Morgan Park High School - Empehi Yearbook (Chicago, IL)

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Emma Smith, Contrary to the custom of the Smiths thou shalt become the president of Vassar College. Merrill Benninghotf, Thou shalt be interested in tubs'especially those called keelers. Page Noah Webster. G. B., L.A., D. L., G. D., M. B. '105. Qlhrnnirals nf the Qllass nf 1921 Scene: Under the spreading chestnut tree, dreaming the day before Graduation. Cast: Any senior. VVell,tomorrow my High School days pass into history and Oh! Boy, talk about the Grand and Glorious Feeling 5 but, then, I wouldn't have missed the last four years for anything. What! four years since I entered High School. Doesn't seem that long since those crazy old, would-be dignified Scniors sent me into 104 after the left-handed monkey wrench and the pistol report but I better look out, I wouldn't be surprised but that I might be throwing a boomerang. I wonder how many Rhinies I've sent into the office after the round square or made to push a pencil down the gym' fioor. CDon't ask any embarrassing ques- tions,I'm not telling anythingj Wasn't school a long time getting started that year though, it must have been three weeks before we had regular periods. Wish that policy would continue but hopes are gone now that they have got the Standard Program fixed up. With those three weeks gone out of the year it didn't take long for the whole semester to go and before we knew it we were all thrown into the hubbub that we went through the first couple of weeks of High School refixing our programs. tThe Standard wasn't out yetj. By the time we got these programs fixed up we were pretty will used to program card ways and now we hardly give programs a sec- ond thought, tthat is, if our programs are regularj. After a few months under the new routine we found that the High Schools had the same funny habit as the Grammar Schools of giving us a semi-graduation that is a graduation for two months. I VVhen we went back in the fall we were perfectly willing to pass on our green- ness to the latest young hopefuls and glad of a chance to do some kidding in- stead of taking it all. It wasn't long before all the talk was about that great never-to-be-forgotten day of the Autumn Frolic. Nothing like it before or since. Wonder if Deweyewill ever hear the last of his statement to the Japanese Doll, I wish I could have you for my very own. ' . I Talk about your College Circuses and Class Days, etc., if you ever find one to beat the Autumn Frolic of 1918 please let me know. Did we have a circus? W'ell I guess. I didn't know there were so manytpoor CH misformed creatures in Morgan Park. We began to wonder if Morgan Park High School ought not do something to help out these unfortunates until we saw the three-armed lady take off the third arm and the two-headed lady take oii' a head and the Siamese twins split and walk otT and then we realized that after all charity begins at home and that we had better use our charity toward helping the candy stand sell out so off we went and sorry to say the candy slowly QU disappeared. - Of course. as Sophomores we were interested in our own productions, the Doll show and 'the Puppet show. If any girl ever wants any sort of a doll just go to Dorothy Primm and she will give you anything from a rag doll to a Parisian Vamp. That puppet show went off fine and say, George, you were some ventriloquist. b 21

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Leila Augur, Thou shalt live with ten howling black cats and twenty gibbering parrots because thy tongue is so adept in wiggling. Olga Hedeen, Thou shalt be a Prima Donna in the Jewish Opera. i Sara Hayes and Reveley Hallet, After joining together thy hearts and lives, thou shalt become the world famous modistes. Isabelle Glover, Thy book, I Teach You How to Concentrate in One Lesson, shall be read the world over. Laura Canty and VValker Findley, Often this sign shall be read by thy ardent admirers. Come and see the Canty and Findley Slap-stick Comedy at the Olym- pic tonight. Margaret Armstrong, Thou art destined to be the manager of a Hot Dog Emporium. Pauline Carter. Thou shalt teach the young and foolish to do the latest dances, namely, The Slippery Snake. Laura Nowak, Thou shalt be a member of an eternal triangle affair. Thou shalt be a great social leader and the wife of Edward Hermes. Thy motto, The home should be first, is unpracticed by you. Katharine Keeler, in the capacity of thy ladies maid, shall in time wreck thy home by eloping with thy husband, said Edwin Hermes. b Elizabeth Arneman, Fate has decreed that thou shalt be a magnet so as to attract irons. A Katharyn Daugherty, Thou shalt marry a Doctor of Divinity and bend every effort to the destruction of the cigarette. John Rudin, Thou shalt be a ballast on a balloon. Vivian Hamilton, Thou shalt be a dancer at the Midnight Cabaret. Elwood Holland, Thou shalt teach in private lessons the fair maidens to be- come expert manicurists. Because of thy failing health and social engagements thou shalt give but one lesson a day at a charge of ten dollars per lesson. Vera Hayden, Thou art destined to become a toe-dancer in the Follies, Dorothy Primm, Thou shalt be to America what Joan of Arc was to France. Marion Barnes, Thou shalt be a worker of the soil, otherwise known as a lady farmer, in Kokomo. Norman Daniels, Thou shalt be the star performer in the latest musical com- edy, Prim Dorothy. Marjorie Woolett, Thou shalt be the sporting editor of the VVeekly Review. Andrew Richardson, Because of thy poise, thou shalt be a butler in the VVhite House. Gladys Bradley, Thy trade-mark shall be Make 'Your Own Ice Cream in a Bradley Freezer. George Downing, Thou shalt be the notorious frequenter of the ever famous Monte Carlo. Erna Urland, Knowest thou the conundrum of the Ford and the school room? Thou shalt be like unto the crank in the front. DeVVitt Lane, It is thy lot to be a professor in a theological seminary where lovely maidens shall become great theologians. Grace Bell, Thou art destined to ring the liberty bell in Vladivostok. , Barrett ARich, Thou shalt spend thy life groveling in the dirt as a result of thy horrible life as an opium fiend. . M0

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Later in the year the boys' and girls' inter-class basketball teams were organ- ized and the boys' baseball team but we didn't win any championships so that wasn't so interesting but our class did put over a dance at the Field house the latter part of the year that went off very well. , The first thing in the Junior year was the election of officers and a very able set we elected, Mr. Downing for President, Mr. Lewis Younger for Secretary and Miss Alberta Schultze for Treasurer. VVith Miss Derrat as dean things went along fine and in the spring when we gave the Junior Lawn Party we all had as good a time as anyone wants. on Miss Nowak's lawn and all that orange frappe, only fifteen gallons. The piano was moved onto the porch and the orchestra of four pieces made the street dancing possible and all tended to make a success of the evening. In the fall when we came back a new group division was planned out and instead of the usual senior class there was the Senior group consisting of the four A's, four B's and three A's. This group organized with Randolph T red- well as President and Isabelle Chaplin as Vice-president. In February when we organized the Senior class we elected Laura Nowak President, Edwin Hermes, Vice-presidentg Sara Hayes, Secretaryg Raymond Becker, Treasurer. Under their leadership the plans for class day and com- mencement are already under way and we are expecting some good times and the Basketball banquet which they are planning is certain to be some affair. Our class is also making history and setting precedent by getting up an annual, and Miss Keeler as editor of EMPEHI is doing some hard work for us. Humph! pretty near seems like I had lived all over those four years but after all I guess I'll hardly remember M. P. H. S. for the social events but for the hard work that our faithful teachers have put in on us. Even if I did forget the Autumn Frolic I don't think I could forget all the English that Miss Miller, Miss Mackin, Miss Peterson, Miss Derrat and Miss Furhman have labored so to drill into my head nor whatever Latin Miss Petty succeeded in inlaying into my solid ivory. Then, too, we have those bird trips with Miss Babcock and nature trips with Miss Monsch to remember and who could forget Mr. Hamilton's history classes or the place where Mr. Hall teaches Na-I-Cl:NaCl, while Miss Riggs insists that Na-1-Cl can never equal anything but Na-1-Cl. Yes, every teacher will be remembered and thankedg and I wouldn't trade the last four years for anything, would you, Fellow Senior? R. H. '2l. 0116155 will nf 1921 In the name of the Alumnig Amen: We, the Empehi class of 1921,being of sound mind and memory, mindful of the uncertainties of life, but with an abiding faith in the brilliant future which expectantly awaits us, do make public and declare this to be our last will and testament, hereby revoking all other bequests, both charitable and spiteful, by us at any time heretofore made, in manner following: Clause I :--We do hereby give and bequeath to the school a second story for the portables in order that the incoming Freshmen may in some way be accom- modatedg also to the school we donate our old books with well worn covers, interesting inscriptions and unread pages. 22