Spencer High School - Spencerian Yearbook (Spencer, IN)

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Class Prophecy I 9 3 7 It is 1957, the year of the invention of the magic screen of television. In the Spencerian Hall of Science, Professor W. Einstein Britton is seen at the controls of his invention, lecturing and demonstrating it to a crowd of onlookers and scientists. The room suddenly becomes pitch dark. The screen begins to glow with a bright, dazzling radiance, and on it appears the enthralling face of the new sensation of the opera, Mary Nash, making her debut at the Metro- politan Opera House. This scene fades, and the roar and drone of an airplane motor is heard. The runway of an airdrome in Honolulu is seen, where the daredevil pilot, Barnstorming Barney Allen, is getting ready for a takeoff on his seventh non-stop flight around the world, with Byron Green as his chief mechanic. Waving them goodbye, with handkerchiefs wet with tears, are Betty Bolen and Mary Evans, stewardesses on the T. W. A. Airways. Following this, a modern business office appears on the screen. Orville Fulk is dictating a letter to Frances Kerr, while Red Sink, the office boy, stands attentively listening. The door marked Private bangs open and the chief salesman dashes in. Lo, and behold, it is grinning Walter Everly, still dishing out the same old line. He is selling a polish for bald heads. A famous dress salon is shown next, owned by Donaldo-Donald Ellis. A sinuous blonde mannequin strolls about in the latest rainy weather togs for Cape Cod fishermen. It is the renowned French model, Mademoiselle Amelia Royer. Madame Alverta, the famous fashion designer, straightens the lines of her gown. On the screen a diving sphere plunges suddenly into the murky depths of the Atlantic, with the great subterranean explorers, Bill and Audrey Johnson in the globe. They are continuing their search for a new species of barnacles with paddles. A beam flashes about the room, and a small cabin in the clearing ap- pears upon the screen. Dot Summers stands in the doorway, waving her apron at her fond hubby, Jack Presley Money, as he hitches old Dobbin to the plow. A modernistic studio makes its appearance upon the screen, and Jud- son Wolgamott, the Surrealist sculptor, is chiseling a dinosaur out of a slab of marble. In one corner of the studio is Juanita Miller, an interior decorator, painting a dressed chicken on the wall. The Professor turns the dial, and the oncoming roar of a train is heard. Swooping around the bend, rushes the Burlington Zeyphr, with Charles Shields, the engineer, at the throttle. Toot! Toot! and the train dis- appears with a flash. The scene switches back to the Harvard football stadium, where a roaring crowd goes wild with excitement, as Raymond Boot-em-high Brown makes a touchdown for Yale. The peppy Vassar cheer leader is none other than our own Mildred Leonard. The screen changes to a deep lavender hue, and the great Juliet of the New York stage, Maxine Highet, is seated in a balcony. As she utters

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'l 'J I, Juanita Beauchamp, will my quick temper to Evelyn Jones, pro- viding she doesn't use it too often. My position as Secretary of the Athletic Association to Barbara Lawson but my interest in Dick M. I will keep for future use. To Mayme Long, I, Helen Corns, will my ability to play the part of the bride in the Senior play but my collections of rings and Bill I have vowed to keep, till death do us part. I, Don Ellis, leave my individual hairdress to Martha Jackson and my ability to give interesting English talks to Martha Clemmer. To Jean Daily, I, Mary Evans, leave my love to serve anyone, and my puny condition and dreamy eyes I leave to Dot Price. I, Walter Everly, do will my desire to make people- think I'm tough to James Warnick and my manly walk I leave to Renos Price. We, Orville Fulk and Byron Green, will our seem'ngly quiet manner to Arthur Kinney and our interest in the opposite sex we will keep for use in the future. I, Maxine Highet, will my ability to handle Candies to Esther Rubeck and my interest in the Franklins to Agnes Love. I, Margaret Kaylor, will and bequeath my sunny smile to Helen Crisp, and my fame as a story teller to Wanda Curran, providing she lives up to it. I, Jean Starnes, hereby regretfully will my interest in Noble Minnick to Maxine Gibson and my giggle I leave to Mary Maners. I, Ward Britton, leave my He-Man tactics to Damon Elder and my tall lanky figure I leave to Geneva Richardson. To Pauline Morrow, I, Betty Bolen, leave my unusually loud voice and my specks I leave to Al Dyar so he may see Betty West at a greater distance. To any Freshman that can use them, I, Raymond Brown, leave all my old paper and pencils and my perfect attention in Government class I leave to Dot Strother. I, Andrew Bryant, leave my position as President of the Athletic As- sociation to any one who can make as much a success of it as I have and my love to give useless advice I leave to Lloyd Wampler. I, Mildred Leonard, will my great ambition to be a nurse to any girl who thinks she could be a successful one and my fondness for sweaters of all types I shall keep for myself. , I, Amelia Royer, leave my assortment of blouses and skirts to anyone who thinks they look as good in them as I, but my love for Money I shall keep indefinitely. To Mahlon Gibson, I, Jack Money, leave my position on the team and my success as the Senior Class president to anyone who can fill the posi- tion. ' . I, Frances Stockwell, leave my love for red to Leafy West and my abil- ity to talk fast to Mildred McKeand. A I, Mary Nash, will and bequeath preference for V-8 Fords to Betty Moore and to Wesley Summers and Bob Long I leave the nickname Shortie which they so kindly gave me. fSignedJ MARY NASH J UANITA BEAUCHAMP Witnessed before me this twenty-ninth day of April, Nineteen-hundred and thirty-seven. fSignedJ gm, We S Q

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Class Prophecy 1937 these words, Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou? Romeo appears upon the stage in the person of our own ladies' man, Robert Royer. The beam flashes over the now bustling metropolis of Spencer, and rests upon the prosperous new department store, Parr's Five and Ten. There the famous detective, Andrew Sherlock Bryant, is nabbing the in- famous wornan shoplifter, Juanita Beauchamp, alias Big Beach. Following this the ofiice of the chief executive of Indiana makes its appearance on the screen, with Rex Litten, the master mind of the Senior government class, occupying the gubernatorial seat. His secretary, Frances Stockwell, is writing a letter of advice to the President of the United States. Organ music is heard, and the dynamic figure of the famous woman evangelist, Lois Franklin, is seen preaching in the pulpit of her church, and praying for the souls of her classmates. Next a modern medical clinic appears. Wilma Starnes is standing with her arm around a skeleton, and at first sight, it seems that she is now a renowned surgeon, and she is lecturing to a class of student doctors. A cloud of steam next obscures the screen, but upon further observa- tion we see that it is the famous cook of the Waldorf-Astoria, lifting the lid from one of her many soupkettles. The cook is none other than our own Margaret Kaylor. Professor Britton turns the dial, and a phonograph record is heard playing all kinds of weird and eerie noises. Helen Corns, the authoress of the latest mystery novels, is getting inspiration for her newest thriller. She stops the record, and turns the radio on. Over the ether comes the staccato voice of the radio news announcer of Station WLW, Miss Rachel Wallace, broadcasting the news of the world to her Spencer friends. - Next the huge oval of the Indianapolis Speedway Race Track is seen. The annual Memorial Day Races are on. Whizzing around the track on two wheels is the Spencer Special, with Charley Burn-em-up Winders at the wheel. The car whizzes and spins so dizzily that the screen suddenly turns all colors and finally goes black. Professor Britton sinks down on one elbow and sighs: He burnt up my screen! That's all, folks! Lois FRANLKIN MAXINE HIGHET M