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

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I could not read the account as I was so taken back, but turned the page and behold! my eyes fell upon a small item in the News from Turkey column, which read something like this. .THE WIFE OF THE SULTAN OF TURKEY EXERCISES HER RULE CRUELLY AND IS DEPORTED TO SIBERIA. I raised my eyes and looked Gene in the face. Listen, Gene, I said, didn't Mildred Ridley marry the Sultan of Turkey Pl' l W'hy, yes, I believe she did, was the answer. I handed her the paper and pointed to the column and told her to read it. Look here, she said,.ffthis last paragraph says she is an American glrl and married the Sultan in 1930 while he was in the United states on a trip. .-She has two children and will have to give them up. VVell, I said, I simply cannot 'think of Mildred being cruel, you know we were such good chums while at M. P. H. S. and she never exercised any of her cruelty upon me that I can remember of. But, such is'life. ' At this instant my husband came up and, of course, introductions were in order. As it was lunch time an invitation was extended our guest to dine with us. She accepted and we walked rather slowly down to the dining-room. While we were waiting for the waiter to bring our order, Gene and I' told my husband briefly just what had occurred during our conversation. Of course, he did not know any of the girls except Frieda Rickert. but was quite amused to hear us tell of our old acquaintance and classmates. On leaving the dining-room we pur- chased the latest edition of the New York Evening Post. Virginia and I shared a copy together. As it was starting to storm we took refuge in my cabin and we started to read the paper. On the front page, printed in big blue letters were these words. .PRESIDENT OF THE WORLD'S BLUE SUNDAY ORGAN- IZATION BELIEVED TO BE DYING. After reading the account of this Qmake believej French woman, Mlle. Dorothea La Bathe, who was none other than the Dorothy Bathe of my school 'days I gave the paper to my guest and showed her the account. VVhy, she said, I never knew Dorothy moved to Paris, the last I heard from her she was in San Francisco. But we must look her up when we arrive in France and surprise her. Good, I almost shouted, what a fine idea. p But one look from my cabin door told me we would not see France that after- noon as we had expected as it was storming quite badly. But we were informed by my husband who appeared at that moment that we would probably anchor at day break the following day. Upon our arrival in France we immediately looked Dorothy up and much to our joy and satisfaction found her on the road to recovery. I told her that I knew she would make a success of this organization because she was a very good class president and was capable of holding the office of president of almuch larger organization because of her friendly ways toward everyone. A VVe left her, hoping to meet again and as Gene and I walked through the dreary streets of Paris we were rejoicing over the fact that .we could be together again and talk things over and of the happy days we all had together in the 'Morgan Park High School Qnow the largest and best high school in Chicagoj even if everything had not turned out just as we would have them. V 1 ' , F. M. VV. '21 .25

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After a short while when we were I A's Mr. Blomquist was our Division teacher and we met in Room 204. The Civic Industrial Committee was formed and we carried -on the Book Exchange with great success. VVhen we became Sophomores we organized the Commercial Club and the following members were elected: President .............. - ....... . . . .... Ellsworth Dunning Vice-president .......... A ......................... .... . . .... . .Rose Lindemanu Secretary .................................... .... . . .... ...... P auline I Siegert During our last semester we organized the june Commercial Class in M. P. High with the following officers: President ........................... .... .................... D 0 rothy Batlw Secretary ................................ . ........ ................ M ildred Ridley VVith a thrill of pride we glance over our achievements and we know the Com- mercial Class of '21 is one of which Morgan Park may forever be proud. p D. C. B. '21, Qlnmmeriral Qlletss lgrnpherg nf 1321 The steamship Badbehavior rocked and rolled as if it was trying to see how many times it could knock our heads against its sides. To be exact it was in late May in the year 1942. I was on deck reading a copy of the New York Times when upon glancing up I thought the person coming toward me looked very familiar. I imagine she thought the same for she looked at me in a very friendly way. She walked up to me and said, VVhy how-do, Frances? I wasn't sure whether it was you or not. All that I could say was, Virginia Pierson, where are you going P She informed me that she was a member of the diplomatic ser- vice and was sent as a spy to Germany, because the former Crown Prince was trying to gain control of Germany again and she was sent to spy around Berlin. But, she said, my dear lady, what are you doing and where are you going alone ? Oh, I answered, I'm not alone. I am accompanying my husband, who was recently made envoy to the Russian government which was formed by the world renowned suffragette leader, Frieda Rickertf' I also told her that I was quitge anxious to see Frieda again and told her that Frieda's ambition was to marry a rich, young man and make herself famous in an altogether way than she was going about it. Yes, Gene replied, I thought Frieda would live up to her ambition, but. . . . Oh, listen dear, did you read the account in the New York Times about Ruth Muesbeck? You remember that quiet, little girl, don't you ? Yes, I replied, what about her ? At that instant she picked up my paper which had fallen beside me and turned to a page on which was a picture of a rather cruel and fierce looking young man and beside it a picture of a woman. I could easily see that it was Ruth, but.what a ,name she had to try and pronounce,. .Pmuesbeckis. I always thought Ruth didn't like to pronounce big words. .but. .I see she has changed, too. If you think her name is bad, Gene broke in, you had better see what she and her husband have been doing. My eyes fell. upon the headlines. .PMUESBECKIS AND VVIFE LEAD GREAT REVOLUTIONIN POLAND... Oh, I gasped, what an awful thing for such a sweet maid to be doing. 24

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East will ami! 'Eestament We, the Commercial Class of june '21 of the Morgan Park High School, knowing that our end is near and that we are to pass on into the business world, do declare this to be our last will and testement. First: We ask that our funeral expenses be simple and conducted by our friends, principal and his wise staff, who have been our teachers during the time in which we attended this school. Second: After our expenses have been paid we leave the rest to: 1. Mr. Schoch. our beloved principal, who has the supreme power of sus- pending those who disobey the rules of the school, that he may take good care of all the teachers. 2. Mr. Blomquist, we leave a quiet Division Room where no Shorthand Songs will be heard from the 2A's between eight-thirty and eight-forty-five. 3. Mr. Calkins, our stenography teacher, we leave the continued services of teaching shorthand to pupils who are sadly in need of it. 4. Miss Peterson,we bequeath the profound everlasting friendship of the Class of 1921 individually as well as collectively. 5. Miss Riggs, a quiet study hall, sixth period. 6. Lieutenant Lorentz, the right to chase pupils out of the corridor near the study hall during the lunch periods. 7. Mr. Hall, our permission to be thankful that the row of girls near the end of the study hall is out of his way, possibly forever. 8. Miss Gahl, a policeman's star to help enforce law and order in the gym- nasium. 9. The EMPEHI, the power to become one of the best known school papers in the City of Chicago. 10. The IA Freshmen, the honor of being called Sophomores during the coming semester. 11. The Commercial Club, all the success in the world and hope that the members will go on many excursions and enjoy them as we did. 12. Ruth Muesbeck leaves her quiet disposition to Alice Grosse. 13. Frances Wayte leaves her permission of going to typewriting, 8th period, to Rose Woznak. 14. Virginia Pierson leaves her cute little laugh to Beulah Woodle. 15. Dorothy Bathe bequeathes her permanent waves to Leslie Harvey. 16. Mildred Ridley leaves her good excuses to Frank Irons. 17. Frieda Richert bequeathes her promptness to Ruth Wells. Lastly, we leave the sole power to execute this last will and testament to our much respected teachers, Mr. Blomquist and Mr. Calkins. W F. W. R. '21 20