North Central High School - Tamarack Yearbook (Spokane, WA)

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Pafie twenty-nine TAI.AHI CLASS PROPHECY 9 CI n li 11 li r first all was in darkness ; grad- ually it began to grow lighter. I ' rcsently I discerned a sign board in front of me. I noticed that it was advertising the feature on the 5fe I ' antages circuit. It was a picture II of Carmen Eggerth and her band of sprites consisting of Ruth iliirlxhardt, Lydia Borgardts, Signe Peterson, Rhea ithers, Irene Edburg and Elsie Zeige. They were tripping the light fantastic. i s I went on I saw Janice McAvoy. Evi- dently she had not forgotten how to write nor lost her oratorical ability. With the latter of these two factors she was persuading the matron of the Home for Indigent Bugs to admit Earl Broyles, I,eRoy Riddle, Jimmie Warren and Cyril Fletcher. You know they always were a bashful lot, afraid to speak for themselves. On the ne.xt corner I saw Easter Court- right, I ' Vancis Edlund and Elizabeth Green, talking over the good ol ' days. In the Little Red School House seemed to be the pre- vailing subject. Don Smith, Glenn Taylor and I ' rank Jen- kins seemed to have become beneficent, for I noticed an institute founded hy them. It was a Home Finding society for dogs, cats and mice. Oh the celestial music ! Dot Kippen and ' oeta Johns, members of the famous jaz. ' orchestra, were filling the air with that which made the people leave. Among those leaving were Harry Roning, Don Thom])son, Paul Schnebly and Herbert Strand. They seemed to be quite overcome by the sweet melodious tones. Then I met Mae Tuttle. She told me that Ross Osborn and Wesley Jonas had made a success in running a girls ' lioarding school in Chene . She al.so told me that . rthur Ford, Clifford Johnson and Charles Ik-ntley had be- come millionaires running an undertaking es- tablishment in Colfax. Presently I began to fly through the air. When I was put down on earth again I was sure that I had never been in any place that was so beautiful. I saw Esther Ilarvie coming towards me. She said that she Christena Hal)- ura, Irene McElroy and Mary Mickels had set up an ideal colony. They had spared no mone ' in trying to make it the most artistic and gorgeous inhabitation on earth. A voice whispered in my ear that they had gained their money by selling fake mining stock t(j Mr. Ramsey. , s I v ent on my way Jack Grover passed me. He stopped to tell me all the gossip that he knew. He said that Ed Adams had got a rather bad reputation by running a bootlegging establishment. He also said that Thelma Par- menter, I ouise Luecken, Hazel DeCamp and Hazel Sorenson, after their husbands left them, had turned to scrubbing as an occupa- tion. A little bit after Jack left me, Allen Sherer overtcjok me. As he walked along he told me some more news about the members of our class. He said that Vivian Olson and Mabel Seeley were manicuri. ' ts down in Bishop ' s Barber shop. When he remarked that Charles Brown, Herbert Buttke, Earl Johnson and Norman Carver were running a matrimonial bureau, I recalled that they always did have a tendencN for match making, even in high school. The ne.xt peo])le I met were Winifred I aly, Phyllis Schalkle and Doroth - Eaw.son. They were .so sunburned that I hardly recognized them. They were just back from Africa where they had been converting the heathen. They had succeeded so well that they (the heathens) had set up a republic with Wini- fred Ealy as president. . s I passed a large assemblv hall I saw Evelyn Hellem with her aides, Bernice Barton, Helen Gehrke and Bernice I ' almer. Evelyn, who had become a suffragette, was giving a lecture there to an empty hall. lilancing over a magazine I happened to have picked up, I saw that Robert LeMar ' s name would go down to the ages, for it was he who discovered that the stars were in the sky. His assistants, Beulah Florida and Grace Kramer bettered the world by inventing a shock-absDrber for restaurant soup-eaters. I arrived at Dartford soon and found that our old friend Homer Manley had not for- gotten his managing al)ilities, for he had started an enterprising business section there where a good number of my old classmates were living. Althou gh Homer received fifty {Continued on l agc 77)

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TAI.AHI Page twenty-eight CLASS HISTORY X tlicsc (lays of rapid communica- tion radio, it is not. surprising to hear a Japanese radio bug, who happened to be listening in, give the following account of the his- tory of the class of January 1923 to some of his friends : If m honorable friends will make useful with their ears, I will a lecture make how events of great importance take place over the large wetness to the easiness. While I made much close listen last eve- ning, this intelligence I receive from the little telephone box without wires. It so me inform that much holiday occur in a school called North Central which seem to be disgorging famous class of great notoriety. This parting make great sadness in spots and relieve a great deal in others. So I am acquire this intelligence. — Hon- orable class of January month 1923, being so very oung and tender in January, month 1919, flu bug bite with much ardor and make school close up to fumigate. Finally big con- signment of freshie greeness arrive and are admitted on day which belong to St. Patrick, the same being distinguished for green trim- mings. Little fresh boy have at first great trouble and look, see much to find right room. He cannot discern and dispo.se himself in room dispensing English VIII. He find this much embarrassing and excavate himself with rapid departure. After honorable fresh bov have receive time to get a little bit sane, club called Deltas think it time to make him more so and pro- duce entertainment called Freshie Frolic. This give great appeal to inner man through much great store of doughnuts and cider, but the last prove great disappointment through lack of cider — it being pop. Vox Puellarum make similar good time fa.r little fre.sh girls, who do not meet disappointment as have ice cream and cake. Time pass and much trouble ensue when must make organization with president. All little fresh boy determine seemingly to avoid trouble but finally little fresh girls arrange hapi)iness for family by being officials. iMore organization made when become sophomores but now take less time because nitelligence have increase proportionately with time. Two dollars and thirty-five cents, monev called dues, treasurer collect without fatalitv. The same save much financial embarrassment when become seniors. Time pass and the class once again make much organization with president. Juniors ad(jpt -di official emblem a triangle with much red rising sun on top and North Central across just below and Jan. ' 23 in point. People are now knit together by insignia and become a unit integral which can function en toto. No time is waste by most, but the pause for breath persons at last make mental anguish and plunge over the senior goal uncertain in touchdown. The top of ladder is now attainment. Though ambition realized, yet ambitious .senior make man name Thomas Edison look, see mere sluggard and know not dav of eight hours from Arabian Nights. Even great class dues have no time to be bewailed. Famous class before seem about to be dis- gorged and must be feted. At place called Liberty Lake in congregation much new set of Jiu Jitsu men are lighted in tournament called horse shoe pitching. Dulcy cast from class make successful. Day for children is observed and grownups changed to little fre.sh boys and girls. All things end. Now shouting is over all an(I long hoi)ed for white sheet of paper brings incidents of event to close. (Signed) LOETA JOHNS, chairman GLEN KOLL NAIDA FAULDS

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