Rawlins High School - Roundup Yearbook (Rawlins, WY)

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changed a bit. He was about to take his fifth leap into matrimony. Poor Harry! His other four wives had been utter disappointments, but he still had hopes. Harry told me that be was living off of the money which his wives had left him in order to get rid of him. He had heard of several of the old bunch. Nellie Murphy, he heard, was making a hit as an opera star in the Cosmopolitan Theatre at Fort Steele, Wyoming. He informed me that Wyeth Sullivan was a rancher. As Wyeth’s ranch was near Salt Lake City, 1 decided to go out and see him. Wyeth was just as handsome as ever. In fact, it seemed almost impossible that so charming a man should be a bachelor. Wyeth had become very prosperous in the sheep industry. It seemed remarkable that he should have so large a number of sheep, because when I had last heard of him, be possessed only two bum lambs. Wyeth told me of the only two members of our class of whom I hadn’t heard. Gordon Larson was the most popular Ambassador to Israel. Recently Gus had been involved in a political scandal, but that had blown over so that lie was now living peacefully. Harold Johnson, Wyeth had heard, had become very prosperous as a designer of French clothes on the Fiji Islands. By the time the season ended I had heard of or seen every member of the Class of 1926. MARION PORTER ’26 'W H ¥ Why Some of the Seniors go to the Shows HAZEL BURRELL—Because she gets in free. CHARLES BATES—To learn some new jokes. OLIVE KEENER—For their educational value. CHARLES IIIGLEY—To get some new pointers in love-making. IRVING DRAPER—To flirt. BEA ESPY—To razz the picture. CORDON LARSON—To learn some new big words. HARRY McFARAND ) m „ . .. ,. . WYETH SUI I IV N ) eeP “om breaking their record. ELEANOR RENDLE—Because she has somebody to take her. EDNA MURPHY—To catch up on the latest fashions. HAROLD JOHNSt)N—Because be basil’t any place else to go. MARION PORTER—To learn to be a Ford mechanic. ADOLPH NIELSEN ) Q .. , . ARNOLD NIELSEN j ho tll y can bc t°s 'tlier-ELIZABETH HILL—Because Hermine does. MIKE McNIFF—To see the last prize fight. NELLIE MURPHY—To learn the latest dance steps. RAPHEAL LACKKEY—Because it’s close to home. ALICE WALLACE—To see who’s there.

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Our next big stop was at Chicago. From the depot, I could see a brilliantly lighted sign, which read: “Reducing Parlors—Steam Baths, Specialty.” Upon closer investigation 1 saw that Olive Keener was the proprietress. And Olive had always had such high ideals! I went in and talked to Hive for a while. She was a great advertisement for her shop, because she had gotten a very svlph-like figure. From Olive 1 learned very little, except that sin and Edna Murphy corresponded. Edna had become a missionary. Her present work kept her in China. Her manner of converting the Chinese was very effective. If they would not agree to become Christians she had them hanged. 1 got to talk to Olive for only a short time, because she was very busy. From Chicago we went to St. Louis, Missouri. After the first performance a very flapperish lady came back to see me. She was Mrs. Alice Wallace Smith Jones VanPelt Mayo. Alice had lost her last husband in a flood only two weeks before. I asked her if she wasn’t grieved over his death, and she said, “Oh, no, there’s plenty more where he came from.” Alice had a lovely home in the suburbs of St. Louis, where I visited her. From her 1 learned that Isabelle McNees, although married, and tin mother of four children, would not give up her career as an aesthetic dancer in the Sandwich Village Follies. Isabelle, for some reason, imagined that she was famous. Alice also told me that Adolph Nielsen was the editor of the leading newspaper of St. Louis. lien I was at Alice’s I couldn’t resist reading some of the literature she had in her library. One of the most sensational stories in “True Confessions” was written by our demure Elizabeth Hill. We took a hurried departure from St. Louis, because tin negroes were on a rampage, and we feared a race riot. We stopped at several small towns in Kansas. In one of these small towns was a girls’ school, the Dean of which was Ellen Michie. Ellen told me that she had been disappointed in love, so she had decided to make her life worth while, by helping to educate girls. Ellen said that she had just heard of Evelyn’s crime. Evelyn was the only person she had heard of since 1930. We arrived, about the middle of June, in Denver, Colorado. Here 1 met Charlie Bates. Charlie told me that he dare not talk to me very long, because his wife was furiously jealous of him, and she would scalp us both. I invited him to visit me the next day, and he said that lie would if he could possibly escape from his wife. He, in some way, managed to get away from her for a couple of hours. Charlie informed me that his marriage was not what he thought it would be. It seemed that he had successfully wooed Eleanor Rendle from Mike. Eleanor had never forgiven him. In the course of our conversation I learned from Charlie that Walter Olson was in South Africa trying to convert the savages. W alter would doubtless be successful if it were not for the detrimental work of Bea Espy. Bea was teaching the natives how to do the Charleston. This was, of course, more attractive than religion. Charlie thought that lie heard Eleanor’s voice so he left rather abruptly. In Salt Lake City, Utah, I met Harry McFarland. Harry hadn’t

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Last Will and Testament We, the proud Class of ’26, being the first class to graduate from the new high school building, the largest and most brilliant class that ever has or ever will graduate from R. H. S., knowing that we have absorbed more knowledge than is necessary for the conquest of the world, take pity on some of our lower classmen, who are not so worldly wise; and do hereby will and bequeath the following excess qualities in the hopes that dear old R. H. S. will be benefitted. 1. To the Junior Class we leave the care of the new R. H. S. building, with the hopes that bv careful management and protection, our new Institution of Learning will be in the same fine condition, this time next year. 2. To the members of the Sophomore and Freshmen Classes we leave our best regards, for we’re sure they need them. 3. Charles Bates leaves his Magnetic personalitv and ability as President to Bud Winston in the hopes that Bud will profit by these qualities and guide the Class of ’27 safely through the trials of the Senior year. 4. Hazel Burrell wills her dancing ability to Ella Rasmusson. 5. Irving Draper wills his dreamy eyes to Louis Bates. 6. Bea Espy wills his Oxford bags to Leah Wallace. 7. Charles Higley wills his charming disposition in Class to Charles McDermott. 8. Elizabeth Hill leaves demure shyness and blushing beauty to Jay House. 9. Harold Johnson wills everything he doesn’t want to the highest bidder. 10. Olive Keener wills her personal magnetism and ability to make friends to Pearl Hartt. 11. Rapheal Lackey leaves his membership in the Bachelor Club to someone who has been sadly disappointed in Love. How kind of Rapheal! 12. Gordon Larson leaves his love to Brit. Take care of it Brit! 13. Ellen Michie would leave her ability as pianist to Nina Hansen, but Nina doesn’t need it. 14. Nellie Murphy wills her beautiful voice to Peggy Parry. 15. Edna Murphy would leave her sweet and charming disposition to Martha Kinnaman, but Martha doesn’t need it. 16. Harry McFarland leaves his beautiful marcel to Scott McNees. 17. Isabelle McNees leaves “that school girl complexion” to someone who needs it. 18. Mike McNiff wills his charming dimpled smile to Ernest McNeil. 19. Adolph Nielson, not knowing what else to do with it, leaves his ability as Cartoonist to Fred H. D. 20. Arnold Nielson wills his sweet demure smile to Andy Johnson. 21. Walter Olson wills his ability to hypnotize the ladies to Pete Olson. 22. Marion Porter wills a Ford to Saratoga. 23. Eleanor Rendle wills to Leva Brown her ability to kid the Coach. 24. Evelyn Startzell wills her aesthete abilitv to Feme Knutson. 25. Wyeth Sullivan leaves sweet simplicity and rustic beauty to Bab? Lambertson. 26. Alice Wallace wills to Maxine Fox her ability to make Tom ann Jerrys. —E. S.