St Louis Park High School - Echowan Yearbook (St Louis Park, MN)

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ECHOWAN 19 3 0 CLASS PROPHECY It is the black of night; Winds shriek and seem to light There on Olympus' top. Weirdly they shriek and howl Like some strange fiend or ghoul Through the God’s palaces. Sounds as it spirits move. What brave will try to prove It is but fancy? Spirits in trailing robes Hurry about in droves Calling with voices weird To one another. Thunder with deafening roar. Lightning the mountain tore; Stabbed they the black of night, Tore back the mists with might To show a castle. High on a crag it stood, Seemed o’er the world to brood. Mighty the picture. One more great crash of thunder. Like earth was rent asunder. Then fell the quiet. And slowly ’fore our very eyes We see the banquet hall arise At first all filled with misty vapors Sucked up slowly by flickering tapers. Around a table long and narrow Sit spirits wavering in the light. Slowly they grow clear and clearer The Muses arc the first and nearer. Sung in ancient song and story, Nine in number full of glory. Spirits ancients never knew From out the mists still clearer grew Called up by business needs today. One o'er Business has full sway. Capital and labor arc under his control. The Spirit of Healing then unfolds. She takes care of nurses Who keep folks from hearses. Diane next at the festive board. Goddess of Chases and all outdoors. Jupiter, too, the mighty king. Has full charge of political things. Creative Genius is here, too. And mighty things can this spirit do. Venus, goddess of all beauty, Waits to claim her students truly. The Goddess of Justice next we see; She has charge of the jury. And Psyche, goddess of the mind. Waits with look deep and refined. Mercury, spirit of the air. Slowly folds his wings so fair. The Wizard of Light And the Sou! of Sight End our list of jkxts. Why this mistic spirit council? Why this gathering strange and weird? List! the leader now is speaking, ’Tis the Spirit of Success. “We are come, my fellow spirits, At the honored call of youth. In the paths of fame and fortune Ti$ our duty them to guide. We gather now, my friends to a senior class assign In the mighty occupations ’Tis their lot in Life to find. And to give them to the spirit Who must rule their work in life. We will take this class in order. This fine class of twenty-nine And the mighty year of thirty Also comes at this great time.” The Spirit of Big Business Named the following people so “Anna Sundblad, tall and slim, Many a tale in type will spin. Helen Nordin, her dearest friend. Will her days in an office spend. Margaret Smith will keep the books. Genevieve Flatten after files will look. Alvf.ra at her side will Ik To help her with the A’s and B’s. And Elinor as secretary Will be their friend and never weary. Jane M rtin will be her assistant trusty. Bernice will use a telegraph And be the highest on the staff. Robert Pilcher, businesslike. As President of a big concern, And Pearce Ciiell will teach his son The rules good scouts must follow. f 18 1

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1930 ECHOWAN Ward Simmons Band ’30; Football ’30; Track '29. '30: Student Council ’30: Stamp Club Pres. '30; Dic-no-mo Club Pres. '30; Pres. Pet Club '30; Letter Club 30; Echo-wan Staff 30. Sometime I sit ami think Sometimes I just sit. Elvera Sjoblom Reineben Club See. Treas. '29, 30; Business Club '30; Echowan Staff '30; Debate •30. A quiet tongue makes a wise head. Margaret Smith Jr. Class Play ’29; Sec. Treas. Girl Reserves 29: G. A. A. ‘30: Basketball '27. 28. 29. ’30; Champ. Volley Ball Team 30; Die no-mo Club 29. ’30; Champ. Basketball ’30: Varsity Basketball ’30; Track ’2S, ’29. ’30. Uke a quiet stream beneath the willow trees. Carroll Sorenson Football '30; Basketball ’30; Dic-no-mo Club ’30; Letter Club ’30. He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities. Auke Steinstra Orchestra ’28. ’29. ’30; Kodak Club ’29; Business Club ’30. Nothings so important that I need worry about it. Elizabeth Whalen Music Contest '29; Business Mgr. Sr. Class Play ’3 »: Musicalc '29; Glee Club '28. '29. '30; Reineben Club ’29. ’30; Novelty Club ’30; Business Club ’30; Die-no-mo Club 30; Basketball '27, '28: Track ’28: Operetta ’30.. If like a flower she could blush unseen. Barbara Whitfield Music Contest '29: Musicalc ’29; Glee Club ’28. '29. '30; Reineben Club '29. '30; Dic-no-mo Club '30; Business Club 30: Basketball '27: Sr. Class Play, '30; Student Council '28. '29. She always lends a helping hand wherever it is needed. Dorothy Wilder Varsity Volley Ball 30: Champ. Volley Ball I cam '30; Seev. Kodak Club ‘29; Paint and Patches Club '30; Pres. Novelty Club '30; Operetta '30; Sr. Class Play '30; Declamatory Contest ’30; Champ. Basketball Team '30; Spirit of St. Louis Park Club '29. No matter what it is we fix. Be sure it has artistic licks. 17

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1930 ECHOWAN Herbert Applequist near will be just to keep them company. Ward Simmons I claim tor real estate— These claims are all I wish to make.” And then he took his seat. The Soul of Light next rose to speak, “Klayton Blodgett alone I want As an optician he shall he taught.” Creative Genius spoke up next; Constructive engineering was his text. “Andrew 1 Iobart fame will gain In mechanical engineering he will be trained. And Kenneth Mii.bert, tall and dark. As a mechanic will take engines apart. Leonard Bjorklund, tall and blonde To constructive engineering will be won. Acre Stiknstra, his assistant true. Will, with zeal, do the work of two. John Burke will never Ik- known to shirk In his Aeronautical Engineering work.” The Wizard of Light spoke quickly next, “|oe Benninghoff I here do claim, In Electrical Engineering to win fame. Dwight Hokbnson, so tall and thin. Will surely with electricity win.” Diana stood up straight and tall, In gym work Margaret Lauer lair Shall build new bodies and old repair. Margaret Boostrom with her too. Shall coo|K-rate, that work to do.” The Goddess of Justice with her scale Chose Joy in Sleuth work to prevail. The Spirit of Healing softly spoke, “Barbara Whitfield I will take And Carolyn Campbell to Ik- her mate. Vance Rorbach will Ik- the doctor The girls he'll hire as trained nurses To care for the sick and the badly wounded.” Venus, in beauty next did rise, “Elizabeth Whalen at my side Shall learn the art of beauty culture.” The Muses next spoke up. “Dorothy King on a clarinet Shall make the Genius of nations fret. Dorothy Wilder, an artist famed, Will paint immortal master pieces. And Ruby Holmes small children teaches Dorothy Lindquist will surely be A journalist oi high degree. Mercury, the winged god. Chose Lawrence McFarland, high to fly Up in clouds death to defy. Morris Findsted, flier too. Will cut new trails across the blue.” Jupiter, king oi them all, Chose only Carroll for government work. Then Psyche, Goddess of the Mind, Chose 11 v .el Ray her work to find In Psychology, study of the mind. The leader rose and asked them all If there were any more to call. Then from the back a spectre rose. Unwanted guest; their spirits froze. “Aye, Spirit of Failure, though I Ik. Still, 1 shall choose all those Who cannot stay within your folds.” Then it faded as it came. And dimmer grew the hall. But as it faded from our sight, A crash, a flash, and cross the sky The lightning seared the words. SUCCESS FOR .ILL WHO STRIVE —Hazel Ray. t D]