University High School - Clarion Yearbook (Normal, IL)

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L I9 3 2 31 1 9. Helen Bardenhagen, a human pin, Falls to the floor with a terrific din. Boop-boop-a-doop. From there Clifford and his friends made their way to the rooms of a renowned astrologer, Miss Gertrude Stephens, where they learned some in- teresting things about the future. Clifford Scott will be the President of Podunk University, and the most prominent man in the college world. His rare knowledge will make possible perpetual motion. Edna Mae Baird is to become famous at thirty-six. She will be mar- ried six times and divorced six times, which is a new record in America. Ah! Yes, Edna Mae will be the world's greatest vamp. Behold in John White the future Knute Rockne. He will become the world's greatest football coach. In 1950 he will invent a system that will revolutionize football. Julia Blum is to be a scientist of great renown. Ten years from this date she will be in Africa searching for that rare something, the whiffenpoof. She will conduct this search for Mr. T. M. Barger, Sr., the physics teacher at University High School. A Here is Clarence Burner, pictured as a Latin teacher at Yuton, Illinois. His latest work will be a treatise on The Principles of Teaching Latin in Rural Schools . He will collect this knowledge by extensive research and travels. The future years will find Mary Ellen Reece in London, running an establishment known as 'tThe Elite Beauty Shoppe . She will be known the world over for her hairpins, which stay where placed. Britt Blair will prosper as Normal's greatest merchant. He will own a lollypop factory and put out several million lollypops each month. He will get rich quick by fleecing the students out of their hard-earned cash. Williaiii McKnight, Junior, we glimpse as the head of the McKnight Universal Publishing Company. His company will do the printing for all the governments of the world. He will die rich and exceedingly happy. In his will he will leave four million to the unemployed. Twenty-eight

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I9 3 2 51 1. Mildred Peard likes a boy with hair quite red Every one knows his name is Fred. Boop-boop-a-doop. i 2. Mervin Freese-alas, alas- He goes to sleep in every class. Boop-boop-a-doop. 3. Mary Ellen Reece calls the same number Every night before going to slumber. Boop-boop-a-doop. 4. Herbert Adams, a poet of note, Shows to no one what he has wrote. Boop-boop-a-doop. 5. Virginia Qrendorff, a Towanda lass, Is the competent secretary of our class. Boop-boop-a-doop. G. John White, lover of home-made tarts, Has broken many pretty girls' hearts. Boop-boop-a-doop. 7. Miriam Bush is a comely lass- The fellows say, HVVOW! What class! Boop-boop-a-doop. 8. Osmond Howard, with his big 12 shoes, Is a boy that U. High hates to lose. Boop-boop-a-doop. Tweilfy-Seven

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1 I9 3 2 31 L Ada Jane Carter is to head an Anti-Candyist Club. She will initiate into her club any girl whom she sees eating candy. The club is to stop girls from becoming fat. The crystal states that the club will be a fattening suc- cess. Eugene Cawood will figure as the handsomest actor in Hollywood. He will be married four times and divorced four times. Then he will marry a girl from Funks Grove and live happily ever after. Bernadine Flanagan is introduced as a history critic in University High School. She will be strongly against debating, although serving as the sponsor of Thalian. She will write a book on the history of nineteen-thirty. Ralph Rader will go to the University of Carlock, where he will be a great football star, and the captain of the team in his senior year. After he graduates he will become a professional player. Esther Ropp will weave rugs for a living and meanwhile a man will weave into the woof of her life. She will marry him and be happy the rest of her days. Donald Walker is to be a dentist, located at Yuton, Illinois. He will be noted for his expert dentistry on animals of all kinds. He will become rich, but die unhappy. All of his estate will go to the Yuton Animal Poor Farm. Elisabeth Stubblefield will be engaged in a rattling good business, that of an undertaker. She will become Normal's greatest and richest woman, but the man who marries her will steal her money, and then leave her with a broken pocketbook and heart. Paul Carver will be a mechanic, earning good pay. His specialty is automobiles, but he can operate and repair any kind of machinery. He will be employed at Sears, Roebuck, and Company, in charge of the Toy Depart- ment. Pauline Carter will be a school teacher at Kerrick, Illinois. For pupils she will have two boys, two girls, and seven chickens. She will retire, after earning sufficient lucre, and live on a lonely ranch in the Black Hills. Marjorie Simmons will become Chicago's most beautiful society wo- man. She will make her debut on March 1, 1042. Happiness will be hers until she meets the man of her dreams, then unhappiness until they are mar- ried. After that, all will be well. Twenty-nine