Reedsburg High School - Gleaner Yearbook (Reedsburg, WI)

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CLASS PROPHECY Scene: Hotel Lobby in New Orleans. Lucille Meyer goes to desk to ask for mail. Lucille: (Aloud) “0 a letter from Reedsburg. Clerk: “Reedsburg! did you say?- Why, Lucille!” Lucille: “Feme Johnson. What are you doing here?” Feme: “I ran away from home about 12 years ago. This is the only job I could land. Hut do read that letter. Fm dying to bear about Keedsburg.” Lucille opens letter and reads. Dear Lucille: Little did I think that night of graduation that in 15 years we would have drifted to so many parts of the world. I saw your name and picture in the paper yesterday. It must be grand to be a great pianist. 1 must tell you all about your classmates. Harvey Foss and A1 Farber journeyed down into the Jungles of Africa. Harvey discovered a colony of dwarfs and is ruling over them, and A1 is now shooting elephants instead of wild ducks. But now sit up and take notice. Eleanor Sparks has become a famous toe dancer. She has laid aside all conventionality and is shocking the East with her daring costumes. Surely you have not forgotten our Ku Klux Rider Hubert Jax. He now is Senator for Wisconsin anti is putting forth much effort to have a bill passed for the prohibition of driving delivery cars over five miles an hour. Lucille: (Lays down lettert “Isn’t that funny? Remember how he used to drive that Laundry Hus and the time of the Hospital Fire? Mary Donahue's curls surely have made her fortune. She is traveling with the “Knockem” Stock Co. taking children's parts. They hit such cities as Loganville. Cazenovia and Lyndon. Do you remember Winifred Stadleman? She is running a boarding house. All the rich obi men in town board there. It's a high class place. Feme: “Well that play, “The Private Secretary,” surely did give her practice with cranky old men.” Of course, you never could forget Evangeline Fisher. She has opened a dancing school. “Only fat people allowed. I wonder why? That is bad enough but what do you think of this- Paul Schultz still loves the girls. He has a harem in Hub City. He now has 52 wives. Marjorie and Chuck Carroll have organized a band and they play in Zion City every Sunday. And now to our Physics shark. Kenneth Maxham has invented a new collar. They call it “The Perfect Fit. He has acquired a fortune through this. Myrtle Swetland has broken all typing records, writing 201.34 words per minute and so winning the World's Championship. Don’t you remember when we were Juniors, she received a medal for the best paper submitted in an O. A. T. Test. Dorothy Stolte, our Gleaner Business Manager, is still at the selling business. She is now selling “Bvrns' Foot Ease. Our woman hater, Harry Meyer, is risking his life in Siberia as a missionary. Feme: “Of all things. Harry Meyer a missionary.” We surely heard enough orations in the U. S. History class. Well, Merle Mack is now campaigning for governor for Iowa. Lorena. his sister, has become a famous skier in Switzerland. Irene Ruskauff is coaching the “Kant Beat” basketball team at Jerusalem. Lucille: “0. yes. she's that wonderful basketball player. She must be good to be known clear over there. We surely did have some talented people in our class and Leslie Shierholtz was one of them. He drew a cartoon featuring the President and now he is in jail. It must have been dreadful for Mr. Bowker always liked him so well in high school. Feme: “Isn't it wonderful to think that our President was once our teacher. Our star basketball player in '23 has written a book. “Control Your Temper. Lucille: “0, surely, that's Everett Murphy. I have heard about it. Fred Haugh won the light-weight championship last year. Wasn't he always quiet? He still believes in the old saving “Silence is Golden. I guess. Will we ever forget the football season in 1922? We surely had a wonderful bunch of sports. Now instead of coaching the football teams at Yale or Harvard, Merle Warren is running a bakery in partnership with Dixon. They hire Ed. Roever to write poetry advertising their goods Kd surely is a good poet. No social gathering is complete without him And would vou think it. Miriam Hahn is an old maid housekeeper for a man. whose wife died leaving eight children, and who lives on a farm near Hillpoint. 1 can't remember his name but he was a sophomore when we were Seniors and lie's Irish. Lucille: “That must be Harold Murphy.” Hazel Suszyski and Irma Fritcher, you know what pals they were, are trying to introduce woman suffrage in Liberia and Nigeria. While our shorty, Clara Zimmerman, has become a great essayist. Some of her best known essays are “Advantages of Being Short.” “Length, “Height. and “Typewriting.” Page Twenty-Seven

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MYRTLE F.. SHETLAND Commercial Course “Acts nobly—dues well. Angels could ilo no belter. GERTRUDE THIEMANN - - - “Cert English, Latin Course Glee Club, 1. 2. 3, 4; Secretary Glee Club. I; Declamatory, 2. 4; Editor Free Press. 3; Editor Hi Times. 4: G. A. A., 4; Photographic Editor Gleaner. “You may not think it is so but the other day she said 'I don’t knou .”’ MERLE WARREN English Course Football, 2. 3, 4; Glee Club. 3. 4; Operetta. 3. 4. “One of our football stars—always out at nile.” AGNES WILSON - “President Commercial Course Glee Club. 2. 3. 4 “She’s backward about coming forward. CLARA ZIMMERMANN - • - “Shorty” Commercial Course Declamatory, 1, 2; Glee Club. 1, 2. “Small of stature, but of quality supreme. Page Twenty-Six

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«l Marden Philips has opened a college in Superior and he is progressing very well as all financial troubles are attended to by his brother-in-law. Bertha still loves declaming. She always gives some declamation at our “Old Settlers’ Meeting. Marsella Gasser, that hlnndie from Cazenovia, is running a Beauty Parlor in China. No cosmetics are used. Ed. Spraetz is floor walker. Feme: “Yes, I remember, they used to go together. Ed. took her to the Kilhourn foot- ball game. About ten years ago Beatrice Ost went to France to study French. She used to rave away all the while in French. You remember, it was introduced in our Senior year. Anyway, last year sin? wanted to come home but when she got to Ellis Island she discovered she could not speak a word of English. Now she is attending first grade in some school in England. Our other Beatrice, Bea Roach, is drawing maps for History and Geography text books. Lucille: “Remember those wonderful maps she drew for our U. S. History Map Books?” Ruth Rindfleish has invented something which makes curly hair straight. My, what curly hair she used to have. The Hastings girls have opened a Grammar School. They always were so fond of grammar in high school. O—yes, indeed, also debates. Remember what silly questions Louis Stern used to ask in Physics class? He is now running a pineapple farm in Alaska. Do you remember Agnes Wilson? She was in our Shorthand IV class. She is demonstrating “More Face Powder. She urges all girls to “make-up.” Gertrude Thieman won a World Beauty Contest. All the movie directors are chasing her around. The last offer she got was $200,000 a week, but she is afraid that wealth will ruin her beauty. Our other shorty. La Verne Davis. is very successful in the running of the “Davis Old Maids Home” and Edith Bclin is head librarian in Podunk. Lucille: “Yes she used to take the library at 10:27 ami 1:25. She tried to keep order but was too easily kidded.” Jerry has become famous as “The Sleeping Drummer. But then, we often do wonderful things in our dreams. Of course, you haven't forgotten Francis Bechtolt. He is a great magician. We re all rather scared of him. Remember how hard it was to try to sell Gerhart Meyer an Annual in the play the staff put on? Well, lie's an old crab now and book agents are obliged by a swift kick out of his office. Howard .McCarthy is leading the idle life of a country “school-mam's” husband. Lucille: “He fell for Agnes right after she won the beauty contest in 1922. You know. Remember how angry Archie Christie got at Miss Leavitt when she called farmers “old I country jakes?” Well, now he is chief cook, bottle washer, and hen-pecked husband on a farm near North Freedom. Remember when everybody called Catherine Donahue the school teacher when she took Miss Saukerson's place. Well, she is still teaching first grade in Pumpkin Center. Lucille: “She always was teacher’s pet. Margaret Sporloeder is a surgeon and Viola Foss is her nurse. They operate on corns and bunions. Their first patient was Edna Meyer and ever since she wears size 10 shoes. You ought to see Dean Babb, lie fell into a smoke stack and he has never gotten his hair clean. Even his dog doesn't know him. Remember how we stole Forest O'Connor, lie graduated from the 1. W. last year. t present he is feeding hogs on his father’s farm. This letter is getting dreadfully long, and if I do not bring it to an end suddenly it will cost me ten cents to send it; but before closing 1 am going to try and give you an idea of Reedsburg. The old town is changing slowly but surely. Remember that auxiliary fire department that we had here when we went to school —well, they now have two real fire trucks and the Sorge twins do the driving. They go so fast that they get to the fire before it is even started. The Main Street Boulevard is all fixed up and you ought to see the flower beds and the variety of flowers that are on it. I know one thing that would surprise you if you were to come back and that is “Our New Park.” Our old park, the band stand in one part, the fountain of youth with the bull frog on the marble curbing in another, are things of the past. Our new park i- above r 11 • dam. 11 that I '' land has been filled in and now we have .i nice swimming pool, and some nice picnic and playgrounds which certainly let out all rememberances of that old muddy spot. But something that we all felt sorry over was the loss to Main Street of our Pea Canning Co. The mayor forced it to move outside of the city limits as a result of a petition signed by all Reedsburg high school Civics students demanding free and clean air. They certainly have cleaned up things. But before forgetting 1 must remind you of the fact that we now have a White Way in Reedsburg. Well. Lucille. 1 must bring this letter to a close as 1 am busy working on my Hope Chest. Coddles of love, from Your old classmate. IRENE MOW. P. S. Be sure and write real soon and tell me all about yourself. Pago Twenty-Eight