St. Peter. Harvey Robinson, who had died in 1925, was holding the position in heaven, formerly held by Lucifer. She also told me about the trouble she was having with her private secretary, William Pinkney, who, it seemed, had lost all of the accuracy and speed that he had acquired while studying under Miss McGlasson. She thought she would have to give him notice to resign. It being nearly nine o’clock, Mary had to go to work so I started in search of further amusement. I went into the theatre and saw a good comic picture in which Lawrence Fitzgerald starred, under the name of Harold Lloyd, who had resigned the year before. After the picture there was a good comic vaude-ville under the direction of Frances Jacobi, with Cora Talle as leading lady. On my way home from the show, I felt a craving for something that 1 couldn’t satisfy here, and knowing that I wouldn’t be content until it was satisfied, I determined to start for Havana the next morning. After a few hours flying I was forced to land in New York on account of engine trouble. As I was examining my machine, who should walk up and offer his apistance but Kenneth Costley. Kenneth was all “fussed up over an invitation which he had received that morning from Evelyn Blum inviting him to a great ball to be held in Stockholm in honor of her marriage to Joseph Johnson, the I rince of Norway. I told him that he could ride with me. In the meantime while my plane was being fixed, we took a car down to Coney Island. After taking in several of the entertainments offered there, I saw a sweet, young woman standing in the doorway of a tent. On this tent we noticed the sign, e read Futures from Finger Prints.” As the class of '21 had all exchanged calling

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THE MIRROR We, the Seniors of Mondovi High School being in unsound mind and defective memory, do hereby make, publish, and declare this to be our last will and testament, revoking all other testaments by us heretofore made, and all those which will be made. To the faculty as a whole we leave our sincere thanks for their efforts in trying to broaden our minds. To Mr. Dodge, we give all the ability of art set forth in the Mirror so that he may be able to draw figures for his physics classes. To Mr. Thompson, we leave almost all of the basket ball team and the poor remnants of a football team, hoping that he will have both teams in shape for state championship next year. To Miss Wilkinson, we leave Harvey’s collection of poetry hoping that she will have it published. Also our sincere thanks for her work in helping to make our Mirror a success. To Miss Durch, we leave all our English text books including Hamlet, Macbeth, Burke’s Speech, Wooly’s Handbook and English Literature, hoping that she will burn them up and save the Juniors the agony of reading them. To Miss Meisekothen, we leave all the knowledge which we gained in solid geomet-y class, because it was not enough to bother. To Miss Jones, we leave fond memories of our Junior Class Play, and our sincere thanks for the many things she has done for us. To Miss McGlasson, we bequeath the Senior shorthand note books, and a pair of nonskid shoes that she may have no more accidents in her department To Mr. Grueneisen, we leave our ability to bluff that he may either use it himself or give it to the next senior class. To Mr. Oldridge, we leave all popular music especially “Chili Bean” and “They’re Wearing Them Higher in Hawaii,” which the orchestra was always willing to play. To the Juniors, we give our physics note books, U. S. History map books and English themes, so that they may profit by our diligent study. Also the ability to manage a high school stand at the fair, so they will not need to worry about future financial troubles. To the Sophomores, we leave our dignity as Seniors, permission to go to all the movies at the school and the ability to put on a class play that will please the public as ours did. To the Freshmen, we bequeath our examples of disobedience and our ability to argue with the faculty. We also leave them any warm places which we may have in the hearts of the faculty and suggest that they use them well. I, Leo Peters, leave my sweet and melodious voice to Royce Quarberg that he may entertain the students at singing period. Also my position as cheer leader to Jens Severson.