Port Huron High School - Student Yearbook (Port Huron, MI)

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Dora Jenks went into training at Johns Hopkins and graduated with honors. She decided to remain independent but last month her engagement to a 1918 graduate was announced. Grace Chambers also trained for a nurse and is now at the head of the operating room in an English hospital. Arthur Carson still possesses the charm of his High School days and has a trail of fair maidens after his heart. But Arthur was cut out for a bachelor and lets no feminine fascinations interfere with his splendid law practice. Lillian Heddlc eloped with a young blond shortly after her graduation and three years later the bitter war had left her a widow. Her marriage to a Pittsburg millionaire, thirty-six years her senior, is to be a great event of next week. Josephine McCarty, having broken the hearts of several admirers is remorse- ful and is thinking of taking the veil. Erma Steinborn is still a man-hater and much interested in woman suffrage work. Marian Gray is one of the well known suffragettes of Colorado and although married she finds time to lead all the parades, while her husband is quite able to care for the children at home. Carl Smith and George Waugh have gone into vaudeville and are making a hit with their songs and stories. Anna Smith before marrying a young lieutenant in the navy was dietitian for the Post sanitarium. Frances Kendall, of course, was married the year following graduation, but her home life has not interfered with her musical ambitions and she is now starring i . a popular opera written by a ’17 — Madelyn Akers. Mrs. Carlisle also writes all of Mark Collins songs. Since John McCormick ' s death several years ago, Mark has become universally the most popular tenor. Louise McArron, after graduating from a school of design married a little blond and has made him very happy. She has an enormous income and he is a splendid housekeeper. Mark Haynes and his wife reside in Port Huron where Mrs. Haynes is presi- dent of the local match factory. Helen Allum and Nettie Rademacher now live in California where they run a fruit farm in partnership. Grace Bastedo also makes California her home, where, as you probably know, she has be- come famous for her daring aerial flights. Among other westerners are Harry Rosenthal, heavyweight champion of Montana, and Bert Rapley, phy- sical director of an outdoor school. Zilpha Gillett and Winifred Beach have gone into Lyceum work in connection with the children s playground. Bain Hill’s training in kindergarten work at Pratt Institute has been of great value to her even if she didn’t use it in a professional way, for she was mar- ried five years ago and the twins keep her cpiite busy. Alice Cock is also hap- pily married but is still as flirtatious as in her high school days. Everett McCabe and Sarah Elliott conduct a dancing school in Detroit and on account of their natural talent in that line, are making it a great success. Gladys Brotherton is one of the two girls of that class who has gone into public speaking. On account of her fondness for that sort of work she travels in the west delivering free lectures on the Holy Land. The other public speaker among the girls of the class, Frances Moak, whom you remember as being the bold masculine type, has become a famous woman lawyer in Kentucky. Ransom Stone is a retired millionaire having made his fortune but two years after graduation in the manufacture of alarm clocks. As you undoubtedly remember Ransom received his first instruction in the working of clocks in connection with the History Course during his Senior year. Freida Lehmann has the fashionable hair dressing shop on Broadway and is an aitist in the use of peroxide. Blonds are her specialty. Much experience during school days enables her to make a great success of it. Howard Parsons has also followed up his high school traits and is now dancing in the “Show of II

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The Crystal Sphere DOROTHY DUNCAN, ’17 There was a new crescent moon in the west which, with the star above it, made an agreeable oriental combination. In the haze over bay and river enough rose and purple remained to veil the awakening glitter of the city, sprawling supine between river, sound amt sea. And its incessant monotone pulsated, groaning, dying, ceaseless, inter- minable in the light-shot depths of its darkening streets. The sky-drawing-room windows of the Countess Zimma were all wide open, but the only light in the room came from a crystal sphere poised on a tripod. It had the quality and lustre of moonlight, but I could not find out its source, for no electric wires were visible, and one could move the tripod about the room. The crystal sphere itself appeared to be luminous, yet it ' remained per- fectly transparent, whatever the source of its silvery phosphorescence. As usual the Countess was curled up by the open window among her silken cushions, one smooth little gem-laden hand playing with the green jade god, her still dark eyes, w hich slanted a little, fixed dreamily upon infi- nite distance. No one ever seemed to know just what she was looking at even when she turned her dark eves on them or on her crystal sphere cradled upon its slender tripod. Some one brought the tripod with its crystal ball and set it down in the middle of the room. As its mild ray ' s fell on the marble basin of a tiny foun- tain, I heard Zimma asking me what I wished to hear. ‘‘Of all the visions which have passed before your eyes within the depths of that crystal globe ’ said I — “of all the histories of men and women which, seated here in this silent, silk-hung place, I desire to hear only the fates of my P. H. H. S. class- mates whom I graduated with eight years ago.” She glanced about the room and smilingly began: “Don’t ask me how I know what these people are doing; that is my con cern, not yours. Don’t ask me how I know who they are; that is my affair Nor how I seem to be perfectly acquainted with their past histories ; for that is part of my profession. And now I will tell you all I know of the class of ’17’’ and, gazing into the depths of the crystal globe, she began in a low musi- cal voice : “Erwin Weaver is making himself famous in Shakespearean plays and is greeted as the actor of the twentieth century. In private life, he is happily married and has a large family. Florence Jones is at present in charge of armor cataloguing in the Metropolitan Museum but she wears a large diamond solitaire on the fourth finger of her left hand. Helen Manuel gave up re- search work in fossil bones to marry a young lawyer of Sarnia, Out. Marshall Draper and Claire Tripp are officers in the Marine Corps, both having joined but a few months after graduation. Florence Gibbs and Grace Donaldson are doing settlement work in Chicago this year under the direction of Anna Camercu. Anna has been there for six years and is happily married to a Methodist minister. Also in Chicago are Thomas Reid, professor of physics in the University, and Max Colter, popular model for “.Society Brand Clothes.” 10

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Wonders’ with Faith Randall who is also making a hit in burlesque and musical comedy. Gladys Stevens and Lela May are putting forth their best efforts in a campaign for dress reform for young high school girls. Marguerite May graduated from Ann Arbor with honor without having studied a tiling. I his was simple to do as you remember Marguerite’s distinct dislike for studying. Eleanor Ludlow, still the prim, dignified girl of eight years ago, is happy teaching in a little country school. Lyda Jex and Evelyn Marlette started a private school for young ladies which is now considered the most exclusive of eastern seminaries. Kate Dunford, one of the most serious, con- scientious girls of ' 17 is now in India doing missionary work, and, although it seems incredible, owing to her youthful indifference toward young men, her engagement to the leader of a church choir has just been announced. Robert Anderson and Lee Leonhard are others counted on the bachelor list. 1 hey have both gone into politics. Holbourn Bcardman and Wesley Ccx have been up to their old tricks and are now awaiting sentence for stealing chickens. Carl Sturmer’s vicious disposition lead him on with difficulties and he is serving a term in Jackson for contradicting his mother-in-law. Mildred Carlisle is a living model for a New York shop and still claims to be a pei feet 3b. Her husband was killed in the war and she now has to sup- port herself and children. Gordon Godley is the brilliant historian of the period and holds a seat at Harvard. Roy Harris is at present in New York being featured at the Hippodrome as the “greatest tight rope-walker in tiie world ” Mary Chambers has just won a cup offered by Carnegie in an au- tomobile race from here to Montana. Mary and her husband live on a ranch in that state. Harold Carlisle and Gordon Maitland were theological students in the same college and are now situated in two of the big churches of Phila- delphia. Howard Lane has a fine position at a haberdasher ' s but the work is really too strenuous for him and he is about to take another vocation. Herman Kunze and Elton Parker run a dairy and have made it possible for their customers to purchase milk at the low cost of 15 cents per quart. Milli- cent Neil and Evelyn Pace are popular young movie stars. Francis Scott has also adopted this vocation and is now the favorite movie actor. He is very handsome, a few years having changed him but little and the girls never miss a picture that Scottie is in. Eunice Dart is living in New York where she is considered a coming young sculptress. She has already made her fortune by her fine work. Freda Collins inherited a fortune from a rich ‘uncle and has a marvelous estate on the Hudson where she has nothing to do but amuse herself. This, however, is a source of much unhappiness to Freda owing to her fondness for all kinds of work. Elsie Pressprich has finished writing a book for High School Freshmen entitled, “How to Get the Most Out of Studying. Another writer of the 1917 class is Elwood Windham who made a million dollars off his latest publication, “The Fine Points in Bluffing.” Dorris Robinson and Prudence Rowe have charge of the candy and gum stands in all the leading High Schools. Ralph Jenkins is still in the hospital but the doctors hold out strong hopes for his recovery. Pie was injured by a severe blow on the head by a rolling-pi n. Needless to say he is married. Quinneth Summers is proprietor of a manicuring parlor for men only and they say she can not accommodate all her customers. Schuyler Smith has given up all social activities and is devoting his life to writing. His first success is entitled Ofiran des Couer. He has never been the same since his fiancee eloped with a movie actor. Ialeen Taylor who went with the ambulance corps to Prance lost one arm while in active service. This, how- 12