Plymouth High School - Mayflower Yearbook (Plymouth, IN)

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19 I» Arthur I homas, leave my various sweethearts to next year's “Cappv”. I Lowell Lee, will my reserved seat on the honor roll to Thorton Blue provided he doesn’t leave the scat vacant. And lastly, to our worthy housekeeper, Mr. Wilkinson, wc leave the stray pennies he finds on the study hall floor. Sworn and subscribed before Ina John- son and Wendclin Ball, notaries. Our term expires May 28. 1926. Class Prophecy □ 0 IRS']'. I will introduce myself; I am a penny, and on my face is the date of 1945 and since this is the year 1950 you see 1 have been in circula- tion five years. During that time 1 have gone thru many hands and made many pilgrimages, of some of these 1 will tell you. In 1945 when I first came out of a 1. S. Mint, bright and shiny, the first person I saw was Donald Hitchcock. On listening I soon learned that Donald was chief boss over the Mint and was direct- ing the whole affair. After much handl- ing I was stacked up with many others ami taken to a large office. While here I saw many famous men and women. On one occasion the president and his private secretary. La Mar Jones, came to the office; on another three of the cabinet members: Sec’y of War, David Heim; Sec’y of Navy, True Stout; and Post- master General, Wendelin Ball. But very soon I was sent to a bank in Chicago. The President of the Bank, Lowell Lee. first unwrapped me but before I was handed out as change Cecile Beagles, Beulah Irwin and Leona Price, clerks, and a great many other hands handled me a great many times. One day I heard some one whisper here comes Gerald Ball the great radio king. They say he’s made millions of dollars with his radio factory and is now one of the wealthiest men in Chicago, and look, the one on his right is Harold Martin, the noted brain specialist, and the other is Welcome Snyder, the greatest criminal lawyer Chicago has ever known. Before five minutes had elapsed I was handed to Mr. Ball as change and soon was going around over Chicago safe in the depths of his pocket. Mr. Ball stop- ped in at a famous studio to see some old friends and, behold, who was there but “The Lackey Twins.’’ Stars; Hal Hoham, director of the famous Broadway “Ragg- bones” orchestra and Robert Brown, Chi- cago’s most noted ladies’ dancing master. The next day I was handed to a clerk at the famous Arlington Hotel. I lay still awhile in the cash drawer but after a while began to stir and peep out of the key-hole. I hadn’t noticed until then that the clerk was Olen Albert. Late in the day I was handed to a wealthy stock and poultry dealer Glenr Baker and was soon on my road to New York. Before reaching New York Mr. Baker stopped at a pretty little tea-shop which had a sign like this above the door, Welcome Inn. Callie and Lillie O’Dell. Proprietors. I was handed over in payment for a lunch, and for many weeks took a re t One afternoon a party of tourists strolled into the tea-room and sat down. Callie came behind the counter and cried, “Say. that woman with the light knickers on is Mrs. Leonard Clizbe, and the other is Mrs. Edgar O’Keefe. Jewel and Juanita made a success alright didn’t they?” It was then that I rolled over and be- gan to listen to the conversation of the tourists. 1 gathered from their talk that they were going to New York to see some old friends appear in public. That evening the famous Prima Donna, Bernice Mor- combe was to appear in a Broadway theatre owned and operated by Clifford 28

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I, Wendclin Ball, will the study hall to anyone who wishes to serve detentions in the small, wee hours of the morning. I. Eldon Babcock. leave my stand-in with the commercial teachers to Porter Whaley. 1, Glen Baker, will my copy of “How to Become Popular with the Ladies” to Court Morris. We, the Bixcl brothers, Harold and Omer, will our ability to play andy-over on the basketball tloor to John Logan and John Heimbaugh. I, Rebecca Cook, will my soft and re- fined voice to Gertrude Blue. I, Victoria Crum, will my bookishness to Violet Schlosser. I, Pauline Falconbury, will my honor sweater to Opal Graves. 1, Verda (lari, will my cverrcady com- pact to Jane Gibson. I, Edna Beatty, leave my guarding ability on the basketball team to Cather- ine Dunlap. I, Cecil Beagles, will my ability as a typist to Bee Reeve. I, Juanita Clizbe, will my inexhaust- ible supply of postage stamps to Mary Jane Knott, to be used only on letters going to C. M. A. I, Alfred Boys, will my scat in Bill Schlosser’s car to anyone that gets there first. 1, Dulcia Hewitt, will my copy of Handsome Men I have Captured to Alice Wcnzler. 1. Ruby Hisev, will my excess height to Carol Bryan. 1, Robert Brown, will my extra Palmer certificates to Rollo Underwood. 1, Vincent Fisher, will my ability as a soda jerker to Ted McLaughlin. I, Margaret Hurford, will my forward- ness to Rosamund Huff. I. Pom Fries, will my angelic expres- sion to Paul Howard. I, Ina Johnson, will my ability to lead yells to Freda Stansbury. I, Henry Grossman, leave my trusty motorcycle to Miss Gauld, Miss Milner and Miss Mosher, so that they can make the rounds among the schools more easily. I, Francis Kneppcr, will my superfluous height to Helen Chaney. We. Annahelle and Clarabellc Lackey will our positions on the basketball team to the Madden twins. I. Mary Lidguard, will my ability to escape detentions to Elton (iordon. 1, Donald Hitchcock, leave my musical ability to Maurice Leffert. 1. Hal Hohani, will my presidency in the athletic association to Edwin Barker. 1. May McVey, leave a package of Golden Glint to Lois Cummins. 1. La Mar Jones, will my artistic abili- ty to Sanford Jacox. 1, Bernice Morcombe, will my famous contagious laughter to Fern McKesson. 1. (ieorge Kennedy, will my quiet ways to Dale Glass and Harvey Hampton. 1, Alice Mussclman, will my ability as a speaker to Gail Myers and Bill Schlos- ser. I, Clifford Logan, will my motto, Early to bed, early to rise, to Forest McLaughlin. Wc, Cal lie and Lillie O’Dell will our love for athletics, shows, and dances to Mary Thornburg. I, Harold Martin, will my ability to manage school affairs to Elmer Anderson. 1, Ernest Mathia, leave my ability to get by to Hap l lrich. I, Bertha Perry, will my ability to get out of school early to Paul Stout. I. Leona Price, leave my sense of mod- esty to Frances Kellison. 1, Mamie Rohrer, leave my sunny dis- position to Ruth Suter. 1. Welcome Snyder, will my ability to sleep in the auditorium to Marcus Grettcr. I, Jewell Shaffstall, will my rosy cheeks and beautiful complexion, together with a bottle of witch hazel to Dorothy Taber. I. Ruth Steele, leave several sticks of gum to Pauline Turner. I. Helen Tanner, will my position as assistant Home Economics Instructor to Nina Cook. I, Florence Tomlinson, will my mag- netic personality to the P. H. S. girls in order that they might attract basketball players. 27

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Logan. Also during the week Rebecca Cook, expressionalist and musician was to appear. And then who should walk in hut a group of nurses, namely Mamie Rohrer, Alice Mussel man and Mae MeV ey, off for a day’s rest. They all began to talk of the class of 1926 and P. H. S. so I learned that Helen Tanner was an instructor at the North Western College; that Alfred Boys was the owner of the largest newspaper in the U. S.; that Victoria Crum is a dean in an Ohio college; that Ruby Hiscy is running a chain of Beauty parlors in Columbus City; that Margaret Hurford and her husband were making a fortune on a large dairy farm in Illinois and that lna Johnson was operating a large ranch in Wyoming and had every good looking cow-hoy in the west at her service; and that Mrs. Varrell Girtcn, formerly Ruth Steele, is back from her trip to Europe. Well, I didn’t leave that day—hut the next Omer Bixcl and his famous “World’s Champion Basket Ball Team stopped in, and I was handed to him as change. Omer told his crew that he was going back to Plymouth to see his brother Harold, now- mayor. So after a few days' travel 1 landed in Plymouth. Oilier went into the Columbia Candy Kitchen now owned by Vincent Fisher, and left me there in payment for his soda. Many days later as I lay in the cash drawer 1 heard Vincent reading aloud an account in a oBaton newspaper how Miss Verda (iarl of that city, formerly of Plymouth, had been elected National Sec- retary of the Y. W. C. A.; also about Mr. Albert Anderson, famous boxer, de- feating Jack Dempsey in a boxing fete; and of Bertha Perry’s latest novel just off the press. That same day I heard Miss Edna Beatty tell that she was teaching a class in Etiquette and fancy dancing at the High School. The next week 1 was handed to a little boy and was soon again on the street. The boy stopped on the street corner where a young Salvation Army man was preaching and singing. The boy dropped me in the hat as it was passed and instantly I recog- nized the young man Ernest Mathia. For weeks I passed about from hand to hand until one day I found myself in Henrx Grossman's hands. Henry was a salesman for Ford cars and that very das was driving through South Bend in one of them at about 20 miles per hour when he smashed into a hearse. Both drivers crawled out and there stood Art liomas. Art said he was a South Bend undertaker now ami that he liked the work only that it was a dead job. While they were standing in the middle of the street talking, George Kennedy, in a cop's suit, walked up and invited them to go on. Some how that same week I found my- self in Pauline Falconbury's purse. Pauline was now a politician. Forthwith she took me to Mary Lidgard’s dress shop and bought a new dress. I do not know what happened for months. But one day 1 found myself back in Chicago. This time 1 went to a very wealthy home. Frances Kneppcr was in this home serving as private teacher to the children. Very soon I became aware that there was a very hen-pecked husband some where in the house. I had no idea who he was until one day as I was about to be carried out of the house 1 caught a glimpse of a familiar figure and recog- nized Eldon Babcock. Eldon sat musing aloud and from his soliloquy I learned that Eldon had been married five times and this trial has proved no better than the others. That he was absolutely broken hearted and the only joy he got out of life was serving in his capacity as janitor in a great business building where he met and flirted with all the pretty clerks and stenographers. Incidentally I learned that his favorite stenographer was employed by M iss Florence Tomlinson, the president of the Chicago Telephone Company. Well after passing through all this ex- perience you see 1 am now an old batter- ed and worn off coin. I have been sent back to Washington to be put in a hot- hot fire and melted to nothing. But be- fore I go to meet my doom I’ll say good- bye to one and all.