University High School - Nunc Dimittis Yearbook (Ann Arbor, MI)

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CLASS WILL We, the class of 1928, being of more or less sound mind, memory, and understanding, do hereby make, publish and declare the following to be our last will and testament: We, Benjamin Bailey and Jack Bunting, do will our positions as class electricians to the two Juniors least easily shocked. I, Pearson Beebe, do hereby will my inability to be squelched to any Junior who suffers insomnia during library period. I, Orville Churchill, do will my ability to throw my voice to Bob Fuoss to use when he would like to talk to somebody in Miss McKinney's room during home room period. I, Ada Cooper, do will and transfer my happy disposition to any Junior who aspires to take charge of the ticket money for next year's Senior play. I, Betty Covert, after checking over my affairs, find that I have left over one stalwart youth in uniform, and do bequeath the same. glasses and all, to anyone who can use him. If no use can be found for this outfit, pack in a box and send C. O. D. to Miami Military Academy. I, Helen Hawxhurst, do will the exquisite expression with which it is my custom to announce that assembly is dismissed to the next Student Council President. We, Marjorie Hunt and Wilbur Muehlig. do hereby will our ability to accommodate two pairs of feet in the space of one under the library table to Helen Nechodoma and Bob Cum- mings, with the suggestion that Bob put his on the bottom. I, Roger William Howell, do graciously bestow upon next year's Senior Class President the unimpeachable air of dignity with which I have been wont to conduct the Senior mob scenes, officially known as class meetings during this past year. I, Virginia Hutzel, give and beoueath my position as accompanist to the Girls' Glee Club to anyone who can last out a practice. I, Rose Jamgotch. do will my curly hair to Ralph Atwell. I, 'Elizabeth Ladd, do cheerfullv beoueath mv ability to extract dues from class Scotch- men without battle. murder. or sudden death. to the next Senior Treasurer. We, Joyce Davidson. Agnes Graham, Margaret Hanford and Jeanette Schremser, do will our luxuriant hair to the Junior boys. I. Herbert Kent. do will mv reputation as the class's most perpetual talker to the Junior who is best able to carry on such a brilliant career. I, Virginia Ladd. do will all mv marks to someone who would like to try to raise them. I, Albertine Lockwood. do will my position as the only girl in the Boys' Glee Club to some ambitious Junior girl. I, Barbara Lorch, do will my knowledge of life's deeper things, especially physics, to Miriam Dodge. I, Marian Mar. do will and beoueath my desire for a stage career to Helene Suarez. I. Robert McCormick. do herewith bequeath my ability to play the saxophone to Ted Dengler. I. Dorothy Norris. do beoueath mv ability to listen to the aforesaid saxophone for ten minutes straight without removing mv eyes. to all admirers of Clarence, I. Gnv Miller. do hereby will the convenient ability which I possess of sleeping serenely through English Class to any somnolent Junior. I, Ruth Moses, being mentally sound. do bequeath my capacity for idleness to Benjamin Clements. I, Cathelia Pollock, do will my carefully cultivated ability to lick stamps to the next Exchange Editor of the Brnar1ra.rh'r. I. Pauline Ranous. do will my ability to write up problems to Dr. Stephenson's satisfac- tion to any Junior planning to take his Modern Social Problems course next year. I. Mildred Reading. do will my musical ability to Louise Little. I, Ellen Reeves. do will my sweetly serious air of contemplation to Dick Cummings. I. Frances Thornton. do hereby will my capacity for hysterics to Mariorie Davis. I, Milton Underdown, do will my English themes to anyone who will provide a lock for my theme locker as a token of appreciation for the gift. I, John Wagner, do will my 'frolicsomeness to Jim Dale. I, Frederick Wiselogle, do will a piece of my magnetic personality which enables me to attract all the Senior girls around me in the library after school, to Wallace Carr. I. Betty Wheeler, do bequeath my deep bass voice to Walter Jotter. VVitncss our hands and seals this fourteenth day of June, A. D. 1928. The Class of Nineteen Twenty-eight. 16

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HISTORY OF THE CLASS OF- l928 Tomorrow the Class of 1928 will leave this school as the second graduating class of the University High School. Two things we will take with us, our newly-received diplomas-and our memories of the past four years. So many things have happened in our high school life that comparatively few can be recorded here. Our first year was also the first year of the school and so we had a share in the forming of school ideals and traditions. We took part in about every school activity there was. When the Student Council, the Orchestra, the G. A. A., and the Broadcaster, were organized, many members of our class were chosen for active positions in them all. It is interesting to, recall that the name: The Broadcaster, Station U. H. S., chosen for the school paper, was the one suggested by Wilbur Muehlig from our grade. At Christmas time two new traditions were started, the Christmas Procession and Play. In March the school participated in its first Purple and Gold Meet with our own Underdowniat the head of the Purples. Then a little later came Project Day with its interest and novelty.- With the coming ,of spring, our thoughts began to wander away from school and studies lwe had studied ,a .little bit during the year just for a change now and thenl. Finally we had the brilliant inspiration ofa class,picnic at Delhi! Of course we had a perfect time. Do you remember the baseball game between the boys, and girls when the boys had to do everything witlrtheir left hands? Hardly had that carefree time be- come history when we had to concentrate strenuously for exams. Soon our first assembly for the awarding of the U's had come and gone. Never before had we had such an opportunity of beginning the history of an absolutely new school as we had that first year and because of it, the University High School will probably always belong to us a little more than it might have otherwise. The next year things were pretty much the same, in the main. More of the boys came to school wearing long trousers. thereby creating rather more of a sensation than they appar- ently wished to. When Arbor Day was celebrated, we took the occasion to plant a class tree at the south side of the school entrance. At the suggestion of Buck Yost. who later left the class, it was christened A1gy II after the Ford car Miss Hoyle operated at the time. We again decided to have our class picnic at Delhi. Some of our amusement consisted in shaking up the ginger ale and falling into the river. The following year we were proud Juniors looking forward to the time when we would become still prouder Seniors. Mr. Ryan had arrived on the scene, not to take Dr. Schorling's place but rather to create a place all his own. The First important class event of the year was the choosing of our class rings. Another, and possibly even more interesting activity was the presentation of the two plays, In the Spring a Young Man's Fancy, and Station 'Y Y Y Y. Every member of the class helped in some way and we had a very exciting time. Incidentally we acquired a bank account. Another outstanding memory of our Junior year will probably be the Junior-Senior Dance given by ns to the graduating class. Never had the library looked so beautiful as it did that night decorated with palms, fiowers, and our class colors, blue and white, in combination with the rose and gray of our guests, the Class of 1927. This party and the final assembly when we moved into the Senior seats in the auditorium, made us realize that it would not be long now before we too would give them up to a succeeding class. . At last we had become full-fledged Seniors! But what was our dismay when we learned that the class was to be separated into two home rooms. VVe had rather prided ourselves on the unity of our class. However we soon found that we could be just as much of a class as before and by the new arrangement we gained a new and valuable class member, Miss Olson, home room teacher of the Senior girls. In October not long after school had started, occurred the only real loss to our class. Horace Richard Gingerich, affectionately known as I-Iorsief' Perhaps the highest tribute we can pay him is that he was a good sport in the best sense of the word. We like to remember him as he was in Station YYYY because there he represented what he was, a regular American boy with all the qualities that endear him to his many friends. Toward the end of the semester the class presented Clarence by Booth Tarkington which proved to be very successful in all ways. In May the Council established a Senior Privilege Day which is recent enough to be easily recalled. Arrangements were made for Class Day and Commencement, and a class memorial chosen. The Junior class entertained us at the second Junior-Senior Dance and we all had a lovely time. In this manner we have come to the present. It is fitting that, having looked back over the past, we should now turn our faces to that which lies in the future. Whatever it is, wherever it is, may we always take with us the motto of our class, On! Sail On l 'I 15

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CLASS PROPHECY tWith Deepest Apologies to Longfellowl Should you ask me whence these stories, Whence these prophecies and legends, Of U. High School, in Ann Arbor At that ancient seat of learning In the State of Michigaumeeg I should answer, I should tell you From the Senior class so famous For its scholars and its athletes For its actors and musicians. I foretell them as I learned them From the Oracle at Delphi. Should you ask me what our Helen, Chieftain of our Student Council Shall be doing in the future, I should answer, I should tell you To the multitudes assembled She will give a wondrous lecture How to educate our students, Keep them working at their lessons Make them diligent and happy Keep them out of all their troubles. Marjorie after college studies Learned to answer urgent questions Where the doctor was at present. That was what we all expected. But l'm sure the rest will startle, For her books of Physics problems VVorry now the helpless student. Dot will no doubt in the future, Marry someone of great learning Someone knowing bugs and beetles, All about their haunts and habits, She will search the world to find him, Entomologists they call them. What his name, I cannot tell you For the vision fades and darkens, But it points to Who's Who's pages. I can hear the murmuring prophet. Whisper of two famous seniors, Albertine and lithe Virginia VVhirling, twirling, now on tip-toes Smiling, famous, gracious dancers. High above the mighty forests O'er the palisades of pine trees, Circles high a fearless airman Fearing naught from wind or weather Rival of the mighty eagle We behold our johnny Wagner. 'Who will aid the suffering people, And allay their 'pains and fever, Wilbur, Jack and also Pearson With their knives and saws and scalpels Ever eager to apply them To our tonsils or appendix. 'I'here's no doubt Pauline will aid then1 As a nurse she'll be on duty Calm, possessed, and most efficient Taking temperatures and pulses, Often giving anaesthetics. Cathelia all her days will squander, In pursuit of art and learning Making rugs and things artistic Dying scarves and prints and batiks Painted like the leaves ot' Autumn, Colored like the sky of morning. Now she thinks it very thrilling If she might become a doctor, But it's safe to say for certain Art will conquer in the long run. Plastic surgery would suit her Building Greek or Roman noses If the features were deficient.